January 2009 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Problems with PKGBUILD (Also, request for package deletion)
by Smartboy 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

Hi, I created a new PKGBUILD called easy-e17, which basically is a wrapper for installing and using the easy-e17 script. Problem is, I forgot to change the maintainer stuff at the top of the script, and when I try to edit it, even changing the pkgrel value doesn't work. I can't get the PKGBUILD on the site to change (I used another package's PKGBUILD to make mine). Can anyone help? Also, I am requesting the make-e17 script be removed. It does basically the same thing as my script, but hasn't worked in a year and has been flagged out of date for a while. Thanks, Smartboy

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[aur-general] lib32-glibc
by Jonathan Wiersma 02 Jan '09

02 Jan '09

I'm confused... I noticed my lib32-glibc was out of date, so I went to check where I should flag it as being out of date: I did a search on http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=lib32-glibc and http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=lib32-glibc&SeB=nd&SB=n… and did not find any lib32-glibc packages (although a ton of AUR packages depend on it). So I created a new on in AUR. Now I just checked pacman -Ss lib32-glibc and it comes-up with: community/lib32-glibc 2.8-3 (lib32) GNU C Library (32 Bit) I'm guessing this is a bug, but I'm not sure if I should be requesting the lib32-glibc package I created be deleted because it's already in community or if I should leave it.

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[aur-general] namcap reports
by Abhishek Dasgupta 01 Jan '09

01 Jan '09

Hi all, I've created a web based report [1] from running namcap on the [community] tree. The design is inspired by lintian reports [2] (I am not much of a designer anyway :) ) There's a script which makes the namcap.log by traversing the community tree, then another python script cooks it up into HTML. Since namcap is quite verbose, I created some tags corresponding to the namcap warnings/errors (like: bad-backups => Backup entries should not have preceeding slashes). The packages have been listed by the namcap tag. Right now there's no view of what tags a particular package has, but I plan to add it sometime in the future. There's also an RSS feed for each tag. [1]: http://abhidg.mine.nu/arch/namcap-reports [2]: http://lintian.debian.org -- Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> GPG 67972DOF pgp.mit.edu

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