On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
> It should not be too hard (but I am not
> using RedHat):
>
> 1) read http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html
> Note the RedHat sections.
>
> 2) download the latest (0.9.7a) to some dir
> (I use something like /usr/local/src/openssl).
>
> 3) untar it and check its signature (see faq).
>
> 4) read the following in the expanded dir:
> FAQ and INSTALL and/or INSTALL.whatever
>
> 5) make you choices and do a
> ./config --whatever=whatever \
> ...
> make
> make test
>
> 6) if OK, you have proved you can get
> openssl compiled and tested from source.
>
> 7) now is the tricky part; examine your current
> installed openssl, determine it's location,
> and, if you are sure you know what's what,
> remove it with rpm (man rpm if ?s). I assume
> you can always revert to the RedHat version
> by re-installing the 'official' RedHat
> openssl rpm. (I hope you are doing this on
> a test machine.)
>
and get the sources and recompile all red-hat apps that rely upon openssl.
There are others on the list that might beable to document what those
applications are, but, I believe there are a few.
> 8) make location changes (prefix=....) (if
> necessary) and repeat from step 4.
>
> 9) make install and ldconfig.
>
> 10)test and, etc.
>
Thanks,
Ron DuFresne
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