[arch-dev-public] [core] Updated Upstream URLs and Package Descriptions - 20080929

[Aaron Griffin]

On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 6:31 AM, Jud <jud at judfilm.net> 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.html
> 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 <tsmetana at redhat.com> 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