On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:55:01PM +0300, Ilkka Tuohela wrote:
> >It resulted in me getting the whole OpenSSH, OpenSSL and zlib,
> >compiling and putting it under a new directory
> >/usr/local/noapt/ to avoid collisions with apt-get.
> >
> >Is there a clean way of upgrading the SSH package and avoid the
> >conflicts?
>
> Add a deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list, pointing to unstable,
> something like:
> deb-src ftp://ftp.fti.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main
> non-US/contrib non-US/non-free
you don't need contrib and non-free.
> Then, do
> apt-get update
> apt-get -b source ssh
>
> Quite likely the build fails first if you don't have all the libraries
> and -dev packets the build needs. You can continue in openssh-2.9b2
> directory with dpkg-buildpackage, for example.
grep ^Build debian/control
and install all listed build-depends packages.
> This leaves you with custom ssh packages: this is the only way until
> the new version is backported.
which will never happen, except possibly by someone doing it unofficially.
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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