Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2016 12:36:08 -0600 From: Paul Schmehl <pschmehl_lists@tx.rr.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Cc: galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu Subject: Re: Openssl - base or port? Message-ID: <B582BF7656C00190B39F50EC@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> In-Reply-To: <42502.128.135.52.6.1481826448.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> References: <F3754D68BC337C0ADE0644F2@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <42502.128.135.52.6.1481826448.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu>
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--On December 15, 2016 at 12:27:28 PM -0600 Valeri Galtsev <galtsev@kicp.uchicago.edu> wrote: > > On Thu, December 15, 2016 11:47 am, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Is there an advantage to use openssl from base rather than ports? Or >> vice versa? When was openssl added to the base? Why? > > I know this is not an answer, but some of the packages may be built with > openssl from packages as opposed to base. Theoretically it shouldn't > matter (cough... cough...), but some package using SSL (though it didn't > bring openssl package as dependency) didn't work for me until I installed > openssl package. Hopefully someone knowledgeable will weigh in on this. > You are absolutely correct, but I never use packages. I prefer to build from ports. Paul Schmehl, Retired As if it wasn't already obvious, my opinions are my own and not those of my employer. ******************************************* "It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use of reason as to administer medication to the dead." Thomas Jefferson "There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them." George Orwell
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