How to use a downgraded package of openssl

Rejoy · n00b Joined: 09 Jul 2018 Posts: 20

Hi,

Please refer an earlier post https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1083656-highlight-.html. I was able to install all packages for the profile I had selected after using the --exclude=openssl option alaong with emerge --ask --deep --newuse --with-bdeps=y @world. But I don't know what the exclude option really does. Would this command have build packages factoring in the dependencies of openssl 1.0.2 or without it. Essentially what I am seeking to know is what is the right way to use a downgraded package, specifically openssl 1.0.2 and also the correct way to upgrade the entire system without upgrading the specific package.

Thanks
Rejoy

ct85711 · Veteran Joined: 27 Sep 2005 Posts: 1791

Well, exclude option does as the name infers, in that portage will exclude openssl from the output. For example, I often use exclude when I do depclean to exclude gentoo-sources, so depclean will not clean any versions of that package.
As far as beyond that, portage will go by the current version of openssl installed for dependency resolution. For the few packages that depend on 1.0.2, it will either also exclude or throw an error (more likely if the other package is a dependency for something else).

khayyam

fedeliallalinea · Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2018 6:15 am Post subject:

No openssl-1.0.2 isn't a declassed package, it's correct version for stable or unstable gentoo.
openssl-1.1.0 is hard masked and should not be installed in a gentoo system (for now because has ABI chenged and may package fails to build).
Now thare is some case how portage want to install openssl-1.1.0 because --autounmask options is enabled, in this cases you can simply disable this option (--autounmask n)
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