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[aur-general] path problem for OpenOffice extensions
by Dincer Celik 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi all I'm trying to create a package for an OpenOffice extension but I couldn't find the right path where to extract the extension file. I've tried below but didn't work. /opt/openoffice/share/extension /opt/openoffice/extensions -- Dincer Celik ~ info(a)dincercelik.com ~ dincer(a)bornovali.com ~ http://dincercelik.com/pub.asc Please encrypt every mail you can. Privacy is your right. Don't let anyone take it from you. Look at GnuPG or PGP and ask for my key D352EEBA.

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[aur-general] Initial "haskell overlay" available
by Don Stewart 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hey all, A week ago I announced a group had formed to improve Haskell support in the Arch package system. One week ago, the Haskell on Arch story was rather sketchy, GHC had just been orphaned as a package from 'extra', and only half a dozen apps and libs were available in binary form. 20 or so extra Haskell packages were available in AUR. A week later, a lot has happened. We've now completely automated the packaging of Haskell apps and libraries, via a new tool, cabal2arch. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17471 which is able to package 90% of the available Haskell software without user intervention. This is the first time this has been done on any distro (Gentoo has similar Haskell package coverage, but it is done manually) This enabled us to create a Haskell overlay repository, of binary packages (x86_64 only): http://code.haskell.org/arch/x86_64 with more than 350 packages. Automatically built. An RSS feed of new things added is also available: http://code.haskell.org/arch/x86_64/haskell.xml Begining with the #arch-haskell IRC channel, we've now got a mailing list and extensive documentation on the wiki. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines And the autopackaging has made it possible to migrate more than 300 recipes for building Haskell software into AUR. I think the rapid progress is a testament to the quality packaging infrastructure in Arch. Good work! The next steps are to un-orphan GHC, and the other Haskell things Simo can't work on now, and to then ensure an appropriate core toolset is available in extra. Given we don't have a Haskell-expert dev now, advice on how to proceed here would be welcome. Cheers, Don

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[aur-general] lxpanel
by Marcel W. Wysocki 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

what happened to lxpanel in AUR? seems the package has been deleted. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] orphan request for emacs-{planner,remember}
by Jan Spakula 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

I would like to request orphaning of emacs-planner and emacs-remember. The maintainer does not respond to comments (since Feb 10, 2008), nor to e-mails (sent Jun 2, 2008). There's a problem with the PKGBUILDs - outdated, and unfortunate versioning ("latest" instead of a true version number). Thank you. PS: It seems that I cannot send emails to aur-general from sup without getting this: The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination

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[aur-general] Trusted User vote - louipc
by Allan McRae 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

HI TUs, This begins the 7 day voting period for louipc (Loui Chang). Please go to the AUR and cast your vote. His introduction can be viewed here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-June/007833.html Good luck Loui. Allan

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[aur-general] New TU Checklist
by Allan McRae 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hi TUs, I have made a wiki page with the guidelines we post for new TUs (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist) This will save the copy/pasting that is currently required. Thanks to Xavier for the idea. Allan

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[aur-general] Packages available for adoption
by Eric Belanger 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Hi, I would be willing to give up most of my packages in community/AUR for adoption in order to decrease my workload. Please check the list: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=Snowman&SeB=m&PP=100 and let me know if you would like to adopt some of them. Most of them are in the community repo but I would be willing to move them in unsupported if a non-TU is interested in them and if it's not something I use. The following packages are not available because they are pet packages and/or I intend to move them to extra eventually: agave anacron auctex colorgcc comix electricsheep hardinfo kdiff3 keytouch keytouch-editor kftpgrabber krename libqalculate lincity-ng pingus pkgbuild-mode prosper qalculate-gtk qalculate-kde wormux xmms xmms-volnorm xv 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] Orphan Request `unp'
by Hannes Rist 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hi, would someone pleas orphan `unp'? I asked for an update of the package last year, nothing has happened. Then I contacted the maintainer by mail some days ago and haven't got a reply so far. best hrist

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[aur-general] New tool to automate Haskell package creation
by Don Stewart 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hey all, Just a little announcement. A few of the Haskell fans have formed a little dev group to work on and improve Haskell packages for Arch. To start with there's an IRC channel #arch-haskell @ freenode And the start of a packaging guide for Haskell on the wiki, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines And a new tool has been written that automates the process of creating PKGBUILDs from Haskell 'cabal' packages (those on hackage.haskell.org) This has meant we've been able to rapidly ramp up creation of new Haskell packages for Arch. The cabal2arch tool lives here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17471 If you work on, or maintain Haskell packages, perhaps drop by the IRC channel, so we can work out the final details for standard Haskell support. Cheers, Don

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Re: [aur-general] Empty python-dateutil-1.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
by Aaron Griffin 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Ning Bao <phabulosa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! phrakture, > > Could you please check whether the latest package for python-dateutil in > [community] x86_64 repo is empty. > > I checked two mirrors ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/x86_64 and > http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/community/os/x86_64 Hi Ning, I was not the one to build python-dateutil for x86_64, so I am forwarding this to the aur-general list. Hopefully someone knows what happened. > BTW, I am unable to retrieve the PKGBUILD for this package from CVS. The CVS viewer is gone. I do not know why the AUR still maintains those links, but the proper place is here: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/?root=community

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[aur-general] I made a mistake... Categories in [community]
by Geoffroy Carrier 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

I might have believed that creating a new folder in community would work... There was gnome, kde, xfce; I worked on lxde packages, so I created a lxde folder with packages in it... Normal, uh? Can someone fix my mistake and make the packages appear on the AUR? -- Geoffroy Carrier http://gcarrier.koon.fr/

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[aur-general] octave3
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hello list members, I would like to ask if there is someone who would like to put the octave3 package to community. There are three main reasons for doing so. - Octave 3 is the stable and development version of octave upstream. - Octave 3 is not just an update of octave 2 but another program: the differences are big and incompatible - it takes long to build, so having a binary version would be nice. Is this the correct place for discussing this, or should I write a feature request? Sincerely Stefan

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[aur-general] Request to orphan transmission-svn
by J de Swart 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hello TU's, please orphan transmission-svn. It's way outdated, and I'd like to upload my update and maintain it. I've mailed the author, without any response. Thanks, Jerry _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by Rick 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 05:03:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Rick Rein wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm writing to apply for TU status, as I'm sure you can tell by the >> subject. > <snip> > > Hi Rick, > > Do you have a sponsor lined up? I'm not on IRC very much so perhaps one > of the other TU's who is and recognizes you will do it. > > Anyway, what are you planing on doing as a TU? I noticed you have only > have a small number of packages in the AUR, so are you thinking of > adopting other for the community repo? Or do you plan on contributing > in other ways? > > Cheers, > Allan > > Allan and all, As stated I have only a few packages. I thought about adopting some more before putting in my application, however after thinking about it I realized that having a small amount of packages fits my motives well. As a TU my main goal for now is to help lessen the load of the existing TUs. I'm also a x86_64 user and would like to make contributions in that area. And last but not least, as I stated before I would like the opportunity to do my part for a distro I've been using for so long. In regards to a sponsor, I have spoken with a few people on IRC and I've spoken with a few before I applied. Is anyone willing to put themselves on the line? :D Rick -- http://isawsome.net GPG key at http://isawsome.net/blog/static/gpg

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[aur-general] Absence, and some news
by Firmicus 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hello all, I'll be away until next week-end. By the same token, I'm happy to tell you that I should soon join the dev team. My job will be mainly to take care of TeXLive packages in extra (and probably some perl packages also). I'll move the outdated and unmaintained tetex to community. I really hope to be able to continue my job as a TU, but only time will tell whether this will be feasible. Cheers, F

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Rick Rein 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hello list, I'm writing to apply for TU status, as I'm sure you can tell by the subject. My name is Rick, and I'm a recent addition to the Orlando, FL area. I was a Sergeant with the US Marines where I was a 5974, a Tactical Data Systems Administrator. I am now a Unix SysAd with a local company here in Florida. I had some minor experience with Red Hat in the late, late 90s running a Half Life Dedicated Server, but that box caught on fire, thus ending my pre-millenium linux experience. I picked up Archlinux sometime in 2004 2005 (Wombat) and have not been able to find a distro that fits me better since. I now have Arch installed on about 5 machines: a desktop(x86_64 and i686), laptop(i686), 2 myth boxes and an asterisk server. I have an affinity for light and fast and clean applications, but who doesn't? My prior contributions are mainly centered on IRC, however I have written a wiki article or two and have begun to go through them when I'm bored looking for edits/missing items. I currently have about 9 packages in the AUR, a mixture of adopted and created packages. I would like to become a TU so that I may give back to the community that I have been around for so long. It would also be an honor to say I was a part of such a top notch, and growing distro. I realize this message is a bit short winded so if you have any questions, or I left something out ,please feel free to ask. Thank you all for your consideration and have a lovely weekend, Rick <jeebusroxors> -- http://isawsome.net GPG key at http://isawsome.net/blog/static/gpg

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Re: [aur-general] can't "overwrite" coxpcall
by Adam Vogt 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

* On Thursday, May 22 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > Worlds most annoying bug strikes again > (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672) Please put a comment in the bug > report with your PKGBUILD. Best workaround at the moment is to put the > PKGBUILD as a comment in the copas package. > > Allan> I have a similar issue. I tried to submit haskell-edison-api, as it is required by haskell-edison-core. But I am not allowed to overwrite it, but the directory does not exist on the aur filesystem. (that I can see) I guess I submitted in the 'wrong' (it shouldn't matter) order, so now I cannot submit a package that already exists (though only as a dependency).

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[aur-general] [SPLITTED] AUR package categories (WAS: drpython PKGBUILD update)
by Ronald van Haren 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu 2008-06-05 20:20, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> on a sidenote, I really don't see any point in having these >> categories. The categories are really not intuitive and don't help >> searching for a kind of package any easier. >> Well, it may be just me of course :p > > I don't think they are extremely useful, but they don't hurt neither. > Someone may think: "Let's see what cool game it's on the AUR" and then > look at the "games" category. > > Every distro has packages in categories, and I think it does make sense. > package categories are dropped from [core] and [extra] it seems from both the ABS tree and the package browser on www.archlinux.org Anyways, having package categories does indeed make sense as you described in the case of games, as well as some other sorts of packages. I just think the categories are really bad defined IMHO. For example you need an editor. Most likely the editors are to be found in the following categories: editors, devel, gnome, kde, xfce and maybe even x11 Especially the gnome/kde/xfce categories seem not really needed to me. > P.s. > The first time I read your mail I thought you were proposing to drop > categories, but probably you were not. > > -- > Alessio (molok) Bolognino > no if I was proposing something I would have started a new thread. It was just to see what others were thinking about it.

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[aur-general] drpython PKGBUILD update
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I have created a new PKGBUILD for drpython. Currently drpython is assigned to devel category. Should I modify this one and upload it to editors? Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Roman Kyrylych 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all! I was thinking about this for a long time, and now finally got to this announcement. I've been inactive recently, due to troubles with internet, seeking new job, moving to the new city, and this will continue as I won't have a laptop and Internet here for at least 1 week. In the meantime, I have a lot of unread bugtracker notification threads in my gmailbox (844 at this moment), and this will be my top priority for the next months. In addition, I want to concentrate more on fixing bugs in Core/Extra packages (my plan is to lower the number of open bugreports to <400 by the end of this year). I can still continue maintaining some packages in community/unsupported, if noone will want to maintain them. I won't be following TU discussions actively anymore though. Thank you all for the nice time I spent as part of the TU group. Health and growth to the group! P.S.: the list of my packages is large enough, so I will post it in a separate message later today. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] pkg_diff location
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

For those TUs who don't follow the arch-dev-public list (you really should...), the pkg_diff pages has not been updated in a while because Andy is moving and has no internet connection. Pierre has come up with a nicer looking version: http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences From that list, you can see that community64, as always, needs some attention. I will do my part when I finish work. Allan

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[aur-general] drpython package and shrinkta
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I would like to update drpython package ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6419 ) because its maintainer ( http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=591 ) does not respond to e-mails and does not update it since May 2007. Could someone orphan it please? On the other hand, I have created a PKGBUILD for shrinkta ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17343 ) and I think it's almost well done, but I can't find the dependencies nedded for this package (only found libdvdread). How can I discover the dependencies needed by a package? I could not find nothing on the wiki about that... Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] Deleting packages in AUR
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all, At the moment anyone can delete a package they maintain from the AUR. This seems to be being exploited by an evil minority to remove packages that have been orphaned. e.g. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=373831 I thought that it may be better if we restricted the deleting to only devs/TUs so this con no longer happen. (see bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10527) The question is, how often do packages get deleted from the AUR and thus how much work would this generate? I guess it would be in similar volume to what we already get from orphan requests but this is just a guess. Anyway, pressh suggested I post this here so all TUs would see it. Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for gnome-vfs-docs 2.22.0-2! -- 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] Can't upload package
by Biru Ionut 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, Somebody has deleted *-ubuntu packages and i wanted to adopte and maintain them. But i have a minor problem. I can't upload 2 of 4 packages: fontconfig-ubuntu and libxft-ubuntu. It gives me that error: You are not allowed to overwrite the fontconfig-ubuntu package. You are not allowed to overwrite the libxft-ubuntu package. Can somebody fix that problem?

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