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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] inactivity notice (vacation)
by Ronald van Haren 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Travis Willard <travis(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi devs/Tus, >> >> I'll be on vacation from 9th of August (tomorrow) until 29th of >> August. During this time I will probably not check my mail at regular >> intervals so don't expect quick respones from my side ;) > > 9th of July? > > arghh yeah. from 9th of July until 29th of July.

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[aur-general] encfs
by Patrick Baumgart 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

I need the package as dependency in "cryptkeeper". But the package is gone and I cannot put a "new" encfs package to AUR, although there is none available. I would take the encfs package on my own, if no one maintains it. Baumi --

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[aur-general] kernel26zenmm-git PKGBUILD
by james toy 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

all, I was wondering what the demand for this PKGBUILD would be -- its for the git of zenmm -- i am asking first instead of just throwing it on the AUR because it will be a bit of a pain to maintain since its SO bleeding edge -- if people DO want it though i will certainly put in the time to make it readily and easily available -- hope everyone enjoyed the holidays respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] community repo no longer updating
by Eric Belanger 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

There's a problem with the community repo which prevents it from updating. >From the log: cvs update: failed to create lock directory for `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' (/var/lock/cvs/community/devel/glib2-docs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Hopefully an admin will fix that soon. 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] TU application
by Anders Bergh 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi! I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. I talked to Angel Velásquez (angvp) on IRC and he said he would be my sponsor. I've used Arch Linux since early 2006 and Linux since 2001. I've also been doing some work on Arch Linux PPC, mainly been trying to keep the packages that I use up to date, but I've also been working on tools to make it easier to do so... but I haven't yet completely figured out the best human-friendly way to see what needs updating and rebuilding. Currently I maintain packages related to the D programming language in the AUR, and recently got permission for Arch Linux to distribute the D compiler. It's closed source, however the front-end is open source and there are already a couple of open source D compilers, however the gcc-based gdc is not very maintained (doesn't work with gcc versions > 4.1) and the others are quite early in development. I used to maintain a small binary repository but I don't think a lot of people actually used it. But I did get quite a bit of experience with the repository tools and how to build packages. After adopting most of the D-related packages I no longer needed to host my own. I'm also quite interested in the Lua programming language, and I maintain a few Lua packages and so far one got adopted by another TU into community. I used to be a rabid Debian user but the one thing that annoyed me was how you almost had to read a book in order to create your own packages. In Arch Linux it was so easy to create them and that's the main reason I use this distribution. I really like when things are simple! My list of AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=Anders&SeB=m Note that I haven't updated the gdc packages yet, I think they're kind of tricky to install since the gcc makefiles aren't really helpful when you want to install one frontend only. About me: I'm Swedish and 17 years old. Most of my interests involve computers, such as programming, IRC, games... it's a bit hard to think of all the things I do because I often like to try new things. I'm currently focusing quite a bit on web dev such as PHP and Django. I'm not much of a web design guy so it's mostly the coding part that interests me. My native language is Swedish, and I did English in school ever since 1st grade, however most of my English is self taught because of all the time I've spent on IRC and other places on the Internet. I have an Arch 64 installation so building 64-bit packages isn't a problem for me. Regards, Anders

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Re: [aur-general] New Devs
by Simo Leone 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:43:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi TUs (and other interested parties), > > Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of > developers bought on in the past weeks > (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. > So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. > > The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions > in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some > strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by > oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan > some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes > larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will > deal with that if/when the time comes. > > Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's) > Also note that if you at some point don't want to do the TU stuff but don't want to drop your packages on them either, I'm in the habit of giving devs community access if they ask for it, and no one's complained about it yet. Luckily we all seem to get along :) -S

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[aur-general] New Devs
by Allan McRae 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi TUs (and other interested parties), Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of developers bought on in the past weeks (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will deal with that if/when the time comes. Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's)

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[aur-general] Firefox 3
by Slash 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Comrades, Now that Firefox 3 is stable, I think we need to consider cleaning up the packages related to such on the AUR. A lot of these firefox3 ones are no longer needed: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=firefox&SeB=nd&PP=100&d… For example: arch-firefox3-search - "arch-firefox-search" should be updated for version 3 firefox3-bin - "firefox-official" should do the same thing firefox3-bin-pl - "firefox-official-pl" should be created to replace firefox3-i18n - same.. or maybe a variant of this package should be used rather than language-specific ones firefox3-rc-es - no longer needed Thoughts? Thanks, Slash

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[aur-general] Request to remove xcursor-industrial from filesystem
by Kristaps Esterlinsh 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi, please remove http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcursor-industrial/ from filesystem as it is orphaned (I was the maintainer), within the few days I'll upload it again ;) Thanks

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[aur-general] i2p aur package - maintainer did not answer
by Thomas Krauss 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hello, i made a aur package for the latest i2p version. The pgkbuild in aur is evil out of date, but the maintainer does not answer to my email what is the best thing, i can do now? eichi -- open source for an open mind! use Linux and feel free! - Mein Weblog: http://der-eichi.de Themen unter anderem aus den Bereichen |Politik|, |Linux| und |freie Software| ----- Mein öffentlicher PGP Schlüssel: http://pgp.der-eichi.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Leider konnte ich Ihren öffentlichen Schlüssel nicht finden, daher schreibe ich Ihnen | | unverschlüsselt und hoffe, dies ist akzeptabel | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Freie Alternative zu Google Maps & Co.: http://www.openstreetmap.org !

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[aur-general] About emacs org-mode
by Jiyunatori 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi there. I've just stepped into the arch and I'd like to participate. The org package is highly out of date, so I updated it. I'd like to share this small contribution with everyone, but the package is already maintained by rwanderley. I contacted the maintainer and sent him my updated version ten days ago, but had no answer to this day. Would it be possible to take the charge of maintaining this package ? take care Jiyunatori PS : what is the policy about renaming a package in the AUR ? is there a naming policy for emacs modes ?

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[aur-general] Old packages in AUR
by Shaika-Dzari Shaika-Dzari 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hello everyone. This morning I looked orphan package and I found some packages that could be remove: - sharpmusique : source is not available anymore - eclipse-kde : source is not available anymore - fvwm-trans : outdate, did not build - gimp-freetype : made for gimp 2.0, not available from official gimp website - gnash-cvs : gnash use Bazaar now - kanola : did not build, no update by his creator since 2 years - kdeaddons4 : made and submited in 2006 - kdeedu4 : same ^ - kdepim4 : same ^ - kdeless : splited by his maintainer into other package - madman-devel : no update, problem with Faad, official website is down - menu : replace by archlinux-xdg-menu in community - menu-xdg : same ^ - netscape-navigator : closed-sources, end of support by netscape - poppler-qt4 : use old Qt4 from community - pynealpm: use old libalpm - qgnokii : depend on qt3 but still use depend=(qt) - sqcam-cvs : depend on kernel26 and was not update since 1 year... - xscreensaver-arch : did not work - ymessenger : no update since 3 years, PKGBUILD license is GPL ? - fluxbox-styles-boxwhore : boxwhore website is dead Hope this help.

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[aur-general] Orphan Request: libotr pidgin-otr
by Marcel W. Wysocki 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

The packages are flagged out of date for quite some time now. Also there have been comments to inform the maintainer about the new version. I'd like to take over those packages. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] TUs: anyone want to take dmd into community?
by Anders Bergh 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hey, I spoke to Walter and he told me that it would be okay to let Arch Linux distribute dmd in the repositories. I'm not a TU, but feel free to take over the dmd and libphobos packages (and perhaps even libtango). (for those who don't know what dmd is: it's the main compiler for the D programming language) Anders

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[aur-general] orphans again
by Ronald van Haren 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

just so we won't let this list grow like we did in the past, here are the current orphans in community: <category><name><pkgver><votes> multimedia denemo 0.7.6-1 7 x11 lxtask 0.1-1 15 network pound 2.4.2-1 1 lib python-geotypes 0.7.0-1 0 please adopt if if one of these packages is yours, or you want to maintain one of these. I'll move the ones left orphan to unsupported somewhere next week. note that python-geotypes is a dependency of mezogis (0 votes, maintained by dtw) so it should stay in community if mezogis stays. Ronald

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[aur-general] python rebuilds needed
by Allan McRae 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hi TUs, I have uploaded an updated python package to testing. This removes the searching of the /usr/lib/python2.4 directory for modules (as python2.5 modules should be installed in the 2.5 directory). This will break a few packages whose files are still on the old python2.4 directory and anything that depends on them. Here is the packages I have found that need rebuilt: bhv-0.0.10-1 (sergej) diacanvas-0.14.4-1 (BaSh) everygui-0.99.b-1 (Romashka) pychecker-0.8.17-2 (sergej) pyrtf-0.45-1 (sergej) pysdl_mixer-0.0.3-2 (sergej) python-chardet-1.0-1 (sergej) python-galago-0.5.0-1 (sergej) python-galago-gtk-0.5.0-1 (sergej) python-mpdclient2-0.11.1-2 (codemac) webboard-0.2-3 (sergej) These just need rebuilt with python (v2.5) so their files are installed in /usr/lib/python2.5. In general, it should not be necessary to use the python version in [testing] as the current version in [extra] will package most files in the right place. I think packages built using scons may require the [testing] version. Just check that there are no files in /usr/lib/python2.4 once you have finished rebuilding the packages. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for jap 00.10.003-1! -- 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] AUR upload problem
by Gerhard Brauer 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hello, i have a problem uploading a package to AUR. It's revoked, but there isn't a package named nxcomp, neither in AUR nor in official Repos. Error is(translated): You are not allowd to overwrite the existing package nxcomp I've send a mail on arch-genereal ML and Callan point me to a releavant bugreport http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672 The problem is: This package is a dependency of some other packages which i already put in AUR. So could one of you TUs please put the package in AUR? Maybe orphand after that, so i could take it. I attach the tarball, it should be in category libs. Thanks Gerhard -- Try rm -rf (_R_ead _M_ail _R_ealy _F_ast)

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[aur-general] python-elementtree now part of python
by Ronald van Haren 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

see subject. the following community packages are affected: lsiten (hdoria) freevo (pressh) further two more AUR packages: avant-window-navigator-bzr lottanzb I'll add comments to the two AUR packages. ronald

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[aur-general] Repository Maintenance
by Eric Belanger 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

In case some TU are not subscribed to the public dev ML, please check: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-June/006591.html http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-June/006592.html Some of these errors concern community packages. Thanks, 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] Orphaning my packages
by Neil Darlow 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi, I have orphaned my unsupported packages as I will no longer be using Arch. I don't agree with Arch's reluctance to fix bugs which they consider upstream. I recently installed Mandriva on one of my systems and was amazed to see all the features that are broken in Arch's GNOME, due to them being upstream bugs, fully working in that distribution. As my principle reason for using GNU/Linux is to get work done and Arch's philosophy seems, to me, to be working against this I feel it is time to depart from Arch. My packages were: * asl * bouml * freehdl * gnome-hearts * subcommander Regards, Neil Darlow

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[aur-general] CinelerraCV patch
by Hubert Korpulski 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hello, I've tried compile the newest revision of CinelerraCV (rev.1058) but it stops with numerous errors. Firstly, cinelerra-cv-swscaler.patch it's not needed yet because it's added to official tree. Here's error that I've received during compilation: libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' Same error is here http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227299 So I've made a patch: --- hvirtual-build/libmpeg3/video/Makefile +++hvirtual-build/libmpeg3/video /Makefile @@ -172,6 +172,6 @@ LIBX264_LIBS = -lx264 LIPO = LN_S = ln -s -LTCXX_FLAGS = -LTC_FLAGS = +LTCXX_FLAGS = --tag=CXX +LTC_FLAGS = --tag=CC LTLIBICONV = -liconv LTLIBINTL = --- hvirtual-build/mpeg2enc/Makefile +++hvirtual-build/mpeg2enc/Makefile @@ -174,6 +174,6 @@ LIBX264_LIBS = -lx264 LIPO = LN_S = ln -s -LTCXX_FLAGS = -LTC_FLAGS = +LTCXX_FLAGS = --tag=CXX +LTC_FLAGS = --tag=CC LTLIBICONV = -liconv LTLIBINTL = Changes in PKGBUILD: ... msg "SVN checkout done or server timeout" cp -r $_svnmod $_svnmod-build cp -r makefilepatch.patch $_svnmod-build cd $_svnmod-build ./autogen.sh -i if [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-buildinfo=svn/recompile --with-external-ffmpeg --disable-mmx else ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-buildinfo=svn/recompile --with-external-ffmpeg --enable-mmx fi # here I insert patch patch -Np1 -i $startdir/src/$_svnmod-build/makefilepatch.patch || return 1 make || return 1 ... I'm not a programmer so that's why it looks so but it works. ArchHK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gdzie warto jechac na urlop? Sprawdz! kliknij >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1e32

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[aur-general] skype in [community]
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi there, I just noticed that we have skype in [community]. After a quick review of their license I would assume we are not allowed to redistribute it: http://www.skype.com/legal/promote/distribute/ "You will not distribute Skype Software through other media than CD-ROM or DVD, unless approved by Skype in an explicit written communication to You." If I am not really wrong here I would assume we should remove that crap asap. As a sidenote: please read the license before adding any package to a repo. It's not enough to copy the license file into the right directory. :-) Pierre -- http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for tintin 1.98.2-2! -- 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] libfbclient
by Firmicus 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

I just noticed that community/network/libfbclient contains tons of patches and other files amounting to 2.1MB. And these are not used in the PKGBUILD at all. Douglas, was this stuff perhaps added by mistake? Just wondering ;-) F

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