pkg/29024: amsn does not work

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>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@localhost>
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@localhost:/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: