[oi-dev] phasing out openssl 1.0.2 (mostly)

[Goetz T. Fischer]

On Fri, 19 Apr 2024 18:48:02 +0200, Till Wegmüller wrote:
>> mongodb
>> would have to be updated to at least 6.0.7 for ssl 3 support.
> Which would be good since 4.4 is EOL end of October anyway

according to their website the eol date for 4.4 was even february. october eol is 5.0.

> In Place it will refuse to start and people will have to revert to older
> boot environments to start it.

sure, that's always the case with updates.

> It is however a package we need to build
> manually as it requires AVX support in the System which our current
> buildserver does not have.

it needs avx for building? so it needs something for the compilation that requires avx?
that's a first for me. usually programs need certain hardware features for running but building as 
well?
however, mongodb is quite a big one so if the buildserver is old, it's probably better not to block 
that for too long anyway.

> There is a pending patch or even RTI for that open,
> https://www.illumos.org/issues/16151 WOuld be a good reason to push the
> illumos people a bit :)

just added a little reminder there :-)

>> also on the list is tor. that i didn't try because i'm not sure how much that's actually used and
>> whether we wanna keep it given its reputation. personally i like tor and use it quite often for
>> "normal" browsing just because of the anonymity. but that's not my call so ...
> If you use it on OpenIndiana that is good enough for me to keep it :)

haha thanks but i'm lame in this case. i'm just using the tor browser :-P
as far as i'm concerned however, i wouldn't mind keeping it. although it gets abused to some 
extend, i think the general idea is great and for some people it might indeed be the only way 
around censorship.