Re: does "openssh" really depend on "openssl"?

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Once upon a time, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> "Note, the OpenSSH packages require the OpenSSL package (openssl) ..."

Yes.  OpenSSH does not implement the crypto itself, it uses OpenSSL to
do it.  OpenSSH does _not_ use the SSL functions of OpenSSL, just the
math.

>   um ... they do? i just checked and none of the following commands
> show openssl as a dependency:
> 
> $ rpm -qR openssh-server

OpenSSL provides libcrypto.so.[version] that the OpenSSH packages need.

> * Sat Mar 03 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> - remove dependency on openssl -- would need to be too precise

That was an explicit dependency on "openssl" in the RPM, not the actual
code dependency in the OpenSSH source.

>   so ... am i missing something? does openssh actually depend on
> openssl in some way that's not revealed by any of the above?

Yes, you are missing that most deps are done by actual library usage,
not by package name anymore.  Look at "rpm -q --provides openssl-libs"
to see all the various library dependencies OpenSSL provides (note that
the RPM is now "openssl-libs" - that's why a hard dep on "openssl" was
removed).

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