Added openssh 9.8p1 to the tools

[atteggiani]

Fixes #5
Added spack environment for openssh, installing version 9.8p1.
This version of openssh is the same one found in the payu environment, and allows Git signing using SSH.

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🚀 The latest prerelease openssh/pr6-3 at 00d16fb is here: #6 (comment) 🚀

[github-actions]

🚀 Attempted to deploy openssh Prerelease pr6-1 with commit c8fc163

🖥️ Gadi Deployment ❌

[atteggiani]

Not sure why the prerelease failed.
I tried installing manually on Gadi using the latest spack/0.22 (with the recent update of openssh spack-packages) and it worked fine.

[CodeGat]

This will be unable to be deployed until we update the version of spack for Prerelease/Release - see ACCESS-NRI/build-cd#296

[CodeGat]

It was updated, so I'll give it a prerelease :)

[CodeGat]

!redeploy

Spack was updated in the above PR, so the deployment can proceed

[github-actions]

🚀 Attempted to deploy openssh Prerelease pr6-2 with commit 5b364af

🖥️ Gadi Deployment ✔️

Usage Instructions

openssh, defined in openssh/spack.yaml, will be deployed to Gadi as:

• 9.8p1 as a Release (when merged).
• pr6-2 as a Prerelease (during this PR).

This Prerelease is accessible on Gadi using:

module use /g/data/vk83/prerelease/modules
module load openssh/pr6-2

When using the above modules, the binaries shall be on your $PATH.

For advanced users, this Prerelease is also accessible on Gadi via /g/data/vk83/prerelease/apps/spack/0.22/spack in the openssh-pr6-2 environment.
Due to inode-saving measures, one will have to manually untar the environment metadata before environment activation with tar -xf .spack-env .spack-env.tar. It will require one to have write privileges.

Configuration Information

This Prerelease is deployed using:

• access-nri/spack on branch 0.22
• access-nri/spack-packages version 2025.06.001
• access-nri/spack-config version 2025.07.001

If the above was not what was expected, commit changes to config/versions.json in this PR.

[jo-basevi]

Looks good to me! I ran a quick test with git signing using the prerelease ssh-keygen exe and it all worked fine for me

[github-actions]

🚀 Attempted to deploy openssh Prerelease pr6-3 with commit 00d16fb

🖥️ Gadi Deployment ✔️

Usage Instructions

openssh, defined in openssh/spack.yaml, will be deployed to Gadi as:

• 9.8p1 as a Release (when merged).
• pr6-3 as a Prerelease (during this PR).

This Prerelease is accessible on Gadi using:

module use /g/data/vk83/prerelease/modules
module load openssh/pr6-3

When using the above modules, the binaries shall be on your $PATH.

For advanced users, this Prerelease is also accessible on Gadi via /g/data/vk83/prerelease/apps/spack/0.22/spack in the openssh-pr6-3 environment.
Due to inode-saving measures, one will have to manually untar the environment metadata before environment activation with tar -xf .spack-env .spack-env.tar. It will require one to have write privileges.

Configuration Information

This Prerelease is deployed using:

• access-nri/spack on branch 0.22
• access-nri/spack-packages version 2025.06.001
• access-nri/spack-config version 2025.07.001

If the above was not what was expected, commit changes to config/versions.json in this PR.

[atteggiani]

@CodeGat
Both @jo-basevi and myself tested the git signing with the pre-release ssh module and it works fine.

Please feel free to approve and merge.

Thank you