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[aur-general] Why /etc/issue starts with invisible chars?
by Lyman 22 Mar '08

22 Mar '08

Hi, all I found this issue when I was trying Sysmonitor in the package screenlets because Sysmonitor can not show my distribution name correctly. At the beginning I thought that it was a bug of screenlets, however, when I dug into its source code, I realized that it could be a "bug" introduced by Archlinux because the /etc/issue starts with some invisible chars. Here's the hexdump of /etc/issue in Archlinux. It is obviously that the first line in this file is not the distribution name. 00000000 1b 5b 48 1b 5b 32 4a 0a 41 72 63 68 20 4c 69 6e |.[H.[2J.Arch Lin| 00000010 75 78 20 28 43 6f 72 65 20 44 75 6d 70 29 20 20 |ux (Core Dump) | 00000020 5c 72 20 20 28 5c 6e 29 20 28 5c 6c 29 0a 0a |\r (\n) (\l)..| I've checked other two distribution, CentOS and Ubuntu (that's all I have at the moment), both of them presents the their name in the first line. I guess most of the applications just use the first line in /etc/issue as distribution name (so do screenlets). I think Archlinux should comply with "Rule of Least Surprise" on this issue. If the invisible chars are just for clearing screen, we can do that from the second line. lyman

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[aur-general] wrong time in CVS
by Abhishek Dasgupta 21 Mar '08

21 Mar '08

Today, after updating lxsession and lxpanel, when I checked the CVS web interface, the time was 1 hour off. Something I checked in 5 mins ago was being shown as 65 mins ago. Something wrong with the server clock? -- Abhishek.

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[aur-general] MythTV & Extras
by Travis Willard 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Hi everrrrrrybooooooooody! (Hi Dr. Nick!) Is anyone out there in dev-land interested in MythTV setups? I've got a ton of MythTV packages I'm maintaining (plugins and themes) that are kind of legacy from my TU days, which I brought into community with a ton of votes and eventually came to Extra when I became a dev. I don't use Myth, and can't really test any of these packages - basically I'm looking for someone who's actually interested in Myth to take them on. Paul has said he's looking at dropping the actual MythTV package, so if anyone out there is interested, taking the whole set (Myth + Plugins + Themes) would probably be easiest, since they all kind of update in unison. I'm cc-ing this message to aur-general too, because if no dev is interested, then perhaps a TU would be keen on keeping them in community. They seem to be a decently popular set of packages, so I'd love it if someone could pick them up. Thanks! -- Travis

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 20 Mar '08

20 Mar '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for gambas2 2.4.0-2! -- 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] perl 5.10.0 coming soon
by Firmicus 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

Hello all, this message is primarily adressed at the few TUs who maintain perl packages in community (namely Sergej, Allan and bardo), but should also be read by everyone else contributing perl packages to AUR as well. perl 5.10.0 – currently in testing – will soon be moved to core. Since this release implements a new "Perl Policy", there are some important changes in packaging that should be noted. Also, all packages that provide compiled libraries or that embed their own perl engine must be recompiled. Even better is to update ALL perl packages according to the new path scheme. See http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/PKGBUILD-perl.proto for the new and simpler way to package perl stuff. Since I had to do the job for my packages anyway, it was equally easy for me to update all PKGBUILDs at once. So Sergej, Allan and bardo can grab their new PKGBUILDs from http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/sergej.zip http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/allan.zip http://ankabut.net/archlinux/perlcommunity/bardo.zip Note that these contain only the packages in lib. There are a few more that I have not touched: devel/svk devel/perl6-pugs games/hearse multimedia/freewrl multimedia/xmltv network/pppusage These are left as an exercise to their respective maintainers ;) Be sure to backup your old PKGBUILDs and to check carefully those I made (especially the depends array). Kevin – the perl maintainer – is going to notify us when he moves perl from testing to core. Then we should get busy building the packages and uploading them to the repo :) Have fun, Firmicus

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[aur-general] architecture independent packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 19 Mar '08

19 Mar '08

For an architecture independent package, is it sufficient to build the package once, rename it appropriately and upload? Or should it be built on both 32 and 64 bit? -- Abhishek.

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hello, can someone please orphan the package fotox. The maintainer does not update his package (it is the only one he has in AUR) and did not respond to my e-mail. I would like to maintain the package. Thanks! Stefan

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[aur-general] Error occurred when submitting package
by 朱沁 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Hi, I was trying to submit a package called x264-git which does not exist on the list. But it said I was overwriting this package: "You are not allowed to overwrite the *x264-git* package." Could someone take a look at this? Many thanks. Qin Zhu

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[aur-general] List of comminity64 failures?
by Allan McRae 18 Mar '08

18 Mar '08

Is there a list of packages that can not be put in community64 due to build failures/binary package etc? I had a look through the wiki and found http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_ToDoS which has no community info. Looking at the pkg diff page (http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html) there are ~60 packages in i686 community but not in x86_64 community. There is only 1 in x86_64 but not in i686 which is not a lib32 package. I'm going to spend some time shortening this list but I'm sure some of these are legitimately only i686. As an aside, something is wrong with the matching in the pkg_diff page. Some packages appear twice in the list, once with a missing i686 version and once with a missing x86_64 version. I think this is when the is a major version difference between the platforms. e.g. gambas2 & yaz. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Flagging out-of-date in AUR
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

Hello, some weeks ago Firmicus complained on this list that some of his packages are flagged out of date in AUR. Now I see one of gummibaerchens packages netbeans 6.01 flagged out of date. It is definitely not out of date, as he put it in AUR today. I suspect myself to be the one who is responsible for the issues Firmicus described. But if so, I did so accidentely, because I sometimes saw newly uploaded packages flagged out of date and unflagged them because they were not. Perhaps there is a caching problem? I use kazehakase 0.53 for browsing. Sorry for any inconvenience if I actually am the "evil". Stefan

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[aur-general] acroread-fr
by JaDa 17 Mar '08

17 Mar '08

:: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community 348.1K 326.2K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100% archlinuxfr 17.0K 30.7K/s 00:00:01 [#####################] 100% :: Starting full system upgrade... :: Replace acroread with archlinuxfr/acroread-fr? [Y/n] n after the latest updates I got this now. I think this depend on Mesa 7.0.3rc2-1 ! I don't use a fr sytem I am using en/US. JaDa -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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Re: [aur-general] compiz-fusion?
by Timm Preetz 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

On Sat, 2008-03-15 at 22:10 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > For groups of packages like compiz-fusion, > where many packages need updated at once, perhaps it would be better to > just ask for a builder on the mailing list. Yes, I think if every package has a maintainer and the builders defined things go much faster than waiting and checking the pkg_diff everytime. Also people better know _what_ they 'have to do' instead of sitting in front of pkg_diff and waiting for a package they can actually build. For example Bjørn and me share packages, as he has 32bit and I have 64bit. This way we just give each other a ping whenever we upload a new package, and in general the other built is uploaded just a few minutes later :) IMHO the way it should be.

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[aur-general] compiz-fusion?
by Thomas Bächler 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

I saw that compiz and compiz-fusion have been updated for i686. However, for x86_64 only compiz has been updated, not fusion. That makes compiz incompatible to the fusion packages and essentially breaks it. Could whoever built the compiz packages on x86_64 please also build the fusion packages? Or anyone else?

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[aur-general] [REMOVAL: VOTE] filoktetes
by Ronald van Haren 15 Mar '08

15 Mar '08

Hi TUs, This mail starts the 5 day voting period for the removal of filoktetes. You can find the official discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-February/007010.html The reasoning why I started this removal thread can be found here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-February/006988.html My vote: yes Ronald

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[aur-general] ufoai: separate packages or one big?
by Lukáš Jirkovský 14 Mar '08

14 Mar '08

Hi, I've problem with deciding if it's better to have this great game splitted into two separate packages: package with data and package with game engine or if I should make one big package including both game data and engine. Now I'm maintaining it in two separate packages, but I still have problems with dependencies. Some users wrote me that it would be better to have data dependent on engine and some think exactly the opossite. How should I treat it? Thanks for any suggestion, Lukas "6xx" Jirkovsky

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[aur-general] question on devtools / aurtools
by Firmicus 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Just a quick question relating to devtools and aurtools. pacman / makepkg now support arch=any, but AFAICS the current version of extrapkg (to which communitypkg is a symlink) does not support uploading packages built with $CARCH="any"... Is this likely to change soon? François

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[aur-general] VOTE: bash (Andrea Scarpino)
by Giovanni Scafora 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of bash (Andrea Scarpino) as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-February/007121.html I vote YES. -- Giovanni Scafora Arch Linux Trusted User (voidnull) http://www.archlinux.org linuxmania(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] firefox4 4.0a1pre-1
by JaDa 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

It's now in Aur http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15636 testers are welcome -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[aur-general] some jokers spuriously flagging out-of-date?
by Firmicus 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

In recent weeks I've had too many cases of up-to-date packages being flagged out-of-date by some jokers. I find this annoying. Did some of you experience that too? I hope this is not done out of malevolence, but I would urge users to PLEASE check twice before flagging out-of-date! Thanks F

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[aur-general] lzma
by Firmicus 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hi everyone, The TeXLive project is considering using the lzma format instead of bz2 for its next release, and I wondered whether it is supported by makepkg. It is not, as I expected. But to my suprise, there is not even a PKGBUILD for it in AUR/unsupported! I have thus just uploaded lzma-utils to [community]. In case some of you are interested, it is said to achieve 15% better compression rates than bzip2 while being 2 to 5 times faster. And decompression is nearly as fast as gunzip (see http://tukaani.org/lzma/) Regards, François PS: A quick question: I have built a x86_64 package on Aaron's machine. What should I do to upload and commit it to the repo? Just "communitypkg" ?

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[aur-general] Orphan package
by Robert Hollencamp 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Please orphan the AUR packages codeblocks and codeblocks-svn; the current maintainer is unreachable (hotmail says the user does not exist) and there is a new stable version; I have already posted pkgbuilds for it on the forum and am willing to adopt the packages. Robert Hollencamp rhollencamp(a)gmail.com

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

08 Mar '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for sakura 2.0.1-2! -- 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] orphan request
by Dragonlord 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Hi, please orphan these 4 AUR packages: "cream, foremost, magicrescue, openoffice-spell-cs" The user Mikos is unreachable. I have new PKGBUILDS ready. Thanks! D -- Kdo chvíli stál, již stojí opodál, den žádný dvakrát se již nenarodí, čin dvakrát nezraje. -- Jan Neruda

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for sakura 2.0.1-2! -- 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 it be done?
by Collin 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

NOTE: This is my first actual fresh pkgbuild. What a way to start! I've been looking into creating a package for FreePBX. However, I'm now wondering if it can be done with the pkgbuild system. The problem is that FreePBX wants a # of changes to a variety of packages (namely, mysql, apache, and php) and it wants to check to see that those changes are done before it installs. For instance, it wants mysql to already have a user account and PW for it as well as tables setup, etc. It seems like it might be difficult to make a package first add a bunch of system changes and then install the files. Is this possible to do? I'm thinking that my only hope would be to patch the FreePBX installer so that it no longer checks and instead make all of the necessary changes in an .install file which would run after the package is installed, correct? It would have been helpful if there was much of any documentation on how to go about building packages. But, I can't seem to find much of anything concrete.

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