installing OpenSSH rpm on SuSE 6.2

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Faheem Mitha wrote:

 
> 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.

That is not my experience - I use the spec file unmodified to build 
the RPMs distributed from ftp.openbsd.org.

> 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.
 
It means that you have to enter your passphrase into a terminal 
(console, xterm, etc), rather than a pretty X11 dialog :)

-d


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