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

Re: [aur-general] Cycled dependencies in AUR
by Mikhail f. Shiryaev 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hello. Today I tried to build ruby-rubocop [1] package and it's in a strange state. A lot of packages for the package are cross-dependent for the check, for example ruby-ruby-progressbar [2] and ruby-fuubar [3]. The proposal of how to solve it from Mario [4] is to skip the check() phase, see comment [5]. The same is valid for package ruby-rubocop-performance [6] that is dependency for rubocop check and requires it to be built IMHO the state when the packages aren't able to be built by the simple AUR helper command like `yay -S ruby-rubocop` should be considered as room for improvement. If I'm wrong, please say so. But I'd like to have AUR packages in an easily installable state and not passing additional arguments like `--nocheck` for makepackage commands. [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop [2] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-ruby-progressbar/ [3] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-fuubar/ [4] - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/supermario [5] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop-rspec/#comment-823420 [6] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop-performance/ Best regards, Mikhail f. Shiryaev p.s. Mario, sorry for sending you two messages. >

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[aur-general] What's happened with URxvt upstream? And how to build dependent packages now?
by Radislav Golubtsov 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hi guys, First of all, I’d like to say, I’m a long-time and happy user of the URxvt terminal emulator and more precisely — of its AUR package "rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling" [1]. It’s the very good complement to a WM of my choice (Window Maker) for many years. From aside, I didn’t updated Arch on my laptop around a year (11 months with a couple-triple of extra days). And in the end of last eek I’ve decided to do so (with help, of couse, pacman-static from the private repo of Eli Schwartz [2] — and then with the stock pacman straight out). Finally, my system is running well with all the official packages updated and those from the AUR too, except one mentioned for this asking — URxvt. AFAIK, and as checked out some of the AUR packages, resembling and augmenting functionality of the URxvt terminal emulator, — they are all pulling out the upstream tarball in their PKGBUILDs from Mark Lehmann’s website. The latter is currently unavailable, unfortunately. And the URxvt tarball is also unavailable for downloading. What to do now with this, guys? — Maybe some of you know where to get aforementined URxvt tarball (another URL, publicly advertised, or someone hosted it on their website). Thanks in advance for a suitable solution or direction to solve this out there. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling/ [2] https://pkgbuild.com/~eschwartz/repo/x86_64-extracted/ -- Kind regards, Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#27846] Deletion Request for iwlwifi-7265-ucode
by Ramadan Ali 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

iwlwifi-7265-ucode [1] contains two different files `iwlwifi-7265-14.ucode` and `iwlwifi-7265-14D.ucode` wich are not present in linux-firmware [2] Maybe `iwlwifi-7265-ucode` can be renamed as `iwlwifi-7265-14-ucode`, but I think it's not necessary alicavus [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/iwlwifi-7265-ucode/ [2] https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware/ On 8/30/21 2:12 AM, notify(a)aur.archlinux.org wrote: > yochananmarqos [1] filed a deletion request for iwlwifi-7265-ucode > [2]: > > This is included in the linux-firmware package. > > Also with PRQ#27845, I meant to say linux-firmware, not the kernel. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/yochananmarqos/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/iwlwifi-7265-ucode/ >

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[aur-general] Package Request and/or TU Application
by Kevin Morris 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

Hi aur-general, I've come across a Python library which serves a nice purpose for aurweb's FastAPI implementation, but noticed that it is not yet maintained in the Arch official repositories. For aurweb, we'd like to stick to packages which exist within our official repositories, and so I'm here to start a chat about either someone picking it up or applying as a TU to maintain it. Upstream: https://github.com/Pylons/paginate Description: A Python pagination module I've put together an AUR package for this project to share/demonstrate its PKGBUILD that could be used to produce a [community] package, located at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-paginate/. There are other python-*-paginate libraries around the AUR, but they are not meant to be as standalone as Pylon's paginate seems to be (out of the box, at least). For any TUs out there, could you perhaps give some feedback as to your thoughts on the package topic? It'd be greatly appreciated. That being said, I could maintain the package, but I have not really reached out to TUs to get any sort of sponsorship in regards to this, as I do not really have many packages that I know of to pick up. My main goal here is to get `python-paginate` into [community], however that may be achieved. Would this be possible? Thanks for your time and willingness to read this. Regards, Kevin Morris -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] Request for deletion process?
by S Shaikh 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Hello, I'm relatively new to the AUR, and one of my packages[1] has been requested (marked?) For deletion. Naturally I believe that there's a case for the package. I plan to respond on the package page itself, but am a little lost on the actual process in general. Is there a specific audience I should frame my case to? What are the timings for deletion? Should the discussion be had here or there? Does the fact that it's even got this far mean there's no turning back (or can anyone file a request for further approval?). Thanks! Shak [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/i3blocks-contrib-install-git/

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[aur-general] TU application - alex19EP
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hello, my name is Alexander Epaneshnikov. and I'd like to join the Trusted Users team to further improve the Arch Linux accessibility for people with disabilities. I am sponsored by David Runge <dvzrv> and Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro>. I started using Arch Linux in 2018 and since then it has become my main distribution. I also do my best to help blind people learn about arch and start using it. regarding minimum basic requirements: * I know how to script some things. I use zsh on a daily basis, but I can work with bash / sh too. * I maintain a few packages in the AUR[1]. I also have a couple of pkgbuilds on github[2]. * I definitely know how to google. (using surfraw for that) * my involvement with the arch mailing lists and IRC is rather low, but I am very active in blind specific lists and IRC channels. There I help users, create bug reports about a11y related problems for projects and of course talk about Arch. I can be found on irc on oftc and liberachat under the alex19EP nickname. As I already said, I would like to become a TU to further improve the appeal of Arch for people with disabilities, so I want to maintain packages that are related to a11y: * lightdm-slick-greeter - the most accessible lightdm greeter. * rhvoice - Open source speech synthesizer. (I am one of the upstream maintainers) * fenrir - A user space console screen reader written in python3 Additionally, I would like to move some packages which are popular and that I use personally to the [community] repository. * etc-update * glulxe-term * bitwarden and bitwarden-cli - eh electron I know, but it is the only cross-platform password manager which is accessible. * hunspell-ru * magic-wormhole * yadm I can also help maintain packages which are already in community: * espeakup - I am now the upstream maintainer for this project. * espeak-ng * matrix-synapse My biggest and perhaps most significant contribution to Arch is the addition of accessibility features for blind people to archiso [3] [4]. I have also written and kept documentation for installing Arch with accessibility options [5] up-to-date. my other open source contributions: I maintain RHVoice [6] and espeakup[7]. Gladly I will answer any comments or questions. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=3D0&SeB=3DM&K=3Dalex19EP [2] https://github.com/alex19EP/pkgbuilds [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/merge_requests/79 [4] https://archlinux.org/news/accessible-installation-medium/ [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_with_accessibility_opti… [6] https://github.com/rHVoice/rHVoice [7] https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup Arch project accounts: Wiki: Alex19EP Forums: alex19EP (inactive there) Flyspray: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/28985 -- Sincerely, Alexander

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[aur-general] Stepping down as TU
by alad 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hi all, For some time now my involvement as TU has been limited, particularly on the packaging front. I'd always thought I'd get more time, but I keep getting more on my plate from my graduate studies. With the steady influx of fresh blood to the TU team, it now seems a good time for me to resign. I'll stay around as wiki administrator and IRC op (as well as maintainer of aurutils). List of packages in [community] where I'm the sole maintainer: asoundconf cabextract datamash edbrowse expac innoextract nawk pslist qpdfview sigil sylpheed time udevil wimlib xsettingsd Of those, the following are required by other packages: cabextract expac time xsettingsd Cheers and thanks for all the fish! Alad

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[aur-general] Created account with incorrect email
by Maxwell G 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Hi, I just created an AUR account with the username gotmax23. I'm usually more careful, but I mistyped my email address, despite the clearly posted warning. I believe I added an extra x to gotmax in my email address gotmax@.e.email. Could you please set the email address on that account to gotmax(a)e.email so I can set my password? If you need verification, I can send the IP address that I used to create the account in private. Thank you so much, Maxwell -- Maxwell G Pronouns: He/Him/His gotmax(a)e.email

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[aur-general] Strange pikaur behaviour
by Peter Nabbefeld 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello, I'm currently trying to build meshroom-git. I removed the old installation to replace alembic-qfix by community/alembic, and I'm able to build meshroom-git (with some problems). 1. For installation, I use "pikaur -Sa meshroom-git". 2. pikaur tells me about missing alembic-qfix, though latest PKGBUILD does not refer to it as a dependency. 3. I can only build meshroom-git after making some change (commenting/uncommenting a print instruction). 4. When I try again, I'm again told about dependency alembic-qfix not found in AUR. Also, when building meshroom-git, two outdated dependencies are built first and removed after the build. Obviously, there's still an earlier version of PKGBUILD located somewhere which is not deleted (and I don't know where to find it, as removing ~/.local/share/pikaur/aur_repos/meshroom-git and ~/.cache/pikaur/{build,pkg}/meshroom-git does not seem to be enough). Any idea? Kind regards, Peter

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review request (REXPaint)
by Vince 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello aur-general, Thank you for your help in the previous threads. I'm immensely grateful for the feedback I got, and hope that I'm not polluting too much. I have completed a PKGBUILD for REXPaint. I would be grateful if someone could take a look and make sure that it ticks all the boxes, and give me any constructive criticism that may apply. All the best, Vince

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