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

[aur-general] Orphan request
by minimalist 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

perl-http-parser-xs is out of date and the maintainer has not responded to any pokes and emails. I would like to take over the package maintenance. Thanks.

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[aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Ionut Biru 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hi, with the linux 3.1 package we took another approach about handling external modules. Because of that, i want to add back the old virtualbox-modules package that includes the host modules. Now comes the tricky part. I want to replace all the post_install/upgrade messages that we have now in virtualbox and guest additions for arch and replace them with a wiki link. The wiki is a total mess and includes details that doesn't matter for virtualbox on arch. Help me to clear the wiki a bit before adding the link to the package. My idea is to have in virtualbox wiki page this: 1) how to install it 2) what modules to add in rc.conf and a short description of modules functionality 3) how to run it 4) how to run guest additions on arch(as a section rather than a new page like is it now) That's it. I don't care about sharing functionality, tips and tricks for openbsd. Just plain arch functionality. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Replacing nexuiz with xonotic
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

I'd like to see nexuiz replaced by xonotic in [community]. Problem is that nexuiz is still a fairly popular package despite being dead upstream. xonotic devs recommend dropping nexuiz in favor of xonotic. Technically, xonotic does not replace nexuiz because its gameplay is somewhat different. I'd like some opinions on this.

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Brad Fanella 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more. With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering. All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place. My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises. It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round. Sincerely, Brad p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories

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[aur-general] Request for removal
by Jesse Juhani Jaara 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Please remove my package [1]cpupowerutils There is pkg with better name been uploaded, wich also builds from source archive instead of git. [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47310

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[aur-general] Removal Request
by Simon Perry 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Please remove perl-icontrol. Author has renamed the module and re-based the version (I have a new PKGBUILD ready). Cheers. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52207 -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[aur-general] Please remove kernel26-crusoe
by merp boop 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hey guys, Word has it that the newest glibc was compiled without long noops (nopl), which makes my kernel26-crusoe package obsolete. If this is true, would someone please remove it? I have a backup :) Thanks! -Max

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[aur-general] Orphaning mediatomb
by Jonathan Conder 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi TUs, In a few days I will be orphaning my package mediatomb, and will delete it too unless anyone is interested in maintaining it. It has been unmaintained upstream for over a year, and currently I don't have enough time to deal with the issues that keep cropping up because of this. At the moment it isn't even installed on my main computer. Thought I'd just let people know first, in case anyone else is interested in maintaining it, and to give my reasons for dropping it. Thanks, Jonathan

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[aur-general] [broadcom-wl] kernel panic
by Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi, Just a heads up to all users of broadcom-wl: a lot of people (myself included) have been reporting kernel panics at boot time after upgrade to current version, so if you're planing to upgrade, be sure to have a live cd around to chroot into your system. There are still no known workarounds other than blacklisting the wl module (thus disabling wireless board) or removing the package. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 Good luck! Vitor

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[aur-general] Duplicate version of blinks-darcs in the AUR
by merp boop 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hey all, Before I sound like anything I'm not! - I don't really care about politics - I hate drama - I try my best to conform to standards in contributed work - I appreciate everyone that contributes to Arch - I understand that one can become emotionally invested in their efforts That being said, another user created a package in the AUR called 'blink', which is basically a copy of my package, 'blink-darcs'. This wouldn't cause any issues if 'blink' built from an archive of sources and didn't use darcs to pull the sources, but that's not the case. What's your opinion on this? How should this be handled? -Max

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