On 2016-08-12, Peter N. M. Hansteen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
Or any, if they've already killfiled you. > 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. OpenBSD is developed as a whole; kernel, system source, ports. Changes made in one place often require changes to the other parts; if you're not tracking development that is a whole lot of work you're going to need to replicate. If you want to stick with a years-old OS release, OpenBSD is a poor choice, you will be better served by something like one of the commercial Linux vendors that can afford to employ people to backport things.
