Aur-general August 2017

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[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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] Request to add aspell-bn package to AUR repo
by Pavel Sayekat 26 Aug '17

26 Aug '17

Dear Team, Hi, I would like to add a PKGBUILD file for aspell-bn to the AUR repo for the convenience of Bengali language. So file is added in the attachment. Thanks, Pavel Sayekat

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[aur-general] Appending prefix with fileuri to filename in source array
by Tom Nguyen 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

I'm currently messing around with local kernel PKGBUILDs containing a lot git format-patches from many different sources. I could always source them locally, find very tricky conditions to patch them in order, or bulk rename them; but I was wondering if it was possible to download and append a prefix without manually copying the whole filename from the uri. Basically from this: "${_prefix}0001-PATCH.patch::${_uripath}/0001-PATCH.patch" to something like this "${_prefix}#URI::${_uripath}/0001-PATCH.patch" I'm not too sure how to approach this or whether this is possible, but I am curious nonetheless. Many thanks, Tom Nguyen

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[aur-general] Account suspended
by Кирилл Фёдоров 16 Aug '17

16 Aug '17

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[aur-general] patch for hypre package
by Wink Saville 12 Aug '17

12 Aug '17

I needed to update the the hypre package, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hypre/, as the PKGBUILD does not work in its current state, version 2.11.0 is no longer available. I created the following patch which allowed me to compile and install. What is the procedure for submitting a patch? $ cat diff-2.11.2.patch diff --git a/.SRCINFO b/.SRCINFO index 5e5609d..4f9d4b1 100644 --- a/.SRCINFO +++ b/.SRCINFO @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ # Typed up manually pkgbase = hypre pkgdesc = A library for solving large, sparse linear systems on massively parallel computers - pkgver = 2.11.0 + pkgver = 2.11.2 pkgrel = 1 url = http://acts.nersc.gov/hypre arch = i686 @@ -13,8 +13,8 @@ pkgbase = hypre depends = blas depends = lapack depends = superlu - source = http://computation.llnl.gov/project/linear_solvers/download/v2.11.0.tar.gz - md5sums = aeba702e1b6c6e9f7b7627e56c51ca69 + source = https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/hypre-scalable-linear-solvers-multigr… + md5sums = d507943a1a3ce5681c3308e2f3a6dd34 pkgname = hypre diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD index 30e812e..c26e6bd 100644 --- a/PKGBUILD +++ b/PKGBUILD @@ -1,28 +1,22 @@ # Maintainer: Alessandro G. Magnasco <alessandromagnasco at gmail dot com> # Contributor: Bertrand Lacoste <bertrandlacoste at gmail dot com> # Contributor: Tim Langlois <langlois at cs dot cornell dot edu> +# Contributor: Wink Saville <wink at saville dot com> pkgname=hypre -pkgver=2.11.0 -_suffix='babel' -## Use the source from petsc website, suffixed by _p1. Also change the source and checksums. -#_suffix='p1' +pkgver=2.11.2 +_suffix= pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A library for solving large, sparse linear systems on massively parallel computers" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://acts.nersc.gov/hypre" license=('lgpl') depends=('gcc-libs' 'gcc-fortran' 'openmpi' 'blas' 'lapack' 'superlu') -#OLD SOURCE source=( http://computation.llnl.gov/project/linear_solvers/download/${pkgname}-${pk… ) -source=( http://computation.llnl.gov/project/linear_solvers/download/v${pkgver}.tar.… ) -md5sums=('aeba702e1b6c6e9f7b7627e56c51ca69') - -# MIRROR -- OLD (NOT UP YET) -# source=( http://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/petsc/externalpackages/hypre-2.10.0b-p1.tar.gz) -# md5sums=('7aa49089176c8bef7f51a0234264f952') +source=( https://computation.llnl.gov/projects/hypre-scalable-linear-solvers-multigr… ) +md5sums=('d507943a1a3ce5681c3308e2f3a6dd34') build() { - _build_dir="${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_suffix}" + _build_dir="${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}${_suffix}" cd "${_build_dir}/src" @@ -42,14 +36,14 @@ build() { } check() { - _build_dir="${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_suffix}" + _build_dir="${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}${_suffix}" cd "${_build_dir}/src" make test } package() { - _build_dir="${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}-${_suffix}" + _build_dir="${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver}${_suffix}" cd "${_build_dir}/src" mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/lib ${pkgdir}/usr/include

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[aur-general] Bump pkgrel just to force recompilation
by Justus-dev＠Piater.name 10 Aug '17

10 Aug '17

Hi - I keep running into problems caused by stale installations from the AUR, such as upgraded, ABI-incompatible dependencies or Python packages still installed under /usr/lib/python3.5/ where they are no longer found since the move to python3.6. My understanding is that in such situations, the affected packages should bump pkgrel to force rebuild and reinstall, even if the source and the rest of the PKGBUILD remain unchanged. Is this understanding correct? If so, can this be clarified in places such as [1][2] where people cannot miss it? Confronted with this issue, some maintainers advise their users to just rebuild by hand, but that defeats part of the purpose of package management systems. I don't want to have to debug weird run-time errors one by one, trace the problem to this trivial issue, and then solve each of them by manual rebuild. Justus [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#pkgrel [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_User_Repository

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[aur-general] Package proprietary softwares with hard-coded paths within /usr/local?
by Chi-Hsuan Yen 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

Hello Arch enthusiasts, I'd like to create a package for Pulse Connect Secure, a popular VPN software. Current PKGBUILD can be found at [1]. That package works fine, but it conflicts with Arch's packaging guideline. [2] "Packages should never be installed to /usr/local" The reason I put files in /usr/local is that file paths are apparently hard-coded. Specifically, the VPN frontend (pulseUi) loads assets from /usr/local/pulse/html, and then it invokes /usr/local/pulse/pulsesvc to actually connects to VPN. Is there a workaround for this? Best, Yen Chi Hsuan [1] https://github.com/yan12125/aur/blob/master/pulse-connect-secure/PKGBUILD [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards#Package_etiqu…

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[aur-general] TU Application: Dan Printzell
by Dan Printzell 08 Aug '17

08 Aug '17

Hi Arch people. My name is Dan Printzell, but I often go by Wild/Vild or when I use an old account, WildN00b. I'm writing this TU application because I want to maintain the dlang packages that are currently orphaned or being dropped from [community]. I'm being sponsored by Johannes Löthberg. A little about me. I'm 21 years old programmer from Sweden. I'm currently studying game programming at BTH. On my freetime I'm usually code on my operating system that I'm writing in D from scratch [1]. I usually stream this development on my twitch channel [2]. The first time I touched Linux I believe was back in '08, when I was about 12. I order those free CD with Ubuntu and played around with it a lot. After that I have been switching between Windows and Linux distroes as my main driver depending on if I wanted to be productive and code, or if wanted to play games. I started to use Arch maybe 5-6 years ago, where the latest 4 years I have been using it as my main driver for all my computers. I think I choose Arch because pacman made sense to me compared to apt-{get,cache,whatever}. I created my first package about 3 years ago for my custom bar, but it is long gone after the AUR3 update. Around the same time I started to use dlang as my main language and I started to maintain a few -git packages for the different helper tools, and when the none -git packages got orphaned or dropped from [community] I took over them. If I were to become a TU I would want to maintain all the dlang packages that are orphaned in [community] [3]. I would also like to move these packages to [community]: - dcd [4] - dfmt [5] - dscanner [6] - dub [7] - workspace-d [8] TL;DR I use the D programming language, so I want to maintain it. Thanks Dan Printzell GPG KEY: 0x22E3B67B4A86FDE7 https://github.com/Vild/ https://vild.io/ [1] https://github.com/PowerNex/PowerNex [2] http://twitch.tv/wildn00b/ [3] https://www.archlinux.org/groups/x86_64/dlang/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dcd/ [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dfmt/ [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dscanner/ [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dub/ [8] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/workspace-d/

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[aur-general] acess scount
by Кирилл Фёдоров 06 Aug '17

06 Aug '17

I can not log into my account. My login: morteryler

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[aur-general] Fwd: AUR Cleanup Day September 20th
by Daniel M. Capella 02 Aug '17

02 Aug '17

Greetings, Let's bring back AUR Cleanup Day. Several people have signed a blood oath^w^w^w^wshowed an interest in participating, and as everyone knows, the AUR needs all the love we can spare. If any TUs could attend, it would be appreciated. See this[] wiki article for cleanup criteria and other details. The event will be all day September 20th -- mark your calendars. Join #archlinux-aur and BYOB. [] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day Best, polyzen PS: A duplicate of this email may show up on the ML in a day or so -- just disregard it. I initially sent this through archlinux.info a day or so ago, and got tired of waiting for it.

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