September 2019 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd
by kpcyrd 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hello, My name is kpcyrd and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with anthraxx', sangys and jelles sponsorship. I'm interested in rust, defensive programming and offensive security tooling. Open source became an essential part of my life at some point and the idea of contributing back to the community that gave me so much for free kept me going the last few years. I worked as both a software and IT security engineer in the past and I currently do a combination of both as a contractor. --- … [View More]

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2019
by Daniel M. Capella 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

Do you like popping other people's pimples? Gross, me neither. Anyways, next Friday is our bi-yearly AUR Cleanup Day -- join #archlinux-aur and BYOB. The wiki article[1] has instructions for how to proceed and space to compile our list of candidates. Here's[2] an example from a previous rendition of Purge Day. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=AUR_Cleanup_Day/2010&oldid=353326 -- Good hunting, Daniel <https://danielcapella.com>

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[aur-general] TU application: Jonas Witschel (diabonas)
by Jonas Witschel 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi all, my name is Jonas Witschel (online nick "diabonas" on the AUR/GitHub/GitLab/...) and I am applying as an Arch Linux Trusted User under the sponsorship of Bruno Pagani and Alad Wenter. A few words about myself: I am a math PhD student and long-time Linux user. I switched to Arch Linux around 2016 because I like the idea of a rolling release distribution that stays close to upstream, which is especially beneficial when doing software development. I got more actively involved in … [View More]contributing to Arch when the previous AUR maintainer of the tpm2-software stack (tpm2-tss, tpm2-abrmd and tpm2-tools) orphaned these packages, so I took over maintenance until they were adopted to [community]. I am interested in many security-related thing such as Secure Boot, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), disk encryption, PGP, ... As such, I am a member of the tpm2-software organisation and a maintainer of tpm2-totp [1]. Recently I have been working on getting Web Key Directory support into pacman for fetching PGP keys independently of the key server network [2,3]. A repository of all my AUR packages can be found on Gitlab [4]. If I were accepted as a trusted user, I would take over maintenance of the tpm2-software stack from my sponsor Bruno Pagani. This makes sense since I am an upstream member of tpm2-software anyway and had been maintaining these packages until they were adopted to [community]. Another long-time goal as a trusted user would be getting out of the box Secure Boot support for the Arch Linux installation images [5,6]. Packages I would like to adopt from the AUR to [community] for starters are: - The rest of the tpm2-software stack: tpm2-tss-engine and tpm2-totp (when they have reached the 1% usage from pkgstats/10 votes on the AUR threshold), tpm2-pkcs11-git (as soon as it gets a release). - clevis and tang (and their dependencies jose, luksmeta) - sbupdate-git (I need to speak to upstream about making a release first) - paperkey - cryptomator - deheader - texworks - pdftk-java (an exact Java reimplementation of the very popular pdftk/pdftk-bin, which is hard to package since it relies on an outdated version of GCC) I am looking forward to working with you and welcome any questions and comments! Cheers, Jonas [1] https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-totp [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63171 [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2019-July/023493.html [4] https://gitlab.com/diabonas/aur-packages [5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53864 [6] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2019-January/003891.html [View Less]

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[aur-general] spam messages
by Lone_Wolf 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi, cndrvcups-lb gained a new spam message, and I also listed older ones. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-709467 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-702798 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701682 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701681 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695882 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/… [View More]

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Re: [aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd
by Giancarlo Razzolini 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Levente Polyak via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> writes: > > > > I'm hereby confirming my sponsorship. kpcyrd is a friend of mine in > both, cyber- and meatspace. He is a very kind person and I like his way > of thinking. His technical skills would be a great benefit for the TU > community. > Even though I'm not one of kpcyrd sponsors, I can vouch for him as well. Given that I've worked with him in the past. He's a very nice person to work with and … [View More]

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[aur-general] Why keeping OpenRC related packages on AUR?
by fredbezies 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hello. Note: posting in the right mailing list now. Oops! I hope it is the right place to discuss about this issue. I noticed there is a lot of OpenRC related packages on AUR. I don't want to start a flamewar, I just want to know what is going on with these PKGBUILDs. A quick search gave me 42 answers - some not related to this init system - 95% of them last updated between 2015 and 2018. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=openrc Is there any interest of keeping these PKGBUILDs?… [View More]

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[aur-general] Naming issue of mysql-shell and (possibly) request for adoption
by Frederick Zhang 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hi all, I am writing about the naming issue that I noticed about the AUR package mysql-shell, i.e. I reckon it's better to rename it to mysql-shell-bin since MySQL Shell is an open-source project and the package actually downloads the prebuilt Ubuntu package. I tried reaching out to Raphaël, who is the current maintainer, via the website comments and flagged it out-of-date on 05 Aug but so far I've got no response. The maintainer's account seems to still be active (package openrefine, which … [View More]

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[aur-general] TU membership application
by Jean Lucas 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi all, My name is Jean Lucas, and I'm sending this email to submit my candidacy for Trusted User member. As per the latest TU bylaws, I'm being sponsored by both Alexander Rødseth and Sergej Pupykin. I've been an Arch Linux user since around a little before I registered my AUR account (January 2015, username "flacks" [1]), and I've recently had a few of my packages adopted into [community], namely "cage", "coturn", and "swaybg". I'm currently a computer science student with a particular … [View More]

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[aur-general] Spam from user stupidblogger
by Michael Duell 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

User: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/stupidblogger spamming here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-studio/#comment-707098

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[aur-general] Rescinding my TU application
by Jean Lucas 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Hello all, I am sending this notice to formally announce the rescinding of my TU application sent on August 16th. I'd like to thank everyone for their feedback, as well as apologize for not taking the time to better prepare and iron out all the details with my sponsors. Cordially, Jean Lucas

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[aur-general] spam comments
by Lone_Wolf 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi, please remove some spam comments from cndrvcups-lb package . https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704963 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704962 user account is https://aur.archlinux.org/account/shandireza , please disable. I'm 99% sure I've seen that homepage listed with many other spam accounts, is there a way to block certain homepages from registering ? Lone_Wolf

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[aur-general] Packaging a go application
by Rhys Perry 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi, I am currently trying to package an application for use in the aur. The problem I am having is the install() section. The only thing i need to be done is for the package to move '$srcdir/$_gitname/fathom' into '/bin/'. How would I turn that into a .tar.gz? Sorry if my question doesn't make sense, but here is my current PKGBUILD (it is not finished as I can't seem to get git to provide a version) ####### PKGBUILD STARTS HERE ####### pkgname="fathom-git" pkgrel=1 pkgver="i.dont.know.what.to.… [View More]

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[aur-general] Spam user report: melissareese
by Stanislav Seletskiy 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Profile: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/melissareese/ Spam message: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ash-mailcap-autoview/#comment-706920 -- Stanislav

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[aur-general] Followup on comaintainers and maintainers help requests
by Sapphira Armageddos 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

(( the following post is a cross post of the forum post here - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1861865 )) Since making the previous post about retiring my AUR account, the following occurred to me. * I still like doing AUR work. But it's not something I can reliably provide like before. So I'm not sure how to handle being able to do it on the sidelines without making myself seem unavailable on purpose. * People might not be willing to pick up a package after it's been orphaned … [View More]

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[aur-general] Spam users: garrlee and harrywepich9
by Mark Weiman 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

My turn! I've got a couple of spam comments on [1] from the latest two comments. Mark Weiman [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-latex/

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[aur-general] Update: disklow
by Holger Jahn 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Good day, Please find attached the updated disklow PKGBUILD. Notable changes: source() tarball now on source server where it belongs, added a landing page for url(), and using sha256sums() for checksumming. Let me know if this latest version is passing the quality bar for introduction to AUR. Many thanks, Holger

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[aur-general] New package: disklow
by Holger Jahn 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Good evening, If someone would be interested in reviewing my first contribution to Arch, disklow, then that would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Holger

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Re: [aur-general] Retiring my account, orphaning some packages.
by Matthew Sexton 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:41 AM Aniket Pradhan <aniket17133 at iiitd.ac.in> wrote: > I would request the interested people to have a look at my profile [1] > which states the packages I am maintaining currently. If you want to > maintain/adopt some package, shoot an e-mail in the same thread (no > personal e-mails would be considered). I apologize for sending a personal email regarding packages I wish to adopt. I didn't read the OP close enough. I am willing to adopt *… [View More]

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