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

[aur-general] Extra/AUR duplicates
by Cedric Staniewski 21 Jun '10

21 Jun '10

Hello everyone, I noticed that there are several duplicates of extra packages in the AUR or at least they share the same name. Perhaps a TU want to clean them up. allegro apr-util aspell-nl asymptote autopano-sift-c bochs darcs davfs2 fixesproto haskell-extensible-exceptions haskell-hashed-storage haskell-haskeline haskell-mmap haskell-terminfo jackbeat kdeutils-kcalc koffice lensfun lha libedit libical liblqr libmp3splt liboil libpst libticonv libytnef libzrtpcpp link-grammar lxsplit mp3wrap neon opencv oxine pal partitionmanager perl-bit-vector perl-carp-clan perl-dbd-sqlite perl-digest-sha1 perl-test-pod perl-timedate qtscriptgenerator rdesktop taglib-extras truecrypt tsocks watchdog words xf86-video-geode Regards, Cedric

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[aur-general] Package disown request for haskell-platform
by Alexander Rødseth 02 Jun '10

02 Jun '10

Hi, haskell-platform hasn't been updated (submitted) since 31 Jul 2009. I e-mailed the maintainer almost two weeks ago and have not got any reply. A working PKGBUILD is posted among the comments. Thanks, Alexander Rødseth

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[aur-general] Can't upload package to AUR
by Heiko Baums 13 May '10

13 May '10

Hi, I've just built the new version of kernel26-fbcondecor (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15603) based on the split package kernel26 from [core]/abs. It builds and installs fine and it creates every three packages. The first problem is that makepkg --source doesn't include the .install file into the package. The second problem is that I can't upload the archive which I then created with tar cfvz kernel26-fbcondecor.tar.gz kernel26-fbcondecor which includes the file kernel26.install. When I try to upload it I get a page with this error message: "Submit Use `makepkg --source` to generate source packages for submission! Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed." The package name is definitely correct. Is this a bug in AUR? If AUR parses the PKGBUILD's variable pkgname then it should parse the variable pkgbase instead if it's a split package because pkgname is an array in split packages. Greetings, Heiko

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[aur-general] perl prereleases request to make official decision to deviate from general guidleines
by Caleb Cushing 04 May '10

04 May '10

I'm working on a PKGBUILD for perl 5.12 and I notice that it's providing 20 some odd prerelease modules. I'm annoyed but I can't do anything about it. The general PKGBUILD guidelines say use the same as upstream unless there is a hyphen. so for a perl prerelease of 0.90_1 that guideline follows to release it as exactly the same. However 0.90_1 is == 0.90.1 and greater than 0.90 which it is a prerelease for on cpan. I'd like to suggest that for perl the official guideline be to make the version 0.90_pre1 Dist::Zilla a release automation tool also allows for using a format _TRIAL which is not yet popular on cpan but does happen should pacman add a _trial ? to the list of options? I think we could just use _pre here too. -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[aur-general] plz remove perl-set-infinite
by Caleb Cushing 04 May '10

04 May '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11047 -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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[aur-general] PKGVER (prerelease hell)
by Caleb Cushing 01 May '10

01 May '10

so CPAN use something like 0.90_1 to mean 0.90_rc1 however I know that pacman see's this as 0.90.1 (essentially not literally) making it greater than 0.90. would just packaging it as 0.90_rc1 make it appear as less than 0.90? I can't find any real docs on this -- Caleb Cushing http://xenoterracide.blogspot.com

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] libgrss, new to archlinux PKGBUILD
by Andrea Scarpino 30 Apr '10

30 Apr '10

On Saturday 24 April 2010 21:17:31 andrew james wrote: > low is a PKGBUILD that builds libgrss. the library was found as an > optional dependency with tracker. Hi, first, tracker is in [community], so please report community-packages stuff on [aur-general] mailing list. In second, this is not the proper way to report missing dependence. Please fill a bug report on flyspray (in the Community Packages project), and we will assign the bug to the tracker maintainer. Thanks CC'ing aur-general -- Andrea Scarpino KDE4 Maintainer for Arch Linux deelab.org/bash

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[aur-general] orphan request for tinyxml
by Hubert Grzeskowiak 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Hi, please disown the package tinyxml. link: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1155 Reasons: - package is out of date for some time now -- last update was Fri, 08 Feb 2008 -- maintainer doesn't repond to comments -- most of his packages are out of date, btw: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=big_gie&SeB=m - the PKGBUILD mentions another maintainer, who isn't really active anymore (no time) and the contributor mentioned in the PKGBUILD doesn't reply to emails - the PKGBUILD includes a few minor faults (typo in description; bash regex in source url) Have a nice day Hubert Grzeskowiak (Nemesis#13)

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[aur-general] pls delete these packages
by YUP 28 Apr '10

28 Apr '10

Please delete the following packages from AUR: anon-proxy: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26285 (old, no sense in farther maintainance) radiotray-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34114 (developers changed svn to mercurial) Thanks, Yarema aka Knedlyk

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[aur-general] Please remove awn-extras-lite-bzr
by Graham Rogers 27 Apr '10

27 Apr '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36440

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