On Sunday 25 September 2005 00:19, Michael Nottebrock wrote:
> On Saturday, 24. September 2005 15:07, Ian Moore wrote:
> > Having done that, nothing's changed - superkaramba still coredumps when I
> > try to load liquid-weather (2 other themes I've tried work though)
> > and kmail still won't accept security certificates permanently and can't
> > use kwallet to remember passwords (but kmail will store them itself).
>
> Is there any particular reason you're using the ports version of openssl at
> all?

Ooh, I do vaguely remember having to install it for some reason, but that was 
probably 2 years ago now and I can't remember anymore. Whatever the reason 
was, it's probably no longer necessary now.

> Using the ports version of openssl has a lot of possible pitfalls:
>
> One is openssl's general non-concern about compatibility between major
> releases (i.e. bumps of the second number, like 0.9.7->0.9.8).
>
> The other, even more grave one is that FreeBSD does ship openssl in its
> base system - FreeBSD 5 ships openssl 0.9.7e. If you're using openssl from
> ports and you have *not* completely disabled and deleted the base-system
> openssl, you're almost guaranteed to get mixed linkage, which usually works
> out okay as long as the major version of openssl is the same.
>
> This is no longer the case now however on FreeBSD 5, since the ports
> version of openssl is now at 0.9.8, while the base version will remain at
> 0.9.7.
>
> So my suggestion would be either:
>
> - To not use the ports version of openssl at all - deinstall the port, then
> portupgrade -r python kdelibs and if you encounter other software that
> suddenly refuses to run, make sure to try and run it from a shell and watch
> out for the runtime linker complaining about missing libssl or libcrypto
> (and if there are any, recompile the respective port).

Ok, I'm giving this one a try right now. It should only take a few days!
When I ran  pkgdb -F, I deleted all the references to openssl. I guess that 
ought to stop it being installed again by any of the ports that used it 
before?
Thanks again for your help Michael.

Cheers,
-- 
Ian
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