From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Leo Famulari Subject: Re: libressl Date: Wed, 2 Mar 2016 16:07:20 -0500 Message-ID: <20160302210720.GA19573@jasmine> References: <20160302120317.6d8d12b9@scratchpost.org> <878u20ppcg.fsf@grrlz.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41993) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abDzO-0001IH-9z for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:07:23 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abDzL-0000wI-4I for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:07:22 -0500 Received: from out3-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.27]:49122) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1abDzK-0000w8-Qo for guix-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:07:19 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <878u20ppcg.fsf@grrlz.net> List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Nils Gillmann Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 10:00:31PM +0100, Nils Gillmann wrote: > Is it that easy though? I would be surprised, as the process - > maybe, most likely, also due to the incredible weird structures > of portage policies and politics - to move the packages in Gentoo > portage from openssl to handle openssl AND libressl as a one or > the other selection option, turns out to take some time now and > some packages (in gentoo) do depend on it in a way that they need > to be patched to fully work or they have security concerns, for > example in the case of tor (or was it bitcoin? or both?). > > Tracking libressl on OpenBSD, Gentoo, and other bugtracker > platforms should be something necessary to do and check before > somebody goes ahead and fully replaces openssl with libressl > here. I'm just thinking of doing it locally as an experiment, to see what breaks, etc. > > I would be really glad to have a system with libressl, that's > something I wanted for gentoo for some time now and I am still > waiting for the whole meta KDE Plasma-5.5.5 and some other > applications (I think 4 months ago it was ~30 I needed to wait > for) to get libressl support. Could be changed now, as the > general acceptance and the speed to get libressl into Gentoo > portage packages picked up since, so maybe my warning is just > based on me trying too much on Gentoo when it was still a side > testing project, where it is now an official project. > > > -- > ng > irc://loupsycedyglgamf.onion:67/~NiAsterisk > https://psyced.org:34443/NiAsterisk/ > EDN: https://wiki.c3d2.de/Echt_Dezentrales_Netz/en > >