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[aur-general] aurtools, remove?
by Imanol Celaya 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

looking through the community repos seems that aurtools would be completely obsolete, did I miss something or is it time to remove it form community?

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[aur-general] Packages removal
by Anton Bazhenov 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

twisted-web2 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25291 Duplicate of "twisted-web2" package in Community. merkaartor-complete - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25595 Duplicate of "merkaartor" package in AUR (with broken source link). mplayer-mt-git-oss - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27055 Duplicate of "mplayer-mt-oss-git" (see comment). libsipphoneapi-oss - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6186 It seems that it's not needed now. stepmania-cvs-extras - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=4567 Broken links, replaced by "stepmania-extras" package. mp-qt4 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29243 mp-gtk - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29242 Copies of "mp-5" and "mp-5-gtk" packages (see comments). mozilla-firefox-thai - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6334 xulrunner-thai - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6904 thunderbird-nightly-it - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9962 These packages are for old versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. perl-date-korean - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23040 lua-docs - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26840&detail=1 libtheora-thusnelda-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28831 pcfinancial-workaround - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24634 Maintainers wrote that these packages may be deleted (see comments). kmess_blue_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2017 kmess_cartoon_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2018 kmess_crystal_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2019 kmess_violet_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2020 kmess_yellow_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2021 kmess_crystal_ic - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2022 These packages are very old: broken source links, wrong paths in build section. It's simplier to create a new package with themes, than update these.

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

jackdbus - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16272 (orphaned and dupe available as jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus) lv2core - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22216 (not orphan but an unnecessary dupe of lv2)

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[aur-general] Time Taken for Tarball to Reflect Contents
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Is there a delay between an upload and the time it takes for the tarball to be regenerated? Or is it because for the first time I actually uploaded a src pkg (with the extension) when previously I used to upload my own .tar.gz files?

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[aur-general] advice wanted on "surf" package
by Ray Kohler 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

I'm the maintainer of the "surf" package in AUR, and I've discovered an annoyance in the way I've created this package. I'd like some advice on how to resolve it. This package is a web browser from suckless.org, the makers of dwm. It has very much the same coding and build style, involving a config.h file which the user is intended to customize. Most of surf's behavior is decided at compile-time by this file. I've modeled my package after the "dwm" package in community, copying the default config.h into the root of the package tarball and listing it as a local source file. build() then copies it into the unpacked source directory before compiling. This is great for users of dwm who rebuild it from ABS, as it avoids the need to modify build() in order to customize the package - the user just needs to supply their own config.h and change the md5sum for it. This doesn't work so well for my surf package, though, since that's in the AUR. Many (most?) users of AUR packages are auto-updating with helper-tools like yaourt, pbget, and similar utilities, and it's difficult to automatically pull updates to package materials when you've changed one of the files. customizepkg won't help you much either, since that can only modify the PKGBUILD, and not the config.h. It's also annoying to me as the maintainer of the package. Anyone who maintains a package that's meant to have the build customized, rather than compiled as-is, will end up actually maintaining two copies - one "stock" version to submit to AUR, and one customized version for personal use. Obviously, none of these issues are show-stoppers. But they are annoying, and I don't packages I maintain to annoy my end-users. What can I do to make this package more comfortable for the average AUR user? Is software that expects compile-time customization just fundamentally not very compatible with the auto-update concept?

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[aur-general] Removal request
by A Rojas 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Please remove mathematik-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29834 It has been renamed to cantor

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Re: [aur-general] TU apllaing/voting.
by member SpeedVin 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

2009/9/21 member SpeedVin <speedvin(a)archlinux.us> > Hello all. > > I'm using Arch for about 1 year. > I helped Arch community by providing PKGBUILDS and helping on forum. > > I want to introduce me. > My name is Patrick, I'm from the Poland I am working with computers for > long time (12 years). > > Now I'm maintraining 14 packages on AUR in unsupported repo. > List of them > dwm-git 20090813-1 > unsupported devel glib2-newest 2.21.6-1 > unsupported system grub2-git 29072009-1 > unsupported x11 inputproto-git 1.9.99.902-1 > unsupported kernels kernel26-bfs 2.6.31-1 > unsupported lib libsoup-git 20090920-1 1 > unsupported lib libx11-git 1.2.99.901-1 > unsupported modules nvidia-bfs-beta 190.32-1 > unsupported x11 renderproto-git 0.11-1 > unsupported x11 xextproto-git 7.0.99.3-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-keyboard-git 20080809-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-mouse-git 20080808-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-server-git 20090529-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-xinit-git 20080807-1 > Some of them are based on PKGBUILD provieded by ABS and some are based on > packages in AUR , and some are builded myself. > I am programming in Python and C++ ;) > > Now that I've introduced myself I'm looking for someone who wants to > sponsor me (if any). Please feel free to ask any questions I do not > have answered yet. > > Thanks for reading this ;) > >

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Warning: db-4.8 rebuilds entering [testing]
by Pierre Schmitz 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Am Samstag 26 September 2009 06:51:35 schrieb Allan McRae: > Someone will want to generate a rebuild list for [community]. The > libraries with name changes are libdb-4.7 and libdb_cxx-4.7. If I grep for the exact so name I just get those; maybe its enough to just rebuild those? apache13 dsniff gtranslator kdesvn lib32-db lib32-heimdal libgda3 librcc perl-berkeleydb perl-libapreq2 perl-xml-libxslt poedit python-bsddb qsvn rapidsvn selinux-pam wml -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Warning: db-4.8 rebuilds entering [testing]
by Pierre Schmitz 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Am Samstag 26 September 2009 06:51:35 schrieb Allan McRae: > Someone will want to generate a rebuild list for [community]. The > libraries with name changes are libdb-4.7 and libdb_cxx-4.7. apache13 ario avant-window-navigator awesome awn-extras-applets cdemu-daemon compiz-core compiz-decorator-gtk compiz-decorator-kde compiz-fusion-plugins-extra dbmail drivel dsniff e-modules-extra-svn e-svn e_dbus-svn emacs-cvs empathy filezilla flock galago-daemon gecko-mediaplayer gnome-mplayer gnome-system-tools gnomebaker gshutdown gtranslator gtvg gwget gyachi hal-cups-utils kadu kdesvn last-exit lib32-db lib32-dbus-core lib32-heimdal libgalago libgalago-gtk libgda3 liboobs librcc libtelepathy musicmanager network-ups-tools ogmrip orange osmo padevchooser perl-berkeleydb perl-libapreq2 perl-net-dbus perl-xml-libxslt pidgin-libnotify pinot poedit pulseaudio python-bsddb python-galago python-galago-gtk python-notify qsvn rapidsvn rawstudio roxterm selinux-pam sensors-applet superswitcher synce-librapi synce-libsynce synce-odccm synce-rra synce-vdccm system-tools-backends telepathy-farsight telepathy-gabble telepathy-glib telepathy-haze telepathy-idle telepathy-mission-control telepathy-salut telepathy-sofiasip telepathy-stream-engine thoggen tracker wml workrave xbmc xfce4-volstatus-icon xfmedia -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Orphan request twitux
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 26 Sep '09

26 Sep '09

Hi archers! twitux has many lost dependencies in PKGBUILD. Many users say about it. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12301 -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) UR6LAD xmpp:vitaliy@berdinskikh.in.ua

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Integrity Check x86_64: core, extra, community 25-09-2009
by Biru Ionut 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

repomaint(a)archlinux.org wrote: > --------------------- > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/bar vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/bar > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/bashrun vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/bashrun > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/glest-data vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/glest-data > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/jbidwatcher vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/jbidwatcher > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/mediawiki vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/mediawiki > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/python-distutils-extra vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/python-distutils-extra > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/rfc vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/rfc > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/roundcubemail vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/roundcubemail > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/ruby-hpricot vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/ruby-hpricot > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/xmltv vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/xmltv > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/youtube-dl vs. /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/youtube-dl fixed that, except ruby-hpricot. trunk is not converted to any and i let bash fix that. he knows better what he did there. -- Ionut

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[aur-general] what about R?
by johnea 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

Hello Fellow Arch Users, Ya know, we don't always have control over what an upstream project is called. Take for example: The R Project for Statistical Computing http://www.r-project.org/ As can be clearly seen, the project's name is R. Yes, that is a CAPITAL R ! So I've got a PKGBUILD I'd like to upload, but it produces a package called: R-2.9.2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz Which includes the projects UPPER CASE NAME. As a supporting note, the source filename is: R-2.9.2.tar.gz This package built and installed nicely here with that name, and seems to be running just fine. So WHY DOES THE UPLOADED PACKAGE NEED TO BE LOWER CASE? I'm not YELLING, really, I JUST HAVE A VERY LOUD VOICE 8-) So, what does the OFFICIAL AUR COMMUNITY think about the name of this package? How do we accommodate case aversion and still spread the power and fun of R to the arch linux world? One last point to note. When searching for, or listing packages, with say: pacman -Q | grep R The upper case REALLY helps overcome listing a bunch of other packages due to the extreme popularity of the lower case 'r'. Any suggestions as to a package name acceptable by the community at LARGE (sorry, I just couldn't hold that one back 8-) would be greatly appreciated. Your's in FUN and Graphics Scripting... android p.s. possible solutions: r-project gnur (gnur, really?) R (hey, why not) ... your suggestion here ...

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] automatic package builder
by Abhishek Dasgupta 25 Sep '09

25 Sep '09

2009/9/25 Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com>: > Hey guys, > > Past week I was reading through the buildbot manual, but I decided not to > use it. IMO it is far too complex, fat and not something which has the > needed functionality easily available (you can extend it with python > scripting, but what's the fun of that huh?) > > So yesterday I decided I will write my own. I'll give it some more though > what functionality we need most (ability to prioritize tasks, manually > adding tasks, getting changes from svn to name a few). > > So what do I need from you? > - name (what's a tool without a name huh?) How about ogee? From wikipedia, Ogee is a type of arch which looks very similar to the Arch Linux logo. > - git-repo (not direct, but sometime in the next two weeks or so. Maybe we > need to first pick a name too) > - ideas. What do you guys want to see first? How do we want to get notified > (daily mail, using a webpage which lists success of all completed/pending > tasks, something else)? You get the idea, now is the time to speak up. > I think a website would be really cool. Something like Ubuntu's PPA -- that system is really nice. Abhishek

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[aur-general] Package removal : ted-2.20
by pascal 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi Please can someone delete http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30425 I uploaded it too fast, and forgot to add gtk2 dependency and modify the maintainer field.

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[aur-general] Inactive 24/09-30/09
by Andrea Scarpino 24 Sep '09

24 Sep '09

Hi all, I will be inactive starting from now. I did 3 exams (wow!) and now I am going to Milan for a week and I will not have my laptop with me. Free to update my packages. -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] Packaging
by Farhan Yousaf 23 Sep '09

23 Sep '09

Hi there, There is an AUR package that doesn't compile. I have updated the build on my own. How do I submit it or take over the existing package? The owner isn't responding to my queries. Thanks. Farhan Yousaf, MSIA, ISP Sent from my iPhone

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[aur-general] Package removal
by Anton Bazhenov 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Another portion of the packages that appear to be removed. :) binexa - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25788 gmpc-random-playlist - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14269 notify-more - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12105 voodoo-kdm-theme - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8007 I tried to download sources, but it is "error 404", and homepages aren't working. It seems that these projects died. qbriscola - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18357 Sources not exist; replaced by "qbriscola-svn" package (see comments). kolourpaint - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23709 kolourpaint-bin - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23737 Obsolete packages, it's "kdegraphics-kolourpaint" package in Extra (see comments). igal - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2540 emelfm - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22606 Deprecated versions, which are no longer being developed; there are igal2 package in AUR and emelfm2 in Extra. gmixer-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25995 Replaced by "gmixer-bzr" (see comments). kdeplasma-adjustableclock - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22539 This package is duplicate of "adjustable-clock-plasmoid" package (see comments). kdenlive-kde4-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21726 It seems that this package is duplicate of "kdenlive-svn"... kdeicons-crystaldiamond - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25324 Link to the source code is not working (sources are at the "uploaded.to" site with free/premium downloads). latex-template-lncs - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26042 "Outdated by latex-template-springer" (see comments).

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[aur-general] Move [community-testing] packages to [community]
by Evangelos Foutras 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

I noticed that the new libldap and postgresql packages were moved to [core] and [extra] respectively. We should probably move rebuilds out of [community-testing] and into [community] as soon as possible. How do we go about this? Using /arch/db-move or something else? :) (I'm not on my desktop computer at the moment, so if someone knows how to proceed with the move, please go ahead.)

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[aur-general] TU applying/voting.
by member SpeedVin 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Hello all. I'm using Arch for about 1 year. I helped Arch community by providing PKGBUILDS and helping on forum. I want to introduce me. My name is Patrick, I'm from the Poland I am working with computers for long time (12 years). Now I'm maintraining 14 packages on AUR in unsupported repo. List of them dwm-git 20090813-1 unsupported devel glib2-newest 2.21.6-1 unsupported system grub2-git 29072009-1 unsupported x11 inputproto-git 1.9.99.902-1 unsupported kernels kernel26-bfs 2.6.31-1 unsupported lib libsoup-git 20090920-1 1 unsupported lib libx11-git 1.2.99.901-1 unsupported modules nvidia-bfs-beta 190.32-1 unsupported x11 renderproto-git 0.11-1 unsupported x11 xextproto-git 7.0.99.3-1 unsupported x11 xf86-input-keyboard-git 20080809-1 unsupported x11 xf86-input-mouse-git 20080808-1 unsupported x11 xorg-server-git 20090529-1 unsupported x11 xorg-xinit-git 20080807-1 Some of them are based on PKGBUILD provieded by ABS and some are based on packages in AUR , and some are builded myself. I am programming in Python and C++ ;) Now that I've introduced myself I'm looking for someone who wants to sponsor me (if any). Please feel free to ask any questions I do not have answered yet. Thanks for reading this ;)

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[aur-general] Package removal
by Anton Bazhenov 22 Sep '09

22 Sep '09

Several packages that are unlikely needed... wildmagic - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7574 There is a "wildmagic4" package in AUR, so I think this old version may be deleted. soqt - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7538 soqt3 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7602 It is identical packages: "soqt" is orphan, but updated in Jun 2009 and it needs for freecad; last update of "soqt3" - Nov 2006 and it doesn't needed for anything. lapack-gcc3 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7378 This package is orphan and last updated at Jul 2007. And there is a new lapack package in Extra repository.

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Anton Bazhenov 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

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[aur-general] Some packages to consider deleting...
by Smartboy 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

I went through parts of AUR today intending to find some packages which could be deleted for various reasons. Here is what I got: audacious-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26394>, audacious-plugins-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26395>: Its an old, unmaintained version of Audacious. The version in the repos is 2 minor versions ahead of this one. I think it can safely be removed without hurting anything. bang <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15238>: This hasn't been maintained upstream for a while, and doesn't even build anymore. There is always Ecomorph, which is somewhat more maintained upstream. beryl-bmenu, beryl-desktopclick, beryl-screensaver: Beryl isn't available for Arch anymore, and hasn't been developed for over 2 years now. These can be removed. cairo-newspr <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16587>: Gentoo isn't even using the patches anymore, and the maintainer abandoned it. I see no reason for this package to stick around. catalyst-vanilla <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24451>: Old, unmaintained, a duplicate of the catalyst pkgbuild, and the old maintainer even asked for it to be deleted in the comments. Those should be reason enough to delete this PKGBUILD. ejourn <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2772>: Project page is down, with the program innacessable. Package hasn't been updated in 3 years. It should be deleted. enna-cvs <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14653>: e17 switched to svn long ago. This should be deleted. php4-gtk <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=730>: This is for php version 4, which isn't available in arch. Hasn't been updated in years. qtpoveditor <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2719>: Doesn't work anymore, and isn't supported either. rstatd <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2557>: Doesn't work anymore, program itself last updated in 2005. Hope this helps make AUR just a little bit cleaner. ;) Smartboy

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[aur-general] Package removal: clutter-cairo
by Michael Kanis 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hello, could you please remove the package clutter-cairo? It is deprecated by the authors [1] and doesn't build anymore. Greets Michael [1] http://lists.o-hand.com/clutter/2823.html

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[aur-general] Package removal: libatasmart-git
by Michael Kanis 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi, I created the libatasmart-git package some time ago as a dependency for my devicekit-disks package because there was no official release of it. However now there is and there's also a package in AUR, so there is no real use for libatasmart-git anymore. Could you please delete it? Greets Michael

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[aur-general] python-fuse
by Xyne 21 Sep '09

21 Sep '09

Hi, python-fuse needs to be rebuilt against the latest fuse package due to linking errors (no PKGBUILD changes necessary). I would do this myself but I'm trying to track down an error in my toolchain that's preventing my packages from getting synced (I may have just fixed it but I'm waiting for the mirrors to see). Does anyone feel like rebuilding python-fuse? It builds quickly and is only about 170 K to upload. Thanks. /Xyne

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