Re: [announce] skarnet.org October 2024 update

From: <ericwq057_at_qq.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 08:35:26 +0800

Fedora does provide Libretls 3.8.1 package. Fedora doesn’t provide bearssl or libressl. So openssl + libretls is the last resort according to the document.

Build s6-networking with libretls-3.8.1 and openssl-libs-3.1.4 reports no warning (for fedora 39).

Eric

> On Oct 17, 2024, at 08:12, Laurent Bercot <ska-skaware_at_skarnet.org> wrote:
>
>
>> When I try to build rpm for s6-networking, the latest openssl release for fedora is 3.2.2. while the document require openssl-3.3.1.
>>
>> Is openssl-3.3.1 the minimal requirement for s6-networking?
>
> openssl-3.2.2 *might* work, but that's not the latest one, so it
> likely has security holes, unless Fedora backported the fixes. Try it,
> and if it builds, it will probably work.
>
> But that's likely not the main problem you'll encounter. Does Fedora
> package libretls? Because s6-networking won't build against openssl
> alone, it needs libretls to provide the libtls layer of APIs that
> s6-networking uses.
>
> If Fedora packages libressl, it would probably be easier for you to
> build against libressl rather than openssl + libretls.
> (And if by any chance they package bearssl, that would be the best option.)
>
> --
> Laurent
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