Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
On Nov 19 10:50, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not talking about providing symlinks to all binaries in /usr/X11R6/bin, just xauth. It's the one serious X application called from other applications for authentication purposes. The current transition method breaks using older OpenSSH with newer X11 and vice versa. That's why I think a symlink created in the postinstall script of the package providing xauth would be helpful. I thought we only supported the latest release of packages anyway, and AFAIK openssh is the only package outside of X11 that calls xauth. But I hear what you're saying and keep it in mind if the issue is raised. Ultimately it's your decision of course. Once I dug further into the matter[1], I found that it doesn't help all that much anyway unless I revert a change in XWin. At least this will make it possible, and not give people misleading warnings. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00154.html Duly noted. As I said, it's your decision. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
On Nov 16 13:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:10:34PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: We're getting a number of bug reports that ssh has a hardcoded path to /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth. As part of the X11 transition, xauth was moved to /usr/bin, so ssh claims not to find it. A strings check on ssh does indeed show such a path as well. If this is correct, we would greatly appreciate a rebuild of openssh I've taken the liberty of binary-editing ssh.exe to change the hard-coded path from /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth to /usr/bin/xauth and making a new -9 release. I am not going to announce this however since it's not my package. Thanks for the tweak. I think this should be fine for now. I have bumped the version on the source package too but have no idea if rebuilding openssh from source will fix the problem. I'll leave the true fix to Corinna when she has a chance to rectify this for real. The xauth path is not hardcoded per se but evaluated at configure time. A rebuild with the new X in place should rectify this automatically. Come to think of it, now we have two different -9 releases, one in release and one in release-2. That will invariably confuse me at one point. Maybe it is actually better to rebuild from source... Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
Yaakov, one question, On Nov 19 11:30, Corinna Vinschen wrote: On Nov 16 13:12, Christopher Faylor wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:10:34PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: We're getting a number of bug reports that ssh has a hardcoded path to /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth. As part of the X11 transition, xauth was moved to /usr/bin, so ssh claims not to find it. A strings check on ssh does indeed show such a path as well. If this is correct, we would greatly appreciate a rebuild of openssh I've taken the liberty of binary-editing ssh.exe to change the hard-coded path from /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth to /usr/bin/xauth and making a new -9 release. I am not going to announce this however since it's not my package. Thanks for the tweak. I think this should be fine for now. I have bumped the version on the source package too but have no idea if rebuilding openssh from source will fix the problem. I'll leave the true fix to Corinna when she has a chance to rectify this for real. The xauth path is not hardcoded per se but evaluated at configure time. A rebuild with the new X in place should rectify this automatically. Come to think of it, now we have two different -9 releases, one in release and one in release-2. That will invariably confuse me at one point. Maybe it is actually better to rebuild from source... Wouldn't it make sense to create a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth additionally for backward compatibility as it exists on some Linux systems? Openssh might not be the only affected application. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: Wouldn't it make sense to create a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth additionally for backward compatibility as it exists on some Linux systems? Openssh might not be the only affected application. I'm not about to rebuild dozens of X11 programs just to provide such symlinks. :-) When Gentoo underwent the /usr/X11R6 - /usr transition a few years back, they made the /usr/X11R6/ directory a symlink to /usr. Unfortunately I was unable to do the same because other packages not technically part of X11 were still using the obsolete prefix[1], so it wouldn't necessarily have been empty after the upgrade. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-apps/2008-11/msg00078.html Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkkNM0ACgkQpiWmPGlmQSMV2ACgjB/TML7SE9Kg9WLAP0z0doFj CI8AoJ6lN3Lz56bSu+gagQypttgGTbN2 =TqfN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
On Nov 19 09:46, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: Wouldn't it make sense to create a symlink /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth additionally for backward compatibility as it exists on some Linux systems? Openssh might not be the only affected application. I'm not about to rebuild dozens of X11 programs just to provide such symlinks. :-) I'm not talking about providing symlinks to all binaries in /usr/X11R6/bin, just xauth. It's the one serious X application called from other applications for authentication purposes. The current transition method breaks using older OpenSSH with newer X11 and vice versa. That's why I think a symlink created in the postinstall script of the package providing xauth would be helpful. Ultimately it's your decision of course. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna Vinschen wrote: I'm not talking about providing symlinks to all binaries in /usr/X11R6/bin, just xauth. It's the one serious X application called from other applications for authentication purposes. The current transition method breaks using older OpenSSH with newer X11 and vice versa. That's why I think a symlink created in the postinstall script of the package providing xauth would be helpful. I thought we only supported the latest release of packages anyway, and AFAIK openssh is the only package outside of X11 that calls xauth. But I hear what you're saying and keep it in mind if the issue is raised. Ultimately it's your decision of course. Once I dug further into the matter[1], I found that it doesn't help all that much anyway unless I revert a change in XWin. At least this will make it possible, and not give people misleading warnings. [1] http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin-xfree/2008-11/msg00154.html Yaakov Cygwin/X -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkkQ84ACgkQpiWmPGlmQSPlZwCghXdcS7koxXhXzInJWhLLoDwG GokAoO1jisj2W9ajRCJmmtfdrMzoE3EJ =C0iV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
Re: openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:10:34PM -0600, Yaakov (Cygwin Ports) wrote: We're getting a number of bug reports that ssh has a hardcoded path to /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth. As part of the X11 transition, xauth was moved to /usr/bin, so ssh claims not to find it. A strings check on ssh does indeed show such a path as well. If this is correct, we would greatly appreciate a rebuild of openssh I've taken the liberty of binary-editing ssh.exe to change the hard-coded path from /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth to /usr/bin/xauth and making a new -9 release. I am not going to announce this however since it's not my package. I have bumped the version on the source package too but have no idea if rebuilding openssh from source will fix the problem. I'll leave the true fix to Corinna when she has a chance to rectify this for real. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
openssh needs rebuild for modular X transition
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Corinna, We're getting a number of bug reports that ssh has a hardcoded path to /usr/X11R6/bin/xauth. As part of the X11 transition, xauth was moved to /usr/bin, so ssh claims not to find it. A strings check on ssh does indeed show such a path as well. If this is correct, we would greatly appreciate a rebuild of openssh ASAP. Thanks, Yaakov -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEAREIAAYFAkkfq0oACgkQpiWmPGlmQSN65ACeNrQ7rQs2S+R8Ll4/4ApjuxUs 4e4AnR3hYHyJ4qQFMnRn2//FfMcMPzbM =mmGh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
