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From: Brandon Low <lostlogic@g.o>
To: murphy@g.o
Cc: Donny Davies <woodchip@g.o>, gentoo-dev@g.o, gentoo-sparc@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Openssl 0.9.6c on sparc
Date: Fri, 05 Jul 2002 10:07:17
Message-Id: 20020705100709.A6700@lostlogicx.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Openssl 0.9.6c on sparc by murphy@gentoo.org
1 Hey SPARC folks,
2
3 That deletion was due to the fact that there are known security holes
4 in all versions of ssh prior to 3.4, I discussed with several older wiser
5 devs before removing, if you need it back, use cvs to restore it, but
6 keeping things with known security holes in the portage tree doesn't seem
7 like good policy to me :-( Sorry for the inconvenience.
8
9 --Brandon
10
11 On Fri, 07/05/02 at 12:32:15 +0200, murphy@g.o wrote:
12 > Hi,
13 >
14 > It seems you have removed one of the older openssh ebuild which was being
15 > used in sparc gentoo.
16 >
17 > Can I ask you to please put it back and not delete older versions so
18 > readily? Other ports depend on other versions of SSH, depending on which
19 > one actually works :).
20 >
21 > thanks a lot!
22 > maarten
23 >
24 > On Thu, 4 Jul 2002, Donny Davies wrote:
25 >
26 > > >FYI this is the bug: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3765
27 > > >
28 > > >I'm just asking to make sure you don't remove the older ebuild :).
29 > >
30 > > Okay, I won't remove the older openssl ebuild ;-) Not that I was
31 > > planning to but I appreciate the heads up.
32 > >
33 > > Cheers
34 > > Donny
35 > >
36 >
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