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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 This user has got 2 packages: qbankmanager and backup-manager and both are flagged out-of-date.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

Hi, Sorry I forgot my password. user name: mehldutt Thanks ___________________________________________________________ Der frühe Vogel fängt den Wurm. Hier gelangen Sie zum neuen Yahoo! Mail: http://mail.yahoo.de

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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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