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

[aur-general] Moving from AUR to community
by Xyne 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

What's the recommended procedure for moving packages from the AUR into [community]? Thanks. Xyne

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Clément DÉMOULINS 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello, Please someone could delete my package networkmanager-openvpn-svn replace by a git version. URL of the package : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20480 Thanks Clément Démoulins

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[aur-general] Inactivity (again) - 12th-26th August
by bardo 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hi all! This afternoon I'll be leaving for HAR (Hacking at Random) in Vierhouten, in the Netherlands! I'll be connected about 24/7 until Monday, but since there will be a lot of nice hackers around I won't probably be checking my Gmail (unless I find some time to setup IMAPS, I don't trust the web interface cookies =P) and won't generally connect to unencrypted services. There's a chance that I'll have a VPN set up from a friend of mine, but it's better to consider me inactive. I'll also have another week off after this, with little to no connection, and I'll be back on August, 26th, hopefully ready to do a better work on Arch than I did in these last few months =) Corrado

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[aur-general] Inactivity (involuntarily)
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 12 Aug '09

12 Aug '09

Hello, my phone and (more important) ADSL connection at home does not work, so I cannot connect to the net with my archlinux boxes. I hope this will be fixed soon, but now it leads to a unvoluntary inactivity. Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] TU dashboard accounts
by Aaron Griffin 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Hello TUs, The last little part of the "official tool" transition is getting you all accounts of the dev dashboard at https://dev.archlinux.org/devel/ In order to do this, I need to go through and add accounts for you all. So I would like you to send me an email (private) containing: Real Name Alias Email address jabber/IRC nicks Website URLs Occupation Year of Birth Geographic Location Languages Known General Interests Favorite Distros A picture if you have one (See http://www.archlinux.org/developers/) With this info, I will begin the slow process of adding accounts. After I add each one, I will send you an email with your password which you will need to change. >From here, you will be able to adopt packages from the web interface (you will need to use dev.archlinux.org to do this), and get out of date notifications Additionally, we have setup a private notification list for orphans which are out of date, as well as the integrity check and cleanup emails. This is not fully complete, but I will point you to this list when I send the password. The reason it is a private list is that "out of date" notifications contain private email addresses, and we don't want them indexed. Let me know if there's anything else I can do. Now we just need to get viewvc working :roll: - Aaron

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[aur-general] Enable ACLs on sigurd
by Thomas Bächler 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Can someone who is all-powerful please run: mount -o remount,acl / and add the "acl" option to the appropriate line in /etc/fstab? I noticed that I couldn't set ACLs on sigurd this morning, and it would come in very handy sometimes.

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[aur-general] orphan request "qwit"
by Nick F0x 11 Aug '09

11 Aug '09

Please orphan the AUR package "qwit" since it has not been updated 2 months. I made update http://pastebin.ca/1524833 -- -. .. -.-. -.- ..-. ----- -..-

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[aur-general] Random discussion about certificates
by Aaron Griffin 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Magnus Therning<magnus(a)therning.org> wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Magnus Therning<magnus(a)therning.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Aaron Griffin wrote: >>> [..] >>> >>>> It's not invalid, it's self-signed, so there's no certificate authority >>>> stamp-of-approval on it. We had a free year certificate at one point, >>>> but >>>> decided not to waste the money for a real certificate if it's only used >>>> by >>>> the devs. >>> >>> One option would be getting one from CACert.org. Of course it won't be >>> worth >>> a lot without putting their root cert in >>> openssl/firefox/konquerer/epiphany/etc... >> >> We looked into that, but that's not much better than a self signed cert. >> We >> discussed this at length among the devs, and already made a decision. >> We're >> well aware of all the options :) > > What was the line of reasoning behind "not much better than a self signed > cert"? Changing the subject here while we go on this tangent. The reasoning is simple: CACert root certificates aren't generally accepted, and while we actually support them in things like konquerer, firefox and other tools are a different story (silly mozilla). It's just not feasible at this point, so we end up with a certificate that is "untrusted" anyway. Now here's the thing.... we already discussed this, and all I'm doing now is rehashing debates about it. There's not much point in it, and I'm not going to be suddenly convinced to do a bunch of work to change a site that is used by about 30-40 people with no actual benefit besides getting rid of a one-time warning screen. The decision was made, it's over and done with, it's not a big deal.

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[aur-general] Incrementing pkgrel
by Nicola Fontana 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi all, what is the common practice when facing a PKGBUILD update that does not change the final binary package nor the dependency tree (let's say, a type in an "echo" message or a wrong # Contributor: line)? Do I have to increment the pkgrel value anyway? This is the guilty PKGBUILD: it is pretty straightforward but... just in case I have made some other stupid mistake. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk2panel/gtk2panel/PKGBUILD Thanks in advance. -- Nicola

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[aur-general] packages in community
by vlad 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

hi all, are community repo packages going to be deleted from AUR? is the AUR comment interface still used for these packages or should one use only the bugtracker? thanks in advance, vlad --

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