Re: security/openssl and upcoming FreeBSD 15.0

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.

Hi portmgr@,

There's 2 months left before 15.0-RELEASE and thus for port maintainers 
to fix their ports for OpenSSL 3.5.

Do we need/want an additional exp run, or are we OK with the pkg builds 
that are ongoing for 15-STABLE?

Thanks! Bernard.