Regarding openssh 8.1p1-1 access

[Mike O'Brien]

On 11/10/2020 3:28 PM, Sudhanshu Bhutani via Cygwin wrote:
> Thanks Marco.
> Do you know of any mirror service - which can provide the old package -
> maybe with some cost/revenue model? We can then ask our customers to add
> that specific ftp mirror web link.
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Regards
> Sudhanshu Bhutani
>
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 2:05 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 10.11.2020 19:51, Sudhanshu Bhutani via Cygwin wrote:
>>> Hi cygwin community members,
>>>
>>> My name is Sudhanshu Bhutani and we are working for one of leading
>> network
>>> service providers for our internal telecom tool. For the last few days,
>> our
>>> customers are reporting problems with our internal tool which uses cygwin
>>> ssh and posix components.
>>>
>>> We have a problem reported in the cygwin installation procedure, where
>>> openssh  8.1p1-1 is not getting downloaded and cygwin mirrors are not
>>> listing this  8.1p1-1 version and instead latest versions are listed.
>>>
>>> How can we download  8.1p1-1 in cygwin?
>>>
>>> Do you have any mirror/web link which our customers can use where open
>> ssh
>>>    8.1p1-1 is found and successful cygwin installation can happen?
>>>
>>> I found one web link where openssh  8.1p1-1
>>> https://linux.cc.iitk.ac.in/mirror/cygwin/x86_64/release/openssh/
>>> is hosted, but cygwin says "Unable to get setup from linux.cc.iitk.ac.in
>>> for openssh
>>>
>>> Please guide me.
>>>
>> Dear Sudhanshu,
>> version 8.1p1-1 is not more available on the cygwin mirrors
>> as was replaced by several new versions.
>>
>> the latest version is 8.4p1-1
>>
>> Cygwin is a rolling distribution, the last package is expected to be
>> the current one and to be used.
>>
>> Regards
>> Marco
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@Sudhanshu —
I really have no idea, but his_might_  be helpful:*Cygwin Time Machine*:
http://www.crouchingtigerhiddenfruitbat.org/Cygwin/timemachine.html
— Mike

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