SailfishOS SDK and OpenSSL>1.1.1

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#1

Hi,
I’m trying to update or install the SFOS SDK in Gentoo. I’m aware it’s not officially supported, so this post is more of a long shot.
Essentially, I’m getting errors like the following:

qt.network.ssl: QSslSocket: cannot resolve EVP_PKEY_base_id

Having done some online research, it appears that those errors stem from the fact that Qt is linked to an older OpenSSL library (I’m running 3 nowadays).
I’m not sure how OpenSSL is patched on all the supported Linux distributions - all I know is that version 1 is not particularly supported any more in Gentoo for security reasons.

Are there any plans to distribute the SDK linked to newer OpenSSL versions?

Thanks!

Gabriel

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#2

Not to answer your question, though I do not think there are open security issues with line v1.x of OpenSSL, it just has been declared EOL by upstream. Thus projects gradually migrate to the line 3.x.

#3

Surely there is already a thread about this.

#4

Could not find one. If there is, I’ll ask for this one to be deleted.

#5

This issue is likely to be addressed in the upcoming SDK release.

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#6

Must have happened very recently; openssl 1.1 is still in the Archlinux [core] repository.

#7

See their blog post, where it was set on 11th September 2023.

#8

Might be because it’s still required by many apps

#9

But Archlinux will not support it for long if it’s officially EOL.