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[aur-general] Removal request of xorg-server-compositing-fix
by Det 14 May '11

14 May '11

Hellooooooo, Please dematerialize xorg-server-compositing-fix [1]. The maintainer already requested for its destruction when 1.9.3 would hit the repo but apparently TUs forgot about it or something. [1] = http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41438 Thanks for your time, Det

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[aur-general] sanity check / review my first AUR package
by Taylor Venable 14 May '11

14 May '11

Hi everybody, I just started using Arch a few weeks ago, and I've been mightily impressed. I want to help out, so I started looking in the AUR for things to do. I noticed that there doesn't seem to be a package for the devel version of SWI-Prolog. The stable release is in [community], and there are git snapshots in AUR, but they are old and unowned. So I created a package for the development release. The devel release is distinct from a git snapshot, which is why I created a separate package, rather than updating the git snapshot one. Since there are development releases, I don't personally find git snapshots to be that useful. I wanted to make sure I'm doing this correctly, so if you have the time to take a look for me I'd appreciate it. Any guidance will be welcomed. I basically copied the [community] package's PKGBUILD and modified the necessary properties. I only have x86_64 machines, so I've not checked i686, but the resulting binary package does work for me. Since I wanted to get a little review before submitting it, the package can be found on my website: http://metasyntax.net/swi-prolog-devel-5.11.20-1.src.tar.gz Thanks, -- Taylor C. Venable http://metasyntax.net/

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[aur-general] Deletion request: asciiportal-mod
by Baptiste 13 May '11

13 May '11

Hello, I would like to delete one of my packages: [1] `asciiportal-mod`. It was featuring a brand new patch, but the project has since moved to git and the [2] `asciiportal-git` package I've just uploaded is providing the same functionality. Thanks, Baptiste [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48639 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49023 -- GNU/Linux fan && Archlinux user

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[aur-general] Please remove python32-opengl
by merp boop 13 May '11

13 May '11

Whoops! Do your thang, guys. Thanks in advance! -Max

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[aur-general] Orphans [extra] repository cleanup
by Andrea Scarpino 13 May '11

13 May '11

Hi DEVs/TUs, I'm again on the cleanup of orphans packages in the [extra] repository; this time with a small list[1]. The list is based on orphans packages needed by none. I don't see very important packages there, but chromium, krusader, mc and proftpd which maybe should be kept in [extra]; though they will probably find their maintainers in [community]. As the last time (more than 7 months ago), please cross out the packages you want to keep in [extra]. Adoption is not required, but it would be nice. If you are a TU you can ask to maintain a package writing its name to the "Candidate to [community]" list[2]. I invite all you maintainers to check the orphans packages on the Arch website, many are maintained packages where the maintainer simply forgot to adopt it. Thanks [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Repo_Cleanup#Candidate_t… -- Andrea

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[aur-general] Inactivity
by Sergej Pupykin 12 May '11

12 May '11

Hi, I am off until 01-jun-2011.

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[aur-general] Request for removal (blok-git)
by Harley Laue 12 May '11

12 May '11

blok-git has been broken for some time upstream and seems unlikely to change. At the time it was sort of a proof-of-concept and now it's just source rotting. Because of this, blok-git can/should be removed. Thanks.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Orphans [extra] repository cleanup
by KESHAV P.R. 12 May '11

12 May '11

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 20:04, Ionut Biru <ibiru(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On 05/12/2011 02:53 PM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: > >> gptfdisk > >> >> If there are no objections I'll move all them tomorrow. >> > > keep that. we also have a feature request on the tracker to include it on > the iso > > -- > Ionuț > GPT fdisk is maintained by Tobias Powalowski (tpowa). Orphaning that should have been a mistake since archboot installer uses gdisk extensively. I maintain gptfdisk-git http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39338 . - Keshav

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[aur-general] Cutleaves(package)
by Nathan Owens 12 May '11

12 May '11

Can somebody delete cutleaves http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11371 I looked for another homepage for it on softpedia, linuxappfinder, and also debian packages and I can't find it. Nor does the download location exist anymore

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[aur-general] Request for assistance with a PKGBUILD
by Joel Heaton 12 May '11

12 May '11

Hello fellow AUR maintainers, I've come to ask for some of your wisdom on a particular subject because, quite frankly, I'm completely unsure of how to move forward. I'm attempting to put together a PKGBUILD for a library (tsdl) but running in to trouble with the installation part. I can run make no problem, everything proceeds as expected, however I receive a permission error when running make install. The output is shown below at the point which it fails. http://pastebin.com/0xVvf1kN Obviously this is going to fail unless makepkg -s is run as root, which is highlighted as not being a good idea, so I'm basically looking at how I could get around this, if at all. I'll admit that I'm still getting to grips with this, having only put together two PKGBUILDs from scratch before now, so I would appreciate any pointers that could guide me in the right direction. Below are links to the PKGBUILD I'm working on, as well as the Makefile for the library I want to build respectively. I can see that there are a bunch of operations going on in there which will result in more permission denied errors, but if I'm thinking along the right lines, then these could be installed using install -D -mXXX but again, I'm quite inexperienced so I don't know if that is entirely true. http://pastebin.com/xzVRt79d http://pastebin.com/sTN1j80f Please also feel free to criticise the PKGBUILD in general; I've been following what I've seen by other maintainers so far and trying to stick to the guidelines laid out in the Wiki pages, so hopefully it's all fine but if I have missed anything or done something stupid, I'd like to know. Thanks in advance for any help. Kind regards, Joel.

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