Tuesday, July 06, 2021

Re: Why 16 year old zlib 1.2.3 in OpenBSD 6.9 released May 2021 please?

On Thu, Jun 24, 2021 at 02:56:16PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > I think the easiest path here is to incorporate the new upstream into a
> > port, unless someone is familiar with zlib and can cherrypick out the
> > commit(s) that resolve the issue. (I didn't find zlib in ports already.)
>
> That is completely impossible. It must be in base. There are 3 copies
> in base -- userland, kernel, and bootblocks. They must be kept in sync.

This is not even true, there is a 4th copy in perl's library.

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