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[aur-general] ssh access on port 443
by eNV25 19 Apr '22

19 Apr '22

Hi My firewall is restrictive and won't allow outgoing traffic on tcp/22. github.com and gitlab.com both provide alternative addresses that use tcp/443. Is there something like this for AUR? I know I can just use a general proxy, but I don't have access to another network or computer to host my own, and all public VPNs and proxies that work in this network are slow. Thanks eNV25

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[aur-general] Fwd: [PRQ#33929] Deletion Request for vdr-api
by Manuel Reimer 10 Apr '22

10 Apr '22

Forwarding as I think my reply to "aur-requests" will not be actually delivered: Actually I leave this to the "Arch staff" to decide. Yes, you are right that this was created to "work around" issues in some AUR helpers and I did not know that this issue no longer exists. And as updating this dummy package is a separate step that was never automated I tend to forget to push version numbers there. So I would also prefer to have this package gone. Maybe the "decision makers" know better about the current situation about AUR helpers. I, myself, don't use any AUR helpers at all. If it is no longer needed, then please delete "vdr-api" and tell me so I can delete on the vdr4arch GitHub project, too. Manuel On 10.04.22 02:07, notify(a)aur.archlinux.org wrote: > MarsSeed [1] filed a deletion request for vdr-api [2]: > > This dummy package is not useful and not required. > > It was created to accommodate some AUR helpers > that lack such a basic and necessary feature as > handling the provides entries on AUR during > dependency resolution. > > (I am using yay and paru, both handle them well.) > > This package was created for AUR/vdr. > That package now has a versioned provides - currently this: > provides = vdr-api=2.6.1 > > This package, vdr-api, was not kept up to date with the above, > as it currently has pkgver=2.4.7 > > Yet, dependents requiring vdr-api=2.6.1 can be installed > just fine by paru and yay, because AUR/vdr provides exactly > that. No need for this (outdated) intermediary dummy package. > > Example dependent that I tried and which installs fine > without even requiring AUR/vdr-api: > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vdr-play > > Safe to delete, as its now incorrect version proves my point. > No users have complained that they couldn't install > dependents of AUR/vdr because of a version mismatch. > Guess they use a proper AUR helper like paru or yay or > something on par with them, and their tool of choice > was able to resolve the dependency correctly without > AUR/vdr-api as a dummy intermediary. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/MarsSeed/ > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vdr-api/

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[aur-general] Trying to find out why bubbros is archived from aur
by Glen Ogilvie 05 Apr '22

05 Apr '22

Hi, I've been searching the mailing list archives, but can't find any message about why bubbros has moved from AUR to the archive. https://github.com/aur-archive/bubbros I've got this installed and running on arch, but would like to have it available for others to easily install. I'm pretty comfortable with packaging, etc and moved from building Mageia RPMs across to Arch for quite a number of my systems. If it just needs someone to own it.. I'd be happy to do so, although the game itself is finished (ie, no new versions needed for the last 7 years). Regards Glen Ogilvie New Zealand.

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[aur-general] Request review PKGBUILDs
by Iyán Méndez Veiga 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hi, I would appreciate if anyone can review these two PKGBUILDs. I'm completely new to the new PEP 517-518 approach, so any feedback will be welcome. Also, I'm not able to run the tests in the check function. So any hints/tips are also appreciated. It's like python inside check() is not able to import the _accelerate.cpython-310-x86_64-linux-gnu.so library for some reason. But manually, I can do python -c 'import _accelerate'. Thanks, Iyán -- Iyán Méndez Veiga GPG: 0x422E3694311E5AC1

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[aur-general] AUR ssh:// click-to-copy URLs don't work
by Mikhail f. Shiryaev 04 Apr '22

04 Apr '22

Hello dear AUR developers. The mentioned links are broken in my FF. It opens a pop-up with a 'Choose Application' message. Best regards, Mikhail f. Shiryaev

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[aur-general] Can I adopt ICEWM ?
by RobinCandau 31 Mar '22

31 Mar '22

Hi everyone, I use ICEWM daily and I love it. Unfortunately, it is now orphaned [1] and will probably fallback to the AUR pretty soon due to the upcoming spring cleanup [2]. In that sense, I planned to adopt it on the AUR when it will land here. The thing is, I currently package and maintain only one package on the AUR at the moment (but I plan to create/maintain/co-maintain other packages in a near future). I still don't have a lot of experience with maintaining package on the AUR, I guess (at least, compared to people maintaining 100+ packages, even tho I'm working on it !). That being said, maintaining icewm looks fairly easy to me... Correct me if I'm wrong but, it is mostly about updating the "pkgver" variable and the "sha256sums" variable accordingly in the PKGBUILD [3] each time there's a new icewm release right ? [4] So what should I do ? Can I adopt it or do you guys think that I should leave that to someone else ? Maybe anyone already planned to adopt it (such as "bidulock" that already maintain the git version [5]) ? I would be glad to adopt it tho :) [1] https://archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/icewm/ [2] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2022-March/030763.html [3] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-community/blob/packages/icewm/trunk/P… [4] https://github.com/ice-wm/icewm/releases/ [5] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/icewm-git Sincerely, Robin Candau

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[aur-general] TU application for sudoforge
by Ben Denhartog 23 Mar '22

23 Mar '22

Hello good people and fellow miscreants, My name is Benjamin Denhartog, better known as sudoforge [0], and I'd like to formally submit an application to become a TU. I've maintained a few AUR packages for a while now [1], and you've probably seen me around and about in IRC (_mostly_ `#archlinux-offtopic` these days). Both Felix Yan (felixonmars) and Morten Linderud (Foxboron) have agreed to sponsor my application. I've been in, on, and around computers for my entire life (thanks fam), and have been involved in the open source community from the moment I started learning to program in the early 2000s. I currently work in the "DevOps" space, focusing on developer tooling, workflow automation, and all of the ancillary things that come with that, like infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD, observability and remediation. I enjoy mentoring less experienced engineers (and people brand new to technology alike), having been a part of mentorship and educational programs both at work and in the public (via Meetup). Outside of things related to computers, I enjoy snowboarding, cooking, and trying to take halfway-decent pictures. I currently live in the Rocky Mountains, somewhere around 3050m (9150ft) elevation, where the oxygen is a bit thinner, just like the crowds (except for the tourist-heavy days). Below are some of the things I pledge to do as a TU. # AUR packages that I'll move to community - bazelisk - buildozer - copybara (`copybara-git`) - firebase-tools - google-appengine-go - google-cloud-sdk - google-cloud-sdk-app-datastore-emulator - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-java - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python - google-cloud-sdk-app-engine-python-extras - kind (`kind-bin`) - ledger-live - ledger-udev - lf Additionally, I'll be packaging the rest of the `google-cloud-sdk` plugins which are not yet packaged, and I'd love to help co-maintain or adopt Rust or Golang packages, and anything else that strikes my fancy along the way. # A non-exhaustive list of packages I use and would love to co-maintain - alacritty - bat - bazel - bottom - buildah - container-diff - crictl - critest - go - gopass - kubectl - kubectx - ledger - neomutt - packer - podman - restic - ripgrep - rtorrent - rust - rust-analyzer - rustup - signal-desktop - unbound - vault - zsa-wally-cli # Miscellaneous things I want to do - Take a look at the TU and maintainer workflows, and automate what can be automated (e.g. onboarding), with the goal of simplifying management of the Arch Linux ecosystem - Help out with infrastructure maintenance and other operational tasks - Make a billion dollars and never have to work again, so I can spend my time traveling and working on open source projects Thanks for taking the time to read this (or at least, quickly scan over the above wall of text). Take a break and get a coffee/tea/beer -- have a good weekend. [0]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sudoforge [1]: https://github.com/sudoforge/pkgbuilds All the best, sudoforge

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review: gcc10
by Jonathon Fernyhough 28 Feb '22

28 Feb '22

I've pushed GCC 10 to the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc10 It's based on the older GCC 9 PKGBUILD [1] with some elements from the GCC 11 PKGBUILD [2]. It builds, installs, and seemingly runs OK, but it's something with potential for hidden gotchas so if someone could cast their eyes over it I'd appreciate it. :) (e.g., should it include any of the other backends like Ada?) J [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc9 [2] https://github.com/archlinux/svntogit-packages/tree/packages/gcc/repos/core…

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[aur-general] 💬
by An Average Dude 27 Feb '22

27 Feb '22

I need some help with my registration to the AUR. I just tried signing up and while I was told that an email for a password reset would be given, no email has reached me at all. I've vhecked also the spam folders, there's simply nothing about those mentioned emails. The email used for my resgistration in the AUR is this same one, and the username is AverageDood. Could it please be checked? Thanks

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[aur-general] AUR v6.0.8 Status Update
by Kevin Morris 19 Feb '22

19 Feb '22

Hi AURers, I've got a bit of a status update for all of you users regarding the state of the newly released >= v6.0.0 aurweb. It took a matter of days to get several quirks worked out, which were a result of a few reasons: - AUR historical database state not seen on local systems which the port was developed on - Unhandled cases - Problematic code We're now at v6.0.8, which contains fixes to all but one issue that we've come across. The issue will be described below. Remaining issue (RPC): In very rare occurrencies, a Redis transaction regarding the the current request count used to determine a user's ratelimiting incorrectly returns nothing, leading to an internal server error. While I believe this is quite a serious issue and am working to resolve it, this has been seen one time so far and every person and project I've communicated with and assessed has not run into the problem. It has not been a simple reproduction thus far, and so there is no solution just yet. Other than the issue listed above, there is one "issue" that is out of our control. When users search /packages with illegal characters (from uvicorn's standpoint), uvicorn returns a 502 and dumps a traceback regarding the issue. There is an issue up in their repository about it. Standard users should not see this. I will be keeping this thread up to date regarding the RPC ratelimit issue we've observed. If you've got bugs to file, go ahead and file a Bug issue at https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/issues/new?issuable_templat… Thanks to everybody who's helped filling out bug reports, triaging and updating tasks on bugs.archlinux.org, or communicating issues to me directly. This has massively assisted this initial hurdle, and I owe you all one. Best, Kevin -- Kevin Morris Software & Linux Enthusiast

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