Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:41:15 +0300
From: Solar Designer <solar@...nwall.com>
To: owl-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Owl-current moved to glibc 2.3.x

On Sun, Nov 07, 2004 at 04:22:43AM +0100, Maciek Pasternacki wrote:
> On Boomtime, The Aftermath 20, 3170 YOLD, Solar Designer wrote:
> > As for technical problems, the only significant one is with Perl.  I
> > know that people have Owl 1.1 installs with many custom Perl modules
> > built ...

> There may be also problems with openssl -- binaries linked with it
> require exact version of libssl.so and libcrypto.so, and openssl was
> also upgraded in last -current.

You've lost context here.  We were talking about possibly rolling
updates from Owl-current _prior_ to the Big Update into 1.1-stable.
That still used the old OpenSSL.

As for the latest -current, yes, we've broken binary compatibility for
OpenSSL, and we've also dropped support for libdb.so.2 and libdb.so.3.
These are now binary-compatible with newer systems (such as RHL9), but
not with older Owl.  So those who have built/linked custom software
against old OpenSSL and/or old libdb on Owl 1.1, will have to rebuild
that when upgrading to the newest Owl-current.

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