LibreSSL infects ports, causes problems

[Baptiste Daroussin]

On Thu, Apr 09, 2015 at 03:17:09PM -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Apr 2015, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> 
> > On 04/09/15 17:14, Baptiste Daroussin wrote:
> >> For now candidates are:
> >> libarchive
> >> ncurses
> >> readline (which will have then to be linked to ports ncurses and not base
> >> version through the magic of fake libtermcap)
> >> openssl
> >> libedit(?)
> >>
> >
> > One I noticed recently was in ftp/curl -- if you're using the ports
> > version of OpenSSL you also have to use one of the ports versions of
> > GSSAPI -- GSSAPI_HEIMDAL or GSSAPI_MIT, or else GSSAPI_NONE.
> > Otherwise you can end up with two different SSL shlibs linked into the
> > same binary.
> 
> That broke VirtualBox with some very weird and inconsistent symptoms:
> https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-emulation/2015-March/012402.html

Yup some people will probably be unhappy to see new dependencies for those
things, but that would for sure solve a lot more problem than it causes and
makes life easier for all maintainers.

Best regards,
Bapt
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