On 03/03/2016 09:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Jakub,
On Mar 2 17:48, Jakub Jelen wrote:
Hi there, I just pushed openssh-7.2 update [1] into Fedora 23 testing. There are no incompatible changes except these:
As I reported to the openssh-unix-dev list, as well as in https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/openssh-7.2p1-1.fc23, this release silently removes the /usr/bin/slogin symlink pointing to /usr/bin/ssh, because upstream removed the Makefile commands creating it at install time. Same for slogin.1 -> ssh.1.
This will break lots of installations (scripts, keyboard shortcuts, etc).
For the Cygwin distro I now added the missing rules to the spec file, along the lines of
cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin ln -s ./ssh.exe slogin cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1 ln -s ./ssh.1 slogin.1
Please create slogin in the rpm spec file as well.
Thanks for the notice. My bad that I thought that symlink is just ancient stuff from old times. I will respin update with restored symlink for Fedora 23.
Do you think that we need to carry this symlink even to Fedora 24? Do you have some examples of scripts using slogin? They should probably also get fixed.
Upstream also probably didn't see it as a big deal: https://anongit.mindrot.org/openssh.git/commit/?id=69fead5d7cdaa73bdece9fcba...
On Mar 3 09:53, Jakub Jelen wrote:
On 03/03/2016 09:31 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
Hi Jakub,
On Mar 2 17:48, Jakub Jelen wrote:
Hi there, I just pushed openssh-7.2 update [1] into Fedora 23 testing. There are no incompatible changes except these:
As I reported to the openssh-unix-dev list, as well as in https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/openssh-7.2p1-1.fc23, this release silently removes the /usr/bin/slogin symlink pointing to /usr/bin/ssh, because upstream removed the Makefile commands creating it at install time. Same for slogin.1 -> ssh.1.
This will break lots of installations (scripts, keyboard shortcuts, etc).
For the Cygwin distro I now added the missing rules to the spec file, along the lines of
cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/bin ln -s ./ssh.exe slogin cd ${DESTDIR}/usr/share/man/man1 ln -s ./ssh.1 slogin.1
Please create slogin in the rpm spec file as well.
Thanks for the notice. My bad that I thought that symlink is just ancient stuff from old times. I will respin update with restored symlink for Fedora 23.
Do you think that we need to carry this symlink even to Fedora 24? Do you have some examples of scripts using slogin? They should probably also get fixed.
I'm not aware of scripts in the distro using slogin. But I'm aware of user installations using slogin. The slogin symlink exists for 20 years now. Just removing it is bound to break local configurations for no good reason.
If upstream can't be bothered to keep up with slogin it's bad, but from my POV a distro should not break user configurations if it's not a big problem to keep them running. So, yes, I think the symlinks should be maintained by the distros in future.
Corinna