Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 18:00:13 +0100 From: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: subscriber@insignia.com, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Plea for base system trim Message-ID: <200303051700.SAA06561@marabu.marabu.ch>
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I use this command in my build script to force apache13+modssl to use the openssl in base. # Use base openssl (OpenSSL 0.9.7a as of Feb 19 2003) cd /usr/ports/www/apache13-modssl cp Makefile Makefile- sed -ie 's/^\.include.*Makefile\.ssl.*$/OPENSSLBASE=\/usr/' Makefile- >Makefile You 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 > 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. 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. Cheers, - -- Jacques A. Vidrine <nectar@celabo.org> http://www.celabo.org/ NTT/Verio SME . FreeBSD UNIX . Heimdal Kerberos jvidrine@verio.net . nectar@FreeBSD.org . nectar@kth.se Adrian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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