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

[aur-general] Discussion period has ended for Lukáš Jirkovský
by Thomas Dziedzic 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

You can find a thread here: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-August/009959.html

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[aur-general] TU application
by Lukáš Jirkovský 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, the discussion about pulling ufoai into [community] made me thing about applying for a TU. Since I've got quite a lot of time recently I finally decided to apply for a TU position which I've been encouraged into several times in the past. My name is Lukas Jirkovsky. I'm from Pilsen, Czech Republic. Currently I'm pursuing my bachelors degree in computer science at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of West Bohemia. I'm using Linux for about six years (I still have the old Mandrake 10.1 CD here). I used Slackware for several years but approximately 3 years ago I moved to Arch Linux which I immediately fell in love with ;-) Currently I maintain 94 packages in AUR. Several packages of mine got it's way into [community] and [extra] too. I can remember ttf-linux-libertine, geeqie, luminance and autopano-sift-c being ones. I'd like to move the klavaro package into community and maybe some other popular packages. I'm also very interested in bringing more graphics software to Arch Linux. Moving ufoai if wanted should be without problems too, I've got a decent connection at home. The last words about my packaging work is that I'm aware that some of my PKGBUILDS still uses contributor instead of maintainer. I'm slowly replacing these packages when a new version comes out or any other update is needed. Now something about my skills. I've a decent knowledge of C and C++ and in my spare time I'm participating in the development of Hugin [1]. I know Java too, but I prefer C++ (templates are just so beautiful). I used to maintain the Arch-graphics repo [2] but since I switched to x86_64 I don't do regular builds (I'd have to rewrite some of the scripts first). I can build for both x86_64 and i686. best regards, Lukas Jirkovsky [1] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://arch-graphics.kx.cz/

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[aur-general] openmpi, mpich2: provides 'mpi'
by Marco 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi people, should we define a provides=("mpi") or something like that in openmpi and mpich2, and eventually also other possible mpi implementations? That way a number of mpi-dependent packages will be made undependent of the chosen mpi implementation one wants to install. domanov

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[aur-general] makechrootpkg
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Is there a way to make 'makechrootpkg' use clyde so it will install missing dependencies from AUR? I looked at /etc/makepkg.conf /etc/pacman.conf and couldn't find an option. I also looked at the source for makechrootpkg and didn't see anything I could change to make it use clyde instead of pacman. Thanks

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Can batman be deleted http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22177 the package is named wrong, should be named batmand. I am currently updating it to update the package to the correct name. Thanks

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[aur-general] DestroyTwitter
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

How long do I have to wait before a package would be concidered to be orphaned. I left a comment containing how the PKGBUILD should be done and the next day emailed the maintainer, and I have not a response yet. It has been roughly 3-4 days. The current PKGBUILD is really messy in my opinion and I linked to a much cleaner version and still uses $startdir. Thanks

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[aur-general] Orphanin request
by Dan Vratil 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, please orphan package libmusicbrainz2. I emailed maintainer and he has no interest in maintaining it since he's no longer using Arch. Thanks! Dan URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18081 -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 Tento email neobsahuje žádné viry, protože odesílatel nepoužívá Windows. / This email does not contain any viruses because the sender does not use Windows.

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[aur-general] GMdesk Delete Request
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Can somebody delete GMdesk at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28388The application crashes, and nor will a previous version run either. Thanks

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[aur-general] TU application
by Florian Pritz 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hi, I've been asked a few times to apply as a TU and finally decided to do so ;). My name is Florian Pritz, I'm from Austria, 18 years old and I've been using Arch for something like 2 years and a few weeks. Before that I've sometimes tried OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and Gentoo, but after a few hours/days switched back to Windows. Currently I have 5 boxes running arch, 1 (desktop) testing, 3 servers (2 at home), 1 laptop (my father's). I'm mainly active in #archlinux.de, but also sometimes helping out on bugday. I'm a quite experienced PHP and shell programmer and some time ago I started with perl, which is really cool thanks to CPAN and bauerbill. My C and python skills are somewhat basic, but enough to find and fix some bugs. Currently I have 27 packages in the AUR [1], some even having > 40 votes and I'd like to bring those to community. Quite a lot of them still have "|| return 1", but I'm removing those whenever there are updates available. One of my servers is used for webhosting, myqsl, mail and a few shell accounts and I'd like to help update some of the software that's running on this box (most of it is from extra though :( ). Sometimes I'm rebuilding stuff like mysql, php, dovecot or postfix because of security advisories, but most of the time the you guys are faster. A small side project of mine is a pastebin/file upload service [2] written in PHP, using pygments for highlighting and memcached to reduce the load. [3] Thorsten Töpper asked me to become a TU and also wants to sponsor me. Thanks. If you want to know more, please ask. I'm not a good story writer ;) [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=bluewind [2] http://paste.xinu.at [3] http://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/filebin -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Brad Fanella 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello everybody, In response to this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250) thread, I (and a few others) have decided that it would be a good idea to have a stream of new TUs to maintain packages that they actually use themselves, which in theory would lessen the gap between upstream and package releases. I guess I should tell you a little about myself and what I do/have done. My name is Brad Fanella and I am from Chicago, Illinois within the United States of America. I am a software developer, web designer, and [no]monkey[/no]. My forum username is itsbrad212 (I doubt anyone cares) and I have a little over 1,200 posts currently. I have been an Arch user since around December 2009 and a Linux user since late 2008. Before I had found Arch, distro hopping was a normal happening and I tended to do a lot of it. >From Ubuntu to Slackware to Debian to Gentoo, none of them every pleased me...until I found Arch. The combination of a simplistic, fast, rolling-release distribution with a great community and team of developers is what keeps me here, and I will definitely be staying for many years to come (if I ever leave at all). My talents? Well, when I first discovered that computers were for more than what happens when you click the Internet icon, the first thing that peaked my interest was web design, so I learned HTML, CSS, and (shortly later) PHP. A couple of months after that, I found another programmer and together we created a content management system (Surf-CMS) that we are currently managing to this day. Of course, how could you be called an "advanced" Linux user without knowing C and shell scripting? Well, I first learned about shell scripting when there were some tasks I needed to be done and I wanted to automate that process. C, on the other hand, was learned for two (maybe three) reasons: 1) Linux and C go together 2) I like speed 3) I wanted to be 1337 Kdding about the last one. Anyway, within the past few weeks, I have been developing a AUR+Pacman (and maybe ABS in the future?) wrapper in C. I thought C would be a good candidate because it's *fast*, and even with more than 500 lines of code, it still fetches, untars, and resolves dependencies in a split second. It is currently incomplete, but I plan to release it under the "Community Contributions" section in the near future. I also know Python and Assembly, but nobody really cares about Assembly anymore, so it's not really worth mentioning. I learned it because I have beens steadily developing a bootloader and kernel in pure 32-bit assembly (along with a few other developers) called LitaOS. Unfortunately, I don't work on it that often (maybe a couple hours a week, if that). What can I bring to the table? Well, as I said before, I use C for pretty much everything, so I do use a good amount of C libraries, so I guess you could say that. I also compile a couple of Python modules here and there. The main reason I wanted to become a TU is because I wanted to help improve the quality of both packages that I use personally and packages that others ask for, as well as help users on the AUR to bring their PKGBUILDs to a near perfected state. Arch deserves to be the very best, and I want to help get it there. Now, about my AUR package count. Allan even said it himself, and I quote: "@itsbrad212: You only have a few packages in the AUR but they look good. I'd say apply if you want..." I was actually a little hesitant about applying to become a trusted user, only because my AUR package count was so low. That being said, I actually have a fairly proficient knowledge of writing PKGBUILDs, building packages, using namcap, etc. For a short time, I was actually hosting a small repository of compiled packages from the AUR (that were either common or I used them myself) for a little linux discussion group on an IRC chat room. I actually am not still hosting those packages or maintaining them anymore as I wasn't getting enough of a response to make it worthwhile. I just recently got a list from a forum user of suggest packages that I should adopt in the AUR and keep up-to-date, so I plan on doing that. Chris Brannon has been kind enough to sponsor me, on behalf of Allan, through this process. I know I said it before, but I'll say it again. My goals are not to maintain 100,000 packages or something silly like that, but to improve other packages, submit clean and working packages myself, and help others on the AUR to improve their packages. Kind regards, Brad

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