Bug 440568

Summary:	net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4: some elog messages should only be shown when upgrading from an old enough package.
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	poletti.marco
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Gentoo's Team for Core System packages <base-system>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	440214

Description poletti.marco 2012-10-31 11:29:30 UTC

Disclaimer: this bug has been filed in a semi-automated manner.

When emerging the package net-misc/openssh-5.9_p1-r4, the following elog messages are displayed:

 * Starting with openssh-5.8p1, the server will default to a newer key
 * algorithm (ECDSA).  You are encouraged to manually update your stored
 * keys list as servers update theirs.  See ssh-keyscan(1) for more info.
 * Remember to merge your config files in /etc/ssh/ and then
 * reload sshd: '/etc/init.d/sshd reload'.

Such messages should only be displayed when the package is upgraded from an old enough package (and possibly for new installs).
These situations can be checked in the ebuild as follows:

if has_version '<net-misc/openssh-1.0'; then

Or, if the message should also be displayed for new installs:

if !has_version 'net-misc/openssh' || has_version '<net-misc/openssh-1.0'; then

Remember to replace 1.0 with the right version number.

See the tracker bug 440214 for more details.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2012-11-19 20:43:41 UTC

should be all set now in the tree; thanks for the report!

Commit message: Only show ecdsa key message when upgrading from older versions, and drop USE=pam warning wrt valid shells as people should know this
http://sources.gentoo.org/net-misc/openssh/openssh-6.1_p1.ebuild?r1=1.7&r2=1.8