Opened 15 years ago

Closed 12 years ago

#23157 closed enhancement (wontfix)

openssl install links

Reported by: clemc@… Owned by: mww@…
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version: 1.8.2
Keywords: Cc:
Port: openssl

Description

Not complaing -- this great stuff... but it would be nice if the install script automatically linked */bin/openssl and {dgst,md5,md4,md2,sha,sha1,mdc2,ripemd160) which are all legal entry points to the command. The man page should so the same thing of course...

Clem Cole

Change History (4)

comment:1 Changed 15 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)

Cc: clemc@… removed
Component: ports → base
Type: request → enhancement

comment:2 Changed 15 years ago by jmroot (Joshua Root)

Component: base → ports
Owner: changed from macports-tickets@… to mww@…
Port: openssl added
Summary: openssl install → openssl install links

comment:3 Changed 14 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

We could do this. In fact, symlinks for the manpages are already being installed. However, under the heading "Changes between 0.9.1c and 0.9.2b [22 Mar 1999]", the CHANGES file says this: 

  *) First cut of a cleanup for apps/. First the `ssleay' program is now named
     `openssl' and second, the shortcut symlinks for the `openssl <command>'
     are no longer created. This way we have a single and consistent command
     line interface `openssl <command>', similar to `cvs <command>'.
     [Ralf S. Engelschall, Paul Sutton and Ben Laurie]

So it seems creating these symlinks would undermine the developers' intentions of deprecating this usage 11 years ago. Or perhaps I misread this, or they've changed their minds since then.

I'm also concerned that installing a symlink "md5" would override Mac OS X's md5 program in /sbin. While they appear to produce the same output in my limited testing, I'm not yet convinced they behave identically in all circumstances, which might break software that expects "md5" to be /sbin/md5 on Mac OS X.

Apple's version of openssl in Mac OS X doesn't have these symlinks (binaries or manpages)

comment:4 Changed 12 years ago by ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)

Resolution: → wontfix
Status: new → closed
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