01/01: gnu: Add autossh.

[Christopher Allan Webber]

cwebber pushed a commit to branch master
in repository guix.

commit 8caeb11772cc1df06cb6bf227c3280ae6858bd59
Author: Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden>
Date:   Mon Feb 8 16:01:49 2016 -0800

    gnu: Add autossh.
    
    * gnu/packages/ssh.scm (autossh): New variable.
---
 gnu/packages/ssh.scm |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
index af5aae1..5fdeeb7 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/ssh.scm
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 ;;; Copyright © 2015, 2016 Efraim Flashner <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Leo Famulari <address@hidden>
 ;;; Copyright © 2016 Nicolas Goaziou <address@hidden>
+;;; Copyright © 2016 Christopher Allan Webber <address@hidden>
 ;;;
 ;;; This file is part of GNU Guix.
 ;;;
@@ -506,3 +507,28 @@ manipulating key files.")
 authentication with SSH's so-called @dfn{interactive keyboard password
 authentication}.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
+
+(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 @command{ssh} and
+monitor it, restarting it as necessary should it die or stop passing traffic.")
+    (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 separate file
+     ;; with that information.
+     (license:non-copyleft "file://autossh.c"))))