Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: [MERGE-REQUEST] Support for several SSH implementations

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <address@hidden> writes:

> Argh!? No auto-detection! The less magic that happens the better for
> all involved.  You can always wrap this around in a special command
> that you supply in the variable ARCH_SFTP (or whatever) variable,
> something like:

I think you're right.  `patch-12' in my branch removes auto-detection
magic.  It also renames the `TLA_SSH_' vars to `ARCH_SSH_' (I think
`_SSH' is better suited than `_SFTP' because we are really talking about
implementations of the SSH protocol).

Now, we should try to detect which implementation is available at
*compile-time*, and/or add a `configure' option, and default to that
implementation.  The problem is that I don't know `package-framework',
and I really don't get where/how it determined its `cfg__ssh' variable.

So someone will have to find it out, and make sure this variable
contains one of the strings that are valid `ARCH_SSH_TYPE' values, and
*not* just the binary name (which seems to be the case now).  The
`cfg__ssh_is_lsh' variable can be removed.  We might also want to add a
`cfg__ssh_binary' variable containing the path of the binary.  Any
`package-framework' wizard out there?  :-)

Thanks,
Ludovic.