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Re: Ready for upload: keychain-2.5.3.1-1


On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 12:07:36AM +0100, Hack Kampbjorn wrote:
>http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/keychain-2.5.3.1-1-src.tar.bz2
>http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/keychain-2.5.3.1-1.tar.bz2
>http://cygwin.hackdata.org/keychain-2.5.3.1-1/setup.hint
>
>Note setup.hint has not changed but alot has changed for keychain. It may 
>be safer to set it to test for some time.
>
>sdesc: "An OpenSSH key manager"
>ldesc: "Keychain is an OpenSSH key manager, typically run from
>~/.bash_profile. When run, it will make sure ssh-agent is running; if
>not, it will start ssh-agent. It will redirect ssh-agent's output to
>~/.ssh-agent, so that cron jobs that need to use ssh-agent keys can
>simply source this file and make the necessary passwordless ssh
>connections. In addition, when keychain runs, it will check with
>ssh-agent and make sure that the ssh RSA/DSA keys that you specified on
>the keychain command line have actually been added to ssh-agent. If not,
>you are prompted for the appropriate passphrases so that they can be
>added by keychain."
>category: Utils
># cygwin contains kill and ps
># sh-utils contains uname and whoami
>requires: openssh bash grep gawk sh-utils cygwin

Uploaded.

Given the problems reported with keychain on the cygwin list, I think it
makes sense not to make this test.

Btw, sh-utils is gone.  Please change your setup.hint to use "coreutils".

Thanks.

cgf


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