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[aur-general] gdc & gdc-svn
by Anders Bergh 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi, If a TU could please orphan gdc and gdc-svn it'd be great, because they're very outdated and I'd like to try and update them. It's a bit difficult to update gdc because it needs its own gcc (4.1.x) and I haven't yet really found a good way of installing only the necessary files, but I'll post a new thread in case I run into any issues. Anders

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[aur-general] python-pyfits in AUR/unsupported
by Mike Ressler 06 May '08

06 May '08

The python-pyfits package is listed as an orphan and has been flagged as out of date. Bringing it up to date is relatively trivial - anyone mind if I have a go at it? It is useful to me and I don't want to see it die. By way if introduction since this is my first post, I've been using Linux for 16 years (yes, since 1992), and Arch for about 6 months. Though it took me a long time to find it, Arch just suits me. This will be my first try at contributing something to Arch; since I didn't see any specific protocols for updating someone else's (or orphan) packages in the AUR User Guide, I thought I'd check here first. Mike -- mike.ressler(a)alum.mit.edu

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[aur-general] Packages with pkgver hackery
by Anders Bergh 06 May '08

06 May '08

I just now saw two packages in the recent updates box on the AUR front page with screwed up version numbers: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16828 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16829 I don't really know if this causes any issues other than making the pages look weird, but I think perhaps a TU should look into it. Anders

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[aur-general] should make be in makedepends?
by Abhishek Dasgupta 06 May '08

06 May '08

Should we expect that the user already has make installed when a makepkg is invoked? Or should we put 'make' in makedepends? -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] TU application
by Dragonlord 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! My name is Jaroslav Lichtblau and I live in Czech Republic. I'm 26 and this year my study time will be over. I discovered GNU/Linux in year 2003. It took me about one year to learn the basics and since then I'm using it solely - on my home PC and my NB. Until now I went through Mandrake and Ubuntu. I was also trying out some other distros, but wasn't quite happy. One year ago I heard some rumors about ArchLinux and gave it a try. Since then I'm catched and forgot about other distributions :) One of the reasons was AUR. Me and my girlfriend used to play game named cuyo together pretty often. But I didn't find it packaged in Arch. So after some time reading in the wiki I was able to make my first working PKGBUILD for it and I had our game nice packaged and installed in the system. Since then I am adopting and contributing PKGBUILD because it's so much fun to me. Besides of that, I do translate programs (osmo, epdfview, ...) into czech because the subject of my studies is languages - german mostly, but I can also talk/understand english, so let's use it. As a TU I will offer my knowledge and time to improve my favourite distribution and also the open source world, which gave me so much in the last few years. I think I have also some nice packages like subtitleeditor, cream, fillets-ng ... and cuyo :) which I would like to add to the [community] repo. In the last time I watched closely on new and updated PKGBUILDs, so I would be happy to do it further as a TU. In my free time I like reading fantasy/sci-fi books. Knowing this, my AUR login is obvious - Dragonlord. My irc and arch forum nick is drag0nl0rd. The last thing, Allan is so kind to sponsor my application. Let's start the trial :) any questions and suggestions will be answered. Sincerely, Jaroslav My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=Dragonlord&SeB=m&PP=100…

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[aur-general] I am out
by Uwe Vogt 05 May '08

05 May '08

anope-devel gnome-menu-extended kmenu-gnome phpbb3 If someone like to adopt my packages, the are now free to go and they are all up to date! cheers jada

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[aur-general] TU application
by Geoffroy Carrier 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! My name is Geoffroy Carrier. I'm a 20-year-old French comp.sci. student. I started using Linux on 1998, and Archlinux around a year ago, after a lot of Debian, some Gentoo and Fedora, and tests of many other distributions. I now use it on all my 6 computers, from the server to the eeepc. I've been available for more than 50 weeks per year for the last 3 years. My main subjects of interest are: - community64 - The-Unix-way console-based tools - Server-oriented tools - Security issues I'll focus on adopting orphaned packages in a first time, but there are plenty of packages that I'd like to work on, as localepurge, wol, btanks, docutils, aur-sync, etc. I'm working on automated makedepends checks with a tool using nilfs called mdma. I'll give you some more information soon. I also joined uArch recently, and follow kdemod with much intereset. I already created/adopted a few packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=gcarrier&PP=40 I speak a poor English, so I'll keep this message short ;) But I am willing to answer all your questions. A big "Thank you" to the people I recently met through flyspray, IRC, jabber and who confirmed me in my will to apply. -- Geoffroy Carrier

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[aur-general] cleanup: duplicate packages
by Lukáš Jirkovský 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, I've found two duplicate packages: gimp-resynth http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6823 gimp-plugin-resynthesizer http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12273 I think one of them should be deleted. In my opinion it would be better to remove gimp-resynth, even though it was uploaded first. It's contributor owns only this package and it doesn't conform so well with gimp plug-ins naming habit.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi all, I think there is enough support for this to go forward. So it is time we nut out the details. Here is how I suggest we go about it. Firstly, I make a post to the announcements section of the forums along the lines of: <draft> The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (url here) or as a reply to this thread. TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. </draft> I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 May and go through the list. I think we should take care not to get too carried away when we remove packages. While some packages may be orphans, if they are not out of date then the PKGBUILD could still be useful for some people. Any comments before I create the wiki page and post to the forums? Cheers, Allan PS. Someone will have to give me the TU IRC channel key because I never got around to getting it given I rarely use IRC.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day) TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. TUs will take great care not to delete any useful package. Cheers, Allan -- Allan McRae Arch Linux Trusted User

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 04 May '08

04 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for scilab 4.1.2-4! -- 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] Problem uploading packages on i686
by Allan McRae 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi all, At the moment the is a problem uploading packages to i686 community. I know this because I have moved a couple of packages to community and the AUR does not reflect this after several hours. Now, I know in the next 12 hours, we will probably get one of those "missing package" emails and fixing that will fix the problem. Then again, it might be one of the duplicate/missing PKGBUILD problems. Surely given I know it is a problem already, then I can fix it! My question is, does the output from the community/AUR integration daemon get posted anywhere visible to us TUs? Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Problem uploading packages on i686
by Allan McRae 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi all, At the moment the is a problem uploading packages to i686 community. I know this because I have moved a couple of packages to community and the AUR does not reflect this after several hours. Now, I know in the next 12 hours, we will probably get one of those "missing package" emails and fixing that will fix the problem. Then again, it might be one of the duplicate/missing PKGBUILD problems. Surely given I know it is a problem already, then I can fix it! My question is, does the output from the community/AUR integration daemon get posted anywhere visible to us TUs? Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Problem with tupkg
by DaNiMoTh 04 May '08

04 May '08

Uhm, I have this problem: tupkg doesn't upload. I have this output: [danimoth@jane scilab]$communitypkg {'size0': ['0'], 'numpkgs': ['1'], 'name0': ['scilab-4.1.2-4.pkg.tar.gz']} Uploading: scilab-4.1.2-4.pkg.tar.gz 14394 kb then nothing.. I think the problem is tupkg, but password and username are right. I answer to bash yesterday to upload it and he tells me that he has upload... why it isn't recognised?

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 04 May '08

04 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for scilab 4.1.2-4! -- 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] orphans in community
by Firmicus 02 May '08

02 May '08

Reminder: these are our current orphans in community: awn-extras-applets helixplayer kchmviewer kde-adblock-improvement knetstats man-pages-pt_br openssh-chroot psqlodbc python-geotypes Should they be moved to unsupported? Also, I notice that we have 877 orphans in unsupported (many out-of-date)! Should we remove them eventually? Especially those with very few or no votes? Firmicus

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[aur-general] Pommed initscript
by Jordi Cerdan 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hi, I'm the maintainer of pommed in AUR and I would like to adapt the init daemon script to the Archlinux standard, as user royrocks suggested me. I had a look to the wiki but didn't saw any page conscerning the rules and the way to build an init script adapting to Archlinux rules. Of course, I could build one having a look to other daemons and to the /etc/rc.d/functions script, but I would like to know if there's some kind of documentation I haven't found, so I don't forget anything in the script. Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] orphan request : octave3
by Xavier 02 May '08

02 May '08

The last update of this package was on 30/03. That day, cyberdune also offered me to orphan the package, which I accepted, but he didn't do it. And no news since then. In the meantime, the package didn't build anymore because of gcc 4.3, which required a small patch. And then octave 3.0.1 was also released, which includes the fix.

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 02 May '08

02 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- 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] Community64 status again...
by Allan McRae 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hi TUs, I know I keep on about this but I just had a look at the pkg_diff page [1] and I noticed there has been a big increase in the number of differences between the i686 and x86_64 community repos. To put some numbers to this, since the 17th there has been 11 packages added to i686 but not x86_64 and another 29 packages have been updated in i686 but not x86_64. We are now up to 190 differences between the architectures. Taking away the lib32 packages and the known build failures [2] leaves about 80 differences that can be fixed. That is about double the amount in the extra repo and it has more packages in total... How do we fix this? Here is what I propose: 1. If you add a new package to community and can only build for one repo then you must post a message to the list asking for someone to build it for the other. I.e. if you are bringing the package to community, then you are responsible for getting it in both arches. 2. Everyone who does not have access to a x86_64 machine, should get access to the build machine by contacting Aaron. 3. If it is inconvenient to build x86_64 packages on the build box (e.g. because of having to wait on deps to sync) then you should arrange with one of the x86_64 using TU's to do the building for you. What do TU's think about these ideas? I'd like to get some official guidelines out there so I can prod consistent offenders (you know who you are....)! Regards, Allan [1] http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html [2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community64_Status

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 01 May '08

01 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- 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] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 01 May '08

01 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- 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] wine in AUR
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hello, there is a wine package in AUR, which is just a version bump of the package in extra. The maintainer refuses to remove it. Sincerely Stefan

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[aur-general] [Help] Vegastrike
by Uwe Vogt 01 May '08

01 May '08

I like to build the packages for the Game Vegastrike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ I am not shure now how I will do it. I need some ideas. Option No. 1 I build one package all in one from http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ Option No. 2 I build 3 packages "vegastrike", "vegastrike-data" and "vegastrike-music" build from Ubuntu's deb packages. Why I am asking is, I am in doubt with using ubuntu's deb packages and the download size from Vega Strike 0.5.0 is 488 Megabytes. With a fast Internet it will be no problem, but many people still using slower dialup or DSL. It is something what I don't like about AUR, that we only provide PKGBUILD and not the packages. regards Uwe

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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