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[aur-general] New bc
by Yzena Tech 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Hello, I am the author of a new implementation of POSIX bc. ( https://github.com/gavinhoward/bc) It has all GNU extensions, so it can be used to build the Linux kernel. In fact, it can be a drop-in replacement for the GNU bc. While I believe that my bc is robust enough to be used as the default bc on Arch, I am under no illusion that that will happen right away, if at all. Instead, I have made a PKGBUILD (attached) for my bc as an alternative. It installs alongside the GNU bc without problem, since it is renamed as "bc-gh". This also includes a dc under "dc-gh". Would there be interest in adding my bc as an Arch package? Gavin Howard

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[aur-general] spam messages, cndrvcups-lb
by Lone_Wolf 19 Apr '19

19 Apr '19

Hi, While it's been quiet for sometime https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/ has 2 advertising spam messages in the last 5 days. The accounts used don't maintain any packages and have made no other comments. Please remove the messages and block/remove the accounts. Lone_Wolf

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[aur-general] Can someone make sure pkg adwaita-creamy is users not knowing what they're doing, rather than AUR bugs?
by james harvey 17 Apr '19

17 Apr '19

Hoping someone can look at the non-public history of the AUR package with "pkgbase=pkgbase" and "pkgname=adwaita-creamy". The repo started as an embedded programming language, and is now a GTK Adwaita theme. I am expecting the non-public history will just show a weird sequence of events combined with several users not understanding pkgbase. I could be wrong, and this could show bug(s) with the AUR, so I wanted to mention it. A few days ago, an IRC user made the same mistake and was being denied pushing to pkgbase.git since it existed. I go them squared away, and that led me to this lovely AUR repo. What I'm betting happened follows. I think on Feb 25, "Stoyan Minaev" pushed "pkgname=loli" without a pkgbase. He made more pushes, inserting and changing pkgbase a total of 6 times until deciding "pkgbase=pkgbase" was correct way. I think he then disowned the package. Then, on Mar 2, maybe "Murat Çileli" unknowingly adopted the package by pushing into it his new PKGBUILD. Maybe he checked it out, was confused, changed it to his different package and pushed it. This had too many WTF's, so wanted someone to look at the non-public history. I don't know if it's intended to be able to change an existing package's git repo name. I don't know if it's intended to be able to adopt a package by just pushing into it if it's an orphan. (Alternatively, maybe Murat adopted through the website.) I don't know if Stoyan disowned anything.

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Re: [aur-general] Spammers in AUR user comments
by Oscar 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

I'm also receiving comments from lots of different spam accounts in unity-editor. I'm not a TU and the web gui doesn't seem to have an option to deal with it. What's the protocol for these cases? Thanks, Oscar.

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[aur-general] More spam accounts
by Luca Weiss 11 Apr '19

11 Apr '19

Hi, I found those spam accounts: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Aryan_007 https://aur.archlinux.org/account/salmaotto https://aur.archlinux.org/account/janetjackson https://aur.archlinux.org/account/DanielRushton Thank you! Luca

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[aur-general] Spam by user vedantydv123
by Michael Laß 10 Apr '19

10 Apr '19

Hello, today the user vedantydv123 added nonsense comments to a few packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/vedantydv123/comments The user doesn’t have any packages or meaningful comments. Could someone take care of that? Cheers, Michael PS: Is there any easier way to report cases like this? I now had to register to the mailing list, send this mail and de-register again...

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[aur-general] Anyone Else Having Issues with Caddy?
by Storm Dragon 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Howdy, I have installed caddy following it's page on the wiki. when I start it though, with systemctl start caddy, it fails to start. Here is the output from systemctl status caddy: * caddy.service - Caddy HTTP/2 web server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/caddy.service; disabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Sat 2019-04-06 12:08:22 EDT; 10s ago Docs: https://caddyserver.com/docs Process: 6745 ExecStart=/usr/bin/caddy -log stdout -agree -conf /etc/caddy/caddy.conf -root /tmp (code=exited, status=218/CAPABILITIES) Main PID: 6745 (code=exited, status=218/CAPABILITIES) Apr 06 12:08:22 wolfe-server systemd[1]: Started Caddy HTTP/2 web server. Apr 06 12:08:22 wolfe-server systemd[6745]: caddy.service: Failed to apply ambient capabilities (before UID change): Invalid argument Apr 06 12:08:22 wolfe-server systemd[6745]: caddy.service: Failed at step CAPABILITIES spawning /usr/bin/caddy: Invalid argument Apr 06 12:08:22 wolfe-server systemd[1]: caddy.service: Main process exited, code=exited, status=218/CAPABILITIES Apr 06 12:08:22 wolfe-server systemd[1]: caddy.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'. Does anyone have any ideas what may be going wrong here and how to fix it? Thanks for the help, Storm -- Powered by Arch Linux! I am registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.tk/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 How many Internet mail list subscribers does it take to change a lightbulb? http://goo.gl/eO4PJ "Serpent's kin, born of sin. Dark within, father of the wolf!" Amon Amarth - Father of the Wolf

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[aur-general] Is vlc-pause-click-plugin unmaintained now?
by Frederick Zhang 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Hi, It seems that vlc-pause-click-plugin has been unlisted from AUR for quite a while. I just quickly went through aur-general and aur-requests but I didn't find any info about the reason. May I know whether it's now unmaintained and whether it's possible for me to adopt the package? Thanks. -- Best Regards, Frederick Zhang Email: frederick888(a)tsundere.moe

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[aur-general] Spammers in AUR user comments
by NicoHood 06 Apr '19

06 Apr '19

Hello, lately i have noticed an increased percentage of spam comments in the AUR. Especially for the spotify package there were 4 accounts I had to block within a few weeks. Have you been able to make similar observations with your packages or is this an exception? Should and how can we better protect ourselves from spam comments? ~Nico

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[aur-general] Spring cleaning (moving orphaned packages from [community] to AUR)
by Alexander F Rødseth 05 Apr '19

05 Apr '19

Hi, I'm planning to move the following packages from [community] to AUR, because they are currently "unneeded orphans" (no current maintainer and no other package depends on them). TUs&devs, please adopt, if you are interested: addinclude - Utility to add include statements to header- and sourcefiles, for C and C++ agave - Colorscheme designer tool for GNOME arch-firefox-search - Firefox Arch search engines (AUR, Pkgs, BBS, Wiki, etc.) aspcud - Solver for package dependencies aspell-it - Italian dictionary for aspell aspell-ru - Russian dictionary for aspell auctex - An extensible package for writing and formatting TeX files in Emacs bless - High-quality, full-featured hex editor catdvi - A DVI to plain text translator cdargs - Replacement for 'cd' that includes bookmarks/browsing for faster navigation cddb-py - CDDB-Server access from Python cfv - An utility to both test and create checksum files cherrytree - Hierarchical note taking application featuring rich text and syntax highlighting corebird - Native Gtk+ Twitter client for the Linux desktop cromfs - Compressed read-only filesystem based on FUSE dangerdeep - Submarine simulator docky - Full fledged dock application that makes opening common applications and managing windows easier and quicker drbd-utils - Userland tools for Distributed Replicated Block Device driconf - Graphical configuration tool for the Direct Rendering Infrastructure dtach - emulates the detach feature of screen emacs-pkgbuild-mode - A major mode for creating packages with emacs emms - The Emacs Multimedia System flam3 - Tools to create/display fractal flames: algorithmically generated images and animations foxtrotgps - Lightweight and fast mapping application gdesklets - System for bringing mini programs (desklets) onto your desktop gmpc - MPD client gnome-activity-journal - Tool for easily browsing and finding files on your computer using the Zeitgeist engine gnome-schedule - Graphical interface to crontab and at for GNOME gourmet - A simple but powerful recipe-managing application grumpy - Python to Go transpiler and Python interpreter gst-validate - Debugging tool for GStreamer gtypist - universal typing tutor gweled - A puzzle game similar to Bejeweled (aka Diamond Mine) hamster-time-tracker - Time tracking application that helps you to keep track on how much time you have spent during the day on activities you choose to track hercules - Software implementation of System/370 and ESA/390 hubicfuse - A fuse filesystem to access HubiC cloud storage hyphen-pl - Polish hyphenation rules hyphen-ro - Romanian hyphenation rules icon-slicer - Utility for generating icon themes and libXcursor cursor themes kcheckers - Qt4-based checkers boardgame keepnote - GTK+ note taking application labyrinth - Lightweight mind-mapping tool with support for image import and drawing lat - LDAP administration tool mahjong - The classical game of Mah Jong (multiplayer) mate-menu - Advanced menu for MATE Panel, a fork of MintMenu medit - GTK+ text editor monica - Monitor calibration tool mu - Maildir indexer/searcher and Emacs client (mu4e) muine - A music player written in C Sharp mythes-nl - Dutch thesaurus mythes-pl - Polish thesaurus neverball - 3D game similar to Super Monkey Ball or Marble Madness openbox-themes - Various themes for the Openbox window manager. pathological - A puzzle game with the same feel as frozen bubble pidgin-sipe - Third-party Pidgin plugin for Microsoft Office 365/Lync/LCS/OCS planner - Project management application for GNOME proxytunnel - a program that connects stdin and stdout to a server somewhere on the network, through a standard HTTPS proxy python2-ipaddr - An IPv4/IPv6 manipulation library in Python python-apache-libcloud - A standard Python library that abstracts away differences among multiple cloud provider APIs qextserialport - Cross-platform serial port class libary for Qt smuxi - User-friendly and cross-platform IRC client for sophisticated users for GNOME/GTK+ (frontend) tasque - Easy quick task management app written in C Sharp thermald - The Linux Thermal Daemon program from 01.org ttf-ibm-plex - IBM Plex Mono, Sans, and Serif uncrustify - A source code beautifier vim-molokai - Port of the monokai colorscheme for TextMate vim-nerdtree - Tree explorer plugin for navigating the filesystem vmoviedb - Movie collection manager for the Gnome desktop I'll wait until at least Monday before moving anything. -- Sincerely, Alexander F. Rødseth / xyproto

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