Re: security/openssl and upcoming FreeBSD 15.0

Bernard Spil <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.ports
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2025-10-02 09:29, Gleb Popov wrote:
> 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.

That's already provided for with the FreeBSD 15-stable exp-runs as far 
as I'm concerned.
There's even 15stable-amd64 builds for default and quarterly branches.

There's an exp-run 
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=285723

I don't feel more is required. There's been ample time for ports 
maintainers to fix their ports.
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