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

[aur-general] Please delete package "mumble-svn"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 19 Sep '09

19 Sep '09

Hey, please delete AUR package "mumble-svn" because the Mumble project has since switched to GIT and the SVN is unmaintained. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23369 -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Adding a .deb packaged application to the AUR
by Jeff Horelick 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

Hello Listmates, I have a package here i'd really like to add to the AUR. The problem is that its packaged in a .deb. How would i go about packaging this for Arch? Feel free to just point at: "Look at this other package" or "Read this wiki page". In case some of you guys don't know the formmat that a .deb is in: An ar archive, inside there are 2 tarballs, one called control.tar.gz which for our purposes can be mostly ignored and one called data.tar.gz which has the actual application files laid out in the directory structure of the system similar to a Arch final binary package. (usr/bin/stuff, usr/share/stuff and so on). Or would it be easier for me to just setup a GitHub or BitBucket account, drop all the source files on there and simply make a hg or git package? (For the record and all, it's not my project, but it is GPLv2 so....)

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[aur-general] Package removal
by Anton Bazhenov 18 Sep '09

18 Sep '09

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[aur-general] kernel26-firmware and third-party kernels
by Ray Rashif 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hey all Would it be OK (as in KISS) to shove in a custom kernel's equivalent firmware into /lib/firmware/$(uname -r)? By looking at the /lib/udev/firmware.sh script it's one of the default look-up paths. But if I (and subsequent third-party packagers) start doing this, it will break the consistency as kernel26's firmware are in that dir. The only resolution here is that kernel26 uses /lib/firmware/$(uname -r) as well. I'm pretty sure that the blobs are hardware-dependent and not software, but from looking at the kernel26 buildscripts so far it appears they are being bumped for every minor revision update. Why is this being done? If there is indeed no problem whatsoever and any kernel can use firmware of any version, then this case can be dismissed :) Regards

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Tavian Barnes 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

The nouveau-drm-git package has been superseded by the nouveau-drm-snapshot and kernel26-nouveau-git packages. It would be great if nouveau-drm-git could be removed to reduce confusion. Thanks, -- Tavian Barnes

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[aur-general] Orphan request and illegal package
by F B 17 Sep '09

17 Sep '09

Hi, could you orphan this package? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16940 The maintainer doesn't update it and doesn't responds to the comments, however he is still active in aur. This package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24209 doesn't follow the aur rules, for more infos see FrozenFox last comment. Thank you in advance.

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Jan-Erik Rediger 15 Sep '09

15 Sep '09

My ruby19-Package in the aur is now unnecessary because ruby 1.9 moved to extra. ruby19 in aur should be deleted: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23973 There's another ruby v1.9 package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14402 I think this is unnecessary, too. Thanks, Jan-Erik Rediger (badboy)

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[aur-general] AurJson - orphan packages
by Pierre Chapuis 14 Sep '09

14 Sep '09

Hi, I was wondering if there's a way to know if a package is orphan using the AurJson interface. If that's not the case, I think I will find a feature request for something like: "Uploader":"pseudonym" in "info/results", with "pseudonym" set as "orphan" if the package is orphan (I hope nobody has taken the pseudonym "orphan" on AUR...). Does that look fine to you? -- catwell

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Ermanno Scaglione 13 Sep '09

13 Sep '09

Please delete chmsee-svn, the main development uses now git and this will pull a very old version. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22524 I have already uploaded a new PKGBUILD chmsee-git, albeit it still do not work with xulrunner 1.9.1.2 ..... Chiacchiera con i tuoi amici in tempo reale! http://it.yahoo.com/mail_it/foot/*http://it.messenger.yahoo.com

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[aur-general] Package removal
by Dan Vrátil 12 Sep '09

12 Sep '09

Hi, I noticed two packages: proftpd_mysql [1] and proftpd-mysql [2]. The frist one is out of date and provides the same as the second one, so I suggest to remove the proftpd_mysql. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15644 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26024 -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 http://www.progdan.homelinux.net

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