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[aur-general] Trusted User Bylaws update
by Hugo Doria 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Should we update the Trusted User Bylaws page [1]? There are some mentions to the old "tur-users", for example. I can do the update if you guys think that it is needed. Thanks. [1] http://dev.archlinux.org/~simo/TUbylaws.html -- Hugo Doria http://hdoria.archlinux-br.org

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[aur-general] How can i modify my aur PKGBUILD?
by zhengyi 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hi, I'm a newbie. I use gnu/emacs in my working. And Mew is a great plugin of emacs to deal with email. I write the PKGBUILD for the Mew and upload it to the AUR. Now, I found something wrong with those file, and I write a new version of it.How can i update the changes ? I can't find any place in the aur web page to update my work. Who can help me ?

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for libfbclient 2.1.1.17910-1! No new package supplied for python-pytz 2008c-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] x86_64 compilation box for devs and TUs
by Geoffroy Carrier 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

Hey! I have a new computer. I already gave access to a "prod" server to some TUs to compile for x86_64 systems. I will migrate their Unix accounts. I use this E-mail to notify them: port knocking isn't necessary anymore. Other devs and TUs can get an account by jabber/emailing me. I thank slubman very much for the CPU, motherboard, case, wifi card, etc. (people may know him from the archlinux.fr planet). He rocks (well, I need to say it as he will read this E-mail). root access via sudo will be provided in a first time, I might write some scripts to provide virtual machines to everyone later. Please makepkg -s and pacman -Rsc once done ;) SSH access won't be permanent: network connection kinda "sucks" (around 100kB/s upload), and I might use other OSes/move it from time to time. Here are the specs: Kernel : 2.6.25-ARCH CPU & Cache: Processor 0: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 2400MHz, 4096 KB Cache Processor 1: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 2400MHz, 4096 KB Cache Processor 2: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 2400MHz, 4096 KB Cache Processor 3: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz 2400MHz, 4096 KB Cache 500GB (32MB cache) 7200rpm Seagate HD 4GB 800MHz 4-4-4-12 DDR2 RAM No [testing] on it, as I had problems with catalyst... I'll work on that later. Hostname will be announced in this thread later. Please contact me for earlier tests. -- Geoffroy Carrier

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 10 Aug '08

10 Aug '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for libfbclient 2.1.1.17910-1! No new package supplied for python-pytz 2008c-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] Recovery password from the panel AUR
by Fabio Avallone 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi, Sorry I lost my password to access the panel AUR. My nickname in use is this FabioNET thank you. -- by FabioNET webmaster(at)casertaglug(dot)info Blog: http://fabionet.info Key pgp: http://fabionet.info/pgp/key.txt Lug: http://www.casertaglug.info Linux User: #278843

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[aur-general] phpPgAdmin out-of-date
by Simon Streit 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi, I'd like to point out, that the phpPgAdmin package in AUR is out of date. Furthurmore, $instdir in the PKGBUILD [1] doesn't point to the default directories of some web servers anymore. This is because Apache and lighttpd nowadays use the directory '/srv/http' as default, whereas the installation renders a bit useless. So here comes the fixed update: pkgname=phppgadmin pkgver=4.2.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A web-based administration tool for PostgreSQL. It is perfect for PostgreSQL DBAs, newbies and hosting services." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/phppgadmin" license=('GPL') depends=('php' 'postgresql') backup=('home/httpd/html/phpPgAdmin/conf/config.inc.php') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/$pkgname/phpPgAdmin-$p… md5sums=('d4cc67bea9a449ac0585bb4e8b2fc7e7') build() { instdir=$startdir/pkg/srv/http/phppgadmin mkdir -p $instdir cd $instdir cp -ra $startdir/src/phpPgAdmin-$pkgver/* . cp ./conf/config.inc.php-dist ./conf/config.inc.php } Regards, Simon [1] http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/system/phppgadmin/PKGBUILD?…

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[aur-general] getting a package into community
by scrawler＠gmail.com 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Howdy guys, I maintain (more or less) the newlisp package in the aur. it has a grand total of 5 votes. How can I cause it to become wildly popular and subsequently be included in the community repo? --

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[aur-general] [Inactivity notice] Dragonlord
by Jaroslav Lichtblau 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi! Due to my final exams on my university on the end of this month, I will be offline most of the time, preparing myself for the judgment day. Staying inactive between 9.-31.8.2008. All my community packages should be up-to-date. Feel free to update them on any major releases/changes. Cheers Jaroslav

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Sebastian 09 Aug '08

09 Aug '08

Hi, With the heavy university load I will have this semester, I don't think I'll manage to keep up with the mailing list and updating packages. I have mostly stopped using Linux altogether, and the install that I do have is a bit of a mess, so maintaining packages has become more of a nuisance than something I enjoy. I wanted to become a TU mainly to learn the workflow of a TU and generally just find out how the AUR works from the perspective of a TU, in order to develop AUR2. I think I have mostly done that, but AUR2 development has ceased. Hopefully I (or someone else ;) ) will pick it up and finish it off. I just don't have the time right now. Luckily I don't have many packages in community. I didn't really get around to moving the ones I wanted from unsupported to community. The ones that are there are free for the taking, if anyone wants them. If not, I can move them to unsupported and try to keep maintaining them, or orphan them. I will try to maintain the ones in unsupported, they don't get updates very frequently (or at all). The packages in community are: dbhub dina-font offlineimap

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Re: [aur-general] galaxium package ownership
by rabyte 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

Fact is, I don't think I ever orphaned these packages... Thanks to you both for your help :-) -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] galaxium package ownership
by rabyte 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

There's some strange issue with the galaxium package actually maintained by myself (previously). I mainted it until last week or so and can't remember having orphaned it. Then I found it to be "taken over" by somebody else, namely ekerazha. I mailed him asking what happened, no response. So I really don't know what happened, but I'd be grateful if I got it back :-) -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] galaxium package ownership + libanculus-sharp
by rabyte 08 Aug '08

08 Aug '08

The same goes for the libanculus-sharp pkg :-) -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] GID reservation request for vlock
by bardo 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Since the last few versions vlock requires a 'vlock' group, or another group that it is configured to use at build time. Vlock is a security program, so it would be better for it to have its own group, but I could also use an existing one, if someone can share a suggestion. Corrado

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[aur-general] TU Application.
by Daenyth Blank 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hey all! I'm applying for a TU position, hopefully you'll consider me. My sponsor is Anders Bergh (anders). I go by the name Daenyth, and I've been using Linux for several years. I started on Slackware and switched to Arch about a year and a half ago. I'm 20, and I work as a sysadmin/tech support/office monkey at an ESL school in Boston. During my free time, I love listening to tons of music, chilling on IRC, and playing video games, among other things. I especially love playing around with pretty much anything Linux related. Right now I only maintain a handful of packages in the AUR[1], but I plan to expand what I have. One of my goals is to package lots of new software for Arch. I want Arch to be _the_ distro people talk about for package selection. I love the way Arch is designed, and the KISS philosophy, and I want to give back to the community that's been so wonderful to me. Currently my most popular package is "pkgtools". It's a bundle of things that I've written relating to arch packages. After collaborating with another author, I'll be including spec2arch, which is a tool aimed at helping developers provide basic PKGBUILD files from rpm .spec files. I also maintain a few Perl related packages, and hope to increase their number. I am one of the co-maintainers for the arch-games project[2]. For those who don't know, it's a user repo to provide binary packages for all the games in AUR, so that our users can more easily install them (many have long compile times or are otherwise annoying). Thanks for your consideration, --Daenyth [1] - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=daenyth&SeB=m [2] - http://arch-games.twilightlair.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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[aur-general] easytag-devel deleting request
by Артем Смирнов 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hi! Please, delete my PKGBUILD easytag-devel, because extra repository provides development version of easytag now. -- Artyom

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[aur-general] prepare on KDE 4.1 move to [extra]
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Hi TU, KDE 4.1 will be moved to [extra] tonight or tomorrow. If you maintain packages in [community] which depend on KDE3 you might want to read this: * Look for a new upstream release which can be used with KDE 4. * If there is no new version change deps to kdelibs3 and try recompiling. * try sourcing qt3.sh and kde3.sh from /etc/profile.d/ * If configure fails try adding --without-arts. * Don't trust namcap saying there would be no dependency to kdelibs3. :-) * If the build still fails with some undefind references, try biulding in a clean environment without kdelibs-4 * If nothing helps your package might depend on stuff from kdebase or other KDE packages. You might think about removing it from [community] then. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] Holidays
by DaNiMoTh 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I'm going to the Italian Swimming Championship, then I'll go on holidays ( finally ) until... until... I don't know. Many things are changed from my application as a TU; I think I never come back, but who knows? So, this time is only for my absence. I know that there is a limits ( 3 months, am I right? ). I hope before November I take my decision... if not, I will be dropped automatically. Feel free to take any of my packages from now, don't wait. But I would like that compiz goes to extra. Maybe Monday ( the last day that I have internet here ) I could help to move some useless packages to unsupported. Finally, many thanks to ( random order ): - tpowa, the first that answer to my noob questions ( I know, those was other day, when the main reply wasn't: " Patch welcome " ); - molok and voidnull, that help me when I need help; - Italian #archlinux channel on Azzurra Network, I won't forget the time we have passed togheter ( maybe I will join, sometimes.. ); - Simo, Dan for the great arrogance that they use; - All the person who contribuiting with comments or bugreport to my packages. Maybe I forget someone; in this case, don't worry, I will remember you in the future, and I will repair with a beer :D Good luck to all.

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by rabyte 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I'd hereby like to request the orphaning of all packages uploaded by funkyou. There's two packages flagged as outdated, He doesn't respond to comments and I tried to contact him via Jabber to no avail. -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] Colin Pitrat is out of the office.
by Colin Pitrat 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I will be out of the office starting 01/08/2008 and will not return until 11/08/2008. I will respond to your message when I return.

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[aur-general] Problem with community repo (x86_64)
by Eric Belanger 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

The community repo (x86_64) is no longer updating. From the logs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/aur/aur/tupkg/update/tupkgupdate64", line 450, in <module> pkgname, ver = infoFromPackageFile(c_file) File "/home/aur/aur/tupkg/update/tupkgupdate64", line 218, in infoFromPackageFile raise Exception("Non-standard filename") Exception: Non-standard filename I don't know what might've caused that. There also now another error message: nice: /home/aur/run-tupkgupdate64: No such file or directory which is also in the logs for i686: nice: /home/aur/run-tupkgupdate: No such file or directory Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Problem with compizconfig-backend-kconfig and KDE3
by DaNiMoTh 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hello to all, I am trying to compile this backend for ccsm with kde3 enabled, because with kde4 it seems don't work. So, I add to depends kdelibs3, qt3, added --without-arts, added source /etc/profile.d/{kde3,qt3}.sh, but in configure I read: checking for Qt... libraries /opt/qt/lib, headers /opt/qt/include using -mt checking for moc... /opt/qt/bin/moc checking for uic... /opt/qt/bin/uic checking whether uic supports -L ... yes checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no checking for rpath... yes checking for KDE... libraries /opt/kde/lib, headers /usr/include What?!?! headers in /usr/include? Oh, no... and I can't compile it successful, because I have error like In file included from /usr/include/QtCore/qbasicatomic.h:209, from /usr/include/QtCore/qatomic.h:48, from /usr/include/QtCore/qvariant.h:47, from /usr/include/QtCore/QVariant:1, from /usr/include/kconfig.h:32, from kconfig_backend.cpp:24: /usr/include/QtCore/qatomic_arch.h:84:4: error: #error "Qt has not been ported to this architecture" kconfig_backend.cpp:29:23: error: kinstance.h: No such file or directory kconfig_backend.cpp:31:18: error: kipc.h: No such file or directory kconfig_backend.cpp:33:24: error: dcopclient.h: No such file or directory Also, the error that qt has not been ported to $CARCH (that is i686 in my case) is ridiculous ^^. I think the problem is that it use headers from /usr/include (kde4) that aren't like headers in kde3. Am I wrong in something? Thanks

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity
by bardo 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com> wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out. I changed this to a post_install in dnsmasq > 2.43-2, not post_upgrade, since this one you have to read the first time and > not thereafter. This is a problem I've been thinking about for a while. It happens far too often that a message needs to be shown to the user only the first time a package gets upgraded because something important has changed. Without the need to modify anything we could use the parameters passed to post_upgrade: if the old version is affected by the change (can we use anything like vercmp in install files?) then the message will be shown, otherwise it won't. It's an extra effort on our side, but it helps a lot in cleaning up package installation output. Of course we'll also need to pay attention to when it's time to remove the message. I have other possible solutions in mind, but they all require changes to pacman or arch, and by far they aren't KISS. Any additional proposal or comment? Corrado

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[aur-general] Requesting orphaned package
by Cabbage 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

The package plone is way out of date. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7448 Package in the AUR is 2.5.1, the official package is 3.1.3. I'm requesting that this package be orphaned so that someone else may assume responsibility.

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Jeff Horelick 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi! My name is JD Horelick and i'd like to become a TU. I'm 23 and working as a sysadmin for a decent-sized company (linux and windows stuff). I first started with ArchLinux in early 2007 (if i had to guess) and ever since then, i've loved it. I think pacman is quite possibly the greatest package manager i've used and i think the PKGBUILD package format is quite nice. I haven't done a crazy amount of development on Arch, but i've been using linux since 1999 and i was a Debian Developer for ~3 years (where i maintained 10-15 packages). As a TU I will offer my knowledge, skills and time to improve my favourite distribution and it's packages. Some of my specific goals as a TU are: * Work on expanding the community repo (for example, clutter is in community, but clutter-gtk, clutter-cairo and clutter-gtk are still in AUR :( ). * Make sure packages in AUR/community are working. For example, i tried to build dpkg (i think...It's late) from aur a bit ago and the URL changed, if i was a TU (and i will probably do this tomorrow anyway), i would email the guy and say like: "Hey, please fix the 404 on your package or i'm going to take it over". * My goal is to upload, fix or update a minimum of 1 package a day. In my free time I like...wait...I have free time? ahh...but seriously, in my free time...Well...I'm a atypical computer geek...I like watching me some movies/TV, playing video games...goin out and doing some parkour...having fun. Oh, and tacos...Tacos FTW! The final thing, Allan was so kind as to sponsor my application and here is the list of packages i have uploaded to the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore Let's start up the inquisition :P Any questions and suggestions will be answered as quickly as possible (I'm usually around from 1PM EST to 5AM EST daily). Thank you all very much. I very much hope to become part of the Arch team. Sincerely, JD In case my AUR link gets buried/is hard to see: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore

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