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

[aur-general] TU Application - Ghost1227
by Daniel J Griffiths 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Hello again. For those of you who missed my greetings email, my name is Dan Griffiths and I am a 26-year-old independent contractor in Delaware, US. I have been using one form of *NIX or another for most of my life, wandering through MINIX, RedHat, Mandrake, Slackware, Debian, Gentoo and even two home made distros before finally finding Arch about a year ago. I instantly fell in love with Arch and haven't looked back once. I am currently maintaining 32 packages in the AUR, including one of my own (co-written) scripts. I go by the name Ghost1227 on the bugtracker, AUR, Wiki and on IRC. I have spent the last year getting to know Arch and learning from (as well as trying to assist) the community as a whole, and would now appreciate the opportunity to give something back to that community. Loui Chang (Louipc) has offered to sponsor me, and for that he has my thanks. If you have any questions, please feel free to ask. Dan Griffiths, aka Ghost1227 Apologies if this posts twice, I'm having issues with my email atm...

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[aur-general] disown http-replicator
by Jens 08 Nov '08

08 Nov '08

Hello list, Could somebody please orphan http-replicator? The maintainer isn't responding, and there is a new (although alpha) version of the package which is modular and fixes several fairly important issues when handling ftp transfers. Kind Regards, jensp

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[aur-general] Fwd: Stolen material
by Aaron "Hussein" Griffin 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hey guys, I just got the email below and want to take this opportunity to point a few things out: Licenses are important. If a project has no license that DOES NOT mean you are able to redistribute it by adding a file that says "Free to use". Just because it is in the AUR doesn't mean we are in the clear. That said, I believe this email is a little silly for three reasons: a) Nothing there is stolen. It is a PKGBUILD. If it is illegal to redistribute the source, then the end user is liable (something we DON'T want). b) The original tarball no longer exists. c) I have seen no proof of copyright. Still, I do want to take this opportunity to point out that we NEED to be more careful here. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Richard Northcott <richard(a)enfour.co.jp> Date: Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 3:03 AM Subject: Stolen material To: aaron(a)archlinux.org, jvinet(a)zeroflux.org This is stolen copyrighted material. Please remove. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stardict-longman/ Richard Northcott Enfour,Inc. Tokyo

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Re: [aur-general] AUR milestone passed
by Loui Chang 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 03:49:44PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > We have just passed 10,000 packages in the AUR (unsupported part). > > Allan It's over nine thousand!

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[aur-general] Gnu/GLOBAL 5.7.3 version
by zhengyi 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi, I found the GLOBAL 5.7.3 in GNU. Would you please update your aur ? In the attachment, my PKGBUILD is added. It _maybe_ works, I'm a newbie of this software, and reading doc now. I alwayse don't know the docs policy of Arch. Must I delete docs of a package? Or to build another package only for docs ? Thanks for your PKGBUILD. # Author: timlee tl1234562004.at.yahoo.com> # Contributor: Philipp Robbel robbel(a)gmail.com> # Zhengy Goodme goodmenzy(a)gmail.com> pkgname=global pkgver=5.7.3 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A source code tag system" arch=(i686 x86_64) url="http://www.gnu.org/software/global/" license=('GPL') depends=() backup=('etc/gtags.conf') source=(ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/$pkgname/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) md5sums=('e975983619bae02b63ffc3aae1a645b8') build() { cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr # here is the docs. # It seems necessary to creat a global-doc pkg instead make pdf html || return 1 make install-info || return 1 install -d $startdir/pkg/usr/share/gtags install -d $startdir/pkg/usr/share/gtags/global.html install -m644 -D doc/global.pdf $startdir/pkg/usr/share/gtags/ install -m644 -D doc/global.html/* $startdir/pkg/usr/share/gtags/global.html/ # compile and install make || return 1 make install # copy gtags.conf and apply patch mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/etc cp $startdir/pkg/usr/share/gtags/gtags.conf $startdir/pkg/etc # symbolic link to gtags.el mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp ln -s /usr/share/gtags/gtags.el $startdir/pkg/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/gtags.el }

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[aur-general] AUR milestone passed
by Allan McRae 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

We have just passed 10,000 packages in the AUR (unsupported part). Allan

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[aur-general] Integrity Check
by Andrea Scarpino 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Hi TUs, last check has been made a month ago. Please fix your packages. Regards =================== = Integrity Check = =================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking for circular dependencies Duplicate PKGBUILDs --------------------- extra/squirrelmail vs. community/network/squirrelmail Missing Dependencies ---------------------- flumotion --> 'twisted-web' gg2 --> 'arts' qbittorrent --> 'boost<1.35' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' Missing Makedepends --------------------- perl-critic --> 'perl-devel-stacktrace>=0.17' gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 1 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 6 Repo hierarchy problems: 0 Circular dependencies: 0 -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842

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[aur-general] Support for Sierra Wireless AirCard 881
by Amanai 07 Nov '08

07 Nov '08

Need some help Support Sierra Wireless AirCard 881? The Sierra Wireless AirCard 881 provides enhanced mobile broadband performance to keep you connected with access to email, the Internet, and business applications while on the go. The Sierra Wireless AirCard 881 provides the latest technology based upon the global standard for wireless - GSM. Best yet, the Sierra Wireless AirCard 881 works seamlessly across AT&T's 3G BroadbandConnect and EDGE networks providing you the perfect combination of performance and coverage. The AirCard 881 is simple to set-up and use so that you can stay connected whether traveling across town, the U.S., or the world. The application and howto can be found here. The drivers provided in the Download section below are freeware; you can redistribute them and/or modify them under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation. http://www.sierrawireless.com/faq/ShowFAQ.aspx?ID=607 What do I have to Install for Archlinux, to get my card run? Is there any application supported by Archlinux for easy Install via "pacman -S x..." ? Is it possible that a Archlinux developer can maintaining this application? I can't find any Infos at archlinux.org , no Wiki, no Hardware Info.

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[aur-general] LXR -- Linux Cross Reference
by zhengyi 05 Nov '08

05 Nov '08

Hi, I fight for LXR this weekend. And the final result works! The AUR is here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=lxr-cvs&SeB=nd&SB=n&SO=… Some words must be said: 1) This package is not based on the original source code. There are bugs in the original codes. So I copy the codes from a Debian package. 2) This package will not download Any source. In addition to PKGBUILD, one must download lxr-cvs-0.9.5.tar.gz from the AUR dir. 3) You should read the readme file in /usr/share/docs/lxr-cvs/examples before you use the package. 4) I'm not happy to maintain this AUR, because I'm not an expert of Apache+MySQL+Perl+CGI+ ...... If anyone wants to adopt it, I'll give it to you gladly. 5) Thanks for Debian group! 6) I don't think it is necessary to develop LXR in the future. LXRNG --- LXR next generation, is on it's way. I suggest those who are enthusiasm to contribut to LXR should develop an AUR of LXRNG.

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Re: [aur-general] LXR -- Linux Cross Reference
by zhengyi 04 Nov '08

04 Nov '08

Well Done! Now, I have no time and energy to help you with LXRNG. What I want to say is that in lxr, there are some errors among the huge database. Some source code file is not indexed correctly. I wish LXRNG will fix those bugs. By the way, if you encountered some errors, check the same package in other disto is a better way than hack the source by yourself. Good luck!

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