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

[aur-general] [delete-request] bin32-zsnes
by Anton Larionov 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

bin32-zsnes https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19167 duplicate multilib/zsnes -- Regards, Anton Larionov

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[aur-general] Abandonware in the AUR
by Karol Blazewicz 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

We have a discussion on the forums [1] about Arch's policy towards what packages can be provided in the AUR with the focus on abandonware. User megadriver found a couple packages [2] that provide a means of downloading games for free (as in beer) even though those games can be bought. Apps can go in and out of the abandonware status as their availability changes: now you can buy them, now you can't. Do we care about this or is it up to the user to check if the stuff he installs is legal? Should we set up a bot to scan for potential 'warez' stuff? [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1008451#p1008451

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[aur-general] Request to add a rule
by Christopher luna 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

This is (again) about forbidding urls to warez on pkgbuilds on AUR. probably you people have seen the discussion on the forum. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 But is not going anyware. Now, I think ewaller, hitted the nail in the head when said: "If you don't have explicit permission to copy and distribute, you may not copy and distribute. Period." I think something as easy like that would solve it all. So I am requesting a rule like that (it can be different, it doesn't have to be those words) to be added to the aur user guidelines. maybe here, on sharing packages? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Sharing_packages Thanks.

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Max Roder 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi, on October 9th, I mailed nofxx [1] and asked wether he still has the time to update his packages (some of them are out-of-date/404). I would like to adopt and update some of them. As I did not recieve any reaction, I'm asking you to orphan his packages. Thanks, Max [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=6641

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Re: [aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Emilio Miralles 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hello, I took a first stab at restructuring Virtualbox <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox>. I brought in the content from Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest>, and offloaded a bunch of stuff to VirtualBox_Extras<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox_Extras>. Discussion of the changes on Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_request<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_r…> . Emilio

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[aur-general] Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin"
by Det 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27339

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Christopher luna 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please delete the package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33036 Is doom II, which is copyrighted and Id software does not give permission for redistribution. The download link is dead, so in teory is not piracy. but the package can be adopted by someone and get "fixed" with a working link. just for the record, is not a trial/shareware version; there is not shareware version of that game. (by mistake I send this message from a different email address too, sorry)

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[aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

> Thanks for applying. Do you have a link to your AUR packages and > possibly a sponsor? I see the link has been given. I have also contributed to a few other packages (fakenes for one) but if I do not plan to use them much myself I have disowned them in case someone else has more interest (but I keep an eye on them). I have also created some PKGBUILDs for packages I wanted to try (not already in AUR) but after finding better (existing) alternatives I did not decide to upload them. I have also come across packages that look like they should be removed, so would be interested in the tidy-up procedure. I don't have a sponsor.

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[aur-general] Dynamically evaluating md5sum value in PKGBUILD
by Maciej Sitarz 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hi all, I'm maintaining hunspell-pl AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44331). The problem with the package is that the maintainer of the source provides only the latest(daily) tarball snapshot. The md5sum of the tarball changes daily and the old files are removed. The packages is very often marked as 'outdated' and I'm asked to update it, both via comments and email. Some users propose to use dynamic values for pkgver= and md5sum=, but I think it's not a good way. Current PKGBUILD is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hu/hunspell-pl/PKGBUILD Proposed PKGBUILD: http://pastebin.com/bQCafYGt What would you suggest to do? I think the best way would be to include the package in extra, but I'm not sure if it has enough votes. Thanks Best regards -- Maciej Sitarz

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Re: [aur-general] Forgotten AUR username
by Ross McDonald 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Please could you send my username to me, I have forgotten it. Ross <ross0mcdonald(a)gmail.com>

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