Subject: pkg/29024: amsn does not work
To: None <pkg-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: None <jmmv@menta.net>
List: pkgsrc-bugs
Date: 01/20/2005 15:52:01
>Number: 29024
>Category: pkg
>Synopsis: amsn does not work
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: low
>Responsible: pkg-manager
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jan 20 15:52:00 +0000 2005
>Originator: Julio M. Merino Vidal
>Release: NetBSD 2.99.14
>Organization:
Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
http://www.livejournal.com/users/jmmv/
The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/
>Environment:
System: NetBSD dawn.local 2.99.14 NetBSD 2.99.14 (DAWN) #4: Tue Jan 18 18:47:53 CET 2005 jmmv@dawn.local:/var/build/obj/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/DAWN i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
amsn does not work. It tells me that it needs a plugin to use SSL
and offers me the possibility to download it from the main server.
It tries to download it and succeeds, then extracts the tarball but
a window pops up saying that it failed.
Inspecting the plugin with ldd shows:
-lssl.2 => not found
-lcrypto.1 => not found
These libraries only exist in NetBSD 1.6.x, as they have been
replaced with newer versions.
>How-To-Repeat:
Get a 2.0 or current system and install amsn. Start it and see how
it fails.
>Fix:
Create a package for the required plugin and use it instead of
downloading a potentially untrusted binary. The later has a chance
to fail on many systems.
>Unformatted: