On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Pekka Savola wrote: > On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Nalin Dahyabhai wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 03:33:37PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Pete Peterson (petersonp@genrad.com) said: > > > > They have 7.2 packages, but I tried 'rpm --rebuild'ing the SRPMs from there > > > > for my 6.2 systems and the rebuild failed with a pile of errors. > > > > > > > > ... So I'm hoping Red Hat comes up with theirs soon. :-) > > > > > > Red Hat never shipped official openssh packages for 6.2... > > > > OpenSSH 3.1 also requires OpenSSL 0.9.6 or newer to build, which we > > haven't backported to 6.2. I'm sure this isn't going to be pretty. > > I'm curious whether how this would not be pretty: just issue > openssl-0.9.6[bc] as an update with new library version number, and > release openssl095a package like how it's done with RHL7x. To make old > apps work, one would have to install the legacy package, and for new ones, > the updated one would be used. > > Is there something I'm missing here? > No, I think you did it one to one what I did yesterday and it works great, just for short for someone not figuring out yet: 1) Old versions (0.9.5a) of these aren't needed any more # rpm -e openssl-devel openssl-perl 2) Rebuild new '0.9.5a compatibility library' for old apps # rpm --rebuild ftp://ftp.redhat.com/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/SRPMS/openssl095a-0.9.5a-11.src.rpm 3) Replace current openssl-0.9.5a with openssl095a-0.9.5a # rpm -e --nodeps openssl &&\ rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/openssl095-0.9.5a-11.i386.rpm 4) Recompile latest openssl from 7.2 # rpm --rebuild ftp://ftp.redat.com/redhat/linux/7.2/en/os/i386/SRPMS/openssl-0.9.6b-8.src.rpm 5) Install # rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/openssl*-0.9.6b-8.i386.rpm 6) Rebuild openssh-3.1p1 # rpm --rebuild ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.2/en/os/SRPMS/openssh-3.1p1-2.src.rpm 7) Install or upgrade # rpm -Fvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/openssh*-3.1p1-1.i386.rpm or if you have commercial or old versions with different packet names remove first with "rpm -e" old packages and then install # rpm -ivh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/openssh*-3.1p1-1.i386.rpm 8) Make sure before you log off from another window that you are still able to login to the system and the configuration at /etc/sshd_config and /etc/ssh_config suits your needs. It would be also good idea to sign the packages with rpm --addsign or using -sign option when rebuilding. HTH, :-) riku -- [ This .signature intentionally left blank ]
