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[aur-general] TU application - Segaja
by Andreas 'Segaja' Schleifer 07 Dec '21

07 Dec '21

Hi everyone, My name is Andreas Schleifer, in the internet also known as Segaja, and I would like to apply to the position of a Trusted User. My sponsors are Levente Polyak and Jelle van der Waa, thanks for that ;) I'm a 34 years old DevOps engineer in the same company as Levente is currently working in. I have started as a (PHP) developer and have over time migrated to also doing devops work. My Linux "career" started around 2005/2006 during my university time with Ubuntu. A few years later a friend of mine kindly pointed me to Arch Linux. At the beginning it was a bit uncomfortable for me but I quickly embraced the fact that there was no UI to configure anything and that you have to work directly on the configuration files. In the past year I have started to become more interested in packaging for Arch which made me adopt two orphaned AUR packages ([1] and [2]) and upload one new package [3]) to AUR. Some packages I started as AUR packages were later moved by Levente into the official community repository: [4], [5] At some point I also got interested in the reproducible builds topic and helped out there a bit [6]. This is also where I got in contact with Jelle and we talked a few times on IRC back then. When I got interested in becoming a TU I talked with Levente about this and he suggested that I should try to get some more packaging experience, so he suggested me to try to (re-)package schleuder [8] which was in a very old and broken version in AUR back then. It took me quiet a while and I learned a lot, but in the end I eneded up packaging schleuder [9] and schleuder-cli [10]. The biggest learning from that for me was 1) that packaging is much more then "dumping" an upstream tool into a PKGBUILD file to be installed on a users system and 2) that the ruby ecosystem can be very annoying to deal with. A lot of inconsistent tools to be used for testing and a lot of cyclic dependencies which makes writing PKGBUILD files with check() functions very difficult. In the process of packaging the schleuder packages I also ended up with a host of other ruby packages which were needed [11]. In order to be able to package the schleuder packages I also worked closely with the upstream maintainers to resolve issues that came up in the Arch Linux build environment. I have some devops experience from my daily work and I would like to also offer this to Arch Linux over time. I already talked with Jelle and Levente about some of the devops projects that were going on in the past. I'm currently also working on an ansible role to install schleuder on Arch Linux infrastructure [12] in order to handlesecurity(a)archlinux.org [13]. As TU I would also like to help out Levent and other package maintainers to keep their awesome packages up to date with upstream changes/releases (e.g. [4], [5], [7]). I would also like to migrate hss [1] and stern [2] to the official repositories, as I believe they are both very useful tools for people who work with servers (hss) and kubernetes (stern) often. If you have any questions or want to know more you can also reach me on IRC in #archlinux Best regards Segaja [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hss/ [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/stern/ [3]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/prometheus-dnsmasq-exporter-git/ [4]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/aliyun-cli/ [5]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/alicloud-vault/ [6]https://reproducible-builds.org/reports/2020-06/ [7]https://archlinux.org/packages/community/any/ls++/ [8]https://schleuder.org/ [9]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder/ [10]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/schleuder-cli/ [11]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=Segaja&SeB=m [12]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests/4… [13]https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/issues/178 GET | 200 | 709 ms | cloudflare

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[aur-general] some questions mainly about deletion...
by zoorat 30 Nov '21

30 Nov '21

Hi everyone, I have been hunting for broken packages and filing deletion requests against them for a while now... afaik, only 2 rejections in more than 500 requests. maybe, I should have asked those questions much earlier... anyway... 1. to TU's, how do you guys are checking if a package should be deleted or not ?? I want to know it to make the right call and not to spam... I'm kinda asking for a list of scenarios with some comments... example list from my experience: "broken dependency and orphan" dead for sure. "problem was reposted a long time ago and not fixed" dead. "Flagged out-of-date" better giving this info while making the request. "orphan but nothing broken" false request. you can also tell me, what makes a package is good and healthy... 2. how to file deletion requests for split packages ?? tried to find out about it but google was unhelpful... when I file a deletion request, it is going to be a request for the base package like the vote. isn't it?? then if one of the base packages is broken and needed to be removed then what I should do then ?? file a request saying it's for only that package ?? or tell the maintainer to remove that package's code from the PKGBUILD ?? and what I should do if the package is orphan ?? 3. inactive maintainer is not fixed... there is a lot of packages which is not orphan but the maintainer is not fixing the problem after reporting. saw this a lot when I was testing font packages... what should I do in this case ?? If it's a package not being dependent on others, can I file a deletion request after a certain time ?? how long should I wait ?? If the answer to the last question is "disown and maintain" and if I'm not interested in maintaining that package, how I should let other people know who might want to maintain ?? this aur-general mailing list ?? 4. font source problem... I tested 1104 font packages that start with 'ttf-' or 'otf-' (got the list on 2021-11-17) if their source works and checksum matches or not and also for broken dependency. Font sources are weird. like for some, you need the browser to download (you know how mega.nz downloads), certificate error on curl/wget but not on firefox, file hash changes like fontspace.com, the URL is temporary, the original source is dead but you know there is a lot of mirrors. it's pretty common... so can I ask maintainers to download from a mirror that is not in archwiki/Font_package_guidelines, or set up a github/lab mirror themselves and download from there ?? or should they make the package like "ttf-ms-win10" which lets the user know how to get the file to make this package ?? don't know if this kinda package is allowed... 5. how to get the exact number of requests I had to make and how many of them got accepted... do you know any easy to get that info?? or do I have to somehow parse and count mbox files from aur-requests archives? Don't know if I'm nitpicking... Tell me, if I'm doing something wrong or not. yours, zoorat. p.s. I hope I didn't mess up anything.

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[aur-general] aur/virtualbox-bin or extra/dkms is broken
by Ralf Mardorf 27 Nov '21

27 Nov '21

Hi, I have to work, so there's no time to check log files before the weekend and I couldn't find something related at https://bugs.archlinux.org/ or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/ . However, maybe somebody noticed this, too. I build and installed virtualbox-bin 6.1.30-1 from AUR. The output of dkms didn't mention something to worry about, but actually no modules were installed. For testing purpose I downgraded virtualbox-bin to the previous version that worked before, but now the modules were also missing. After downgrading dkms from 3.0.2-1 to 3.0.1-1, dkms build and installed the virtualbox-bin modules again. So at the moment I have no idea if dkms is broken or if virtualbox-bin needs a fix to fit to the latest dkms package. Regards, Ralf [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo pacman -U current/virtualbox-bin-6.1.30-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst [snip] warning: virtualbox-bin-6.1.30-1 is up to date -- reinstalling [snip] :: Running pre-transaction hooks... (1/2) Remove upgraded DKMS modules ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 [snip] (5/8) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> depmod 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> depmod 5.15.4-arch1-1 (6/8) Updating icon theme caches... (7/8) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... (8/8) Updating the MIME type database... [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo pacman -U old/virtualbox-bin-6.1.28-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst old/virtualbox{-bin-sdk,-bin-guest-iso,-ext-oracle}-6.1.28-1-any.pkg.tar.zst [snip] warning: downgrading package virtualbox-bin (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) warning: downgrading package virtualbox-bin-sdk (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) warning: downgrading package virtualbox-bin-guest-iso (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) warning: downgrading package virtualbox-ext-oracle (6.1.30-1 => 6.1.28-1) [snip] :: Running pre-transaction hooks... (1/2) Remove DKMS modules ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 [snip] (5/8) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> depmod 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> depmod 5.15.4-arch1-1 (6/8) Updating icon theme caches... (7/8) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... (8/8) Updating the MIME type database... [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ grep 3.0.2 /var/log/pacman.log | grep dkms [2021-11-21T13:30:15+0100] [ALPM] upgraded dkms (3.0.1-1 -> 3.0.2-1) [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo downgrade dkms [snip] warning: downgrading package dkms (3.0.2-1 => 3.0.1-1) [snip] [rocketmouse@archlinux aur]$ sudo pacman -U current/virtualbox-* [snip] Packages (4) virtualbox-bin-6.1.30-1 virtualbox-bin-guest-iso-6.1.30-1 virtualbox-bin-sdk-6.1.30-1 virtualbox-ext-oracle-6.1.30-1 [snip] :: Running pre-transaction hooks... (1/2) Remove DKMS modules ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory ==> dkms remove --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.28_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory [snip] (5/8) Install DKMS modules ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 5.15.4-arch1-1 ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> dkms install --no-depmod vboxhost/6.1.30_non_OSE -k 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.212-rt92-0.300-securityink ==> depmod 4.19.211-rt91-0.300-pussytoes ==> depmod 4.19.217-rt95-0.1000 ==> depmod 4.19.214-rt93-0.300-cornflower ==> depmod 5.15.4-arch1-1 (6/8) Updating icon theme caches... (7/8) Updating the desktop file MIME type cache... (8/8) Updating the MIME type database...

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[aur-general] TU application - artafinde
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 24 Nov '21

24 Nov '21

Hello, I'm Leonidas Spyropoulos and I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. I'm particularly instersted in packaging dependencies which are required for the ongoing python porting of Aurweb and anything related performance. I'm sponsored from Jelle van der Waa <jelle> and Sven-Hendrik Haase<sventaro>. I'm a 39 years old Software Developer living in London originally from Greece. I've been an Linux user for almost 20 years and an Arch Linux for more than 15. Previous distributions include Suse and Debian but I find Arch Linux suits me more. I've been a big supported of FOSS philosophy and projects and try to contribute where possible (check my github). I'm a developer in my day-to-day job working mostly with JVM languages and DevOps. For the minimum requirements: - I know my way around shell scripting, mostly bash but I've done some ksh due to my work maintaining old server. These days almost all scripting is in bash and POSIX compliant. My daily shell is ZSH. - I've been maintaining some packages in AUR [1] and some have moved to community (i.e. neomutt, dvdstyler). I believe some of the current ones are good enough PKGBUILDs to be moved to community repository. - I've suscribed to most mailing lists and replied a few times, but I'm easier to be contacted in IRC. My forum activity is low since I find IRC more responsive. - I can Google around - For packages I want to maintain see list below My contributions so far in Arch Linux are mostly: - AUR packaging [1] - AUR development (aurweb) with code reviews, testing and development in python porting (and some php) [2] - DevOps keycloak theme packaging [3] - DevOps patches for various issues [4] - Actively involved in DevOps IRC for pitching in solutions to current issues/discussions AUR packages (I maintain) interested in moving to Community - Any package which will be a requirement for python ported Aurweb version - aarchup - python-prometheus-fastapi-instrumentator - freeplane - intellij-idea-{ce,ue}-eap (Provided their license is allowing that) - gdu AUR packages interested in moving to Community - abook - bfg - clean-chroot-manager - goland - jdtls - jetbrains-toolbox - tectonic I'd also be interesting in maintaining some Community packages which are orphan or co-maintain some: orphans: - elasticsearch packages I use and interested in {co-}maintaining: - ansible - aurpublish - aws-cli - ccache - cpupower - docker - docker-compose - go - gradle - kotlin - kubectl - lrzip - neomutt (used to be co-maintainer in aur) - notmuch - profile-sync-daemon - alot - android-file-transder - android-tools - android-udev - beets - bpytop - dvdbackup (used to maintain in aur) - cuda - fstrim - gcc10 (required for cuda) - handbrake - kitty - ncmpcpp - ninja - nextcloud-client - nlohmann-json - packer - pacman-contrib - pandoc - profile-cleaner - python-* (packages required for Aurweb see list from INSTALL) - screenfetch - spellcheck - signal-desktop - wxsvg (required from dvdbackup) - zsh-completions Github: https://github.com/inglor AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/artafinde Forums: https://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=17838 Bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/10369 IRC: artafinde | inglor [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=M&K=artafinde&outdated=&SB=n&SO… [2]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/merge_requests?scope=all&st… [3]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/artafinde/keycloak-archlinux-theme/-/tree/mult… [4]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/infrastructure/-/merge_requests?scop… I'm looking forward to contributing more to Arch Linux. It's a great community and I've thoroughly enjoyed my time so far. Kind Regards, Leonidas -- Leonidas Spyropoulos A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[aur-general] Leaving Arch Linux
by Simon Legner 20 Nov '21

20 Nov '21

Hey, earlier this year I've stared using macOS and Fedora. With mixed feelings I'm leaving Arch Linux (for now). Currently I'm the co/maintainer of 106 AUR packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=simon04&SeB=m Is there a standard procedure for safely un-maintaining all packages? Just abandoning all packages is not the best idea, is it? I'd like to find caring maintainers for my packages. Thank you for great thirteen years, simon04

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[aur-general] Remove my "package_name.git" repo
by David C. Rankin 17 Nov '21

17 Nov '21

I accidentally hit return with: git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/package_name.git Cloning into 'package_name'... warning: You appear to have cloned an empty repository. (I forgot to change "package_name" so I'm now blocked from submitting the correct name for the blank repo so I can populate it) Can somebody please undo what I did over on the server so I can get a new blank repo under the correct name? Thank you! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: [aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives
by zoorat 12 Nov '21

12 Nov '21

On 11/11/21 06:22, aur-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org wrote: > Hello AUR users, > > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. > > Pre-existing archives: > > - packages.gz > - Listing of all packages separated by line break. > - pkgbase.gz > - Listing of all package bases separated by line break. > - users.gz > - Listening of all users separated by line break. > > Metadata archives: > > - packages-meta-v1.json.gz > - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive. > - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz > - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive. > > All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated > on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask > that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches > or bulk multiinfo requests. > > All archives are available for download athttps://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz > > Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount > of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who > are able to query by themselves en masse. > > We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping > those who can use your maintained software as a result. > > Regards, > Kevin > > -- > Kevin Morris > Software Developer That's awesome kevin, I got into a problem while downloading the 'packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz' with wget. I somehow corrupted it ... so, is there any hash I can check against ?? like '.sig' file for '.iso' files but, as a hash is a text file maybe ??... sorry if I'm being dumb. yours, zoorat.

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[aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives
by Kevin Morris 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Hello AUR users, In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. Pre-existing archives: - packages.gz - Listing of all packages separated by line break. - pkgbase.gz - Listing of all package bases separated by line break. - users.gz - Listening of all users separated by line break. Metadata archives: - packages-meta-v1.json.gz - A complete `type=search` formatted JSON package archive. - packages-meta-ext-v1.json.gz - A complete `type=multiinfo` formatted JSON package archive. All archives support Last-Modified and ETag. Each archive is updated on a rough ~5 minute interval. For any bulk users of the RPC, we ask that you consider these archives as a solution to repeated searches or bulk multiinfo requests. All archives are available for download at https://aur.archlinux.org/archive-name.gz Using these archives will drastically help the AUR with the amount of traffic required for API clients. Particularly with clients who are able to query by themselves en masse. We thank you all for contributing to the world of AUR and helping those who can use your maintained software as a result. Regards, Kevin -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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Re: [aur-general] New AUR Metadata Archives
by Dmitry Marakasov 11 Nov '21

11 Nov '21

Hi! > In addition to pre-existing archives, we've introduced two new > archives that can be used instead of bulk queries against the RPC. Thanks a lot for doing this, I'm switching Repology right onto the new dump. This simplifies and speeds up repository metadata update in many ways and also provides consistent information from one point in time. I've verified that the contents I've been getting through the API (/rpc/?v=5&type=info for all packages from packages.gz) are the same except from minor differerences in License ordering (can you confirm that it's stable?) and the fact that unicode characters in descriptions are now correctly represented (abra package as example). Just FYI. I wonder how hard it will be to also provide download URLs in this dump. For instance, Repology uses these to report dead URLs. -- Dmitry Marakasov . 55B5 0596 FF1E 8D84 5F56 9510 D35A 80DD F9D2 F77D amdmi3(a)amdmi3.ru ..: https://github.com/AMDmi3 https://amdmi3.ru

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#29045] Deletion Request for hugo-bin
by B 10 Nov '21

10 Nov '21

grawlinson made a deletion request on this package after I updated it to v0.89.1, and they immediately approved their own request. The community package is flagged out-of-date and is at v0.88.1. First, this violates the AUR community guidelines that requests a user be contacted before a package is removed. Additionally, I find that they are making a request and then immediately approving their own request without any discussion to be concerning. I do not think you should be deleting AUR packages, unless they are malicious. If they are not being maintained, then you should be contacting the users before deleting them. Otherwise, there is no harm in having an AUR and trusted package, as many times they be actually be different or the trusted package is the one not actively getting updated. On Fri, Nov 5, 2021 at 2:00 PM notify at aur.archlinux.org <ra+xgepysjjbcltexbfrteyggrkpgpclsgvngecpizxwjpvijvgp(a)simplelogin.co> wrote: > > grawlinson [1] filed a deletion request for hugo-bin [2]: > > Hugo is available in the community repository. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/grawlinson/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/hugo-bin/

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