The chicken and the OpenSSL

[Jim Mock]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2003 at 10:37:48 -0700, Kill the Penguin wrote:
> I'm currently running 4.7-RELEASE-p10. I attempted to install
> apache13-modssl from ports, but it is dependant on openssl-0.9.7a.
> Unfortunately the installed version is openssl-0.9.6i. This will
> result in two parallel installations of openssl which is not the end
> of the world, but not desired. In the past I attempted to use only
> openssl in the ports collection, but using NO_OPENSSL results in
> failed buildworlds.
> 
> So I attempted to update the src-crypto and src-secure portions of the
> src tree and *just* build these components. It doesn't appear that
> REL_ENG_4_7 contains the latest version of openssl.
> 
> Is there a method to keep up with OpenSSL without having to parallel
> installations? It appears you can't unhook the base installation from
> the system, and I'm not sure forcing the ports version into /usr is
> going to be a great idea. Anyone solve this problem?

cd /usr/ports/security/openssl && make -DOPENSSL_OVERWRITE_BASE install

- jim

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