RFE: Portable OpenSSH

[Damien Miller]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2001, Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> > 1) copy the tar file over.
> > 2) done.
>
> *smile*
>
> I did copy over the tarball--that's me copying over "files".  Forgot to put
> scp in, oops.  Forgot to put libz in, that's annoying.  Forgot to put
> ssh_prng_cmds in, now it's getting ridiculous :-)

OpenSSH's makefile makes it _very_ simple to make packages for
installation on other machines:

./confugure [whatever]
make
make install DESTDIR=./fakeroot
cd fakeroot
tar xvf - ./* | gzip -9 > ../ssh-bin.tar.gz
cd ..
rm -rf fakeroot

-d

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