Hello all! I got autossh packaged, at least in theory. I use this all
the time when on Debian.
And yet, though the binary appears on my profile, it seems to do nothing
in Guix. I'm not sure why this is.
I should be able to do:
autossh fencepost.gnu.org
and it should work, but instead I just see the help text printed.
Any ideas? Or if anyone wanting to finish a mysteriously busted
package, have at it.
>From 0cec8160220239fa6945a2f7823cf2b14512cf1e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2016 16:01:49 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: Add autossh.
* gnu/packages/ssh.scm (autossh): New variable.
---
gnu/packages/ssh.scm | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)
diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
index d4bf29c..602a443 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
;;; Copyright © 2013, 2014 Andreas Enge <andr...@enge.fr>
;;; Copyright © 2014, 2015, 2016 Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org>
;;; Copyright © 2015 Efraim Flashner <efr...@flashner.co.il>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Christopher Allan Webber <cweb...@dustycloud.org>
;;;
;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
;;;
@@ -349,3 +350,30 @@ client. It runs on a variety of POSIX-based platforms. Dropbear is
particularly useful for embedded systems, such as wireless routers.")
(home-page "https://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/dropbear.html";)
(license (license:x11-style "" "See file LICENSE."))))
+
+(define-public autossh
+ (package
+ (name "autossh")
+ (version "1.4e")
+ (source
+ (origin
+ (method url-fetch)
+ (uri (string-append
+ "http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/autossh-";
+ version ".tgz"))
+ (sha256
+ (base32 "0mlicw28vq2jxa0jf0dys5ja75v0fxpjavlq9dpif6bnknji13ly"))))
+ (build-system gnu-build-system)
+ (arguments `(#:tests? #f)) ; There is no "make check" or anything similar
+ (inputs `(("openssh" ,openssh)))
+ (synopsis "Automatically restart SSH sessions and tunnels")
+ (description "autossh is a program to start a copy of ssh and
+monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop
+passing traffic. The idea is from rstunnel (Reliable SSH Tunnel),
+but implemented in C.")
+ (home-page "http://www.harding.motd.ca/autossh/";)
+ (license
+ ;; Why point to a source file? Well, all the individual files have a
+ ;; copy of this license in their headers, but there's no seprate file
+ ;; with that information.
+ (license:non-copyleft "file://autossh.c"))))
--
2.6.3
