Re: "libssl.so.8" not found

From: Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:21:22 +0100
On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 10:11:35 +0100, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws>  
wrote:

> On Mon, 14 Dec 2015 08:18:40 +0100, Matthias Apitz <guru_at_unixarea.de>  
> wrote:
>
>> El día Sunday, December 13, 2015 a las 10:40:22PM -0800, Russell Haley  
>> escribió:
>>
>>> Hi There,
>>>
>>> I am trying to bring up an Arm image off the FreeBSD website for my
>>> hummingboard. The problem seems to be when I run pkg the system  
>>> installs
>>> the latest version - 1.6.2, and then fails with:
>>>
>>> Shared object "libssl.so.8" not found, required by "pkg"
>>>
>>> I've seen this in NextBSD, and DesktopBSD and even on my previous arm  
>>> image
>>> but I was able to get around the problem by creating links from  
>>> libssl.so.7
>>> to libssl.so.8.
>>
>> I have had the same issue on r285885 with ports as well from July this
>> year and pkg 1.5.5 ... I accidently updated pkg to 1.6.x which could not
>> find libssl.so.8; I forced back to 1.5.5 with an older pkg-static and  
>> now pkg
>> complains about it database, but still works:
>>
>> $ pkg info pkg
>> pkg: warning: database version 32 is newer than libpkg(3) version 31,  
>> but still compatible
>> pkg-1.5.5
>>
>> I don't know why pkg 1.6.2 was produced with this recent libssl.so.8; it
>> should have been done more conservative, IMHO
>>
>> 	matthias
>>
>
> I had the same problem on my amd64 laptop. Your FreeBSD version is too  
> old. Upgrading the FreeBSD base will give you the new libssl version.  
> After that you can upgrade your packages.
>
> What version of FreeBSD is running on this hummingboard? I guess  
> 11-CURRENT. Probably ssl was upgraded in FreeBSD and the new packages  
> are build on this newer version. In 10-STABLE this is kept backwards  
> compatible, but in 11-CURRENT you have to keep up yourself.
>
> Regards,
>
> Ronald.

It has to do with this message in /usr/src/UPDATING:

https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/head/UPDATING?r1=290206&r2=290207&pathrev=292177&
Received on Mon Dec 14 2015 - 08:21:32 UTC

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