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[aur-general] Question regarding orphan requests
by Tobias Witek 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

Hello, I filed an orphan request for a package (bumblebee-status-git) 3 weeks ago - I am the upstream developer and would be willing to take over the package ( I already maintain the bumblebee-status AUR) Unfortunately, I have been unable to establish contact with glaxxx, the current maintainer, and the package is currently broken. How long does it typically take for an orphan request to be processed? I am aware that you all are busy and the project is one of the tiniest on AUR, so I do my best to be patient and I am grateful for the great work you all are doing! Kind regards, tobi-wan

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[aur-general] Search-URL in PKGBUILD
by Ralf Mardorf 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

Hi, I'm using the default DLAGENTS settings in makepkg.conf [1], curl is from the core repo and up to date [2]. Search-URLs never do work on my machine, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cpanel-json-xs/#comment-749091 What is the recommended solution to solve this issue? Regards, Ralf [1] $ grep -ehttp: /etc/makepkg.conf{,.pacnew} /etc/makepkg.conf: 'http::/usr/bin/curl -gqb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew: 'http::/usr/bin/curl -gqb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' [2] $ pacman -Q curl curl 7.70.0-1

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[aur-general] TU application; freswa
by Frederik Schwan 28 May '20

28 May '20

Hi everyone, my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In 2010, Debian became my main OS. Only a year later I switched to Arch after I screwed up Debian/sid while hunting for the latest kernel. I'm interested in DevOps topics, mail server, C, Rust, Go and newer JVM languages such as Kotlin. Thanks to svenstaro I've been a bug wrangler since February. You mostly hear from me when I assign bugs to the wrong people from time to time :P OS contributions: - working on the dovecot-xaps code, providing native Mail.app Apple Push for iOS devices - maintaining and writing PKGBUILDs for the AUR - bug reporting and fixing for several projects My AUR packages got reviewed recently by eschwartz, svenstaro and alad - thanks :) If I become a TU, I'd like to focus on the bug tracker until we have a better solution. I'd also like to help out bug fixing when maintainers are busy, away or on vacation. Packages which I would like to move to [Community], some of which are not mine: docker-credential-pass i3status-rust intel-undervolt ispin mysqltuner pdfposter pinentry-rofi protobuf-go sha3sum spin talosctl thermald unifi woeusb I'm aware though that some of these packages do not meet the criteria of 10 votes yet. I'll reevaluate whether they meet this criteria from time to time. I'd also like to go on helping Eli with maintenance of zfs-dkms and zfs-utils in the AUR. In case JetBrains is okay with us packaging their IDE's, I'd also maintain them. But so far all requests I found resulted in a negative response from JB. I am looking forward to working with you! Frederik

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[aur-general] Create user
by karx 22 May '20

22 May '20

Hey, An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be created on the installer's system when they install the package? Thanks, Yash

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Re: [aur-general] (no subject)
by Amin Vakil 20 May '20

20 May '20

> > Are you aware that you are posting these "test" messages to an English > language mailing list with many thousand readers? If you don't stop, you > will be banned. > > Am 19.05.20 um 20:53 schrieb khashayar nazari via aur-general: >> ???? ???? >> I was wondering why isn't he banned yet, whether he knows it or not, it will save everyone's time banning him.

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by khashayar nazari 20 May '20

20 May '20

لاین لطفا

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[aur-general] GNU Freedink
by Nick Shvelidze 20 May '20

20 May '20

Why was GNU Freedink removed from the AUR? I remember it being there.

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[aur-general] AUR package q -- newbie
by Raj Kombiyil 14 May '20

14 May '20

Dear all, Greetings! Just finished my maiden install of arch-linux on my laptop, with my share of headache. But things are running alright now, I guess. It's kind of difficult to find packages in one place -- e.g.; I could install gedit easily (via pacman), but couldn't find the LaTeX plugin. Searching, I see it is in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-latex I see that in the comments section, there's some issue. The package is updated in 2017 last. I know all these will be voluntary work and maybe people don't need this plugin much. For me, I could compile LaTeX source on the fly, using gedit with this plugin. What should I do to install this package? I was hoping just to install and move on with my work. I am into science computing and don't have the knowledge base to make this work/make packages etc. I read good things about Arch, so I picked it. Apologies, I am thankful for the great work all the developers/volunteers do, but at this moment I just would like something that works. Thank you for your time and any help would be greatly appreciated. Raj

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by khashayar nazari 11 May '20

11 May '20

75/5510

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 8
by khashayar nazari 11 May '20

11 May '20

Issue 7 ‫<‪aur-general-request@archlinux.org‬‏> در تاریخ یکشنبه ۱۰ مهٔ ۲۰۲۰ ساعت ۵:۰۰ نوشت:‬ > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 7 (khashayar nazari) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:46:37 +0430 > From: khashayar nazari <hasankhoshnazar1356yahoo(a)gmail.com> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 7 > Message-ID: > < > CABj4OpWtWmrXhkQbGKnd4zY69X-oBXeG6vsNHbtEBYqPYSwowg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > 75/5580 > > ?? ????? ???? ? ??? ?????? ??:?? <aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org> ????: > > > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: TU application; freswa (Christian Rebischke) > > 2. Re: TU application; freswa (Frederik Schwan) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 02:43:20 +0200 > > From: Christian Rebischke <Chris.Rebischke(a)archlinux.org> > > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > Subject: Re: [aur-general] TU application; freswa > > Message-ID: <20200508004320.GA391510(a)motoko.shibumi.dev> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:19:04PM +0200, Discussion about the Arch User > > Repository (AUR) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted > User > > with svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. > > > > > > I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In > > 2010, Debian became my main OS. Only a year later I switched to Arch > after > > I screwed up Debian/sid while hunting for the latest kernel. > > > I'm interested in DevOps topics, mail server, C, Rust, Go and newer JVM > > languages such as Kotlin. > > > > > > Thanks to svenstaro I've been a bug wrangler since February. You mostly > > hear from me when I assign bugs to the wrong people from time to time :P > > > > > > OS contributions: > > > - working on the dovecot-xaps code, providing native Mail.app Apple > Push > > for iOS devices > > > - maintaining and writing PKGBUILDs for the AUR > > > - bug reporting and fixing for several projects > > > > > > My AUR packages got reviewed recently by eschwartz, svenstaro and alad > - > > thanks :) > > > > > > If I become a TU, I'd like to focus on the bug tracker until we have a > > better solution. I'd also like to help out bug fixing when maintainers > are > > busy, away or on vacation. > > > > > > Packages which I would like to move to [Community], some of which are > > not mine: > > > docker-credential-pass > > > i3status-rust > > > intel-undervolt > > > ispin > > > mysqltuner > > > pdfposter > > > pinentry-rofi > > > protobuf-go > > > sha3sum > > > spin > > > talosctl > > > thermald > > > unifi > > > woeusb > > > > > > I'm aware though that some of these packages do not meet the criteria > of > > 10 votes yet. I'll reevaluate whether they meet this criteria from time > to > > time. > > > I'd also like to go on helping Eli with maintenance of zfs-dkms and > > zfs-utils in the AUR. > > > > > > In case JetBrains is okay with us packaging their IDE's, I'd also > > maintain them. But so far all requests I found resulted in a negative > > response from JB. > > > > > > I am looking forward to working with you! > > > Frederik > > > > > > > > > > > Hi freswa, > > > > I would like to ask you the following questions: > > > > 1. How do you monitor new software releases? Do you use a specific tool > > for this like urlwatch? > > > > 2. How do you want to participate in the Arch Linux community? I see > > that you are very active in the IRC and on the bugtracker. Are there > > other areas, where you are active? > > > > 3. Do you use any tools for enforcing a specific PKGBUILD format? For > > example shfmt? > > > > 4. Are you testing your packages? If so, how? Do you spawn a VM via > > vagrant? Or do you use systemd-nspawn or docker images? Or do you just > > test it locally on your machine? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > chris > >

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 7
by khashayar nazari 09 May '20

09 May '20

75/5580 در تاریخ جمعه ۸ مهٔ ۲۰۲۰،‏ ۱۶:۳۰ <aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org> نوشت: > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: TU application; freswa (Christian Rebischke) > 2. Re: TU application; freswa (Frederik Schwan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 02:43:20 +0200 > From: Christian Rebischke <Chris.Rebischke(a)archlinux.org> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] TU application; freswa > Message-ID: <20200508004320.GA391510(a)motoko.shibumi.dev> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:19:04PM +0200, Discussion about the Arch User > Repository (AUR) wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted User > with svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. > > > > I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In > 2010, Debian became my main OS. Only a year later I switched to Arch after > I screwed up Debian/sid while hunting for the latest kernel. > > I'm interested in DevOps topics, mail server, C, Rust, Go and newer JVM > languages such as Kotlin. > > > > Thanks to svenstaro I've been a bug wrangler since February. You mostly > hear from me when I assign bugs to the wrong people from time to time :P > > > > OS contributions: > > - working on the dovecot-xaps code, providing native Mail.app Apple Push > for iOS devices > > - maintaining and writing PKGBUILDs for the AUR > > - bug reporting and fixing for several projects > > > > My AUR packages got reviewed recently by eschwartz, svenstaro and alad - > thanks :) > > > > If I become a TU, I'd like to focus on the bug tracker until we have a > better solution. I'd also like to help out bug fixing when maintainers are > busy, away or on vacation. > > > > Packages which I would like to move to [Community], some of which are > not mine: > > docker-credential-pass > > i3status-rust > > intel-undervolt > > ispin > > mysqltuner > > pdfposter > > pinentry-rofi > > protobuf-go > > sha3sum > > spin > > talosctl > > thermald > > unifi > > woeusb > > > > I'm aware though that some of these packages do not meet the criteria of > 10 votes yet. I'll reevaluate whether they meet this criteria from time to > time. > > I'd also like to go on helping Eli with maintenance of zfs-dkms and > zfs-utils in the AUR. > > > > In case JetBrains is okay with us packaging their IDE's, I'd also > maintain them. But so far all requests I found resulted in a negative > response from JB. > > > > I am looking forward to working with you! > > Frederik > > > > > > Hi freswa, > > I would like to ask you the following questions: > > 1. How do you monitor new software releases? Do you use a specific tool > for this like urlwatch? > > 2. How do you want to participate in the Arch Linux community? I see > that you are very active in the IRC and on the bugtracker. Are there > other areas, where you are active? > > 3. Do you use any tools for enforcing a specific PKGBUILD format? For > example shfmt? > > 4. Are you testing your packages? If so, how? Do you spawn a VM via > vagrant? Or do you use systemd-nspawn or docker images? Or do you just > test it locally on your machine? > > > Thanks > > chris >

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[aur-general] AUR requests not handled anymore?
by Christoph Gysin 06 May '20

06 May '20

I have made two deletion requests on my packages 2 weeks ago, that were never handled: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-April/039815.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-April/039825.html Has the process changed? What can I do to get these handled? Thanks, Chris -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3

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[aur-general] intel-opencl-sdk updated to 2020, probably poorly
by Nick Black 05 May '20

05 May '20

Late last night, I put together an update to intel-opencl-sdk, updating it from the 2017 edition to 2020. This was by far the most difficult PKGBUILD I've ever done, and I suspect it is less than optimal in one or more ways. If anyone feels competent to take a look at the packaging or (more importantly IMHO) the installed result, please do so. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intel-opencl-sdk/ I intend to get to intel-opencl-runtime, helpfully flagged as out-of-date last week, today or tomorrow. Hack on! -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD submission: osrs-launcher
by Nick Shvelidze 03 May '20

03 May '20

Hi, I couldn't find the official Old School RuneScape launcher in the AUR, so I decided to package it, using the official mac client as source. I have written a simple sh script to launch the included jar file (with options extracted from Info.plist file). I'm also extracting the icons from mac icns The pkgver I also got from the Info.plist file, I don't know if it's possible to extract programmatically. I couldn't find the official license for this anywhere, except a generic terms and conditions page of Jagex, which is in HTML format, I don't know if I should scrape it as text and include in package. # Maintainer: Nikoloz Shvelidze <captain(a)pirrate.me> pkgname=osrs-launcher pkgver=1.2 pkgrel=1 epoch= pkgdesc="Official OldSchool RuneScape launcher" arch=(any) url="https://oldschool.runescape.com/" license=('unknown') groups=() depends=(java-runtime bash) makedepends=(p7zip libicns) checkdepends=() optdepends=() provides=() conflicts=() replaces=() backup=() options=() install= changelog= source=("https://www.runescape.com/l=1/downloads/OldSchool.dmg" "osrs-launcher" "osrs-launcher.desktop") noextract=() md5sums=(af345cb11c7e392c15e4d2681d9de17f SKIP SKIP) validpgpkeys=() prepare() { cd "$srcdir" 7z e "OldSchool.dmg" -o"$pkgname-$pkgver" -aoa "Old School RuneScape/Old School RuneScape.app/Contents/Java/jagexappletviewer.jar" 7z e "OldSchool.dmg" -o"$pkgname-$pkgver" -aoa "Old School RuneScape/Old School RuneScape.app/Contents/Resources/OSRS.icns" cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" icns2png -x "OSRS.icns" } package() { mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/osrs-launcher" mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps" mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications" mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin" install -Dm644 "$pkgname-$pkgver/OSRS_512x512x32.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/osrs-launcher.png" install -Dm644 "$pkgname-$pkgver/jagexappletviewer.jar" "$pkgdir/usr/share/osrs-launcher/jagexappletviewer.jar" install -Dm755 "osrs-launcher" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/osrs-launcher" install -Dm644 "osrs-launcher.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/osrs-launcher.desktop" }

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[aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build
by Nick Shvelidze 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hello everyone, as you know, some packages on AUR take many minutes to build on all but very powerful machines. I think it would be helpful to have an optional bit of metadata that will mark these packages, or possibly even a general thing that will describe approximately how intensive the package is to build. Writing this as freecad-git melts my laptop.

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[aur-general] Package needed: xcalib
by Kristian N. 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hello. I'm going to be a new Arch user soon and there is an important package I need called xcalib. I need it to adjust my screen due to some vision problems. It is currently in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcalib/ Would any developer be willing to adopt it to the official repositories? I can use the AUR, but this one thing is missing that I need from the repository and it would be very convenient to have it there too. It's a very small and simple program that will not need much upkeep work for the maintainer.

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[aur-general] adoptable packages
by Joseph Carta 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hi All, I added these packages for an application in the aur that no longer requires them, so there is no need for them to exist anymore. If anyone want's to adopt them, let me know, as I'm going to orphan or request delete them soon. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-wxpython/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-six/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-pillow/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-gobject/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pygobject37-devel/

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[aur-general] Spam account - barryie
by Marcin Wieczorek 25 Apr '20

25 Apr '20

Hello, A comment has been posted under gitkraken package in AUR: > I have got the idea of your product but not everyone can get that idea. > So please give some more description so that your clients can excess > you faster which I visit <redacted> to find out quality work. I hope to > see a little more description very soon. I don't know if this is a single event or something massive, but should be checked. Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitkraken/ Account link: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/barryie Best regards, Marcin Wieczorek

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[aur-general] Append latest commit link to package update notification
by Amin Vakil 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Arch Linux Wiki has said explicitly that they don't have any responsibilities about what a package in AUR does and they also say that it's mandatory to read and understand PKGBUILD (or any other file or patch that a installation requires) before installing any package. But when a package gets updated and those who have enabled notifications want to update the package, they should (I would say everyone must) click on package page, view changes, and click on latest commit to see what has changed. So appending latest commit link "helps" and "encourages" people to check latest update and I don't think in any possible way has a downside except for a little more text to email which I assume it's OK.

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Diab Neiroukh 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

I accidentally pushed a new package to "kayan-gtk-theme-git" instead of "krayan-gtk-theme-git" this morning (now both exist and I will only update the latter) and would like to request it's removal. Apologies for the disturbance. Thanks, Diab Neiroukh

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[aur-general] User deletion request
by Giusy 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

I've been banned from AUR, but I keep getting notification of package I maintained on my email and that's annoying. Please delete my user. Thanks.

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[aur-general] aurweb 5.0.0 released
by Lukas Fleischer 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Dear aurweb contributors and users, aurweb 5.0.0 has just been released! You can now add a secondary email address that can be used to recover your account in case access to the primary email address is lost. Reset keys for an account are always sent to both the primary and the backup email address. Most other changes were internal. Shout-out to Frédéric Mangano-Tarumi for doing some amazing work on the backend! For a comprehensive list of changes, please consult the Git log [2]. As usual, bugs should be reported to the aurweb bug tracker [3]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/log/?id=v5.0.0 [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2

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[aur-general] Away until July 1st
by Jerome Leclanche 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hi list, I was already pretty tight on time, but with the latest cross-platform virus going around, I'm focusing on different projects right now so I'm just going to mark myself as away until things calm down a little. Be safe, folks. J. Leclanche

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[aur-general] Trying to push to AUR, having trouble with GitHub actions
by Yash Karandikar 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Hey all So I was trying to push a new version of my package to the AUR. This repository has two remotes. One is for GitHub, and one is for the AUR. Yesterday, I set up GitHub actions to test my package, but did not push to AUR. The GitHub actions folder has some subdirectories which contain my actions config. However, I cannot push to AUR because of these subdirectories. Any ideas? Thanks, Yash

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[aur-general] Cannot push modifications to my PKGBUILD
by fredbezies 07 Mar '20

07 Mar '20

Hello. I wanted to update this PKGBUILD: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pamac-aur-git/ But after updating .SRCINFO, adding changing, adding commit note, git pull is not working. Here is what I got every single time: fred@fredo-arch-mate ~/pamac-aur-git (git)-[master] % git push Enumerating objects: 7, done. Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 427 bytes | 427.00 KiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: Traceback (most recent call last): remote: File "hooks/update", line 11, in <module> remote: load_entry_point('aurweb==4.8.0', 'console_scripts', 'aurweb-git-update')() remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 490, in load_entry_point remote: return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2854, in load_entry_point remote: return ep.load() remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2445, in load remote: return self.resolve() remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2451, in resolve remote: module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0) remote: File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aurweb-4.8.0-py3.8.egg/aurweb/git/update.py", line 4, in <module> remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygit2/__init__.py", line 30, in <module> remote: from _pygit2 import * remote: ImportError: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_pygit2.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: git_worktree_prune_init_options remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/pamac-aur-git.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/pamac-aur-git.git' Any idea? Thanks. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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