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[aur-general] Want A Comaintainer For Your Project?
by Kevin Morris 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hello AUR users, My name is Kevin Morris, also known as kevr. I've been getting interested in possibly helping out more with packages in general. I do not own too many in the AUR myself. Most of them are scripts that I developed and wanted to share with the community. My AUR Packages: - python-paginate - sprunge - sprunge-git - hastebin - hastebin-git - multiwatch I do want to help with more, but most of the things I can think of to add into the AUR already exist. So, I'd like to offer to any maintainers out there who may be interested: If you would like a comaintainer on your package, I am willing to take on that responsibility, as long as it is a package I am comfortable working on. This includes, in general, back-end (non-gui) packages -- especially packages which may serve as some sort of server. API, websites, web frameworks, libraries, and so on. But, I may be open to other kinds of packages as well -- the non-gui would just make testing and verification more simple for me. I definitely have more to learn each day, but I do have a pretty good understanding of the PKGBUILD format and build process as it is; enough that I can package things correctly (I believe; feedback on my current packages is welcome, of course). You can reply here or contact me personally if you wish. Thank you for your time, and thanks for being a part of sharing software with the world. I hope that I can be of some service. Regards, Kevin -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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[aur-general] Oauth client IDs inside AUR package
by j.r 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

Hi, I'm currently trying to package multimc5 as VCS package. They recently added support for logging into your Minecraft account via a Microsoft account. But this requires a Microsoft client ID during compile. Now the devs decided to not make the client ID for their own builds public. Which they are okay to do, but this now comes with the problem that there is no client ID that a AUR package could use for oauth with Microsoft. I'm able to build it with my own client ID locally, but my question is now if there is any best practice on how to include such things into a package? Should we require users to create their own client secret, which is pretty bad UX? Best regards j.r

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[aur-general] Why were my packages gtkwrite, gtkwrite-git, and gtkate deleted from AUR?
by David C. Rankin 13 Sep '21

13 Sep '21

All, Who authorized the removal of my packages gtkwrite, gtwrite-git and gtkate from AUR? I check my dashboard regularly and there was nothing flagged and there was no notice that the packages were going to be removed. Why were they removed and why wasn't I informed before the removal? I have been a member of the Arch community for 12 years and I have never seen anything like this before. cc: Allan -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[aur-general] New maintainer
by Jason Kercher 11 Sep '21

11 Sep '21

Hello my name is Jason. I just published my first package to the AUR. It is a text-processing program called fql. I was surprised how simple it was. I'm pretty good with bash and have previously maintained a personal Linux from scratch build so I'm pretty good at getting things complied. I was wondering if there is a place (or if this is that place) to find packages in need of a maintainer? if anyone has a minute to look at my PKGBUILD, that would be great. One of the tools listed in the wiki said it was missing something about contributors so maybe I missed a variable? Otherwise, I think I got it right.

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[aur-general] Procedure for reviving a deleted AUR package
by Yash Karandikar 04 Sep '21

04 Sep '21

Hi all, Recently the AUR package magic-wormhole was deleted by its maintainer. Because of this, I want to now go ahead and maintain it myself. Is there some procedure to reviving deleted AUR packages? I know there was something about how the git repo isn't truly deleted. Thanks, Yash Yash Karandikar d5c4 1cbc 071b 41b3 f235 da13 f01e 92cd 2390 f369

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[aur-general] Can't git push, 'detached HEAD' state
by Fabio Loli 01 Sep '21

01 Sep '21

Hi, I can't git push in a pkgbuild I have recently adopted and don't know how to fix this. Logs for git clone and git push can be seen here: https://bin.disroot.org/?5bcc8b5042367adc#5mWdBewwCSZ3UrqvArYpe3rCfey5uEK85… https://bin.disroot.org/?da0c1f97d7791bec#DLKBzdobn82V6zs3tS1dNy692ed6CMfa2…

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Re: [aur-general] Cycled dependencies in AUR
by Mikhail f. Shiryaev 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hello. Today I tried to build ruby-rubocop [1] package and it's in a strange state. A lot of packages for the package are cross-dependent for the check, for example ruby-ruby-progressbar [2] and ruby-fuubar [3]. The proposal of how to solve it from Mario [4] is to skip the check() phase, see comment [5]. The same is valid for package ruby-rubocop-performance [6] that is dependency for rubocop check and requires it to be built IMHO the state when the packages aren't able to be built by the simple AUR helper command like `yay -S ruby-rubocop` should be considered as room for improvement. If I'm wrong, please say so. But I'd like to have AUR packages in an easily installable state and not passing additional arguments like `--nocheck` for makepackage commands. [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop [2] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-ruby-progressbar/ [3] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-fuubar/ [4] - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/supermario [5] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop-rspec/#comment-823420 [6] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-rubocop-performance/ Best regards, Mikhail f. Shiryaev p.s. Mario, sorry for sending you two messages. >

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[aur-general] What's happened with URxvt upstream? And how to build dependent packages now?
by Radislav Golubtsov 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Hi guys, First of all, I’d like to say, I’m a long-time and happy user of the URxvt terminal emulator and more precisely — of its AUR package "rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling" [1]. It’s the very good complement to a WM of my choice (Window Maker) for many years. From aside, I didn’t updated Arch on my laptop around a year (11 months with a couple-triple of extra days). And in the end of last eek I’ve decided to do so (with help, of couse, pacman-static from the private repo of Eli Schwartz [2] — and then with the stock pacman straight out). Finally, my system is running well with all the official packages updated and those from the AUR too, except one mentioned for this asking — URxvt. AFAIK, and as checked out some of the AUR packages, resembling and augmenting functionality of the URxvt terminal emulator, — they are all pulling out the upstream tarball in their PKGBUILDs from Mark Lehmann’s website. The latter is currently unavailable, unfortunately. And the URxvt tarball is also unavailable for downloading. What to do now with this, guys? — Maybe some of you know where to get aforementined URxvt tarball (another URL, publicly advertised, or someone hosted it on their website). Thanks in advance for a suitable solution or direction to solve this out there. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling/ [2] https://pkgbuild.com/~eschwartz/repo/x86_64-extracted/ -- Kind regards, Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#27846] Deletion Request for iwlwifi-7265-ucode
by Ramadan Ali 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

iwlwifi-7265-ucode [1] contains two different files `iwlwifi-7265-14.ucode` and `iwlwifi-7265-14D.ucode` wich are not present in linux-firmware [2] Maybe `iwlwifi-7265-ucode` can be renamed as `iwlwifi-7265-14-ucode`, but I think it's not necessary alicavus [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/iwlwifi-7265-ucode/ [2] https://archlinux.org/packages/core/any/linux-firmware/ On 8/30/21 2:12 AM, notify(a)aur.archlinux.org wrote: > yochananmarqos [1] filed a deletion request for iwlwifi-7265-ucode > [2]: > > This is included in the linux-firmware package. > > Also with PRQ#27845, I meant to say linux-firmware, not the kernel. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/yochananmarqos/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/iwlwifi-7265-ucode/ >

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[aur-general] Package Request and/or TU Application
by Kevin Morris 20 Aug '21

20 Aug '21

Hi aur-general, I've come across a Python library which serves a nice purpose for aurweb's FastAPI implementation, but noticed that it is not yet maintained in the Arch official repositories. For aurweb, we'd like to stick to packages which exist within our official repositories, and so I'm here to start a chat about either someone picking it up or applying as a TU to maintain it. Upstream: https://github.com/Pylons/paginate Description: A Python pagination module I've put together an AUR package for this project to share/demonstrate its PKGBUILD that could be used to produce a [community] package, located at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-paginate/. There are other python-*-paginate libraries around the AUR, but they are not meant to be as standalone as Pylon's paginate seems to be (out of the box, at least). For any TUs out there, could you perhaps give some feedback as to your thoughts on the package topic? It'd be greatly appreciated. That being said, I could maintain the package, but I have not really reached out to TUs to get any sort of sponsorship in regards to this, as I do not really have many packages that I know of to pick up. My main goal here is to get `python-paginate` into [community], however that may be achieved. Would this be possible? Thanks for your time and willingness to read this. Regards, Kevin Morris -- Kevin Morris Software Developer Identities: - kevr @ Libera

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