[arch-dev-public] openssl 3.0

[Pierre Schmitz]

just a small update: This is going to be a little more complicated and
I suggest we tackle this at the beginning of next year. I got some
very helpful feedback from our community (Thanks a lot loqs).
* We might be able to drop version 1.0 (which is no longer maintained
by upstream anyway). packages that only work with 1.0 should be
dropped imho.
* We are going to need to provide 1.1 for a couple of packages
(hopefully not for long)
* We are going to have to solve the bootstrap issue with pacman. I
guess by either linking it statically, make it depend on the 1.1
package at first

Greetings,

Pierre

On Sat, Nov 6, 2021 at 10:32 AM Pierre Schmitz <pierre at archlinux.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Jelle, (also forwarding to dev-public)
>
> definitely yes, OpenSSL 3.0 is on my wish list! :-)
>
> I did not want to jump on it at day one though. Even the last minor
> updates were quite painful and we still have packages requiring
> version 1.0 and are still not compatible with 1.1.
>
> While they claim that most packages should work with a recompile, it
> would be nice to actually know which packages are not compatible. This
> should help whether we need another compatibility package are would be
> able to just replace openssl 1.1 with version 3.
>
> I know about foutrelis' awesome rebuilder script, but I wonder if we
> have something similar that I just could run for half a day to get an
> idea which package would break and which wont? Like a dry run that
> wont commit anything. If no such thing exists yet, I might have a look
> myself.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Pierre
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2021 at 9:14 PM Jelle van der Waa <jelle at vdwaa.nl> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Pierre,
> >
> > Shall we start an openssl 3.0 rebuild soon? Fedora/Debian/Alpine seens
> > to have already started.
> >
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/OpenSSL3.0
> >
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Jelle
>
>
>
> --
> Pierre Schmitz, https://pierre-schmitz.com



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