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

[aur-general] license convention for public domain packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 22 Aug '09

22 Aug '09

There are widely varying methods for specifying the license of a public domain package in Arch Linux. We should standardise and use one of them. Some packages use - 'Public Domain' (unclutter, python-webpy) - 'PD' (ttf-mph-2b-damase) - I think some packages might also be using 'none'. I saw one package using 'custom:public' (shuffle) Also, there is the question of whether we should have public domain declarations for each package in /usr/share/licenses or put a public domain declaration in /usr/share/licenses/common and refer to that. -- Abhishek

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

09 Aug '09

Hello, I'd like to formally express my interest in becoming a Trusted User. My name is Laszlo Papp and I'm addicted to archlinux. :) I'm a 23 year old from Hungary, working at a resourcement/development company as Embedded Linux Developer. I've been using Linux for more than 7 years. I used Gentoo until early 2008, and I learned a great deal about Linux in the process. I settled on Arch more than 1 year ago, nearly 1 and half :) Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience with Gentoo. I was very attracted by the lack of dominance of money and business world and by the warm and friendly community. I have got some experience in Assembly, C, VHDL languages. I have written some open source usb kernel driver (for Passport Reader, Fingerprint Reader, etc.), and a pci kernel driver. I've worked with PIC, AVR microcontrollers, DSP processors, ARM architecture, and FPGA design. I deal with Blackfin DSP board with Embedded Linux on it recently, and I try to help to write C/ASM API for this. My username on the BBS, AUR, Wiki, Bugs, and Freenode is djszapi. Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on this sites. See the following URL for my packages in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=djszapi I think that Arch does not have a significant presence in the embedded development area of community. I wish to make Arch a viable choice for an embedded developer, by maintaining more popular embedded development related packages in [community]. My Second purpose to do the best support in Arch for vim editor. I like to work from a text console, with framebuffer, and vim :) As a TU, I will offer my knowledge and time to improve my favourite distribution and also the open source world, which gave me so much in the last few years. I would like to add these packages to the [community] repo. 1. AVR microprocessor: avarice, avra, avr-gdb, kontrollerlab, simulavr, tavrasm, uisp, gnome-avrdude 2. PIC microprocessor: picasm, picp, picprog, pikdev, piklab, pk2cmd 3. Blackfin Digital Signal Processor: blackfin-toolchain-elf 4. Tinyos: nesc, tinyos, tinyos-tools 5. ARM architecture: openocd-svn 6. Picoblaze Softcore processor: kpicosim 7. FPGA design: ghdl-bin, verilator 8. Some common, like usb-serial converter driver: libftd2xx. Feel free to ask me, if something is obscure or you would like to know more about me. Thanks to Stefan Husmann for sponsoring me. Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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[aur-general] Inactivity
by bardo 01 Aug '09

01 Aug '09

Hi guys, tomorrow I'm leaving for a summer vacation, and I'll be back on August, 1st. Feel free to update my packages, it'd just be kind to drop me a note if you do, but I'll probably notice anyway :) Corrado

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Ryan Coyner 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Can somebody please delete jboss5 5.0.0.GA-1? [1] The appropriate package jboss 5.1.0.GA-1 already exists. [2] [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23798 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5293 -- Ryan Coyner

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[aur-general] Killing CVS on sigurd
by Aaron Griffin 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Hey guys, The most recent CVS is synced to gerolde and is part of the web-based viewer, so I'm checking to see if it's ok to remove the CVS repo from sigurd and leave it on the main archlinux.org server for posterity. I believe we have an anonymous cvs pserver running on gerolde still (Roman, can you confirm) so that it can still be accessed. Side note: I'm syncing community svn now, and will enable it in the web viewer

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[aur-general] Fwd: community svn issues
by Allan McRae 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Oops. That was supposed to go here... -------- Original Message -------- Hi, The following packages have files in the wrong place in svn. Something like <pkg>/repo/<pkg> instead of <pkg>/repo/<pkg>-<arch>. cabal-install codeblocks haskell-x11 haskell-zlib moovida Also python-matplotlib has a package in "comunity-i686". I will fix these up but please remove any stray files as they cause issues for the ABS scripts. Thanks, Allan

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[aur-general] Requesting orphanage (sdlmess, wahcade)
by Anton Shestakov 31 Jul '09

31 Jul '09

Currently, sdlmess package in AUR is terribly outdated and I want to take it. I've sent robb_force, the maintainer, request more than day ago, but got no reply. It seems he is inactive for almost a year, so I'm requesting orphanage here. Among sdlmess I'd also like to take wahcade. Thanks in advance.

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[aur-general] Requesting orphanage of clusterssh
by Dominik Schips 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

I am interested in taking up maintaining clusterssh. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3228 The current maintainer Macfly didn't put a email address in the PKGBUILD or in his AUR account. So I couldn't contact him to update the package. :( He also didn't respond on comments in aur so I assume he is no longer interested in maintaining the package. Please can a TU orphan the package that I can adopt it. I have a working PKGBUILD for the new clusterssh 3.26 ready to be uploaded. -- Best regards Dominik Schips

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Inactive
by bardo 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

2009/7/9 Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych(a)gmail.com>: > I've been to Amsterdam this Spring for few days, and it's definetely a > nice place. Speaking of which... will anyone be at HAR (Hacking at Random) near Amsterdam this summer? I will! :) Corrado 'yay for thread hijacking' Primier

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[aur-general] Requesting orphanage of drbd
by edac val 29 Jul '09

29 Jul '09

I am interested in taking up maintaining drbd (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10081) in the AUR, and the current maintainer has been inactive for almost a year. I tried contacting him via email but he has not responded, so I can only assume that he is no longer interested in maintaining either. If a TU could set me as the maintainer or orphan package that would be great, as I have PKGBUILDS that are completely updated and function ready to be uploaded.

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