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[aur-general] Why keeping OpenRC related packages on AUR?
by fredbezies 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hello. Note: posting in the right mailing list now. Oops! I hope it is the right place to discuss about this issue. I noticed there is a lot of OpenRC related packages on AUR. I don't want to start a flamewar, I just want to know what is going on with these PKGBUILDs. A quick search gave me 42 answers - some not related to this init system - 95% of them last updated between 2015 and 2018. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=openrc Is there any interest of keeping these PKGBUILDs? There is an official Archlinux + OpenRC init system called Artix, providing a migration guide from Arch or Manjaro. It is also listed in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch-based_distributions#Active "Artix Linux *2016, previously Arch-OpenRC" https://artixlinux.org/ https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Migration By the way, it is written in the wiki that : "Warning: Arch Linux only has official support for systemd. When using OpenRC, please mention so in support requests." Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC Is there any explanations for keeping them? Thanks for your answers. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] Naming issue of mysql-shell and (possibly) request for adoption
by Frederick Zhang 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hi all, I am writing about the naming issue that I noticed about the AUR package mysql-shell, i.e. I reckon it's better to rename it to mysql-shell-bin since MySQL Shell is an open-source project and the package actually downloads the prebuilt Ubuntu package. I tried reaching out to Raphaël, who is the current maintainer, via the website comments and flagged it out-of-date on 05 Aug but so far I've got no response. The maintainer's account seems to still be active (package openrefine, which is also owned by the maintainer, was updated on 01 Aug) but I'm not sure whether this particular package is still maintained. If not, I'm willing to adopt the package but instead of renaming it, I would actually like to maintain one that's built from source. However since it needs to be linked against V8 v6.7 (I've submitted an AUR pacakge [1] for this), it'll take a while to build and it could be an unexpected change for users I guess, so I wonder whether it's possible to: 1. rename mysql-shell to mysql-shell-bin 2. allow current mysql-shell users to upgrade to mysql-shell-bin by default like how 'replaces' works 3. ...and I can submit a new mysql-shell package Please shed some light on me. Thanks. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/v8-6.7-static/ -- Best Regards, Frederick Zhang Email: frederick888(a)tsundere.moe

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[aur-general] TU membership application
by Jean Lucas 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi all, My name is Jean Lucas, and I'm sending this email to submit my candidacy for Trusted User member. As per the latest TU bylaws, I'm being sponsored by both Alexander Rødseth and Sergej Pupykin. I've been an Arch Linux user since around a little before I registered my AUR account (January 2015, username "flacks" [1]), and I've recently had a few of my packages adopted into [community], namely "cage", "coturn", and "swaybg". I'm currently a computer science student with a particular interest in software engineering ranging from low-level (with a few contributions to projects like coreboot and postmarketOS) all the way up to web development (my current focus), and as such, would love to help maintain Arch's [community] repo in an official capacity to be part of the team that gives Arch users a robust, high-quality Linux software experience; as well as to help maintain, manage, and watch over the operation of the AUR and it's vast sea of software packaging recipes. If I were accepted to become a TU, I'd like to adopt and move the following packages (all having over 10 votes in the AUR) from the AUR into [community]: anydesk, downgrade, exercism, flutter, godot, itch, mattermost-desktop, nvm, reaper, spotify, teamviewer, thermald, unity-editor, and unityhub, for starters! Additionally, I would express my willingness to help co-maintain "firejail" (already in [community]), as its a project I have a higher interest in and contribute to occasionally; as well as to help get "ghidra" in good enough shape to propose moving it into [community], since I've had lots of fun building it [2], its a phenomenal piece of open-source software, and it'd be nice to have it officially supported by the Arch community (it also has a nice number of votes in the AUR)! Thank you for your time, and thank you to all who help make Arch a great OS! Best regards, Jean Lucas [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/flacks [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=ghidra-git

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[aur-general] Spam from user stupidblogger
by Michael Duell 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

User: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/stupidblogger spamming here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-studio/#comment-707098

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[aur-general] Rescinding my TU application
by Jean Lucas 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Hello all, I am sending this notice to formally announce the rescinding of my TU application sent on August 16th. I'd like to thank everyone for their feedback, as well as apologize for not taking the time to better prepare and iron out all the details with my sponsors. Cordially, Jean Lucas

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[aur-general] spam comments
by Lone_Wolf 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi, please remove some spam comments from cndrvcups-lb package . https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704963 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704962 user account is https://aur.archlinux.org/account/shandireza , please disable. I'm 99% sure I've seen that homepage listed with many other spam accounts, is there a way to block certain homepages from registering ? Lone_Wolf

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[aur-general] Packaging a go application
by Rhys Perry 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi, I am currently trying to package an application for use in the aur. The problem I am having is the install() section. The only thing i need to be done is for the package to move '$srcdir/$_gitname/fathom' into '/bin/'. How would I turn that into a .tar.gz? Sorry if my question doesn't make sense, but here is my current PKGBUILD (it is not finished as I can't seem to get git to provide a version) ####### PKGBUILD STARTS HERE ####### pkgname="fathom-git" pkgrel=1 pkgver="i.dont.know.what.to.put.here" pkgdesc="Fathom - simple website analytics (Community Edition)" url="https://github.com/usefathom/fathom" license=("MIT") arch=("any") provides=("fathom") conflicts=("fathom") makedepends=("git" "go" "npm") source=("git://github.com/usefathom/fathom.git") md5sums=("SKIP") _gitname="fathom" prepare(){ mkdir -p gopath/src/github.com/usefathom ln -rTsf $_gitname gopath/src/github.com/usefathom/fathom export GOPATH="$srcdir"/gopath } build(){ export GOPATH="$srcdir"/gopath cd $srcdir/$_gitname make build } package(){ echo "I don't know what to do now" } ####### PKGBUILD ENDS HERE ###### Also, if you have any problems with other things in the PKGBUILD then please feel free to give me tips on better ways to do them. Yours sincerely, Rhys Perry

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[aur-general] Spam user report: melissareese
by Stanislav Seletskiy 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Profile: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/melissareese/ Spam message: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ash-mailcap-autoview/#comment-706920 -- Stanislav

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[aur-general] Followup on comaintainers and maintainers help requests
by Sapphira Armageddos 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

(( the following post is a cross post of the forum post here - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1861865 )) Since making the previous post about retiring my AUR account, the following occurred to me. * I still like doing AUR work. But it's not something I can reliably provide like before. So I'm not sure how to handle being able to do it on the sidelines without making myself seem unavailable on purpose. * People might not be willing to pick up a package after it's been orphaned due to not knowing the maintenance problems I've had with some packages in the past. * Some packages might not be used enough to know when the sources are broken, thus needing updating. * Some packages required maintenance from upstream developers due to no one else being available to maintain it. So I've compiled a list of packages that need co-maintainers, those that I've kept due to low maintenance time, and those that are potentially orphanable due to maintenance circumstances. This list can be found here. https://write.as/l15zfw3838y89q0c.md Is there anything else I should do to make it easier for future maintainers to help ease their workload?

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[aur-general] Spam users: garrlee and harrywepich9
by Mark Weiman 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

My turn! I've got a couple of spam comments on [1] from the latest two comments. Mark Weiman [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-latex/

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