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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 2000 03:17:51 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: ssh strangeness in -current...
Message-ID:  <v04210113b4e9132e890c@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <200003060423.XAA01323@server.baldwin.cx>
References:  <200003060423.XAA01323@server.baldwin.cx>

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At 11:23 PM -0500 3/5/00, John Baldwin wrote:
>On 06-Mar-00 Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Mar 2000, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> >
> >> the ports (yeah, stupid me), to no avail.  It complained about some
> >> RSA library missing.
> >
> > Did you read the error message? Perhaps you should. Perhaps reporting
> > it here would help someone to actually fix your problem instead
> > of having to guess.
>
>I think you've kind of missed the point though, Kris.  How many other
>people are going to upgrade only to find that their previously working
>system is now broken.  We should at least mention this in UPDATING
>so people have a ghost of a chance.

My guess is that when he said "help someone to actually fix your problem",
his desire was to fix it so people would NOT have a problem updating.
 From the activity on the current list, it's clear that he has been
putting in a lot of hours trying to fix all the various odds and ends
which broke when this went in.  (and yes, there have been a lot of
loose ends, but people have definitely been working on them).

This must have been the most discussed topic on the current mailing
list for the past two weeks, and I (for one) appreciate all the work
people have been doing to get openssh as part of the base system.
It's been a bit bumpy, but it is (IMO) a worthwhile addition for
4.0-release.  I would have been happy to vote for openssh as part
of the base system, even though that means a delay in 4.0-release.


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Garance Alistair Drosehn           =   gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer          or  drosih@rpi.edu
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute


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