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

[Jud]

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!