On Mon, Jun 28, 2004 at 01:25:21AM +0200, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 08:21:18PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > openssh-client-udeb. I didn't package scp because it's straightforward > > to do the same thing with ssh and tar, but I suppose I could add it. > > openssh-client-udeb is sufficient for me. I only meant some SCP like > functionality. I really doubt needs to login to another machine from a > machine running on initrd. So really stripped down ssh shall be enough > (no X forwarding etc.)
Sure, although some people (e.g. me :-)) do like to be able to log into other machines from the middle of a d-i install. You can use that facility to ask for help, for instance. > Just nit pick. It is ssh+cat == scp. 'scp foo [EMAIL PROTECTED]:bar' is like > '<foo ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] "cat - >bar"'. "tar" is a sepatete issue although > it is an idiom used with ssh to move multiple files. (These files will > not be concatenated if moved with ssh+tar in the famous way.) I beg to differ. scp preserves file modes, for instance, unlike ssh+cat. > By the way, speaking of basic functionality of initrd, I do not see > "screen" command missing in initrd nor in pool/* as udeb. I wonder how > you are handling some operations which kill the remote terminal > connection used for the install. We don't perform such operations. :-) Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
