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

[aur-general] orphan request libaio
by Jens 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Hello everyone, could someone please orphan libaio[1], which has been marked as out-of-date for quite a while, it doesn't build because the srcurl is wrong. I'd like to adopt it as it is a dependency for a package[2] I maintain. Kind Regards, jensp [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=4372 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=8003

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[aur-general] Integrity check
by Xavier 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

It looks like there are regularly missing PKGBUILDs, how does this happen? I never saw it for core/extra/.. repos, only for community. Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- community/kde/kdestyle-polyester community/office/texlive-core Missing Dependencies ---------------------- flumotion --> 'twisted-web' gg2 --> 'arts' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' Missing Makedepends --------------------- gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc'

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[aur-general] community64 builds
by Allan McRae 15 Sep '08

15 Sep '08

Hi, Could some of our x86_64 wielding TU's have a look at the package difference page (http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences) and do some building? I am a bit busy with work to do this at the moment. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Another broken package (fatsort)
by rabyte 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Could somebody fix the fatsort package, please? I'd also be most grateful if egoboo could be fixed. Thanks all :-) -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Paulo Matias 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi, My name is Paulo Matias. I'm 19 years old, and I'm currently at the third year of a four-year Bachelor of Computational Physics course at University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. I'm a Linux user since 1998, when I started using Conectiva Linux. This was my main distribution until 2003, when I changed to Debian-based distributions. Then I switched to Gentoo at 2005. Finally, since about one year, Arch Linux has become my distribution of choice. I was very attracted by the lack of bureaucracy and by the warm and friendly community. I'm a programmer experienced in C, C++, Python, Ruby, JavaScript, AWK, PHP, Java and Fortran77 languages. I've learned something about Lua and Haskell, too. I have written some open source projects: trayion, samsutools, qvm, opensvs, pycyber, fastsight, ziprecv, gcbq, stegomaster, ruby-v4l, The Damn Small OS's VM, MPBot addons, BRNews and K-Lite Linux. I currently mantain some packages at AUR, notably the VirtualBox PUEL edition packages and Open Sound System (OSS) related packages, among others. My packages are listed at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=thotypous. I often contribute to packages not maintained by me. I had recently contributed to the iverilog, vmware-player-modules and qc-usb packages. I was already experienced at packaging software for NetBSD, as a pkgsrc-wip project contributor. My packages at pkgsrc are listed at http://pkgsrc.se/bbmaint.php?maint=matias|a|dotbsd.org. I had packaged software there whose packages are currently maintained by others too, such as gnash and ghc. I recently started to develop some projects directly related to Arch Linux, namely arch-sheriff and pkgbuildtools. The arch-sheriff project is security-related and was recently presented at Arch mailing lists by our friend Hugo Doria. The pkgbuildtools project is currently being planned, and will provide some tools inspired by pkgsrc pkgtools and infrastructure. I'm an official member of the ArchLinux Brasil group, and have a blog (in Portuguese) at http://matias.archlinux-br.org and some stuff at http://matias.archlinux-br.org/files. Hugo Doria has offered to be my sponsor as a Trusted User. I hope to bring more useful packages to community and to help managing AUR. Currently, I sadly don't own any x86_64 capable machine. I will be happy to answer any question. Best regards, Paulo Matias

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Kessia 'even' Pinheiro 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi, My name is Kessia Pinheiro (a.k.a even), I'm a 22 years old finishing my computer scientist degree at Federal University of Bahia in Salvador/Bahia/Brazil. I'm working now part-time on sysadmin stuff's (as treinee). I've used Linux since 2004, with Slackware, but I had problems with many things and decided switch to another distro. I tried many light distros, but none was completed to me. So I discovered Arch in 2006 and I got involved with the brazilian community, helping people and writting some docs [1]. Me and my friends (hdoria and dsa) did a speech about ArchLinux in FISL [2] this April in Porto Alegre/Brazil. Other contribution is the pacupdate (developed with hdoria), a tray notifier for new updates for pacman [3]. Recently I'm interested in packaging for Arch, because some applications I used aren't in the repositories. Before Arch, I packaged a private .deb for my work, finally I sweat a lot and I couldn't remember exactly what I did, but i did it. So, I discover the Arch way to package and in few minutes my package was at AUR, I was so happy! So, now my contributions with PKGBUILDs are 16 [4] and growing. I'm packaging some stuff's that i have not found in repositories and these are helpful for some people. I'm also adopting some to help the number of orphans be lower. So, as a TU, my plans are help manage AUR and community repo, also trying alert the contributors about problems with their PKGBUILDs, because many packages are out of date for a long time or with incomplete PKGBUILDs or incorrect. I want to help with some security apps too (my major contribution was snort package, hdoria adopted it in extra), helping to make more eyes at the security topic. My main machine is a Dell laptop and i am using Arch i686 (but this laptop has an x86_64 architecture, so I'll install Arch64 this week). I have an old machine at work, but normally I use the laptop there too. My boyfriend also have the same laptop with Arch i686. In my free time I like stay with my boyfriend, play videogames, listen music, read things are out of my degree course, viewing tv series. Oh, the last thing, hdoria and angvp encouraged me to do this proposal, in fact they fought for who will be my sponsor, but angvp finally push more and he wins. However, hdoria is a friend of mine and he will share the sponsor with angvp (to be fair and no one cry). =) Let's start the questions, I'm honored to answer. Thanks for your time! To find me: even @ irc.freenode.net even [at] archlinux-br [dot] org [1] http://even.archlinux-br.org/ [2] http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/papers/pub/programacao/26 [3] http://code.google.com/p/pacupdate [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=even -- Kessia Pinheiro Student at Computer Science - UFBa Trainee with ProCaTI founds - DiSup/CPD - UFBa Contributor in Arch Linux Brasil Project Linux Counter User #389695 - [http://counter.li.org] http://even.archlinux-br.org

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Dan Vratil 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Hi, please remove my package libosip (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=473) because of it's redundancy. Reasons are given in comment at this package. Thank you. Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil progdan(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870

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[aur-general] removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Hi, Today I was browsing through the AUR and I've noticed package, which should be removed. It is gimp-plugin-dbp (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15448) which is already in [extra]. Regards Lukáš 'stativ' Jirkovský

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[aur-general] Moving packages from community to unsupported
by Ángel Velásquez 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi everyone, After weeks that i've send a request to TU team interested in packages which are orphans, and still remaining orphan packages, we decided to move to unsupported. multimedia: ======= aconnectgui amsynth bitmeter caps farsight fluidsynth-dssi gstreamer0.10-farsight hexter jamin jdelay meterbridge seq24 sineshaper tk707 vkeybd waveutils xsynth-dssi zynaddsubfx gnome ===== empathy gnome-art gnome-splashscreen-manager kanatest tablet-apps Anders helped me with: devel ==== bakefile mod_ruby mono-zeroconf telepathy-inspector emulators ======= atari800 coldfile gdb-armulator skyeye softgun stella and BaSh helped me with: games ===== tetringo kde === kdestyle-polyester kiso lib === jrtplib jthread libmimic libtelepathy python-telepathy ruby-amazon ruby-event-loop ruby-gnomeprint ruby-gnomeprintui ruby-gnomevfs ruby-gtkhtml2 ruby-gtkmozembed ruby-gtksourceview ruby-gtktrayicon ruby-postgress ruby-rsvg ruby-scw ruby-shout rubygame scw tapioca network ======= pcmanx-gtk2 qtm tapioca-xmpp tapiocaui telepathy-butterfly telepathy-gabble telepathy-idle telepathy-mission-control telepathy-salut telepathy-stream-engine system ===== lzma-utils *NOTE*: python-geotypes is orphan but is required by mezogis (dtw) telepathy-glib and sofia-sip are orphan but are required by telepathy-sofiasip and telepathy-haze (gummibaerchen) Thanks to BaSh and Anders for helping me, and I'd like to know if dtw and gummibaerchen are active at this moment, to know what will we do with the remaining orphan packages. Cheers! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] Dropping my packages
by Hannes Rist 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

newsbeuter stfl unp whitenoise lush bgs-hg gajim-otr-bzr Hey guys, As of now I won't have the time to maintain my packages on AUR anymore and I'm therefore looking for new maintainers. If you want to maintain one of the packages below mail me at cowider+arch(a)gmail.com newsbeuter + stfl unp whitenoise lush bgs-hg gajim-otr-bzr regards hrist

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