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Re: ITP: pwgen


John Morrison wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've got pwgen hosted (it compiled ootb).  I'm unsure as to whether it has
> any dependancies, I did cygcheck -v pwgen and it only used the cygwin dll
> (which, if I remember correctly shouldn't be listed as a dependancy...?)
> 
> Hope this is OK.  This is my first attempt to use Method 2.

This got my vote.
> 
> setup.hint:
> 
> sdesc: "generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords"
> ldesc: "pwgen generates random, meaningless but pronounceable passwords.
> These
> passwords contain either only lowercase letters, or upper and lower case
> mixed,
> or digits thrown in.  Uppercase letters and digits are placed in a way that
> eases remembering their position when memorizing only the word."
> category: admin
> 
> URLs:
> 
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/pwgen/setup.hint
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/pwgen/pwgen-2.02-1.t
> ar.bz2
> http://homepage.ntlworld.com/j-n-s.morrison/john/cygwin/pwgen/pwgen-2.02-1-s
> rc.tar.bz2

Note that there is an empty postinstall script and an empty
/usr/doc/pwgen-2.02 directory.

You could also work a little more on the build dependency: only cygwin?
What about gcc, binutils, make, ash, perl, sed?
> 
> J.

-- 
Med venlig hilsen / Kind regards

Hack Kampbjørn


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