Re: libesmtp-devel

[Todd Zullinger]

Hi,

Paolo Galtieri wrote:
>  I run the bro network security monitor.  Due to recent changes in
> openssl
>  the bro monitor will no longer compile with openssl 1.1 only with openssl
>  1.0.  As a result I had to uninstall openssl-devel and install the
>  compat-openssl10-devel package.  As part of the removal of openssl-devel the
>  libesmtp-devel and net-snmp-devel packages were also removed.  I have other
>  software that uses libesmtp-devel.  I can't install libesmtp-devel due to
>  conflicts with openssl.  Is there anyway to re-install the libesmtp-devel
>  and net-snmp-devel packages? 
I don't think so, as the conflict with openssl-devel and
compat-openssl10-devel isn't something you can (reasonably)
work around.

Why do you need the -devel packages installed on the same
system?  Unless the bro software somehow needs the openssl
1.0 headers at run time, you should be able to build it,
then remove compat-openssl10-devel and reinstall the
openssl-devel package.

(If it is a runtime dependency, then I don't think there's
any good options, but that seems unlikely.)

An somewhat better solution is to build in mock or some
other container.  Then you don't need to have any -devel
packages installed.

And, of course, the best solution would be for bro to
support openssl-1.1.  I would think security software would
be keeping up with openssl. ;)

-- 
Todd
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