On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 11:49:25AM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote: > On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 08:30:36AM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > > > I was the maintainer of this package, but I have orphaned this package > > in EPEL. > > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/chntpw > > > > Because it has a non-responsive upstream and the code internally is > > quite horrible, we wrote a clean, secure replacement library (called > > 'hivex'[1]), and so I am no longer interested in maintaining this > > package. > > Is hivex compatible with chntpw (same command-line, assuming that > both are command-line applications)? If it is so, maybe it could > obsolete chntpw. I think it is important in EPEL to have all abandonned > packages to be obsoleted.
No, they're not compatible. chntpw also does more -- we don't do anything with editing NT passwords. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora _______________________________________________ epel-devel-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/epel-devel-list
