On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:56, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Op 29 jun 2011, om 10:50 heeft Anders Darander het volgende geschreven:
>> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:24, Koen Kooi <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> Op 29 jun 2011, om 00:41 heeft Khem Raj het volgende geschreven:
>>>> If they are independent then may be the openssh recipe should be
>>>> divided into openssh-ssh and openssh-rest so one can use openssh
>>>> provided daemon or dropbear provided as they wish
>>>
>>> Dividing the openssl recipe would gain us little and the gains would be 
>>> only for the power companies since you'd have to build openssh twice to get 
>>> both sftp and ssh. The decrease in build time for only sftp is neglible.
>>
>> Hm, speaking against what I've often been advocating (reducing build
>> time by factoring out dependenies etc)...
>>
>> I think the simplest and most straightforward solution is to just
>> split the packaging into
>> openssh-ssh and openssh-sftp, where openssh-sftp packages just what is
>> needed for handling
>> the sftp-server in cooperation with dropbear. It could possibly also
>> include the sftp-client if
>> desired/needed.
>
> That's already the case now. The problem is the PROVIDES overlap since the 
> Poky people decided a distro could only have one true ssh implementation 
> instead of choosing it per image. So if your distro doesn't set the 
> PREFERRED_PROVIDER_sshd you get those nagging messages during parsing that 
> scare users and make consultants rich.
>
> OE .dev isn't a lot better with the misguided DISTRO_SSH_DAEMON, but at least 
> it doesn't show those nag messages.

Ah, I see. I didn't check it out, just assumed something...

Then I fully understand what the problem case is.

Anders

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