> From: "Yury V. Zaytsev" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [suggest] Re: suggest Digest, Vol 57, Issue 5
> On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 07:44 -0500, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote: > >> I don't see your SRPM. But I don't read Russian. > > These packages are not mine and I am in no way affiliated with the > person that is providing them. I was just to let the OP know, that such > a thing does exist, although not in RPMForge. It's cool. The author of the web page made what I consider to be a mistake: he published the link as a "download from *here*" sort of link, handily translated by Google, rather than publish the actual URL for the content at http://centos.alt.ru/pub/openssh/RHEL/. I'll personally try to pry free a few cycles to look at the SRPM. I'd tried a backport of the Fedora 12 version, and backed off when another engineer introduced the use of "Centrify" to get single-sign-on working for various systems. It's cool commercial stuff: they've done the sort of integration I'd try to do with more time and more platforms available, including the PAM changes and a GUI for integrating the account management with a local Active Directory server. Nice stuff! > What prevents you from grabbing the SRPM, checking the SPEC and > rebuilding it against the sources that you can fetch from the OpenSSH > website? Inability to read Russian (now addressed), and a shortage of time. I, personally, have the expertise and experience to rebuild such objects without blinking. A lot of people on this list do, I'm sure. I'm far less confident of the security of the build environment, or of the reliability of an unknown developer to use the actual SRPM to build the RPM rather than using his password logging version. In fact. And grabbing the RPM from such an unknown site for such a core security tool is.... well, it's like giving someone your housekeys. I'd like to know them a little better before I trust them *that* much. _______________________________________________ suggest mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rpmforge.net/mailman/listinfo/suggest
