Hello,
I have two questions, I merged it into one post to prevent people
complaining about Polarian Notifications (aka me popping up on their
email every 5 mins).
Does anyone have a good reference I can use to properly make a
multi-package PKGBUILD, I have no experience doing this and I want to
stick to conventions, and the PKGBUILD ArchWiki page does not seem to
cover it.
Secondly, is it possible to create PKG groups within the AUR, I would
like to group a few packages together, but I am unsure if I am allowed,
or able to do this, unless it is added to an official repository.
Thanks,
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Polarian
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Hi all,
I would like to bring up the removal of Kyle Keen (keenerd) [1] as
Trusted User/ Package Maintainer on the basis of inactivity [2].
As main key holder I have been trying to get Kyle's previous packager
key revoked (no @archlinux.org UID, RSA2048, SHA-1 binding signature)
and have a new one be created since October 2021.
Jelle also tried to reach out to get a response via arch-dev-public in
May 2022 [3].
There had been no reply to my requests, until I had DevOps disable SSH
access to the package server in July of last year (which I had to do as
packages were still being released and I had to rebuild them constantly
[4][5] for us to be able to disable one of the main packager keys).
After some time an @archlinux.org mail address had been requested and a
ticket been created for archlinux-keyring [6]. However, since October
2022 this process is dormant again (after pinging about missing bits).
Other issues were raised around the splitting of the python-jaraco
packages [7], which stalled updates to a bunch of the building blocks of
the Python ecosystem due to no response from Kyle.
After spending 16 months on a key change and multiple times of failing
to follow up, I am of the opinion, that Kyle is not able to keep up with
packaging and the process that is required for it (e.g. communication
with other packagers or key holders).
The discussion period on this topic lasts for three days (starting
today), after which there will be a voting period of five days.
Best,
David
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?K=keenerd&SeB=m
[2] https://tu-bylaws.aur.archlinux.org/#_special_removal_of_an_inactive_tu
[3] https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/arch-dev-public@lists.archlinux.o…
[4] https://archlinux.org/todo/rebuild-packages-signed-by-48c3b1f30ddd0fe67e516…
[5] https://archlinux.org/todo/rebuild-packages-signed-by-48c3b1f30ddd0fe67e516…
[6] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/issues/201
[7] https://archlinux.org/packages/?q=python-jaraco
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https://sleepmap.de
Hello again,
Could you please check a new package I have been working on to allow for
onedev documentation to be viewed offline.
You can view the PKGBUILD on the aur, or using the link below:
https://onedev.polarian.dev/aur/onedev-docs/~files/master/PKGBUILD
Before anyone comments why I have fetched the source within the prepare
function, which is non-conventional, git-lfs does not support makepkg as
it can not fetch from local filesystem, which is how MAKEPKG syncs the
cloned repository (bare) to the repository within the src directory,
thus I have had to manually clone the package with git-lfs installed,
this will properly fetch the git-lfs files.
Also for those who are wondering why you cant view the html directory,
read the edit I have made to the onedev page here:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Onedev
Thank you,
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Polarian
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Hello,
Could anyone who has experience with AUR packages please check over the
PKGBUILD I have submitted to the AUR.
It works, and I have already written up the ArchWiki page for it
(https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Eureka) but I want a second set of
eyes to read through my work to ensure I have not screwed anything up,
and to ensure my package is sticking to conventions (and in case anyone
has any improvements).
You can either read it from the git interface provided by the AUR (this
can be a little annoying) or you can read it on the git repository which
is hosted elsewhere here:
https://onedev.polarian.dev/aur/eureka-notes/~files/master/PKGBUILD
Any issues with the package let me know :)
Thank you,
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Polarian
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Website: https://polarian.dev
JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev
Hello,
So I currently do not test my packages in a clean chroot because of this
issue: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/issues/105
It seems a little stupid but I hate sudo being installed on my system, I
do not like it, and I do not like when tools force me to use sudo.
Without sudo installed the makechrootpkg script breaks and thus I can't
use dev tools to test in a chroot environment.
I did try and just manually build a chroot environment, but for whatever
reason it was not writable to disk, in other words I kept getting
"filesystem full" errors when the filesystem was not full, and I
couldn't see to find a decent guide on how to actually setup a chroot
manually, all recommend using different parts of the devtools.
I have posted this for 2 reasons:
1. I want to know if anyone else agrees that doas support should be
added to the devtool scripts.
2. I am looking for temporary alternatives from using devtools to build
AUR packages in a clean environment. I have in the case of the movim
package built it in an lxc container, which are similar to chroots, but
the issue is the base arch linux container image contains a few
dependencies which could mean I miss out some of the dependencies. And
also every time I want to deploy a package to the container I have to
copy it over to my production server which is not ideal.
If anyone has any solutions please let me know :)
Thank you,
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Polarian
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Website: https://polarian.dev
JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev
Hello,
My name's Robin Candau and I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User.
My sponsors are Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde> and T.J. Townsend
<blakkheim>.
I'm 26 years old and I live in France. I'm working as a Linux system,
Infrastructure and DevOps engineer.
I've been using Linux for the last decade and been using Arch for a few
years now.
During my Arch journey, I started contributing to it in various ways:
- I subscribed to every "major" mailing lists and reply to users'
questions in it from time to time (mostly in the AUR-General one).
- I'm answering questions on the Arch subreddit (even though I'm aware
it is not an official Arch resource) and on the IRC channels from time
to time. I'm a bit less present on IRC though, but I'm still passing by
here and there.
- I contribute to some wiki pages.
- I maintain some packages on the AUR.
- I'm reviewing PKGBUILDs (both on aurweb and the AUR-General mailing list).
- I'm a member of the "Arch Testing Team" and I'm regularly testing and
signing off packages.
- I made rare contributions to the Arch DevOps Gitlab's issues (this is
something I'd like to do more in the future, I just haven't take the
time yet).
Since I started contributing to Arch, my interest for it kept growing
and I'd like to do more. This is why I'm applying to become a TU through
this mail.
For the minimum requirements:
- I'm fine with shell scripting.
- I maintain a few packages in the AUR with what I think are
high-quality/clean PKGBUILDs [1].
- I'm doing basic community involvement (as stated earlier).
- I can Google.
- Aside from Arch, I've been involved in a few open-source projects:
- My own open-source projects are hosted on GitHub [2].
- I'm a package and infrastructure maintainer for Crystal-Linux [3]
which is an Arch based distribution that promotes the use of current and
modern technologies and that brings an alternative to some widely used
software through its own tools such as "jade" (the Crystal Linux's
installer) or "amethyst" (the Crystal Linux's pacman wrapper and AUR
helper). I'm basically maintaining the Crystal's specific PKGBUILDs [4]
and helping them with infrastructure stuff.
- More recently, I've been working with Rudra Saraswat (the Ubuntu
Unity project lead) to help him properly packaging the Unity desktop
environment for Arch (this is still a WIP) [5].
As a TU, I'm looking forward to help with the AUR moderation (reviewing
PKGBUILDs, answering AUR related questions and handling AUR requests).
I'd also be interested in moving the following AUR packages to Community:
- protonmail-bridge
- distrobox
- unrar-free (which I currently maintain)
- ddgr (which I currently maintain)
Finally, those are the packages I use and/or I'd be interested in
(co-)maintaining in Community:
- glow
- flameshot
- xautolock
- numlockx
- playerctl
- autorandr
- hq
- hexchat
- pacman-contrib
- zathura* (zathura, zathura-cb, zathura-djvu, zathura-pdf-mupdf,
zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura-ps)
- tmux
- icewm
- firewalld
- picom
- notification-daemon
- blueman
- redshift
- xautolock
- gsimplecal
- tint2
- feh
Globally, my package interests are CLI tools and GTK apps, but I can
maintain anything else if needed. My primary goal is to help/contribute :)
Also, even though it has no direct link with the TU position, I'm
willing to take the time to bring some help and contributions to the
DevOps side of things in the future, as stated in the beginning of my
application.
I'm looking forward to contribute more to Arch Linux.
Thanks for reading my application!
[1]
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=M&K=Antiz&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP…
[2] https://github.com/Antiz96
[3] https://getcryst.al/site
[4] https://git.getcryst.al/crystal/pkgbuilds
[5] https://gitlab.com/users/Antiz96/activity
Regards,
Robin Candau - Antiz
Hello,
When looking at the archlinux gpg keyring, I notice that when GPG keys
expire, TU's regenerate a new key instead of renewing it.
Why do they regenerate a new key instead of renewing, is it the same
reason we put expire dates on our TLS certificates (for security).
Is it bad to just renew your key without regenerating it?
Thanks,
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Polarian
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Website: https://polarian.dev
JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev
Hello AUR community,
I have a very annoying issue which I have not been able to find a
solution to. So conventionally Arch Linux packages which require
migration and updating of database schemas tend to have the following
pattern:
- Stop service
- Update the package
- Run some script which migrates the database manually
- Start service
However I have been packaging https://code.onedev.io/onedev/server with
Bengcooper for the AUR and we have hit into a major issue.
The upgrade guide, as defined in their wiki page
(https://docs.onedev.io/upgrade-guide) requires the old code and the new
code.
This is due to the use of JSW (a proprietary wrapper) which they ship
their binaries with.
This does not comply with how you traditionally package software, and
thus I have no clue how I am meant to integrate this into the AUR. I
have in my own time been working on packaging the raw java code without
JSW (cause f*ck the proprietary wrapper), however this is taking longer
than I thought it would and I really need an AUR package to make things
easier for me running my public OneDev instance over at
https://onedev.polarian.dev
Does anyone have any ideas of how I can at least get the package
semi-working with database migrations, even if it is unconventional and
annoying to do so?
Thanks,
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Polarian
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Website: https://polarian.dev
JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev
Hello,
I have used the pre_upgrade hook, but the issue is I need access to the
pkg contents, and I do not think that is possible using the pre_upgrade
hook, I need it to execute the update.sh script which is within the
package on the /opt/onedev directory when before upgrading.
Basically, onedevs update script will migrate everything itself and also
back it up. When installing onedev for the first time, there is no
problems it will go smoothly, its when it needs to execute the update
script on the directory (then preferably) discard of the upgrade files
because onedevs update script also replaces all the code with the new code.
It is highly annoying as it is semi-packaged by onedev, I dont mind if
pacman comes along and just overwrites stuff, but I need to use the
update.sh script from within the package from within the pre_upgrade hook.
Thanks,
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Polarian
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I lost my aur account password and the reset doesn't seems to work. Probably the registered email doesn't exist anymore (I've been away for a long time).
Could someone help me recovering the account?
my username is shypixie
Thanks