[Buildroot] [PATCH] autossh: new package

Peter Korsgaard jacmet at uclibc.org
Tue Oct 15 12:47:30 UTC 2013


>>>>> "Gustavo" == Gustavo Zacarias <gustavo at zacarias.com.ar> writes:

 Gustavo> On 10/15/2013 05:26 AM, Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
 >> At least mention that in package help text (that, IIUC, it normally
 >> depends on OpenSSH, but there are patches or other ways to make it work
 >> with Dropbear, possibly giving pointers to those patches).

 Gustavo> On a quick qemu run it works without tweaks - i didn't try the odd
 Gustavo> options though, just the basics.
 Gustavo> Looking at details the openwrt patch for autossh+dropbear is gone so
 Gustavo> evidently it's upstream (by looking at it).

Ok, great - Thanks for checking.

 Gustavo> No need to add anything up except maybe "remember to select a ssh
 Gustavo> package" (or depend on OPENSSH | DROPBEAR).

I guess the isn't really any sane use cases for autossh without a ssh
client, so I think we should use 'depends on'.

-- 
Bye, Peter Korsgaard


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