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What to do with oh-my-zsh-git, a package people might not know how to start using
by Aaron Liu 14 Jan '24

14 Jan '24

Greetings AUR users, (hmm I sound like an alien) This package on the AUR called oh-my-zsh-git has been occasionally flagged by people who do not understand that you have to add a line to zshrc to start using it. I suggested a clearer and less suspicious postinstall message, which the package's current maintainer and another user in the comments denied as Arch users should know their system and inspect the PKGBUILD. The package's maintainer then suggested a counterproposal of shipping a symlink of /usr/bin/ohmyzsh-install to "install.sh", which I presume is the name of the official install script. I don't think we should symlink that to oh-my-zsh-something. At most, it should echo the instructions. Plus, I think this is a worse solution than simply putting a message in the postinstall on both merits and practicality. No matter how much people try it, there will be less people who try to tab-complete than those who read the postinstall messages, and nowhere in "know your system" do I see "blindly try tab-completions"; not to mention this package's name is oh-my-zsh-git, not ohmyzsh-git. Yes, ohmyzsh is the official name, but I don't expect users to know that. We cannot rely on users having hyphen completions enabled. This entire exchange occurred in the comments of that package. What do you guys think? -- Cheers, Aᴀʀᴏɴ

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wiringX-git PKGBUILD Review Request
by David C. Rankin 09 Jan '24

09 Jan '24

All, I'm thinking of adding a wiringX-git package to AUR and wanted to put the PKGBUILD out for comment and help. It's a simple tiny package used for embedded development to manipulate GPIO pins. What I've cobbled together is: pkgname=wiringX-git _gitname=wiringX pkgver=251.54030cd pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="wiringX is a modular approach to several GPIO interfaces." url="httpx://wiringx.org/" arch=('i686' 'x86_64' 'armv6h' 'armv7h' 'aarch64') license=('MPL-2.0') makedepends=('git' 'cmake') source=('git+https://github.com/wiringX/wiringX.git') md5sums=('SKIP') pkgver() { cd "${srcdir}/$_gitname" echo $(git rev-list --count HEAD).$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) } prepare() { cd "${srcdir}/$_gitname" mkdir -p build cd build msg2 "Cmake..." cmake .. } build() { cd "${srcdir}/$_gitname/build" msg2 "Building wiringX..." make } package() { cd "${srcdir}/$_gitname/build" msg2 "Packaging wiringX..." make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install mv "$pkgdir/usr/local/"* "$pkgdir/usr" rm -r "$pkgdir/usr/local" install -Dm644 "${srcdir}/$_gitname/LICENSE" "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" } And it produces: $ pacman -Qpl wiringX-git-251.54030cd-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst wiringX-git /usr/ wiringX-git /usr/include/ wiringX-git /usr/include/wiringx.h wiringX-git /usr/lib/ wiringX-git /usr/lib/libwiringx.so wiringX-git /usr/sbin/ wiringX-git /usr/sbin/wiringx-blink wiringX-git /usr/sbin/wiringx-interrupt wiringX-git /usr/sbin/wiringx-read wiringX-git /usr/share/ wiringX-git /usr/share/licenses/ wiringX-git /usr/share/licenses/wiringX-git/ wiringX-git /usr/share/licenses/wiringX-git/LICENSE We may also want to include the static library. Thoughts? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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edbrowse being outdated is understandable
by Jude DaShiell 29 Dec '23

29 Dec '23

The maintainer aksr has 389 packages to their credit and hasn't gotten around to doing a git pull on upstream site and another build of edbrowse. Since I can't log into aur original primary email address jdashiel(a)shellworld.net got blacklisted and in process to cutting over to my current address I forgot I had set up an aur account on that older blacklisted address. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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aur/edbrowse package
by Jude DaShiell 28 Dec '23

28 Dec '23

Incorrectly flagged as out of date. Upstream edbrowse went from version 3.85 to 3.87. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Re: Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)
by myself600＠tutanota.de 27 Dec '23

27 Dec '23

I'm asking for my account to be restored on the basis presented above. -- Odoslané pomocou Tutanoty. Užívaj si bezpečné e-maily bez reklám.

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Re: four failed packages
by Jude DaShiell 27 Dec '23

27 Dec '23

Correct name for missing package is primerl. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940. On Wed, 27 Dec 2023, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Wed, 2023-12-27 at 06:41 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > > I need maintainer's email addresses for four failed packages on this > > system. > > Hi, > > the following information is from https://aur.archlinux.org/ : > > zapm Last Updated: 2018-09-09 11:50 (UTC), > # Maintainer: Kyle Keen <keenerd(a)gmail.com> > > primeurl No packages matched your search criteria. > > iphonebackuptools Last Updated: 2022-05-05 18:16 (UTC) > # Maintainer: graysky <therealgraysky AT protonmail DOT com> > > whatscli Last Updated: 2021-11-02 21:12 (UTC) > # Maintainer: Pieter Joost van de Sande <pj(a)born2code.net> > > whatscli-git Last Updated: 2020-11-30 05:16 (UTC) > # Maintainer: Pieter Joost van de Sande <pj(a)born2code.net> > > Regards, > Ralf >

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four failed packages
by Jude DaShiell 27 Dec '23

27 Dec '23

I need maintainer's email addresses for four failed packages on this system. zapm; primeurl, and iphonebackuptools won't compile on this system. The fourth package whatscli installs and every time the package runs it does a core dump as it exits even on whatscli /commands and whatscli /help. -- Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com> "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." Ed Howdershelt 1940.

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Re: Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)
by myself600＠tutanota.de 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

While Arch optimized builds would be certainly preferred, this package works to the same degree as in Debian for me. -- Odoslané pomocou Tutanoty. Užívaj si bezpečné e-maily bez reklám. 19. 12. 2023, 14:09 od aaronliu0130(a)gmail.com: >> On Dec 19, 2023, at 7:35 AM, myself600(a)tutanota.de wrote: >> >> >> @Marcell Meszaros: The package is about solving freedom related issues, so I don't see a point in your comment. >> > > Mars’s point was that that kernel targets Debian distributions and don’t have the patches wanted for Arch use. >

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Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)
by myself600＠tutanota.de 19 Dec '23

19 Dec '23

I would like to appeal against PRQ#52152, which claims that the uploaded package is a duplicate. The package uses Debian's Linux kernel as source which (as was communicated to the TU and also stated on the package page) moves non-free (non-DFSG compliant) parts to separate packages*, making it a drop-in replacement for Arch's kernel for people who want to use a 100% free kernel, while also retaining the ability to load those parts individually. * https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-kernel-handbook/ch-source.html#s-… -- Odoslané pomocou Tutanoty. Užívaj si bezpečné e-maily bez reklám.

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Packages for a simple symbolic link?
by Ralf Mardorf 05 Dec '23

05 Dec '23

Hi, I came across the following packages purely by chance. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=cachy-browser-firefo… https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=librewolf-firefox-sh… Should I submit a deletion request? IMO it's strange to build a package just for a link. Regards, Ralf

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