Re: FreeBSD 13 + CertBot + OpenSSL 3 - status?

From: DutchDaemon - FreeBSD Forums Administrator <DutchDaemon_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 20:09:33 UTC
On 24/10/2023 18:24, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 24/10/2023 13:54, DutchDaemon - FreeBSD Forums Administrator wrote:
>> Does anyone in 'port land' know what the current developments are wrt 
>> CertBot (or py-crypto under its hood)?
>>
>> CertBot is happily compiling against OpenSSL 3 from ports, but when 
>> running 'certbot', the crypto side of it talks to the base system 
>> OpenSSL 1.1.1, hence failing because the OpenSSL 1.1.1 library does 
>> not understand the OpenSSL 3 calls made to it.
>>
>>  From what I understood, this was due to an error/regression in 
>> pkgconf(?) which causes some type of 'path reversal' that causes 
>> py-crypto to ignore the OpenSSL it was compiled against, favoring the 
>> base system library.
>>
>> I either have to revert a whole lot of servers back to OpenSSL 1.1.1w 
>> from ports in order to renew certificates, or wait for "any movement" 
>> in getting the path reversal addressed/fixed.
>>
>> So: does anyone know where we're at with this?
>>
>
> certbot is running just fine for me on stable/14 with openssl 3.x from 
> ports.  Note that stable/14 has openssl 3.x in base.
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Matthew
>

Yes ;)


I knew that that would be 'the other option', but tracking -RELEASE and 
its patch levels is currently preferred over here.

Got a tip about 'dehydrated', so maybe that'll work for now, until 
14-REL is on the books.