Greg Schafer wrote: > Mark Rosenstand wrote: > > >> On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 08:02 -0700, Dan Nicholson wrote: >> >>> On 5/14/07, Jens Stroebel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>>> I've been trying for some time now to get the shadow-4.0.18.1 source >>>> from ftp://ftp.pld.org.pl/software/shadow/shadow-4.0.18.1.tar.bz2 ; >>>> the site is not resolvable, though. >>>> >>> Yeah, that's about the least reliable server on the internet :) You >>> can just use a mirror for now. >>> >> It's _unresolvable_ and has been so for several months. I don't think >> it's coming back. >> >> pld.org.pl redirects to pld-linux.org, and the latest version of shadow >> at their FTP site is 4.0.3. >> >> I haven't gotten any traffic from their mailing list since Feb 1, which >> was the maintainer telling that he was busy with his new job. >> > > AFAICT shadow is dead. The maintainer has a history of.. um, shall we say, > being difficult. This is evidenced by a FAQ on the PLD site: > > http://www.pld-linux.org/FAQ#head-8d1d084c78d30202351371109aa23ef2350f8c0f > > In the following bug report there is mention of Debian possibly taking > over maintenance: > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=423956 > > I sure hope they do.. > > Regards > Greg > I'm on my 1st LFS install at the moment, & when the Shadow link wouldn't resolve, i grabbed the tarball from one of the Gentoo mirrors - every package that they support is stored in the 'distfiles' sub-directory. Only version 4.0.18.1 is currently available, though...
...Incidentally, the 'useradd_fix-2.patch' broke useradd, which i discovered because i'm following the 'pkgusr' hint. The 'fix-1.patch' solved the problem. When my install is complete, i'll try to determine why the later patch gave me trouble & post any findings here... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
