April 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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] Renaming xiccd to colord-xiccd
by Alberto Salvia Novella 26 Apr '18

26 Apr '18

I want to propose this <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1781774>. Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

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[aur-general] git package policy
by Ralf Mardorf 19 Apr '18

19 Apr '18

Hi, I wonder if I'm too picky. Each time a new git commit is available, the pkgver of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-macos-sierra-archers-git/ gets increased, while nothing else changes. IMO it should stay untouched unless the dependencies, URL, sources, etc. change and perhaps if it's required to build against an updated lib, too. Regards, Ralf -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-pussytoes,-securityink,-cornflower,}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.16.2-2 4.14.34_rt27-1 4.14.29_rt25-1 4.14.28_rt23-1 4.14.24_rt19-1

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[aur-general] [Submission] nginx-http-flv-module
by Tony Zhou 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hello all, This is my first submission to AUR, the attachment is the PKGBUILD for nginx-http-flv-module, a media streaming module for nginx, based on the work of nginx-rtmp. It has all the features that nginx-rtmp has, and added the http trigger for flv streaming. With this, it is possible to create http request-triggered on-demand rtmp live flow. Reviews and comments are welcomed. Thanks, TZ

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[aur-general] Build packages without Arch on pkgbuild.com
by Pierre Neidhardt 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

I've recently written a paragraph on how to build Arch Linux packages on pkgbuild.com (a.k.a. soyuz): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#Remote_bui… To perform the complete operation on soyuz, we need to forward the gpg-socket (and the SSH socket if different) to soyuz, which defeats the PGP / Web of Trust security model: for a person with root access to soyuz, the private key is only one passphrase away. Thoughts? As I understand it for now, the full-PGP way to package on soyuz is to only run extra-x86_64-build there. All other operations can be run locally. The only area where I'm left in the dark is the "archrelease" step of "communitypkg": what's the equivalent on a foreign distribution? -- Pierre Neidhardt

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[aur-general] Attempt to upload llvm35 to AUR gets rejected
by Albert Graef 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

The llvm35 package recently got kicked from extra, but I need it for my Pure package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pure/) which in turn is needed for a bunch of other packages I maintain in the AUR. So I resurrected llvm35 from extra, brushed it up a little so that it compiles again (also bumped the package revision), and tried to upload it to the AUR under the previous package name llvm35. All I get is: Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 4.76 KiB | 2.38 MiB/s, done. Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: error: package already provided by []: llvm35 remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/llvm35.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/llvm35.git' My version of the PKGBUILD is available here: https://bitbucket.org/agraef/llvm35-pkgbuild It's a split package, but isn't that supposed to be supported by the AUR? Anything else wrong with it? Any help appreciated, many thanks in advance. Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany Email: aggraef(a)gmail.com WWW: https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef

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[aur-general] [PRQ#11055] Deletion Request for dnscrypt-proxy-go | [PRQ#11056] Deletion Request for dnscrypt-proxy-go-git
by Jordan Glover 05 Apr '18

05 Apr '18

Can we get more explanation for this? This isn't a version bump. This project was rewritten from scratch, the old sources are gone. The PKGBUILD was written from scratch, packagement solutions were upstreamed[1]. Upstream points specifically to this package[2]. Archlinux repo maintainer wasn't involved at all with those and there is no info if he's interested in maintaining the new v2 version. [1] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/commit/fa2c95084ef9b575bfbe62543… [2] https://github.com/jedisct1/dnscrypt-proxy/wiki/Installation-ArchLinux Jordan

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