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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for tintin 1.98.8-1! No new package supplied for tintin 1.98.8-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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Re: [aur-general] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by kludge 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:39:38PM -0600, kludge wrote: >>> IMO votes are no more needed on packages in repostories, neither any >>> dividing into categories usig tags. >>> Looking forward to the new order :) >>> >>> Jaro >> one user's question: >> >> if there is no voting on packages in [community], then what mechanism >> exists for users to suggest/cheer on a package's promotion to [extra]? >> >> -kludge > > One users answer: > > Maybe the same mechanism that would move packages out of extra to > unsupported or community? > Its called pkgstats. pacman -S pkgstats and then exec pkgstats as root > IIRC. > > Greg accepted. for what it's worth, pkstats seems too "passive" an interaction to me. i feel more involved in any system when i can make active decision about what goes where (even if it's just one voice in the wilderness saying, "hey, wouldn't this be cool?!?"). hence why i run arch. then again, i have no hands-on experience managing packages, so my opinion is entirely from the user-side. maybe it's just my humanities degree showing :) -kludge p.s.: greg, i thought you left!

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Re: [aur-general] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by Grigorios Bouzakis 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:50:10PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:51:40PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> >>> As far as the web changes go, I suggest the relevant AUR developers >>> talk to the people who do the Arch site work and sort this out. >>> >> >> Well it depends. Do we want [community] to remain in AUR so we keep >> votes and comments and such, or do we drop those packages from AUR? >> > > I think non-coders opinions begin to matter less in this because they > will not be doing the work. > > Saying that, personally, I do not see the need for messages or votes > once a packages is in [community]. Many messages should probably go to > the bug tracker and votes mean nothing once a package enters the repos. > Maybe the main site needs an area where maintainers can leave a comment > about their package. > > Allan > > > +1 even if my vote doesnt count. Cpmments for what? Out of date? -> Flag it Problem? -> Bug report Comments -> Feature request Cudos/Anything else -> Send personal email Donations -> Paypal Just like its been with any other package in binary repos. Greg

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[aur-general] Request for package orphaning and removal
by Tri Nguyen 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

I'm tri170391, maintainer of winff-amd64. I see that the original winff package is now out-of-date and it's maintainer is not update it for a while, and it supported i686 only. I've now worked on a PKGBUILD that works on both architecture and I request TUs to orpan the winff package so that I can maintain it, and remove the winff-amd64 if you do so.

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[aur-general] Method to get all Packages
by Lukas Appelhans 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hey! I'm currently writing a GUI-Frontend for AUR integrated into Shaman (Qt-Alpm- Frontend)... Some people already pointed me to: http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php which seems to be quite cool in combination with QtJson... So now as far as I can see the only thing missing is a method to get the names of _all_ Packages... I tried to parse the Apache output of aur.archlinux.org/packages/ but that might not be a good idea, since the layout can change... So, I would like to ask if there is any method to get all package names or if that is planned? Lukas

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[aur-general] Arch64 community repo broken
by Giovanni Scafora 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi guys, I guess that arch64 repo is broken again. I checked out the logs located in /var/log/aur and I noticed this error: Error: cannot access config file (/etc/tupkgs64.conf) Can someone check out what's wrong? Thanks. -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR & Pacman Italian Translations Microdia Developer http://www.archlinux.it

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[aur-general] Was my package removed?
by Robin Pedersen 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

I submitted a package, digikam-0.10.0rc1, yesterday and today it's not there. Was it removed? Why? I also submitted kipi-plugins-0.2.0rc1, which is still there. -- Robin Pedersen

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[aur-general] AUR package removal
by Ricardo Martins 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi, I'd like to remove a package I maintain (ncmpc-tradiaz-svn [1]), since it was superseded by other package. However, I couldn't find anything in AUR's interface to delete it, so I had to ask here. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18291 Regards, -- Ricardo Martins * scarybox.net * GPG key: 0x1308F1B4

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Re: [aur-general] Community and the AUR (Was: Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos)
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

-----Original Message----- > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:59:10 +0100 > Subject: [aur-general] Community and the AUR (Was: Vote - Moving > [community] to use same system as main repos) > From: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 03:36:56PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > > > Loui Chang wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:51:40PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > As far as the web changes go, I suggest the relevant AUR > > > > > developers talk to the people who do the Arch site work and > > > > > sort this out. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well it depends. Do we want [community] to remain in AUR so we > > > > keep votes and comments and such, or do we drop those packages > > > > from AUR? > > > > > > > > > > > One thing I think no-one has brought up regarding this. The main > > > repos don't have package categories. So how would the AUR handle > > > that? > > > > > > > I think the categories would be removed. > > > > Any other people want to comment on this? Any TUs feel keeping AUR > pages for [community] packages is necessary? > > Allan > > Hello, I do not get bugreports, but I get AUR comments for my packages. So people seem to use them. I think they should be kept. Categories con be removed IMHO. Regards Stefan

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Re: [aur-general] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by Loui Chang 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:51:40PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > As far as the web changes go, I suggest the relevant AUR developers talk to > the people who do the Arch site work and sort this out. Well it depends. Do we want [community] to remain in AUR so we keep votes and comments and such, or do we drop those packages from AUR?

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