On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 08:53:36AM +0000, Roderick wrote: > I know, you will complain, because I mention here that I still use > OpenBSD 4.8 in a machine. But my question is more general. > > I was unable to install LibreSSL-2.4.2, but installing openssl-1.0.2h > was possible without problems.
It's possible you'll hear complaints, but most likely you will simply be ignored by the actual developers on this particular issue. It's been five full years since 4.8 was a supported release. Poking around an onld release to find what it would take to port LibreSSL to it might be an interesting excercise for thoroughly non-productive values of 'interesting', but I wouldn't think much help would be offered by anyone actually capable of contributing to the effort. For all practical purposes, simply moving whatever you have running on that box to a more recent release is the more sensible choice. The jump from 4.8 to anything currently supported is long enough that it's likely a fresh install and carefully re-introducing whatever your application depends on is the smarter approach. That way you will end up with installing and running only the things you actually need and leaving behind the stuff that just made its way in by accident. -- Peter N. M. Hansteen, member of the first RFC 1149 implementation team http://bsdly.blogspot.com/ http://www.bsdly.net/ http://www.nuug.no/ "Remember to set the evil bit on all malicious network traffic" delilah spamd[29949]: 85.152.224.147: disconnected after 42673 seconds.
