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

[aur-general] Duplicate package: kdeplasma-addons-applets-daisy
by Adam Lloyd 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

The package kdeplasma-addons-applets-daisy is a duplicate of plasma-daisy-plasmoid. The latter is more up-to-date and has many more votes and a better PKGBUILD.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] boost-1.41.0 rebuild
by Allan McRae 07 Dec '09

07 Dec '09

Ionut Biru wrote: > On 11/27/2009 01:01 AM, Allan McRae wrote: >> Ionut Biru wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I just put up an internal TODO list for boot update for >>> extra/community. I want to do that after heimdal is moved in core. >>> >>> What do you think about that? >>> >> >> Sounds fine. It is good to see that boost has sonames now so that >> figuring out what needs rebuilt is not longer a dark art. Note that we >> usually need to do some compatibility patching with boost updates. >> >> Allan >> > > boost 1.41 is in testing. i'm starting to rebuild some of them but i > can't do all by myself. help is appreciated. All is now rebuilt apart from bmpx in [extra] and schroot in [community]. The website for bmpx is down/gone. We discussed dropping bmpx from the repos with the last boost update but did not in the end as it did not need a rebuild. Any objections to removing it? Schroot needs updated (old sources are not where source says they should be). The sed statement in the PKGBUILD does not work, but I have no idea whether that is still needed. The maintainer will need to look at it. Allan

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[aur-general] TU Application: Ray Rashif (schivmeister)
by Ray Rashif 06 Dec '09

06 Dec '09

Hello list I know there's been a couple of applications in the last few days, and another has just started, so please don't be annoyed. The unlucky TU this time is Chris Brannon (I flipped a coin, the other side being "try again..next time"). He's been great and has sacrificed time to check my packages out, so thank you once again Chris! I have split the following autonetography into parts for selective digestion; you guys can read only what matters. Yeah, right..? (hint: ctrl+f, "=", ENTER | whatmattersmost: "Usage") == Preamble == I started with Arch Linux not too long ago, from early-mid 2007. Linux itself, somewhere around 2006. My first stop was the IRC, at which point of time I used to hang out on #gentoo and #sabayon (now you know my previous poison). Just for a little fun, I vaguely recall it went something like this: schiv: does arch have anything like USE flags? Xilon: no $someone_else: compiling has absolutely zero benefit schiv: ok As you can see, people were not very hostile back then (probably because a lot of questions have become reccuring over time). Anyway, I liked my system immediately and started picking on beginners like myself on IRC. "Pick on someone your own size" - that's exactly what I did and I even picked on a certain user going by the handle of "Daenyth". == Getting Started == My next stop was AUR, the first package being "wicd", which thanks to then-developer Varun is now in [extra] and serving the community well. Then I took to the forums to help aid others in trying to get wicd working, and that marked the beginning of my "time on Arch". For the rest of the year I almost-regularly visited the forums, and on occasions edited wiki articles, reported bugs. I uploaded and maintained AUR packages which I used, so even up til now, there aren't that many. I began helping out with a "pro audio" initiative, of which the current ArchAudio [ http://archaudio.org ] is a direct result. I co-maintain and manage the project along with other keen individuals. >From mid 2008 through mid 2009, I was a little inactive due to hardware failure, and something misleading called "real life", but nevertheless had Arch running on a Windows machine through VirtualBox. I thought of applying for TUship one or two times before, but it was either time or "there's enough help already" that kept me from going ahead. There was a TU "Shinlun" who I wanted to request for sponsorship because I could take some load off, but he went inactive and ultimately stepped down. I don't think lack of time is an excuse for me, and I now realise that even a little dedication helps the community. One for all, all for one, but don't quote me on this. == Usage == My main packaging interest, as you might've guessed by now, is multimedia; audio/video. Other than that, I would love to maintain popular and/or important packages and ensure that users continue to have access to a bigger arsenal and wider range of tools on Arch Linux. Hopefully, I will also be working on getting the Sugar environment packaged (it's been on my TODO for a while). I might occasionally send in useless patches for makepkg, as I have done before, only to be struck down by Xavier's mighty roar. However, I can't be of much help with the development of pacman itself, the AUR internals, or anything else related to C or Web Development. Not yet, at least. == History == I come from a non-IT academic background, if such information needs to be known. I'm "from the Arts and not Sciences" by society's standards, but in fact I'm "neither or either". I'm from a tiny island-nation called Singapore, and there is very little convergence of the two areas here. Currently I'm pursuing DSP, in particular CSc Music, but not until I complete my National Service which should start next year and end two and a half after. I used to be a Philosophy student, and then Audio Engineering. I hope to be able to get into Cosmology/Astrophysics eventually, but competition here is tough and I was always lazy in class, lectures and Math (I won't say I was "bad" at it). Professionally, I'm busy..I mean I'm "in the business sector". Biologically, I'm a noob adult born in the Year of the Snake (1989). == Troubelshooting == So on to some questions of my own: 1) I remember we used to tell each other that we don't need to state dependencies from [core] in AUR, how true is this? Are we looking at just the base group or is it totally a matter of consistency? 2) How are cross-repository buildtime and optional dependencies handled? For example, can we have a package in [extra] makedepend and/or optdepend on another in [community]? 3) Unfortunately, it is time for a nice facepalm. I don't do x86_64. So do I get access to the build machine in the event this application is accepted? I would greatly appreciate any and all kinds of feedback with regards to my packages. Even if a quorum is not reached, I put a very high value on advice and opinion (!). Thank you for reading. Regards -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD

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[aur-general] binary uzbl package(s)?
by Dieter Plaetinck 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Hi guys. For the uzbl project (http://www.uzbl.org/) I maintain 2 packages in AUR - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=uzbl - and I'm involved in the upstream as well Since this program is becoming quite popular, I thought it would make sense to start maintaining this in community/extra. (actually 'uzbl' has different little subprojects that I would each package separately, depending on each other where appropriate) Note that I'm not an arch package maintainer nor TU. I maintain a package in extra (aif) because of my releng duties, but I lack the experience and detailed knowlegde "real" packagers have. How I should I proceed? If a real TU/dev would like to maintain it, that's fine by me also, but upstream development is quite fast-faced (a release every 2-3 weeks) so you would need to be actively following. Dieter

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Francesco Groccia 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Hi, could anybody orphan localepurge <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11975>? Current maintainer was contacted about two mouths ago and he hasn't replied yet. Regards, -- F.Gr.

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[aur-general] Package Rename
by Steve Holmes 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I recently took over the orca-svn package in AUR and am wondering if or how it can be renamed. I would like to rename it to orca-git because the gnome maintainers now keep the latest changes in git instead of svn. If it cannot be renamed, then I will need to have this package deleted and I can create a new one called orca-git. Thanks for the help to a new AUR package maintainer. <Steve> (sholmes88) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAksZSSMACgkQWSjv55S0LfEUyACfYKdgOtNIxoQsRCqFZZQMIdts xXcAoKxtcTRk5hccFH8SMEJJV+e7KgHJ =JboK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] TU application: Laszlo Papp
by Laszlo Papp 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hello TUs, I'd like to re-apply again for TU position. Since I've applied [0], many things have happened, I tried to do my best. My contributions since my previous application: - Packaging (with some new packages) [1] - AUR, Pacman, AIF project patches - Newsletter/Magazine, AUR Hungarian translation - Mailing list, IRC, Forum and Wiki activity/help - Maintaining of AUR2 project (with Sebastian) [2] - Hyper Activity on the last 2 BUG days :) ( + I try to be on Sunday too) After 4 months, I'd like to be a useful member of the TU team again. My earlier goals remained the same, but extended with some new ones: a) Maintain and support embedded development tools/applications. b) To be active on BUG days again and again, try to help in its organisation, help the Community Packages thread too with editing/closing bugs. c) Maintain and support Lua scripting language/modules. d) Maintain and collaborate with the AUR2 Project (later aurman[3], cli frontend), finish the first 'Roadmap' to provide a useful release. This is my main focus definitely these days. Sergej Pupykin has kindly agreed to sponsor my application. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to your great team! Best Regards, Laszlo Papp [0] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/006071.html [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=djszapi [2] http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=aur2;a=summary [3] http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=aurman;a=shortlog

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[aur-general] removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Could anyone please remove my package magickwand [1], I have re-uploaded it under name php-magickwand which is IMO better name. thanks in advance, Lukas [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22762

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Re: [aur-general] Orphan Request
by atsutane＠freethoughts.de 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:33:39 +0000 (GMT) Mark Foxwell <markfoxwell79(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > The linux-wbfs-manager package in AUR > (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29128) has been out of date > for 3 months and has been flagged as out of date for ages too. I have > emailed the maintainer (eirik) with the changes to the PKGBUILD for > the new version (just a version bump and change the md5sum) but I > haven't got a response. > > I would happily maintain the package so can you orphan it for me? Or > is there anything else I need to do first? > > Thanks, > > Mark (fastfret79) done -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Stefan Husmann 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hello, the voting period for Atsutane's TU application has now ended. With 9 yes votes, 3 no votes, 3 abstains and 2 additional voters, who obviously were not counted, and having 22 active TUs (according to the wiki), quorum has been reached and the application has been accepted. So Atsutane now is a TU. Congratulations and welcome aboard, Thorsten! Go through the new TU checklist here (I've already given you TU status on the AUR. Please check if it works and if the language settings are the ones you want): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist#TODO_list_fo… Feel free to ask questions. Regards Stefan.

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