openssh unix dev - Mar 2001 - libexecdir changed again?

[See my comments below.]

----- Forwarded message from an x11-ssh-askpass customer -----

Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:34:28 -0800
Subject: x11-ssh-askpass 1.2.0
To: jmknoble at jmknoble.cx

I just installed x11-ssh-askpass 1.2.0 on some systems, and ran into a
couple of minor problems:

OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 by default is looking for ssh-askpass in
/usr/local/libexec, not /usr/local/libexec/openssh.  It works OK when
manually installed.

[...]

----- End forwarded message -----

(Sigh).  It wasn't very long ago that the default libexecdir changed
from /usr/local/libexec/ssh/ to /usr/local/libexec/openssh/.  I, of
course, haven't been paying much attention to defaults because i roll
my own RPM packages of OpenSSH-X.X.Xp.  But i do read the ChangeLog
religiously, and i can't find anything in there about libexecdir in the
Recent Era except for these entries:

  20010225
   - (djm) Use %{_libexecdir} rather than hardcoded path in RPM specfile

  20000916
   [...]
   - (djm) Use libexecdir from configure , rather than libexecdir/ssh

  19991119
   [...]
   - Move ssh-askpass from ${libdir}/ssh to ${libexecdir}/ssh at request of
     David Rankin <[...]>

Is the default libexecdir going to remain as /usr/local/libexec/ now,
or will it change again?  I'd like to release x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.1 and
leave it alone for quite some time, absent bugs or actual flaws....

-- 
jim knoble | jmknoble at jmknoble.cx | http://www.jmknoble.cx/

On Sat, 31 Mar 2001, Jim Knoble wrote:
> [See my comments below.]
>
> ----- Forwarded message from an x11-ssh-askpass customer -----
>
> Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 16:34:28 -0800
> Subject: x11-ssh-askpass 1.2.0
> To: jmknoble at jmknoble.cx
>
> I just installed x11-ssh-askpass 1.2.0 on some systems, and ran into a
> couple of minor problems:
>
> OpenSSH 2.5.2p2 by default is looking for ssh-askpass in
> /usr/local/libexec, not /usr/local/libexec/openssh.  It works OK when
> manually installed.
Recent version of OpenSSH look wherever configure.in's libexecdir is
set. The RPMs set /usr/libexec/openssh explicitly.
> Is the default libexecdir going to remain as /usr/local/libexec/ now,
> or will it change again?  I'd like to release x11-ssh-askpass-1.2.1 and
> leave it alone for quite some time, absent bugs or actual flaws....
The default would change if autoconf changes. The RPMs would change if
rpm's default changes.

-d

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