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Date:      Sat, 12 Jul 2014 11:49:54 +1000
From:      Kubilay Kocak <koobs@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>,  Kevin Oberman <rkoberman@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Ports ML <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: libressl anyone?
Message-ID:  <53C09442.3000307@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20140712001629.GB2959@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>
References:  <CAN6yY1tsnhy51twKfs6yoaO848OBjGoYrzQODK3Zy_r-WvG-GA@mail.gmail.com> <20140712001629.GB2959@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org>

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On 12/07/2014 10:16 AM, Michael W. Lucas wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2014 at 04:12:42PM -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Now that OpenBSD has released LibreSSL, can someone port it? And maybe try
>> putting it into head? I'd love to see OpenSSL gone yesterday.
>>
>> The initial portable LibreSSL is available from
>> http://ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/LibreSSL. Note that the OpenBSD folks
>> say that this release is intended for testing and evealuation, so it is not
>> a candidate for any stable or release, but it does build on FreeBSD.
>>
>> Yes, if I get some time today or tomorrow, I'll try to write up a port, but
>> I'm still far from comfortable with the new porting stuff, so it will
>> likely take longer that I'd like. Others can probably knock it out in
>> nothing flat.
> 
> Check out the discussion on tech@openbsd.org.
> 
> A fair amount of software is breaking with LibreSSL. For example,
> LibreSSL dropped EGD support. Various software (eg Python) checks for
> egd, and won't build without EGD.
> 
> Mind you, people should certainly try it and see what happens.
> 
> ==ml
> 

Upstream Python / LibreSSL issue tracking making EGD support optional:

http://bugs.python.org/issue21356

--
koobs



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