February 2010 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Bug in perl-text-bibtext build script for x86_64 platform
by Ted Pavlic 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

AUR -- I've sent a message to the package maintainer about this, but it has been a while since there has been an update, and so I wanted to send something here too for comment and archival purposes. At the moment, the perl-text-bibtex package fails on x86_64 systems because it tries to link libraries built without -fPIC to object files built with -fPIC. On x86_64 machines, when building the perl-text-bibtex package, it is necessary to add: -fPIC to the btparse compiler flags before running "make". That is, the PKGBUILD should... (1) Download Text::BibTeX from CPAN (2) Run "perl Makefile.PL", which will fetch a btparse distribution and untar it into a directory that it symlinks to "btparse" (3) Change to "btparse" and add "-fPIC" to CFLAGS, CPPFLAGS, and CXXFLAGS in the Makefile and src/Makefile files (4) Change back to the Text::BibTeX root and run "make" Otherwise, the linker will complain because the Perl libraries will be built with -fPIC and the btparse libraries will not be... so they'll be incompatible for linking. ALTERNATIVELY, the PKGBUILD could... (1) Download a btparse distribution and untar it into directory "A" (creating "A/btparse-0.35/") (2) Modify A/btparse-0.35/Makefile and A/btparse-0.35/src/Makefile as described above (3) Download the Text::BibTeX distribution from CPAN and also untar it into directory "A" (creating A/Text-BibTeX-0.38/") (4) complete the Text::BibTeX installation as usual (it will find the btparse distribution that shares a parent directory with it) Otherwise, perl-text-bibtex fails to build on x86_64 systems. --Ted

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[aur-general] Packages for adoption
by Allan McRae 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Here is a list of packages I no longer wish to maintain in [community]. They all hardly ever need updating, apart from winetricks. If no-one adopts them in the next few days, then they will be dropped to the AUR. I do not think I need to orphan the packages for others to adopt them, but let me know if I do. gimmix (+libnxml) gnome-cups-manager gnome-subtitles gnomebaker gwget mozplugger pida pyenchant (needs renamed) python-pyalsaaudio python-sexy supertuxkart winetricks wine_gecko xfce4-places-plugin Also, I have orphaned plib which is required by simgear (maintained by Sergey) Allan

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[aur-general] attention to pidgin-facebookchat users
by Ionut Biru 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi, I’m going to remove this package from community and move it to aur because Facebook now has support for XMPP, along with it also is moved json-glib. Severals links that you may be interested: * http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pidgin#Facebook_XMPP * http://blog.facebook.com/blog.php?post=297991732130 -- Ionut

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[aur-general] [FYI] New package in community: rtkit
by bardo 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Hi all. I just added (the x86_64 version of) rtkit to [community], it's a new dependency for the pulseaudio rebuild I'm going to upload shortly.

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[aur-general] orphaned packages
by Andrea Scarpino 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

Hi TUs, this is not the Daniel list. Only to let you know that I orphaned these packages: bin2iso ccd2iso devede gtk-engine-murrine gtk-kde4 ibam iftop imdbpy mdf2iso mmpython murrine-themes-collection nrg2iso pypanel subdownloader tora free to take them. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] removal request: python-nltk-noyaml
by Chris Baker 10 Feb '10

10 Feb '10

This package is obsolete. The default nltk installation (package python-nltk) now requires yaml as a dependency instead of bundling it.

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[aur-general] package removal request - gelato
by Lukáš Jirkovský 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Can anyone remove my package gelato [0]? nVidia stopped development about two years ago and now the download become unavailable. Damn I loved that software. It had the fastest image viewer I've ever seen, which was able to display HDR image in seconds on my 9 years old computer. [0] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7711

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[aur-general] Removal Request.
by member SpeedVin 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Hello. Please remove my package grub2-git becouse grub2 git repo is down for long time. Thanks.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev] partially inactive
by Ronald van Haren 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Thomas Bächler <thomas(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Am 02.02.2010 14:35, schrieb Ronald van Haren: >> so a little update on this. >> It took a bit longer than expected and I'm still not completely done >> with painting and stuff (yikes I really hate painting), > > Who doesn't? > >> but tomorrow >> I'll move my stuff over. > > Congrats. > >> If I'm not mistaken internet connection should be delivered sometime >> during this week. > > Two years ago, it took over 3 months until I had decent internet (I was > war-driving before that, which didn't work out too well, and could > transfer big amounts of data only from work). I hope this works better > for you. > >> Either way I need a few afternoons and evenings >> unpacking stuff so I may not get around in doing much Arch related >> stuff the rest of this week. I will check my mail regularly though. >> >> I'll post an update when it's all done. > > Have fun :) > > > > > So the fun is mostly over. I was able to carpet the last room and set up a workspace there. A lot of stuff is of course still in boxes but that's how it works anyway isn't it (if you don't miss it after 2 months throw it away)... You can consider me active again. I will go through some of the bug reports that got assigned to me in the next few days and see if something needs a quick fix. Thanks for those that took care of some updates/bug report. Ronald

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[aur-general] delete request
by Moritz Rudert 08 Feb '10

08 Feb '10

Hi, unfortenately I've forget to rename a kernel package. So please delete kernel26... greetings helios

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