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[aur-general] Some packages moved from extra/community to aur
by Michael Trunner 13 Dec '10

13 Dec '10

Hi, we use Archlinux on our university. The following packages where in extra/community the last time we reinstalled our student pool and now in AUR: * tcsh * autofs * python-numarray Is it possible to move it back to community? At least autofs? What must/can I do for that? Tschö Michael

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[aur-general] voting period for Dave Reisner
by Ionuț Bîru 12 Dec '10

12 Dec '10

Hi, the 5 days discussion period have ended. http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=42 -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] New dev with write access to [community]
by Rémy Oudompheng 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Dear TUs, Like Gaëtan and Stéphane, I am a (French-speaking) junior Developer, and I was given recently access to the [community] repos. I have no plan to add packages to [community] for the moment, I am currently concentrating on checking whether Haskell-based packages are compatible with the next version of GHC (particularly xmonad). You can expect GHC7 to be in [testing] in January and [extra] in February, depending on the Haskell Platform schedule. -- Rémy.

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Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines
by Nicky726 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi all, been told by the bot, that selinux-flex has a binary (selinux-flex/flex- arch.patch.gz), which is a gziped patch. Guess I can ungzip it, though as this package is just a copy of a [core] package from some time ago, I guess the original maintainers new, what they were doing, if they included it this way. So should I do it to not include evil gziped patches? Thanx, Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi TUs, please delete rekonq+i18n-git [1] because locales are already provided by rekonq-git [2] package. Thanks in advance [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37865 <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37865>[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22846 <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22846> -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] remove kernel26-slk and nvidia-slk
by Ike Devolder 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

For some reasons i replaced kernel26-slk with kernel26-bede why ?: the original naming is because it is inspired by the slackware config, but now its just some settings which are different from the stock arch kernel which make my linux experience nicer than with the default. so could kernel26-slk and nvidia-slk be replaced by: kernel26-bede and nvidia-bede thx kernel26-slk: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36738 nvidia-slk: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36769

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[aur-general] Augeas request
by Thomas S Hatch 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

I have an odd request with regards to an aur package - augeas: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18533 I have been working toward porting an extremely powerful virtualization application to ArchLinux - Libguestfs: http://libguestfs.org/ The libguestfs package will also enable a number of other virtualization packages to be packaged for Archlinux. The port of Libguestfs has required a number of changes to the upstream project and I have had to submit a fair amount of code to make it possible, and the upstream developers have been more than helpful in this effort. The problem I am facing now is one that I do not yet have the power to repair, as I am not yet a TU and I doubt I have enough clout yet to apply. You see, the build process needs to create a tiny virtual machine image, (the image is quite remarkable, a vm image for Arch in less than 50K) but the process to create the image requires that all packages for the image be available as binary downloads from a main Arch repo, aka core, extra and community. This brings me to my request, the augeas package. Augeas and a number of other packages which are only available in the AUR are required by this image, including hfsutils and zfs-fuse. While hfsutils and zfs-fuse are "nice to have" in the libguestfs image, and can be safely omitted, augeas is a hard requirement. So, since I can not do this myself yet I will request that a TU take up this small responsibility and maintain augeas in community so I can finish the port of libguestfs to Arch. Once I am a TU I will be more than take it off your hands! I have spent the last 3 months working tirelessly in my effort to bring better kvm/libvirt support to Arch, I am the author of varch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42428 and I have more software in the wings to bring better virtualization support to Arch that requires libguestfs, please help me out! Thanks Thomas S Hatch - thatch45

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[aur-general] delete kernel26-slk && nvidia-slk
by Ike Devolder 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36738 (kernel26-slk) i will no longer support it, and you can delete it because there are definatly enough kernels available thru aur with it nvidia-slk can be deleted too https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36769 (nvidia-slk) if you should doubt, i maintain these packages (BlackEagle) thx

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[aur-general] rxvt-unicode-256color has been deleted
by Thomas Dziedzic 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

rxvt-unicode in extra has 256 color support built with it which made the deleted package redundant.

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[aur-general] delete package
by Joao Cordeiro 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

gst-python [1] is dupe of gstreamer0.10-python in extra. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3062

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