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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Loui 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello Trusted Users! I'd like to formally express my interest in becoming a Trusted User. My name is Loui Chang and I've been using Arch Linux for about a year and a half. My alias is louipc in aur/wiki/bugs/bbs/freenode. I'm the current developer of aurbuild and I've also submitted many patches to help improve AUR. I'm generally interested in improving the ways that we build, distribute and manage packages. To be honest, I maintain few packages in unsupported. Most packages I need already seem to be taken care of, so I don't plan on bringing many new packages to community. Here's what I have submitted to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=louipc&SeB=s Mostly what I offer is this: - Helping to clean up and administer AUR and community. - Help squashing bugs. - Continue developing AUR with the added perspective of a Trusted User. - Take on some packages that are already in community or packages that get dropped from the official repos. Some of my big goals are: - Develop a new system for sharing PKGBUILDs. - Give TUs more direct access and control of that system. - Get every single darn bug closed. I greatly appreciate if you can see a benefit in appointing me as a Trusted User. You guys already seem to do a very good job though. If anyone has packages that they don't really use, please let me know and maybe I can take care of them. :D Cheers!

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for screenlets 0.1.1-1! -- 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] Finally updating my packages
by rabyte 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll update (most) of my outdated packages within the next 24 hours. I'd like to thank everybody for their patience, read: not taking all those lovely pkgs away from me ;-) Special thanks go to Anders for taking over my webkitgtk-svn pkg, saving me hours of compile time. Yep, I'm serious :-)

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[aur-general] Inactivity notice (07/05/08 - 14/05/08)
by Sebastian Nowicki 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi, I flying over to the USA for Apple's World Wide Developers Conference '08, so I'll be inactive from the 7th June to the 14th. I have some outdated packages, which I hope to update before I fly out, but I currently have exams. The packages usually aren't that active upstream so it shouldn't be a big deal. I'll update them when I get back.

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[aur-general] Please orphan python-simplejson
by David Moore 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Please orphan python-simplejson. This has been marked out of date for about a month and a half. I tried to email the maintainer (pythonwarrior) but the email bounced. thanks, Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhDw10ACgkQOP+t1LlaoiGTJACdGbB2ZoiOEoGAeWuyjZzPZWSg PVkAn2eCHCPQDGhkLN4zPdy6WEgumoCH =gpQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] TU Vote - Angel Velásquez (angvp)
by Hugo Doria 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Angel Velásquez (angvp) as a TU. Please, dont forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007742.html You can vote using the web interface. Good Luck angvp! -- Hugo Doria http://hdoria.archlinux-br.org

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Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Dragonlord 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Not much traffic on the wiki page until now! Do we have at least any unofficial date to finish this thing? Not that it stays this way for one month or so ... Cheers Jaro On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:51:24PM +0200, Allan McRae wrote: > HI TUs, > > The call for people to list packages in the AUR to cleanup has been quite > successful with around 100 packages recommended. See the wiki page: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day > > Now we have to go through the list and confirm which packages deserve to be > deleted. Remember not to get carried away here. We don't want to delete > work that may still be useful. > > [snip] > > If you have a disagreement with another TUs decision, move it to a new > section call "further discussion" or something. If the suggestions are > checked properly before moving the the remove or keep list, then this > shouldn't happen but we will deal with it if it happens. > > I will go through and make the removals in a few days. > > Cheers, > Allan >

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[aur-general] not quite orphaned request - mugshot
by Ryan Corder 28 May '08

28 May '08

The mugshot package in AUR has been out of date for some time and the author has not responded to requests to update it since July of 2007. I have provided a new PKGBUILD in the comments along with creating new PKGBUILDs for software it now depends on, desktop-data-model and hippo-canvas. desktop-data-model: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16867 hippo-canvas: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16868 I would like to make a request to take over ownership of the mugshot package found here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10180 thanks. ryanc

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[aur-general] Package removal request - xcursor-industrial
by Kristaps Esterlinsh 28 May '08

28 May '08

Due to lack of my knowledge in the AUR (submitting an modified PKGBUILD), I orphaned the package to upload it again, but without success. As you can see the structure for this package is a mess :) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcursor-industrial/ So please remove it and I will upload a clean one again. Thank you :)

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] abs tree checker
by bardo 27 May '08

27 May '08

Sorry, tried to send this @ arch-dev-public. On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, bardo <ilbardo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) >> should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. > > Great work, thanks for the heads up. Now to my packages. > >> eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' > > There's nothing I can do here: the latest visual editor doesn't work > with Europa. They say they're working on it. They've been saying this > for many months. > >> acerhk --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' > > Fixed this morning before seeing this e-mail ;-) > > > Corrado

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Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Abhishek Dasgupta 27 May '08

27 May '08

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:52:16PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > org - included in emacs 22+? The Emacs 22.2 release ships with Org-mode version 4.67d. (orgmode.org) The current version is 6.04c. I don't know what should be done in this case. Data::Dumper is also part of perl 5.10 and it's there as a separate CPAN package as well. ion-modules should not be removed but should be moved to unsupported as ion3 is no longer in [extra]. gshare's website is down for quite a long time. I think it should be moved to unsupported. Also moved some packages into the keep/remove list. -- Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> GPG 67972DOF pgp.mit.edu

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[aur-general] abs tree checker
by Xavier 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hello, stonecrest wrote a very useful script in my opinion a while ago : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016238.html However, it hasn't been updated since the svn move and the new abs. It had a feature to fetch the abs tree itself, using csup directly. But anyway it is not required, abs can be used manually instead, so I just removed that part. The second problem is the directory structure, which is now different for core/extra/etc, where the package dir are on the first level, compared to community which still has the old layout with an additional level of category. This breaks the following function : def repo_from_path(path): return path.split("/")[-4] It should be -4 for community and -3 for the rest. Instead I just used 3, but it will only work on /var/abs/ tree (or any other structure with just 2 directory levels). Anyway, this was just two quick hacks to get the script working again and see what were its results now. And it is still far from perfect :) I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. So here is the result I get currently : $ ./check_archlinux.py --abs-tree=/var/abs ======================== = i686 Integrity Check = ======================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking archs ==> checking for circular dependencies ==> checking repo packages Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /community/devel/codeblocks/PKGBUILD /community/devel/php-apc/PKGBUILD /community/kde/kima/PKGBUILD /community/system/pommed/PKGBUILD /community/x11/gpomme/PKGBUILD /community/x11/e/PKGBUILD /community/lib/python-ctypes/PKGBUILD /community/lib/python-elementtree/PKGBUILD /community/multimedia/miro/PKGBUILD /community/gnome/cheese/PKGBUILD Mismatched Pkgnames --------------------- 'dbhub' vs. /community/daemons/dbhub/PKGBUILD 'dina-font' vs. /community/x11/dina-font/PKGBUILD 'offlineimap' vs. /community/network/offlineimap/PKGBUILD Missing Dependencies ---------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'acroread' gnome-media --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-alsa' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' perl-mail-dkim --> 'perl-digest-sha' perl-app-cli --> 'perl-locale-maketext-simple' striim --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' striim --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' medit --> 'gcc-objc' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-lame' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-flac' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' fdlog --> 'acroread' jokosher --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' gnustep-gui --> 'gcc-objc' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' perl-critic --> 'perl-readonly' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-a52dec' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' perl-graphics-colornames --> 'perl-module-load' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-alsa' bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia' archboot --> 'rt2x00-cvs' archboot --> 'iwlwifi' ion-modules --> 'ion' ion-modules --> 'ion-scripts' gnustep-back --> 'gcc-objc' quodlibet --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' quodlibet --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' gnustep-base --> 'gcc-objc' muine --> 'gstreamer0.10-faad' Missing Makedepends --------------------- perl-app-cli --> 'perl-locale-maketext-simple' perl-time-duration --> 'perl-test-pod-coverage' pandoc --> 'haskell-mtl' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc' perl-graphics-colornames --> 'perl-module-load' totem-plugin --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' Unmet Dependency Provisions ----------------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'fldigi=2.10' d4x --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' bincimap --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' arora-git --> 'qt>=4.4.0' drscheme --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' socat --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' qc-usb --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' libfwbuilder --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' acerhk --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' martian --> 'kernel26<=2.6.25-0' Unmet Makedepends Provisions ------------------------------ wpa_supplicant --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' v86d --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends -------------------------------- extra/xosd depends on community/xmms extra/flac depends on community/xmms core/iputils depends on extra/jade core/madwifi-utils depends on extra/sharutils core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc core/madwifi depends on extra/sharutils Invalid Archs --------------- libofa --> x64_86 kexec-tools --> 686 zsnes --> ppc mod_perl --> x64_86 minicom --> !x86_64 Circular Dependencies ----------------------- coreutils>pam>db>coreutils eclipse-ecj>gcc-gcj>eclipse-ecj archboot>archboot Missing Repo Packages ----------------------- postgis-1.2.1-1 in community/os/i686 lmms-0.3.2-1 in community/os/i686 sakura-2.1.0-2 in community/os/i686 'dina-font'-2.89-2 in community/os/i686 qc-usb-0.6.6-6 in community/os/i686 musicmanager-0.9.8-1 in community/os/i686 open-vm-tools-modules-2008.04.14-1 in community/os/i686 proj-4.5.0-2 in community/os/i686 'offlineimap'-5.99.14-1 in community/os/i686 'dbhub'-'0.450'-3 in community/os/i686 open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-1 in community/os/i686 gnash-common-0.8.2-1 in extra/os/i686 evolution-data-server-2.22.1.1-1 in extra/os/i686 enscript-1.6.4-3 in extra/os/i686 Summary --------- Dirs with missing PKGBUILDs: 10 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 55 Unmet provisioned (make)dependencies: 13 Circular dependencies: 3 Invalid archs: 5 Missing packages in repos: 14 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 3 Repo hierarchy problems: 6

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Shinlun Hsieh 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hello friends, I've been thinking about this for a while, and finally decide to step down. These days I don't have much time to maintain the packages publicly released on AUR due to my personal issue and as a result, I should resign from this position because I don't serve the AUR users who are using my packages as before. It's a great experience to work with you all, keep working guys! Thanks for bringing this great distro to the community. Though resigning from my packaging job, I'll stay involved with Arch as a user. Good luck to you. Best regards, Shinlun

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[aur-general] Inactivity for CVS problem
by JJDaNiMoTh 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hello to all, I have a problem with CVS: I can't do anything. Every actions result in a timeout. I tried many repos, but nothing: I'm blocked. I think it is a connection issue, because for two or tree days it worked. I don't know how proceed now, feel free to adjust / update my packages, I will remain available ( other internet functionality are OK ). -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User

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[aur-general] [website] accessing maintainer information
by cyril Romain 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, Although the information of a package maintainer can be retrieved from a package page, that information cannot be retrieved from the searching package page. For instance, the maintainer info is accessible from here (by clicking his/her name): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7111 whereas clicking on his/her name from here doesn't work: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=uwolfer&SeB=m Clicking on the name in the searching package page actually filters the search result with that maintainer. But I'm wondering if it would not be more consistent to display the maintainer information instead. Regards, Cyril

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[aur-general] force flag usage
by Xavier 24 May '08

24 May '08

I believe this thread concerns the community repo as well, so please have a look: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-May/006243.html However there is something to figure out about how the community repo is built : packages need to be built with makepkg >= 3.1.2, and added to the database with repo-add >= 3.1.2 In the meantime, the following two steps can still be done: * reevaluate if the flag is still needed. I would guess if it hasn't needed a 'force' since before the last ISO, then we should be fine. * convert the old force=y syntax to new options=('force') syntax Note that the community database itself doesn't contain a single FORCE flag, which means all the force flag below are not used at all. If nobody even noticed / complained, they probably can be removed. community/devel/pygtk-docs/PKGBUILD:options=('docs' 'force') community/devel/fox-legacy/PKGBUILD:options=('!libtool' 'force') community/daemons/gnump3d/PKGBUILD:force=y community/daemons/nas/PKGBUILD:force=y community/x11/compiz-core/PKGBUILD:options=(!libtool !emptydir force) community/x11/compiz-decorator-gtk/PKGBUILD:options=(!libtool force) community/games/etracer/PKGBUILD:options=('force') community/lib/libjingle/PKGBUILD:force=y community/lib/colorer/PKGBUILD:options=(force) community/multimedia/alsa-plugins/PKGBUILD:force=y community/multimedia/xmms2/PKGBUILD:force=y community/modules/nokia_dku2/PKGBUILD:force=y community/science/qgis/PKGBUILD:options=('force') community/office/fbreader/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/pyaim/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/dokuwiki/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/pyicq/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/checkgmail/PKGBUILD:options=(force) community/network/gnunet-gtk/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/gnunet/PKGBUILD:options=('!libtool' '!makeflags' 'force')

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[aur-general] AUR RPC search results custom fields
by Francesc Ortiz 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, I just subscribed to the AUR mailing list. I developed tupac, a script that does fast aur searches. I got really glad when i found that there is an RPC for AUR, but all my happiness vanished when i saw that the search results show no information, and that i have to add another query for each result if i want to show aditional information to the search results. From my house, this adds a 550 ms query to each result. I gave a try to arson to proove it. Adding the possibility of specifying the fields you want to show in the search results would reduce rpc query time and would also reduce server load. Getting custom fields would be 1 connection vs N+1 (N=number results, 1 the search) connections that you have to do now for a pacman-like search. And in what time regards, as an example, for 30 results now I need (30+1)*550ms = around 17 seconds. I also see that this would be more intense work for the database, so it would be reasonable to add a result limit to the search, if you use custom fields, in order to reduce subqueries. And, about usability, imagine that http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php took 13 seconds to load. What do you think, did I sound convincing enough? :P

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[aur-general] problems with x86_64 build machine?
by Ronald van Haren 23 May '08

23 May '08

Are there more people having problems building packages on the build machine? I'm getting an "error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)" error, or is this related only to my account? So for the time being I'm not able to update the x86_64 versions of my packages :( If somebody has a bit time left feel free to update them, otherwise I'll do it when it is working again (the packages currently in need are: sakura, ristretto, wxmaxima, and youtube-dl). Ronald ps. I'm active again

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[aur-general] problem uploading
by Firmicus 22 May '08

22 May '08

I am trying to upload the package perl-ppi to AUR, but I get the error message "You are not allowed to overwrite the perl-ppi package" even though this package does not exist on AUR. Thanks for help Firmicus

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[aur-general] can't "overwrite" coxpcall
by Anders Bergh 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi, I'm trying to upload a new package to the AUR, "coxpcall", but it says I can't overwrite it. I have a feeling it's because I uploaded copas first, a package that depends on coxpcall. Then AUR registered that package somehow, and doesn't let me upload it. I'm only speculating here. Anders

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 21 May '08

21 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for mandvd 2.4-5! -- 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] [OUTDATED] qtjambi
by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hello all, I have a new package to qtjambi and I would like to publish it. Apparently there is a user who is owning it and it is not responding my emails. Also, I've talked to the creator of the package. Anyone could please orphan it? Gratefully, bráulio

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Angel Velásquez 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hello everyone My name is Angel Velásquez and I live in Venezuela. I have 24 years old and I just finished my studies in the university (Computer Technician), so now I have enough time to work in my favorite distro. My native language is Spanish and I also speak Italian and English (at a regular level, I can be easily understood); also, I understand Portuguese and some French (at a beginners level). I work as PHP/Python Developer (under Linux) and of course, now I'm working on Arch ;-). I have been using Linux since 1998: I started with Red Hat 5.2, but I got disappointed about many of the rpm's limitants, so I moved back again to Win** (yeah, this is sad), until 2000 when I met Slackware and I liked it because with this distro you are not 'rpm dependent', so you maintain your distro and your libraries. Working this way was good until I needed to get new things, so I moved to Debian unstable for a long time; back in 2005 I discovered Arch Linux because a friend of mine proposed me 'hey, what about to test another and different distro?' and I liked it, but due to job reasons at that moment I didn't have the time to install Arch completely (as a main distro), but finally I became an 'archer' in 2006 when I had enough time to learn and use it proficiently. I was expecting to join an Arch Linux community here in Venezuela but at that moment, nothing happened and no groups were created, however we had one of the biggest events on the country (FLiSoL) so I had to search some local archers (Ricardo Hernández, Miguel Useche, Flavio Percoco, Victor Roman, etc) and we created the local community :-), and I can say that I'm proud of our little (for now) team. Now we have a community and we are learning new things everyday and we are getting new users into the community, whom have agreed to collaborate with us. So, I would like to be a TU, I have been developing and fixing some AUR / ABS packages for my own use (and other friends who needed them), I have also worked documenting and helping Arch Articles in the Spanish Community, and I have been in contact with some people from the Brazilian and Italian community. Maybe I do not have many packages in AUR (just 16 and not all are from scratch many of them have been adopted) but I am very connected with the Arch Linux community, specially working on the part that I'm responsible of, which is the Arch Linux Venezuelan Community. Right now, I think I have time to do some important things with some packages (especially those based on haskell, because I've been studying it) and helping developing some new features to AUR and the Arch Linux Community. Hugo Doria a.k.a hdoria proposed to be my sponsor (thank you :-)) My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=angvp&SeB=m Arch Linux Venezuelan Community: http://www.archlinux.com.ve (working on this) My Website: http://www.angvp.com (not ready yet, but soon) Thank you for reading this. -- Angel Velasquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[aur-general] list for reserverd UIDs for special system users
by Michael Krauss 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hello again, I must apologize for asking so many questions but I don't want dma to get in the way with an other daemon or service. Today I want to know if a list of reserved UIDs (and GIDs) for Arch Linux is available. I figured out that commonly the first 100 UIDs are used for system users like mail, ftp, hal and so on. So I want to use one of these numbers for dma but don't won't to interfere with an other system user in Arch Linux. Is there something similar to reserved port numbers in TCP? Kind Regards, Michael Krauss

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[aur-general] [Inactivity notice] Dragonlord
by Dragonlord 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, as I wrote in my TU application, my study time will be over this summer. I do have some last exams and duties connected with it. So there are going to be some inactivity notices from my side. This is the first one, I will be 1 week hard working for the Uni, inactive in these days 20-27.5.08. Thanks, wish me luck :) Jaroslav (Dragonlord) Lichtblau -- earthquake n. [IBM] The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the Bay Area quake of 1989 was initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants.

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