[OmniOS-discuss] UPCOMING -- removal of SunSSH from illumos (and OmniOS)

[Peter Tribble]

Dan,

On Wed, Aug 17, 2016 at 1:44 AM, Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com> wrote:

> I just put back this almost-upstream bugfix into illumos-omnios AND
> omnios-build just now:
>
> commit 8d83d1e40977d4ef29a5d6d5e324871940995b3c
> Author: Dan McDonald <danmcd at omniti.com>
> Date:   Mon Aug 15 11:30:50 2016 -0400
>
>     7293 Sun Secure Shell is neither (OmniOS version)
>
>
> I haven't updated the bloody repo yet, but once I do, AND if you're still
> using SunSSH, you will not be able to upgrade without forcibly overriding
> SunSSH.  If you notice the how-to-switch instructions for SunSSH -->
> OpenSSH here:
>
>         http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/ReleaseNotes/r151016#
> Whatsnewinthisrelease
>
> you'll see a chunk of "--reject <package>".  You will NEED to do something
> close if you "pkg update" to a new version of bloody, and when you update
> to the next stable (r151020) or even the next LTS (r151022) if you're still
> using SunSSH.  Here it is, if you're still using SunSSH, "pkg update" will
> fail unless you utter:
>
>         pkg update --reject pkg:/network/ssh --reject
> pkg:/network/ssh/ssh-key --reject service/network/ssh --reject
> service/network/ssh-common
>
> If you're already on OpenSSH, you can proceed as if nothing has changed.
>

Just to confirm, if you're on r151014, nothing changes as a result of this?

(In other words, if you're on r151014 the existing instructions for
switching
or sticking remain valid.)

-- 
-Peter Tribble
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