Re: "libssl.so.8" not found

On 14-12-2015 16:35, Brad Davis wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 06:03:25AM -0700, Warner Losh wrote:
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2015 at 2:21 AM, Ronald Klop <ronald-lists_at_klop.ws> wrote:
>>
>>> 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 d??a Sunday, December 13, 2015 a las 10:40:22PM -0800, Russell Haley
>>>>> escribi??:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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&
>>
>>
>> As a temporary measure, for bootstrapping or installing packages, you can
>> also
>> use libmap.conf to map libssl.so.7 to libssl.so.8. There's a second library
>> that
>> you'll find you need to map too. This will get you over the hump. However,
>> once you do upgrade, you'll need to remove the lines because slogin and such
>> have a check for the right version of openssl, and will give an error
>> message if
>> you try to use them cross-threaded.
> 
> Or just use pkg-static. :)

Cool trick, never though about that.
However that does not help with auxilary tools that are code to use pkg. :(

So in the end I just manually build the pkg port, which will compile
against whatever is available as ssl-lib. Not the best solution, since
next time Bapt releases a new version, the game starts again.

perhaps in this case it is best to move pkg-static to pkg?
and always use a static linked version. It is not like a deamon running
for ever. So the temporary overhead of 4Mb <> 150K code space would be
acceptable.

--WjW