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[aur-general] TU Candidate
by Andrea bash 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Hello list, I sent this mail because I would like become a TU. My name is Andrea Scarpino aka BaSh, I'm 20 years old, I'm go at University (Computer Science). I use Linux since 2004 (Suse, Slackware, then ArchLinux), and I'm programming ( C++, Java, Python, bash scripting ). I'm contributing to Forum and IRC of Arch Italian Community, AUR, Wiki, and some fix. I would like to maintain some packages in Community (I will look at orphans first) and also move adesklet's utils and devede from Unsupported to Community. Please examine my packages, ask questions, tell what I need to change to improve them etc. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=BaSh&PP=25&SeB=m Now I need a sponsor, I suppose. ;) -- BaSh Linux User: #430842

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[aur-general] opera-lang-cs orphan request
by Dragonlord 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

Hi, please orphan the "opera-lang-cs" package on AUR. The maintainer has only this one package and doesn't respond. Thanks D

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[aur-general] Stepping down
by tardo 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

It's been a short while but it's time for me to step down as a TU. With my new job and life, I just can't find the time to keep up with my duties. It's been fun :) - tardo Packages in community: monodevelop mono-addins boo hlist-darcs idutils python-geotypes striim unsupported: festival-hts-voices graphicsmagick memtester mlt tagtool

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[aur-general] new PKGBUILDs libquicktime + openmovieeditor
by Dragonlord 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

I´ve made new PKGBUILDs for these 2 packages. User kindarch requested the new openmovieeditor in the forum. I can't adopt these packages, because they are in the community repo. Can someone please update them? PKGBUILDs are attached. Thanks D

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[aur-general] little AUR glitches
by Firmicus 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

On the main page of AUR, my statistics indicate that I have one package flagged out-of-date, but I have looked at the list of my packages and I simply cannot find it. Could someone check this please? thanks! Oh, and one more thing: on the packages page, when I select "Location=community", "Per page = 100" and click on "Orphans", I see items 1 to 100 of a list of 109. But clicking the link "More" at the bottom right does not bring one to the next page with items 101 to 109: instead I get the same first page. F

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Re: [aur-general] little AUR glitches
by Allan McRae 28 Feb '08

28 Feb '08

Ronald van Haren wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 11:35 PM, Firmicus wrote: > >> On the main page of AUR, my statistics indicate that I have one package >> flagged out-of-date, but I have looked at the list of my packages and I >> simply cannot find it. Could someone check this please? thanks! >> >> > > perl-libnet is flagged out-of-date: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=819 You can also manually navigate you packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_MyPackages=1 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_MyPackages=1&O=25 The problem is the more/less links are wrong (look at SB=? and SO=? from memory), not anything underlying. _________________________________________________________________ Who's friends with who and co-starred in what? http://www.searchgamesbox.com/celebrityseparation.shtml

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hello > > If this is the intended behavior, I would expect that resetting out of date > > flags on updates is the most reasonable thing to do. > Auto unflagging might make a handy feature. > Does this happen also when using aurup? Sometimes I think so. The message is (unflagged out of date) (added to notify list) And it seems that the comment I give with the aurup command does not find its way to the AUR. Stefan

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[aur-general] subtitleeditor orphan request
by Dragonlord 26 Feb '08

26 Feb '08

Hi, please orphan the "subtitleeditor" package on AUR. The maintainer has only this one package and doesn't respond. Thanks D

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[aur-general] Package: Dynamips
by maci＠satgnu.net 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Hello there, I'd like you to make me the maintainer of the package "dynamips" I flagged it out of date 20071107 and left a comment. Seems the maintainer died and forgot to orphan the package before ;) -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] Problem on installing yaourt with pacman
by Stephen Liu 25 Feb '08

25 Feb '08

Hi folks, Archlinux 86-64 2008-08-2 repo on /etc/pacman.conf ..... #[archlinuxfr] Server = http://repo.archlinux.fr/x86_64 on running; $ sudo pacman -Sy yaourt :: Synchronizing package databases... core is up to date extra is up to date community is up to date error: 'yaourt': not found in sync db * end * Please advise how to fix the problem. TIA B.R. Stephen L Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] udev 118-2
by wide-eye 23 Feb '08

23 Feb '08

one place that is mounted and writable at the time udev is started is / dev. rc.sysinit: (generate blacklist) printf "BLACKLIST=\"$BLACKLIST\"\n MOD_AUTOLOAD=\"$MOD_AUTOLOAD\"\n" > /dev/.blacklist (start udevd) load-modules.sh: . /dev/.blacklist I haven't had the chance to play with the testing packages, but this setup seemed to work ok when i was playing with it. random idea: >From what I've read, it seems one can mount a ramfs under /etc/udev/ rules.d/, add a bunch of udev rules there, and dispense with load- modules.sh altogether. if this works udev should be able to start lickety-split. But I'm not sure what all to use for rules. or if it works at all

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[aur-general] TU Voting On The AUR
by Callan Barrett 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

See here if you're logged in as a TU: http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php Alright, I know I'm not a TU anymore but this is pretty important, this is the new interface for voting for stuff as TUs which automates the process somewhat and pretties it up a bit. You might have seen the thread about two months ago about this and some screenshots which are basically the same as it is now, I put this together because of how disorganized the voting process currently is and how hard it is to check up on who voted or not. With this system it would become harder to miss votes (there's nothing like email notification but that's no trouble to add) and incredibly simple to find who has voted recently and who hasn't, your vote isn't actually recorded, only the fact that you did vote which also makes it basically anonymous as opposed to the public voting on the ML. So the whole thing is there ready for use and now it's just a matter of if you want to use it or not. Maybe you want to vote on it or just switch or whatever you like. If you do decide to keep it and use it I can add whatever is required to make the application more user friendly like email notification and some sort of stats page (right now there's no front-end to tell who voted or not which needs to be added soon) and so on. Although it's pretty trivial to remove the new voting system I think this interface is only improving on what was a fairly messy and flawed voting system previously. Again, this is pretty important and I'd like input from as many people as possible. -- Callan 'wizzomafizzo' Barrett

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD for newest asterisk-addons
by Collin 22 Feb '08

22 Feb '08

Once again, heres a new PKGBUILD for an asterisk package before you can buy it in stores. ;-) This updates the PKGBUILD to the newest version of asterisk-addons # Contributor: Zerial <fernando(a)zerial.org> # Contributor: William Rea <sillywilly(a)gmail.com> pkgname=asterisk-addons pkgver=1.4.6 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Additional modules for Asterisk" url="http://www.asterisk.org" arch=("i686") depends=('asterisk' 'mysql') license=("GPL") md5sums=('e9240dfbcbeca8c60d5f9704d1135e14') source=(http://downloads.digium.com/pub/asterisk/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) build() { cd $startdir/src/$pkgname-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/lib/asterisk/modules make || return 1 make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1 }

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[aur-general] Zaptel PKGBUILD
by Collin 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

I've updated the PKGBUILD for Zaptel to the newest version (1.4.9) and also made it patch Zaptel to support Yeastar adapters in addition to it's standard range of support. I am not the package maintainer, just trying to help out. The PKGBUILD is below: # $Id: PKGBUILD,v 1.10 2007/11/16 12:58:23 DaNiMoTh Exp $ # Maintainer: William Rea <sillywilly(a)gmail.com> # Contributor: jeebusroxors pkgname=zaptel pkgver=1.4.9 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Zapatel Drivers for Asterisk" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.asterisk.org" license=('GPL') depends=('glibc') backup=(etc/zaptel.conf) source=(http://downloads.digium.com/pub/zaptel/zaptel-$pkgver.tar.gz \ http://www.yeastar.com/download/ystdm8xx-zaptel-$pkgver.patch.tar.gz \ zaptel.rules zaptel.permissions ztcfg) install=$pkgname.install md5sums=('f08b8291eb0bccbec8e546c9fb43fd2e' '86c5ed9a652969566680cfa1e7c7c3ec' '3c53f516a7f9f50d53b2a073b15a257a' '7cd7c01cb9d0cfac44ce1a2949448310' '4bfb330e8e0a165e9212c4ad3f6d4eab') build() { install -d $startdir/pkg/etc/udev $startdir/pkg/usr/share/man/man8 patch -p0 < ystdm8xx-zaptel-$pkgver.patch cd $startdir/src/zaptel-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --exec-prefix=/usr make VERBOSE=1 || return 1 make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg install || return 1 make DESTDIR=$startdir/pkg config mkdir -p $startdir/pkg/usr/bin cp {fxotune,ztmonitor,zttest} $startdir/pkg/usr/bin rm -r $startdir/pkg/etc/udev install -D -m644 $startdir/src/zaptel.rules \ $startdir/pkg/etc/udev/rules.d/zaptel.rules install -D -m644 $startdir/src/zaptel.permissions \ $startdir/pkg/etc/udev/permissions.d/zaptel.permissions install -D -m755 ztcfg $startdir/pkg/sbin/ztcfg install -D -m755 $startdir/src/ztcfg \ $startdir/pkg/etc/rc.d/ztcfg }

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[aur-general] [REMOVAL: DISCUSSION PERIOD] filoktetes
by Ronald van Haren 21 Feb '08

21 Feb '08

Hi all, As stated by the bylaws, a removal thread due to unwarranted and undeclared inactivity is automatically triggered after missing at least three consecutive voting procedures. Filoketes has missed the last 4 voting procedures, does not respond, and never declared himself inactive. The relevant part of the bylaws: active TUs that keep quorum from being established on a voting procedure for three consecutive voting procedures (they need not be on the same motion) are automatically brought up for removal procedure, by reason of unwarranted inactivity. There is one special case for removal, removal due to unwarranted and undeclared inactivity, for which standard voting procedure deviates from the above. This motion is also automatically triggered by repeated quorum offenses, as described in the Quorum subsection of this document. For this special case, SVP is followed with a discussion period of three days, a quorum of 66%, and a voting period of 5 days. SVP( inactivity_removal_of_TU, 3, 0.66, 5 ); I already opened a couple of threads before, the last one of them gives a good overview of the situation: We already had an unofficial 'discussion' in this thread: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-February/006988.html I'm feeling sorry for having to do this, but this mail starts the 3 days discussion period. Ronald

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Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.5.0 navigation links
by Neil Darlow 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Hi, My previous post had an error. The forward link is labelled "More". Perhaps it should be labelled "Next". Regards, Neil Darlow

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[aur-general] AUR 1.5.0 navigation links
by Neil Darlow 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

Hi, When a search of AUR packages returns more than one page of results, navigation links are presented at the bottom of the screen. These links are labelled "Next" for following page and "Less" for the previous page. I think that "Less" is a poor choice and perhaps should be "Previous" or "Back". Just my two cents. Regards, Neil Darlow

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Re: [aur-general] AUR Release 1.5.0
by Simo Leone 20 Feb '08

20 Feb '08

On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 08:00:42AM -0800, Thayer Williams wrote: > On Feb 19, 2008 5:49 AM PST, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > 2008/2/19, Bjørn Lindeijer <bjorn(a)lindeijer.nl>: > > > On 2/19/08, Simo Leone <simo(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > > > This is a really big release, and I do mean big. This release brings > > > > a json interface, the brand new arch look, a tu voting back-end, tons of > > > > changes under the hood, and the removal of safe flags, among tons of > > > > other changes. See the shortlog for the nitty gritty. > > > > > > > > Enjoy > > > > -S > > > > > > One small nitpick about the new theme. Did anybody notice that the AUR > > > is using a slightly fancier logo image than the one in the header used > > > by the main website and the bug tracker? I prefer it, but somebody > > > should make sure the same image is used everywhere. > > > > Hah, nice catch! And on DistroWatch we have yet another logo (with > > colors from older version). > > I'm cc'ing this to Thayer. > > > > -- > > Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) > > Thanks for the heads up guys! Unfortunately, I don't have any write > access to the web server, which makes my job a bit trickier. I've CC'd > Eliott and Simo on this. > > Eliott and I discussed the logo use and agreed that the "fancier" > version is better suited for desktop use (Crystal icons, wallpapers, > etc.) > > As for the DistroWatch logo, I don't know who submitted that one. I > also see we're using a 2nd-rate version of the kernel framebuffer logo > too. > Ok well I replaced the AUR one with the one used on the rest of the sites (the non-fancy one). It's in my working tree which means it'll probably get pushed later this week or next weekend. Also, we should get thayer set up with something or other one of these days. -S

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[aur-general] AUR Release 1.5.0
by Simo Leone 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

I will be updating the AUR on main site sometime this evening. There might be intermittent downtime and maintenance messages, but downtime will be minimal. This is a really big release, and I do mean big. This release brings a json interface, the brand new arch look, a tu voting back-end, tons of changes under the hood, and the removal of safe flags, among tons of other changes. See the shortlog for the nitty gritty. Enjoy -S ====================================================== commit 32be42aee109c2bb8a12b474f364a9d10d2b9da5 Author: Simo Leone <simo(a)archlinux.org> Bump version to 1.5.0 commit a1c1ebb3152c588b717a49f46d34adfbfe5bf2f1 Author: Gerhard Brauer <gerbra(a)archlinux.de> Updated de translation commit a4dcb7d38fb9d46ed09d039e40f20d63b3553c9e Author: Giovanni Scafora <linuxmania(a)gmail.com> Updated Italian translation commit 036f286f1937e2d8c2dbe9b6005e5905f6f65f77 Author: Simo Leone <simo(a)archlinux.org> Removed redundant VERSIONS.txt commit 249d92f5aa32ea0f117bf49931355984f066054e Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Cleaned up the front page. commit 4d9d5d39666addc2afbb61bb04b00dc1ed707ecc Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Fix for information leak in login logic. commit aedf2ab6a390b62f1a0de8afe18a5aa53075b9ef Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Fix for 'More' and 'Less' paging breakage. commit 7bad8a8357773e7918e0b794dbec8a36ee9154ad Author: Simo Leone <simo(a)archlinux.org> Removed QBUG and DBUG commit 2bcd8ff1db2b590121d14a616c8969348ca1dfe6 Author: Simo Leone <simo(a)archlinux.org> Fix package detail action buttons commit 675e5fc84107a7a9b11ccd89265dfa32c9bec104 Author: Simo Leone <simo(a)archlinux.org> Added rss caches to gitignore commit d14def92ff34122bffa4de1fac01598b1d913648 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Turn action bar into drop box commit 52a770e7e7c9a1701e96aa3c66f25d810394aeaf Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Fix login error and translation bug commit aa2517ebfc4acf18d17a48eb79b377aa4f65c0ac Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> some more tweaks to make it look less like I worked on it. commit 6edbef61c18bd5b652a726e2cb64090e4a59cb97 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Hacky attempt to fix lang and navigation bars commit 14ecbf5fd577995a93f4437ce5d60069fd7cc771 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Add search result information commit 8ab823728c729e9780820bf15aad3585078c8342 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> More cleanup, add TU link to header commit 2f56688b56757a3365ee4cc48f1bd139216c74f9 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Prefill category upon upload error and fix bug in last patch commit 11f7c682dbe850c9a2a776fc4979fbcfc463b813 Author: Thayer Williams <thayerw(a)gmail.com> Fixed a couple typos in arch.css commit a9ea2bd89dd62a9766efae0f118b58bca6df6f17 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> updates to header. Manual addition of thayers previous patch. commit d4faaaf3195535ea63ac52d2701cf95dea590d15 Author: Thayer Williams <thayerw(a)gmail.com> Template update for new Arch logo commit 6683f3ceebcb712c6e3ba4a1bf09c85190c4d0f2 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> poop commit 0eb2997a82b1817124bbfb6986be8058134879ea Author: Dan McGee <dan(a)archlinux.org> Allow pkgsubmit to accept any tar* file commit 379e16eebda1ba9bfc45de486e99e480843d086a Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Support for verbose page titles commit d4b07f2b334dada626e4743951cdd6adab87f62e Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Tweaks of various page layouts and handling of data commit dbbf50ac9024dddb5ce70b8aa42c828596eb66d3 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Removes need for name, overwrite and comment fields from pkgsubmit.php commit ce225727f67f5b65b5f92ec96b074712c290ea63 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Bug in uploading PKGBUILDs and aur schema commit 8c94552042115d2a7bb04de3b4f66cdf95f2a5de Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Add notify column in search results and notify button commit bf5c28cf2260df822efa72095af69cc119170a3e Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Fix bug with botched AURSID values commit 0e4b25211bc2d9629f0f848ea25a4c2fbcbfe339 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Removes timeout page and moves login form to header commit 9a83e56b69bff3ef1921d3f8dab0b2daabb4d4c3 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Adds support for TUs and devs to disown packages they do not own commit 5f4afcc8cb6dcc5dcbe4d5161fad5372eb5f6435 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> Add support for variable length votes in voting application commit a8e574ef2897e9ca709c2cfa5ff78d2f69464092 Author: Callan Barrett <wizzomafizzo(a)gmail.com> AUR Voting Application commit 32b863203fcda13f322aa0802bc64eec64dcaa51 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Modified to get details based on an exact package name, or based on a package id. commit 47e80c24afa539d23f9060ee876303e24a1b1c89 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Removed reference to 'safe' commit f4bfe44876c9d7c62395fbd0c065a5c28d9f33be Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Comments are listed in reverse order (latest first) commit d245f691eea12a2307d5c49f81d1d8ee7b415251 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Fixes to disclaimer text. commit c17b629a4d6e52e137afc9cb0f9c5dd3edc9ece3 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Fix for safe-removal. commit a9837329d697a9e18401309a1496cc3b5015bc6a Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Hand diff of simo's patch to remove flag safe functionality. commit 6dbe12264ac0998ac4b69a507c0b7c1b55c03c1f Author: Dan McGee <dan(a)archlinux.org> Remove dummy data from GIT commit ba51e17482a04922e7974541373a96f2dba1bfcc Author: Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com> Updated favicon.ico to match the main site. commit b23b51fbbd3c84a493a68da8c88bde8807c894bc Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Removed beta.html Seems old. commit 36dd7736c993cbcf61228f6e06466a6614939c97 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Moved usage documentation out of the class. Fixed an issue in the handle class. commit 5e38e3d3d0eff20f8d46bad67c4944a6a1d92ea4 Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Added AurJSON code. commit 0cda12132d5b28b3a10a27bcad56bc823116817b Author: eliott <eliott(a)cactuswax.net> Updated .gitignore again commit 9274f54287853c7bb1042b25e61c8084d4350098 Author: Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com> Revert "Move "Add Comment" button to Actions bar." commit e9de45954ae404fe1952fec067aad57bcd787a96 Author: Loui Chang <louipc.ist(a)gmail.com> Several functions added to web/lib/acctfuncs.inc Weeere back! commit b2816c13cfe9bee50220d63685f78788467e990e Author: Loui Chang <louipc.ist(a)gmail.com> Make sure short_open_tag = Off via .htaccess commit da9d2b9e0db7a3c65a1a1945e82e724d04d7d631 Author: Loui Chang <louipc.ist(a)gmail.com> Make "Out of Date" pkgs more NOTICABLE. commit a21b8c120958007fe45c80bcab6dee976d5c6d91 Author: Loui Chang <louipc.ist(a)gmail.com> Opera doesn't give the buttons any padding. 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Re: [aur-general] license issues with google-earth in [community]?
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 19 Feb '08

19 Feb '08

> Am Montag, 18. Februar 2008 12:14:27 schrieb Ronald van Haren: >> Untagged it for both i686 and x86_64. >> >> Bfinch can you move it back to unsupported ? > > Don't get me wrong but please take this advice: If you add software to > [community] please read the License if it is not a common one like > GPL. > > -- > archlinux.de Hey all; Well I have EXACTLY two emails in my in box over the past 48 hours since I adopted google-earth, and both of those in the last day. Apparently I am NOT subscribed to one of the email lists that this was discussed on, so alas, I could NOT respond or have any knowledge of any such discussions. I also do NOT have any private emails from anyone on this subject either over the past two days. I was specifically NOT ignoring anyone, including Ronald, but rather I had no idea of what was being discussed. AND this package was removed *altogether* but NOT by me, and certainly before I could have responded. <- That is perfectly fine with me. Under the circumstances I fully agree. I would *also* be happy to replace it in unsupported, as apparently it has been determined to NOT have it in any repo. Finally, while I *did* read the license, it was not until I read some of the scuttlebutt on the internet that I appreciated all of the issues folks seem to have with Google's licensing. The license is, in simple language, exceptionally poorly written and subject to an incredible range of legal interpretation. <- This ALONE is a good enough reason for me to agree that it does not belong in ANY repo associated with Arch. SO, *if* you guys want I can replace it into unsupported alongside the existing bin32 package that currently resides there. Please advise me accordingly. Thanks in advance for letting me know *if* this program is wanted in unsupported. Very best regards; Bob Finch P.S.... Will it be possible to retain or reinstate the 250-odd votes this package received ?; as it is now NOT extent in either unsupported OR the community repo, and it would be nice to be able to properly reflect the voting.

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[aur-general] moblock, libnetfilter_queue and libnfnetlink orphan request
by Filip Wojciechowski 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hello, I'd like to adopt moblock AUR package and its dependencies -- libnetfilter_queue and libnfnetlink. All of these packages are out of date and the version of moblock currently in AUR doesn't work at all since 2.6.23 kernel. I've tried emailing the current maintainer (nice_guy_eddy) but his email doesn't seem to exist anymore -- my email to him bounced back. Thanks for your help, Filip Wojciechowski (fwojciec)

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[aur-general] license issues with google-earth in [community]?
by Pierre Schmitz 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hi, I just noticed that there is google-earth in our repos. I am not an expert in such things, but distributing such software does not seem to be allowed. The license says: You agree that you will not, and will not allow any third party to, (i) copy, sell, license, distribute, transfer, modify, adapt, translate, prepare derivative works from, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble or otherwise attempt to derive source code from the Software, unless otherwise permitted, (ii) take any action to circumvent or defeat the security or content usage rules provided, deployed or enforced by any functionality (including without limitation digital rights management functionality) contained in the Software, (iii) use the Software to access, copy, transfer, transcode or retransmit content in violation of any law or third party rights, or (iv) remove, obscure, or alter Google's copyright notices, trademarks, or other proprietary rights notices affixed to or contained within or accessed in conjunction with or through the Software. Pierre -- http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] subcommander orphan request
by Neil Darlow 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

Hi, The version of subcommander-1.x in AUR has not been updated since August 2006. I have posted a comment with an updated PKGBUILD for 1.2.2 and e-mailed a new tarball to the current maintainer. No response was forthcoming. There is a subcommander2-svn also in AUR but I will be happy to maintain version 1.x until 2.x becomes mainstream. Regards, Neil Darlow

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[aur-general] [DISCUSSION] filoktetes
by Ronald van Haren 18 Feb '08

18 Feb '08

As suggested by Callan, I will first start an open discussion about this subject. I tried to contact filoktetes for the last couple of weeks, first on 30th of January, after which I started a ping thread for him about a week after that, and contacted him by private mail three days ago. As he did never respond, I think it is time to take action. So what is the deal... - he missed the last 4 votes, which is by definition enough to start a removal discussion - currently 11 out of his 35 packages our out of date - he did never say he is inactive (AFAIK), though he seems not to reply He did update 2 packages on 31th of January, which is 1 day after my first mail. The last update before that dates from the 8th of December. I do not have anything against him personally, but I think this kind of behavior hurts the [community] repo, and the AUR in general. Please discuss!

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[aur-general] mysql-5.0.51-3 broke.
by Jason R Begley 15 Feb '08

15 Feb '08

I found that the mysql-5.0.51-3 package ignores the directive in the my.cnf - datadir and defaults to the /var/lib/mysql folder.the 2 package did not have this problem. I rigged it to work by setting MYSQLD_ROOT in /etc/rc.conf/mysqld. Was this intentional? Thanks, Jason

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