On Sun, Jun 29, 2014 at 7:38 PM, John WH Smith <jwhsmith@englandmail.com> wrote:
On 29/06/14 19:08, carstene1ns wrote:
Am 29.06.2014 15:55, schrieb John WH Smith:> Hel The aur-mirror[2] reveals it was moved from the repositories to the AUR before 2011 and maintained by Judd Vinet and Dale Blount back in 2006. Both left Arch[3] some time ago. The comment by 'mortzu' on the package page corresponds to that commit[4], where the maintainer information were stripped. After that, somebody modernized the package[5], however, who that did is lost. I hope this helps as well. Now a little question: Why do you want to know who maintained it? There are no patches or anything.
best regards, carstene1ns
[1]: http://arch.carsten-teibes.de/aur-stuff/aur-cleanup-02-2014/packages_to_orph... [2]: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=92a57... [3]: https://www.archlinux.org/fellows/ [4]: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=1811e... [5]: http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=50330...
I am currently looking for a solution to store UNIX users in a MySQL database (virtual hosting). The NSS module for MySQL got my attention, yet it has no active community/team around it.
When I saw that the Arch package had been updated more recently, I thought someone was working on it again. Being a regular Arch user myself, the AUR seemed to me like a good place to look for movement.
Seems unlikely. Most packagers on the AUR don't have much contact with upstream at all (unless they are upstream themselves).
To be honest, I am very surprised that both libnss-mysql and nss-mysql are such ghosts...
I'm really not; it's an obscure use case. MySQL isn't exactly the poster child of great databases either. There's a libnss-pgsql but it seems similarly outdated. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libnss-pgsql/
Thank you for your answers, I have the information I needed! JWHS.