May be a question repeated

[Jayesh Jayan]

Hi Wash,

Thank you for your mail.

I tried the option and it worked fine.


On 12/13/05, Odhiambo Washington <wash at wananchi.com> wrote:
>
> * On 13/12/05 04:15 +0530, Jayesh Jayan wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a server which runs Apache/1.3.33 (Unix) and exim 4.53-0 on a
> FreeBSD
> > 5.4.
> >
> > I wanted to upgrade exim to 4.60
> >
> > so i did the below steps
> >
> > 1 ) cd /usr/ports/mail/exim
> > 2 ) make clean
> > 3 ) make
> >
> > at this step the make stops saying openssl already installed. I have on
> the
> > server OpenSSL 0.9.7e and exim is trying to upgrade even open ssl to the
> > latest. This may break http and other services running on the server.
> >
> > Error message is as below
> >
> >
> ******************************************************************************************************************
> > ===>  Installing for openssl-0.9.8a
> > ===>   Generating temporary packing list
> > ===>  Checking if security/openssl already installed
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-CPAN-1.80 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-Filesys-Statvfs_Statfs_Df-0.78 has no origin
> > recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-GDGraph-1.43 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-GDTextUtil-0.86 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-IO-Interactive-undef has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-MailTools-1.67 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-Net_SSLeay.pm-1.25 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-ShadowHash-0.07 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-Term-ReadLine-Perl-1.0203 has no origin
> recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-TermReadKey-2.30 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-Tie-Watch-1.2 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-Tree-MultiNode-1.0.10 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.803 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.804 has no origin recorded
> > pkg_info: package bsdpan-libwww-perl-5.805 has no origin recorded
> > ===>   An older version of security/openssl is already installed (
> > openssl-0.9.7e_2)
> >       You may wish to ``make deinstall'' and install this port again
> >       by ``make reinstall'' to upgrade it properly.
> >       If you really wish to overwrite the old port of security/openssl
> >       without deleting it first, set the variable "FORCE_PKG_REGISTER"
> >       in your environment or the "make install" command line.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/security/openssl.
> > *** Error code 1
> >
> > Stop in /usr/ports/mail/exim.
> >
> >
> ******************************************************************************************************************
> >
> > Please guide me on how I can upgrade exim without effecting other
> services
> > running on the server.
>
>
> You did install openssl from the ports, yes? You probably shouldn't have
> done that, as openssl is supposed to be in the base system for FreeBSD.
> I am not going to help you fix that though. You have to decide on what
> steps to take - either deinstall the /usr/ports/security/openssl and
> rely on the one from the base system or use it as is.
>
> For the purposes of your current problem, Exim is assuming you are
> using TLS, which is what is pulling in the openssl dependency. If you
> don't really need TLS support on Exim, then do:
>
> cd /usr/ports/mail/exim
> make -DWITHOUT_TLS
>
> ..and proceed from there...
>
> I'd advise you to rely on utils like /usr/ports/sysutils/portupgrade
> or /usr/ports/sysutils/portmanager to manage your ports.
>
> Lastly, you will be happy to deinstall your openssl from the ports and
> rebuild all your apps that were relying on it to instead link against
> the one in the base system.
>
>
> -Wash
>
> http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote.html
>
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