October 2025 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

Request comment on PKGBUILD changes to mongodb44 to remove libboost_system references from Scons files
by David C Rankin 22 Oct '25

22 Oct '25

AUR Wizards, With upstream's removal of libboost_system I needed to remove the Scons config making use of the library. Instead of patching the files, I simply used a couple of sed expressions to handle the issue from the PKGBUILD (there were many others there when I stepped in as the maintainer) I want to know if it matters, and whether patches are preferred, or if handling a couple of removals via sed or awk is okay. I added the following to handle the changes: # delete libboost_system references from scons due to removal # from boost/boost-libs upstream in ver. 1.89. sed -i '/^boostLibs =/s/, "system"//' SConstruct sed -i '348d' src/third_party/SConscript Builds fine, only complaint is it has to serial link instead of using the requested lto link, which I see with some other packages as well. Anyway, if there is a preference to patch instead of use sed, I can clean that up on the next commit, but I am curious if there is a preference or if either/or is okay. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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Re: Free DDOS Protection Tool
by Borna Punda 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Greetings, I have been thinking. For all that it's worth, it might be best to decouple HTTP and SSH AUR. We have already determined it will be very hard to protect SSH, but as discussed before, HTTP can be done by Cloudflare easily (either through Galileo or even the free plan). Best regards, Borna Punda

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Free DDOS Protection Tool
by shresth paul 08 Oct '25

08 Oct '25

Hello Team, I hope you're doing well. So recently we noticed that the ARCH linux is facing a lot of DDOS attacks. What if we were to use Project Galileo to avoid these DDOS? This is completely free of cost by CloudFlare. Project Galileo | Cloudflare <https://www.cloudflare.com/galileo/> Thanks Shresth Paul Website: - Shresth Paul | Cybersecurity Professional <https://secbyshresth.github.io/Portfolio/>

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AUR down
by Javier 06 Oct '25

06 Oct '25

Hello ! It seem AUR [1] is down, or is it me? Thanks ! -- Javier [1] https://aur.archlinux.org

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Fwd: AUR Comment for rapidyaml
by shresth paul 03 Oct '25

03 Oct '25

Hello Everyone, This has been done. Thanks Shresth Paul (UserName: SecByShresth) ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: <notify(a)aur.archlinux.org> Date: Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM Subject: AUR Comment for rapidyaml To: <shresthpaul133(a)gmail.com> patlefort [1] added the following comment to rapidyaml [2]: Can you add `libryml.so` in provides for c++ package? Thanks. -- If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this package, please go to the package page [2] and select "Disable notifications". [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/patlefort/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/rapidyaml/

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Re: AUR Comment for rapidyaml
by shresth paul 02 Oct '25

02 Oct '25

Hello Guys, I hope you're doing well. I just fixed this package, can we please test it out? Let me know if you still face any issues. Thanks Shresth Paul On Fri, Oct 3, 2025 at 12:35 AM <notify(a)aur.archlinux.org> wrote: > abouvier [1] added the following comment to rapidyaml [2]: > > It can't work if it doesn't even build: > ``` > ==> Starting build()... > -- The CXX compiler identification is GNU 15.2.1 > -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info > -- Detecting CXX compiler ABI info - done > -- Check for working CXX compiler: /usr/lib/ccache/bin/c++ - skipped > -- Detecting CXX compile features > -- Detecting CXX compile features - done > -- ryml: using C++ standard: C++11 > -- ryml: setting C++ standard: 11 > -- ryml: setting C++ standard required: ON > -- ryml: importing subproject c4core (SUBDIRECTORY)... > /build/rapidyaml/src/rapidyaml/ext/c4core > -- c4core: using C++ standard: C++11 > -- ryml: -----> target ryml PUBLIC incorporating lib c4core > -- ryml: packing the project: > -- ryml: cpack tag: v0.10.0 > -- ryml: enabling API > CMake Error at > /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:227 > (message): > Could NOT find SWIG (missing: SWIG_EXECUTABLE SWIG_DIR) > Call Stack (most recent call first): > /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindPackageHandleStandardArgs.cmake:591 > (_FPHSA_FAILURE_MESSAGE) > /usr/share/cmake/Modules/FindSWIG.cmake:184 > (find_package_handle_standard_args) > api/CMakeLists.txt:18 (find_package) > > > -- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred! > ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). > ``` > > -- > If you no longer wish to receive notifications about this package, > please go to the package page [2] and select "Disable notifications". > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/abouvier/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/rapidyaml/

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Packages for Adoption
by Brian 01 Oct '25

01 Oct '25

Hi AUR Community, I’m giving up all the packages I maintain for adoption. Unfortunately, I don’t have any time to maintain them in the foreseeable future. You’ll noticed that quite a few of them have Dockerfiles. This is because I was doing my development work on a Mac. The image in those Dockerfiles is a custom image that I created which publishes a new version daily (https://github.com/brianrobt/archlinux-aurdev-docker-image) That process is completely automated, but if it should ever break, then I probably won’t have time to fix it. Anyway, most of you probably wouldn’t even use it to begin with since you’re developing on Arch, but I thought it’d be useful to know. I also have a GitHub repo where I’ve been keeping copies of the files on each AUR package (https://github.com/brianrobt/aur-pkgbuilds) I setup a bit of automation to perform package updates, but it’s doesn’t work with some of the packages and isn’t really “production-ready”. It may be useful for any new maintainers. Here are the packages that I’m orphaning: - alist - simplex-chat-bin - stable-diffusion.cpp-vulkan-git - nmctl - netclient - htmlhint - pixieditor-bin - python-nspektr - openmohaa-git - openmohaa - rocm-clang-ocl - rot8-git - outwiker - arduino-avr-core - rapidyaml - python-rapidyaml - gradle-language-server - python-mouseinfo I greatly appreciated and enjoyed working with the other AUR maintainers. It was a great experience, and I hope that I can return to the community sooner rather than later. Thank you for all of the help and support! — Best regards, Brian Thompson DevOps/SRE | Open Source Developer St. Peters, MO, USA

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