On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jud wrote:

Hi Devs,

I have been looking at the Arch [core] packages and have noticed some issues, could you please take at look and where possible rectify them as soon as possible? Thank-you. <Arch Linux>

Aaron libdownload - http://phraktured.net/libdownload reports a 404 error

logrotate - hard to find a proper upstream url Best so far are: http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=logrotate http://rpmfind.net//linux/RPM/fedora/devel/src/logrotate-3.7.7-1.fc10.src.ht... also might be useful: http://www.sfr-fresh.com/unix/privat/ ftp://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/development/source/SRPMS/ and Tomas Smetana seems to be the person to ask.

heimdal - http://www.h5l.org/ netkit-telnet - ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/Networking/netkit/

bash Update Description?: The GNU Bourne Again SHell

Allan ncurses - http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/

Alexander Baldeck Madwifi Update Description?: Madwifi drivers for Atheros wireless chipsets

Andy As per request from Andy - Bugs reported: FS#11546 to 11551 inclusive.

reiserfsprogs - website/domain is gone, would it be correct to have "None" as the upstream url?

binutils - http://www.gnu.org/software/binutils/ gzip - http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/ * libelf - http://www.mr511.de/software/english.html libsasl - http://cyrusimap.web.cmu.edu/ readline - http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html

FS#11608 bin86 - http://www.debath.co.uk/

db - http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/ patch - http://www.gnu.org/software/patch/ tar - http://www.gnu.org/software/tar/ wget - http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/

dialog Update Description?: Displays user-friendly dialog boxes from shell scripts ed Update Description?: A line-oriented text editor man-pages Update Description?: Linux man-pages - documents for Linux kernel and C library interfaces nano Update Description?: A small and functional text editor readline Update Description?: GNU readline library - provides a set of functions that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in sed Update Description?: GNU Sed (Streams EDitor) is used to filter text tzdata Update Description?: Time zone and daylight saving time data

Daniel rp-pppoe - http://www.roaringpenguin.com/products/pppoe

Dan McGee dash Update Description?: A POSIX-compliant shell that aims to be as small as possible without sacrificing speed

Eric links - http://links.twibright.com/ Update Description?: A console web browser

pcre - http://www.pcre.org/ procinfo - ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/00-OLD/svm/ procps - http://procps.sourceforge.net/ psmisc - http://psmisc.sourceforge.net/index.html Update Description?: A set of small useful utilities that use the /proc filesystem sysvinit - ftp://ftp.cistron.nl/pub/people/miquels/sysvinit/ gpm Update Description?: General purpose mouse support for the console

James mlocate Update Description?: Index and quickly search for files on your system

Jan mpfr Update Description?: A library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding

Kevin dnsutils Update Description?: A collection of Domain Name Server (DNS) utilities - dig, host, nslookup, nsupdate

Paul sudo - http://www.sudo.ws/ Update Description?: (su "do") allows sys admin to delegate authority to give certain users the ability to run some commands as root

Pierre zlib - http://www.zlib.net/ gdbm Update Description?: GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extensible hashing ca-certificates Update Description?: The common Certification Authority (CA) certificates run-parts Update Description?: run-parts from the debianutils package - run scripts or programs in a directory

Thomas acl - better url? ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/ attr - better url? ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/ gmp - http://gmplib.org/ ntfsprogs - http://www.linux-ntfs.org/

cryptsetup Update Description? (from manpage): Setup cryptographic volumes for dm-crypt (including LUKS extension) iproute Update Description?: A collection of utilities for controlling TCP/IP networking and traffic control iptables Update Description?: A userspace command-line program used to configure the IPv4 and IPv6 packet filtering rulesets ntfs-3g Update Description?: A stable read/write NTFS driver ppp Update Description?: A daemon which implements the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) protocol for dial-up networking wpa_supplicant Update Description?: A utility providing key negotiation for WPA/WPA2/IEEE 802.1X wireless networksopenswan Update Description?: Open Source implementation of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec)

TomK bridge-utils Update Description?: Connect multiple Ethernet segments together in a protocol independent way bzip2 Update Description?: A patent-free, high-quality data compression program e2fsprogs Update Description?: Ext2/3/4 Filesystem Utilities libldap Update Description?: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) client libraries libevent Update Description?: An event notification library lzo2 Update Description?: A portable lossless data compression library openswan Update Description?: Open Source implementation of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) popt - http://rpm5.org/files/popt/ Update Description?: A command-line options parser portmap Update Description?: Remote Procedure Calls (RPC) connection manager

openvpn - http://openvpn.net/

wlan-ng26 & wlan-ng26-utils upstream is called linux-wlan-ng Can we rename to upstream or just wlan-ng & wlan-ng-utils? wlan-ng - http://www.linux-wlan.org/ Update Description?: Providing driver support for Wireless Prism2/2.5/3 PCMCIA, PCI, and USB devices wlan-ng-utils - http://www.linux-wlan.org/ Update Description?: Wireless Lan userspace tools

Tpowa gen-init-cpio - better url link?, how do you know latest/best version? sdparm - website doesn't exist anymore, temporary fault? not on sourceforge & freshmeat anymore? Update Description?: A shell utility to set and view SCSI hard disk parameters

dmapi - better to have? ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/cmd_tars/ gawk - http://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/ Update Description?: A text-processing programming language that is a useful and simple tool for manipulating text groff - http://www.gnu.org/software/groff/ iputils - http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Iputils Update Description?: IP Configuration Utilities - ping, traceroute, rdisc, clockdiff, tftpd

cracklib Update Description?: Next generation version of libCrack password checking library dmraid Update Description?: Device-Mapper Software RAID Tool hdparm Update Description?: A shell utility to set and view IDE hard disk parameters linux-atm Update Description?: Drivers and tools to support ATM networking mdadm - http://neil.brown.name/blog/mdadm Update Description?: A tool for managing and monitoring Software RAID arrays xinetd Update Description?: Provides networking access control capabilities and good security against intrusion

pciutils v3.0.2 - http://mj.ucw.cz/pciutils.shtml

util-linux-ng - http://userweb.kernel.org/~kzak/util-linux-ng/

Thanks to all for your great work on Arch!

Just wanted to bump this thread in case it had been missed in the shuffle. There's a LOT of stuff here that seems worthwhile to take a look at. Please look them over