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

[aur-general] recover password in aur site
by Antonio Lucas 06 Jul '10

06 Jul '10

Hi everyone, I forgot my password and can not see a link to recover it. I found a problem in a package (cuda-toolkit) and I wanted to report to the maintainer. thanks in advice. abracos Antonio Lucas

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[aur-general] TU application for Sven-Hendrik Haase
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 05 Jul '10

05 Jul '10

Hey everybody, I'd like to apply for TU. I tricked Daenyth into sponsoring me. Rocking since 1990 in Germany, I've been using Arch Linux for around two years now and since I seem to stick with it I thought I might as well become TU. I have past experience in Suse, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and DSL as well as a few minor ones (mostly spin-offs). I currently have about 10 Arch installations in all kinds of forms, virtual, chroot, desktop, laptop, incandescent gas. Whenever I'm not busy trying to create another cdrkit vs. cdrtools flame fest on the mailing list I'm generally trying to be helpful on the wiki, forums, IRC and AUR. I like being pedantic about things like replaces() vs. conflicts() + provides() or $startdir/src vs. $srcdir. In AUR I currently maintain 66 packages. My most important packages are multimedia/game development related though I tend to package whatever I think it useful or fun. While I'm aware that many Archers consider games wasteful in terms of time investment and disk space, I think the number of votes on my packages still make some of them same valid candidates for [community]. See my awe-inspiring list of packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Svenstaro I'm rather interested in Python and since PyPy might become more important in the future I will continue to take good care of that package. I'm somewhat involved or at least interested in the upstream development for some of my packages (SFML, Ogre3D, SFML, Gobby, Bullet, Box2D, -gallium). I like trying out new fancy things. I've used all major DEs and a bunch of WMs. I maintain my own live distribution closely based on Arch Linux and archiso (live.linux-gamers.net) and in the process of creating it wrote the archiso article for the wiki. I care about guidelines and consistency, though I am aware that my AUR packages aren't all fully consistent. Working on that. On LinuxTag 2010, I openly promoted my religion using my Arch shirt together with a fellow Archer. We tried our best to sound like the condescending Arch jerks that we are. Just kidding. We showed-off Arch to quite a few people who were interested, though. We met quite a few unrelated Archers on the fair as well but they didn't seem to have as much Arch-esteem as we did. Is it true that the secret TU tower is where all the girls are kept? -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Duplicates in AUR (flashrom-svn)
by Anton Shestakov 02 Jul '10

02 Jul '10

I want to bring attention to the following packages: flashrom-dev - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30391 flashrom-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23390 flashrom-svn-new - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36865 They all build flashrom from the same svn repo. The second package was the first one uploaded to AUR, but it have been last updated 25 Aug 2009 and doesn't contain libftdi dependence. I think we should remove flashrom-dev and flashrom-svn-new and keep flashrom-svn (it has more votes after all). I did not contact the maintainer of the second package, but judging by the last date he updated his packages (25 Aug 2009), hopes that he will come and update flashrom-svn aren't big at all. So I suggest orphaning the package as well. Thanks in advance. P.S.: should we even keep a possibly unstable version of an utility that may erase your BIOS is another question (:

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[aur-general] First step to become a TU
by Laurent Carlier 01 Jul '10

01 Jul '10

Hi, my name is Laurent Carlier (lordheavy). I would like to become a TU, so decided to go through the first step : find a sponsor; I'm a linux user since '98, archer for about 2 years now (i've got some mandrake/debian/LFS/openbsd/...) and i'm adept of free software and KISS philosophy. Got knowledges about c/c++/bash/autotools/cmake/git/svn/..., and currently an active developper of the gambas project. I maintain some packages in aur see http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=lordheavy . I've proposed a PKGBUILD for a splitted gambas2 package see http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/19318 Feel free for questions :-) Regards, LordHeavy

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[aur-general] Package obsolete, please remove
by Maxime Wack 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

The inkscape-nognome package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13145) is obsolete, does not work (it depends on libpoppler 0.12, current is 0.14) and is also not needed either because inkscape on [Extra] does not depend on gnome anymore. Thus I think it is safe to remove it. Thank you !

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[aur-general] packages up for adoption..
by M Rawash 30 Jun '10

30 Jun '10

- syncevolution: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19876 - genesis-sync: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19880 somebody already offered to adopt this one, but apparently got a cold feet; it's somewhat popular, so maybe a brave TU can move it to [community]: - planeshift: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6563 thank you.

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[aur-general] deletion request (cmus-unofficial-git)
by Uli Armbruster 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi This package - to be found here http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22502 - is obsolete. If you go to the project's url, you see, that the git repo is deprecated and linked to the site of the package cmus-git. Merci Greetz Army

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[aur-general] Dangerous package - requesting temporary removal
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

I'm requesting that "libcamp-git" (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38213) be removed for the time being. The packager appears to be inexperienced and currently MAKING the package results in pollution of the user system if the user has root permissions. If not, the package fails to build. I notified the maintainer in the comments and I'm unsure if I'm being unfair by already bringing this up on the mailing list since he appears to be inexperienced but what the package does is rather dangerous. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Package obsolete
by Martti Kühne 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

Hi list http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30947 can be removed, as it's included in the new kernel. mar77i

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[aur-general] Please delete package
by Ng Oon-Ee 29 Jun '10

29 Jun '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32505 is an out-of-date/no-maintainer duplicate of http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16170 Both packages provide pidgin-sipe, identical source, almost identical PKGBUILDs.

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