Bug 270655 – Add debian's ssh-argv0 to net-misc/openssh-5.2_p1-r1

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

[Description r01 2009-05-21 06:01:20 UTC]

I have used other distros and remembered before openssh provides a "ssh-argv0" program, which is very useful in scripts, but now it disappered; I cannot find any recorded reason why it not be installed? Or gentoo never installed it?

However, you can still find ssh-argv0 on debian openssh-client filelist,

http://packages.debian.org/sid/openssh-client

Please add that program when installing openssh.

[Comment 1 Mike Auty (RETIRED) 2009-05-25 14:13:13 UTC]

The program you mentioned is a debian specific addition (as shown by looking in [1] which is the difference between the upstream version and the debian version of openssh).  As such I've altered your bug to be an enhancement request for ssh-argv0 to be added to the openssh package and CCed the appropriate herd.  Having said that, don't be surprised if they suggest it should be a separate package, it's entirely their choice.

[1] http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/o/openssh/openssh_5.1p1-5.diff.gz

[Comment 2 Robin Johnson 2009-05-25 23:32:19 UTC]

We've never used the Debian patch and thus never had that script. It was never shipped by upstream OpenBSD.

That said, I'd be willing to include just that script in future releases of our openssh ebuild, if you could please extract the script, related documentation and buildsystem modifications for it from the latest patch and present them here as a directly usable patch.

P.S. It seems to have compatibility warnings all over it, so I'd suggest fixing your scripts to make them more portable.

[Comment 3 SpanKY 2009-08-23 10:23:23 UTC]

basically this script allows you to omit the "ssh" part of:
ssh somehost .....

you could do the same thing with:
somehost() { ssh somehost "$@"; }

seems kind of useless to me