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keyrings on the AUR
by Fabian Bornschein 06 May '23

06 May '23

Hi, I'd like to ask what's the current status on gpg keys, "keyrings" on the AUR? A few years back they where removed[1]. If I search for 'keyring' right now a few pop up. I guess there are different reasons for them to appear, like for example the 'linuxmint-keyring' is different from the 'alph-keyring', where one is from a pacman repo and the other one is not. However it would be good to have a consistent rule/guideline what's OK and what not. [1] <https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-requests@lists.archlinux.org/…> --- Sincerely, Fabian Bornschein

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AUR unavailable because of broken refs
by Morten Linderud 05 May '23

05 May '23

Hi, The AUR is currently unavailable because of some broken refs in the underlying Git repository that needs to be fixed. We are working on solving the issue but it might take a couple more hours. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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Error pushing package: "remote: fatal: bad object .alternate"
by é 05 May '23

05 May '23

Hi all, I'm attempting to update https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cpuset, and cloning it works fine, however trying to commit and push changes results in the following error (snipped): ``` Total 5 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: fatal: bad object .alternate fatal: bad object refs/heads/python-degiro-connector To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/cpuset.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (missing necessary objects) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://aur.archlinux.org/cpuset.git' ``` Also, interestingly enough it seems that python-degiro-connector itself has some issues; cloning it via https simply fails: ``` Cloning into 'python-degiro-connector'... fatal: remote error: upload-pack: not our ref ae7907349a087b4ec7e550cccbb059dc212d2bc9 ``` Referring somehow to this commit https://github.com/archlinux/aur/commit/ae7907349a087b4ec7e550cccbb059dc212… (which seems fine to me?) I don't know how to resolve this issue as I'm not familiar with git alternates, and searching snippets of errors on the mailing list / google was not fruitful. Any suggestions? Best, éclairevoyant

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Application as Trusted User - gromit
by Christian Heusel 28 Apr '23

28 Apr '23

Hello everyone! My name is Chris and I am a 24 year old computer science student from Heidelberg in southern Germany. With this mail I would like to apply to become part of the Trusted User group! I am happily using arch-based systems since 2016 and Archlinux since around 2018. Generally I use Linux systems since 2012, and have even worked as linux system administrator (paid and as volunteer) which was very fun! Aside from that I am trying my best to contribute to open source projects and the overall FOSS community, so far mostly by open sourcing personal projects, modifying & extending existing projets to my liking and reporting the bugs I find. Most of this activity is taking place on GitHub[0]. In my spare time I rock climb and hike, play the drums and I am an active youth lead in my local YMCA. In the last few years I also was very active in student politics but I am now winding down this involvement since I am about to finish my studies. Sometimes I can also be found in my local chaos computer club[1] chatting with other people about computers and stuff. In general you may know me better by the nick of "gromit" in IRC tho, under which I also participate in the various other arch resources: - Since 2018 I am part of the Arch Testing team to check packages in the various testing repos - I help out on the bugtracker[2] where I can, but I also just read a lot of it to keep up to date for support requests on IRC - I have some minor contributions on Gitlab[3], mostly around devtools and mkinitcpio - I participated in the proof of concept testing for the git package migration - I maintain packages on the Arch User Repository[4] and try to help out in the AUR comments aswell - I have some minor contributions on the wiki[5] - I also comment on /r/archlinux regularily (please note that reddit usernames[6] cannot be changed once created :p) To further extend this involvement and to help the arch community I am now applying as trusted user. Here is a collection of packages from [community] that I frequently use and could therefore possibly (Co-)Maintain: - bat 1 - blueberry 1 - borgmatic 1 - bpython 0 - gopass 2 - gopass-jsonapi 1 - gum 1 - lolcat 1 - mosquitto 1 - nemo 1 - nethogs 1 - pasystray 1 - polybar 1 - rofi-emoji 1 - scrcpy 1 - sxiv 1 - tailscale 1 - terminator 1 - unp 1 - variety 1 - yamllint 1 I especially selected these packages because they currently lack maintainers (except for gopass), but I am also open to help out with other packages! Additionally I could imagine bringing the following packages to the [community] repos, should I be accepted: - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ly - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nsxiv - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/systemd-boot-pacman-hook My sponsors are Morten Linderud (Foxboron) and Robin Candau (Antiz) which I am both very thankful for because they also guided me through the application process! Cheers, and thanks for reading until here! Christian "gromit" Heusel [0] https://github.com/christian-heusel [1] https://www.noname-ev.de/howtotreff.html [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/30483 [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/gromit [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/gromit [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Special:Contributions/Gromit [6] https://www.reddit.com/user/TheEbolaDoc

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AutoUpdateBot harmful
by j.r 17 Apr '23

17 Apr '23

Hello, just noticed that the denaro package [1] was updated by AutoUpdateBot two days ago. That account seems to be a bot based on some Github actions stuff [2]. This update broke the package, as it wasn't as simple as "change version number and checksum" (see my comment at the package site). Investigating a bit further I noticed this bot does not seem to do any checks if the package is still buildable or anything [3]. My question now: is there any policy about such bots? Are they allowed? Should they at least test if the package still builds before uploading the package update? Thanks j.r [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/denaro [2] https://github.com/arch4edu/aur-auto-update [3] https://github.com/arch4edu/aur-auto-update/actions/runs/4655655968/jobs/82…

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Re: Aur-general Digest, Vol 8, Issue 4
by eile_kerning 10 Apr '23

10 Apr '23

unsubscribe Sent from Proton Mail mobile -------- Original Message -------- On Apr 10, 2023, 04:08, wrote: > Send Aur-general mailing list submissions to aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to aur-general-request(a)lists.archlinux.org You can reach the person managing the list at aur-general-owner(a)lists.archlinux.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Aur-general digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: Application as Trusted User - gromit (Brett Cornwall) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Sun, 9 Apr 2023 14:39:25 -0700 From: Brett Cornwall Subject: Re: Application as Trusted User - gromit To: aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org Message-ID: Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha512; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="hb5gxynovta7s3x6" On 2023-04-07 10:35, Christian Heusel wrote: >Hello everyone! Hi, Chris! >My name is Chris and I am a 24 year old computer science student from >Heidelberg in southern Germany. >With this mail I would like to apply to become part of the Trusted >User group! > >I am happily using arch-based systems since 2016 and Archlinux since >around 2018. Generally I use Linux systems since 2012, and have even >worked as linux system administrator (paid and as volunteer) which was >very fun! > >Aside from that I am trying my best to contribute to open source >projects and the overall FOSS community, so far mostly by open >sourcing personal projects, modifying & extending existing projets to >my liking and reporting the bugs I find. Most of this activity is >taking place on GitHub[0]. > >In my spare time I rock climb and hike, play the drums and I am an >active youth lead in my local YMCA. >In the last few years I also was very active in student politics but I >am now winding down this involvement since I am about to finish my >studies. >Sometimes I can also be found in my local chaos computer club[1] >chatting with other people about computers and stuff. > >In general you may know me better by the nick of "gromit" in IRC tho, >under which I also participate in the various other arch resources: >- Since 2018 I am part of the Arch Testing team to check packages in >the various testing repos >- I help out on the bugtracker[2] where I can, but I also just read a >lot of it to keep up to date for support requests on IRC >- I have some minor contributions on Gitlab[3], mostly around devtools >and mkinitcpio >- I participated in the proof of concept testing for the git package >migration >- I maintain packages on the Arch User Repository[4] and try to help >out in the AUR comments aswell >- I have some minor contributions on the wiki[5] >- I also comment on /r/archlinux regularily (please note that reddit >usernames[6] cannot be changed once created :p) I like the dedication to keeping packages managed rather than just bringing in a whole bunch of new packages. :) The quality of the packages is good! I like your commitment to following the wiki guidelines. I also appreciate your useful commit messages. I like that there's a TODO on one of your packages to upstream a patch: It's important to make sure all distros benefit, not just Arch! I love that you have comments telling *why* you do something out of the ordinary instead of randomly doing something with no explanation. It's worth noting that only two packages have been maintained for more than a month; The rest of your packages were adopted/created only recently! I guess if you've had good commits, good adherence, and good community engagement, there's not much else to "prove". -------------- next part -------------- A message part incompatible with plain text digests has been removed ... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available ------------------------------ Subject: Digest Footer _______________________________________________ Aur-general mailing list -- aur-general(a)lists.archlinux.org To unsubscribe send an email to aur-general-leave(a)lists.archlinux.org ------------------------------ End of Aur-general Digest, Vol 8, Issue 4 *****************************************

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Re: Application as Trusted User
by Anton Hvornum 06 Apr '23

06 Apr '23

Addendum! On 3/14/23 12:29, Anton Hvornum wrote: > Hi! > > I hereby apply to become a Trusted User! > According to ChatGPT3 becoming a TU is like becoming a wizard, I will > learn how to cast complex spells on package bugs and conjure releases. > And apparently I get to wear a robe too so sign me up! > > I have the following sponsors: > > * Artafinde > * dvzrv (David will happily let someone else sponsor if they feel > like it tho) dvzrv hands over the torch to alerque to distribute the sponsorships more evenly. So new sponsor list is: * Artafinde * alerque > > My involvement spans mostly across maintaining archinstall, but I also > have a finger in archweb, repod, archiso, mkinitcpio and lately I've > become a mirror admin. So I'm getting pretty well rounded. Some links to profiles, ongoing projects and involvements: * GitHub: https://github.com/Torxed/ * GitLab: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/torxed * Archinstall: https://github.com/archlinux/archinstall * Flyspray/Bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/15638 * AUR package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archinstall-git (I have a few others that I've cleaned out as they were my very first AUR packages that never gained popularity) * ArchISO: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/merge_requests/251 * mkinitcpio: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio-archiso/-/merg… & https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/mkinitcpio/mkinitcpio-archiso/-/merg… * repod: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/repod/-/merge_requests?scope=all&sta… (Mainly contributed in terms of PR reviews and participating in developer discussions) Aside from the above, I'm also active on BBS forum, IRC, Reddit, Discord and Matrix in various channels. I mainly run all the archinstall related channels and servers. But I'm subscribed to more or less all the mailing lists, but specifically `arch-general`, `arch-mirrors` and `arch-projects`. My goal is to ease packaging and bug reports, as of today I have to rely on others to do packaging for projects I maintain and administrate. The main packages I aim to co-maintain the following packages: * python-pyparted (added 2023-03-14) * python * synapse * keycloak * rdesktop * python-* (there's a 50+ list I would like to help out with that I use every day) I'm sure the list will grow, but those are the main ones I have my eye on currently. Overall, I'm a very enthusiastic tech geek and I'm committed to enhance the Arch Linux experience further in various ways. I've been an active developer for years, have plenty of devops experience as well as a programming and security background. I plan to translate my experience into the Arch Linux echo system as well as offer my support to the community in any way I can. > > I'm aiming to continue the work on the above, but gradually I'll also > help out with testing and packaging of Python libraries. > > //Anton "Torxed" Hvornum >

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How to change the author of a package's commit？
by ShiZhi Huang 03 Apr '23

03 Apr '23

I recently accidentally used a different computer to submit the patch and the author information is wrong, is there a way to change it? I tried the ` https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3042437/how-to-change-the-commit-author… method, but it gets rejected when git push -f.

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Datediff script PKGBUILD review
by jamil bio 23 Mar '23

23 Mar '23

Hello! I would like to introduce my project to the AUR mailing list. I am about to upload a PKGBUILD of a `datediff.sh' script which does calendrical calculations with shell built-ins, and has got some other few functions as well. Would installing the script as `datediff.sh' to /usr/bin be standard? Suggestions are appreciated. I am thinking about making a man page, that is why one line in package() is still commented out - but may use it in the future. # Maintainer: Jamil SN <jamilbio20(a)gmail.com> pkgname='datediff.sh' pkgbase='shellDatediff' pkgver=0.23.4 pkgrel=1 #epoch= pkgdesc='Calculate time differences with Ksh, Bash, and Zsh builtins. Check moon phases, Easter dates and next Friday 13th.' arch=('any') url="https://github.com/mountaineerbr/${pkgbase}" license=('GPL') depends=('bash') optdepends=( 'date: convert input to iso-8601' 'bc: fractional time units (bash)' ) provides=('datediff.sh') #conflicts=('datediff.sh') source=("https://github.com/mountaineerbr/${pkgbase}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${…") md5sums=('949f88594bba40f7a62ff65e6dda7cf8') prepare() { cd "${pkgbase}-${pkgver}" #check defaults interpreter if command -v ksh then return 0 elif command -v bash then _sh=bash elif command -v zsh then _sh=zsh else return 0 fi sed -i -e "1s/ksh/${_sh}/" "${pkgname}" } package() { cd "${pkgbase}-${pkgver}" #install -Dm644 "${pkgname}.1" "${pkgdir}/usr/local/man/man1/${pkgname}.1" install -Dm755 "${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}" }

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Datediff script PKGBUILD review (plain text)
by jamil bio 22 Mar '23

22 Mar '23

That last e-mail encoding looks borked on my mailing list reader (the terminal), so I am sending the PKGBUILD again. # Maintainer: Jamil SN <jamilbio20(a)gmail.com> pkgname='datediff.sh' pkgbase='shellDatediff' pkgver=0.23.4 pkgrel=1 #epoch= pkgdesc='Calculate time differences with Ksh, Bash, and Zsh builtins. Check moon phases, Easter dates and next Friday 13th.' url='https://github.com/mountaineerbr/shellDatediff' arch=('any') license=('GPL') depends=('bash') optdepends=( 'date: convert input to iso-8601' 'bc: fractional time units (bash)' ) provides=('datediff.sh') #conflicts=('datediff.sh') source=("https://github.com/mountaineerbr/${pkgbase}/releases/download/v${pkgver}/${…") md5sums=('949f88594bba40f7a62ff65e6dda7cf8') prepare() { cd "${pkgbase}-${pkgver}" #check defaults interpreter if command -v ksh then return 0 elif command -v bash then _sh=bash elif command -v zsh then _sh=zsh else return 0 fi sed -i -e "1s/ksh/${_sh}/" "${pkgname}" } package() { cd "${pkgbase}-${pkgver}" #install -Dm644 "${pkgname}.1" "${pkgdir}/usr/local/man/man1/${pkgname}.1" install -Dm755 "${pkgname}" "${pkgdir}/usr/bin/${pkgname}" }

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