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

[aur-general] TU request
by Edward Tjörnhammar 22 Oct '08

22 Oct '08

Hello archers! I'm likely a new face to all of you but non the less applying for the role of TU. My name is Edward Tjörnhammar, is 26 and use Archlinux extensively both private and professionally. Two of the things which appeals me the most are that it never gets in your face and that the package system is pretty much crystal. I have been using GNU/Linux in some form, and no specific order, as Gentoo/Arch/Slax/Debian/Slackware since 2001. I studied CS at RIT (kth.se) in Stockholm where my specialization was(and is) in parallel and distributed systems. I work as a research engineer at the swedish defence research agency (foi.se) at information systems at the department of informatics. Before that I worked as a developer at a tactical dogfight simulator, which ran on IRIX machines. Programming and its facets is my main hobby and I, as such, have a working knowledge of many different languages/systems. I recently contributed a package 'inn' which I intend to continue working on. The package was added to [community] so I will continue with as inn-orig in AUR, user xhemi. If I were to become TU I believe that I can help to improve any number of packages in need of love but would continue with 'inn'. My sponsor is Sergej Pupykin. -- Edward Tjörnhammar

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[aur-general] Duplicate Package Names
by Jud 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Too many recent packages have been named the same as the "official package", this could easily get out of hand, what can be done about it? Discussion Points: - better education and parenting? - better message on AUR page? - code to detect package name and disallow/delete package? - hit uploader with big stick? - faster updates of "offical" Repo packages?

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[aur-general] TU Vote: foutrelis
by Daenyth Blank 21 Oct '08

21 Oct '08

Hi everyone, This begins the 7 day voting period for the addition of foutrelis as a TU. Please don't forget to vote. The discussion thread can be found at: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-October/008751.html You can vote using the web interface. Good luck! --Daenyth

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[aur-general] pidgin-mini
by Henri Häkkinen 20 Oct '08

20 Oct '08

Hello, My pidgin-mini AUR package was marked as out-of-date by BaSh, but the user did not specify any reason for it. I wonder, what seems to be wrong with it? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20712 -- Henri 'henux' Häkkinen http://henux.nor.fi

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Re: [aur-general] what happened to 'My statistics'?
by Loui 19 Oct '08

19 Oct '08

On Sun, Oct 19, 2008 at 07:24:28AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Roman Kyrylych wrote: >> Hi! >> >> Just took a look at AUR now, and got scared: >> My Statistics >> Packages in unsupported 0 >> Out-of-date 5 >> >> but then searched for packages with me as maintainer, and found lots of them. >> And there are definetely more than 5 out-of-date packages. >> Any ideas on this? >> >> >> P.S.: I'm sorry for inactivity, I hope to update lots of packages >> during next week >> (I took a vacation to spend time on Arch). >> > > Is it this bug: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/11561 ? Aye it be that bug. Roman you don't have any packages in unsupported. They're all in community. And indeed 5 are outdated. Cheers!

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[aur-general] what happened to 'My statistics'?
by Roman Kyrylych 18 Oct '08

18 Oct '08

Hi! Just took a look at AUR now, and got scared: My Statistics Packages in unsupported 0 Out-of-date 5 but then searched for packages with me as maintainer, and found lots of them. And there are definetely more than 5 out-of-date packages. Any ideas on this? P.S.: I'm sorry for inactivity, I hope to update lots of packages during next week (I took a vacation to spend time on Arch). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] BugDay (was: AUR CleanUp Day v2)
by DaNiMoTh 18 Oct '08

18 Oct '08

2008/10/7 stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de <stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de>: [cut] > > Hello, > > I dislike the idea of a bug day. We have well defined bugtracking > interfaces (Community Bugtracker or AUR comment-pages). This is a short description of a BugDay, maybe you misspelled it :) ( It isn't a day where we search a bug, but where we search a solutions for they :D ) http://www.archlinux.org/news/373/ What do Roman and who manage bugtracker think? PS: I use 'we search' because I was accepted as a ArchLinuxPPC dev.. I'm still running :D

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[aur-general] Orphaned clutter packages
by Michael Kanis 17 Oct '08

17 Oct '08

Hi, the packages clutter-cairo, clutter-gtk and python-clutter are out-of-date and orphaned. I'd like to adopt and update them. How do I do this? Michael

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[aur-general] ntfs-3g PKGBUILD - please delete
by Jud 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

Hi all, Someone has posted an ntfs-3g PKGBUILD, could the powers-to-be please delete this package. Also, I would like to draw you attention to this thread please [1]. Thanks for all your great work. [1] http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-September/008695.html

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[aur-general] Mach64 DRI PkgBuilds
by ben buckley 16 Oct '08

16 Oct '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hey all, i've whipped up PKGBUILDs to enable dri with the ati mach64 chipset. i'd like to contribute them. thing is, there's already one there: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17939 however, that PKGBUILD doesn't install the recompiled libdrm. i've contacted the author, with no response. i don't want to tread on anyone's toes, but i would like to contribute back to arch in some small way. what's the proper protocol here? thnx, b -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkj2vU8ACgkQl+rf7LmTT/i2KwCdG5cz9GueIqxATMim+rddy5UX A/kAn2FwkMD4x5zwsS+jbx8lNOI7SWLm =8akU -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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