Re: security/openssl and upcoming FreeBSD 15.0

On Thu, Oct 2, 2025 at 12:00 PM Bernard Spil <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I can find no instances of `USES= ssl=openssl*` and see no port with a
> _DEPENDS on freshports.org...
> What am I missing?

Ports generally aren't allowed to choose what type of openssl it wants
to depend on. Thus, USES=openssl has no args as you can see in the
documentational comment at the top of Mk/Uses/ssl.mk

Instead, users may set DEFAULT_VERSIONS=ssl=openssl to make all ports
depend on security/openssl rather than the base one. So an exp-run
would mean building all ports that have USES=ssl with different values
for DEFAULT_VERSIONS.