Has anyone successfully used apt-get w/ ssh?
Hello again gurus,
I'm working on an automated installation and thought I would give the
ssh access method a whirl with apt-get for installing my custom
packages. My problem is that I can't seem to get the options that I
need passed to ssh's command line by apt.
The man page for apt-get hinted that this is possible, but didn't
specify how to tell apt-get what command line options to pass to ssh, so
I downloaded the source for the version of apt that comes with sarge and
perused the source code. According to apt-0.5.28.6/methods/rsh.cc[375]
I should be able to use the command line option:
-o 'Acquire::ssh::Options="-i /path/to/id_rsa -l username"'
But when I do, apt-get hangs when it tries to contact my install
server. When I use 'ps -ef | grep ssh' to check the command line
apt-get used for ssh, the options I have specified aren't there, just
the hostname. I have also tried using Ssh, SSH, rsh, Rsh, RSH in place
of the ssh in the Aquire line above, all to no avail.
(This is all being done on a freshly-installed, barest-of-bones Debian
system, btw.)
I know that the ssh keys are set up correctly because I can call ssh by
hand, passing it the options specified above, and I'm allowed right in
without being prompting for a password.
Has anyone successfully gotten ssh to work with apt-get?
Thanks for your help,
Michael Peek
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