From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 22 18:58:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF9CD16A4CE for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:58:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from shadow.wixb.com (shadow.wixb.com [65.43.82.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCF343D1D for ; Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:58:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jbronson@wixb.com) Organization: Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee WI USA Message-Id: <6.2.0.14.2.20041122125743.00ab8ab8@localhost> Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:58:45 -0600 To: Matthew Seaman From: "J.D. Bronson" In-Reply-To: <20041122185252.GA42729@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.c o.uk> References: <6.2.0.14.2.20041121065956.00bff790@cheyenne.wixb.com> <20041121151741.GA33484@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0411211239891d5d7@mail.gmail.com> <20041121231744.GB52114@xor.obsecurity.org> <3aaaa3a0411220659764e78ef@mail.gmail.com> <9395922d041122070611e69de8@mail.gmail.com> <6.2.0.14.2.20041122101615.00ab0358@localhost> <20041122171018.GA41586@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> <6.2.0.14.2.20041122111229.02558330@localhost> <20041122185252.GA42729@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: openssl 0.9.7e X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 18:58:49 -0000 At 12:52 PM 11/22/2004, Matthew Seaman wrote: > > If I can find out who maintains this port then maybe they could explain? > > I mean how hard can this be (even to document within the Makefile) ? > >OK. You're on a recent 5.x system that has dynamically linked >software in the root partition -- on older FreeBSD versions, stuff in >/bin would generally be statically linked. > >The port is very helpfully stopping you shooting yourself in the foot >by scribbling all over /lib/libcrypto.so which presumably is now a >critical file required so that the system will boot. > >It's also probably pointless replacing the base version of the OpenSSL >shlibs with the ports version, because they are probably pretty much >exactly the same code. > > Cheers, > > Matthew thanks for helping me out. I wanted to update the base version as this is a NEWER version that contains bug fixes and maybe some security fixes - But I am not sure. so far now, I will either install the port as it is and link against the NEW files for what I need to build - or just give up. -- J.D. Bronson Aurora Health Care // Information Services // Milwaukee, WI USA Office: 414.978.8282 // Email: jd@aurora.org // Pager: 414.314.8282