Forums.FreeBSD.org - SSL Issue?

[Roger Marquis]

Mark Felder wrote:
>> Sure, when you must change the ABI you also have to rebuild linked libs
>> and bins, but how many openssl 0.9 updates have required ABI changes?
>>
> This entire discussion has been about doing MAJOR updates to OpenSSL in
> base.

I agree that this discussion has been about updates to OpenSSL but we're
obviously not on the same page with regards to your definition of major.

Leif Pedersen wrote:
>> ... more easily remediated (than installworld) and so 'pkg audit' could
> report on those.
>
>Exactly how would that differ from using freebsd-update?

You mean aside from being locally compiled?  Does freebsd-update only
update the specific libs, apps, files that need to be updated?

Roger