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Date: Sun, 19 Jul 1998 14:34:15 -0700 (PDT)
From: brian@hyperreal.org
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Subject: ports/7323: "make install" of ssh blows away host key pair
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>Number:         7323
>Category:       ports
>Synopsis:       "make install" of ssh blows away host key pair
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-ports
>State:          open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          change-request
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 19 14:40:00 PDT 1998
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Brian Behlendorf
>Organization:
>Release:        2.2.6
>Environment:
FreeBSD taz.hyperreal.org 2.2.6-STABLE FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE #0: Mon Apr 27 14:56:51 PDT 1998     brian@taz.hyperreal.org:/usr/src/sys/compile/taz  i386

>Description:
When conducting a /usr/ports based install of ssh, a "make install" 
obliterates any preexisting host keys.  A "make install" should instead
look for any pre-existing keys and use them, or at least prompt to ask
if the user wishes to make new keys.

It could be argued that this is a bug in ssh, or that I shouldn't 
expect a "make install" to be nice about things like this, but I would
counter that it defeats the purpose of a "ports" collection as an
ease-of-use feature if I need to inspect closely every package I build
with it.

I feel guilty about complaining about an otherwise excellent setup.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

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