November 2018 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] AUR package metadata dump
by Dmitry Marakasov 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hi! I'm maintainer of Repology.org, a service which monitors, aggregates and compares package vesion accross 200+ package repositories with a purpose of simplifying package maintainers work by discovering new versions faster, improving collaboration between maintainers and giving software authhors a complete overview of how well their projects are packaged. Repology does obviously support AUR, however there were some problems with retrieving information on AUR packages and I think this could be improved. The way Repology currently fetches AUR package data is as follows: - fetch https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.gz - split packages into 100 item packs - fetch JSON data for packages in each pack from https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info&arg[]=<packages> While fetching data from API, Repology does a 1 second pause between requests to not create excess load on the server, but there are still frequent 429 errors. I've tried 2 second delays, but the 429s are still there, and fetch time increases dramatically as we have to do more than 500 requests. Probably API is loaded by other clients as well. I suggest to implement a regularly updated JSON dump of information on all packages and make it available for the site, like packages.gz is. The content should be similar to what https://aur.archlinux.org/rpc/?v=5&type=info would return for all packages at once. This will eliminate the need to access the API and generate load on it, simplify and speed up fetching dramatically for both Repology and possible other clients. Additionally, I'd like to suggest to add information on distfiles to the dump (and probably an API as well for consistency). For instance, Repology checks availability for all (homepage and download) links it retreives from package repositories and reports broken ones so the packages could be fixed. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3(a)amdmi3.ru ..: https://github.com/AMDmi3

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[aur-general] Spam account: philipjoy6
by Tinu Weber 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

Hello Would somebody please take a look at this one? Thank you! https://aur.archlinux.org/account/philipjoy6 Best, Tinu

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[aur-general] chroot clean building and "http 429"
by hagar 16 Nov '18

16 Nov '18

G'Day all, I have been rebuilding all my packages properly in a clean chroot. I wwas writing a smaill script to put all the packages in order and I accidentaly got "http 429". Any Idea how long that lasts? - I figured out what caused it and fixed it. ( damned thing wasnt querying the PKGBUILDS but going online ). But my main question is how do you get around a circular dependancy. eg. mingw-w64-harfbuzz depends on - mingw-w64-freetype2 mingw-w64-freetype2 depends on -mingw-w64-harfbuzz You cant build one unless the other is already built. Is this allowed ? Thanks Macca

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[aur-general] Package present in aur-git, but not in the aur
by pianoslum 12 Nov '18

12 Nov '18

Hi@all, I searched whether elster (a program for German tax declaration) was present in the aur (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=elster) and found out it wasn't. When I finished my own PCKBUILD and tried to upload it, I noticed that there already was a git repo with that name (ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/elster.git). How can that be? While the original script is a meta package only, mine will download and install the latest version of the package via wine. Should I ask for deletion or what could I do? Original package maintainer is in CC. Cheers!

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[aur-general] Package requests
by Storm Dragon 10 Nov '18

10 Nov '18

Hi, I had made requests to orphan orca-git and speech-dispatcher-git because the maintainer has done nothing with them in quite a long time. I have had no luck contacting him either. It's been a week or so I think since I di the requests, and I was just wondering if maybe they slipped through the cracks. I know how busy this time of the year is. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/orca-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/speech-dispatcher-git/ Thanks for any help :) Storm -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Follow me on GNU Social: https://social.stormdragon.tk/storm "Mighty Elric, Mightier Sword. Sorcerer and Swordsman, slayer of kin, Lord of a dying race. King of ruin, dragon master, Champion of Doom." Domine - Chronicles of the Black Sword

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD git remote branch issue
by Ralf Mardorf 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Hi, building the Claws GTK3 port works, if I build from the branch like this: [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ git clone git://git.claws-mail.org/claws.git [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux tmp]$ cd claws [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ git fetch origin [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ git branch --track gtk3 origin/gtk3 Branch 'gtk3' set up to track remote branch 'gtk3' from 'origin'. [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ ./autogen.sh [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ ./configure --build=$HOSTTYPE-arch-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --disable-static --enable-enchant --enable-gnutls --enable-ldap --enable-crash-dialog --enable-pgpmime-plugin --enable-spamassassin-plugin --enable-bogofilter-plugin [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ sh version 3.17.0-153-gf4607b [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ make [snip] Done. [snip] If I try to build from the master with "--enable-gtk3" it fails, see: https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2018-November/023174.html A developer mentions that I should build from the gtk3 branch: https://lists.claws-mail.org/pipermail/users/2018-November/023176.html I commented out "#--enable-gtk3"... [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ grep HOST /usr/src/claws-mail-gtk3-git/PKGBUILD -B1 -A14 ./configure \ --build=$HOSTTYPE-arch-linux-gnu \ --prefix=/usr \ --disable-jpilot \ --disable-maintainer-mode \ --disable-manual \ --disable-static \ --enable-bogofilter-plugin \ --enable-crash-dialog \ --enable-enchant \ --enable-gnutls \ #--enable-gtk3 \ --enable-ldap \ --enable-pgpmime-plugin \ --enable-silent-rules \ --enable-spamassassin-plugin ...but don't know what "foo bar" to add to the source or how else to handle this by a PKGBUILD: [rocketmouse@archlinux claws]$ grep source /usr/src/claws-mail-gtk3-git/PKGBUILD source=('claws-mail::git://git.claws-mail.org/#FOO=BAR') Is there an easy way to do it? Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] mate-common-dev missing Source File
by Dan Sommers 07 Nov '18

07 Nov '18

Greetings, I tried to install mate-common-dev¹ this morning, but it fails to download its source file²: -> Downloading mate-common-1.21.0.tar.xz... [... curl progress meter skipped ...] curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 404 Not Found ==> ERROR: Failure while downloading http://pub.mate-desktop.or/releases/1.21/mate-common-1.21.0.tar.xz Aborting... I checked the source directory,³ and sure enough, there is no mate-common tarball there. A lot of other mate-*-dev packages depend on mate-common-dev; what's the easiest path forward to a mate-desktop-dev installation? Thanks, Dan ¹ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mate-desktop-dev/ ² http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.21/mate-desktop-1.21.3.tar.xz ³ http://pub.mate-desktop.org/releases/1.21/

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[aur-general] TU Application: Daniel Bermond (dbermond)
by Daniel Bermond 06 Nov '18

06 Nov '18

Hi, My name is Daniel Bermond and my alias on the AUR and forums is dbermond[1][3]. Bruno Pagani (alias: ArchangeGabriel) is sponsoring my Trusted User application. I would like to highly thank Bruno for accepting to be my sponsor. I'm a Brazilian doctor (physician). Yes, my job and profession are not related to the computing world, but since childhood I'm an enthusiast of the computing and software world. I've beeing using Linux since many years ago, and it's difficult to tell when I started, but it has been a long time. By searching in the middle of some old things here I could find some old Ubuntu CD-ROMs of the 7.04 (2007) version from the time they still shipped free disks worldwide, so I can for sure say that I have 11 years of Linux usage at minimum. But my initial Linux usage starts even before this, with some old RedHat distribution that didn't run very well on my poor graphics card, at a time that I cannot tell precisely. For many years I did the famous distro-hopping and have used many major distributions: openSUSE, Fedora, Mandrake/Mandriva (when they still existed), PCLinuxOS, Ubuntu and variants, Mint and probably others. I have started to use Arch in 2015. At that time I was at Linux Mint and feel the need for something better and different. I found myself in need of more recent software, being disappointed with the Mint/Ubuntu outdated ones. I was also very tired to reinstall the system every one (or two) year(s). When Mint went for shipping LTS-only releases, I decided that a rolling release distribution should be my new place. By already having many years of Linux usage and experience in the background, Arch was everything that I was looking for. Added the fact of being able to fully customize my system by building packages that could be easily integrated in the system with pacman. After felling confident with Arch itself, I've started to contribute packages to the AUR. I can perfectly remember my first one: ffmpeg-full-git. It was, and still is, a pleasure to maintain it, firstly because I was in need for it, and, secondly, because I was contributing back to the community something that was useful for me. Things evolved quickly, I started to maintain more and more packages that I was also in need for, while adopting other orphaned ones, and currently I'm the maintainer of 170+ packages[2]. Some of the packages that I maintained were already brought into the official repositories: - ffnvcodec-headers - intel-gmmlib (formerly named gmmlib on the AUR, adopted by my sponsor Bruno) - intel-media-driver (adopted by my sponsor Bruno Pagani) - libraqm - nccl - pybind11* (TU Santiago announced me that he will bring it into [community]) Among the years, I've studied C, x86 assembly, Python and shellscript. I'm trying to add C++ to the list, already started it, but still need to find more time to dedicate to it. I've made some contributions to the open source world. I have a project of my own called screencast[4], which is a command line interface to record a X11 desktop using FFmpeg, having support for offline recording, live streaming and the capability of adding some effects. It's written in pure POSIX/portable shellscript. Besides this, I've made a few commits here and there into the following open source projects: caffe2[5] (now on pytorch github repository), intel gstreamer media SDK[6][7] and intel media sdk[8]. So I also try to contribute back to some upstream projects when my not-so-wide programming skills allow me. I also report bugs to the upstream open source projects for packages which I maintain on the AUR if I encounter some that affects the building process or my direct usage. I would like to become a Trusted User to be able to contribute to the Arch community as much as I can. I would like to bring the following packages into [community]: - advancecomp - kvazaar - intel-media-sdk - libmysofa - openh264 - shine - vmaf I'm also willing to co-maintain my already mentioned old AUR packages. It would be a pleasure. I think that's all. Thanks to everyone that is reading and analysing my application. Best regards, Daniel Bermond [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dbermond [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&K=dbermond [3] https://github.com/dbermond/ [4] https://github.com/dbermond/screencast/ [5] https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch/commits?author=dbermond [6] https://github.com/intel/gstreamer-media-SDK/commits?author=dbermond [7] https://github.com/intel/gstreamer-media-SDK/commits/topic_linux_and_window… [8] https://github.com/Intel-Media-SDK/MediaSDK/commits?author=dbermond

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[aur-general] RFC: PKGBUILD for nixnote2-release-bin
by Tom Hale 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Could I please have comments on the below (and attached) PKGBUILD for nixnote2-release-bin. To pre-empt some comments: 1) This will download the latest binary from GitHub. I'm open to a different package name to denote that it's not a '-git' or build-from-latest-source-code, but rather a build-from-latest-binary-release. You may say that building from latest binary release against the packaging guidelines, but I can't see where. Please see prior art regarding this at: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1811590#p1811590 2) There is already a '-git' version of this package, but I want to provide another option which: * Is more stable - based on versioned releases rather than the 'continuous' branch. * Has a quicker install - doesn't require waiting for compiling Question: I've found that even with pointing the .desktop file explicitly at the pathname of the icon, xfce4 still doesn't pick it up. Why not? =============================================================== # Maintainer: Tom Hale <tom[noodle]hale[point]ee> # Contributor: twa022 <twa022 at gmail dot com> OPTIONS=(!strip) # Stripping an AppImage renders it non-functional _pkgname=nixnote2 pkgname=${_pkgname}-release-bin pkgver=2.1.0.beta4 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc='Evernote clone (formerly Nevernote) - latest binary release' url="https://github.com/robert7/$_pkgname" arch=(x86_64) license=(GPL3) depends=(hicolor-icon-theme zlib) makedepends=(git) conflicts=(nixnote2-git) provides=("nixnote=${pkgver%.r*}" "$_pkgname=${pkgver%.r*}") replaces=(nevernote nixnote nixnote-beta) source=("$pkgname:desktop.patch") sha256sums=(4f12cddc49e0c694f41e344acebc0d8a3bce07a3496098eb2fae258ba9044967) noextract=("${source[@]%%::*}") # Don't extract anything _version_file=$pkgname-PKGBUILD-version # For version from the download URL _appimage_path=$(curl -s 'https://github.com/robert7/nixnote2/releases' | sed -En 's:.*(/releases/download/v[^"/]+/[^"/]+[Aa]pp[Ii]mage)".*:\1:p' | head -n1) _appimage=${_appimage_path##*/} # basename of AppImage prepare() { wget -N "$url/$_appimage_path" # Only download again if server version is newer # Make download executable chmod 755 "$_appimage" # Extract user resources from inside the AppImage # All files in the directories specified are extracted # Note that --appimage-extract currently doesn't support recursive extraction: # https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/370 local extract_dirs=(usr/share/applications usr/share/man/man1 usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps usr/share/nixnote2 usr/share/nixnote2/help usr/share/nixnote2/translations) # Due to this issue, all --appimage-extract target directories must already exist # https://github.com/AppImage/AppImageKit/issues/363 local dir for dir in "${extract_dirs[@]}"; do mkdir -p squashfs-root/"$dir" "./$_appimage" --appimage-extract "$dir/*" done # Save version of extracted files for pkgver() in `makepkg -e` [[ $_appimage_path =~ /releases/download/v([^/]+).* ]] local version=${BASH_REMATCH[1]} echo ${version//-/.} >| "$_version_file" rm -r squashfs-root/usr/share/"$_pkgname"/{java,images} # Remove non-human resources # Directories are extracted with no permissions for group and other. Fix: find squashfs-root -type d -exec chmod go+rx -- {} + # Have the .desktop point explicitly at the icon patch -d squashfs-root/usr/share/applications < "$pkgname:desktop.patch" } pkgver() { cat "$_version_file" } package() { cd "$pkgdir" # User resources cp -pr "$srcdir"/squashfs-root/usr . # AppImage as /usr/bin/nixnote2 for .desktop file install -Dm755 -T "$srcdir/$_appimage" usr/bin/"$_pkgname" } -- Tom Hale

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[aur-general] Searching the mailing list archives
by Tom Hale 05 Nov '18

05 Nov '18

Is there any way to search this mailing list's archives? I could only find archives, but not searchable ones at: https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general -- Tom Hale

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