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

[aur-general] octave3
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hello list members, I would like to ask if there is someone who would like to put the octave3 package to community. There are three main reasons for doing so. - Octave 3 is the stable and development version of octave upstream. - Octave 3 is not just an update of octave 2 but another program: the differences are big and incompatible - it takes long to build, so having a binary version would be nice. Is this the correct place for discussing this, or should I write a feature request? Sincerely Stefan

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[aur-general] Request to orphan transmission-svn
by J de Swart 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hello TU's, please orphan transmission-svn. It's way outdated, and I'd like to upload my update and maintain it. I've mailed the author, without any response. Thanks, Jerry _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by Rick 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 05:03:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Rick Rein wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm writing to apply for TU status, as I'm sure you can tell by the >> subject. > <snip> > > Hi Rick, > > Do you have a sponsor lined up? I'm not on IRC very much so perhaps one > of the other TU's who is and recognizes you will do it. > > Anyway, what are you planing on doing as a TU? I noticed you have only > have a small number of packages in the AUR, so are you thinking of > adopting other for the community repo? Or do you plan on contributing > in other ways? > > Cheers, > Allan > > Allan and all, As stated I have only a few packages. I thought about adopting some more before putting in my application, however after thinking about it I realized that having a small amount of packages fits my motives well. As a TU my main goal for now is to help lessen the load of the existing TUs. I'm also a x86_64 user and would like to make contributions in that area. And last but not least, as I stated before I would like the opportunity to do my part for a distro I've been using for so long. In regards to a sponsor, I have spoken with a few people on IRC and I've spoken with a few before I applied. Is anyone willing to put themselves on the line? :D Rick -- http://isawsome.net GPG key at http://isawsome.net/blog/static/gpg

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[aur-general] Absence, and some news
by Firmicus 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hello all, I'll be away until next week-end. By the same token, I'm happy to tell you that I should soon join the dev team. My job will be mainly to take care of TeXLive packages in extra (and probably some perl packages also). I'll move the outdated and unmaintained tetex to community. I really hope to be able to continue my job as a TU, but only time will tell whether this will be feasible. Cheers, F

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Rick Rein 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hello list, I'm writing to apply for TU status, as I'm sure you can tell by the subject. My name is Rick, and I'm a recent addition to the Orlando, FL area. I was a Sergeant with the US Marines where I was a 5974, a Tactical Data Systems Administrator. I am now a Unix SysAd with a local company here in Florida. I had some minor experience with Red Hat in the late, late 90s running a Half Life Dedicated Server, but that box caught on fire, thus ending my pre-millenium linux experience. I picked up Archlinux sometime in 2004 2005 (Wombat) and have not been able to find a distro that fits me better since. I now have Arch installed on about 5 machines: a desktop(x86_64 and i686), laptop(i686), 2 myth boxes and an asterisk server. I have an affinity for light and fast and clean applications, but who doesn't? My prior contributions are mainly centered on IRC, however I have written a wiki article or two and have begun to go through them when I'm bored looking for edits/missing items. I currently have about 9 packages in the AUR, a mixture of adopted and created packages. I would like to become a TU so that I may give back to the community that I have been around for so long. It would also be an honor to say I was a part of such a top notch, and growing distro. I realize this message is a bit short winded so if you have any questions, or I left something out ,please feel free to ask. Thank you all for your consideration and have a lovely weekend, Rick <jeebusroxors> -- http://isawsome.net GPG key at http://isawsome.net/blog/static/gpg

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Re: [aur-general] can't "overwrite" coxpcall
by Adam Vogt 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

* On Thursday, May 22 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > Worlds most annoying bug strikes again > (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672) Please put a comment in the bug > report with your PKGBUILD. Best workaround at the moment is to put the > PKGBUILD as a comment in the copas package. > > Allan> I have a similar issue. I tried to submit haskell-edison-api, as it is required by haskell-edison-core. But I am not allowed to overwrite it, but the directory does not exist on the aur filesystem. (that I can see) I guess I submitted in the 'wrong' (it shouldn't matter) order, so now I cannot submit a package that already exists (though only as a dependency).

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[aur-general] [SPLITTED] AUR package categories (WAS: drpython PKGBUILD update)
by Ronald van Haren 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu 2008-06-05 20:20, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> on a sidenote, I really don't see any point in having these >> categories. The categories are really not intuitive and don't help >> searching for a kind of package any easier. >> Well, it may be just me of course :p > > I don't think they are extremely useful, but they don't hurt neither. > Someone may think: "Let's see what cool game it's on the AUR" and then > look at the "games" category. > > Every distro has packages in categories, and I think it does make sense. > package categories are dropped from [core] and [extra] it seems from both the ABS tree and the package browser on www.archlinux.org Anyways, having package categories does indeed make sense as you described in the case of games, as well as some other sorts of packages. I just think the categories are really bad defined IMHO. For example you need an editor. Most likely the editors are to be found in the following categories: editors, devel, gnome, kde, xfce and maybe even x11 Especially the gnome/kde/xfce categories seem not really needed to me. > P.s. > The first time I read your mail I thought you were proposing to drop > categories, but probably you were not. > > -- > Alessio (molok) Bolognino > no if I was proposing something I would have started a new thread. It was just to see what others were thinking about it.

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[aur-general] drpython PKGBUILD update
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I have created a new PKGBUILD for drpython. Currently drpython is assigned to devel category. Should I modify this one and upload it to editors? Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Roman Kyrylych 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all! I was thinking about this for a long time, and now finally got to this announcement. I've been inactive recently, due to troubles with internet, seeking new job, moving to the new city, and this will continue as I won't have a laptop and Internet here for at least 1 week. In the meantime, I have a lot of unread bugtracker notification threads in my gmailbox (844 at this moment), and this will be my top priority for the next months. In addition, I want to concentrate more on fixing bugs in Core/Extra packages (my plan is to lower the number of open bugreports to <400 by the end of this year). I can still continue maintaining some packages in community/unsupported, if noone will want to maintain them. I won't be following TU discussions actively anymore though. Thank you all for the nice time I spent as part of the TU group. Health and growth to the group! P.S.: the list of my packages is large enough, so I will post it in a separate message later today. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] pkg_diff location
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

For those TUs who don't follow the arch-dev-public list (you really should...), the pkg_diff pages has not been updated in a while because Andy is moving and has no internet connection. Pierre has come up with a nicer looking version: http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences From that list, you can see that community64, as always, needs some attention. I will do my part when I finish work. Allan

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