How to upgrade criticals base third party softwares

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Sabbasth

Hi,

I have to upgrade openssl to 1.0.0a.

the question I asked myself is :
If I override the base vesion (0.9.8k on 8.1-RELEASE), next time I do a portupgrade -af (i.e. FBSD upgrade), it will be upgraded. I don't want this to happen for openssl, it will make my system unsecure and unsafe because this software is critical.
If I do a symlink, the problem will be the same (or I have to write a procedure)

So is the best answer to install critical softwares from sources ? Or is there another solution "in the middle" ?

Thank you for your advices,
Bastien Semene
 
If I do no misunderstand, you can use portupgrade in combination with /usr/local/etc/pkgtools.conf. In section HOLD_PKGS you can integrate that kind of ports.

Hope this helps.
 
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