scp in dropbearmulti?

[Rob Landley]

On Thursday 01 October 2009 14:44:47 Rob Landley wrote:
> 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).

By the way, you can't say "ssh" in PROGRAMS=, you have to say "dbclient".  But 
right now you have to list scp in there, and if you rename it does the build 
invocation change or will it handle both?

Rob
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