Re: [HEADS UP]: OpenSSH 7.2 to Fedora 23

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On Mar  3 09:53, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> On 03/03/2016 09:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >Hi Jakub,
> >
> >On Mar  2 17:48, Jakub Jelen wrote:
> >>Hi there,
> >>I just pushed openssh-7.2 update [1] into Fedora 23 testing. There are no
> >>incompatible changes except these:
> >As I reported to the openssh-unix-dev list, as well as in
> >https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/openssh-7.2p1-1.fc23,
> >this release silently removes the /usr/bin/slogin symlink pointing to
> >/usr/bin/ssh, because upstream removed the Makefile commands creating
> >it at install time.  Same for slogin.1 -> ssh.1.
> >
> >This will break lots of installations (scripts, keyboard shortcuts, etc).
> >
> >For the Cygwin distro I now added the missing rules to the spec file,
> >along the lines of
> >
> >   cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin
> >   ln -s ./ssh.exe slogin
> >   cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1
> >   ln -s ./ssh.1 slogin.1
> >
> >Please create slogin in the rpm spec file as well.
> Thanks for the notice. My bad that I thought that symlink is just ancient
> stuff from old times. I will respin update with restored symlink for Fedora
> 23.
> 
> Do you think that we need to carry this symlink even to Fedora 24? Do you
> have some examples of scripts using slogin? They should probably also get
> fixed.

I'm not aware of scripts in the distro using slogin.  But I'm aware of
user installations using slogin.  The slogin symlink exists for 20 years
now.  Just removing it is bound to break local configurations for no
good reason.

If upstream can't be bothered to keep up with slogin it's bad, but from
my POV a distro should not break user configurations if it's not a big
problem to keep them running.  So, yes, I think the symlinks should be
maintained by the distros in future.


Corinna

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