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[aur-general] Request for deletion process?
by S Shaikh 16 Aug '21

16 Aug '21

Hello, I'm relatively new to the AUR, and one of my packages[1] has been requested (marked?) For deletion. Naturally I believe that there's a case for the package. I plan to respond on the package page itself, but am a little lost on the actual process in general. Is there a specific audience I should frame my case to? What are the timings for deletion? Should the discussion be had here or there? Does the fact that it's even got this far mean there's no turning back (or can anyone file a request for further approval?). Thanks! Shak [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/i3blocks-contrib-install-git/

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[aur-general] TU application - alex19EP
by Alexander Epaneshnikov 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hello, my name is Alexander Epaneshnikov. and I'd like to join the Trusted Users team to further improve the Arch Linux accessibility for people with disabilities. I am sponsored by David Runge <dvzrv> and Sven-Hendrik Haase <svenstaro>. I started using Arch Linux in 2018 and since then it has become my main distribution. I also do my best to help blind people learn about arch and start using it. regarding minimum basic requirements: * I know how to script some things. I use zsh on a daily basis, but I can work with bash / sh too. * I maintain a few packages in the AUR[1]. I also have a couple of pkgbuilds on github[2]. * I definitely know how to google. (using surfraw for that) * my involvement with the arch mailing lists and IRC is rather low, but I am very active in blind specific lists and IRC channels. There I help users, create bug reports about a11y related problems for projects and of course talk about Arch. I can be found on irc on oftc and liberachat under the alex19EP nickname. As I already said, I would like to become a TU to further improve the appeal of Arch for people with disabilities, so I want to maintain packages that are related to a11y: * lightdm-slick-greeter - the most accessible lightdm greeter. * rhvoice - Open source speech synthesizer. (I am one of the upstream maintainers) * fenrir - A user space console screen reader written in python3 Additionally, I would like to move some packages which are popular and that I use personally to the [community] repository. * etc-update * glulxe-term * bitwarden and bitwarden-cli - eh electron I know, but it is the only cross-platform password manager which is accessible. * hunspell-ru * magic-wormhole * yadm I can also help maintain packages which are already in community: * espeakup - I am now the upstream maintainer for this project. * espeak-ng * matrix-synapse My biggest and perhaps most significant contribution to Arch is the addition of accessibility features for blind people to archiso [3] [4]. I have also written and kept documentation for installing Arch with accessibility options [5] up-to-date. my other open source contributions: I maintain RHVoice [6] and espeakup[7]. Gladly I will answer any comments or questions. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=3D0&SeB=3DM&K=3Dalex19EP [2] https://github.com/alex19EP/pkgbuilds [3] https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archiso/-/merge_requests/79 [4] https://archlinux.org/news/accessible-installation-medium/ [5] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Install_Arch_Linux_with_accessibility_opti… [6] https://github.com/rHVoice/rHVoice [7] https://github.com/linux-speakup/espeakup Arch project accounts: Wiki: Alex19EP Forums: alex19EP (inactive there) Flyspray: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/28985 -- Sincerely, Alexander

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[aur-general] Stepping down as TU
by alad 10 Aug '21

10 Aug '21

Hi all, For some time now my involvement as TU has been limited, particularly on the packaging front. I'd always thought I'd get more time, but I keep getting more on my plate from my graduate studies. With the steady influx of fresh blood to the TU team, it now seems a good time for me to resign. I'll stay around as wiki administrator and IRC op (as well as maintainer of aurutils). List of packages in [community] where I'm the sole maintainer: asoundconf cabextract datamash edbrowse expac innoextract nawk pslist qpdfview sigil sylpheed time udevil wimlib xsettingsd Of those, the following are required by other packages: cabextract expac time xsettingsd Cheers and thanks for all the fish! Alad

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[aur-general] Created account with incorrect email
by Maxwell G 03 Aug '21

03 Aug '21

Hi, I just created an AUR account with the username gotmax23. I'm usually more careful, but I mistyped my email address, despite the clearly posted warning. I believe I added an extra x to gotmax in my email address gotmax@.e.email. Could you please set the email address on that account to gotmax(a)e.email so I can set my password? If you need verification, I can send the IP address that I used to create the account in private. Thank you so much, Maxwell -- Maxwell G Pronouns: He/Him/His gotmax(a)e.email

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[aur-general] Strange pikaur behaviour
by Peter Nabbefeld 02 Aug '21

02 Aug '21

Hello, I'm currently trying to build meshroom-git. I removed the old installation to replace alembic-qfix by community/alembic, and I'm able to build meshroom-git (with some problems). 1. For installation, I use "pikaur -Sa meshroom-git". 2. pikaur tells me about missing alembic-qfix, though latest PKGBUILD does not refer to it as a dependency. 3. I can only build meshroom-git after making some change (commenting/uncommenting a print instruction). 4. When I try again, I'm again told about dependency alembic-qfix not found in AUR. Also, when building meshroom-git, two outdated dependencies are built first and removed after the build. Obviously, there's still an earlier version of PKGBUILD located somewhere which is not deleted (and I don't know where to find it, as removing ~/.local/share/pikaur/aur_repos/meshroom-git and ~/.cache/pikaur/{build,pkg}/meshroom-git does not seem to be enough). Any idea? Kind regards, Peter

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review request (REXPaint)
by Vince 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello aur-general, Thank you for your help in the previous threads. I'm immensely grateful for the feedback I got, and hope that I'm not polluting too much. I have completed a PKGBUILD for REXPaint. I would be grateful if someone could take a look and make sure that it ticks all the boxes, and give me any constructive criticism that may apply. All the best, Vince

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[aur-general] Cannot build alice-vision-git
by Peter Nabbefeld 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hello, after I managed to build cctag (by insertion of "cd" commands into PKGBUILD), now I have problems building alice-vision-git. The problem: Minor versions of OpenEXR (3.0.x) and Imath (3.1.x) differ. To fix the problem, I added "-DOPENEXR_IMATH_LIBRARY=/usr/lib/libImath-3_1.so" to PKGBUILD. This worked in one (or some) case(s), but it does not work for libAlembic: /usr/bin/ld: warning: libImath-3_0.so.28, needed by /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8, not found (try using -rpath or -rpath-link) /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8: undefined reference to `Imath_3_0::half::convert(int)' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8: undefined reference to `Imath_3_0::half::_eLut' /usr/bin/ld: /usr/lib/libAlembic.so.1.8: undefined reference to `Imath_3_0::half::_toFloat' /usr/bin/ld: Linux-x86_64/libaliceVision_sfmDataIO.so.2.4: undefined reference to `Alembic::AbcGeom::v12::XformSample::setMatrix(Imath_3_1::Matrix44<double> const&)' It seems, QmlAlembic does not honour the config option "OPENEXR_IMATH_LIBRARY". Kind regards, Peter

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[aur-general] Pushing rc version of package to aur
by Jan Kohnert 01 Aug '21

01 Aug '21

Hi, I maintain the gnudatalanguage package on the aur. The current release is 0.9.9 (from 2019); however, there is 1.0.0-rc.3 available on their webpage. I recall having read somewhere in the docs that pushing rc version is generally discouraged on the aur, but got a out-of-date flagging today. So the question is simply: Whould it be ok to push 1.0.0-rc.3 to the aur? And if so; how to specify the version tag correctly? Thanks in advance! -- MfG Jan

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[aur-general] Request for Public Review of REXPaint package
by Vince 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

Hi everyone! Thank you for the help on the the thread eariler, I found the advice and examples very useful. I have posted a request for review of my PKGBUILD over IRC, but I would appreciate any criticism here too. I have uploaded the PKGBUILD, and two files that would come with it (launcher.desktop and launcher.sh). There are a couple decisions I made that are unconventional, so I'll list them here: 1. As George suggested, I renamed my package from `rexpaint-bin` to just `rexpaint`, since there are no sources available. 2. The server hosting the program blocks Curl's user agent. As far as I can tell, the convention is to use "Mozilla" as a user agent instead. However, I have opted to use "PKGBUILD" as the agent, so I avoid accidentally messing up any statistics that may be collected upstream. 3. I have used standard package permissions as far as I can tell, except for `/usr/share/rexpaint/images`. The program saves data into this directory, so it must be 777. 4. I am not sure what to do with `/usr/share/rexpaint/data`. It contains data such as fonts and palettes, which might be edited by the user during usage. Right now I have assumed that the user will not do that, so it is not listed in `$backup` and its mode is 755. I have sent an email upstream asking about this, and am waiting for a response. 5. The program tries to write logs into the Working Directory (`/usr/share/rexpaint`), but it cannot do this because I have set its mode to 755. However, giving the everyone write permissions in `/usr/share/rexpaint` seems insecure. Please advise. As stated before, I have emailed upstream to ask if it's okay that I publish this packaging to the repositories. This is not required by the license, but I am too young to be making enemies, and it would be nice to have some upstream. I will publish it when I get the goahead, or if he takes more than 24h to reply. All feedback is appreciated. Thank you in advance, Vincent

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] [aur] cctag build error
by Peter Nabbefeld 31 Jul '21

31 Jul '21

NOTE: Moving discussion to aur-general - please don't reply on arch-general. Am 31.07.21 um 12:39 schrieb Ralf Mardorf via arch-general: > On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:09:37 +0200, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: >> Unknown CMake command "CUDA_ADD_LIBRARY". >> >> How can I fix this? > Hi, > > the very first thing to do by yourself, before even posting to an > appropriate mailing list, is trying to build without an AUR helper. > > Since you get a CUDA related error mesage, you probably should mention > what environment variables you used. > > "CUDA_ARCH=x.y to build for specific GPU architecture ( Supports: > single arch (5.2) the list of archs (5.2;6.0), arch name (Maxwell) or > auto (Auto) ) > > DISABLE_CUDA Build without cuda support" - > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cctag/#pinned-818726 > > My guess is, that there is a reason for the pinned comment. > > Taking a look at the mailing list archive you frequently sent AUR > related requests. Actually I don't know if those requests belong to > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general , but it's likely more > appropriate than this mailing list is. > > Regards, > Ralf Thank You for Your answer! I rarely get build errors, even with AUR packages - with the exception of alice-vision and its dependendencies -, so I'm not much used to handle such problems (the disadvantage of a stable system ;-) ). And I'm no C programmer, which makes it difficult for me to fix cmake related errors myself - I can only try to track problems until some level of complexity. In this case I thought the makefile would miss some dependency. As I'm using the nouveau driver instead of nvidia's, I'm pretty sure there's no CUDA support (but I'll not render complex graphics often, so some more processing time won't hurt). However, I plan to setup my Linux installation by the end of the year, so some modules and parameters may change in the future. I've added the following two lines between "# Maintainer" and "#Configuration" at the top of PKGBUILD: DISABLE_CUDA=1 ENABLE_APPS=1 Now I get a missing dependency for devil2. Without "ENABLE_APPS" I get the following error (among some others, but this is probably the cause for the others): CMake Error at /usr/share/cmake-3.21/Modules/WriteBasicConfigVersionFile.cmake:43 (message): No VERSION specified for WRITE_BASIC_CONFIG_VERSION_FILE() Kind regards, Peter

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