From: "Dinesh Nair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> one a related note, though i've got most of the files in /usr/lib dated
> March 7, 2001, a few of them are still dated July 28, 2000 as per the
> 4.1-RELEASE i installed of the cd sets. as some of these include rsaref
> and libssl_p.a libraries, i was wondering if this was contributing to the
> problem.
>
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 9196 Jul 28 2000 librsaUSA.so.1
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 6394 Jul 28 2000 librsaUSA.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 7158 Jul 28 2000 librsaUSA_p.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 880 Jul 28 2000 libRSAglue_p.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 244522 Jul 28 2000 libssl_p.a
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 2284 Jul 28 2000 libRSAglue.so.1
> -r--r--r-- 1 root wheel 822 Jul 28 2000 libRSAglue.a
>
> if it isnt, would it be safe to rm these July 28th dated libraries out of
> /usr/lib ?
>
The *_p.a files are profiled libraries that can be safely removed from the
system.
librsaUSA.*, and libRSAglue.* have been integrated into the OpenSSL
distribution since the RSA patent has expired. You may remove these
libraries if you have no ports that are still depending on them. Just
rebuild all ports that depend on OpenSSL.
Scot
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