On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 06:26:36PM +0200, peter pilsl wrote:
>
> On my linuxserver many application rely on openssl: from apache over
> cyrus-imap
> to sendmail and many others like named.
>
> Now I'd finally like to upgrade openssl from 0.9.6 to 0.9.8e to fix some
> security-issues. (I know its about time).
>
> My question now is: do I need to recompile all applications that rely on
> openssl
> or is enough just to rebuild the new openssl and put the libs in the proper
> place?
The 0.9.8 and 0.9.6 releases are not binary compatible. All applications
that use OpenSSL need to be recompiled. In many cases it is easier to
upgrade to a complete system where 0.9.8 is the default OpenSSL release
than to try to recompile everything and not run into issues with vendor
updates that assume the original API, ...
--
Viktor.
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