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

[aur-general] System cleaning?
by Brandon Martin 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

You would think that I would have been using arch long enough to know how to do this buy I don't. I was using gnome then I tried to uninstall it and I used kdemod for a little while but know I want to use gnome again. I uninstalled kdemod and reinstalled gnome but it just doesn't seem as snappy as it was before. Plus I have easytag installed and when I click the home folder from the places menu it opened easytag. On top of that when I was connected to a remote FTP and I try to edit and save something I get a gvfs error. This use to work fine before. In the past I have usually just done a fresh install because I am weird about having only what I need installed and have never taken the time to learn all I can do with pacman. So my main question is can how do I do a major cleaning removing what I don't need and how do I check if I am missing something I do need since I am running into a few oddities. What is the best way to get my system clean and mean. Thanks for any insight. -- Brandon Martin

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[aur-general] Package removal request (perl-object-event-new)
by flocke 29 Mar '09

29 Mar '09

Could someone please remove this package: [1] I uploaded it because perl-object-event in [community] was out of date, but now it is up to date again so this package is not longer needed! Thanks! [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23405 -- flocke <flocke(a)user-helfen-usern.de>

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[aur-general] become a TU, Jens Maucher]
by Stefan Husmann 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hello, the discussion period is over, so let us begin voting on the TU appliance of Jens Maucher (defcon). http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-March/004129.html Stefan

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[aur-general] duplicate package
by Lukáš Jirkovský 28 Mar '09

28 Mar '09

Hello, I found out that there are two packages kdbg, the kdbg (currently in community) and the kdemod3-kdbg [1] which is the same as the package in comunity, but it's not maintained and outdated. I suggest removing the kdemod3-kdbg package. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18774

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[aur-general] Integrity Check community i686 27-03-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

===================================== = Integrity Check i686 of community = ===================================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking for circular dependencies Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/daemons/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/devel/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/editors/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/emulators/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/games/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/gnome/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/i18n/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/kde/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/lib/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/modules/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/multimedia/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/multimedia/libflashsupport-oss/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/network/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/office/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/science/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/system/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/x11/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/xfce/CVS Missing Dependencies ---------------------- flumotion --> 'twisted-web' open-vm-tools-modules --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' cdfs --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' virtualbox-ose-additions-modules --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' Missing Makedepends --------------------- splix --> 'jbigkit' Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 19 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 6 Repo hierarchy problems: 0 Circular dependencies: 0

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[aur-general] Arch's Vim Failings & Solution Suggestions
by Andrei Thorp 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hello, fellow Archers. Recently, I had a question about Vim, so I went to the #vim channel in IRC. I was doing something that should be working, but it wasn't. Surprisingly, the question came up, "Are you on Arch?" Turns out that several of the peolpe I most respect in the #vim IRC channel are very unhappy with the quality of Arch's Vim package. One even (jokingly?) asked if they could officially not support Arch in the channel, which I found somewhat alarming. I suggested that we should instead help improve the Arch package. I hate to pick on people, but according to the generally kind folks on IRC, the Vim package for Arch has quite a few issues, and the maintainer hasn't addressed some outstanding bugs in quite a long while. As some of you may know, James Vega (jamessan) is an outstanding Vim user and the Debian package maintainer for Vim. I asked him to send me what he saw as the problems with the Arch package, and he was kind enough to send along some suggestions. They are attached in this forward. Thank you, -Andrei Thorp ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: James Vega <jamessan(a)debian.org> Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 2:29 AM Subject: Arch's Vim failings To: garoth(a)gmail.com Andrei, Thanks for being receptive to trying to address the issues in Arch's Vim packaging. Below are the major points that stand out. 1) gvim package: Shipping an /etc/gvimrc which, due to the order that Vim loads rc files, overrides any settings in the user's ~/.vimrc. Considering that some users make the conscious decision to keep all their settings in their ~/.vimrc instead of using both ~/.vimrc and ~/.gvimrc, this is at the very least annoying. More in depth discussion is contained in the nearly year old, unfixed bug[0] about this issue. 2) vi package: The package is built such that the resulting vi binary reads its config from the completely non-standard ~/.virc. Presumably this is to allow different configurations for the different feature-sets avaiable in vi vs. vim packages. Fortunately, Vim has methods to deal with this already such as being able to check what name was used to invoke Vim[1] and explicitly checking for feature support[2]. 3) vi, vim, and gvim packages: Explicitly building Vim with $VIMRUNTIME == $VIM by specifying "--with-global-runtime=/usr/share/vim" to configure. This doesn't need to be specified to configure as it will be set to the correct directory on its own. If they insist on specifying it, the directory should be /usr/share/vim/vimXY (where XY is Vim's version number -- 72 for current Vim). This manifests various problems, the most noticeable being that the 'runtimepath' option in Vim has /usr/share/vim listed twice, thus causing runtime files to be sourced twice and causing duplicate information when using common scripting methods for discovering files in the runtimepath[3]. -- James GPG Key: 1024D/61326D40 2003-09-02 James Vega <jamessan(a)debian.org> [0] - http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10303 [1] - if v:progname == 'vi' [2] - if has('cscope') [3] - globpath(&rtp, 'colors/*') -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAknB5lcACgkQDb3UpmEybUCg6ACgjRFE4YnrbEGMq8uY51CZqRis xZsAnjbOC4BsAv/hYG9hcfmbogJLdLtX =HJf3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Integrity Check community x86_64 27-03-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

======================================= = Integrity Check x86_64 of community = ======================================= Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking for circular dependencies Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/daemons/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/devel/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/editors/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/emulators/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/games/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/gnome/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/i18n/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/kde/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/lib/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/lib32/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/modules/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/multimedia/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/network/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/office/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/science/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/system/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/x11/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/xfce/CVS Missing Dependencies ---------------------- eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' flumotion --> 'twisted-web' gg2 --> 'arts' perl-ldap --> 'perl-xml-sax-writer' thunderbird-spell-pl --> 'thunderbird=2.0.0.19' cdfs --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' Missing Makedepends --------------------- splix --> 'jbigkit' Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 19 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 7 Repo hierarchy problems: 0 Circular dependencies: 0

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[aur-general] Quick Access Plasmoid appears more than once in AUR
by Bram Schoenmakers 27 Mar '09

27 Mar '09

Hello, The Quick Access Plasmoid appears more than once in AUR. [1] is orphaned but has more votes. [2] still has a maintainer. So I would suggest to remove [1] from AUR. Kind regards, [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18854 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18893 -- Bram Schoenmakers What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind. (Punch, 1855)

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[aur-general] package removal/orphaning request: rubberband
by hollunder＠gmx.at 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Please orphan or remove this package, I'd be willing to take over but the author of the PKGBUILD can have it back if he wants to. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15349 For the following reasons: -Wrong homepage link -some minor things inside the PKGBUILD -out of date since a few weeks and most importantly: -source isn't downloaded from the authors website and the downloaded tarball is significantly larger than the original one: rubberband-1.2.tar.bz 298627 rubberband-1.2-arch.tar.bz2 2739510 I won't attempt to see what the difference is, either way it's just wrong to download a modified tarball from a third party website, especially with an active project. Best regards Philipp

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Arkham 26 Mar '09

26 Mar '09

Could someone please delete http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24988 ? I uploaded it by mistake ;)

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