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Subject: Re: libssh upgraded; guile-ssh fails its tests
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 22:07:06 +0200
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Artyom Poptsov <poptsov.artyom@gmail.com> 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=E2=80=99s going o=
n?
>
> 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=3DCVE-2014-0017>.

The patch being simple, I=E2=80=99ve adjusted it for 0.5.5, and used that f=
or
Guile-SSH in the meantime:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?id=3D9c333da6f1b465e707=
67254ab19d9ec27681bb7b

Thanks,
Ludo=E2=80=99.