OpenSSL 1.0

[Kevin Oberman]

> From: "Simon L. B. Nielsen" <simonln at me.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:37:40 +0200
> Sender: owner-freebsd-current at freebsd.org
> 
> On 9 Oct 2010, at 11:37, Roubíèek Zdenìk wrote:
> 
> > On 8 Oct 2010, at 12:40, Fabien Thomas wrote:
> > 
> >> Is there any plan to import OpenSSL 1.0 into the tree?
> > I would be also happy to see that coming as I have a problem using
> current openssl as ipv6 client for tests, though it is bsd v7.3.
> 
> If you need a newer version of OpenSSL in FreeBSD 7 you should try the
> OpenSSL ports. FreeBSD 7 will probably get the latest 0.9.8 before
> FreeBSD 7.4, but it won't get OpenSSL 1.0 (and neither will FreeBSD 8
> for that matter).

The problem is API differences. I hit ports which work with the port but
fail with the base system and other ports that work with the base libssl
but fail with the port installed. As a result, I have stuck with the
base system. I've had to remove the port version a couple of times and
rebuild all of the ports that had linked to it. A real pain.

I understand why maintainers make some ports work with the old openssl in
the base, but other don't and that road leads to madness.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
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