Bug 4959 – Portage forces use of openssh.

• Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 29472
• Product: Portage Development

[Description jamie rishaw 2002-07-13 14:03:52 UTC]

Hey guys,

  Portage forces the use of openssh.

  No known way to get around this; tried asking other Gentoo'ers, as well as the
folk in #gentoo on openprojects.net.

  I was about to create an ebuild for SSH.Com's ssh (which I use on all of my
systems, including all of Playboy.com) but the system overrides any ssh
install/deinstall any time you do an 'emerge -u world' (openssh is forced).

  I dont know what engineering solution would allow for both openssh and
ssh.com's ssh .. hence this bug report :)  but when it's done, I'd love to
submit ebuild love for ssh.com's wares.. I love and live by it.

  For now I just inject openssh manually, but that gets to be a PITA, as you can
imagine..

  Thanks in advance,

jamie rishaw

[Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-07-13 16:56:59 UTC]

I'll look into fixing this.

[Comment 2 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-09 13:30:48 UTC]

Sorry for the long delay. I'm now able to work on Gentoo Linux full-time and
will be more available to fix bugs.

[Comment 3 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) 2002-12-16 15:55:20 UTC]

If you are able to whip up an ebuild for ssh.com's ssh, I'll add it to Portage.

[Comment 4 Caleb Tennis (RETIRED) 2003-06-20 07:41:55 UTC]

No activity in 6 months - closing as a NEEDINFO.  We will consider again if user submits an 
ebuild. 

[Comment 5 Seemant Kulleen (RETIRED) 2003-09-25 11:03:42 UTC]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 29472 ***