Installation on OpenBSD-5.9

Chad Dougherty crd at acm.org
Wed Apr 6 02:14:17 UTC 2016


On 2016-04-05 16:01, Brian Warner wrote:
> Huh.. I thought 5.9 would include a newer version of LibreSSL that
> wouldn't have that problem. We got a report from 'sickness' on IRC that
> 5.8 worked. It should have just been 5.6 that was broken.
>

It's not LibreSSL's fault.  There are patches to py-cryptography that 
have not been included in the pypi release.
See:
<http://cvsweb.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/ports/security/py-cryptography/patches/>

I wonder if sickness was using the binary version from pkgs that 
includes those patches.

> Could you add a log of the error you got (with `pip install` and
> OpenBSD-5.9) to #2746? The pyca-cryptography folks would probably be
> interested in seeing what went wrong.
>

Done.  https://tahoe-lafs.org/trac/tahoe-lafs/ticket/2746#comment:2

> Thanks for posting a workaround!
>

Thanks for a nice new release!

-- 
     -Chad



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