April 2021 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] TU application: grawlinson
by George Rawlinson 03 May '21

03 May '21

Hello everyone! My name is George Rawlinson (grawlinson), and I am applying to be a Trusted User. My sponsors are Morten Linderud (Foxboron) and Sven-Hendrik Haase (svenstaro). They have evaluated my PKGBUILDs and quickly come to the conclusion that they are considered a crime against humanity, but feel free to offer your own opinions. Feedback is always great! Especially if there's something I've overlooked. I've been distro hopping too many times to count, but have comfortably settled on Arch Linux since circa 2015. I have always loved tinkering with software, and Linux provides one of the best ecosystems for that. It all started back in 2009 when I started self-hosting my mail domain(s) on a Debian VPS, which was migrated over to Arch once I became proficient/comfortable enough. My Arch-specific installations have since ballooned from that one VPS to an ex-enterprise server at home, running a large set of LXD containers that provide a variety of services to make my life somewhat easier. I maintain my own pacman repository for convenience; it is essentially a private git repository made up of git submodules (for AUR packages) as well as forked/new packages. To make maintenance easier I extensively rely on nvchecker, to keep on top of new releases. aurutils/devtools to build/test packages in a clean chroot. Additionally, namcap helps me figure out when I've invoked Cthulhu. Contributions: - Maintainer of some AUR packages since 2016[0] - Hosted a Tier-2 mirror from 2017[1] to 2019[2] on a Hetzner VPS - Flung some patches at the namcap & infrastructure repos - Filed bug reports/patches for various upstream projects and on the Arch bug tracker - Member of the Arch Testing Team since sometime last year (2020) Packages to (hopefully) transfer to community: - distrobuilder (would be co-maintained with Foxboron) - promscale & promscale_extension - prometheus-apcupsd-exporter - prometheus-snmp-exporter - prometheus-ipmi-exporter (and its freeipmi dependency, which I also co-maintain) There are some things I'd like to become more involved in: - Monitoring the bug tracker for issues that I can help with - Co-maintaining some LX{C,D} and Prometheus/Timescale related packages - Learning more about the overall tasks that TUs perform so I can decide where I can best focus my efforts. It all comes down to Arch having made such a positive impact in my life, and I believe it is past due that I start contributing back. Regards, George Rawlinson [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=M&K=grawlinson [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52852 [2]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-mirrors-announce/2019-May/000033…

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[aur-general] Amend AUR commits
by S Shaikh 27 Apr '21

27 Apr '21

Hi, Due to a misconfiguration I used the wrong author on the most latest commits on both of the AUR packages I maintain. I understand that it's non trivial but can I ask for both commits to be removed? As they are both young packages I can also resubmit them from scratch if easier to delete them totally. Thanks, Shak (sshaikh on arch)

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[aur-general] is AUR down?
by Javier 26 Apr '21

26 Apr '21

https://aur.archlinux.org Takes some time, just to show: > 504 Gateway Time-out Thanks ! -- Javier

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[aur-general] Deleted package
by Sébastien Luttringer 18 Apr '21

18 Apr '21

Hello, A package (ebtables) I recently moved from [extra] has been deleted by a user who didn't understand the difference with itpables-nft. The requests has been accepted automatically because he claims maintainership before deletion. I didn't find a way in the UI to restore the package. Am I missing something obvious or there there a documentation about restoring removed packages ? Regards, Sébastien "Seblu" Luttringer

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[aur-general] Perl module install path
by Markus Schaaf 16 Apr '21

16 Apr '21

Hi, I have made a PKGBUILD for a Perl module according to the Wiki. The module's files get installed to /usr/lib/perl5/5.32/vendor_perl like most/all other such packages. But that module (and probably many others) do not depend on the exact version of Perl interpreter. I always find it annoying to download and update all perl module packages, because the interpreter's version has changed. So I would like these to install to /usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl How do I do this correctly? BR

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[aur-general] PSA: nodejs projects in AUR - npm install --user root
by Damjan Georgievski 14 Apr '21

14 Apr '21

There are a lot of packages in AUR that use something like: npm install -g --user root --cache "${srcdir}/npm-cache" --prefix "$pkgdir/usr" "$srcdir/$_npmname-$pkgver.tgz" to install and package a nodejs project. I guess at some point in time `--user root` worked for NPM but nowadays, npm behaves like this: 1) it silently ignores the `--user` option 2) installs the NPM package root (before installing the wanted .tgz) https://www.npmjs.com/package/root I guess `--user root` worked in some version of NPM but at some point npm decided to remove the option and not error on its use (what can I say). So, the recommendation is to remove all uses of `--user root` in PKGBUILD. ps. can someone run a grep -r -- "--user root" on the whole of AUR? -- damjan

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[aur-general] Issue with a PKGBUILD
by Ralf Mardorf 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

Hi, I don't understand why something that worked a short while back, doesn't work anymore. #### #### $ makepkg -s ==> Making package: linux-rt-pussytoes 4.19.184_rt75-0.300 (Sun 11 Apr 2021 15:52:17 CEST) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==> Retrieving sources... [snip] -> Found config -> Found 0001-ZEN-Add-sysctl-and-CONFIG-to-disallow-unprivileged-C.patch ==> Validating source files with sha256sums... linux-4.19.184.tar.xz ... Skipped linux-4.19.184.tar.sign ... Skipped patch-4.19.184-rt75.patch.xz ... Skipped patch-4.19.184-rt75.patch.sign ... Skipped config ... Skipped 0001-ZEN-Add-sysctl-and-CONFIG-to-disallow-unprivileged-C.patch ... Passed ==> Verifying source file signatures with gpg... linux-4.19.184.tar ... Passed patch-4.19.184-rt75.patch ... Passed ==> Extracting sources... -> Extracting linux-4.19.184.tar.xz with bsdtar ==> Starting prepare()... Setting version... Applying patch patch-4.19.184-rt75.patch... /tmp/linux-rt-pussytoes/PKGBUILD: line 62: ../patch-4.19.184-rt75.patch: No such file or directory ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in prepare(). Aborting... #### #### Not that long a go I used more or less the same PKGBUILD. If I use this PKGBUILD today, it fails in the same way, as the attached PKGBUILD does: $ pacman -Qi linux-rt-cornflower | grep -eVersion -eBuild Version : 4.19.173_rt72-0.300 Build Date : Fri 19 Feb 2021 04:50:01 CET $ uname -a Linux archlinux 4.19.173-rt72-0.300-cornflower #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri, 19 Feb 2021 04:50:01 +0100 x86_64 GNU/Linux $ diff /tmp/linux-rt-pussytoes/PKGBUILD /usr/src/linux-rt-cornflower-rm/PKGBUILD 1,3c1,3 < pkgbase=linux-rt-pussytoes < _pkgver=4.19.184 < _rtpatchver=75 --- > pkgbase=linux-rt-cornflower > _pkgver=4.19.173 > _rtpatchver=72 31d30 < 'D5653EA39C8675DA4BD5971C13B55DD07C53B851' # Clark Williams 84c83 < --- > 112c111 < --- > pkgdesc="Headers and scripts for building modules for the $pkgdesc kernel" 193c192 < --- > pkgdesc="Documentation for the $pkgdesc kernel" #### #### Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] AUR not aware of changes in the regular repos
by Daniel Peukert 11 Apr '21

11 Apr '21

Hi, recently, I've been alerted by a user of one of my packages to the fact that one direct dependency and several dependencies down the tree are no longer available in the regular repos. However, they are not marked in the usual way in the AUR UI (disabled link, bold, red) and when I tried to push the affected package to the AUR, I get denied, 'cause AUR still thinks it's available in the regular repos: remote: error: package already provided by [community]: python2-beautifulsoup4 remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master I suspect the aurblup script stopped working/being called, but I'm not familiar with the codebase, so I'm not able to investigate/fix further. An example: python2-lxml is no longer available, but nothing changed on the AUR package page for mailpile. Thanks, Daniel Peukert

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