May 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in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums.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] upgrade of "conf.d/*.conf"-style packages containing example configs
by J. Konrad Tegtmeier-Rottach 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi, I've run into a general issue with software packages that use a configuration directory, aggregate configs therein using a glob rule on the filenames, and contain an example config. An example is `community/consul`, which - globs for `/etc/consul.d/*.{hcl,json}` - contains `/etc/consul.d/example.json` When I configure these types of software first I delete the example file, and then place additional configs in that directory, with everything working as expected. Then an upgrade for that package rolls around, and the example config is recreated. This usually means that as soon as the software reloads, the recreated example config gets loaded, too, and the software tends to fail or behave in byzantine ways. After consulting the wiki about this [0], I had assumed that this is the "original = X, current = Y, new = X" case and the example config shouldn't be recreated, but it seems deletion isn't handled the same as modification here. (.pacnew files aren't an issue since the glob rule is in place) What is the proper way to deal with these example configs? Truncate them to force the XYX upgrade case, which seems hacky? Set `NoUpgrade` [1] in the PKGBUILD, assuming this is applicable here? I ask this here because my `aur/nomad-bin` package has this exact problem. Regards, KT [0] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman/Pacnew_and_Pacsave#.pacnew [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman#Skip_file_from_being_upgraded

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[aur-general] Packaging all CRAN packages for R
by Alex Branham 31 May '18

31 May '18

Hi all - I'd like to use pacman to manage R packages, similar to how you can for other languages (e.g. the python packages are all named python-*). There are some packages available already, but not many (I count about 130 currently). I wrote a script[1] that generates PKGBUILDS for all the packages on the Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN). There's 12,593 packages on CRAN as of today. If you evaluate the script, then call write_all_pkgbuilds(), R will put each PKGBUILD into PKGBUILDS/r-cran-<pkgname>/PKGBUILD. Here's an example of the output.[2] It doesn't generate .SRCINFO or setup a git repo (yet). It also doesn't take into account (yet) that there are already 130ish R packages on the AUR. I named them r-cran-* rather than r-* because 1) it's clearer where the packages are coming from and 2) it's a pain to search for r-* Is this something people would like to have in the AUR? I figured I should ask before adding ~12.5k packages. Any and all comments/feedback appreciated! Thanks, Alex Footnotes: [1] https://github.com/jabranham/r-cran-pkgbuilds/blob/master/gen-R-PKGBUILDS.R [2] # Maintainer: Alex Branham <email-address-removed> _cranname=A3 _cranver=1.0.0 pkgname=r-cran-a3 pkgver=1.0.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Supplies tools for tabulating and analyzing the results of predictive models. The methods employed are applicable to virtually any predictive model and make comparisons between different methodologies straightforward." url="https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/${_cranname}/index.html" arch=('x86_64') license=('GPL') depends=('r-cran-xtable' 'r-cran-pbapply') optdepends=('r-cran-randomforest' 'r-cran-e1071') source=("https://cran.r-project.org/src/contrib/${_cranname}_${_cranver}.tar.gz") md5sums=('027ebdd8affce8f0effaecfcd5f5ade2') package() { mkdir -p ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/R/library cd ${srcdir} R CMD INSTALL ${_cranname} -l ${pkgdir}/usr/lib/R/library }

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Pierre Neidhardt 31 May '18

31 May '18

I've stopped using Arch ever since I've switched to GuixSD[1] (a functional-oriented distribution focusing on reproducible builds and completely custimizable in Guile Scheme) and it's now quite clear that there will be no coming back. My involvement in this new project and in others (Emacs, Next Browser[2]) takes a lot more time than what I can afford into maintaining my Arch packages. I have a bunch of out-of-date packages in [community]: - emms - qutebrowser - udiskie - uncrustify Other [community] packages: - catdvi - ccrypt - dtach - fzf - gtypist - mu (A user requested that we built msg2pdf as part of the package) - pdfjs (optional for qutebrowser) - pstotext - python-keyutils (required by udiskie) - python-pypeg2 (require by qutebrowser) - tcc - trash-cli - xcape - xss-lock And on the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=Ambrevar&SeB=m I hope the Arch community keeps up with the good work! Cheers! [1] https://www.gnu.org/software/guix/ [2] http://next-browser.com/ -- Pierre Neidhardt

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[aur-general] Basilisk pkgbuild is facing a trademark violation?
by Fabio Loli 22 May '18

22 May '18

Mattatobin, of which you can read here https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/issues/86 Have made this (edited) comment in the AUR webpage asking for removal https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/basilisk You do realize this package is completely insane. I want you to remove any remaining Basilisk branding and use of the name including in the desktop file and this very package from AUR that you are obviously squatting on.

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[aur-general] [PATCH] upgpkg: qutebrowser 1.3.0-1
by Jay Kamat 22 May '18

22 May '18

Hi, The qutebrowser package in community has been behind for quite a while, and unfortunately it fails to start on qt 5.11, so it would be nice to have it bumped before that happens. I noticed that the install fails when bumping the version, due to adding a PREFIX variable instead of hardcoding /usr: https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/pull/3844 Per the packaging standards here, this should be /usr/ instead of /usr/local, so I changed it back, and it seems to work properly again: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_packaging_standards Here is the finished patch. Let me know if anyone sees any issues, this is my first time working with arch packaging. -Jay I sent this email to the list before subscribing, please don't approve that one, as I resent it here.

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[aur-general] Rustup in [community] is making rust-nightly-bin, cargo-nightly-bin and rust-always-nightly obsolete?
by Fabio Loli 19 May '18

19 May '18

Rustup download the latest nightly releases without effort, so these AUR package are just duplicates and should be removed?

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[aur-general] spammer account in aur
by LoneVVolf 17 May '18

17 May '18

Check https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/indicator-bulletin-git/?comments=all It does look to me like that tyson24 account belongs to a spambot OR the email addy has been infected by spambots. Can a TU look into this ? LW

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[aur-general] Advice needed on bundling a specific Python library
by Simon Perry 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hi all, I'm the maintainer of pyfa [1][2], a tool for EVE Online players. I was wondering if I could get some advice on how to include an arbitrary version of a Python library into the package? The problem is that the current version of python-wxpython in community has a bug that causes the latest version of pyfa to crash, and the pyfa developers have set a hard requirement of wxPython == 4.0.0b2 [3] (the issue will apparently by fixed in 4.0.2). What's the best or most elegant way to handle this? The only thing I can think of is using pip to install this version into my $pkgdir and setting PYTHONPATH in the startup shell script to force pyfa to use the bundled version. However, I'm not sure of this and would like any pointers or better a better way to handle it. Cheers. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pyfa/ [2] https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa [3] https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa/blob/master/requirements.txt -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[aur-general] Deletion of discord-updater{,-canary}?
by Morgan Adamiec 10 May '18

10 May '18

discord-updater is quite a confusing package to me. I'm not sure is I should file a deletion request for it. When discord needs an update it will refuse to start until it is updated. This package appears to be designed to download the latest discord .tar.gz and extract it to ~/.local. By passing the need to wait for updates on the main discord AUR package. My question here is does this count as a duplicate to discord? And even if it does not should this really be in the AUR in the first place? It is just a simple script really. For future reference I would appreciate if anyone can tell me the correct place to send this sort of thing. Here, to aur-requests or type it into the request box on the AUR page. Also on a similar topic, the package discord-always-canary was removed from the AUR by Eschwartz. This package is essentially discord-canary with a pkgver() function. Meanwhile firefox-always-nightly is still on the AUR and is essentially the same idea. Is there a reason the discord-always-canary can not exist, similar to pkg and pkg-git? I get they comparison is not exactly the same because both discord packages source stable versions. Instead would it be a good idea to add a pkgver() function to the main discord packages? As mentioned discord will refuse to start when out of date, so most users are stuck waiting for the maintainer to update it.

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