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Sergei Vyshenski

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Apr 10, 2010, 5:07:42 PM4/10/10
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Hi,

There is a bunch of ports related to PKI (security/p5-openxpki*) which
requires exactly openssl-0.9.8x, because:

- openssl-0.9.8x version (unlike openssl-0.9.7x) has full support for
utf-8, which is essential for complex PKI software.
- this bunch of ports is huge and complex, heavily uses low-level
functions of openssl-0.9.8x, and it will take quite some time to adapt
for openssl-1.0.0+

But today we have openssl from port with version 1.0.0 only.
Freebsd-6 or less has base openssl-0.9.7 which is bad for
security/p5-openxpki*.

Seems like we have to stop compiling this port on freebsd-6 or less
altogether.

Do you think if it is possible to return openssl-0.9.8x to the ports,
just to make people with FreeBSD-6 happy.

Regards,
Sergei

Mark Linimon

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Apr 10, 2010, 6:44:30 PM4/10/10
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On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 01:07:42AM +0400, Sergei Vyshenski wrote:
> Do you think if it is possible to return openssl-0.9.8x to the ports,
> just to make people with FreeBSD-6 happy.

fwiw, 6.4 EOL is on 11/30/2010, so you're going to be looking at
upgrading some time this year anyways.

This business of supporting 4 branches of FreeBSD is becoming a bit
burdensome in the meantime ...

mcl

Robert Noland

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Apr 11, 2010, 1:10:06 AM4/11/10
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+1... I've mostly abandoned 6 and 7 is rapidly falling off of my
radar...

robert.

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