scp in dropbearmulti?

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Fri Oct 2 03:44:47 WST 2009


On Thursday 01 October 2009 11:04:37 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Thursday 01 October 2009 05:26:44 Rob Landley wrote:
> > On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:11:13 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > On Thursday 01 October 2009 01:37:52 Matt Johnston wrote:
> > > > make -j 2 MULTI=1 PROGRAMS="dropbear dbclient dropbearkey
> > > > dropbearconvert scp"
> > > >
> > > > and it should work. I'll make the docs a bit clearer.
> > >
> > > how would you feel about a dbscp alias ?  requiring the name to be
> > > "scp" is a bit annoying as it can easily conflict with parallel
> > > installs of openssh.
> >
> > Ok, now I'm curious.  If this is really a problem, why didn't you need to
> > similarly prefix every busybox command so you can call bbls and bbcp and
> > install them in parallel to the gnu versions?
>
> because we dont install busybox in parallel other than as a rescue shell,
> and once launched it is able to find its own applets just fine.  all
> existing db programs already have a db prefix, so having dbscp is nothing
> new. -mike

Actually only one has a db prefix, the rest all have a "dropbear" prefix, but if 
it makes you happy...

But if Matt goes there, it seems to me that the "dropbear" program should 
probably also be callable as "sshd" the way dbclient/ssh is.  (dropbearconvert 
is specific to dropbear, and dropbearkey isn't a drop-in replacement for ssh-
keygen the way the others are and only used once in a blue moon anyway).

Rob
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