On 29/06/14 19:08, carstene1ns wrote: > Am 29.06.2014 15:55, schrieb John WH Smith:> Hel > The aur-mirror[2] reveals it was moved from the repositories to the AUR > before 2011 and maintained by Judd Vinet and Dale Blount back in 2006. > Both left Arch[3] some time ago. > The comment by 'mortzu' on the package page corresponds to that > commit[4], where the maintainer information were stripped. > After that, somebody modernized the package[5], however, who that did is > lost. > I hope this helps as well. Now a little question: Why do you want to > know who maintained it? There are no patches or anything. > > best regards, > carstene1ns > > [1]: > http://arch.carsten-teibes.de/aur-stuff/aur-cleanup-02-2014/packages_to_orphan.html#l > [2]: > http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=92a5777293550ed73544fd2322a38120810831c6 > [3]: https://www.archlinux.org/fellows/ > [4]: > http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=1811ef056dc0febabf6982ea493441fb16504d08 > [5]: > http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur-mirror.git/commit/libnss-mysql/PKGBUILD?id=503301b9e787202bc614b44cbd2ea3d9837b6804 > I am currently looking for a solution to store UNIX users in a MySQL database (virtual hosting). The NSS module for MySQL got my attention, yet it has no active community/team around it.
When I saw that the Arch package had been updated more recently, I thought someone was working on it again. Being a regular Arch user myself, the AUR seemed to me like a good place to look for movement. To be honest, I am very surprised that both libnss-mysql and nss-mysql are such ghosts... Thank you for your answers, I have the information I needed! JWHS.
