[TriLUG] Re: Openssh update failure

[Lisa Lorenzin]

kevin,

here's an idea for your openssh update.  create a temp directory, and then
cd into the directory that currently holds all the 7.1 updates you
downloaded from ibiblio.  copy ONLY the following files into your temp
directory:

openssh-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm 
openssh-askpass-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm
openssh-askpass-gnome-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm
openssh-clients-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm
openssh-server-2.9p2-11.7.i386.rpm
openssl-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm
openssl-devel-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm
openssl-perl-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm
openssl-python-0.9.6-9.i386.rpm
openssl095a-0.9.5a-9.i386.rpm

and then cd into the temp directory and try an rpm -Uvh --test *.rpm from
there.  (you want to use -U rather than -F because you want to make sure
openssl095a gets installed even if it isn't already on there.  if you
really want to avoid cluttering up your system, you can check to see if
earlier versions exist for all the other packages and drop the ones that
don't have an antecedent...  but i'd go ahead and just throw them all on
there.  they're small. :) )
 
if i understand what jeremy katz was saying, that should build you the new 
openssh and openssl packages, but still retain the old libcrypto.so.0 for 
the programs that depend on it...

see if you can get that working - and if that works, then we can tackle
the rest of the beast.  getting your box up to date is not an
unsurmountable issue - it's a whole host of little issues.  being able to
address them all at once (ie, the rpm -Fvh *.rpm) would be lovely, but
since that didn't work out of the box, fixing them one (or a few) at a 
time is always a fallback option.

hang in there!  and let us know if the above works...

							lisa

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