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[aur-general] Package fails when built with an AUR helper
by rhysperry111＠gmail.com 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Hi, I maintain the package fathom-git. This is a go package. I have had to make the PKGBUILD quite messy because this package requires that it is in the GOPATH which also needs a whole folder structure. In order for it to build I had to create a custom GOPATH in the SRC directory, copy the git repo to there and also make sure it gets removed when the package is rebuilt. Does anyone know of a better solution for go packages that require something to be in GOPATH? === Rhys Perry ===

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Michael Kogan 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

Hello, the user https://aur.archlinux.org/account/ZafarYaqoob posted a spam comment at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-json-maybexs/ Please have a look!

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[aur-general] TU application: hashworks
by hashworks 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Hello everyone, My name is Justin Kromlinger aka hashworks and I'm applying as a Trusted User with the sponsorship of Thore Bödecker aka foxxx0 and Christian Rebischke aka shibumi who recently reviewed my AUR packages [1] – thanks for that! Some may know me from freenode#archlinux.de, where I'm lingering since a few years. I am and will be reachable there anytime. I was born in Germany in 1994. My oldest Arch installation dates back to the month of July in 2015, at least according to my pacman logs. Just a year later I successfully qualified as an IT specialist in application development, together with a (soon to be expired) LPIC-1 certificate. Last year I got my bachelor's degree in informatics in Leipzig (come visit me at the C3!), where I currently study for a master's degree. So you could say Arch Linux accompanied my whole education! I started my first job at a small web agency as a Developer, but I slowly but surely turned into their System Administrator. At my current job for a larger IT company my external e-mail signature states I'm a "DevOps Engineer" – and while that term is by all means not fully defined, it kinda describes what I do. I create and maintain pipelines (mainly GitLabCI), design deployment processes and try to make our Docker Images a bit saner every day. And since I was able to enforce using Arch Linux on my work ThinkPad the distribution keeps on supporting my life, so I might try to give a little back! While I try to do some FOSS development in Go or – more recently – Rust now and then [2], my free time mostly flows into the maintenance of software and infrastructure for friends and family – and I have to admit that BASH remains my most fluent language. Regarding my own packages I would like to move filebin and pam-ihosts since I use those on my servers. srrdb-terminal-client is also something I regularly use that I would like to move. Additionally I would like to ask to take over kiwix-desktop of which I maintain the dependency chain (kiwix-lib, libzim and mustache) – and while I'm at it the whole stack (mainly kiwix-tools). Other small packages that would suite Community are mdcat and insect if the current maintainers agree. i3blocks-contrib is another possible candidate, but I would need to request new and frequent releases for that. Out of the orphaned packages the only one I could reasonably maintain is hddtemp (since I still use it). For most of my packages I use a personal GitLab instance to verify the builds with a pipeline [3] and since a while the process of new releases is automated. If possible I would like to support Arch in that direction, things that come to my mind are reproducible builds and CI/CD for repo packages, migration from SVN to Git might be a larger topic I could help with. Since I have an interest in keeping our GitLab packages stable and up-to-date I would like to co-maintain that if anatolik agrees. Since the question comes up frequently in TU applications: I mainly use a Telegram RSS bot [4] to monitor releases and urlwatch for stuff without RSS feeds. Best Regards hashworks [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=hashworks&SeB=m [2] https://github.com/hashworks [3] https://git.hashworks.net/aur-packages [4] https://github.com/iovxw/rssbot/blob/2.x/README.en.md

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[aur-general] Upgrade will install package from testing without having testing enabled, it breaks a dependency of a package from AUR
by Ralf Mardorf 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Hi, when upgrading with 'pacman -Syu' I get 'Packages (3) firefox-78.0-1 xorg-fonts-alias-misc-1.0.3-4 xorg-fonts-misc-1.0.3-9', but extra provides xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-8, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/xorg-fonts-misc/ , xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-9 is from testing, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/any/xorg-fonts-misc/ . Testing is _not_ testing repo enabled: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep testing /etc/pacman.conf # The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the #[testing] #[community-testing] #[multilib-testing] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ The upgrade results in "error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) xorg-fonts-alias-misc: /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias exists in filesystem (owned by xorg-fonts-alias) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded." Manual intervention is needed, 'pacman -Rdd xorg-fonts-alias'. The problem is that this is the cause for 'error: missing 'xorg-fonts-alias' dependency for 'white_dune'' https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/white_dune/ and I wonder if a comment to fix the dependencies is appropriated, since actually the issue is caused by a package that should be in testing, but gets installed without testing enabled. Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] Account suspension?
by Tom Hale 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

Heya all, When logging in as "Ataraxy" at: https://aur.archlinux.org/login The site says: "Account suspended" Can somebody tell me why my account is suspended, and if in error, reactivate? Thanks, -- Tom Hale

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[aur-general] Question regarding orphan requests
by Tobias Witek 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

Hello, I filed an orphan request for a package (bumblebee-status-git) 3 weeks ago - I am the upstream developer and would be willing to take over the package ( I already maintain the bumblebee-status AUR) Unfortunately, I have been unable to establish contact with glaxxx, the current maintainer, and the package is currently broken. How long does it typically take for an orphan request to be processed? I am aware that you all are busy and the project is one of the tiniest on AUR, so I do my best to be patient and I am grateful for the great work you all are doing! Kind regards, tobi-wan

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[aur-general] Search-URL in PKGBUILD
by Ralf Mardorf 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

Hi, I'm using the default DLAGENTS settings in makepkg.conf [1], curl is from the core repo and up to date [2]. Search-URLs never do work on my machine, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cpanel-json-xs/#comment-749091 What is the recommended solution to solve this issue? Regards, Ralf [1] $ grep -ehttp: /etc/makepkg.conf{,.pacnew} /etc/makepkg.conf: 'http::/usr/bin/curl -gqb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew: 'http::/usr/bin/curl -gqb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' [2] $ pacman -Q curl curl 7.70.0-1

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[aur-general] TU application; freswa
by Frederik Schwan 28 May '20

28 May '20

Hi everyone, my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In 2010, Debian became my main OS. Only a year later I switched to Arch after I screwed up Debian/sid while hunting for the latest kernel. I'm interested in DevOps topics, mail server, C, Rust, Go and newer JVM languages such as Kotlin. Thanks to svenstaro I've been a bug wrangler since February. You mostly hear from me when I assign bugs to the wrong people from time to time :P OS contributions: - working on the dovecot-xaps code, providing native Mail.app Apple Push for iOS devices - maintaining and writing PKGBUILDs for the AUR - bug reporting and fixing for several projects My AUR packages got reviewed recently by eschwartz, svenstaro and alad - thanks :) If I become a TU, I'd like to focus on the bug tracker until we have a better solution. I'd also like to help out bug fixing when maintainers are busy, away or on vacation. Packages which I would like to move to [Community], some of which are not mine: docker-credential-pass i3status-rust intel-undervolt ispin mysqltuner pdfposter pinentry-rofi protobuf-go sha3sum spin talosctl thermald unifi woeusb I'm aware though that some of these packages do not meet the criteria of 10 votes yet. I'll reevaluate whether they meet this criteria from time to time. I'd also like to go on helping Eli with maintenance of zfs-dkms and zfs-utils in the AUR. In case JetBrains is okay with us packaging their IDE's, I'd also maintain them. But so far all requests I found resulted in a negative response from JB. I am looking forward to working with you! Frederik

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[aur-general] Create user
by karx 22 May '20

22 May '20

Hey, An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be created on the installer's system when they install the package? Thanks, Yash

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Re: [aur-general] (no subject)
by Amin Vakil 20 May '20

20 May '20

> > Are you aware that you are posting these "test" messages to an English > language mailing list with many thousand readers? If you don't stop, you > will be banned. > > Am 19.05.20 um 20:53 schrieb khashayar nazari via aur-general: >> ???? ???? >> I was wondering why isn't he banned yet, whether he knows it or not, it will save everyone's time banning him.

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