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[aur-general] VCS package guidelines
by Ralf Mardorf 09 Mar '17

09 Mar '17

Hi, my understanding is, that if possible, it should look like this 1.2.r3.gabcdef7 and not alternatively 1.2_r3_gabcdef7 or 1.2_3_gabcdef7 A maintainer disagrees: "The pkgver extracts on the wiki are not there as strict rules that you need to comply with, but simply as examples that produce good, incrementing pkgvers." It's not important what AUR package I'm talking about, I just want to ensure that I'm not mistaken. Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] TU Application: Christian Rebischke
by Christian Rebischke 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

Hello everyone, I am Christian Rebischke (in the internet mostly known as 'shibumi') and I would like to increase my work in the Arch Linux Community and become Arch Linux TU. Thanks to Florian Pritz (bluewind) for being my sponsor. Maybe you know me already from the Arch Linux Security Team [1], but let me introduce me first. I was born in Goslar (Germany) in 1992 and I had first contact with Arch Linux with around 18. This is now more than 6 years ago. Before I had a long journey through the debian world with Ubuntu and Debian. Currently I study computer science at TU-Clausthal and I am halftime employed as Software Engineer at our Institute for Software Systems Engineering and as System Administrator at our Datacenter and the Institute for Mathematics [2]. January 2015 I started with my work in the Arch Linux Security Team and around half a year later I became official member of Arch Linux Security Team. If I recall correctly I pushed my first package into the AUR in 2014. At the moment I maintain 45 packages in the AUR [3]. Most of them are vim-plugins, python libraries or tools for malware analysis. I am interested in malware analysis, reverse engineering, large scale system administration, devops. I know python, bash, C, C++, Java, x86 assembler and some Rust, but I wouldn't call my self a professional developer. (Something that I want to change with my job in the Institute for Software Systems Engineering). Moreover I am quite active in the opensource community. I contributed small patches to systemd and others. The current project that I support with pull requests is powerlevel9k [4], a nice powerline for zsh. Non-technical interests are asian languages like Chinese (你们好，我会说一点点中文） and japanese (今日はみなさん), asian culture and cooking. If I become a TU I would want to adopt the following orphan packages in [community]: - ascii - audit - bup - connman Furthermore I would like to push the following packages from [AUR] to [community] (if the maintainers agree with it): - arch-audit - systemtap I also provide an Arch Linux Vagrant box and I would love to get 1-2 other people together and doing some official out of this [5]. I currently only provide virtualbox as hypervisor. My plan are monthly snapshots like CentOS does. Best ways to contact me are IRC (I am on freenode, oftc and hackint as shibumi and hangout in different #archlinux channels like #archlinux.de) the german archlinux.de forum and mail. My PGP Key fingerprint is: 6DAF 7B80 8F9D F251 3962 0000 D214 61E3 DFE2 060D best regards, Chris [1] https://www.archlinux.org/people/support-staff/ [2] https://en.nullday.de/about/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Shibumi [4] https://github.com/bhilburn/powerlevel9k [5] https://atlas.hashicorp.com/archlinux/boxes/archlinux/

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[aur-general] aurweb 4.5.0 released
by Pablo Roberto Lezaeta Reyes 01 Mar '17

01 Mar '17

>Dear aurweb contributors and users, > >aurweb 4.5.0 has just been released. Ack, translations! I don't remember an anouncement about the string freeze, so now many languages have missing string, but better just wait until 4.5.1 to let the teams catch the 4.5 new strings. But My question is "what is the order used for short the packages?" -- *Pablo Lezaeta*

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[aur-general] Can't register an AUR account
by Antonio Gutierrez 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

Hi all, I'm trying to create an account in the AUR, I fill in the data and hit Create, but I just get this undescriptive error at the top: Error trying to create account, *'chibby0ne'*. I've tried it in Chrome, Chromium and Firefox so far. The aurweb version is 4.5. Any ideas? Thanks in advance

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[aur-general] aurweb 4.5.0 released
by Lukas Fleischer 26 Feb '17

26 Feb '17

Dear aurweb contributors and users, aurweb 4.5.0 has just been released. You will notice that after logging in, the home page is now replaced by a dashboard which shows your flagged packages and your recent package requests, followed by a list of your packages. There also is a list of packages you co-maintain which hopefully makes co-maintainers' lives easier. Moreover, co-maintainers of packages now receive out-of-date notifications. In your account settings, you can now specify a timezone which will be used to format dates and times throughout the whole aurweb interface. The most notable internal improvements were made in password security. The minimum password length was bumped to 8 characters. Passwords are now hashed using bcrypt instead of MD5. The conversion from MD5 to bcrypt is done automatically when logging in. We thus recommend to log out of the aurweb interface and log in again. There were also improvements to the SSH interface, including new commands to vote for packages and flag packages out-of-date. 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=v4.5.0 [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2

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[aur-general] AUR-account: lost pw/e-mail
by Oluf Lorenzen 25 Feb '17

25 Feb '17

Hi, i lost my password and e-mail for the user 'finkregh'. Could somebody send a reset-e-mail to the given e-mail-address? I can create the address, should it be nonexistant as long as it is @mafia-server.net or @gamesuniverse.net). Thanks!

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[aur-general] Pruning Old / Abandoned Packages
by Dan B 23 Feb '17

23 Feb '17

Hi, I've been wading through orphaned AUR packages and submitting removal requests for projects that are abandoned upstream. Are there generally any rules of thumb I should be following? Currently I've been considering the following before submitting a removal request: 1. Is the upstream project abandoned? 2. When was the package flagged out of date? (If applicable) 3. When the package was last updated? 4. When the last comment was made on a package? Suggestions are welcome!

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[aur-general] Package is available via git but not in aur Webinterface and Clients like yaourt.
by Carsten Feuls 17 Feb '17

17 Feb '17

Hello Everybody, i have some strange situation and I don't know is the error on my site or in "aur". I want to provide some new packages in aur. For this package I need haskell- curl. This Package was not available in aur webinterace and in the old aur. Therefor I start to create it. Then I want to Upload it and I start git clone ssh://aur/haskell-curl.git the short aur. is a alias in my ssh config. But this Repo is not empty. In this repo is a running haskell-curl PKGBUILD but why I can't find it in aur? Can anybody help me? Sincerely Yours Carsten Feuls

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[aur-general] Review request for 3 related PKGBUILDs
by Leonid Bloch 16 Feb '17

16 Feb '17

Hi, I'd like to put 3 new packages in the AUR. They are a part of one "kit", but are very different in functionality, therefore I think it will be better to introduce 3 packages, instead of one, which contains them all. You can see the details on: http://www.silx.org . Essentially, these are 3 completely different packages, that just happen to be used by the same community. These PKGBUILDs were tested successfully on a minimally-installed VM. Any feedback is welcome! :) Thanks! Leonid. For silx: ~~~~~~~~~ # Package maintainer: Leonid B <leonid dot bloch at esrf dot fr> # Upstream contact: silx at esrf dot fr pkgname=python-silx pkgver=0.3.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A collection of Python packages for data analysis at synchrotron radiation facilities." arch=('any') url="http://www.silx.org" license=('MIT' 'LGPL') depends=('python-numpy' 'python-pyqt5' 'python-matplotlib' 'cython') optdepends=('python-h5py: for HDF5 input/output' 'ipython: for interactive console' 'python-qtconsole: for GUI console' 'python-pyopencl: for sift - OpenCL implementation') makedepends=('git') source=("${pkgname}::git+https://github.com/silx-kit/${pkgname#*-}.git#tag=v${pkgver}") md5sums=('SKIP') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" python setup.py build } package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" python setup.py install --root="${pkgdir}/" install -D copyright "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" } For FabIO: ~~~~~~~~~ # Package maintainer: Leonid B <leonid dot bloch at esrf dot fr> # Upstream contact: silx at esrf dot fr pkgname=python-fabio pkgver=0.4.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="I/O library for images produced by 2D X-ray detectors." arch=('any') url="http://www.silx.org" license=('MIT' 'LGPL' 'Apache') depends=('python-numpy' 'python-pillow' 'python-lxml') optdepends=('python-pyqt4: for the fabio_viewer program') makedepends=('git') source=("${pkgname}::git+https://github.com/silx-kit/${pkgname#*-}.git#tag=v${pkgver}") md5sums=('SKIP') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" python setup.py build } package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" python setup.py install --root="${pkgdir}/" install -D copyright "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" } For pyFAI: ~~~~~~~~~ # Package maintainer: Leonid B <leonid dot bloch at esrf dot fr> # Upstream contact: silx at esrf dot fr pkgname=python-pyfai pkgver=0.13.0 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Fast Azimuthal Integration in Python." arch=('any') url="http://www.silx.org" license=('GPLv3' 'BSD' 'MIT') depends=('python-numpy' 'python-scipy' 'python-matplotlib' 'python-fabio' 'python-h5py' 'python-pyopencl' 'python-pyqt4' 'fftw' 'cython') makedepends=('git') source=("${pkgname}::git+https://github.com/silx-kit/pyFAI.git#tag=v${pkgver}") md5sums=('SKIP') build() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" python setup.py build } package() { cd "${srcdir}/${pkgname}" python setup.py install --root="${pkgdir}/" install -D LICENSES.txt "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE" install -D copyright "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/COPYRIGHT" }

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[aur-general] pending merge request for python-git/python-gitpython, please cancel
by brent timothy saner 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

i requested a merge of python-gitpython into python-git THIS SHOULD BE CANCELED. They need to be separate packages. they are for different things. PRQ # is 7484 Sorry for the confusion

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[aur-general] Need a reset link
by Nobabs27 14 Feb '17

14 Feb '17

Hi, I need a reset link for the account "Nobabs27" on the AUR, but I can't receive the email because Yahoo.

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[aur-general] IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate's
by Reto Kaiser 13 Feb '17

13 Feb '17

Preferably we want to achieve: - No download of full tarball for users that use the system jre - Default of installing the bundled jre (because that's the recommendation from jetbrains). - Only 1 source package to reduce maintenance I count 4 options: A) 2 packages: "base-with-jre" and "base-without-jre" B) 2 packages: "base" opt-depends on "jre-bundled" or a system jre C) 1 split-package generating the 2 packages from option B D) 1 split-package generating 4 packages: "base", "base-jre-meta", "base-jre-system", "base-jre-bundled" I think A) and C) are the best compromises. We're currently using A). So I'm fine with keeping it as it is now.

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[aur-general] who is blippy?
by Jude DaShiell 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

I have many questions about aur package neoleo operation. --

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[aur-general] LaTeX compilation error in makepkg
by Bennett Piater 12 Feb '17

12 Feb '17

Hi, I resurrected beamer-theme-metropolis when aurphan showed me that it's maintainer had orphaned it because I use it quite a lot. The upstream was recently updated, but I cannot get it to compile from makepkg -- the latex compiler complains that it cannot write to it's log file. I didn't change the PKGBUILD besides updating the version and dependencies. Output: https://vps1.piater.name/commie/#5O9xSO3P Everything works if I cd into $srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver and execute make from the shell. Does anyone have an idea what the problem might be? Cheers, Bennett -- GPG fingerprint: 871F 1047 7DB3 DDED 5FC4 47B2 26C7 E577 EF96 7808

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[aur-general] [review-request] moolticute
by Quentin Bourgeois 07 Feb '17

07 Feb '17

Hi, I'm looking for uploading moolticute[0] into AUR but I still have some doubt that my package has good taste or not. The project is in C++ and use qt-5. I would like to upload a classical PKGBUILD[1] (with tag release) then one that follow the git master branch[2]. As the daemon is expected to talk with an USB device I included an udev rules that should match it and allow logged user interaction. In addition, the project does not include any systemd service file. The daemon is expected to run for every user session so I use systemd user instance. This service file is now very basic I will first try to make it upstream, so every distribution could benefit from this eventually. I guess that a lot are using systemd now. While creating the systemd file I was wonderering how would be the guideline in a case that an upstream systemd service file won't match (for any reason) Arch Linux policy (let say applying it will break the package functionality in Arch) would the good way to fix it in the first would be to create in the PKGBUILD a systemd drop-ins? Regarding udev, after installing my rule I decided to force reloading the rules files but not replaying event (only print a message to warn the user). My view is that the later would only be needed for people that already plugged the device before installing the package. Even with the i686 phase out, the tools seems to work great with this architecture, so I included it too. Finally, the release name[3] currently include "beta" (like v0.5.2-beta) does I have to put this into the pkgver or leave as 0.5.2? If comments/directions I will be glad to improve my work. Thanks ! [0] https://github.com/raoulh/moolticute [1] https://git.bourgeois.eu/aur_moolticute.git/tree/PKGBUILD?id=85e4d6f29352a5… [2] https://git.bourgeois.eu/aur_moolticute_git.git/tree/PKGBUILD?id=140f3e3efc… [3] https://github.com/raoulh/moolticute/releases

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[aur-general] Intellij IDEA Ultimate's
by Reto Kaiser 06 Feb '17

06 Feb '17

> I personally prefer the flag thing [...] > The "-meta" thing is a little... [...] > The cleanest solution may very well be what we have now. Agree, the thing with the meta packages is a bit overcomplicated. How about a single PKGFILE, which creates two packages with the "split package" mechanism (one with, one without JRE). @uwolfer wdyt? I can prepare the code.

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[aur-general] Intellij IDEA Ultimate's
by Reto Kaiser 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

(Mailing list didn't accept my message, sorry for sending it again) I've created the "-bundled-jre" version of the IDEA package after discussion with the maintainer of the "-ultimate-edition" version ("uwolfer"). Some people want to have the bundled JRE, others would like to use a system-wide installed JRE. The extra package "intellij-jdk" is not guaranteed to be the same version than was shipped with the specific IDE. Together with "pschichtel" we came up with yet another approach using split- and meta-packages: The main package is "intellij-idea-ultimate-edition" and depends on "intellij-idea-ultimate-edition-jre-meta". This JRE meta package is not a real package, but it is provided by two other packages: - intellij-idea-ultimate-edition-jre-bundled: The JRE bundled with the Jetbrains download. - intellij-idea-ultimate-edition-jre-system: The default "java-environment" package. Code can be found here: https://github.com/njam/intellij-idea-ultimate-edition I think it would be best to use this to create a single package "intellij-idea-ultimate-edition". What do you think? Regards Reto

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[aur-general] Somebody using freetype2-infinality, too?
by Ralf Mardorf 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

Hi, I've got issues with compiling a lot of software. My guess was, that I need to rebuild harfbuzz against freetype2-infinality to get rid of those issues, but actually building harfbuzz failed with the same error as all the other builds do [1]. The culprit seemingly is freetype2-infinality. I wonder if somebody using freetype2-infinality found a workaround this issue. Regards, Ralf [1] [rocketmouse@archlinux harfbuzz]$ makepkg -s ==> Making package: harfbuzz 1.4.2-2 (Sat Feb 4 11:00:42 CET 2017) [snip] In file included from /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftconfig.h:42:0, from /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/freetype.h:33, from hb-ft.h:35, from test-would-substitute.cc:44: /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h:690:0: warning: "TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING" redefined #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING ( 1 | 2 ) /usr/include/freetype2/freetype/config/ftoption.h:689:0: note: this is the location of the previous definition #define TT_CONFIG_OPTION_SUBPIXEL_HINTING 1 GEN libharfbuzz.la libtool: error: cannot find the library '/usr/lib/libharfbuzz.la' or unhandled argument '/usr/lib/libharfbuzz.la' make[4]: *** [Makefile:1407: libharfbuzz.la] Error 1 make[4]: Leaving directory '/tmp/fix/harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz/src' make[3]: *** [Makefile:2432: all-recursive] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/tmp/fix/harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz/src' make[2]: *** [Makefile:1325: all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/tmp/fix/harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz/src' make[1]: *** [Makefile:498: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/tmp/fix/harfbuzz/src/harfbuzz' make: *** [Makefile:430: all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... [rocketmouse@archlinux harfbuzz]$ pacman -Q freetype2-infinality freetype2-infinality 2.7.1-1

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[aur-general] libc++/libc++-abi status?
by Chase Geigle 04 Feb '17

04 Feb '17

Hi, libc++/libc++-abi are flagged as out of date and are currently orphans in the community repository. Is there a TU that is interested in maintaining them, or some plan for adoption in place? I would be interested in maintaining them in the AUR if there is not current TU plan and they are dropped to the AUR. FWIW, attached is my PKGBUILD. Thanks! Chase

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[aur-general] Cyclic makedependencies in pypy-setuptools and pypy3-setuptools
by Daniel Milde 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Hi, I would like to ask you for help with one messy issue with pypy-setuptools[1]. Python setuptools do not include its dependencies in vendor dir since version 34. It now requires the dependencies to be installed first in order to setuptools been installed. But the dependencies require setuptools to be installed to be able to install themself :) and thus cyclic makedependecies occur... This cyclic dependency is in package python-setuptools as well but because this package is in extra nobody cares, because nobody builds it by itself. Do you have any idea, how to solve this nicely? I have added this instructions to pypy-setuptools package, but it's not ideal though: 1. install setuptools manually via ensurepip: # sudo pypy -m ensurepip # sudo pypy3 -m ensurepip If you get error message "Ignoring ensurepip failure: pip 8.1.2 requires SSL/TLS", there is easy hack/fix: sudo curl -o /opt/pypy3/lib-python/3/ssl.py https://gist.githubusercontent.com/gumblex/b77e5d6fba8d01a41789beb6dc90adec… see https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/comments/5rblst/cant_use_pip_with_pypy… 2. install all setuptools dependencies (pypy-six, pypy-pyparsing, pypy-packaging, pypy-appdirs) You will have to edit the PKGBUILD and remove dependency on pypy-setuptools during this first install. 3. install pypy-setuptools with --force (because ensurepip installed files on same paths) Thanks Daniel [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pypy-setuptools/

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[aur-general] Intellij IDEA Ultimate's
by Det 02 Feb '17

02 Feb '17

Sup, Currently we have 3 non-split IntelliJ IDEA Ultimate's in the AUR (there are other ones too, but they're not duplicates): - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intellij-idea-ultimate-edition/ (most popular one, no bundled JRE) - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intellij-idea-ue-bundled-jre/ (same, but with bundled JRE) - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intellij-jdk/ (just the bundled JRE) We probably don't need all 3, so I wonder we could trim one of these? Det

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[aur-general] [review-request] python-intelhex
by Quentin Bourgeois 24 Jan '17

24 Jan '17

Hi, I am currently looking for building python2-intelhex[0] from AUR. Unfortunately the build failed, while I am using aursync[1] and require build into a clean (created for this build) chroot: $ aursync -c python2-intelhex [...] ==> Starting package_python-intelhex()... /startdir/PKGBUILD: line 17: python: command not found ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in package_python-intelhex(). Aborting... ==> ERROR: Build failed, check /var/lib/aurbuild/x86_64/user/build Note that with the python3 package version I come up with the same bug. Thus, I decide to have a look at the PKGBUILD and suggest some modifications I guess the maintainer will be glad to merge any proposal, but did the community see any thing more to change ? Basically I made use a lot more of its internal variable __pkgname, define python{,2}-setuptools as makedepends and add the license file to the package. In another way I don't really understand the rm on the bin directory? The problem I saw is that only installing python2-intelhex wont allow the use of the provided scripts[2]. However, I conducted small tests and they seems to works even with python2. So my guess is to create an other AUR PKGBUILD that will perform pretty the same things but only packaging the provided scripts, let call this package python-intelhex-scripts. Then, one need to enforce a dependencies of python{,2}-intelhex with python-intelhex-script at the same upstream release version. I propose some modification in the python-intelhex[3] PKGBUILD and a new PKGBUILD for python-intelhex-scripts[4]. What do you think ? Thanks in advance for your feedback! [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-intelhex/ [1] https://github.com/AladW/aurutils [2] https://github.com/bialix/intelhex/tree/master/scripts [3] https://git.bourgeois.eu/aur_python_intelhex.git/tree/PKGBUILD?id=e6187787c… [4] https://git.bourgeois.eu/aur_python_intelhex_scripts.git/tree/PKGBUILD?id=b…

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[aur-general] Permission Denied (publickey) Error for many
by Konstantin Gizdov 22 Jan '17

22 Jan '17

Dear all, Not sure if this is the correct place to report this. I originally opened this post - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=222249 - with the hope of fixing the issue myself with the help of other users. However, it seems the same is experienced by other package maintainers as well. Since around 2pm today (UK time), I cannot authenticate to aur.archlinux.org over ssh. All requests are bounced with "Permission Denied (publickey)" response. I cannot pull, nor push from/to AUR. Just before I started to experience the problem, I was able to update one of my packages around 1pm. This, I think, means it is a server side issue of some sort. Can someone take a look? Thanks. Regards, Konstantin Gizdov

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[aur-general] TU Application: Bruno Pagani
by Bruno Pagani 20 Jan '17

20 Jan '17

Hi everyone, My name is Bruno Pagani (a.k.a. ArchangeGabriel, or just archange sometimes), long time Linux user and Arch user since January 2014. I have since fallen in love with pacman/PKGBUILDs, the community and the distribution in its whole more generally. I took maintainership of my first AUR package quite rapidly, and then gradually of more of them. I was recently thinking of becoming a TU in order to bring some of those packages to [community]; Bartłomiej Piotrowski encouraged me to do so and kindly accepted to sponsor my application. Regarding my implication in Arch, even if I’m not participating much in MLs, I’ve been them reading a lot and always try to follow best practices like using devtools to build (including in painful cases like very long AUR dependencies chain — thanks zorun for becoming a TU and bringing ring in [community] soon!). I’m also going to setup a Matrix[0] with IRC bridges on my server to participate in IRC (whether I’m accepted as a TU or not), something I’ve postponed for too long. Among the packages I maintain in AUR[1], most of them are -light/-minimal (meaning less dependencies/features) versions of repo’s one and thus not suitable for leaving AUR, but there are a few noteworthy others that I want to bring to [community]: – beignet[2]: Intel OSS OpenCL implementation for their iGPU, currently only supporting OpenCL 1.2 but work for OpenCL 2.0 is ongoing. – bs1770gain[3]: Loudness scanner/replaygain calculator, and — to my opinion at least — a good alternative as a beets[4] optdep for those who want to avoid pulling gst-* and their dependencies for this sole purpose. − ring-kde[5]: The KDE client for Ring. Leftover by Baptiste Jonglez (zorun) since he does not use it. Being a KDE user, I’m using this one rather than it’s Gnome counterpart. − thermald[6]: Thermal Daemon for Intel processors, doing thermal management using advanced processor states. – whipper[7]: secure CD ripper, successor of the defunct morituri. It has been very recently pushed to AUR by Freso, but he is OK with me maintaining it in [community] (and in fact would also like to become a TU at some point and help co-maintaining whipper). This would also require moving accuraterip-checksum[8] for which I am not the current maintainer either, but Shardz (the current one) agreed to transfer it to any TU wanting to maintain whipper. Outside of those, they are other packages I might want to maintain in the future but I felt those above would make a good start. I might just add uchardet[9], because it’s now needed for mpv[10], and I’m OK to maintain it if Christian Hesse (eworm) doesn’t want to. Just in case this could be of some interest for any of you, other packages interesting me in AUR are either KDE thumbnailers, ColorHug related software and HDF5/NetCDF stuff (+mpich). Which leads me to currently orphaned packages in [community] I can maintain: – python{,2}-mpi4py[11]: Not currently out-of-date, but since I rely on those packages for my work I would definitively take care of them if needed. And that brings me to add some more words about me: I’m a 24 years old french PhD student in astrophysics, doing mostly numerical simulations of supernovæ explosions on supercomputers (hence the interest in HDF5/NetCDF/MPI stuff). When it comes to Linux, it has been the first OS present at home, in the form of Mandrake in 1999 (the sysadmin was my father at this point in time). I’ve then handled the switch to Mandrake’s successor Mandriva myself, and later on moved to Ubuntu when I got my first personal computer. Then my second one was in the very first generation of Optimus[12] laptops, and in order to make use of my GPU this made me join The Bumblebee Project[13] (as “project manager” one could say, and yes we definitively need to update this thing). At this point I gained a lot of knowledge in Linux environments, and a lot of factors (including people here that might recognize themselves) pushed me to try ArchLinux, which I did… and I loved it. Today, my server is proudly running Arch Linux, my home media server too (Cubieboard, so that’s Arch Linux ARM), and I’ve recently converted my girlfriend and younger brothers to Arch. So thanks to all of you for your hard work in this distro! Finally, concerning my involvement in FLOSS projects outside of Arch and the aforementioned Bumblebee, I’m mostly opening bugs for ideas/feature requests (or actual bugs sometimes) in various BugZillas and the likes as well as around GitHub since I don’t know how to code in any useful language outside of Python (I use Fortran at work and have no time to learn other ones currently even if I would like to, like C and perhaps Rust too), but I love music and recently discovered beets[14], and will try to contribute code to this Python project soon. Do not hesitate if you have any questions on anything or any comments regarding my AUR packages. ;) Thanks for reading and considering my application, Bruno [0] https://matrix.org/ [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=ArchangeGabriel&SeB=m [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/beignet [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bs1770gain [4] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/beets [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ring-kde [6] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thermald [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/whipper [8] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/accuraterip-checksum [9] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uchardet [10] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/52269 [11] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/python-mpi4py [12] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/NVIDIA_Optimus [13] http://bumblebee-project.org [14] http://beets.io

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[aur-general] Package review bitcoin-classic
by Tom Zander 11 Jan '17

11 Jan '17

Hi, I created some AUR packages after various people requested it (I'm the upstream release manager) and since I'm rather new to packaging in Arch, I would love to have some feedback. Arch packaging is consederably easier than debian, I might add ;) There are 4, almost identical, versions. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bitcoin-classic/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bitcoin-classic-daemon/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bitcoin-classic-git/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bitcoind-classic-git/ I inherited some of those, hence the slight difference in naming. Not sure if renaming is possible and if the bitcoind- one may be more easy to find under a different name. Any feedback welcome, and naturally I'd love it if those packages would be able to reach the community repo, but maybe they need a little more time to mature, I'm not sure. Thanks! -- Tom Zander Blog: https://zander.github.io Vlog: https://vimeo.com/channels/tomscryptochannel

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