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: