January 2014 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess
by Jason St. John 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

I am the current maintainer of the AUR package ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4], and I'm bothered by the mess of various packages there are for Google's Web Fonts project. It's not at all KISS in its current state. There are currently four different AUR packages[1][2][3][4] that essentially supply the same files, and all four packages conflict with each other. Around August of 2012, the package named ttf-google-webfonts[1] was orphaned, and user w0ng created a GitHub repository[5] that mirrors the Mercurial repository[6] on Google Code (why?). Then, the new maintainer changed the original ttf-google-webfonts package from a VCS-type package that simply lacked "-hg" in the name to a package that pulls tarballs from w0ng's GitHub repo[5]. As you can see in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums. To get around these issues, user epinephrine created the package ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] that clones w0ng's GitHub repo[5] instead of pulling tarballs from it, which significantly reduces the maintenance required on the package. Then, user Gently created a package named ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] that pulls a tarball from w0ng's GitHub repo[5] and only installs a small subset of the fonts therein. Shortly after ttf-google-webfonts[1] was changed from being a Mercurial-based package and not liking the direction that the package was taking, I reuploaded the original ttf-google-webfonts package as ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] for people that simply wanted the old package back that uses the actual Google Web Fonts repository to download the files. To clean up this mess, I propose that ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] and ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] be deleted outright, for what should be obvious reasons. I also propose that ttf-google-webfonts[1] be deleted because of how frequently the Web Fonts project is updated and because the project lacks version numbers. If people really feel strongly about keeping that maintenance nightmare, then let them have it, but I really don't see what advantage it provides over the original ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] other than one less makedepends. I apologize for the huge email, but this situation really is a mess. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-distilled/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-git/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-hg/ [5] https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory [6] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ Jason

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[aur-general] Copy.com dueling packages
by Jonathan Arnold 01 May '14

01 May '14

There are 2 packages for the Copy.com client software package: copy - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/copy/ copy-agent - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/copy-agent/ I think both have PKGBUILD problems, from dependencies (the Copy.com software uses Qt4, not Gtk, for instance) to poorly formed PKGBUILDs (one has just a package() method and one has just a build() method). I'm not really sure how this should be resolved, mostly because I wouldn't pick one over the other right now. Any one with more PKGBUILD confidence want to step in? Also, if you're interested, sign up with this link and we both get an extra 5gb(!) of cloud storage on copy.com: https://copy.com?r=NXWnIn -- Jonathan Arnold Webstream: http://hieronymus.soup.io Talent wins games, but team work and intelligence wins championships. Michael Jordan

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[aur-general] pkg deletion request
by flower_of_life＠gmx.net 17 Apr '14

17 Apr '14

Hi, I would ask for following pks to be deleted: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kde-servicemenus-makepkg-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/kde-servicemenus-repo-management-git/ Reason: I have merged the two sources into one git repo and would like to supply a new src pkg pulling from new git repo Thanks in advance

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[aur-general] Axiom (CAS) -- Same program, three packages (and licenses)?
by oliver 07 Mar '14

07 Mar '14

Hi, I'm a bit confused about the Axiom-packages available on AUR: There is axiom-cas may2012-1 modified-BSD pointing to http://www.axiom-developer.org/ ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/axiom-cas/ ) open-axiom 1.4.2-4 custom pointing to http://www.open-axiom.org ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/open-axiom/ ) open-axiom-svn 1082-1 GPL2 pointing to http://www.open-axiom.org ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/open-axiom-svn/ ) It looks like all three packages refer to the same program: the Axiom-CAS. Looks a bit messy to me. Can someone bring order into this? Thanks, Oliver

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[aur-general] Corrected package ekeyd ready for AUR
by Thomas Preissler 12 Feb '14

12 Feb '14

Hello, I am using the entropy key from Simtec and I found the ekeyd package on AUR - unfortunately there are some problems with it, as outlined. Changes I have done to the original tarball: * Fixed the problem compiling with host/lstate.c. * Added a systemd unit egd-linux.service. Source package is attached for your review, guys, this is my very first one, so please bear with me... Regards Thomas -- www.preissler.co.uk | Twitter: @module0x90 | PGP-Key: 75889415 GPG Fingerprint: CCBD 153A D257 CA7E A217 FDF7 5928 03D1 7588 9415

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[aur-general] Prefered way to create users/groups and handle files ownership
by Nowaker 08 Feb '14

08 Feb '14

Hey, What is the prefered way of creating users/groups and handling files ownership for AUR packages? My take is to change the file ownership (`chown`) in .install script. That's what I do in the PKGBUILDs I write myself. However, inspircd, which I adopted a few months ago takes a different approach. The previous maintainer hardcoded a UID and GID directly in the package: PKGBUILD: install -o141 -g141 -dm750 "${pkgdir}/var/log/inspircd" .install: getent group inspircd &>/dev/null || groupadd -r -g 141 inspircd getent passwd inspircd &>/dev/null || useradd -r -u 141 -g inspircd -d /var/lib/inspircd -s /bin/false inspircdl I don't like this approach - what if the user has already assigned UID 141 to other user? Then effectively inspircd and, say, Apache, are running under the same user. But maybe there is some reason behind this approach that I'm not aware of. Thanks for your help. -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu

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[aur-general] Removing stale accounts from the AUR
by Lukas Fleischer 05 Feb '14

05 Feb '14

Hi, I plan to remove all AUR accounts that have not been used for at least 500 days (according to the last login time stamp). This affects ~35000 users, see [1] for a complete list. If your account is on that list and you think it shouldn't be there, please let me know. Side effects: * The ~2000 packages maintained by these users will be orphaned. * All ~20000 comments written by any of the users will be removed. * Votes will be retained. Regards, Lukas [1] http://sprunge.us/LBSe

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[aur-general] TU application, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer
by Jonas Heinrich 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

Hi ArchLinux community, I like to apply as TU, sponsored by Lukas Fleischer (aka CryptoCrack), since my passion and work for ArchLinux continues since half a decade and I really would like to get more involved into development and package maintaining. My name is Jonas (my public key [1]), I'm 23 years old, computer science student in Karlsruhe, Germany. I switched to Linux in school while working voluntarily on a school server [2] and school internet cafe together with a class mate in our free time. Hacking on fun projects became on of my big hobbies and some of them are documented in my blog [3]. I get a lot of inspiration and exchange in my local hacker space, the Entropia e.V. [4] which is part of the CCC (Chaos Computer Club) [5] but also at work as a network administrator at the architecture faculty of my university. I love ArchLinux, using it on my servers (with several ArchLinux vms) and on my laptop, because it's simple, basic and fast. The wiki is also one of my favorite places in the community, because all the documentation is pragmatic and to the point. I constantly write new how-to's or improve instructions on other pages [6]. In my opinion, a well written Wiki/Doku, also for all the third-party software, is very important and one reason why I don't want to use Debian anymore for my projects. I learned how to write clean and sometimes complex PKGBUILDs over time and now maintaining up to 150 AUR packages [7]. Some of them are really important to me (using them on my server or integrated them to my projects) and I think also important to the community, so I would like to put them into the community repository. For example: archivemount, btar, dmtcp, etherpad-lite, freecad, gallery, gitlab, hlds, joomla, opentracker, pyload, python-libtorrent-rasterbar, sslstrip, etc. For other packages, I adopted them just to fix broken PKGBUILDs or I tried to port non-supported software to ArchLinux like Zenoss, oVirt or Kolab while working with their developers to improve ArchLinux support. At least, here are some of my experimental projects you can look at: p2pacman [8], pkgcheck [9], wikidict [10], carpc based on ArchLinux [11]. For further questions, you can find me on #archlinux at freenode or just ask them here on the mailinglist. Best regards, Jonas [1] http://onny.project-insanity.org/files/gpg.asc [2] http://www.project-insanity.org/blog/2010/06/03/dokumentation-zur-einrichtu… (text unfortunately in German) [3] http://project-insanity.org [4] https://entropia.de [5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Computer_Club [6] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Onny [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=onny&SeB=m [8] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=163362 [9] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=162816 [10] https://git.morbi-happens.de/onny/wikidict [11] http://www.project-insanity.org/blog/2012/10/10/archlinux-touchscreen-carpc…

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[aur-general] Dropping laptop-mode-tools to AUR
by Lukas Jirkovsky 03 Feb '14

03 Feb '14

I'm not using laptop-mode-tools for a long time now and recently I've got two bug reports that I don't really want to bother fixing (they are upstream problems). If nobody steps up to maintaining this package by the next Friday, I will drop it to AUR. Lukas

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[aur-general] Deletion request: opentracker, opentracker-latest, opentracker-open
by Jonas Heinrich 01 Feb '14

01 Feb '14

Hey, please delete following packages because all of them are covered by opentracker-git [1]: - opentracker [2] - opentracker-latest [3] - opentracker-open [4] Thank you and best regards, Jonas :) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opentracker-git [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opentracker/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opentracker-latest/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/opentracker-open/

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