Re: Reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to LibreSSL

2014-12-12 Thread Brent Cook
On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 04:57:21PM +0100, Mark Kettenis wrote: From: Bob Beck b...@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:39:15 -0700 i.e. if we want the openssl command to report someting specific we put it in there, not a globally visible string that will be used for the wrong

Reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to LibreSSL

2014-12-11 Thread Brent Cook
To reduce reliance on this string, and to make it more consistently correct between LibreSSL-portable releases, reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to say the bare minimum. There are better, more portable and consistent mechanisms for determining the installed versions of packages, such as the OS package

Re: Reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to LibreSSL

2014-12-11 Thread Mark Kettenis
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:15:06 -0600 From: Brent Cook bust...@gmail.com To reduce reliance on this string, and to make it more consistently correct between LibreSSL-portable releases, reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to say the bare minimum. There are better, more portable and consistent

Re: Reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to LibreSSL

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Beck
Absolutely yes. On Thu, Dec 11, 2014 at 7:15 AM, Brent Cook bust...@gmail.com wrote: To reduce reliance on this string, and to make it more consistently correct between LibreSSL-portable releases, reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to say the bare minimum. There are better, more portable

Re: Reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to LibreSSL

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Beck
between LibreSSL-portable releases, reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to say the bare minimum. There are better, more portable and consistent mechanisms for determining the installed versions of packages, such as the OS package manager, versions on user-generated packages, or the pkg-config tool

Re: Reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to LibreSSL

2014-12-11 Thread Bob Beck
, Dec 11, 2014 at 8:34 AM, Mark Kettenis mark.kette...@xs4all.nl wrote: Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:15:06 -0600 From: Brent Cook bust...@gmail.com To reduce reliance on this string, and to make it more consistently correct between LibreSSL-portable releases, reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to say

Re: Reduce OPENSSL_VERSION_TEXT to LibreSSL

2014-12-11 Thread Mark Kettenis
From: Bob Beck b...@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2014 08:39:15 -0700 i.e. if we want the openssl command to report someting specific we put it in there, not a globally visible string that will be used for the wrong things. I think you guys are trying to hard to prevent people to shoot