On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:32:15AM -0700, jwbirdsong wrote:

Patch shadow your self w/ aforementioned gentoo patch. works fine after building w/ the patch.

(maybe a completely stupid question) Is there a systematic way to get the source version of an Arch package ? Searching AUR for 'groupmod' turns up niente. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

If you run ABS, check the wiki[1] or search for the package on the web page. [1] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ABS On 1 March 2010 21:42, Tavian Barnes wrote:

On 1 March 2010 16:29,   wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:32:15AM -0700, jwbirdsong wrote:

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Patch shadow your self w/ aforementioned gentoo patch.   works fine after building w/ the patch.

(maybe a completely stupid question)

Is there a systematic way to get the source version of an Arch package ?

Searching AUR for 'groupmod' turns up niente.

groupmod is part of the shadow package (which I determined with pacman -Qo $(which groupmod)).  Its current Arch version is 4.1.4.2-1, thus the source version is 4.1.4.2 (without the pkgrel, -1).

-- Tavian Barnes

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:03:54PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

Step 1: ... ... HTH,

Very much, thanks ! I was imagining some way to get individual packages, clearly that was a wrong assumption. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

Ng Oon-Ee (2010-03-02 08:55):

On Tue, 2010-03-02 at 00:56 +0100, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:

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On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 06:03:54PM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

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Step 1: ... ... HTH,

Very much, thanks !

I was imagining some way to get individual packages, clearly that was a wrong assumption.

Ciao,

You can, using repos.archlinux.org

And with abs: $ abs core/shadow

On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 10:38:55AM -0500, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

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You can, using repos.archlinux.org

???

I think the OP was saying that he wanted the source code for the app. repos.archlinux.org only holds PKGBUILD scripts, not the app's source code.

Correct, but then makepkg -o will retrieve the sources. I patched groupmod, remade and installed the shadow package. Now there is one remaining question: may I assume that when shadow is updated in [core] the groupmod bug will be fixed (it effectively renders groupmod useless) ? I see three possibles outcomes: * Yes. * Depends on the maintainer of that package. * Depends on upstream having fixed it. The practical question behind this is if course if I should configure pacman to ignore shadow updates until further notice. Ciao, -- FA O tu, che porte, correndo si ? E guerra e morte !

On 03/01/2010 05:03 PM, David Rosenstrauch wrote:

Step 1: [darose@daroselin ~]$ which groupmod /usr/sbin/groupmod

Step 2: [darose@daroselin ~]$ pacman -Qo /usr/sbin/groupmod /usr/sbin/groupmod is owned by shadow 4.1.4.2-1

Step 2.5 (if your abs is not up to date): [darose@daroselin ~]$ sudo abs ... lots of updates to stdout ...

Step 3: [darose@daroselin ~]$ find /var/abs -name shadow /var/abs/core/filesystem/shadow /var/abs/core/shadow /var/abs/core/shadow/shadow /var/abs/testing/filesystem/shadow [darose@daroselin ~]$ cp -r /var/abs/core/shadow /var/abs/local

Step 4: [darose@daroselin ~]$ cd /var/abs/local/shadow [darose@daroselin ~]$ makepkg -o

HTH,

DR

Good to be with you DR :) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On 03/01/2010 02:29 PM, fons@kokkinizita.net wrote:

On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 11:32:15AM -0700, jwbirdsong wrote:

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Patch shadow your self w/ aforementioned gentoo patch. works fine after building w/ the patch.

(maybe a completely stupid question)

Is there a systematic way to get the source version of an Arch package ?

Searching AUR for '' turns up niente.

Ciao,

Also check out community/pkgtools which has pkgfile $ pkgfile -s /usr/sbin/groupmod core/shadow

David C. Rankin (2010-03-01 17:03):

On 03/01/2010 12:32 PM, jwbirdsong wrote:

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Quick Question:

How do we change group information while this bug is there? Do we disable pam or do we just edit /etc/group in the interim?

Patch shadow your self w/ aforementioned gentoo patch. works fine after building w/ the patch.

Will do,

In the interim, and I know there will be howls against doing it, but I simply edited /etc/passwd and /etc/group and set the gid to what I needed. Worked fine. /etc/shadow doesn't appear to hold any group information so I think I found all the needed files. Right now it is just a one user system and subsequent to the gid change, I added the group that needed the gid with groupadd and it worked like a champ. Anybody see any "you just broke this -- stupid..." issues?

Most probably, editing /etc/group and ignoring /etc/gshadow won't break anything if you're not using group passwords (are these used by anybody?). But I would keep /etc/group and /etc/gshadow synchronized anyway. You can use /usr/sbin/vigr to edit these files by hand. If you have a working cron, you might get an e-mail telling you about problems. Try to run this as root (and look at the file contents): $ /etc/cron.daily/shadow

On 02/28/2010 04:27 PM, Giovanni Scafora wrote:

2010/2/28, David C. Rankin :

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I apologize if this has already been brought to your attention. Let me know if you want me to open a ticket.

Fill a bug report, if you think that is a bug.

Will do - no thinking about it, it 'is' a bug. Go try and change a group name :p -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com