Upgrading OpenSSL in CentOS 5.3

Question

Hi I am looking for a plugin which will allow me to manage Asterisk from WHM. If anyone would happen to know if there is a plugin I can install that would be great.

Thanks

Solution

If you've simply over-written the rpm-provided files you may have... some pain later on; at the very least it's misleading for anyone who looks at the system.

In your position I'd do one of two things:

1/ Download the srpm for Centos, do an rpm -i openssl-whatever.srpm

Edit the /usr/src/redhat/SPEC/openssl.spec file to update the version and source file to the version of openssl you want to build.

Do an rpmbuild -ba /usr/src/redhat/SPEC/openssl.spec to build a newer version of the RPM. If all goes well you'll end up with some shiny new RPMs in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/$arch and you can just drop them in.

or

2/ Nab the openssl srpm from a newer release (such as Fedora 12), and do an rpmbuild --rebuild openssl-whatever.srpm

Again, all going well you'll get some RPMs, although this is probably less reliable (in the sense that the ABI and dependencies may have changed from RHEL 5 to Fedora 12, for example).