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[aur-general] TU Application.
by Daenyth Blank 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hey all! I'm applying for a TU position, hopefully you'll consider me. My sponsor is Anders Bergh (anders). I go by the name Daenyth, and I've been using Linux for several years. I started on Slackware and switched to Arch about a year and a half ago. I'm 20, and I work as a sysadmin/tech support/office monkey at an ESL school in Boston. During my free time, I love listening to tons of music, chilling on IRC, and playing video games, among other things. I especially love playing around with pretty much anything Linux related. Right now I only maintain a handful of packages in the AUR[1], but I plan to expand what I have. One of my goals is to package lots of new software for Arch. I want Arch to be _the_ distro people talk about for package selection. I love the way Arch is designed, and the KISS philosophy, and I want to give back to the community that's been so wonderful to me. Currently my most popular package is "pkgtools". It's a bundle of things that I've written relating to arch packages. After collaborating with another author, I'll be including spec2arch, which is a tool aimed at helping developers provide basic PKGBUILD files from rpm .spec files. I also maintain a few Perl related packages, and hope to increase their number. I am one of the co-maintainers for the arch-games project[2]. For those who don't know, it's a user repo to provide binary packages for all the games in AUR, so that our users can more easily install them (many have long compile times or are otherwise annoying). Thanks for your consideration, --Daenyth [1] - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=daenyth&SeB=m [2] - http://arch-games.twilightlair.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page

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[aur-general] easytag-devel deleting request
by Артем Смирнов 03 Aug '08

03 Aug '08

Hi! Please, delete my PKGBUILD easytag-devel, because extra repository provides development version of easytag now. -- Artyom

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[aur-general] prepare on KDE 4.1 move to [extra]
by Pierre Schmitz 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

Hi TU, KDE 4.1 will be moved to [extra] tonight or tomorrow. If you maintain packages in [community] which depend on KDE3 you might want to read this: * Look for a new upstream release which can be used with KDE 4. * If there is no new version change deps to kdelibs3 and try recompiling. * try sourcing qt3.sh and kde3.sh from /etc/profile.d/ * If configure fails try adding --without-arts. * Don't trust namcap saying there would be no dependency to kdelibs3. :-) * If the build still fails with some undefind references, try biulding in a clean environment without kdelibs-4 * If nothing helps your package might depend on stuff from kdebase or other KDE packages. You might think about removing it from [community] then. Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] Holidays
by DaNiMoTh 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I'm going to the Italian Swimming Championship, then I'll go on holidays ( finally ) until... until... I don't know. Many things are changed from my application as a TU; I think I never come back, but who knows? So, this time is only for my absence. I know that there is a limits ( 3 months, am I right? ). I hope before November I take my decision... if not, I will be dropped automatically. Feel free to take any of my packages from now, don't wait. But I would like that compiz goes to extra. Maybe Monday ( the last day that I have internet here ) I could help to move some useless packages to unsupported. Finally, many thanks to ( random order ): - tpowa, the first that answer to my noob questions ( I know, those was other day, when the main reply wasn't: " Patch welcome " ); - molok and voidnull, that help me when I need help; - Italian #archlinux channel on Azzurra Network, I won't forget the time we have passed togheter ( maybe I will join, sometimes.. ); - Simo, Dan for the great arrogance that they use; - All the person who contribuiting with comments or bugreport to my packages. Maybe I forget someone; in this case, don't worry, I will remember you in the future, and I will repair with a beer :D Good luck to all.

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by rabyte 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I'd hereby like to request the orphaning of all packages uploaded by funkyou. There's two packages flagged as outdated, He doesn't respond to comments and I tried to contact him via Jabber to no avail. -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] Colin Pitrat is out of the office.
by Colin Pitrat 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I will be out of the office starting 01/08/2008 and will not return until 11/08/2008. I will respond to your message when I return.

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[aur-general] Problem with community repo (x86_64)
by Eric Belanger 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

The community repo (x86_64) is no longer updating. From the logs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/aur/aur/tupkg/update/tupkgupdate64", line 450, in <module> pkgname, ver = infoFromPackageFile(c_file) File "/home/aur/aur/tupkg/update/tupkgupdate64", line 218, in infoFromPackageFile raise Exception("Non-standard filename") Exception: Non-standard filename I don't know what might've caused that. There also now another error message: nice: /home/aur/run-tupkgupdate64: No such file or directory which is also in the logs for i686: nice: /home/aur/run-tupkgupdate: No such file or directory Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Problem with compizconfig-backend-kconfig and KDE3
by DaNiMoTh 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hello to all, I am trying to compile this backend for ccsm with kde3 enabled, because with kde4 it seems don't work. So, I add to depends kdelibs3, qt3, added --without-arts, added source /etc/profile.d/{kde3,qt3}.sh, but in configure I read: checking for Qt... libraries /opt/qt/lib, headers /opt/qt/include using -mt checking for moc... /opt/qt/bin/moc checking for uic... /opt/qt/bin/uic checking whether uic supports -L ... yes checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no checking for rpath... yes checking for KDE... libraries /opt/kde/lib, headers /usr/include What?!?! headers in /usr/include? Oh, no... and I can't compile it successful, because I have error like In file included from /usr/include/QtCore/qbasicatomic.h:209, from /usr/include/QtCore/qatomic.h:48, from /usr/include/QtCore/qvariant.h:47, from /usr/include/QtCore/QVariant:1, from /usr/include/kconfig.h:32, from kconfig_backend.cpp:24: /usr/include/QtCore/qatomic_arch.h:84:4: error: #error "Qt has not been ported to this architecture" kconfig_backend.cpp:29:23: error: kinstance.h: No such file or directory kconfig_backend.cpp:31:18: error: kipc.h: No such file or directory kconfig_backend.cpp:33:24: error: dcopclient.h: No such file or directory Also, the error that qt has not been ported to $CARCH (that is i686 in my case) is ridiculous ^^. I think the problem is that it use headers from /usr/include (kde4) that aren't like headers in kde3. Am I wrong in something? Thanks

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity
by bardo 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com> wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out. I changed this to a post_install in dnsmasq > 2.43-2, not post_upgrade, since this one you have to read the first time and > not thereafter. This is a problem I've been thinking about for a while. It happens far too often that a message needs to be shown to the user only the first time a package gets upgraded because something important has changed. Without the need to modify anything we could use the parameters passed to post_upgrade: if the old version is affected by the change (can we use anything like vercmp in install files?) then the message will be shown, otherwise it won't. It's an extra effort on our side, but it helps a lot in cleaning up package installation output. Of course we'll also need to pay attention to when it's time to remove the message. I have other possible solutions in mind, but they all require changes to pacman or arch, and by far they aren't KISS. Any additional proposal or comment? Corrado

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[aur-general] Requesting orphaned package
by Cabbage 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

The package plone is way out of date. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7448 Package in the AUR is 2.5.1, the official package is 3.1.3. I'm requesting that this package be orphaned so that someone else may assume responsibility.

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