Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 13:15:29 -0500 From: Barney Wolff <barney@pit.databus.com> To: Adrian Steinmann <ast@marabu.ch> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, subscriber@insignia.com, "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Plea for base system trim Message-ID: <20030305181529.GA22369@pit.databus.com> In-Reply-To: <200303051700.SAA06561@marabu.marabu.ch> References: <200303051700.SAA06561@marabu.marabu.ch>
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I have both apache-modssl and net-snmp running, but do NOT have the openssl port installed. Everything builds and runs fine, with no mods to anything. I conjecture that the problem others experience is that they have installed the openssl port, which I have never done. This is on both current and stable. On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 06:00:13PM +0100, Adrian Steinmann wrote: > > 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. -- Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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