December 2018 - 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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] TU Application_R: Metal A-wing (a-wing)
by Metal A-wing 19 Jan '19

19 Jan '19

Hi everyone, I'm sorry, my last application was bad a few days ago. I (nickname a-wing) would like to apply to be a Trusted User. Chih-Hsuan Yen (yan12125) && Jiachen Yang (farseerfc) will be my sponsor. Some basic information about myself, My Chinese name is YongXin SHI. I am 23 years old, and I'm living in shenzhen, China. I am a Web Developer. uav cloud management system dev in UAV company. (not DJI) I mainly do programming in Ruby, JavaScript, PHP I use ruby on rails web-application framework Or express.js, Koa.js, and Frontend Single Page Application（SPA）use vue.js I use Chinese and English. My Blog is https://a-wing.top (Chinese) I started using Ubuntu in high school. And I use Debian at university. In 2017, I started Archlinux I also tried other distributions. linux mint, deepin linux, gentoo, centos I think dpkg package manage is too complicated, But .deb init did a lot of things that should not be done For example: Debian (deb) - If install postgresql, dpkg is help init DB to /var/lib/postgres , But I might migrate other databases. - I remember. once I install a dpkg pkg. but Always in the installing. Because detection /dev/** to init. - The complexity of dpkg makes problems difficult to fix manually - Packaging is too complicated, I have never learned how to packaging a standard deb Gentoo - If your computer CPU && mem too little.... _(:з」∠)_ - And C compile, python too coupling Centos (rpm) - No comment Archlinux - Easy to packaging - Makes problems easy to fix manually - wiki is very good About my involvement in Arch Linux, I have 11 packages on AUR [1]. I also maintains 52 packages in the unofficial [archlinuxcn] repo [2]. Also I developped a build status webpage, both the backend and the frontend, for archlinuxcn build server (lilac web status frontend).[3][4][5] About the packages I want to maintain in [community] 1.- ruby-rails - ruby-actioncable - ruby-websocket-driver - ruby-websocket-extensions - ruby-actionpack - ruby-rack-test - ruby-rails-dom-testing - ruby-rails-html-sanitizer - loofah - ruby-crass - ruby-nokogiri - ruby-activejob - ruby-globalid - ruby-activerecord - ruby-arel - ruby-activesupport - ruby-concurrent-ruby - ruby-i18n - ruby-minitest - ruby-tzinfo - ruby-actionmailer - ruby-actionview - ruby-builder - ruby-erubi - ruby-activemodel - ruby-activestorage - ruby-marcel - ruby-mimemagic - ruby-railties - ruby-method_source - ruby-sprockets-rails - ruby-sprockets 2.- ruby-pry - ruby-coderay - ruby-method_source 3.- frp Many Web app rely on ruby-rails: mastodon, discourse, redmine, gitlab(But. gitlab need special version), so I think packaging ruby-rails will greatly benefit arch linux users to do development and deployment on their favorite distro more easily. About frp, I think frp should split as frpc and frps Because. client and server will not be on the same computer I will also take over some packages from Felix Yan - ruby-bundler - trojan Thank you for your attention! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=a-wing [2] https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo/graphs/contributors [3] https://build.archlinuxcn.org/packages/ [4] https://github.com/a-wing/KISS2U [5] https://github.com/a-wing/KISS2UI

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[aur-general] TU application_R: Metal A-wing (a-wing)
by Metal A-wing 08 Jan '19

08 Jan '19

Hi everyone, I'm sorry, my last application was bad a few days ago. I (nickname a-wing) would like to apply to be a Trusted User. Chih-Hsuan Yen (yan12125) && Jiachen Yang (farseerfc) will be my sponsor. Some basic information about myself, My Chinese name is YongXin SHI. I am 23 years old, and I'm living in shenzhen, China. I am a Web Developer. uav cloud management system dev in UAV company. (not DJI) I mainly do programming in Ruby, JavaScript, PHP I use ruby on rails web-application framework Or express.js, Koa.js, and Frontend Single Page Application（SPA）use vue.js I use Chinese and English. My Blog is https://a-wing.top (Chinese) I started using Ubuntu in high school. And I use Debian at university. In 2017, I started Archlinux I also tried other distributions. linux mint, deepin linux, gentoo, centos I think dpkg package manage is too complicated, But .deb init did a lot of things that should not be done For example: Debian (deb) - If install postgresql, dpkg is help init DB to /var/lib/postgres , But I might migrate other databases. - I remember. once I install a dpkg pkg. but Always in the installing. Because detection /dev/** to init. - The complexity of dpkg makes problems difficult to fix manually - Packaging is too complicated, I have never learned how to packaging a standard deb Gentoo - If your computer CPU && mem too little.... _(:з」∠)_ - And C compile, python too coupling Centos (rpm) - No comment Archlinux - Easy to packaging - Makes problems easy to fix manually - wiki is very good About my involvement in Arch Linux, I have 11 packages on AUR [1]. I also maintains 52 packages in the unofficial [archlinuxcn] repo [2]. Also I developped a build status webpage, both the backend and the frontend, for archlinuxcn build server (lilac web status frontend).[3][4][5] About the packages I want to maintain in [community] 1.- ruby-rails - ruby-actioncable - ruby-websocket-driver - ruby-websocket-extensions - ruby-actionpack - ruby-rack-test - ruby-rails-dom-testing - ruby-rails-html-sanitizer - loofah - ruby-crass - ruby-nokogiri - ruby-activejob - ruby-globalid - ruby-activerecord - ruby-arel - ruby-activesupport - ruby-concurrent-ruby - ruby-i18n - ruby-minitest - ruby-tzinfo - ruby-actionmailer - ruby-actionview - ruby-builder - ruby-erubi - ruby-activemodel - ruby-activestorage - ruby-marcel - ruby-mimemagic - ruby-railties - ruby-method_source - ruby-sprockets-rails - ruby-sprockets 2.- ruby-pry - ruby-coderay - ruby-method_source 3.- frp Many Web app rely on ruby-rails: mastodon, discourse, redmine, gitlab(But. gitlab need special version), so I think packaging ruby-rails will greatly benefit arch linux users to do development and deployment on their favorite distro more easily. About frp, I think frp should split as frpc and frps Because. client and server will not be on the same computer I will also take over some packages from Felix Yan - ruby-bundler - trojan Thank you for your attention! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=a-wing [2] https://github.com/archlinuxcn/repo/graphs/contributors [3] https://build.archlinuxcn.org/packages/ [4] https://github.com/a-wing/KISS2U [5] https://github.com/a-wing/KISS2UI

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[aur-general] TU Application: Daniel M. Capella
by Daniel M. Capella 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

Hello, My name is Daniel M. Capella (aka polyzen), and I am applying to be a Trusted User with Ivy Foster's sponsorship. My current main interest lies in Rustlang-based blockchain/distributed app/cryptocurrency implementations; half for the tech, half so I can escape the world of indentured slavery, fearlessly. My dream for the future is to write software that will help increase the pace it takes science to build the world of tomorrow -- whatever that means. I watch too much sci fi. I hope you like lists as much as I apparently do. ---- Stats: - Arch vanilla user since 2013. ALARM user for my home servers since perhaps a year or two before then. For completion's sake, even before that I had used Ubuntu and Archbang. This year I will be getting the LPIC-2[1] certificate (may or may not be related to my LPIC-1 expiring this year ^^). - Held a workshop called "Git for Gits"[2] with meskarune under the Arch Linux Classroom. The class is (very) slowly being revamped for further sessions. - Coordinated AUR Cleanup Day 2017[3]. The original plan was for this to occur every other year, but the previous one was in 2010. I hope to continue the tradition of this occurring biennially. - Co-maintainer of pacman-contrib. Funny story: when I requested Git access, Florian gave it to me thinking I was Kyrias. ^^ I had a habit of nick (IRC) hopping back then. - Arch Linux Tester when I remember that's a thing I signed up for. - Relatively active with IRC and bug tracker support. - Very active with upstreams WRT packaging and then some. ---- Here follows the packages I'd like to move to and/or co-maintain in Community: - Packages I already maintain: - Automatic exception: - espeak-ng (accessibility) See also <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60618>. - Popular: - firefox-ublock-origin - firefox-umatrix - pulseaudio-dlna - python-black Maxim already plans to add this to the repos, but I would like to (co-)maintain this, being the original submitter (before it was merged into python-black due to the naming convention). - razercfg/razerd - 1% usage on pkgstats: - firefox-bookmarkdupes - firefox-multiple-tab-handler - firefox-referer-control - firefox-stylus - firefox-tab-flip-for-tree-style-tab - Firefox-tree-style-tab - termdown - tty-solitaire See <https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire/issues/29>. - There was consensus from a few TU's in #archlinux-aur on considering the popularity of release variants: - Popular: - shaderc (-git) See also <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58582>. - 1% usage on pkgstats: - gmailieer (-git) - termtosvg (-git) - Other users' AUR packages: - Popular: - alot - hsetroot - python-proselint - ttf-symbola - yamllint - 1% usage on pkgstats: - python-vint - skim - Repo packages: - Orphans in Extra that I have installed: - ttf-indic-otf - vulkan-icd-loader - Packages I submitted to the AUR that were adopted or were added to the repos without checking the AUR first :p: - asp - fd - newsboat ---- Notes from Ivy that may come up in reviews: - “These Node.js and mkchromecast packages give me nightmares.”: ..Okay, actually that was my response when he brought them up. mkchromecast has a setup.py for its next release. npm packages have no hope. I've had to change chown invocations far too many times. Please don't hate me. - “This isn't a technical critique; more of an aesthetic one that you probably shouldn't listen to. It would be slightly amusing to add firefox as an optdepends to firefox-* (-:”: firefox was removed as a dep for these to make it easier for people to use them with Palemoon and such. - Go package LDFLAGS: Will take care of this. - “hangups: "sed -i 's/==/>=/g' setup.py" -- why? Also, has that change been submitted upstream? It's minor, but if it fixes something it's probably worthwhile”: Has to be done for pinned outdated dependencies. - “razercfg: have you submitted that tmpfile.conf upstream? Also, re: the install file, I'm pretty sure that ldconfig happens automagically, and systemd-udev-reload.hook should handle reloading udev rules”: Will take care of this. - “shaderc: there were a lot of patches in prepare(), which I can say from experience probably won't go over super well. I'm guessing these probably are waiting on acceptance or something?”: See <https://github.com/google/shaderc/issues/392#issuecomment-427442293> and <https://github.com/google/shaderc/issues/424>. - “no need for install -m755; -m755 is the default”: Taking care of this. ---- Some notes of my own that could be added to the guidelines: - My Rust packages use published crates if available, eg.: `source=("diskus-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/diskus/$pkgver/download")` `--locked` will be used for those in due time: <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5654> - Similarly I source published npm packages, eg.: `source=("https://registry.npmjs.org/$pkgname/-/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz")` - The following can be used for GitHub releases (where $url is eg. <https://github.com/LegNeato/asciinema-rs>): - Before: `source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")` - After: `source=("$url/archive/v$pkgver/$pkgname-v$pkgver.tar.gz")` ---- Future activities in mind: - Automated release notifications, perhaps once we're closer to automated builds. Maybe with <https://release-monitoring.org/>. - AL onboarding site, unless a wiki article is sufficient. Could be nice to make <https://www.rustaceans.org/findwork> work with Bugzilla. ---- Thank you all for your consideration. Best, Daniel M. Capella / dmc / polyzen [1]: https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/summary-of-certifications [2]: https://archwomen.org/media/project_classroom/classlogs/2016-07-16-git_for_… [3]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2017-September/033557.html

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[aur-general] AUR Registration
by Bryan L. Gay 31 Dec '18

31 Dec '18

I've never been able to complete the AUR registration. I've searched my email, but see nothing has come through. My username, 'linuxninja' is registered, my SSH Key is used (can't use it to setup another account), but I get no emails when I try to reset password, and I can't login since I never completed the registration process. I think, but am not sure, that I used 'archlinux(a)bryangay.com' as my email address. Can I get assistance logging into my AUR account, please? Thanks!

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[aur-general] TU application: a-wing
by Metal A-wing 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

I want to push `ruby-rails` and `ruby-*` packages to the official repo

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[aur-general] General PKGBUILD and Instalation help.
by hagar 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

Merry Christmas all, I have been looking for a general PKGBUILD forum to get some help with some build problems. I have been trying to build the mingw packages using makechrootpkg -c I have built 436 out of 497 packages. There are a few corrections I have to submit. BUT There are a few issues that are quite simply driving me nuts. These PKGBUILD'S are supposed to have built at some point :} I have come across an interesting error with mingw-w64-python-setuptools Quite simply the package() function needs access to /tmp/ It uses wine to install the package. But the fakeroot wont allow wine access to /tmp/ ie - wine: chdir to /tmp/.wine-0/server-841-4e2c3c : Permission denied I have tried a few tricks - even invoking wineserver as a daemon at prepare() this either freezes the build process - or cant access /build/.wine Any clues or hints would be appreciated. Thanks Macca

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[aur-general] Spam accounts
by Luca Weiss 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sofia_bow1994 https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alicetaylor https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dpboss https://aur.archlinux.org/account/marymiller411 Thanks.

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[aur-general] TU application: Daurnimator
by Daurnimator 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, I'm applying to be a Trusted User; Foxboron has kindly sponsored me and has been mentoring me on the specifics over the last couple of months. I've been using Arch since 2010, having been present in #archlinux almost the whole time! Before that I was a Xubuntu user from approximately 2005. Before that I had flirted with Linux a few times, I think my first exploration of Linux was of Lindows back in 2001. With my programming hat on, I mainly use C and Lua, I'm quite heavily involved in the Lua community. I would like to become a trusted user with the primary goal of improving Arch's Lua packages. With my sysadmin hat on, I'm an admin at hashbang.sh, an online hackerspace/incubator. Amoung other services, we run public shell servers with a fully open configuration. At $DAYJOB roles I've been responsible for packaging and deployment on various Linuxes. With my networking hat on, I maintain a few nodes in Melbourne Wireless, a city-wide wireless network. This has taught me quite a lot about networking hardware and given me the chance to play with routing protocols. I also joined dn42 which is for lack of a better explanation "an internet of VPN tunnels". If accepted as a TU, I'd like to (co)maintain: - lua-expat - lua-filesystem - luajit - luarocks Other packages I'd be happy to co-maintain are: - awesome - jq - keepassxc - love - lua51-bitop - pcsclite - prosody - rlwrap - tig Regards, Daurnimator -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEHiYzy/cw8s5ux6twRbQpqPnZ0ioFAlv+qPYACgkQRbQpqPnZ 0ireMBAAg61vyyRBh0vbib22kCvfucbqFjzYV/E1gkgDpFo27tgZmBLvysA4AfhU wJQoyCDYJsGMzDC9sLmydmv9GG/QDtySYNia5HHglA8SE/EaNotS8lp1YEjRK0Pu GYpwksjQXRxexDvESsAdNatEh97/6SLbjy3zwGD+EJ7lMQ4LAWgFqW+w1a+u8o1l wnIt4CnSRk2gOuPVI3M3Ueub7/0afZvGp78GERtQ2DwRkUGxxmP7YQ1DtG/NPHzv KJMiCCHr2s+2ZTH4ajEzXOMg3zo6gZkG1/S7Y8MHo+l5lc3WOryBzfFOhQCbLCZb tl1d0bsue9+XIgR9taCog1pW+gYnpahBubl0XZQHg3v9YhepD78rAyhhx6VdfaxH ab6LY1tG16Jeh6QsxVX41+NHVFkEWIGnTVLnHvw4WV1l+I69jr6SB27PjTrwaPM9 d84ZDOUsTurSdTSL1VdCJCJopUQzD1YeHeNURyDfUtcf9FWR0EtPMvIj8+5X8hD+ homfISWdeZeBZ5pbwOgela4hKTdHuMTaJwkEP3DuqdqLKEWqM42WetBArfwEZsUV 4PfdyFjekAKcVJbPxmMSgw3NsPpUtYAEDLYo7U/WVOGtM6lxzL1yo2XTlPoEVqw7 3jDS/BcRpoBP8rvO2umEIz6b9/+EEVc0mtYEql3jxtfahEoA3pM= =bIKy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] AUR rate limiting
by Drew DeVault 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Following up from IRC. Hello! I run a public build service which has Arch Linux support and uses yay to install AUR packages when requested. I recently had some users running up against the AUR rate limit. The current rate limit window (1 day) seems a bit strict. Would it be possible to apply the rate limit hourly? Today it's 4000 requests per day, but ~166 requests per hour would be a similar load on the server but a bit more forgiving, users would only have to wait an hour before attempting their builds again. The long term solution is probably to mirror the AUR or adjust the approach to try and minimize API requests (perhaps by cloning the repos and sorting out dependencies by sourcing the PKGBUILDs.... would be a bit involved). Any thoughts or advice? -- Drew DeVault

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