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[aur-general] Sound in systemd service
by NicoHood 03 Jan '19

03 Jan '19

Hi, I currently try to create a system-wide spotifyd service that can play music from a dedicated user/group. I used the spotifyd package from AUR as a base: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/spotifyd/ I added a user directory for the user and added it to the audio group: u spotifyd - "Spotify daemon user" /var/lib/spotifyd m spotifyd audio The directory is created like this: d /var/lib/spotifyd 0750 spotifyd spotifyd - I've added to the system service to start with a config file in /etc/sptoifyd.conf and start with: User=spotifyd Group=spotifyd Now the service is running fine in the background, I can select it in spotify. But no sound will play. I am also running a gnome desktop environment with pulseaudio on the machine. And I dont know how to get audio working within this service. The software supports alsa backend and pulseaudio backend, but none of them seem to give me a sound. The spotifyd config looks like this: $ cat /etc/spotifyd.conf [global] #username = USER #password = PASS #backend = alsa #device = alsa_audio_device # Given by `aplay -L` #mixer = PCM #volume-control = alsa # or alsa_linear, or softvol #onevent = command_run_on_playback_event device_name = Nico_Spotifyd # Cannot contain spaces #bitrate = 96|160|320 #cache_path = cache_directory #volume-normalisation = true #normalisation-pregain = -10 If I run locally, I get: $ sudo -u spotifyd -g spotifyd /usr/bin/spotifyd --no-daemon --config /etc/spotifyd.conf ``` No protocol specified xcb_connection_has_error() returned true ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1099:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave 00:42:24 [ERROR] Alsa error PCM open -2 00:42:24 [ERROR] Could not start audio: Alsa error: PCM open failed ``` This does not happen with my local user, even with `sudo -u nicohood`. Using a more simpler command gives me the same problem: $ sudo -u spotifyd -g spotifyd aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav No protocol specified xcb_connection_has_error() returned true ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:1099:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) unable to open slave aplay: main:828: audio open error: No such file or directory Can anyone give me a hint how to get audio running with this separated user/service? ~Nico

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[aur-general] TU Application: Daniel M. Capella
by Daniel M. Capella 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

Hello, My name is Daniel M. Capella (aka polyzen), and I am applying to be a Trusted User with Ivy Foster's sponsorship. My current main interest lies in Rustlang-based blockchain/distributed app/cryptocurrency implementations; half for the tech, half so I can escape the world of indentured slavery, fearlessly. My dream for the future is to write software that will help increase the pace it takes science to build the world of tomorrow -- whatever that means. I watch too much sci fi. I hope you like lists as much as I apparently do. ---- Stats: - Arch vanilla user since 2013. ALARM user for my home servers since perhaps a year or two before then. For completion's sake, even before that I had used Ubuntu and Archbang. This year I will be getting the LPIC-2[1] certificate (may or may not be related to my LPIC-1 expiring this year ^^). - Held a workshop called "Git for Gits"[2] with meskarune under the Arch Linux Classroom. The class is (very) slowly being revamped for further sessions. - Coordinated AUR Cleanup Day 2017[3]. The original plan was for this to occur every other year, but the previous one was in 2010. I hope to continue the tradition of this occurring biennially. - Co-maintainer of pacman-contrib. Funny story: when I requested Git access, Florian gave it to me thinking I was Kyrias. ^^ I had a habit of nick (IRC) hopping back then. - Arch Linux Tester when I remember that's a thing I signed up for. - Relatively active with IRC and bug tracker support. - Very active with upstreams WRT packaging and then some. ---- Here follows the packages I'd like to move to and/or co-maintain in Community: - Packages I already maintain: - Automatic exception: - espeak-ng (accessibility) See also <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/60618>. - Popular: - firefox-ublock-origin - firefox-umatrix - pulseaudio-dlna - python-black Maxim already plans to add this to the repos, but I would like to (co-)maintain this, being the original submitter (before it was merged into python-black due to the naming convention). - razercfg/razerd - 1% usage on pkgstats: - firefox-bookmarkdupes - firefox-multiple-tab-handler - firefox-referer-control - firefox-stylus - firefox-tab-flip-for-tree-style-tab - Firefox-tree-style-tab - termdown - tty-solitaire See <https://github.com/mpereira/tty-solitaire/issues/29>. - There was consensus from a few TU's in #archlinux-aur on considering the popularity of release variants: - Popular: - shaderc (-git) See also <https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/58582>. - 1% usage on pkgstats: - gmailieer (-git) - termtosvg (-git) - Other users' AUR packages: - Popular: - alot - hsetroot - python-proselint - ttf-symbola - yamllint - 1% usage on pkgstats: - python-vint - skim - Repo packages: - Orphans in Extra that I have installed: - ttf-indic-otf - vulkan-icd-loader - Packages I submitted to the AUR that were adopted or were added to the repos without checking the AUR first :p: - asp - fd - newsboat ---- Notes from Ivy that may come up in reviews: - “These Node.js and mkchromecast packages give me nightmares.”: ..Okay, actually that was my response when he brought them up. mkchromecast has a setup.py for its next release. npm packages have no hope. I've had to change chown invocations far too many times. Please don't hate me. - “This isn't a technical critique; more of an aesthetic one that you probably shouldn't listen to. It would be slightly amusing to add firefox as an optdepends to firefox-* (-:”: firefox was removed as a dep for these to make it easier for people to use them with Palemoon and such. - Go package LDFLAGS: Will take care of this. - “hangups: "sed -i 's/==/>=/g' setup.py" -- why? Also, has that change been submitted upstream? It's minor, but if it fixes something it's probably worthwhile”: Has to be done for pinned outdated dependencies. - “razercfg: have you submitted that tmpfile.conf upstream? Also, re: the install file, I'm pretty sure that ldconfig happens automagically, and systemd-udev-reload.hook should handle reloading udev rules”: Will take care of this. - “shaderc: there were a lot of patches in prepare(), which I can say from experience probably won't go over super well. I'm guessing these probably are waiting on acceptance or something?”: See <https://github.com/google/shaderc/issues/392#issuecomment-427442293> and <https://github.com/google/shaderc/issues/424>. - “no need for install -m755; -m755 is the default”: Taking care of this. ---- Some notes of my own that could be added to the guidelines: - My Rust packages use published crates if available, eg.: `source=("diskus-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://crates.io/api/v1/crates/diskus/$pkgver/download")` `--locked` will be used for those in due time: <https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/issues/5654> - Similarly I source published npm packages, eg.: `source=("https://registry.npmjs.org/$pkgname/-/$pkgname-$pkgver.tgz")` - The following can be used for GitHub releases (where $url is eg. <https://github.com/LegNeato/asciinema-rs>): - Before: `source=("$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::$url/archive/v$pkgver.tar.gz")` - After: `source=("$url/archive/v$pkgver/$pkgname-v$pkgver.tar.gz")` ---- Future activities in mind: - Automated release notifications, perhaps once we're closer to automated builds. Maybe with <https://release-monitoring.org/>. - AL onboarding site, unless a wiki article is sufficient. Could be nice to make <https://www.rustaceans.org/findwork> work with Bugzilla. ---- Thank you all for your consideration. Best, Daniel M. Capella / dmc / polyzen [1]: https://www.lpi.org/our-certifications/summary-of-certifications [2]: https://archwomen.org/media/project_classroom/classlogs/2016-07-16-git_for_… [3]: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2017-September/033557.html

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[aur-general] Exact purpose of check()
by Julien Nicoulaud 02 Jan '19

02 Jan '19

Hi, There is a bit of debate at the borgmatic package ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/borgmatic) about what check() should do. The upstream borgmatic project uses tox to execute its tests. tox creates an isolated python virtualenv with the correct dependency versions and executes tests in there. The original maintainer thinks check() should not use tox so that tests can be run against the system installed dependencies. But this is not so easy to do, an attempt was made by installing the python package into an isolated directory just for tests, but even then it seems to conflict with an existing borgmatic installation. Another way of seeing things is that check() should just run tests the way it is intended by upstream, it is for testing the build artifacts are correct, not for testing it will run correctly on the system where it is built. By this logic check() should just run tox, and correct dependency versions can be enforced by using version ranges in "depends". Any advice on this ? Cheers, Julien

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[aur-general] AUR Registration
by Bryan L. Gay 31 Dec '18

31 Dec '18

I've never been able to complete the AUR registration. I've searched my email, but see nothing has come through. My username, 'linuxninja' is registered, my SSH Key is used (can't use it to setup another account), but I get no emails when I try to reset password, and I can't login since I never completed the registration process. I think, but am not sure, that I used 'archlinux(a)bryangay.com' as my email address. Can I get assistance logging into my AUR account, please? Thanks!

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[aur-general] TU application: a-wing
by Metal A-wing 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

I want to push `ruby-rails` and `ruby-*` packages to the official repo

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[aur-general] General PKGBUILD and Instalation help.
by hagar 26 Dec '18

26 Dec '18

Merry Christmas all, I have been looking for a general PKGBUILD forum to get some help with some build problems. I have been trying to build the mingw packages using makechrootpkg -c I have built 436 out of 497 packages. There are a few corrections I have to submit. BUT There are a few issues that are quite simply driving me nuts. These PKGBUILD'S are supposed to have built at some point :} I have come across an interesting error with mingw-w64-python-setuptools Quite simply the package() function needs access to /tmp/ It uses wine to install the package. But the fakeroot wont allow wine access to /tmp/ ie - wine: chdir to /tmp/.wine-0/server-841-4e2c3c : Permission denied I have tried a few tricks - even invoking wineserver as a daemon at prepare() this either freezes the build process - or cant access /build/.wine Any clues or hints would be appreciated. Thanks Macca

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[aur-general] Spam accounts
by Luca Weiss 24 Dec '18

24 Dec '18

https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sofia_bow1994 https://aur.archlinux.org/account/alicetaylor https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dpboss https://aur.archlinux.org/account/marymiller411 Thanks.

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[aur-general] TU application: Daurnimator
by Daurnimator 23 Dec '18

23 Dec '18

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi all, I'm applying to be a Trusted User; Foxboron has kindly sponsored me and has been mentoring me on the specifics over the last couple of months. I've been using Arch since 2010, having been present in #archlinux almost the whole time! Before that I was a Xubuntu user from approximately 2005. Before that I had flirted with Linux a few times, I think my first exploration of Linux was of Lindows back in 2001. With my programming hat on, I mainly use C and Lua, I'm quite heavily involved in the Lua community. I would like to become a trusted user with the primary goal of improving Arch's Lua packages. With my sysadmin hat on, I'm an admin at hashbang.sh, an online hackerspace/incubator. Amoung other services, we run public shell servers with a fully open configuration. At $DAYJOB roles I've been responsible for packaging and deployment on various Linuxes. With my networking hat on, I maintain a few nodes in Melbourne Wireless, a city-wide wireless network. This has taught me quite a lot about networking hardware and given me the chance to play with routing protocols. I also joined dn42 which is for lack of a better explanation "an internet of VPN tunnels". If accepted as a TU, I'd like to (co)maintain: - lua-expat - lua-filesystem - luajit - luarocks Other packages I'd be happy to co-maintain are: - awesome - jq - keepassxc - love - lua51-bitop - pcsclite - prosody - rlwrap - tig Regards, Daurnimator -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEEHiYzy/cw8s5ux6twRbQpqPnZ0ioFAlv+qPYACgkQRbQpqPnZ 0ireMBAAg61vyyRBh0vbib22kCvfucbqFjzYV/E1gkgDpFo27tgZmBLvysA4AfhU wJQoyCDYJsGMzDC9sLmydmv9GG/QDtySYNia5HHglA8SE/EaNotS8lp1YEjRK0Pu GYpwksjQXRxexDvESsAdNatEh97/6SLbjy3zwGD+EJ7lMQ4LAWgFqW+w1a+u8o1l wnIt4CnSRk2gOuPVI3M3Ueub7/0afZvGp78GERtQ2DwRkUGxxmP7YQ1DtG/NPHzv KJMiCCHr2s+2ZTH4ajEzXOMg3zo6gZkG1/S7Y8MHo+l5lc3WOryBzfFOhQCbLCZb tl1d0bsue9+XIgR9taCog1pW+gYnpahBubl0XZQHg3v9YhepD78rAyhhx6VdfaxH ab6LY1tG16Jeh6QsxVX41+NHVFkEWIGnTVLnHvw4WV1l+I69jr6SB27PjTrwaPM9 d84ZDOUsTurSdTSL1VdCJCJopUQzD1YeHeNURyDfUtcf9FWR0EtPMvIj8+5X8hD+ homfISWdeZeBZ5pbwOgela4hKTdHuMTaJwkEP3DuqdqLKEWqM42WetBArfwEZsUV 4PfdyFjekAKcVJbPxmMSgw3NsPpUtYAEDLYo7U/WVOGtM6lxzL1yo2XTlPoEVqw7 3jDS/BcRpoBP8rvO2umEIz6b9/+EEVc0mtYEql3jxtfahEoA3pM= =bIKy -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] AUR rate limiting
by Drew DeVault 22 Dec '18

22 Dec '18

Following up from IRC. Hello! I run a public build service which has Arch Linux support and uses yay to install AUR packages when requested. I recently had some users running up against the AUR rate limit. The current rate limit window (1 day) seems a bit strict. Would it be possible to apply the rate limit hourly? Today it's 4000 requests per day, but ~166 requests per hour would be a similar load on the server but a bit more forgiving, users would only have to wait an hour before attempting their builds again. The long term solution is probably to mirror the AUR or adjust the approach to try and minimize API requests (perhaps by cloning the repos and sorting out dependencies by sourcing the PKGBUILDs.... would be a bit involved). Any thoughts or advice? -- Drew DeVault

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Re: [aur-general] TU application: Daurnimator
by Alad Wenter 18 Dec '18

18 Dec '18

On 12/11/18 8:30 PM, Alad Wenter wrote: > Since the discussion period is about to end without much discussion... > > Right now the rate of new applications is very high - about 2 new > applications per month. That makes a thorough review difficult. > > Considering the positive experiences of the sponsor, it would be a shame > to let a voting period pass. That said, I'm not sure we have sufficient > information - at present - to proceed with such a voting period in a > meaningful manner. > > So about Foxboron's question for confirmation: "Say one or two people > confirm they think the voting process should be continued after the > discussion has ended?" - I don't know. > > Alad Let's try to get the ball rolling by asking some questions. 1. When I look at LUA modules, I see that most are available on "luarocks", which is apparently a package manager for LUA. Can you leverage this to make more LUA modules available on Arch? 2. You have some AUR packages for LUA modules of your own making, yet they hardcode gcc lines instead of using a Makefile. [1] (At least they respect $CFLAGS and $LDFLAGS, I guess.) Why? 3. I have no idea on what some of your more complicated packages do, or why they would require said complexity, e.g. iup. [2] Perhaps you could explain a bit on that regard. 4. Related to the above, there are no current packaging guidelines for LUA packages. [3] Do you plan on starting an effort (possibly with other LUA package maintainers) to remedy this? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=lua-compat53 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=iup [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines#Additional_gui… Alad

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