> On 9 Dec 2015, at 5:29 a.m., Christos Zoulas <[email protected]> wrote: > > In article <[email protected]>, > Eric Haszlakiewicz <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On December 8, 2015 10:15:41 AM EST, Andy Ruhl <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:32 AM, [email protected] >>> <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Apologies for what may be a n00b question... >>>> >>>> I familiar with using pkgsrc to build the latest and greatest OpenSSH >>> and >>>> then installing it, but this obviously doesn't overwrite the existing >>> SSH >>>> package that comes with the build. >>>> >>>> How can I remove the default package and instruct the system to use >>> the one >>>> I've built from pkgsrc? >>> >>> NetBSD, and the other BSDs (that I'm aware of) don't use a package >>> manager for the base software. So you aren't removing the base ssh >>> software (which is openssh), you're just not starting it at boot time. >> >> Which is a great way to run into problems. Even if you need to manually >> do so, if you're using ssh from pkgsrc I highly suggest removing the >> base ssh binaries. >> I ran into issues like this before (with pkg_add, etc...) and it can >> lead to unexpected behavior when you inevitably end up running the wrong >> binary. > > And if you want to downgrade your openssh with the one from pkgsrc, feel > free to. You lose all the integration with NetBSD (blacklistd, hpn, etc.) > just to get the latest and the greatest which is in both cases 7.1... > > christos
In my case I'm running NetBSD 5.2.2 (7.1 just isn't an option right now), which comes with OpenSSH 5.0. So the pkgsrc version isn't exactly a downgrade... -Mark
