January 2011 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Orphan Request
by speps 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, can you please orphan libircclient? ==> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14047 The package is not outdated, but it does not build and install any shared lib, also it installs headers into a no proper path according to ==> http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/amd64/libircclient-dev/filelist Last maintainer action go up to july 2010, also one of his packages (ibus-handwrite) is outdated since November 2010 with a user PKGBUILD proposal in the comments. I have also sent him an e-mail without responses Thanks

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[aur-general] Renaming package
by Sebastien Duthil 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Hi, I'd like to know how to rename an AUR package. In this case, I must rename gplanarity to gplanarity-svn. Is it possible ? Can I do it or does anyone else have to do it ? Or shoud I create a new package ? In this case, should the old one be removed ? I didn't find anything about that case ... Thank you ! Sebastien Duthil

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[aur-general] qt3 backend in python-matplotlib
by Stéphane Gaudreault 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Dear TUs, I am preparing an update of python-matplotlib to version 1.0.1. This package supports multiple backends for rendering graphics and plotting windows. So far, our PKGBUILD supported QTAgg which requires the old qt3. Considering that qt3 has no future, I wonder if it is still necessary to provide this backend. Any objections if I drop it ? I will also set the default backend to QT4Agg (user will still be able to change the default in the matplotlibrc file or in their scripts). Stéphane

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[aur-general] Please delete ttf-consolas
by Marcel Korpel 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi everyone, Same as yesterday, but now regarding ttf-consolas: can someone please delete that package [1]; it has no maintainer and ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same font (including other variants). Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35124 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408

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[aur-general] lysdr-git, while we're talking about new packages
by Gordon JC Pearce 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Okay, since there was a bit of discussion about new packages, I thought I'd maybe make some noise about one of mine. I've written a software-defined radio receiver called lysdr, and (so far) I don't think there's anything like it in AUR ;-) What is it? Well, it's a radio receiver, of sorts. Ideally you should use it with a special receiver plugged into the soundcard, but you can use it with prerecorded files too. The documentation assumes you know a little about how it all works, so what I'll do is describe how to get it set up and working, and you can be the guinea-pigs for helping me write better documentation. I recommend reading the Wikipedia page on software-define radio (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software-defined_radio here) if you want to learn more about the technology behind it. Okay, first - a screenshot. Here it is: http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/lysdr.jpg (1032x310px, 60kB) A little to the right, you can see the tuning cursor with its red tuning "needle" and yellow filter strip. You'll notice that the red tuning line is just a wee fraction right of the 7.061MHz scale marking, and the frequency display below indicates that we're tuned to 7.0618MHz. The broad bright line that the filter strip is on is actually the spectrum of someone's voice! It's a Polish station, SP5BL - "See-Eh-Rah Pah-Pah Senk Pah-Pah Brah-voh", you can actually see the syllables. Off to the left side of the screen we have some data modes including CW (Morse code), RTTY (radio teletype) and PSK31 (phase-shift keying). The three fat fuzzy blobs a little left of the middle are probably a digital mode called PACTOR that transfers data relatively quickly with a lot of error correction - "relatively" in that it's still only about 100 characters per second. You can install it by your favourite method of brewing AUR packages - I use clyde. Naturally, any comments on how to improve the packaging (or the software) will be welcomed. It will require (and should pull in) jack, fftw and gtk+ (if you haven't got these already) and requires Python for the build process and git to download. Once you've built and installed it, grab http://www.gjcp.net/~gordonjcp/sdr.flac - don't listen to it though, unless you have a taste for the avant-garde. If you play it back, you'll just hear a high-pitched hiss and some scratchy chittering noises, it won't blow your speakers or make you see The Ring or anything. Don't compress it with any lossy compression format, or convert it to mono to save space - it must have its two channels perfectly in phase for the receiver to work! It's not really left and right signals like stereo, it's actually real and imaginary samples. Unless you know what this means already, don't bother looking it up on Wikipedia. I have a rough idea what it means; I don't need to know how to build a chicken to cook an egg. Now, start up jack (it'll start automatically, possibly with less-than-wonderful settings, so check the Arch wiki on how to do this) then start lysdr with "lysdr --co -f 7056000" (--co is "Connect outputs", -f 7056000 is "Centre frequency is 7056kHz). Now, start mplayer with "mplayer -ao jack:port=lysdr sdr.flac" and you should start to see stuff scrolling up the screen. You can use any other media player, as long as it can play flac files and output to jack. Stuff scrolls up the screen, you drag the cursor bar across the waterfall to tune, and you drag the edges of the yellow filter strip to change the filter bandwidth. Clicking "WIDE" or "NARROW" picks preset filter bandwidths suitable for speech or data modes. LSB is "Lower Sideband", and means that the wanted signals are below where we're tuned to - again, Wikipedia will tell you plenty about that. So, try it out, and see what you can hear. Bonus prize for finding the Windows error "bong"! 73s, Gordon MM0YEQ

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[aur-general] first package -- luagraph
by Philipp Gesang 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hello archers, for my own use I made a pkgbuild of luaGRAPH[1] and I’d like to share it via aur. As this will be my first contribution I guess it can’t hurt to have it reviewed here by more experienced users before submitting. Thanks for your opinion, Philipp [1] http://luagraph.luaforge.net/ http://luaforge.net/projects/luagraph/

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[aur-general] Wrote Small AUR Helper
by Nathan Owens 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

I wrote a little AUR helper in C++, though currently it only downloads the tarball if the package name is valid. I am new to C++ and wanted to know if you thought the code was good. I was thinking about putting it in AUR, but figured I would asked for opinion first. Here is the url for the code: http://pastebin.com/aSW1awD4

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[aur-general] Please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts
by Marcel Korpel 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

Hi everyone, Can someone please delete ttf-ms-extrafonts [1]; it has no maintainer and as mutlu_inek said in the comments his ttf-vista-fonts [2] provides the same fonts and has a more liberal license. Regards, Marcel [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35297 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408

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[aur-general] Please remove the incorrectly named "netbeans-se" package
by Xavion 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

The "netbeans-se" package should have been called "netbeans-javase", since NetBeans is about more than just Java. For this reason, I've just uploaded a "netbeans-javase" package to AUR. The "netbeans-se" package was orphaned by its original maintainer, so I adopted it temporarily. Please don't screw this up and remove the wrong one! The "netbeans-se" package needs deleting.

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[aur-general] libnl 2.0 rebuild
by Thomas Bächler 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

So, libnl 2.0 was declared stable in October as I just learned. These packages are compatible with libnl 2.0: - crda - iw - wpa_supplicant - hostapd These packages don't as far as I can see: - libpcap - networkmanager These I didn't check: - kismet - net-snmp - knemo - libvirt - simh Can the respective maintainers find out whether there are patches for libnl 2.0 support? I'd like to do the rebuild on the weekend. If we can't fix all packages, we could put a libnl1 package to [extra]. (If there are no patches, it seems that porting to libnl 2.0 is not that difficult, so we could do it ourselves and submit it)

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