July 2020 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Commercial spam
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

Hello TUs, there is a unrelated comment for [1] which offers a service for lazy students. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ucdavisthesis/ Thanks for regarding. Stefan Husmann

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[aur-general] AUR migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 28 Jul '20

28 Jul '20

Hi All, In continuing with the improvements being done to our infrastructure, we're planning to migrate the AUR to another machine. This means that, during the migration, there *will* be downtime of the whole AUR. I expect the migration to take around two hours and happen either tomorrow (Friday) or on Saturday, depending on availability. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[aur-general] bit torrent AUR
by Storm Dragon 25 Jul '20

25 Jul '20

Howdy, The recent AUR migration got me to wondering how difficult it would be to set up the AUR as a p2p model with something like bit torrent. I am not at this point even suggesting that it be implemented, I am more just curious about the challenges of such a thing. Thinking about it, there would have to be some kind of security process in place to make sure PKGBUILDs were not modified and retrieved from only one source. Maybe a way to mark certain machines as trusted, and/or setting a minimum of distributers that must agree on the validity of the PKGBUILD in question. I am by no means an expert on this stuff but if something like this were done, and if it worked, it could even be expanded to community packages as well, meaning that any machine with a cache could also serve as a mirror for those packages. So, is something like this feasible? Thanks, Storm -- ⛈🐲 Accessible low cost computers for everyone! https://stormux.org Get my public PGP key: gpg --recv-key 43DDC193 The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones. "I've seen the tempest in darkest nights I've faced the eyes of Thor" Stormwarrior - Heading Northe

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[aur-general] Spam in AUR Comments
by Mat Moul 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

Hello, I've reveived a spam in the comments of one of my AUR package : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octopi-dev/#comment-757475 If a TU can take a look Thanks

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[aur-general] know what dependencies in PKGBUILD
by Budi 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

h\How to know what dependencies only need to put (surely not all)

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[aur-general] SPAM in AUR comment: piedock package
by John Schroeder 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Hello, There is a spam comment in the AUR package "piedock": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/piedock/. Could a TU remove it? Thanks! --John

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[aur-general] updated AUR intel-opencl-runtime, needs gmm/igc updates
by Nick Black 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

(i sent this to arch-dev originally by mistake; apologies for any duplicates you might receive) I took over the quite out-of-date intel-opencl-runtime, and updated it from 1:18.1.0.013-2 to the current (released 2020-06-04) 1:20.26.17199 from https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/tag/20.26.17199. Along the way, I cleaned up the packaging a good deal (IMHO). Unfortunately, this is not going to fly without an update to two packages in community: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/intel-gmmlib/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/intel-graphics-compiler/ gmmlib needs 20.1.1 -> 20.2.2 igc needs 1.0.3899 -> 1.0.4241 Until these two are updated, use of intel-opencl-runtime 20.X is likely to fail, with errors like the following: [grimes](0) $ clinfo Abort was called at 42 line in file: ../neo/shared/source/built_ins/built_ins.cpp Aborted (core dumped) [grimes](134) $ When I hand-built the newer gmmlib and IGC, however, clinfo once again works fine, and reflects the current version. I'm happy to prepare the necessary patches, but have never contributed to community before, and thought I ought post here first. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

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[aur-general] Package fails when built with an AUR helper
by rhysperry111＠gmail.com 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Hi, I maintain the package fathom-git. This is a go package. I have had to make the PKGBUILD quite messy because this package requires that it is in the GOPATH which also needs a whole folder structure. In order for it to build I had to create a custom GOPATH in the SRC directory, copy the git repo to there and also make sure it gets removed when the package is rebuilt. Does anyone know of a better solution for go packages that require something to be in GOPATH? === Rhys Perry ===

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Michael Kogan 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

Hello, the user https://aur.archlinux.org/account/ZafarYaqoob posted a spam comment at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-json-maybexs/ Please have a look!

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[aur-general] TU application: hashworks
by hashworks 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Hello everyone, My name is Justin Kromlinger aka hashworks and I'm applying as a Trusted User with the sponsorship of Thore Bödecker aka foxxx0 and Christian Rebischke aka shibumi who recently reviewed my AUR packages [1] – thanks for that! Some may know me from freenode#archlinux.de, where I'm lingering since a few years. I am and will be reachable there anytime. I was born in Germany in 1994. My oldest Arch installation dates back to the month of July in 2015, at least according to my pacman logs. Just a year later I successfully qualified as an IT specialist in application development, together with a (soon to be expired) LPIC-1 certificate. Last year I got my bachelor's degree in informatics in Leipzig (come visit me at the C3!), where I currently study for a master's degree. So you could say Arch Linux accompanied my whole education! I started my first job at a small web agency as a Developer, but I slowly but surely turned into their System Administrator. At my current job for a larger IT company my external e-mail signature states I'm a "DevOps Engineer" – and while that term is by all means not fully defined, it kinda describes what I do. I create and maintain pipelines (mainly GitLabCI), design deployment processes and try to make our Docker Images a bit saner every day. And since I was able to enforce using Arch Linux on my work ThinkPad the distribution keeps on supporting my life, so I might try to give a little back! While I try to do some FOSS development in Go or – more recently – Rust now and then [2], my free time mostly flows into the maintenance of software and infrastructure for friends and family – and I have to admit that BASH remains my most fluent language. Regarding my own packages I would like to move filebin and pam-ihosts since I use those on my servers. srrdb-terminal-client is also something I regularly use that I would like to move. Additionally I would like to ask to take over kiwix-desktop of which I maintain the dependency chain (kiwix-lib, libzim and mustache) – and while I'm at it the whole stack (mainly kiwix-tools). Other small packages that would suite Community are mdcat and insect if the current maintainers agree. i3blocks-contrib is another possible candidate, but I would need to request new and frequent releases for that. Out of the orphaned packages the only one I could reasonably maintain is hddtemp (since I still use it). For most of my packages I use a personal GitLab instance to verify the builds with a pipeline [3] and since a while the process of new releases is automated. If possible I would like to support Arch in that direction, things that come to my mind are reproducible builds and CI/CD for repo packages, migration from SVN to Git might be a larger topic I could help with. Since I have an interest in keeping our GitLab packages stable and up-to-date I would like to co-maintain that if anatolik agrees. Since the question comes up frequently in TU applications: I mainly use a Telegram RSS bot [4] to monitor releases and urlwatch for stuff without RSS feeds. Best Regards hashworks [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=hashworks&SeB=m [2] https://github.com/hashworks [3] https://git.hashworks.net/aur-packages [4] https://github.com/iovxw/rssbot/blob/2.x/README.en.md

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