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

[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

jackdbus - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16272 (orphaned and dupe available as jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus) lv2core - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22216 (not orphan but an unnecessary dupe of lv2)

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[aur-general] Time Taken for Tarball to Reflect Contents
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Is there a delay between an upload and the time it takes for the tarball to be regenerated? Or is it because for the first time I actually uploaded a src pkg (with the extension) when previously I used to upload my own .tar.gz files?

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[aur-general] advice wanted on "surf" package
by Ray Kohler 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

I'm the maintainer of the "surf" package in AUR, and I've discovered an annoyance in the way I've created this package. I'd like some advice on how to resolve it. This package is a web browser from suckless.org, the makers of dwm. It has very much the same coding and build style, involving a config.h file which the user is intended to customize. Most of surf's behavior is decided at compile-time by this file. I've modeled my package after the "dwm" package in community, copying the default config.h into the root of the package tarball and listing it as a local source file. build() then copies it into the unpacked source directory before compiling. This is great for users of dwm who rebuild it from ABS, as it avoids the need to modify build() in order to customize the package - the user just needs to supply their own config.h and change the md5sum for it. This doesn't work so well for my surf package, though, since that's in the AUR. Many (most?) users of AUR packages are auto-updating with helper-tools like yaourt, pbget, and similar utilities, and it's difficult to automatically pull updates to package materials when you've changed one of the files. customizepkg won't help you much either, since that can only modify the PKGBUILD, and not the config.h. It's also annoying to me as the maintainer of the package. Anyone who maintains a package that's meant to have the build customized, rather than compiled as-is, will end up actually maintaining two copies - one "stock" version to submit to AUR, and one customized version for personal use. Obviously, none of these issues are show-stoppers. But they are annoying, and I don't packages I maintain to annoy my end-users. What can I do to make this package more comfortable for the average AUR user? Is software that expects compile-time customization just fundamentally not very compatible with the auto-update concept?

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[aur-general] Removal request
by A Rojas 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Please remove mathematik-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29834 It has been renamed to cantor

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Re: [aur-general] TU apllaing/voting.
by member SpeedVin 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

2009/9/21 member SpeedVin <speedvin(a)archlinux.us> > Hello all. > > I'm using Arch for about 1 year. > I helped Arch community by providing PKGBUILDS and helping on forum. > > I want to introduce me. > My name is Patrick, I'm from the Poland I am working with computers for > long time (12 years). > > Now I'm maintraining 14 packages on AUR in unsupported repo. > List of them > dwm-git 20090813-1 > unsupported devel glib2-newest 2.21.6-1 > unsupported system grub2-git 29072009-1 > unsupported x11 inputproto-git 1.9.99.902-1 > unsupported kernels kernel26-bfs 2.6.31-1 > unsupported lib libsoup-git 20090920-1 1 > unsupported lib libx11-git 1.2.99.901-1 > unsupported modules nvidia-bfs-beta 190.32-1 > unsupported x11 renderproto-git 0.11-1 > unsupported x11 xextproto-git 7.0.99.3-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-keyboard-git 20080809-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-mouse-git 20080808-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-server-git 20090529-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-xinit-git 20080807-1 > Some of them are based on PKGBUILD provieded by ABS and some are based on > packages in AUR , and some are builded myself. > I am programming in Python and C++ ;) > > Now that I've introduced myself I'm looking for someone who wants to > sponsor me (if any). Please feel free to ask any questions I do not > have answered yet. > > Thanks for reading this ;) > >

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Warning: db-4.8 rebuilds entering [testing]
by Pierre Schmitz 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Am Samstag 26 September 2009 06:51:35 schrieb Allan McRae: > Someone will want to generate a rebuild list for [community]. The > libraries with name changes are libdb-4.7 and libdb_cxx-4.7. If I grep for the exact so name I just get those; maybe its enough to just rebuild those? apache13 dsniff gtranslator kdesvn lib32-db lib32-heimdal libgda3 librcc perl-berkeleydb perl-libapreq2 perl-xml-libxslt poedit python-bsddb qsvn rapidsvn selinux-pam wml -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Warning: db-4.8 rebuilds entering [testing]
by Pierre Schmitz 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Am Samstag 26 September 2009 06:51:35 schrieb Allan McRae: > Someone will want to generate a rebuild list for [community]. The > libraries with name changes are libdb-4.7 and libdb_cxx-4.7. apache13 ario avant-window-navigator awesome awn-extras-applets cdemu-daemon compiz-core compiz-decorator-gtk compiz-decorator-kde compiz-fusion-plugins-extra dbmail drivel dsniff e-modules-extra-svn e-svn e_dbus-svn emacs-cvs empathy filezilla flock galago-daemon gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer gnome-system-tools gnomebaker gshutdown gtranslator gtvg gwget gyachi hal-cups-utils kadu kdesvn last-exit lib32-db lib32-dbus-core lib32-heimdal libgalago libgalago-gtk libgda3 liboobs librcc libtelepathy musicmanager network-ups-tools ogmrip orange osmo padevchooser perl-berkeleydb perl-libapreq2 perl-net-dbus perl-xml-libxslt pidgin-libnotify pinot poedit pulseaudio python-bsddb python-galago python-galago-gtk python-notify qsvn rapidsvn rawstudio roxterm selinux-pam sensors-applet superswitcher synce-librapi synce-libsynce synce-odccm synce-rra synce-vdccm system-tools-backends telepathy-farsight telepathy-gabble telepathy-glib telepathy-haze telepathy-idle telepathy-mission-control telepathy-salut telepathy-sofiasip telepathy-stream-engine thoggen tracker wml workrave xbmc xfce4-volstatus-icon xfmedia -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Orphan request twitux
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hi archers! twitux has many lost dependencies in PKGBUILD. Many users say about it. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12301 -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) UR6LAD xmpp:vitaliy@berdinskikh.in.ua

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Integrity Check x86_64: core, extra, community 25-09-2009
by Biru Ionut 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

repomaint(a)archlinux.org wrote: > --------------------- > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/bar vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/bar > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/bashrun vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/bashrun > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/glest-data vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/glest-data > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/jbidwatcher vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/jbidwatcher > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/mediawiki vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/mediawiki > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/python-distutils-extra vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/python-distutils-extra > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/rfc vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/rfc > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/roundcubemail vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/roundcubemail > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/ruby-hpricot vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/ruby-hpricot > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/xmltv vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/xmltv > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/youtube-dl vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/youtube-dl fixed that, except ruby-hpricot. trunk is not converted to any and i let bash fix that. he knows better what he did there. -- Ionut

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[aur-general] what about R?
by johnea 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Hello Fellow Arch Users, Ya know, we don't always have control over what an upstream project is called. Take for example: The R Project for Statistical Computing http://www.r-project.org/ As can be clearly seen, the project's name is R. Yes, that is a CAPITAL R ! So I've got a PKGBUILD I'd like to upload, but it produces a package called: R-2.9.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Which includes the projects UPPER CASE NAME. As a supporting note, the source filename is: R-2.9.2.tar.gz This package built and installed nicely here with that name, and seems to be running just fine. So WHY DOES THE UPLOADED PACKAGE NEED TO BE LOWER CASE? I'm not YELLING, really, I JUST HAVE A VERY LOUD VOICE 8-) So, what does the OFFICIAL AUR COMMUNITY think about the name of this package? How do we accommodate case aversion and still spread the power and fun of R to the arch linux world? One last point to note. When searching for, or listing packages, with say: pacman -Q | grep R The upper case REALLY helps overcome listing a bunch of other packages due to the extreme popularity of the lower case 'r'. Any suggestions as to a package name acceptable by the community at LARGE (sorry, I just couldn't hold that one back 8-) would be greatly appreciated. Your's in FUN and Graphics Scripting... android p.s. possible solutions: r-project gnur (gnur, really?) R (hey, why not) ... your suggestion here ...

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