FW: SSH RPM for Red Hat 6.2 not useable

[De Munter Erwin]

Hello, rpm's for 6.2 also did not work here. ( With latest rpm, openssl,...)
Compiling myself the binaries did not give any error and working fine.
De Munter Erwin


-----Original Message-----
From: Damien Miller [mailto:djm at mindrot.org]
Sent: Monday, March 05, 2001 11:56 PM
To: Marco Fioretti
Cc: openssh-unix-dev at mindrot.org; marco.fioretti at tiscalinet.it
Subject: Re: SSH RPM for Red Hat 6.2 not useable


On Mon, 5 Mar 2001, Marco Fioretti wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I downloaded yesterday the Red Hat 6.2 RPMs for openssl
> and openssh from one of the official mirrors.
>
> I could install them on a stock Red Hat 6.2 box because
>
> rpm -Uvh says (quoting from memory...):
>
> cannot install because there is dependency conflict
> between this rpm (openssh core) and the version of
> rpm and rpmlib that you are using......
>
> In other words, the rpm packages generated *for*
> Red Hat 6.2 don't want to be installed by the version
> of RPM which *comes* with Red Hat 6.2.....

If you had read the README in the directory that you downloaded the RPMs
from you would have seen this:

    ``To install these RPMs you will need the latest versions of OpenSSL
      and rpm available from Redhat Errata.''

-d

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