RE: OpenSSH_3.9p1 and Could not load host key

[Larry Hall <lh-no-personal-replies-please at cygwin dot com>]

At 06:14 PM 3/29/2005, you wrote:
>On Tue, 29 Mar 2005, Larry Hall wrote:
>
>> >XFree86-base            4.3.0-11
>> >XFree86-bin             4.3.0-21
>> >XFree86-bin-icons       4.3.0-7
>> >XFree86-doc             4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-etc             4.3.0-12
>> >XFree86-f100            4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-fcyr            4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-fenc            4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-fnts            4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-fscl            4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-fsrv            4.3.0-9
>> >XFree86-html            4.3.0-10
>> >XFree86-jdoc            4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-lib             4.3.0-3
>>
>> >XFree86-man             4.3.0-10
>> >XFree86-nest            4.3.0-8
>> >XFree86-prog            4.3.0-21
>> >XFree86-prt             4.3.0-6
>> >XFree86-ps              4.3.0-2
>> >XFree86-startup-scripts 4.3.0-1
>> >XFree86-vfb             4.3.0-8
>> >XFree86-xserv           4.3.0-68
>> >XFree86-xwinclip        4.3.0-3
>>
>> <snip>
>>
>> Since you mentioned it, it seems to me that the existence of these
>> deprecated packages on your system for X is only going to cause you
>> problems.  They should have been removed with any recent update
>> you did.  Since you definitely have Xorg packages installed, I
>> cannot explain this conflict.  Rerun setup and uninstall these
>> packages if an update doesn't do it for you automatically.
>
>This is not quite accurate.  The latest versions of the above packages are
>empty upgrade helpers and are harmless.  Setup currently has no way of
>knowing that one package replaces another, so the way to do this is to
>create a newer (empty) version of the replaced package, and let setup
>install that.  They should not appear on a new installation unless
>*absolutely everything* is installed, but on any machine that had XFree86
>installed before, these packages will be in the package list.

Ah, you're right.  I missed the fact that these packages were also at the
current version.  Sorry for the noise.


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