svn commit: r217562 - in stable/7/secure/lib: libcrypto libssl

[Erwin Lansing]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 08:07:46AM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Tuesday, January 18, 2011 5:19:55 pm Simon L. Nielsen wrote:
> > Author: simon
> > Date: Tue Jan 18 22:19:55 2011
> > New Revision: 217562
> > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/217562
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Decrease the libcrypto and libssl shared object version numbers from 6
> >   to 5. They were accidentally bumped in r215997 (on 2010-11-28) with the
> >   merge of OpenSSL 0.9.8p, but unfortunately this was not caught until
> >   now.
> >   
> >   Also add compat links for libcrypto.so.6 / libssl.so.6 (pointing to
> >   their .5 counterparts) in case any users have compiled any third party
> >   during the time stable/7 (and releng/7.4) were broken.
> >   
> >   This is deemed the last poor of bad options.  Had the number bump not
> >   been reverted binary packages for stable/7 would not have worked on the
> >   still supported 7.3 and 7.1 releases.
> 
> Erm, shouldn't the packages for 7-stable be built against the 7.0 ABI instead 
> (and I thought this change was already made)?  We've only supported backwards 
> compat, not forwards compat.
> 
Oldest supported by the security officer, currently 7.1-RELEASE-p16 to
be exact, but yes.  Those are built against libcrypto.so.5, which of
course won't work on 7.4 with libcrypto.so.6, hence the above rollback
with an added symlink for those people that already built binaries
themselves against libcrypto.so.6.

-erwin

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Erwin Lansing                                   http://droso.org
Prediction is very difficult
especially about the future                    erwin at FreeBSD.org
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