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

Re: [aur-general] TU ap
by nathan owe. 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

it's alright to all the TU's reading this, I understand. I will wait later to try again. Also at the same time, maybe I can contribute more this way then as a TU, because of things TU has to do.

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[aur-general] Please orphan package "dlan-linux-package"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

Hi thar, Please orphan package "dlan-linux-package" as the original author does not respond to mails and in general does not seem to be active anymore. I will gladly take over the package and modify it to match Arch's standards. -- Sven-Hendrik

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by Andrei Thorp 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Fri Jul 03 00:40:57 -0400 2009: > I'm not longer a Trusted User so I do not get a vote in this anymore, > but knowing how this works I would suggest that your application is > coming too soon. Yeah, I'm not an anybody, but I really feel this way too from reading the mailing lists. Though, I like Nathan's overall attitude. He doesn't seem ready skill-wise, but if he keeps up this interest and desire to help people, the ability will come. I might also suggest to Nathan that he try to improve his grammar/spelling/capitalization/formatting. Doing these things properly will get you further in open source software communities. Cheers. -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)

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[aur-general] script for running namcap on a AUR maintainer's packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

It's useful to run namcap on a maintainer's packages on the AUR, especially when people apply for TU. This pair of scripts fetches the package names belonging to a maintainer (it only fetches the first 100 results though) and the second runs namcap on the package list by downloading the PKGBUILDs from AUR. -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] arch-diff page offline
by Pierre Schmitz 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

Hi devs and TUs, the diff page http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences does not work atm. Looks like one of the last updates makes it impossible to extract the db files using bsdtar within php. This might be due to an undocumented change in php or just a bug. I'll have to find out. :-) Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Integrity Check community x86_64 03-07-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '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' open-vm-tools-modules --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' qc-usb-messenger --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' cdfs --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' Missing Makedepends --------------------- id3lib-rcc --> 'gcc34' greycstoration --> 'gcc34' tvision --> 'gcc34' classpath --> 'jikes' open-vm-tools --> 'chrpath' Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 19 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 10 Repo hierarchy problems: 0 Circular dependencies: 0

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[aur-general] Integrity Check community i686 03-07-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '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/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' qc-usb-messenger --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' cdfs --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' Missing Makedepends --------------------- virtualbox-ose-additions --> 'gcc34' virtualbox-modules --> 'gcc34' id3lib-rcc --> 'gcc34' greycstoration --> 'gcc34' virtualbox-ose --> 'gcc34' tvision --> 'gcc34' classpath --> 'jikes' open-vm-tools --> 'chrpath' Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 18 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 13 Repo hierarchy problems: 0 Circular dependencies: 0

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by Loui Chang 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

On Fri 03 Jul 2009 14:40 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > nathan owe. wrote: > >Well my name is Nathan Owe. I am applying to be a TU, a person > >with the username Ghost1227 looked at some of my pkgs i have made, > >and he made suggestions on what i should do to improve my > >PKGBUILDs. well i downloaded all my packages and fixed them > >according to his suggestions. I do believe my packages do conform > >to the guidelines. The reason for applying for TU is because i love > >arch linux and i want to contribute back to this great OS. I love > >that i can contribute the way i am now, but i want to try and > >contribute to the development of AUR more by trying to help others > >as well. I have currently over 60 nearly 70 pkgs and still > >counting. I currently don't have a sponsor. I usually am signed > >into the IRC channel but usually don't talk much due to working on > >packages to contribute. my nickname is ndowens on both IRC and AUR. > > Hi Nathan, > > I'm not longer a Trusted User so I do not get a vote in this anymore, > but knowing how this works I would suggest that your application is > coming too soon. In the past month, you have been asking for a lot > of help doing what I consider fairly easy packaging. This is not > saying that asking for help is a bad thing, but rather I think that > you need more time to learn packaging techniques and get used to > fixing problem situations. > > When you maintain packages in the [community] repo as a Trusted User, > you are expected to be able to deal with breakages that occur. These > are somewhat frequent in a rolling release distribution as updating a > package that is in the dependency chain of one of your packages can > cause your package to stop working properly. The TUs need to be > confident that you will be able to handle such breakages (whether > they need a patch or a simple sed line). > > I encourage you to continue learning the packaging system and try to > become a TU at a later date. Most TUs had been packaging for half a > year by the time of their application. Remember, there is a lot you > can contribute to Arch without being a TU. In fact, the only thing > TUs can do that you can not is put binary packages into the > [community] repo. I'd suggest looking for bugs on the bug tracker > and seeing if you can replicate the problem, try to fix it and post > the fixed PKGBUILD to the bug tracker if you can. That teaches you > how to deal with problems while proving your ability to become a > Trusted User. > > Also remember that it is not the number of packages you maintain, but > the quality of those packages. So try to help out in irc or the > forums rather then taking another package just because you can. > Packaging only software you are genuinely interested in helps keep > the motivation going. Indeed. Well said Allan. That's pretty much how I feel about this application.

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[aur-general] TU Application
by nathan owe. 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Well my name is Nathan Owe. I am applying to be a TU, a person with the username Ghost1227 looked at some of my pkgs i have made, and he made suggestions on what i should do to improve my PKGBUILDs. well i downloaded all my packages and fixed them according to his suggestions. I do believe my packages do conform to the guidelines. The reason for applying for TU is because i love arch linux and i want to contribute back to this great OS. I love that i can contribute the way i am now, but i want to try and contribute to the development of AUR more by trying to help others as well. I have currently over 60 nearly 70 pkgs and still counting. I currently don't have a sponsor. I usually am signed into the IRC channel but usually don't talk much due to working on packages to contribute. my nickname is ndowens on both IRC and AUR.

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[aur-general] Requesting orphanage of libssh and hydra
by SergeantSpoon 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

I am interested in taking up maintaining libssh and hydra 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 ophan both packages that would be great, as I have PKGBUILDS that are completely updated and function ready to be uploaded. Cheers, Sergeant

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