shadow has gone missing

[Greg Schafer]

On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 01:18:44PM -0700, Ken Dyke wrote:

> ftp.pld.org.pl is not returning DNS.  Does someone have a copy I could
> get?  Thanks...

Yes, my "upstream tarball detection" script reveals the shadow site goes up
and down like a yo-yo. In general, the maintainership of the shadow package
is very ordinary IMHO (says he who hasn't updated his refbuild lately :-)

As a workaround for now, I've placed a copy here:

http://www.diy-linux.org/downloads/thirdparty/

> Just an FYI:
> The URL for bpm returns 403:
> http://bent.latency.net/bent/darcs/bpm-1.6/src/bpm-1.6.tar.bz2
> Note: I am not going to use bpm I just have not added a bit of code to
> ignore it when parsing the packagedata file.

Yeah sorry, just haven't updated to new version yet. As mentioned in the
refbuild doc, bpm is only included as a proof of concept. The way I've
implemented it in my gsbuild scripts is a bit dodgey anyhow, because some
file permissions are lost (suid, sgid etc). This is in stark contrast to the
Pacman implementation which IMHO officially kicks arse! :-) (all packages
built as non-root, file conflict detection, repo creation for effortless
deployment to other machines, etc, etc). I still don't know how anyone can
use/maintain a self-built system without proper (and sane!) package
management. Other PM systems such as LD_PRELOAD based, "find" based, pkg
user based, simply do not cut the mustard IMHO.

Regards
Greg