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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2003 08:54:28 -0800
From:      Brooks Davis <brooks@one-eyed-alien.net>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Subscriber <subscriber@insignia.com>, "FreeBSD-Current (E-mail)" <freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Plea for base system trim
Message-ID:  <20030305085428.A8704@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030305134315.GF17270@madman.celabo.org>; from nectar@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:43:15AM -0600
References:  <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C36704129AE6@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> <20030305134315.GF17270@madman.celabo.org>

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On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 07:43:15AM -0600, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:54:13AM -0000, Subscriber wrote:
> > Having just done two rebuilds for recent OpenSSL and sendmail
> > vulnerabilities, I was surprised to discover that building the port
> > of apache13-modssl required the build of a port version of=20
> > OpenSSL when I had the most updated (4.7) base system with
> > OpenSSL in it!. I hate having two versions installed; it makes me
> > fear that there will be problems caused by the wrong version being
> > used.
>=20
> You are right to hate having two versions installed --- it is
> pointless in most cases.  Please complain to the apache+mod_ssl and
> openssl port maintainers.  It sounds to me like they are doing
> something very wrong.

At least in the case of net/net-snmp the problem is that the shared lib
version of the openssl port was bumped when the base wasn't which screws
up the dependencies. :-(

-- Brooks

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