Re: [cgiwrap-users] Fwd: Question regarding cracklib2 mailing list and source repo

[Nathan N. <nn...@ne...>]

I'll release this on SF... post-replacing just the config.guess/config.sub is self contained enough that I'm willing to 
have that in the release.

-- Nathan

On 12/06/2013 02:43 AM, snehal wrote:
> Nathan,
>
> Thank you so much for your support.
> I did build the tar on ppc64le platform, and does build fine.
>
> I have a small query here , would you keep this tar at dropbox location , or you would delete after some time ?
> Since I would be giving the same link to distro guys, and they would be picking it from here.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Snehal
>
>
> On 12/05/2013 07:48 PM, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
>> Try the dropbox url again... I've told it to replace the config.guess/sub with latest from git since they are
>> reasonably accessible as individual files.
>>
>> -- Nathan
>>
>> On 12/05/2013 03:16 AM, snehal wrote:
>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>
>>> I tried to build the tar provided by you on ppc64le, however I see that config.guess file changes are missing for
>>> ppc64le in the tar provided by you.
>>> Config.guess file is available at
>>>
>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD
>>>
>>> ----Or----
>>> I can send you patch for config.guess, let me know your preference.
>>>
>>> After adding config.guess patch for ppc64le support to the tar provided by you, I see all following files are generated.
>>>
>>> /*lib*# ls
>>> libcrack.a   libcrack.so    libcrack.so.2.9.0
>>> libcrack.la  libcrack.so.2  python2.7
>>>
>>> /*share*# ls
>>> cracklib  locale
>>>
>>> /*include*# ls
>>> crack.h  packer.h
>>>
>>> /*sbin*# ls
>>> cracklib-check   cracklib-packer    create-cracklib-dict
>>> cracklib-format  cracklib-unpacker
>>>
>>> It would be great if you incorporate config.guess changes and release tar...
>>>
>>> Awaiting your reply
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>> Snehal
>>>
>>>
>>> On 12/03/2013 07:47 PM, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
>>>> This tarball was generated with a "current" Fedora 20 (not even released yet) host with libtool/autoconf/etc. pieces
>>>> as distributed on that platform.
>>>>
>>>> https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/33773121/2013-12-03/cracklib-2.9.0.tar.gz
>>>>
>>>> Please see if it works for you. If that tarball DOES work for you, I'll be happy to do a new release with that build
>>>> environment.
>>>>
>>>> If it doesn't, I don't think I'm going to be integrating the changes you've requested as I'm not interested in making
>>>> the packaging of cracklib dependent on pieces that aren't present in current distributions or creating a tarball that
>>>> can't be reproduced without developers jumping through extra hoops.
>>>>
>>>> If you are packaging yourself, I would suggest just adding the 'regen with your preferred/updated libtool/etc' as part
>>>> of that packaging, but until those changes are included/accepted by mainstream linux distributions, they won't be
>>>> included here.
>>>>
>>>> -- Nathan
>>>>
>>>> On 12/03/2013 12:16 AM, snehal wrote:
>>>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>>>
>>>>> This is a gentle reminder to spin pkg with new config.guess and libtool.
>>>>>
>>>>> As per your suggestion, I did checkout SVN repo and did ./configure, make , make install
>>>>> which did work fine on ppc64le platform. You may see details in my previous mail.
>>>>>
>>>>> Awaiting new tar from you with ppc64le support
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>> Snehal
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 11/18/2013 04:22 PM, snehal wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I did take SVN repo
>>>>>>    svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/cracklib/code/trunk/cracklib
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Then did run autogen.sh , which generated new configuration file which supports ppc64le.
>>>>>> Did
>>>>>> ./configure
>>>>>> make
>>>>>> make install
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I see following output with new libtool version
>>>>>>
>>>>>> 1. Folders created
>>>>>> /svn_cracklib# ls
>>>>>> cracklib  cracklib.tar *include  lib  sbin  share*
>>>>>> 2. Binaries created
>>>>>> /**sbin**# ls
>>>>>> cracklib-check   cracklib-packer    create-cracklib-dict
>>>>>> cracklib-format  cracklib-unpacker
>>>>>> 3. /**share**# ls
>>>>>> cracklib  locale
>>>>>> 4. /**lib**# ls
>>>>>> libcrack.a  libcrack.la  libcrack.so  libcrack.so.2 libcrack.so.2.9.0
>>>>>> 5. /**include**# ls
>>>>>> crack.h  packer.h
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Let me know if this is what you would see
>>>>>> If yes, then you may spin the pkg again with new libtool and release tar for us.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Snehal
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 11/14/2013 08:09 PM, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
>>>>>>> Since you have the upstream tools (libtool / autoconf) installed with the updated components, have you tried just
>>>>>>> running autogen.sh in an svn checkout of cracklib and see if it all works?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>     svn checkout svn://svn.code.sf.net/p/cracklib/code/trunk/cracklib
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Problem is - I don't actually copy in those files manually - I just use the generated ones from autoconf/autoheader
>>>>>>> installed on my devel box.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> I'll try to find some time to install latest autoconf/libtool on my box (currently fc17 so a bit downlevel) and see
>>>>>>> if I can generate a tarball that will work for you, but would be good for you to run a test from svn first just
>>>>>>> to be
>>>>>>> certain it will solve the problem for you.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> -- Nathan
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On 11/14/2013 06:39 AM, snehal wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Nathan,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>   Alpha release of libtool is available at following location
>>>>>>>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.gz (1.6MB)
>>>>>>>> ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/libtool/libtool-2.4.2.418.tar.xz (920KB)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> It would be great if you can install this new libtool which supports ppc64le,
>>>>>>>> and spin the pkg and let us know the new tar availability. We can test it on ppc64le architecture for you.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Currently I used http://sourceforge.net/projects/cracklib/files/latest/download/cracklib-2.9.0.tar.gz
>>>>>>>> Which does not have ppc64le support.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Also,
>>>>>>>> Latest config.guess and config.sub w/ ppc64le fix is available @
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.guess;hb=HEAD and
>>>>>>>> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=config.git;a=blob_plain;f=config.sub;hb=HEAD respectively.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Thanks in advance,
>>>>>>>> Snehal
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On 10/23/2013 06:11 PM, Nathan Neulinger wrote:
>>>>>>>>> I'm the current maintainer for cracklib, however if you have patches to libtool.m4/config.guess - those need to go
>>>>>>>>> upstream to the maintainers of those packages - they are not part of cracklib package. If you're talking about
>>>>>>>>> changes
>>>>>>>>> to configure.ac, those would go to this package.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> cracklib repo is still svn based on sourceforge project page.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> -- Nathan
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> On 10/23/2013 01:51 AM, snehal wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> I found your name in AUTHORS file of cracklib2 tarball. I tried search upstream source mailing list for this pkg,
>>>>>>>>>> however I could not find one for upstream source.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> We are in the process of adding support for new arch (ppc64le) and as part of that wanted to send patches for
>>>>>>>>>> libtool.m4/config.guess or configure as appropriate. In that context, I wanted to confirm the below
>>>>>>>>>> 1) Should we send patches to you or there is some other mailing list?
>>>>>>>>>> 2) I could not find git repo. Only debian git repo found
>>>>>>>>>> http:///git/.debian.org/?p=pkg-cracklib/pkg-cracklib./git
>>>>>>>>>> /Could you please point me to upstream git repo ?/
>>>>>>>>>> / 3) Who is the maintainer for this pkg ?
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Appreciate your response
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>>>>>> Snehal
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
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