On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 7:26 AM, leif <not.rea...@online.de> wrote: > On 04/08/2015 12:48 PM, Daniel Krenn wrote: >> Am 2015-04-08 um 12:28 schrieb Vincent Delecroix: >>> At least, does 'sage -i openssl' before 'make' work? >> >> Seems to be possible (tried; but still compiling). > > It used to work and hence still *should*. In fact, we explicitly added > support for downloading and installing optional packages /before/ > building Sage a while ago to avoid unnecessary recompilation, especially > of Python because of the SSL issue. > > > Nevertheless, I'd recommend to install the distro's version of > libssl-dev (package name of OpenSSL on Debian) system-wide whenever > possible; there've been dozens of security updates for OpenSSL in the > last few month, and the optional Sage package isn't updated that > frequently nor fast (not to mention you don't get a reminder even if it is).
Huge +1 to this! -- William > I recall at some point William even deleted the "current" optional > package because it was outdated and lacked important security fixes. > > > -leif > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "sage-release" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- William (http://wstein.org) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sage-release" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to sage-release+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to sage-release@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-release. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.