On Friday, 17. August 2001 23:57, Andreas Pour wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Apparently SSL was disabled in SuSE < 7.2 b/c of the way OpenSSL
> developers version their library.  In particular, version 0.9.6b is
> binary incompatible with 0.9.6a which is binary incompatiable with
> 0.9.5.  Since Unix (rpm and linker) use the major number (in all
> cases 0) for determining binary compatability, SuSE had no way to
> know which version of openssl is installed (and forcing an upgrade
> would cause apps linked to the old version to crash).
>
> Ciao,
>
> Dre

Thank you very much for this detailed information!

... although it was not what I wanted to hear :-(

Andreas
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