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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon opnsense

Shadowsocks uses deprecated pcre-8.45_4.

Open Zerophase opened this issue 1 year ago • 3 comments

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Describe the bug When installing the Shadowsocks plugin I get notified about using the wrong version of pcre. pcre-8.45-4 gets installed instead of the recommended devel/pcre2.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Install Shadowsocks plugin through the gui.

Expected behavior I do not receive a warning about using the deprecated version of pcre.

Environment OPNsense 24.1.7_4 (amd64).

Zerophase avatar May 26 '24 22:05 Zerophase

The upstream port of FreeBSD needs to be updated, maybe you can open an issue over there to get in touch with the maintainer?

mimugmail avatar May 27 '24 05:05 mimugmail

upstream project with problem is at https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-libev. The latest commit to shadowsocks-libev is 2 years ago. The description of shadowsocks-libev github repository states that further development is in https://github.com/shadowsocks/shadowsocks-rust.

I searched for 5 minutes if pcre2 can be used as an API compatible drop in replacement for pcre but found no information.

So sooner or later https://github.com/opnsense/plugins/blob/a01fd048ae6d5db323473d9fd8c574da18c45388/net/shadowsocks/Makefile#L4 should be replaced by PLUGIN_DEPENDS= shadowsocks-rust. Again I do not know if shadowsocks-rust is API compatible with shadowsocks-libev.

txt-file avatar Jul 03 '24 12:07 txt-file

Not going to touch this. We could pivot to another dependency but not without maintainer ok and testing. All library related changes are FreeBSD ports territory.

fichtner avatar Jul 03 '24 18:07 fichtner

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