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[aur-general] TU Application
by Kessia 'even' Pinheiro 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi, My name is Kessia Pinheiro (a.k.a even), I'm a 22 years old finishing my computer scientist degree at Federal University of Bahia in Salvador/Bahia/Brazil. I'm working now part-time on sysadmin stuff's (as treinee). I've used Linux since 2004, with Slackware, but I had problems with many things and decided switch to another distro. I tried many light distros, but none was completed to me. So I discovered Arch in 2006 and I got involved with the brazilian community, helping people and writting some docs [1]. Me and my friends (hdoria and dsa) did a speech about ArchLinux in FISL [2] this April in Porto Alegre/Brazil. Other contribution is the pacupdate (developed with hdoria), a tray notifier for new updates for pacman [3]. Recently I'm interested in packaging for Arch, because some applications I used aren't in the repositories. Before Arch, I packaged a private .deb for my work, finally I sweat a lot and I couldn't remember exactly what I did, but i did it. So, I discover the Arch way to package and in few minutes my package was at AUR, I was so happy! So, now my contributions with PKGBUILDs are 16 [4] and growing. I'm packaging some stuff's that i have not found in repositories and these are helpful for some people. I'm also adopting some to help the number of orphans be lower. So, as a TU, my plans are help manage AUR and community repo, also trying alert the contributors about problems with their PKGBUILDs, because many packages are out of date for a long time or with incomplete PKGBUILDs or incorrect. I want to help with some security apps too (my major contribution was snort package, hdoria adopted it in extra), helping to make more eyes at the security topic. My main machine is a Dell laptop and i am using Arch i686 (but this laptop has an x86_64 architecture, so I'll install Arch64 this week). I have an old machine at work, but normally I use the laptop there too. My boyfriend also have the same laptop with Arch i686. In my free time I like stay with my boyfriend, play videogames, listen music, read things are out of my degree course, viewing tv series. Oh, the last thing, hdoria and angvp encouraged me to do this proposal, in fact they fought for who will be my sponsor, but angvp finally push more and he wins. However, hdoria is a friend of mine and he will share the sponsor with angvp (to be fair and no one cry). =) Let's start the questions, I'm honored to answer. Thanks for your time! To find me: even @ irc.freenode.net even [at] archlinux-br [dot] org [1] http://even.archlinux-br.org/ [2] http://fisl.softwarelivre.org/9.0/papers/pub/programacao/26 [3] http://code.google.com/p/pacupdate [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=even -- Kessia Pinheiro Student at Computer Science - UFBa Trainee with ProCaTI founds - DiSup/CPD - UFBa Contributor in Arch Linux Brasil Project Linux Counter User #389695 - [http://counter.li.org] http://even.archlinux-br.org

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Dan Vratil 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Hi, please remove my package libosip (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=473) because of it's redundancy. Reasons are given in comment at this package. Thank you. Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil progdan(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870

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[aur-general] removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Hi, Today I was browsing through the AUR and I've noticed package, which should be removed. It is gimp-plugin-dbp (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15448) which is already in [extra]. Regards Lukáš 'stativ' Jirkovský

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[aur-general] Moving packages from community to unsupported
by Ángel Velásquez 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi everyone, After weeks that i've send a request to TU team interested in packages which are orphans, and still remaining orphan packages, we decided to move to unsupported. multimedia: ======= aconnectgui amsynth bitmeter caps farsight fluidsynth-dssi gstreamer0.10-farsight hexter jamin jdelay meterbridge seq24 sineshaper tk707 vkeybd waveutils xsynth-dssi zynaddsubfx gnome ===== empathy gnome-art gnome-splashscreen-manager kanatest tablet-apps Anders helped me with: devel ==== bakefile mod_ruby mono-zeroconf telepathy-inspector emulators ======= atari800 coldfile gdb-armulator skyeye softgun stella and BaSh helped me with: games ===== tetringo kde === kdestyle-polyester kiso lib === jrtplib jthread libmimic libtelepathy python-telepathy ruby-amazon ruby-event-loop ruby-gnomeprint ruby-gnomeprintui ruby-gnomevfs ruby-gtkhtml2 ruby-gtkmozembed ruby-gtksourceview ruby-gtktrayicon ruby-postgress ruby-rsvg ruby-scw ruby-shout rubygame scw tapioca network ======= pcmanx-gtk2 qtm tapioca-xmpp tapiocaui telepathy-butterfly telepathy-gabble telepathy-idle telepathy-mission-control telepathy-salut telepathy-stream-engine system ===== lzma-utils *NOTE*: python-geotypes is orphan but is required by mezogis (dtw) telepathy-glib and sofia-sip are orphan but are required by telepathy-sofiasip and telepathy-haze (gummibaerchen) Thanks to BaSh and Anders for helping me, and I'd like to know if dtw and gummibaerchen are active at this moment, to know what will we do with the remaining orphan packages. Cheers! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] Dropping my packages
by Hannes Rist 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

newsbeuter stfl unp whitenoise lush bgs-hg gajim-otr-bzr Hey guys, As of now I won't have the time to maintain my packages on AUR anymore and I'm therefore looking for new maintainers. If you want to maintain one of the packages below mail me at cowider%2Barch(a)gmail.com newsbeuter + stfl unp whitenoise lush bgs-hg gajim-otr-bzr regards hrist

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[aur-general] apache13 1.3.41-2 needs to be rebuilt
by Dennis Akerlind 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Had some troubles getting emails out and I'll resend this one, hopefully you dont get a duplicate :) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Dennis Akerlind <aakerlind(a)gmail.com> Date: Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 11:24 PM Subject: apache13 1.3.41-2 needs to be rebuilt To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org Hi all, Been trying to get in contact with the maintainer of apache13 1.3.41-2 but without any luck. After the latest db update you cant even start apache13, therefor Im asking if someone maybe could update the package. Link to it: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9056 Kind Regards

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Re: [aur-general] TU Vote: Stefan Husmann
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 04 Sep '08

04 Sep '08

-----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:15:47 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] TU Vote: Stefan Husmann From: Ángel Velásquez To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" Hi TUs, The voting period for Stefan Husmann (StefanHusmann or haawda) has now ended. Vote count on AUR: Yes - 19, No - 0, Abstain - 1 By my counts we have reached quorum and Stefan is now a TU. Stefan, what you need to do now is: 1.- Send the output of "htpasswd -n " to Simo (htpasswd is in the apache package) > 3.- Make sure your sponsor (me) has given you TU status on the AUR 4.- Ask some TU for the #archlinux-tu@freenode key. 5.- Add yourself to the Trusted Users page on the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users 6.- Read the Trusted User Guidelines http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines and AURTools Tutorial again http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AURtools_Tutorial 7.- If you are not upgraded to a Trusted User group on bugtracker in two days, report this as a bug to Roman 8.- Ask Aaron for access to the x86_64 build machine if you need it (when it comes back online); Ask Geoffroy for a x86_64 on koon too 9.- Start contributing! 10.- Enjoy it! (suggested by pressh =]) Congrats! and welcome to the team Stefan!. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com Hello, thank you all for your votes and warm welcome. I hope I will fulfill all expectations. So far: > 1.- Send the output of "htpasswd -n " to Simo (htpasswd is in >the apache package) I did so. > 2.- Contact Eric to change your account on forums I did so. > 5.- Add yourself to the Trusted Users page on the wiki > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users I did so. I will again read The TU guidelines and the aurtools page. Especially the latter is quite new to me. Maybe I will need some help, but I'll see. Ciao Stefan

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Re: [aur-general] Remove bad packages
by Loui 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 04:38:58PM +0200, Xavier wrote: > Loui, I am confused with FS#8672 and FS#11141, please reply to my > comment in the first one. > > Is it possible to re-use that wiki page for making an uptodate list of > directories that should be removed : > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day#Remove_from_Filesystem_… > > That is, send a mail to aur-general asking every user to add their > broken packages to that list, and to remove them when it is fixed ? Xavier, sorry for the late response. I think this bug (8672) and 11187 are actually the same and I just managed to find a separate bug which was preventing uploads of dependencies. Removing directories would not have remedied the bug that was solved. I'll close this and continue the line of investigation via 11187 since there are more relevant details about the bug there. I believe that the list of bad directories at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day is still pretty relevant. We can now automate removal of all files of packages that aren't in the database. Since users can no longer delete packages, so there's little chance of malicious adoption then deletion of packages. I think using the wiki page to list bad directories is a great idea. I've edited the bug report (11187) directing users to do that.

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[aur-general] Broken package dir
by rabyte 03 Sep '08

03 Sep '08

Could a TU please remove the directory for postal2stp-freemp? It's affected by the "can't create dir" bug. Thanks :-)

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[aur-general] Integrity Check
by Xavier 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

It found some new errors, so here are the current results : Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- community/devel/php-eaccelerator community/devel/php-xcache community/network/knetworkmanager Missing Dependencies ---------------------- flumotion --> 'twisted-web' gg2 --> 'arts' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' man-pages-cs --> 'groff-utf8' Missing Makedepends --------------------- gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc' As far as I know, the only legitimate one is eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3'

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Re: [aur-general] TU Vote: Stefan Husmann
by Ángel Velásquez 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Hi TUs, The voting period for Stefan Husmann (StefanHusmann or haawda) has now ended. Vote count on AUR: Yes - 19, No - 0, Abstain - 1 By my counts we have reached quorum and Stefan is now a TU. Stefan, what you need to do now is: 1.- Send the output of "htpasswd -n <userid>" to Simo (htpasswd is in the apache package) 2.- Contact Eric to change your account on forums 3.- Make sure your sponsor (me) has given you TU status on the AUR 4.- Ask some TU for the #archlinux-tu@freenode key. 5.- Add yourself to the Trusted Users page on the wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users 6.- Read the Trusted User Guidelines http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines and AURTools Tutorial again http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AURtools_Tutorial 7.- If you are not upgraded to a Trusted User group on bugtracker in two days, report this as a bug to Roman 8.- Ask Aaron for access to the x86_64 build machine if you need it (when it comes back online); Ask Geoffroy for a x86_64 on koon too 9.- Start contributing! 10.- Enjoy it! (suggested by pressh =]) Congrats! and welcome to the team Stefan!. -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User (TU) http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] New Trusted User Checklist
by Xavier 02 Sep '08

02 Sep '08

Just a reminder that this wiki page exists : http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist It should be easier to maintain and update it that way.

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[aur-general] Request to orphaning gecodej
by Gustavo A. Gómez Farhat 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

Hi all. I would like to adopt the gecodej package in AUR. This package is not updated since June, and the maintainer "nikor" does not reply my comments and messages. As I am the gecode maintainer, and gecodej depends on gecode, I could update this package very easy. Could anyone orphan it? Thanks in advance. -- Gustavo Andrés Gómez Farhat

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[aur-general] ncurses rebuilds
by Allan McRae 31 Aug '08

31 Aug '08

Hi TUs, In case you have missed it, there is an ncurses rebuild that is now finished in the [testing] repos. This requires most (if not all) programs that link to ncurses to be rebuilt. Depending on sign-offs, I am aiming to move this near the end of next week so it would be good to have your rebuilds ready to upload when this happens. I'll let you know closer to the time a more precise day for the move. Allan PS. We really need a [community-testing] repo.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Cleaning up the base group
by wide-eye 30 Aug '08

30 Aug '08

> Packages that we should think about: > - mdadm > - pcmciautils > - cryptsetup, lvm2 (plus their deps libgcrypt, libgpg-error, device-mapper) > Those are base tools, but not everybody needs them. I'd like to keep > them in base, but maybe someone else may disagree. I just want to point out a few ways i know these are used and a few things that need to be checked and patched before removing them. 1. These are all in rc.sysinit. the mdadm and cryptsetup sections do not test if the binaries exist before trying to run them, just if the configs exist. this could create exciting panics or other fun behavior if someone enables it in rc.conf without adding the packages. but a fix is a simple -x test added to the beginning of those sections. 2. setup(installer) will need to know it should add packages if you answer yes to the various raid/lvm/encrypted questions. in the worst case this would break ftp installs. Ensuring the ftp installer isn't broken by this is my main concern. will someone test the existing installer to see if it breaks with these changes? Besides setup, these are mainly user errors. So at least it needs to be documented in the install guide. Jonathan

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[aur-general] "Can't create directory" bug and inaccessible files
by rabyte 29 Aug '08

29 Aug '08

When uploading some packages earlier, I couldn't access any files except the PKGBUILDs (all others gave me "Access forbidden"). Can't update the pkgs either, as I always get that "can't create directory" error message :-( -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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Re: [aur-general] Integrity Check
by Xavier 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I rewrote stonecrest's python script which generated the Integrity > Checks : http://projects.archlinux.org/?p=dbscripts.git;a=blob_plain;f=cron-jobs/che… > last results : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-August/007655.html > > Main changes include : > * better and safer parsing of PKGBUILDs > (it now relies on a separate bash script which source PKGBUILDs and > generate python code, rather than trying to parse bash directly in > python) > * much better performance > (thanks to a small python C extension which allows to call alpm_vercmp > natively rather than having to fork the vercmp binary thousands of > times) > * more accurate dependency and provision handling > (having worked on this part of the pacman code for a while probably > helped me a bit here) > I made one design change. Finally I found that generating python code was a bit hackish and less flexible, so I reverted back to a DESC-like format, very easy to parse in python. And this is the namcap way : the python script just calls the bash parsing script then read and parse its output. I finished to implement all features the original script had, mostly the repo hierarchy one and circular deps checking. About circular deps, the old algorithm used was a bit messy and hard to understand, so I just chose to implement an existing one : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tarjan%27s_strongly_connected_components_algor… This resulted in better and complete results, and also at a much better performance (old one took ~20 seconds in cygwin, new one is instant). The only feature that I refused to keep is the "Missing Repo Packages" one which checked the package existence on ftp.archlinux.org . This was the only one using network, and in my opinion, it does not have this place in this script. Instead, someone knowing the layout of the arch server could write another very simple script checking that all packages in the abs tree have a respective package in the package dir, if both happen to be on the same server. Enough with the technical details, here are the stripped results : 1) Results for core and extra $ ./check_packages.py --abs-tree=/var/abs --repos=core,extra Missing Dependencies ---------------------- archboot --> 'bcm43xx-fwcutter>=006-2' Missing Makedepends --------------------- wpa_supplicant --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' xosd --> 'xmms' flac --> 'xmms' Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends -------------------------------- core/iputils depends on extra/jade core/madwifi-utils depends on extra/sharutils core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc core/ca-certificates depends on extra/ruby core/madwifi depends on extra/sharutils Circular Dependencies ----------------------- glibc>bash>readline>ncurses>glibc db>coreutils>shadow>pam>db eclipse-ecj>gcc-gcj>eclipse-ecj 2) Results for community $ ./check_packages.py --abs-tree=/var/abs --repos=core,extra,community --exclude=core,extra Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- community/kde/kdestyle-lipstik Missing Dependencies ---------------------- flumotion --> 'twisted-web' qc-usb --> 'kernel26<2.6.26' gg2 --> 'arts' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' man-pages-cs --> 'groff-utf8' Missing Makedepends --------------------- gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc'

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[aur-general] eclipse-bzr removing request
by Артем Смирнов 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hi! Please remove my package eclipse-bzr, I renamed it to eclipse-bazaar-plugin. Thanks. -- Artyom

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[aur-general] makepkg 3.2.1 testing
by Xavier 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

Hello, while pacman 3.2.0 release was quite good, makepkg one was a bit worse. I think the main cause is the lack of testing. I personally always use the devel versions of pacman and makepkg, but I use pacman daily, while I only use makepkg very irregularly. Anyway, the 3.2.1 release is close now, and all known makepkg bugs were fixed : - fix download functions with weird URLs (FS#11076) - fix creation of source package with local files (FS#11149) - fix error when sourcing profile scripts (FS#11179) - perform case-insensitive checksum comparison (FS#11283) For FS#11292 (handling multiple source files which have the same name), a new feature had to be introduced. it is now possible to use the filename of your choice for remote sources, like this : source=('filename::http://path/to/file') This allows to handle multiple source files with same name, and also to handle more nicely weird URLs like http://www.vim.org/scripts/download_script.php?src_id=6992. So if some of the intensive makepkg users could just grab this pre 3.2.1 release and simply check everything is still fine with their PKGBUILDs, or more specifically check that all the bugs mentioned here are fixed, or that the new filename feature correctly, that would be great. Simply gunzip the attached file, and either run it directly from where you extracted it, or put it somewhere in your path.

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[aur-general] Remove Firefox-2.0.0.16
by Leonardo Andrés Gallego 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Hi, I need someone (a TU maybe?) to remove a wrong named pkg in AUR. I own Firefox2-2.0.0.16 and Firefox-2.0.0.16. The Firefox-2.0.0.16 should be deleted. Firefox2-2.0.0.16 is a work in progress and may not function in its current state. I will be asking the list a few questions as soon as i get some free time this weekend. Regards!

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[aur-general] Remove notify-sharp
by kasa 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Since the right notify-sharp is now in community, please remove my package from AUR. -- kasa

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[aur-general] Remove bad packages
by Tom 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Allan McRae, could you remove pdfsam so i can reupload it again? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17514 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkiz7GcACgkQRScp7ATOSDzl1QCcCpRU3af0zppH0zdNmARuFeI6 ORoAoJUDHy/MGzXyDeMfDOO0ihjq5rIo =d1ZL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [aur-general] Remove bad packages
by Mickaël l. 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Le mardi 26 août 2008 à 19:15 +1000, Allan McRae a écrit : > Mickaël l. wrote: > > > > Thanks, that work for bibblelite now :-) > > > > But i have the same problem with another package : bibblepro > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12814 > > > > Could you remove it too ? > > > > Done. > Quick and efficient, that work :-) Thanks

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Re: [aur-general] Remove bad packages
by Mickaël l. 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Le mardi 26 août 2008 à 14:47 +1000, Allan McRae a écrit : > The following packages are removed from the AUR filesystem so should be > able to be uploaded now: > > tomcat6 > jedit-devel > bibblelite > hal-policykit > bash_completion_lib > > Allan > > Thanks, that work for bibblelite now :-) But i have the same problem with another package : bibblepro http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12814 Could you remove it too ?

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[aur-general] Remove bad packages
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 26 Aug '08

26 Aug '08

Hi archers! Who can remove two of my packages on AUR: tomcat6 and jedit-devel? These packages are broke. I can't update them. So remove them, please - I will upload. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) xmpp:vitaliy@berdinskikh.in.ua

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