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

[aur-general] Packages with pkgver hackery
by Anders Bergh 06 May '08

06 May '08

I just now saw two packages in the recent updates box on the AUR front page with screwed up version numbers: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16828 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16829 I don't really know if this causes any issues other than making the pages look weird, but I think perhaps a TU should look into it. Anders

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[aur-general] should make be in makedepends?
by Abhishek Dasgupta 06 May '08

06 May '08

Should we expect that the user already has make installed when a makepkg is invoked? Or should we put 'make' in makedepends? -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] TU application
by Dragonlord 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! My name is Jaroslav Lichtblau and I live in Czech Republic. I'm 26 and this year my study time will be over. I discovered GNU/Linux in year 2003. It took me about one year to learn the basics and since then I'm using it solely - on my home PC and my NB. Until now I went through Mandrake and Ubuntu. I was also trying out some other distros, but wasn't quite happy. One year ago I heard some rumors about ArchLinux and gave it a try. Since then I'm catched and forgot about other distributions :) One of the reasons was AUR. Me and my girlfriend used to play game named cuyo together pretty often. But I didn't find it packaged in Arch. So after some time reading in the wiki I was able to make my first working PKGBUILD for it and I had our game nice packaged and installed in the system. Since then I am adopting and contributing PKGBUILD because it's so much fun to me. Besides of that, I do translate programs (osmo, epdfview, ...) into czech because the subject of my studies is languages - german mostly, but I can also talk/understand english, so let's use it. As a TU I will offer my knowledge and time to improve my favourite distribution and also the open source world, which gave me so much in the last few years. I think I have also some nice packages like subtitleeditor, cream, fillets-ng ... and cuyo :) which I would like to add to the [community] repo. In the last time I watched closely on new and updated PKGBUILDs, so I would be happy to do it further as a TU. In my free time I like reading fantasy/sci-fi books. Knowing this, my AUR login is obvious - Dragonlord. My irc and arch forum nick is drag0nl0rd. The last thing, Allan is so kind to sponsor my application. Let's start the trial :) any questions and suggestions will be answered. Sincerely, Jaroslav My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=Dragonlord&SeB=m&PP=100…

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[aur-general] I am out
by Uwe Vogt 05 May '08

05 May '08

anope-devel gnome-menu-extended kmenu-gnome phpbb3 If someone like to adopt my packages, the are now free to go and they are all up to date! cheers jada

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[aur-general] TU application
by Geoffroy Carrier 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! My name is Geoffroy Carrier. I'm a 20-year-old French comp.sci. student. I started using Linux on 1998, and Archlinux around a year ago, after a lot of Debian, some Gentoo and Fedora, and tests of many other distributions. I now use it on all my 6 computers, from the server to the eeepc. I've been available for more than 50 weeks per year for the last 3 years. My main subjects of interest are: - community64 - The-Unix-way console-based tools - Server-oriented tools - Security issues I'll focus on adopting orphaned packages in a first time, but there are plenty of packages that I'd like to work on, as localepurge, wol, btanks, docutils, aur-sync, etc. I'm working on automated makedepends checks with a tool using nilfs called mdma. I'll give you some more information soon. I also joined uArch recently, and follow kdemod with much intereset. I already created/adopted a few packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=gcarrier&PP=40 I speak a poor English, so I'll keep this message short ;) But I am willing to answer all your questions. A big "Thank you" to the people I recently met through flyspray, IRC, jabber and who confirmed me in my will to apply. -- Geoffroy Carrier

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[aur-general] cleanup: duplicate packages
by Lukáš Jirkovský 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, I've found two duplicate packages: gimp-resynth http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6823 gimp-plugin-resynthesizer http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12273 I think one of them should be deleted. In my opinion it would be better to remove gimp-resynth, even though it was uploaded first. It's contributor owns only this package and it doesn't conform so well with gimp plug-ins naming habit.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi all, I think there is enough support for this to go forward. So it is time we nut out the details. Here is how I suggest we go about it. Firstly, I make a post to the announcements section of the forums along the lines of: <draft> The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (url here) or as a reply to this thread. TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. </draft> I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 May and go through the list. I think we should take care not to get too carried away when we remove packages. While some packages may be orphans, if they are not out of date then the PKGBUILD could still be useful for some people. Any comments before I create the wiki page and post to the forums? Cheers, Allan PS. Someone will have to give me the TU IRC channel key because I never got around to getting it given I rarely use IRC.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day). TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. TUs will take great care not to delete any useful package. Cheers, Allan -- Allan McRae Arch Linux Trusted User

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 04 May '08

04 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for scilab 4.1.2-4! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Problem uploading packages on i686
by Allan McRae 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi all, At the moment the is a problem uploading packages to i686 community. I know this because I have moved a couple of packages to community and the AUR does not reflect this after several hours. Now, I know in the next 12 hours, we will probably get one of those "missing package" emails and fixing that will fix the problem. Then again, it might be one of the duplicate/missing PKGBUILD problems. Surely given I know it is a problem already, then I can fix it! My question is, does the output from the community/AUR integration daemon get posted anywhere visible to us TUs? Cheers, Allan

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