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out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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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Ahoi,
I'm building a AUR wrapper and I would like to display the package
groups next to the search results when someone searches for a package
like pacman does it for official repos.
In the wiki [1] it says that the output of the aur rpc is just a list
of info request outputs. But when I'm doing a search [2] I don't get the
extra info I get with a info request [3].
What I would need is the "Groups" info. Could this be added to the list
of elements that a normal search returns?
It would speed up my wrapper alot. Atm I'm doing info requests for
every single package that I get in the search request and I really
don't like that. :/
[1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AurJson#search_2
[2]:
https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unrealtourn…
[3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=unrealtournament
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Greetings
Ricardo Band
https:// www.ricardo.band
mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band
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https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rage-git
Is gone but repo is alive:
git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git
Works. As does:
git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/rage-git.git
And I see no removal request on aur-requests:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/
(downloaded full mbox archive):
$ grep rage-git aur-requests.mbox
sickrage-git [3]:
[3] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/sickrage-git/
No rage-git.
What happened? It's unmaintained because it doesn't build (since July 20 when I
removed the autotools based build upstream and moved to meson as the build
system). I put in a comment on the pkg page that the AUR pkg build was broken
ages ago and offered to take over maintenance in the package comments but got
no reply and now the package page at least has disappeared.
How about restoring it? I can also take over maintenance as I have kept a git
clone of rage-git and moved it to meson locally (have not pushed). I also now
maintain efl-git and enlightenment-git too (rage-git depends on efl).
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Carsten Haitzler - raster(a)rasterman.com
Hello, all. :)
My name is Eli Schwartz, better known as eschwartz on the forums[1],
AUR[2], bugtracker[3], wiki[4] general mailing lists, IRC, and generally
everywhere I can stick my nose in. With the aid of Bartłomiej
Piotrowski, I am applying today to become a TU.
I'm 24 years old, and currently studying Computer Science in the United
States.
I've been interested in Linux ever since I was first introduced to it in
high school, when I asked "what would be the best Linux distro to
install if I really want to learn how things work", and I was
recommended to try out Arch Linux. It's a choice I haven't regretted since!
Outside of Linux my main hobby is books/ebooks (primarily SF&F of all
sorts). I have leveraged this nicely to feed back into software which
deals with ebooks. :)
...
I've now been an active member of the Arch Linux community for
approximately 3.5 years, and in that time I've become a member of the
Arch Bug Wranglers team, given an Arch Classroom tutorial[5],
contributed a few small patches to various Arch projects, mainly
pacman[6], and generally hung out on the forums and in IRC, trying to be
helpful. Recently I've been doing a bit of general helping out in
#archlinux-reproducible[7] as well.
I've always been especially interested in packaging for Arch Linux, and
have reviewed many PKGBUILDs on this mailing list as well as in the AUR
Issues, Discussion & PKGBUILD Requests subforum and in #archlinux-aur,
written a popular script for maintaining AUR packages[8], and featured
the topic of packaging for Arch Linux in the above-mentioned Arch
Classroom tutorial. I anticipate doing all^W^W^Wmost of this in a
somewhat more formal role. :)
I would like to become a TU in order to contribute more to Arch Linux in
general (because it would be a shame to miss out on one particular angle
I guess). It would also give me more scope to help fix simple packaging
bugs that come up on the bugtracker, help resolve some policy TODOs[9],
fix packages which no longer build due to e.g. missing sources (many
such packages have been discovered in part due to the valiant efforts of
Reproducible Arch Linux and Arch Linux 32), and of course to bring some
packages to [community] that I feel would do well there.
If given the opportunity, I would consider bringing the following
packages to community:
- firefox-extension-https-everywhere (I conmaintain this)
- fanficfare (I maintain this)
- git-crypt
- advancecomp
- llpp
- wikicurses
- ghi
- dtrx
- checkbashisms
I would adopt the cinnamon desktop packages, as faidoc is not very
active currently and arojas, who currently builds them, says he'd prefer
someone who actually uses it to do so.
I've also received permission to comaintain sigil and qbittorrent, as
well as calibre and its dependencies (I maintain the -git packages for
all three in the AUR, and have contributed most of the calibre PKGBUILD
as well).
[1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=84187
[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&SB=n&K=Eschwartz
[3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/?project=0&do=user&id=19965
[4] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Special:Contributions/Eschwartz
[5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Classroom#Previous_classes
[6] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pacman/commits/queue?author=eli-schwartz
[7] https://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/archlinux.html
[8] https://github.com/eli-schwartz/pkgbuilds
[9] https://www.archlinux.org/todo/
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Eli Schwartz
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Ahoi,
I'm trying to find out how I can search for multiple words with the AUR
RPC interface.
Using something like pacaur gives me 5 results:
pacaur -Ss unreal
bonus aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack1 20000225-3 (2, 0.00)
Bonuspack 1: The Epic Pack for Unreal Tournament.
aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack2 20000104-3 (2, 0.00)
Bonuspack 2: The Digital Extremes Pack for Unreal Tournament.
aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack3 20000511-3 (2, 0.00)
Bonuspack 3: The Inoxx Pack for Unreal Tournament.
aur/unrealtournament-bonuspack4 20001223-3 (2, 0.00)
Bonuspack 4: The Christmas 2000 Pack for Unreal Tournament.
aur/ut2004-cbp 1-1 (0, 0.00)
Community Bonus Pack 1 & 2 for Unreal Tournament 2004 (ut2004)
This only searches for bonus and gives me 6 results:
https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal&arg=…
These searches for the exact term and gives me zero results:
https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal,bonushttps://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal+bonushttps://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg=unreal%20bo…
This gives me an error saying "Query arg too small."
https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=search&by=name-desc&arg[]=unreal&ar…
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Greetings
Ricardo Band
https:// www.ricardo.band
mailto:// email(a)ricardo.band
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Hello,
I was looking for the nfqueue-bindings pkg in aur and found a mail thread
from 2013:
https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-November/026059.html
Basically it was merged at some point to python2-nfqueue, but then the pkg
was lost somewhere.
Does anybody know how to get it, by any chance?
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Leo.
I am going to upgrade guix to 0.14.0 on AUR. It requires a new library
called 'guile-git', which is a guile binding for libgit2 and it can be
found on https://gitlab.com/guile-git/guile-git. However, there is
already a package called guile-git on AUR, which is the git snapshot
version of 'guile' package. What is the recommended name for this new
package to avoid conflict?
I've stopped using fzf a while back and I'm not interested in
maintaining its community package anymore.
Anybody happy to take over?
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Pierre Neidhardt