installing OpenSSH rpm on SuSE 6.2

[Faheem Mitha]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Faheem Mitha <faheem at email.unc.edu>
> > Newsgroups: comp.security.ssh
> > Subject: installing OpenSSH rpm on SuSE 6.2
> > 
> > Dear people,
> > 
> > I tried to recompile the rpm of OpenSSH (openssh-2.2.0p1-1.src.rpm)
> > on SuSE 6.2. I got the following errors.
> > 
> > faheem /usr/src/packages/SPECS>rpm -ba openssh.spec
> > line 25: Version not permitted: PreReq: openssl >= 0.9.5a
> 
> I think you should get a newer version of RPM.  I'd go with 3.0.5, as that's
> the newest in the 3.0 series, and it supports PreReq's properly.  
> 	Greg

Aargh, I was afraid someone would suggest that. I am seriously worried
I will run into problems with rpm 3.05, and then I will not be able to
reinstall my old version of rpm because rpm is not working. (How is
that for a catch-22 nightmare?) Also, I might need to rebuild my
database, which might cause further problems. Can't I tweak the spec
file somehow?

                                  Thanks, Faheem.