Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 07/22/05 19:32 CST: > > >>>If I can get patches for Cracklib and Heimdal prepared tonight or >>>tomorrow, are we going to try to get the new Cracklib into BLFS before >>>the release of 6.1? >> >>I don't think we are that close to release yet. If you are comfortable >>with the changes, they can go into 6.1. > > > Okay. I worked with the cracklib package enough now to know that I > can create the Heimdal patches. > > I'm going to commit the changes to Shadow to update it to 4.0.9 so > that we're at the same rev version as LFS. > > This leaves updating Linux-PAM to 0.80 and Cracklib to 2.8.3. For the > short time being, I suggest we update these two packages and allow (ask) > folks to start big-time testing. Should be a no-brainer, but extensive > testing would be good. > > In the meantime, let's not put a Cracklib-Hiemdal patch in the Cracklib > package until I finish with it (should be tonight, but most likely > will be 'morrow now). Nothing that I'll do with Heimdal patches affects > the Cracklib package as my method for creating the libcrack_heimdal > library is to duplicate the lib directory in the Cracklib tree and > make all mods there. So, there is no affect on the libcrack library > whatsoever. > > I'll also put a note in the Heimdal instructions saying that the the > Cracklib stuff is being prepared and to not use it for the time being. > > This will allow us to get started testing the Cracklib/PAM/Shadow stuff > which is most important after all. > > Does this sound like a good plan? DJ? >
Looks like we crossed between send/receive times. Sounds good to me. -- DJ Lucas -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
