Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests

[Ludovic Courtès]

Artyom Poptsov <address@hidden> skribis:

>> Upgrading libssh from 0.5.5 to 0.6.3 turned out to break Guile-SSH
>> 0.6.0.  I attach some of the test logs.  Any idea what’s going on?
>
> Well, I think the problem is that there are changes in the API between
> libssh 0.5 and libssh 0.6.  So Guile-SSH must be updated to be able to
> work with libssh 0.6.  I have plans to migrate Guile-SSH to libssh 0.6,
> but this work is still to be done.

OK.

> And it worth mention that according to the Guile-SSH 0.6.0 documenation
> it requires libssh 0.5.4 or 0.5.5, so you shouldn't be surprised that
> Guile-SSH 0.6.0 breaks on libssh 0.6 ;-)

Indeed.  :-)

The important thing is that libssh 0.6.3 fixes a security issue:
<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2014-0017>.

The patch being simple, I’ve adjusted it for 0.5.5, and used that for
Guile-SSH in the meantime:

  
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=9c333da6f1b465e70767254ab19d9ec27681bb7b

Thanks,
Ludo’.