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[aur-general] About ghc updates and cabalized packages
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 29 Jan '08

29 Jan '08

Simo (and others who work on Haskell packages), Currently, every even minor ghc update breaks all packages that are registered via Cabal. This is not because of API incompatibilities but because the new version of ghc overwrites the Cabal db. This can be manually fixed by running all /usr/share/haskell/*/register.sh. I was wondering... could ghc do that itself in post_upgrade()? --vk

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[aur-general] orphaned packages in community
by Ronald van Haren 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all! I just took a look at the orphaned packages in community. I must say, they are quite a few (68, I added the full list at the end of this mail). If any of these belong to you and you did forget to adopt it after uploading, please do so now. If you did upload one of these and lost interest in it, please move it either to unsupported or post it in this thread so someone else can adopt it. In about a week time I will post the remaining list of orphaned packages at that time, so anyone interested (or needed as a dep) can adopt one of those. The rest I will move to unsupported a week or so after that. If you think the time schedule I mentioned is too short, please let me know so I can change it. Best regards, Ronald The full list of 68 orphaned packages in community: aoeui 1.0.0-1 the lightweight, unobtrusive, Dvorak-optimized editor basilisk 1.0-4 A free, portable Mac II emulator with JIT compiler bitterbpp 1.6-4 A program to backup DVDs to matroska byzanz 0.1.1-4 A desktop recorder that records to GIF childsplay 0.85.1-2 A suite of educational games for young children childsplay-plugins 0.85.2-1 Additional games for childsplay codeine 1.0.1-2 A simple, smart xine video player for KDE cowbell 0.2.7.1-3 An elegant music orgainzer divx4linux 6.1.1-1 DivX libraries (nonfree) e 0.16.999.039-1 Enlightenment Window Manager, Development Release 17 ecore 0.9.9.039-1 Event Abstraction and Modular Convenience Library edb-devel 1.0.5.007-4 Database Convenience Library wrapped around the Berkeley DB edje 0.5.0.039-1 Interface Abstraction Library and Toolset eet 0.9.10.039-1 Distribution Container Library and Tools efreet 0.0.3.004-1 An implementation of several specifications from freedesktop.org intended for use in Enlightenment DR17 (e17) and other applications using the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries (EFL) embryo 0.9.1.039-1 Embeddable Scripting Language emotion 0.0.1.006-1 Video Smart-Object Library for Evas entice 0.9.3.004-4 Image Viewer using Enlightenment Foundation Libraries entrance 0.9.0.010-1 Enlightenment Display Manager epeg 0.9.0.009-1 JPEG Thumbnailing Library epsilon 0.3.0.009-1 Thumbnailing Library compliant with Freedesktop.org Standard esmart 0.9.0.009-1 A Collection of Evas Smart Objects etk 0.1.0.004-1 Etk is a toolkit based on the EFL evas 0.9.9.039-1 Enlightened Canvas Library ewl 0.5.1.009-1 Enlightenment Widget Library e_dbus 0.1.0.001-1 Wrappers around dbus to ease integrating dbus with EFL based applications freetype1 1.3.1-4 TrueType font rendering library fvwm-themes-devel 0.7.0-3 Development themes for fvwm gimpshop 2.2.11-4 A modified Gimp that features menu layouts and naming conventions similar to those in Photoshop. glitz 0.5.6-1 OpenGL image compositing library gnomesu 0.3.1-5 A program that allows a user to su to root in a Gnome environment. gourmet 0.13.4-2 A simple but powerful recipe-managing application gpsdrive 2.10pre4-1 A car (bike, ship, plane) navigation system gtk2+extra 2.1.1-1 GtkExtra is a useful set of widgets for creating GUI's for the Xwindows system using GTK+ gtk2hs 0.9.12.1-1 A GTK+2 binding for Haskell (prerelease) gtubeclock 0.9.1-3 A nixie tube style clock for X. haskell-binary 0.2-1 Efficient, pure binary serialisation using lazy ByteStrings for Haskell imlib2-devel 1.4.0.001-2 Image Rendering and Manipulation Library imlib2_loaders 1.4.0.001-1 Image Loaders for Imlib2 kdedecor-crystalgl 0.8.1-1 Transparent window decoration theme with a simple design and OpenGL-based effects kdenlive-svn 1727-1 A video editing GUI for KDE using the MLT video framework. last-exit 5-1 A last.fm player libconfig 1.1.3-1 C/C++ Configuration File Library libggi 2.2.2-1 GGI graphics library libgii 1.0.1-2 GGI input handling library libpq++ 4.0-2 C++ bindings for PostgreSQL lirc-xmms-plugin 1.4-1 XMMS LIRC plugin metakit 2.4.9.7-1 MetaKit is an efficient database library with a small footprint mowitz 0.3.1-1 This is the Mowitz (More widgets) library mxml 2.3-1 A small XML parsing library nautilus-audio-convert 0.1-2 An extension of Nautilus that provides a user-friendly way to convert several audio files nautilus-share 0.7.1-1 Share files through Samba with Nautilus nextaw 0.15.1-4 neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set opcion 1.1.1-4 A font viewer written in java perl-gtk2-sexy 0.02-3 Perl/CPAN Module Gtk2::Sexy php-gtk2 2.0.0beta-1 PHP bindings for gtk2 pydb 1.22-2 Pydb - Extended Python Debugger pyglet 1.0beta3-1 A pure python multimedia and game library pygoocanvas 0.9.0-1 GooCanvas python bindings qmmp 0.1.2-1 an qt4 based audio-player, rage 0.2.0.003-1 A media center designed mostly for use on a television hooked up to your pc via a remote control shapelib 1.2.10-3 simple C API for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles shorewall-perl 4.0.5-1 perl compiler for shorewall firewall siag-office 3.6.1-4 Siag Office is a tightly integrated, free office package visualboyadvance 1.7.2-5 An emulator for Gameboy and Gameboy Advance systems. warzone 2.0.7-1 3D realtime strategy game on a future Earth winki 0.4.5-1 Aims to be the easiest program for video encoding zaptel 1.4.6-1 Zapatel Drivers for Asterisk

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[aur-general] request to be orphaned: postgresql-jdbc3
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi all! I can update postgresql-jdbc3 but this package not orphaned. Owner did last update at 2005. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh xmpp:skipper13@jabber.in.ua

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[aur-general] cdrtools package
by Lukáš Jirkovský 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hi, I'd like to maintain cdrtools package in AUR. User maintaining this package (alejandronova) seems not updating packages any more (he has 3 packages in AUR and 2 of them are out-of-date). I've contacted him before Christmas and I haven't got response yet. Please, can somebody orphan this package? Thanks Lukas '6xx' Jirkovsky

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[aur-general] eb- & arp- tables packages / other question
by Michal Soltys 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello I've added ebtables recently, but arptables is already added by someone else. Problem is - that PKGBUILD is a little careless (using /usr/local, trying to install into real filesystem). I left a comment and contacted current maintainer by mail, but no reply so far. What is the best way to adopt such package ? As for the the other question - I've some builds for already existing packages, but in a bit specialized way - i.e. by default installing into chroot environment. Is it ok to add such packages to AUR (i.e. mldonkey-chroot) with proper conflicts / provides tables ?

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[aur-general] User thtde not updating packages
by Jordi Cerdan 28 Jan '08

28 Jan '08

Hello, I'm using backup-manager for my personal backups and this package is maintained by thtde in AUR. This user has got 2 packages: qbankmanager and backup-manager and both are flagged out-of-date. Backup-manager last update was on 26 june 2006 and qbankmanager last update was in 07 july 2006. Several comments are asking him to update the packages but ther's no update coming. I would lñike to update backup-manager as I use it daily, but it's impossible by now. What is to be done in that case? Regards, jcerdan.

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[aur-general] forgot password
by Gary W Haller 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

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[aur-general] kernel modules depends
by Roman Kyrylych 26 Jan '08

26 Jan '08

Hi! In order to implement FS#7150 for Community packages I ask all TUs to use the following dependency scheme in next versions of your packages (which will happen when 2.6.24 will hit Core): depends=('kernel26>=2.6.24-2' 'kernel26<=2.6.25' 'foobar-utils') In this case when user has an older kernel version (e.g. 2.6.23.x) - (s)he won't be annoyed by pacman who will want to upgrade foobar module and broke the system. And when version 2.6.25 will be released - Pacman won't allow the user to upgrade to it when there's at least one not-yet-updated module. Note that it is 2.6.24-2, not -1 in above example - this is because there was a configuration change to important kernel subsystem that required all modules to be rebuilt. You should always change depends version in such cases, otherwise some people with out-of-sync kernel and module version will report that module is broken. I already added this to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Kernel_Module_Package_Guidelines (feel free to improve that text). -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] TU Resignation - mOLOk
by Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino 25 Jan '08

25 Jan '08

Hi fellow TUs, ~13 months have passed since my election, today I decided to step down. I really enjoyed doing this job, it taught myself a lot and gave me the chance to give back something to this great community. The first months I created hundreds (literally) of packages, I gave suggestions to AUR users how to improve their packaging skills and things like that. Lately my enthusiasm dropped and slowly reached zero. When I receive an out of date notification instead of thinking "Cool, a new version of that app.", I think "Oh, cr*p, I have to update and test that silly stuff". So, "It's not funny anymore"™. Moreover, I'd like to spend more time studying and contributing to different projects. Anyway, I'll still use Arch, so you'll probably read my mails now and then on the mailing lists 8) Now, the technical stuff, this is the list of the packages I maintain in [community]: gnome/gtranslator - not required by any package lib/confuse - required by tilda and awesome (maybe others) lib/fpconst - req. by python-soappy lib/gnu-efi - req. by refit lib/librsync - req. by rdiff-backup lib/python-soappy - not required by any lib/python-sqlalchemy - req. by griffith multimedia/griffith - not required by any multimedia/lxmusic - broken multimedia/mp3gain - not required by any network/ddclient - not required by any network/flock - not required by any network/links-g - not required by any network/mldonkey - not required by any network/sopcast - required by gsopcast and qsopcast network/youtube-dl - not required by any system/mairix - not required by any system/man-pages-it - not required by any system/nopaste - not required by any system/pommed - required by gpomme system/rdiff-backup - not required by any system/unace - not required by any x11/gpomme - not required by any x11/gsopcast - not required by any x11/lxpanel - not required by any x11/lxsession - not required by any x11/netwmpager - not required by any x11/obmenu - not required by any x11/openbox-themes - not required by any x11/pcmanfm - not required by any x11/sancho-gtk - not required by any x11/smplayer - required by smplayer-themes x11/smplayer-themes - not required by any x11/sux - not required by any x11/xkbset - not required by any note: smplayer{,-themes} will go in [extra] when qt4 will go out of [testing]; pommed/gpomme require an Apple laptop to be tested; lxmusic is broken and the author won't fix it any time soon. I'll move packages that won't be adopted in 2,3 weeks in [unsupported] (so please don't delete my account yet :) Cheers, -- Alessio 'mOLOk' Bolognino Arch Linux Trusted User (for the last time :) Please send personal email to themolok(a)gmail.com Public Key http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xFE0270FB GPG Key ID = 1024D / FE0270FB 2007-04-11 Key Fingerprint = 9AF8 9011 F271 450D 59CF 2D7D 96C9 8F2A FE02 70FB

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[aur-general] helixplayer disowned
by tardo 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

Due to the extremely complex nature of the build system and lack of time to figure out, the package has been disowned. If someone doesn't pick it up in a few days, I'll throw it back in unsupported.

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[aur-general] Package Update: shorewall-perl
by Vardyr 24 Jan '08

24 Jan '08

As noted in the latest newsletter, the shorewall-perl package in AUR is orphaned and out-of-date. The package is currently in [community] so I cannot adopt it, but I have updated the PKGBUILD and attached it to this message. I'm not sure if this is the appropriate method for submitting this particular update, so please correct me if need be. Notes/critiques on the PKGBUILD are appreciated as well. -Vardyr

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for blueman 0.3-3! -- 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] fortune-mod-cs update
by Dragonlord 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi, I'd like to adopt the "fortune-mod-cs" package in AUR. The current maintainer doesn't care about my comments under the package, neither does he respond on my email. Can someone orphan the package, so that I can adopt it? Thanks D

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[aur-general] [VOTE] Allan McRae
by Roman Kyrylych 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

Hi all TUs! This message starts the voting period for Allan McRae. His introduction can be found here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-January/006600.html You have 7 days to vote. Please be active! My vote is YES. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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Re: [aur-general] Eclipse-Qt update
by Shaika-Dzari 23 Jan '08

23 Jan '08

>>On Jan 23, 2008 2:56 AM, Shaika-Dzari <shaikadzari at gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi everyone. >> >> I sent an (gentle ^_^) email 4 days ago to eclipse-qt maintainer to ask him to update >> his package on Aur but I did not get any response. >> The last update was 24 June 2007. >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=11798&O=25&L=0&C=0&K=… >> >> In my email, I offered him to adopt his package if he did not have the time to maintain it. >> >> What can we do if he did not response? >> Could I adopt his package or should I simply post my new pkgbuild as a comment? >> >> Thank you for your help. >> >> -- >> Shaika-Dzari >> http://www.guidelinux.org >> http://code.google.com/p/animeshell >> >> >You did what you had to do,contact him,if no response contact this >mailing list ;) >I've orphaned it, so you can adopt it now. Thank Ronald. I adopted the package. -- Shaika-Dzari http://www.guidelinux.org http://code.google.com/p/animeshell

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[aur-general] Eclipse-Qt update
by Shaika-Dzari 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Hi everyone. I sent an (gentle ^_^) email 4 days ago to eclipse-qt maintainer to ask him to update his package on Aur but I did not get any response. The last update was 24 June 2007. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details=1&ID=11798&O=25&L=0&C=0&K=… In my email, I offered him to adopt his package if he did not have the time to maintain it. What can we do if he did not response? Could I adopt his package or should I simply post my new pkgbuild as a comment? Thank you for your help. -- Shaika-Dzari http://www.guidelinux.org http://code.google.com/p/animeshell

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[aur-general] [REMOVAL] Discussion period for nesl247
by JJDaNiMoTh 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Nesl, this officially marks the discussion period for your removal as a Trusted User. * You disappear ( and haven't vote ) since October; * Anyone know where you are ( any response on [who has seen him] thread) * Seems that you have resigned ( in chat.. lol ) For this paragraph of TU Bylaws 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. I open the three day discussion period. -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 22 Jan '08

22 Jan '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for python-pymedia 1.3.7.3-5! -- 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] Trouble with package vim
by David Dupin 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

hi, I try to do an update this evening and when I launch pacman -Su I've got an error message : :: Starting full system upgrade... resolving dependencies... error: cannot resolve "vi>=7.1.228", a dependency of "vim" error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: vim: requires vi>=7.1.228 Is there an update of vim without vi, or does the PKGBUILD is wrong with version number ? The latest vi version that I found is 7.1.156 with pacman. Regards.

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[aur-general] e17 packages in community (was orphaned packages in community)
by Ronald van Haren 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

To not clutter the 'orphaned packages in community' thread, I created a new one for discussing the e17 packages. As I have not yet heard something from reverie and I had some free time today, I decided to take a closer look to e17 (he is of course still free to contact me). Currently provided as orphans in community are snapshots. The latest e17 snapshot release has been August 2007 (the ones in community are one or two months older). This means that updating e17 to the latest snapshots still gives as an outdated version of e17. I did not find anything on the e17 mailing lists on when new snapshots will be provided, or why there are not updated anymore. So what have I done. I created all core e17 CVS packages from scratch and wrote a build script to easy update them all with just one command. I've been running them for the last 5 hours or so, and everything seems to work stable. I think it would not hurt if the CVS packages would come in place of the snapshots in community as it is not sure when, or even if the snapshots will be updated in the near future. If somebody is against, please speak. Also, I need somebody to at least test building it for x86_64 to check if I can safely use Aaron's build machine (I will contact him if so), or that I should better find someone to update it for x86_64. HOWTO TEST: Get the archive with all PKGBUILDs and the buildscript from http://pressh.googlepages.com/e17-cvs-pkgbuilds.tar.gz. Make sure you configure pacman to work with sudo before executing the buildscript (see the script for further details). For anybody else willing to test, you can add the following to your pacman.conf [e17-cvs] Server = http://pressh.googlepages.com/ Install the i686 versions with 'pacman -Sy e17-cvs' Thanks for your time!

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[aur-general] TU Resignation [zeus]
by Zhukov Pavel 21 Jan '08

21 Jan '08

Hi everyone, I have decided to resign from the TU position because i have no more free time to work with bleeding-edge distro like arch since i have a difficult full-time job, sorry. so, this packages in aur/community can be adopted by any TU: axel-svn 661-1 dellfand 0.8-1 generator 0.35_cbiere_r3-2 knetworkmanager-svn 674918-1 kstyle-dotnet2 1.5.1-2 lib32-libxp 1.0.0-1 linuxdcpp-ru 070717-1 microdc2 0.15.6-1 monkeystudio 2006.1.6.0.d.1.0.1-1 mp3unicode 1.2-2 octaveforge-cvs 20070420-1 pdfedit 0.3.2-1 pygments 0.8.1-1 qbittorrent 0.9.3-2 qdevelop 0.24-1 qsa 1.2.2-2 qtm 0.5.3-1 rafkill 1.2.3-2 rb_libtorrent 0.12-3 sdcv 0.4.2-1 slurm 0.3.3-1 stardict-ru_pack 1.0-1 tweak 0.2.2-1 uucp 1.07-1 weechat-cvs 20070805-1 yakuake-split 2.8.1.1-2 thank you all for great experience and fun times. :)

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[aur-general] Community todo.. qt and man pages
by JJDaNiMoTh 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hello to all, if you have nothing to do in this days ( work? no.. it's annoying ) ( girl? Uhm.. girl later! ) ( etc.. ) I've set up a little (!!!) todo list, which would help us: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community_todo . Step 1: man pages should moved on /usr/share/man Step 2: control qt / qt4 Thank you -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User

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[aur-general] disowning some packages
by Roman Kyrylych 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hi! After my inactivity period and finally restoring my internet connection I've realized that I cannot maintain many packages anymore, especially big ones. My speed is 6-8 kbytes/s. :-( Thus I'm willing to disown some of my packages. First of all, I want to get rid of games, because I don't play them anyway: - cube (requires zero maintainence because no longer developed, but still works) - assaultcube - sauerbraten (~200M, needs an update) - nexuiz (>250M) - glob2 Any volunteers? Next, I may also disown some other packages that need frequent updates because (most probably) I will move to another city next month and I don't know how easy it will be to get an ADSL (or at least a "street LAN") in a rented flat. If anyone is interested in maintaining some of my packages - let me know. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] blueman
by Abhishek Dasgupta 20 Jan '08

20 Jan '08

Hi everyone, blueman is a GTK+ bluetooth management utility for GNOME using bluez dbus backend. However for some features (for example network connectivity and bluetooth audio sharing) bluez-utils has to be recompiled with some more options, which are not there in the stock bluez-utils in Arch. I wish to move the package into [community], however lots of features will not work if bluez-utils is not recompiled with the extra options. AFAIK, Ubuntu has these options enabled by default (at least some of them) as one user reported blueman to be working perfectly in Ubuntu. Should I print out a warning message during install? Any suggestions? Thanks, Abhishek

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[aur-general] Should TU put in [community] packages they use?
by bardo 19 Jan '08

19 Jan '08

This came to my mind reading the discussion about Sergej, but after some thinking I couldn't make up a clear opinion about it, so this thread just brings up the question. There's a few packages I maintain in unsupported that almost nobody voted, so I never moved them to [community]. But what if I use them in my daily activities? I'm interested in having an up-to-date package, so I'd maintain, build and test it anyway... should I share it with its (small) user base? Corrado

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