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[aur-general] Rolands questions to my TU appliance
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

-----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:03:12 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] Applying for TU-ship From: "Ronald van Haren" <pressh(a)gmail.com style="margin:0px;"> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> >On 8/19/08, stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de <stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: >> At the time I maintain 108 packages in AUR. Not all of them were >> written my me, but some of them I made after package requests on >> archlinux.org. Also I am active in the forums at archlinux.org and >> archlinux.de. >I haven't checked them yet, I'll do so later. I see a lot of these >packages have few votes, I assume you don't plan to move them all to >community? No, surely not. There are some -git, -cvs, -svn packages among them. Some packages do not need compilation, so users won't benefit too much from having it in a repo. >It is not really a lot of work to build on a remove machine. It only >takes little more time compared to building on your local machine. >Just take as many packages as you can do, but please try to build them >for both architectures at times that there is a build machine >available. Are you willing to do so? I am willing to do so. Maybe I will need some help at the beginning. >You said you want to concentrate on really important packages. That >brings up the million dollar question: what are really important >packages in your eyes? You really want to give me a million dollar if I answer that question? :) Just kidding. The votes are a good hint. But sometimes a package gets few votes because it fullfils a special task or addresses a small audiance. I do not have a list of packages yet I want to put in community. But fotoxx or xaralx could be a candidate. >Ronald Thank you for your reply. Stefan

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[aur-general] AUR Turkish Translation
by H.Gökhan SARI 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi all, We Archlinux Turkish users translated AUR into Turkish. I attached the translated files. Thanks, -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

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[aur-general] FW: libncurses in [testing]
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Sorry, I tried to send this message to the arch-dev-public mailing list and was not allowed to do so. -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:50:12 +0200 Subject: libncurses in [testing] From: "stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de" <stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de> To: arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org Hello, I think Eric Belangers list of packages that need a rebuild due to the libncurses package in testing ist not sufficient. I found (not using lddd, but findbrokenpkgs, a tool with a similar task from AUR) darcs emacs (tested for with emacs-otf from AUR, but on the comment-page of emacs-cvs is a similar remark by someone) octave3 gutenprint libcaca librep lua ocaml yaz mplayer rlwrap Some of them are community-packages. Please consider also to add an arch and license array to the PKGBUILD of librep. Thank you Sincerely Stefan

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[aur-general] non-http aur access
by wakeup 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi folks, I think there should be a way to access the AUR without having to use a full featured web browser, preferably a command-line client. I suggest exposing a db (like every repository got one) and an ftp site which contains the same as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages to public use. On that way one could easily write clients that fetch the db, perform queries offline and get the tarballs via ftp. I do realize that there is yaourt, but that work-around is not exactly what I thought of. What do you think? best regards, wakeup PS: This is my first post to this list, so if that idea is not new, please excuse me. :) -- An Ashanti Proverb from Ghana - It is because of beauty, that is why the woman holds her breasts when she runs, not because the breasts are going to fall -Fela Kuti

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[aur-general] ACPI problem with latest kernel
by Dan Vratil 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hi there, I have MSI laptop. I know, MSI does not have the best ACPI tables (this one should have "Windows Vista Compatible" tables), but with previous versions of the linux kernel (2.6.25.x) it worked pretty well. After updating to 2.6.26.2, it really sucks...after few minutes ACPI just "shuts down" with no reports in dmesg or logs and does not start (in previous version it was shutting down to, but after about half a minute it has started again, running for following hour or more with no problems). Does someone has any little experiences about this? Do you think it is -ARCH problem, or it's bug from vanilla kernel? Thank you for any ideas. With regars Dan Vratil

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] ncurses rebuilds in testing
by Eric Belanger 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > I have pushed the ncurses wide-character library rebuilds for i686 to the > [testing] repo. There are bound to be packages I missed so it would be good > if people run lddd and let me know if further rebuilds are needed. Note > libncurses.so and libcurses.so might appear to be in the package but they are > not real libraries... (run cat on them to see). missing rebuilds from extra: lftp xine-ui cmake xemacs dopewars libqalculate libgda gnuplot parted timidity++ abiword-plugins guile I'm forwarding this to the AUR ML as this is a major rebuild. If you use the testing repo and packages in community, be careful. Several community packages (and also packages built from custom/unsupported PKGBUILD) will break as they will need to be rebuild against the ncurses in testing. The community packages will be rebuilt once ncurses will be moved to core. Meanwhile, either stop using the testing repo or rebuild the packages yourself. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] UID/GID reservation request for pulseaudio
by bardo 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

I hope this is the right ML for asking this... another mail will follow with a similar request for vlock. I'm pulseaudio's maintainer in [community]. This package needs one user (pulse) and three groups (pulse, pulse-access, realtime) to work, but I couldn't find suggested ids for them. I didn't change the values I found when I inherited the package, so at the moment we have id 130 for pulse user and group and 131 for pulse-access. The 'realtime' group was added only recently, replacing the old pulse-rt, which had 132, and doesn't have any assigned gid, which is *bad*. It would be good to officially reserve a few ids for this package (130, 131 and 132, maybe?), also considering this package should someday go to extra... Corrado

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[aur-general] new @ aur please help getting things right with package idjc
by das.t 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

hello people, i would like to introduce myself, i am tobias from leipzig, germany and as i love doing radio i love using idjc. after (partially) switching to arch and liking it i compiled it myself, just as i have done for more than a year now on debian. after discovering aur and seeing idjc is unsupported i decided that if i compile each new version myself i might as well help and try to get it updated in aur. unfortunately i am having very little time at the moment, leaving me no time for radio, yet i am trying my best to keep up with new releases. with the last release i had some problems (as mentioned in the forum, it did not build due to some changes in the place some headerfiles of ffmpeg got saved). unfortunately in the german forum i got into the way of a troll which discouraged me a bit for a while. as the latest version even did not work correctly on my own system and i had not enough time to check things out i had to delay working on it. anyway, i just uploaded a new PKGBUILD for the latest release of idjc. to my pleasure it built even without patching or the likes and installs correctly on my system and is working fine. right now i do not have the chance to test idjc on 64 bit, but i am going to install that again soon. i had a broken computer and had to start from scratch on a new machine. i would appreciate any help, i am willing to read manuals, already did read some aur related docs. i might be missing something. i know i am no programmer, i am still learning i just want to do my best and help. if i am missing something, please do tell me. most important: does it build for other people too? i have been broadcasting with radiotux.de from linuxtage chemnitz last linuxtag berlin last year and talking to people there i found that there is a great demand for an application like idjc. i would like to see it in arch and i would like to help others to use it in a simple way. this is my motivation. to give something back for all the great things i am receiving. humble greetings, das.t

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[aur-general] Orphran xautolock
by Florian Pritz 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hello, I'd like to adopt xautolock, but the current maintainer doesn't answer to my mail. I'd appreciate if a TU orphraned it. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14281 -- Greetings Florian

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[aur-general] TU Cloak
by Daenyth Blank 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Can I get my TU cloak on IRC? I'm on as Daenyth Thanks.

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