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TU Application - Antiz
by Robin Candau 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hello, My name's Robin Candau and I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. My sponsors are Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde> and T.J. Townsend <blakkheim>. I'm 26 years old and I live in France. I'm working as a Linux system, Infrastructure and DevOps engineer. I've been using Linux for the last decade and been using Arch for a few years now. During my Arch journey, I started contributing to it in various ways: - I subscribed to every "major" mailing lists and reply to users' questions in it from time to time (mostly in the AUR-General one). - I'm answering questions on the Arch subreddit (even though I'm aware it is not an official Arch resource) and on the IRC channels from time to time. I'm a bit less present on IRC though, but I'm still passing by here and there. - I contribute to some wiki pages. - I maintain some packages on the AUR. - I'm reviewing PKGBUILDs (both on aurweb and the AUR-General mailing list). - I'm a member of the "Arch Testing Team" and I'm regularly testing and signing off packages. - I made rare contributions to the Arch DevOps Gitlab's issues (this is something I'd like to do more in the future, I just haven't take the time yet). Since I started contributing to Arch, my interest for it kept growing and I'd like to do more. This is why I'm applying to become a TU through this mail. For the minimum requirements: - I'm fine with shell scripting. - I maintain a few packages in the AUR with what I think are high-quality/clean PKGBUILDs [1]. - I'm doing basic community involvement (as stated earlier). - I can Google. - Aside from Arch, I've been involved in a few open-source projects: - My own open-source projects are hosted on GitHub [2]. - I'm a package and infrastructure maintainer for Crystal-Linux [3] which is an Arch based distribution that promotes the use of current and modern technologies and that brings an alternative to some widely used software through its own tools such as "jade" (the Crystal Linux's installer) or "amethyst" (the Crystal Linux's pacman wrapper and AUR helper). I'm basically maintaining the Crystal's specific PKGBUILDs [4] and helping them with infrastructure stuff. - More recently, I've been working with Rudra Saraswat (the Ubuntu Unity project lead) to help him properly packaging the Unity desktop environment for Arch (this is still a WIP) [5]. As a TU, I'm looking forward to help with the AUR moderation (reviewing PKGBUILDs, answering AUR related questions and handling AUR requests). I'd also be interested in moving the following AUR packages to Community: - protonmail-bridge - distrobox - unrar-free (which I currently maintain) - ddgr (which I currently maintain) Finally, those are the packages I use and/or I'd be interested in (co-)maintaining in Community: - glow - flameshot - xautolock - numlockx - playerctl - autorandr - hq - hexchat - pacman-contrib - zathura* (zathura, zathura-cb, zathura-djvu, zathura-pdf-mupdf, zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura-ps) - tmux - icewm - firewalld - picom - notification-daemon - blueman - redshift - xautolock - gsimplecal - tint2 - feh Globally, my package interests are CLI tools and GTK apps, but I can maintain anything else if needed. My primary goal is to help/contribute :) Also, even though it has no direct link with the TU position, I'm willing to take the time to bring some help and contributions to the DevOps side of things in the future, as stated in the beginning of my application. I'm looking forward to contribute more to Arch Linux. Thanks for reading my application! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=M&K=Antiz&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP… [2] https://github.com/Antiz96 [3] https://getcryst.al/site [4] https://git.getcryst.al/crystal/pkgbuilds [5] https://gitlab.com/users/Antiz96/activity Regards, Robin Candau - Antiz

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GPG signature renewal vs new key
by Polarian 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hello, When looking at the archlinux gpg keyring, I notice that when GPG keys expire, TU's regenerate a new key instead of renewing it. Why do they regenerate a new key instead of renewing, is it the same reason we put expire dates on our TLS certificates (for security). Is it bad to just renew your key without regenerating it? Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Package updating database schema
by Polarian 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Hello AUR community, I have a very annoying issue which I have not been able to find a solution to. So conventionally Arch Linux packages which require migration and updating of database schemas tend to have the following pattern: - Stop service - Update the package - Run some script which migrates the database manually - Start service However I have been packaging https://code.onedev.io/onedev/server with Bengcooper for the AUR and we have hit into a major issue. The upgrade guide, as defined in their wiki page (https://docs.onedev.io/upgrade-guide) requires the old code and the new code. This is due to the use of JSW (a proprietary wrapper) which they ship their binaries with. This does not comply with how you traditionally package software, and thus I have no clue how I am meant to integrate this into the AUR. I have in my own time been working on packaging the raw java code without JSW (cause f*ck the proprietary wrapper), however this is taking longer than I thought it would and I really need an AUR package to make things easier for me running my public OneDev instance over at https://onedev.polarian.dev Does anyone have any ideas of how I can at least get the package semi-working with database migrations, even if it is unconventional and annoying to do so? Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Re: Package updating database schema
by Polarian 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Hello, I have used the pre_upgrade hook, but the issue is I need access to the pkg contents, and I do not think that is possible using the pre_upgrade hook, I need it to execute the update.sh script which is within the package on the /opt/onedev directory when before upgrading. Basically, onedevs update script will migrate everything itself and also back it up. When installing onedev for the first time, there is no problems it will go smoothly, its when it needs to execute the update script on the directory (then preferably) discard of the upgrade files because onedevs update script also replaces all the code with the new code. It is highly annoying as it is semi-packaged by onedev, I dont mind if pacman comes along and just overwrites stuff, but I need to use the update.sh script from within the package from within the pre_upgrade hook. Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Lost Account
by Lara 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

I lost my aur account password and the reset doesn't seems to work. Probably the registered email doesn't exist anymore (I've been away for a long time). Could someone help me recovering the account? my username is shypixie Thanks

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I'm out of commission for a while
by Jonathon Fernyhough 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Hi all, I'm out of commission for a while (not sure how long) so I won't be able to update my packages. If any TU wants to bump the obvious ones (e.g. firefox-esr) please feel free. Best, Jonathon

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For AUR PKGBUILD checkup
by Sharafat Karim 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Hi there, I'm writing to request that my PKGBUILD for *kate-wakatime* be added to the Arch User Repository (AUR). I have tested the PKGBUILD and it works as expected. But I'm unsure about this script's formatting or other checkups. I'll really appreciate any advice. Here's my PKGBUILD, > # Maintainer: sharafat <sharafat two thousand four at gmail> > > pkgname=kate-wakatime-git > pkgver=1.3.10 > pkgrel=1 > pkgdesc=" Kate plugin to interface with WakaTime" > arch=('x86_64') > url="https://github.com/wakatime/$pkgname" > license=('unknown') > makedepends=('git' 'cmake' 'extra-cmake-modules') > depends=('kate') > conflicts=('kate-wakatime') > source=("git+https://github.com/Tatsh/kate-wakatime") > md5sums=('SKIP') > > build() { > cmake -B build -S "kate-wakatime" \ > -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='None' \ > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='/usr' \ > -Wno-dev > cmake --build build > } > > check() { > ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure > } > > package() { > DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build > } > Thank you for considering my request.

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proble installing Skychart
by Carlo Vinante 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Hello I'm pretty new on Arch linux. Already installed AUR packages. I'm experiencing problem installing SKYCHART link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/skychart Installed separately the two missed dependencies - libpasastro - xplanet Received these errors on compiling skychart -------------------------------------------------------------- Compiling bgrafreetype.pas bgrafreetype.pas(31,60) Fatal: Can't find unit EasyLazFreeType used by BGRAFreeType Fatal: Compilation aborted make[3]: *** [Makefile:1270: bgrabitmappack_nogl.ppu] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/carlo/skychart/src/skychart-4.2.1-4073-src/skychart/component/bgrabitmap' make[2]: *** [Makefile:2188: bgrabitmap_all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/carlo/skychart/src/skychart-4.2.1-4073-src/skychart/component' make[1]: *** [Makefile:1731: component_all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/carlo/skychart/src/skychart-4.2.1-4073-src/skychart' make: *** [Makefile:1593: skychart_all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -------------------------------------------------------------- help is appreciated thanks a lot Carlo -- Carlo Vinante Presidente Associazione Astronomica Euganea Fiduciario Regionale Nord Est UAI Sezione Comete & Progetto CARA UAI ARI Sez. Padova - IZ3XTL

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Removal of Benjamin Denhartog (sudoforge) as a Trusted User
by Morten Linderud 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Yo, This is a motion for for "Special Removal of an Inactive TU" [1] for Ben Denhartog (sudoforge) based on prolonged inactivity. sudoforge has largely been unresponsive for 6 months after trying to get his key signed by our master key holders. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/issues/174 Attempts have been made to establish contact, and 2 weeks ago I got a positive response from Ben that he would submit a resignation. However no emails has appeared thus this removal request has been submitted instead. The discussion period will last for three days, after that I will open the vote, which will last for five days. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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request for review of PKGBUILD
by Greg Minshall 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

hi. i'm trying to submit my first package to AUR. my package files are here: ---- https://git.sr.ht/~minshall/aur-orgtbl-query/tree ---- if anyone has a chance to look over my PKGBUILD (and any other of the files), and has any comments, i'm all ears. cheers, Greg

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