libressl anyone?

[Kubilay Kocak]

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 at 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

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