OpenSSH ports and crypto issues

Amol Deshpande amol at animal.blarg.net
Sun May 27 12:39:30 EST 2001



On Sat, 26 May 2001 mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:

> 
> > 2. minor issue 2: I am currently using 2 files from a GPLed program in my
> > port. It will take some work to remove them, but I can do so if it's not
> > desirable to have GPLed source in an OpenSSH port.
> >
> 
> Depending on what those GPL functions are you may want to look at the
> OpenBSD CVS tree for it's equiv (if there is one).

unfortunately, these have to do with faking a vt100 terminal. i'll
probably have to base it on wscons in the OpenBSD tree.

> 
> 
> My only concern is how you ported it NT, and we currently trying to keep
> the differences between OpenBSD and portable down to a managable amount.
> 
> - Ben
> 

I try to follow a minimum-impact camping policy in my ports. There will be
a few places where I have to #ifdef in place, but otherwise most of the
unix emulation is external to the main source.

of the 130-odd source files, there's an #ifdef WINNT_NATIVE in maybe a
dozen.

-amol







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