Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2002 05:19:46 -0700 From: Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> To: Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se> Cc: Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: OpenSSL vs. -lmd Message-ID: <3D511062.51F6EBE6@mindspring.com> References: <3D4A43DB.5DE70508@mindspring.com> <200208070736.g777a11p003654@grimreaper.grondar.org> <3D50E590.66BCE6B6@mindspring.com> <20020807112316.GA65008@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
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Erik Trulsson wrote: > > I would argue that this is the result of being actively maintained > > by a third party. > > I believe it was more due to the fact that Perl's build system and > FreeBSD's build system did not work well together. This FreeBSD's problem; Perl comes from a vendor. > > I'd also argue that the base system version would be 0.9.6e > > right now, of maintenance was as trivial as you imply that it > > is. > > Since the base system version is 0.9.6e right now, I guess maintenance > of OpenSSl isn't too hard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Revision 1.1.1.1.2.2 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Wed Jul 4 23:19:08 2001 UTC (13 months ago) by kris Branch: RELENG_4 CVS Tags: RELENG_4_6_BP, RELENG_4_6_1_RELEASE, RELENG_4_6_0_RELEASE, RELENG_4_5_BP, RELENG_4_5_0_RELEASE, RELENG_4_4_BP, RELENG_4_4_0_RELEASE Branch point for: RELENG_4_6, RELENG_4_5, RELENG_4_4 Changes since 1.1.1.1.2.1: +962 -5 lines Diff to previous 1.1.1.1.2.1 (colored) to branchpoint 1.1.1.1 (colored) MFC: Update to OpenSSL 0.9.6a ------------------------------------------------------------------------ It's not on a CDROM, it's not a -RELEASE... it doesn't exist. The current version is 0.9.6a, even though at the time of the 4.6-RELEASE version going golden, that was an old version. Further, as part of the base system, it's not upgradeable for sites with a policy on the use of developement code. Yes I understand that only 7 days ago it was updated in -SECURITY (RELENG_4_6). The versions through 0.9.6e were brought in recently; before that, it was at 0.9.6c for about six months (see rev 1.1.1.7). d became available in April. http://www.openssl.org/news/ The point is, even Iif I thought OpenSSL was "the bestest thing ever", there is a *lag* on vendor updates vs. FreeBSD use of code that comes from a third party vendor. In such cases, it's almost always best to get the code from the vendor directly, and this is not well supported. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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