<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Oh, gosh -- our virtualbox port is so old and out of date I wouldn't even consider using it.</div><div><br></div><div>it should probably be removed, I guess. </div><div><br></div><div>Do you actually have it installed? I am startled if so !</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><br><div><div>On 2019-10-05, at 11:08 AM, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Thank you! From the tickets you filed, it certainly looks like you did a thorough job of investigating and reporting the issues. Hopefully they'll get to it reasonably soon, although clearly that's beyond your control.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Given that virtualbox depends on it (at least if the vde2 variant is enabled), I was surprised that it has such issues left unresolved. But in</div><div class=""><a href="https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_vde" class="">https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch06.html#network_vde</a></div><div class="">I see "At the moment this option requires compilation of Oracle VM VirtualBox from sources, as the Oracle packages do not include it." So I guess the folks with commercial resources also just avoided that.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Would it be a good idea, until vde2 is working again (not that it would help anyone with the virtualbox port already installed), to have it not be a default variant for the virtualbox port? (that's how I read [+]vde2 in the output of port info virtualbox)</div><div class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Oct 5, 2019, at 09:21, Ryan Schmidt <<a href="mailto:ryandesign@macports.org" class="">ryandesign@macports.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class=""><br class=""><br class="">On Oct 4, 2019, at 21:41, Richard L. Hamilton wrote:<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I see that kdelibs4 and xmms2 are ok now; thanks to whoever did that (esp. kdelibs4, which is probably nasty to maintain).<br class=""><br class="">The one I have left that means I can't just "port upgrade outdated" on my system with the most packages installed, running the current (Mojave) OS, is vde2; a look at the log file makes it appear quite likely that's also an openssl changeover related problem.<br class=""></blockquote><br class="">I looked into vde2 a few days ago.<br class=""><br class="">It is not compatible with openssl 1.1, as you found.<br class=""><br class="">There is a newer version than the one we have in the port available, but it is years old and is also still not openssl 1.1 compatible.<br class=""><br class="">This has been reported to the developers. Their response was to change their code so that it uses wolfssl instead of openssl. They have not yet released a new version containing this change.<br class=""><br class="">I tried to update the port to the latest released version and backport the wolfssl change. Just getting that patch to apply required me to backport a number of other changes as well, and I don't think I ended up with a successful build after that either.<br class=""><br class="">In the process, I noticed a half dozen other problems with their code. I reported these to the developers. I was intending to wait for them to acknowledge and hopefully fix those issues and release a new stable version so that I could then update the port to that version but so far they have not responded to those reports.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="https://github.com/virtualsquare/vde-2/issues" class="">https://github.com/virtualsquare/vde-2/issues</a><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></div></blockquote></div><br></body></html>