January 2008 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Borked AUR/Community repo/cvs
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 12 Jan '08

12 Jan '08

Both Wizzo and myself have noticed that the 'communitypkg' package is "hanging" and requires a 'ctrl-c' to continue. The PKGBUILD seems to upload BUT the tarball does not. ALSO: the aur web interface does NOT record the new PKGBUILD either. Wizzo guesses that 'tupkg' is not connecting to 'aur'. In any event, I am guessing that someone who deals with this stuff, should look into this. Thanks for reading this.... Very best regards; Bob Finch Liviu Librescu - În veci pomenirea lui. (May his memory be eternal.)

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[aur-general] TU Vote: Abhishek Dasgupta (abhidg)
by Varun Acharya 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Hi TU's, Following the discussion period for Abhishek, (abhidg), now starts the 7 day voting period. Please lets avoid past issues of being unable to reach quorum. Abhishek's introduction is here http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006473.html Obviously a +1 from me, since I was the sponsor. Varun

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[aur-general] TU Application - Allan McRae
by Allan McRae 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

Hello, I'm Allan McRae and go by the imaginative username "Allan" on the AUR, forums and bug tracker. I maintain around 25 packages in the AUR (although around half of these are perl-modules) and have had a package moved to community (sunbird). If you elect me to be a TU, I will initially move several of my packages (xmltv + dependencies, desemume, colordiff) to community as well as a couple of other popular packages I use often that are fairly popular (jabref, possibly notecase). I am currently unable to build x86_64 packages as my 64bit desktop has been dead for the last three months (from a power surge I think) and I have given up on fixing it but will probably buy a new one in the coming months. I have been using Linux since Red Hat 8.0 was released (late 2002?). I shuffled from Fedora to Ubuntu to Debian before building a Linux From Scratch system. I discovered Arch when I was looking at finding a package manager to use in LFS and installed it "temporarily" to build my new LFS system. That was about a year and a half ago... I now have Arch installed on two servers, a (broken) desktop and a laptop. As an Arch user, I am fairly active on the forums and like to go bug squashing occasionally. I have also contributed a couple of patches to pacman. I have written a script for maintaining R libraries but I think no-one but me actually uses it. A bit about me personally. I am 27 years old, a New Zealander currently living in Brisbane, Australia. I work as a statistical geneticist for a large medical research institute. Apart from computers, my major hobbies include martial arts and watching anime. I have Roman lined up to sponsor me. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] AUR CVS access and more
by Ronald van Haren 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

After I did send the output of htpasswd -n to simo, I was reading in the arch-dev mailing list, and it appears he is on a vacation untill the 14th of January. Is there someone else who can give me (and probably also Timm (?)) access to AUR cvs now he is away, and also can someone update my AUR account ? Also Eric is set as inactive, so my forum account will not be updated in a while (though this is not a major issue I guess). thank you :)

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[aur-general] Applying to become TU.
by Mateusz Herych 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Hello. I`am Mateusz Herych, from Poland. I`am 17 years old and I started with Linux 3 years ago (with Arch 2 years ago). I registrered in AUR in December 2006, partition is my login there. One of my packages has been moved to [community] repo (skype-staticqt). Now I`am maintainer of 15 PKGBUILDs there. Most of them I using by myself. I have some knowledge with C, C++, PHP and bash. I have experience with other project (SCXD - http://scxd.info) where I was a developer. My English is average (I have few gramatical problems, but I understand all). Why I want to become Trusted User? Currently I`ve installed Arch on more than 20 machines (many of them are at my school, unfortunately all of them are x86 :( ). I want to give something to this distribution. When I become TU I will move many of my packages to [community] repo, but I will adopt some packages like ircii-pana or idesk. Yes, I know that there are no new versions of them, but many people are using it yet. I`am trying to help other people on IRC (mostly on Polish channels and networks, but I talking on #archlinux@FreeNode too. My nick is Part` there.). I translated some news from http://archlinux.org to http://archlinux.pl. I promote Arch Linux in my community. So, I`am looking for someone want be my sponsor. Feel free to ask, if you want. Regards, Mateusz.

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[aur-general] Resignation from TU group
by Eric Belanger 08 Jan '08

08 Jan '08

Hi everyone, I have decided to resign from the TU team because I have no longer the interest and time for TU specific duties like safe-flagging and the voting processs for TU candidates. Several of my packages in community/unsupported are available if someone else is interested in them: adesklet-yab buoh fish listen ltris musepack-tools plib pydilbert (unsupported) python-musicbrainz2 realplayer (unsupported) xarchive I'll keep them if no one else is interested in them. As for the rest of my packages, they'll be moved to extra or remain in community/unsupported where I'll continue maintaining them. I also would like to reduce my involvement with the community64 repo. I'll start another thread with more details upon that. Regards, Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Can a fresh TU sponsor requests [was:Applying to become TU]
by Ronald van Haren 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Let's start a new thread about this: On Jan 7, 2008 2:59 PM, JJDaNiMoTh <jjdanimoth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, 5 Jan 2008 16:17:06 +0100 > "Ronald van Haren" <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > > Okay, I will sponsor Mateusz. This will start a five day discussion > period. > > I'm not again request of Mateusz (and your sponsorship).. but I want to > post this question: Can a fresh (very very fresh :D) TU sponsors > requests? I think yes, I don't read anything in bylaws. But.. is it > right? Because, I'm sure about the great work that you and Mateusz (if > he will be accepted as a TU) will done, but how about a 'testing > period'? I'm sure that all of us doesn't born learned ( uhm, english > language doesn't give the idea that italian does :P ) and that new TUs > need time to learn all TUs functions, starting from bugtracker to all > small thing never written but that we daily use. > > All that I've written is in my honest opinion, and it is a comment > about the _future_ and not for present. > > > -- > JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User > I respect your opinion. I invite everyone to give his opinion on this and have an open minded discussion. My 2 cents: I certainly think it should be possible. In my opinion you are elected as a TU, and not a TU trainee. See it in this way. If you get a new job it is also possible for you to propose changes. At your proposals should be looked upon in greater care (however it is always important to look at it with care), but you are allowed to propose things. That is what in my opinion is exactly what should happen. We have a voting mechanism, every TU is allowed to vote (actually I think you should vote) yes, no, or abstain. So if you think someone should not make a good new TU, you should vote NO. It is that easy. Like you say, you learn by doing things. Sponsoring someone is also doing something.

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[aur-general] VOTE: Timm Preetz (gummibaerchen)
by Bjørn Lindeijer 07 Jan '08

07 Jan '08

Sorry for the delay, I forgot to start this last Friday and I still don't have internet at home. I introduced Timm as a candidate here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006351.html Timm added some more about himself here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2007-December/006359.html Now let's vote! (TUs only of course) You've got one week. My vote: YES Bjørn

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[aur-general] Searching for a 32bit builder
by Timm Preetz 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hello, as I currently just have (easy) access to a 64bit machine I would like to find someone who could build my community packages. In reverse I would of course update his packages for 64bit. Currently I only have "avant-window-navigator" in community, and don't expect a much higher load of packages the next time, as I mainly build packages for 64bit at the moment. Regards, Timm

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[aur-general] Clean up old Java 'GNOME' Bindings
by Timm Preetz 06 Jan '08

06 Jan '08

Hi, while compiling packages for x86_64 I came across two java-packages, that seem obsolete to me. I think they could be replaced by 'java-gnome' (which I maintain in AUR, could be moved to community). The packages are the following: glib-java (provided by java-gnome) cairo-java (not yet provided by java-gnome, requires glib-java) I think other (for example old gtk-java) were already deleted. So should these packages stay in community (cairo-java has only two votes), or should they be replaced by java-gnome? Regards, Timm

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