Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2000 03:43:08 +0100 (CET) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ssh strangeness in -current... Message-ID: <200003070243.DAA52008@dorifer.heim3.tu-clausthal.de> In-Reply-To: <89v0d4$9af$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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Kris Kennaway <kris@hub.freebsd.org> wrote in list.freebsd-current:
> 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?
Yes, I did, it was not helpful. In fact, it was confusing.
> Perhaps you should. Perhaps reporting it
> here would help someone to actually fix your problem instead of having to
> guess.
I do not have a problem, I fixed it myself after some
struggling. Did you read my whole message? Maybe I was
a bit unclear. Sorry for that.
My question was just what I am expected to do, and whether
removing /usr/bin/ssh is the suggested solution.
> Hmm. Can you try cvsupping your src-crypto and src-secure collections from
> another (non-US) cvsup server?
I can't cvsup on that -current box, it's too small for a
"make world" (and probably too slow, too). I just downloaded
the 20000228-current snapshot and installed it.
> > Apart from my stupidness of not checking the location of the binary
> > first -- what did I do wrong, and what's the recommended way of
> > handling this? Am I supposed to rm /usr/bin/ssh each time I install a
> > new release or snapshot? I can't believe that.
>
> Read /etc/defaults/make.conf
Why? I didn't compile anything.
> > By the way, _why_ is ssh in the base system now, and what is
> > wrong with having it in the ports? I'm sorry if there was a
> > "HEADS UP" on this list, then I must have missed it.
>
> Enough people wanted it in the base system
For what reason? I'm sorry, I can't find anything in the
archives which is answering my question.
> I'm quite surprised you've missed any discussion of OpenSSH here though,
> since it's probably been one of the most discussed topics here for the
> past few weeks.
Hm. Strange.
Regards,
Oliver
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