installing OpenSSH rpm on SuSE 6.2

[Faheem Mitha]

On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Damien Miller wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Faheem Mitha wrote:

> Alternately, you can just comment out the PreReqs. They are there to 
> ensure that software is installed in the correct order, but are
> not essential.

Hi, thanks for your reply. I got the rpms to build, though it still
remains to be seen if they will work correctly. I think there
might be a minor error in your spec file. You say...

# Do we want to disable building of x11-askpass? (1=yes 0=no)
%define no_x11_askpass 0

# Do we want to disable building of gnome-askpass? (1=yes 0=no)
%define no_gnome_askpass 0

However, by observation from building the rpms (and bearing in mind
that I really know bugger-all about rpms) is that the reverse is true:

Ie. if (for example both are kept as 0, then neither the x11 nor the
gnome askpass rpm is built, contrary to what you commenting says. If I
am wrong about this, please let me know.

Let me take the opportunity to ask:

Does leaving out the x11 and gnome askpass rpms reduce an
functionality in the system? I am still unclear as to their purpose. I
will probably not worrry about the gnome rpm anyway, since my gnome
libraries are in a mess.

                            Best regards, Faheem Mitha.