Re: Replace default SSH with pkgsrc version

[IT geek 31 <itgeek31%googlemail.com@localhost>]

> On 9 Dec 2015, at 5:29 a.m., Christos Zoulas <christos%astron.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> In article <AA72E578-2DAC-464A-89A1-16C738D1D6A4%nimenees.com@localhost>,
> Eric Haszlakiewicz  <erh%nimenees.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> On December 8, 2015 10:15:41 AM EST, Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:32 AM, itgeek31%googlemail.com@localhost
>>> <itgeek31%googlemail.com@localhost> wrote:
>>>> Apologies for what may be a n00b question...
>>>> 
>>>> I familiar with using pkgsrc to build the latest and greatest OpenSSH
>>> and
>>>> then installing it, but this obviously doesn't overwrite the existing
>>> SSH
>>>> package that comes with the build.
>>>> 
>>>> How can I remove the default package and instruct the system to use
>>> the one
>>>> I've built from pkgsrc?
>>> 
>>> NetBSD, and the other BSDs (that I'm aware of) don't use a package
>>> manager for the base software. So you aren't removing the base ssh
>>> software (which is openssh), you're just not starting it at boot time.
>> 
>> Which is a great way to run into problems.  Even if you need to manually
>> do so, if you're using ssh from pkgsrc I highly suggest removing the
>> base ssh binaries.
>> I ran into issues like this before (with pkg_add, etc...) and it can
>> lead to unexpected behavior when you inevitably end up running the wrong
>> binary.
> 
> And if you want to downgrade your openssh with the one from pkgsrc, feel
> free to. You lose all the integration with NetBSD (blacklistd, hpn, etc.)
> just to get the latest and the greatest which is in both cases 7.1...
> 
> christos

In my case I'm running NetBSD 5.2.2 (7.1 just isn't an option right now), which comes with OpenSSH 5.0.

So the pkgsrc version isn't exactly a downgrade...


-Mark