Re: [gentoo-dev] lsh (and liboop) on Gentoo

[Alexander Gretencord <arutha@gmx.de>]

On Wednesday 17 September 2003 03:32, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> with all this openssh crap thats been happening today, i was wondering if
> anyone made ebuilds for lsh (and thus liboop) for Gentoo ... i was looking
> at liboop and they use the autotools pretty poorly imho ...

Well there are ebuilds in bugzilla but carpaski set them to fixed without 
bothering to add them to the official portage tree as noone seemed to be 
interested in those ebuilds. Maybe you have better luck this time. Tell us 
about the bug report here so we can all post, so it gets in this time :)

> i made a few patches so as to make those aspects optional, but i cant get
> the autotools to regenerate the Makefile.in and configure files correctly

Well if you figure it out, send the patches to the maintainers, they probably 
just didn't add such things as nobody complained and they don't see a need 
for that. Was the same with a DESTDIR variable in chrony until I wanted to 
make an ebuild. Richard was quite pleased with the patch once he saw the need 
for that.

Also if you read the man pages or some other sources and see the "*this stuff 
is insecure*" notices, they are all from 98 or 99. Nothing like that for the 
newer releases (well the man pages still contain it but they were not updated 
since 99) although I of course don't have the expertise to check myself if 
lsh is secure. But you might find it interesting that some people from the 
de.alt.sysadmin.recovery newsgroup will probably review the lsh codebase to 
their best knowledge. Naturally they want to get rid of openssh now :)


Alex


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