Wine/Cedega and fedora 3

[Sean Middleditch]

On Wed, 2004-12-08 at 11:05 -0500, Richard June wrote:
> > RHEL 2.1's OpenSSH does not support gssapi-with-mic.  It's something I
> > can live without, and am indeed doing just that, because packaging
> > headaches make it too difficult to use one of the bazillion existing
> > repositories/packages of newer OpenSSH versions.  The only choice I have
> > is to install from source, and then I become the security maintainer,
> > instead of letting the trusted third-party repository do it for me.
> wow. that's just amazing.
> You want RPMs of later versions of OpenSSH for RHEL so that you can have 
> gssapi-with-mic support. You don't want to do this yourself because it will 
> break compatibility with all the other ISVs who've provided software you run 
> on your machine. I will be more than happy to provide to you, RPMs for later 

No.  I don't want to do it because I lose any security updates from any
vendor.  I would become the package vendor, and as a result, I'd become
responsible for packaging security updates.  My point was that there are
people who package newer versions of OpenSSH *and* provide security
updates, but I haven't been able to use any of those packages on RHEL
2.1.

It's goofy.  It's a waste of effort.  Someone *already* packages new
versions of OpenSSH, why should someone else have to *repackage* the
exact same binary just to get a different set of RPM headers?  How does
that make sense?

> versions of Openssh for RHEL 2.1, or any other distro you decide to use. I 
> would be thrilled to add RHEL to the list of distros I support in my 
> repository. It will cost you $50 dollars a month per package you want me to 
> track and maintain.

If the OpenSSH issue were really that important, I wouldn't have many
other choices, would I?  Thankfully most of the stuff I run into are
things that, after wasting insane amounts of time on, I can fix myself
(I'm sure you're happy to know your tax money goes towards me having to
duplicate work already done by hundreds to thousands of other
administrators around the world) or I can just live without.  In the
OpenSSH case, I don't *need* gssapi-with-mic, it just simplifies a lot
of what I do, especially when I have long ssh->ssh->ssh chains going
through several firewalls.

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