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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by Andrei Thorp 04 Jul '09

04 Jul '09

Excerpts from Allan McRae's message of Fri Jul 03 00:40:57 -0400 2009: > I'm not longer a Trusted User so I do not get a vote in this anymore, > but knowing how this works I would suggest that your application is > coming too soon. Yeah, I'm not an anybody, but I really feel this way too from reading the mailing lists. Though, I like Nathan's overall attitude. He doesn't seem ready skill-wise, but if he keeps up this interest and desire to help people, the ability will come. I might also suggest to Nathan that he try to improve his grammar/spelling/capitalization/formatting. Doing these things properly will get you further in open source software communities. Cheers. -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)

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[aur-general] script for running namcap on a AUR maintainer's packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

It's useful to run namcap on a maintainer's packages on the AUR, especially when people apply for TU. This pair of scripts fetches the package names belonging to a maintainer (it only fetches the first 100 results though) and the second runs namcap on the package list by downloading the PKGBUILDs from AUR. -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] arch-diff page offline
by Pierre Schmitz 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Hi devs and TUs, the diff page http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences does not work atm. Looks like one of the last updates makes it impossible to extract the db files using bsdtar within php. This might be due to an undocumented change in php or just a bug. I'll have to find out. :-) Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Integrity Check community x86_64 03-07-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

======================================= = Integrity Check x86_64 of community = ======================================= Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking for circular dependencies Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/daemons/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/devel/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/editors/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/emulators/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/games/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/gnome/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/i18n/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/kde/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/lib/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/lib32/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/modules/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/multimedia/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/network/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/office/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/science/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/system/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/x11/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64//community/xfce/CVS Missing Dependencies ---------------------- eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' flumotion --> 'twisted-web' open-vm-tools-modules --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' qc-usb-messenger --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' cdfs --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' Missing Makedepends --------------------- id3lib-rcc --> 'gcc34' greycstoration --> 'gcc34' tvision --> 'gcc34' classpath --> 'jikes' open-vm-tools --> 'chrpath' Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 19 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 10 Repo hierarchy problems: 0 Circular dependencies: 0

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[aur-general] Integrity Check community i686 03-07-2009
by repomaint＠archlinux.org 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

===================================== = Integrity Check i686 of community = ===================================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking mismatches ==> checking archs ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking for circular dependencies Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/daemons/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/devel/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/editors/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/emulators/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/games/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/gnome/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/i18n/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/kde/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/lib/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/modules/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/multimedia/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/network/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/office/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/science/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/system/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/x11/CVS /srv/abs/rsync/i686//community/xfce/CVS Missing Dependencies ---------------------- flumotion --> 'twisted-web' open-vm-tools-modules --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' qc-usb-messenger --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' cdfs --> 'kernel26<2.6.28' Missing Makedepends --------------------- virtualbox-ose-additions --> 'gcc34' virtualbox-modules --> 'gcc34' id3lib-rcc --> 'gcc34' greycstoration --> 'gcc34' virtualbox-ose --> 'gcc34' tvision --> 'gcc34' classpath --> 'jikes' open-vm-tools --> 'chrpath' Summary --------- Missing PKGBUILDs: 18 Invalid PKGBUILDs: 0 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 0 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Invalid archs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 13 Repo hierarchy problems: 0 Circular dependencies: 0

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by Loui Chang 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

On Fri 03 Jul 2009 14:40 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > nathan owe. wrote: > >Well my name is Nathan Owe. I am applying to be a TU, a person > >with the username Ghost1227 looked at some of my pkgs i have made, > >and he made suggestions on what i should do to improve my > >PKGBUILDs. well i downloaded all my packages and fixed them > >according to his suggestions. I do believe my packages do conform > >to the guidelines. The reason for applying for TU is because i love > >arch linux and i want to contribute back to this great OS. I love > >that i can contribute the way i am now, but i want to try and > >contribute to the development of AUR more by trying to help others > >as well. I have currently over 60 nearly 70 pkgs and still > >counting. I currently don't have a sponsor. I usually am signed > >into the IRC channel but usually don't talk much due to working on > >packages to contribute. my nickname is ndowens on both IRC and AUR. > > Hi Nathan, > > I'm not longer a Trusted User so I do not get a vote in this anymore, > but knowing how this works I would suggest that your application is > coming too soon. In the past month, you have been asking for a lot > of help doing what I consider fairly easy packaging. This is not > saying that asking for help is a bad thing, but rather I think that > you need more time to learn packaging techniques and get used to > fixing problem situations. > > When you maintain packages in the [community] repo as a Trusted User, > you are expected to be able to deal with breakages that occur. These > are somewhat frequent in a rolling release distribution as updating a > package that is in the dependency chain of one of your packages can > cause your package to stop working properly. The TUs need to be > confident that you will be able to handle such breakages (whether > they need a patch or a simple sed line). > > I encourage you to continue learning the packaging system and try to > become a TU at a later date. Most TUs had been packaging for half a > year by the time of their application. Remember, there is a lot you > can contribute to Arch without being a TU. In fact, the only thing > TUs can do that you can not is put binary packages into the > [community] repo. I'd suggest looking for bugs on the bug tracker > and seeing if you can replicate the problem, try to fix it and post > the fixed PKGBUILD to the bug tracker if you can. That teaches you > how to deal with problems while proving your ability to become a > Trusted User. > > Also remember that it is not the number of packages you maintain, but > the quality of those packages. So try to help out in irc or the > forums rather then taking another package just because you can. > Packaging only software you are genuinely interested in helps keep > the motivation going. Indeed. Well said Allan. That's pretty much how I feel about this application.

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[aur-general] TU Application
by nathan owe. 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

Well my name is Nathan Owe. I am applying to be a TU, a person with the username Ghost1227 looked at some of my pkgs i have made, and he made suggestions on what i should do to improve my PKGBUILDs. well i downloaded all my packages and fixed them according to his suggestions. I do believe my packages do conform to the guidelines. The reason for applying for TU is because i love arch linux and i want to contribute back to this great OS. I love that i can contribute the way i am now, but i want to try and contribute to the development of AUR more by trying to help others as well. I have currently over 60 nearly 70 pkgs and still counting. I currently don't have a sponsor. I usually am signed into the IRC channel but usually don't talk much due to working on packages to contribute. my nickname is ndowens on both IRC and AUR.

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[aur-general] Requesting orphanage of libssh and hydra
by SergeantSpoon 03 Jul '09

03 Jul '09

I am interested in taking up maintaining libssh and hydra in the AUR, and the current maintainer has been inactive for almost a year. I tried contacting him via email but he has not responded, so I can only assume that he is no longer interested in maintaining either. If a TU could set me as the maintainer or ophan both packages that would be great, as I have PKGBUILDS that are completely updated and function ready to be uploaded. Cheers, Sergeant

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[aur-general] Please delete "clojure-svn" and "clojure-contrib-svn"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hey, Please delete "clojure-svn" and "clojure-contrib-svn" as they are both orphaned since Clojure switched to GIT. The GIT packages are both up already serving as the replacements of the packages I suggest for deletion.

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[aur-general] Recommended Encoding for PKGBUILDS?
by hollunder＠gmx.at 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Hi there, I noticed a while ago that the AUR webinterface doesn't show my name correctly when the character encoding in the PKGBUILD is utf-8. Is there a recommended encoding? iso-8859-1? Something else? I'm asking because I'm checking through my 50 PKGBUILD files and want to avoid issues in future. Regards, Philipp

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[aur-general] AUR webpage
by nathan duane 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

I have a suggestion, it would be nice to have a text editor for the AUR page so u could edit your PKGBUILDs without having to download then resubmit

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[aur-general] Duplicate packages
by Dan Vratil 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

I found two package in AUR both providing the same software: opera-dev-qt4 [1] and opera-devel-qt4 [2]. Opera-dev-qt4 was first submitted few days before opera-devel-qt4, but it's not being updated and does not support x86_64 arch therefor I suggest to delete opera-dev-qt4. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23865 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15228 Cheers Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870

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[aur-general] delete request
by nathan duane 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

I need argparse-python deleted it is a duplicate

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for gambas2 2.13.1-2! No new package supplied for warzone2100 2.1.2-1! No new package supplied for linphone 3.1.2-2! No new package supplied for perl-poe-component-ikc 0.2002-1! No new package supplied for freetds 0.82-1! No new package supplied for enet 1.2-3! No new package supplied for moinmoin 1.8.3-1! No new package supplied for python3 3.0.1-1! No new package supplied for conkeror-git 20090614-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for gambas2 2.13.1-2! No new package supplied for warzone2100 2.1.2-1! No new package supplied for linphone 3.1.2-2! No new package supplied for perl-poe-component-ikc 0.2002-1! No new package supplied for freetds 0.82-1! No new package supplied for enet 1.2-1! No new package supplied for moinmoin 1.8.3-1! No new package supplied for python3 3.0.1-1! No new package supplied for conkeror-git 20090614-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] rsync for AUR
by Abhishek Dasgupta 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Is it feasible to setup an rsync for AUR packages? Would it increase load on the server a lot? Installing packages from AUR would become simpler, as tools can work on the local cache instead. It'll be also easier to keep backups. -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] communitypkg does not work
by Stefan Husmann 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Hello, I cannot upload packages to community. I have a ssh account and did set CVS_RSH and CVSROOT. Yesterday it worked. I have no idea what is going wrong here. [haawda@frege yaz]$ communitypkg Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/bin/tupkg", line 209, in <module> sys.exit(main()) File "/usr/bin/tupkg", line 191, in main cs.connect() File "/usr/bin/tupkg", line 53, in connect self.socket.connect((self.host, self.port)) File "<string>", line 1, in connect socket.error: [Errno 111] Connection refused Cancelled Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] TU
by nathan owe. 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Sorry i have a habit of just hitting reply

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for gmerlin 0.4.0-2! No new package supplied for fotoxx 7.2-1! No new package supplied for sdlmame 0.132-1! No new package supplied for gambas2 2.13.1-2! No new package supplied for warzone2100 2.1.2-1! No new package supplied for perl-poe-component-ikc 0.2002-1! No new package supplied for enet 1.2-3! No new package supplied for moinmoin 1.8.3-1! No new package supplied for conkeror-git 20090614-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for fotoxx 7.2-1! No new package supplied for sdlmame 0.132-1! No new package supplied for eclipse-gef 3.4.2-1! No new package supplied for gambas2 2.13.1-2! No new package supplied for warzone2100 2.1.2-1! No new package supplied for perl-poe-component-ikc 0.2002-1! No new package supplied for enet 1.2-1! No new package supplied for moinmoin 1.8.3-1! No new package supplied for conkeror-git 20090614-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by nathan owe. 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Is anyone having a problem with yaourt? mine isnt finding packages in aur that i know exists

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[aur-general] ftp://archlinux.org/community/ still does not get updates
by Sergej Pupykin 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Hi, aur.archlinux.org/srv/ftp/community/os/i686 differs from ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/i686 ~100Mb in ~20 files differs. Rsync seems still broken...

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[aur-general] The [community-testing] repository
by Thomas Bächler 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

I think this has been requested and discussed a few times and I talked to several people about it, so I want to outline my ideas here: When moving the community db scripts to the new svn-based scripts, a community-testing repository should be created. With the new scripts, handling this is incredibly easy. And here is why: Rebuild sprees. We have the problem now with readline: libreadline.so.6 is in testing and community packages are built against .so.5. [testing] users cannot use everything from [community] and once we move everything to core and extra, it takes too much time for [community] to catch up. The [community-testing] repository will solve that: While the dev team does rebuilds in [testing], the TUs do the same in [community-testing]. When everything is done, a developer can move the core/extra and community packages simultaneously. This is not only useful for SONAME bumps, but also for kernel updates (there's a few kernel modules in [community]). I suggest this should be set up as soon as [community] is moved to SVN-based scripts, as the upcoming libjpeg rebuilds will break too many packages and we need to rebuild not only the [extra] but also the [community] packages in time. That's how I see it, opinions?

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Re: [aur-general] new version for package holdingnuts
by Aaron Griffin 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 11:37 AM, Dominik Geyer<dominik.geyer(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Hi Aaron, > > the old maintainer of the holdingnuts package seems to be inactive now > (had contact with him via mail). At the package's page it says > there's no maintainer. Is there a chance finding a new maintainer for it? > > There's a new version of this package (0.0.5) and I would like to see > it updated in Arch, too. The package structure hasn't changed, so it > might be a pure version bump. Hi Dominik, As this is an AUR package, I am forwarding this message on to the aur-general mailing list to see if one of the TUs or another member of the community would be interested in maintaining it. Cheers, Aaron

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[aur-general] Deletion Request: ruby-sup
by Andrei Thorp 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hello there. While playing around with aurbuild today, I found that there is a package in AUR called ruby-sup. This is an outdated duplicate of my package "sup". It was also orphaned, so I adopted it. I guess my package, "sup" is probably the correct name, so could you please delete ruby-sup. Thanks! -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com)

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[aur-general] mulk pkgbuild
by nathan owe. 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

the pkgbuild i am working on is mulk. it has a optdepends of libmetalink but to make it optional i have to do ./configure --disable-metalink do i do it like that or should i just put libmetalink as a regular depends?

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[aur-general] AUR Moving
by Loui Chang 30 Jun '09

30 Jun '09

Hey users and trusted users. The AUR will be moving to a new server tomorrow June 27, 2009 around 12:00:00 -0500. Expect some downtime. Cheers!

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