On Sat, Sep 22, 2001 at 05:55:01PM +0300, Ilkka Tuohela wrote: > >It resulted in me getting the whole OpenSSH, OpenSSL and zlib, > >compiling and putting it under a new directory > >/usr/local/noapt/ to avoid collisions with apt-get. > > > >Is there a clean way of upgrading the SSH package and avoid the > >conflicts? > > Add a deb-src line to /etc/apt/sources.list, pointing to unstable, > something like: > deb-src ftp://ftp.fti.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US/main > non-US/contrib non-US/non-free you don't need contrib and non-free. > Then, do > apt-get update > apt-get -b source ssh > > Quite likely the build fails first if you don't have all the libraries > and -dev packets the build needs. You can continue in openssh-2.9b2 > directory with dpkg-buildpackage, for example. grep ^Build debian/control and install all listed build-depends packages. > This leaves you with custom ssh packages: this is the only way until > the new version is backported. which will never happen, except possibly by someone doing it unofficially. -- Ethan Benson http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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