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[aur-general] uploaded package needs checking
by incipiō cerritulus 31 Oct '17

31 Oct '17

Hello all, I am new to this arch linux creating package. I recently uploaded a package "apache-tomcat" can someone check the PKGBUILD and give some advice. I run namcap -i PKGBUILD and the output message is "I: Missing Contributor tag". Thanks for the time reading my message. alrii

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[aur-general] Confusing situation with python-crontab vs python-crontab2
by Karol Babioch 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Hi, there seem to be two packages for python-crontab: - python-crontab: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-crontab/ - python-crontab2: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/python-crontab2/ The same is true for the appropriate python2-* packages. The version without the appended 2 are orphaned and no longer maintained. To make things less confusing I would strongly argue to merge these packages (i.e. delete that latter one(s) and adopt the former one). Ideally tadly, the maintainer of the *-crontab2 packages should do this for himself, but if he is no longer interested in maintaining these packages I would adopt them for myself. What do you guys think about that? Best regards, Karol Babioch

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD review
by Garrett Battaglia 19 Oct '17

19 Oct '17

This is the first time I am packaging for the AUR I would like someone to look over my PKGBUILD below. Thanks, Garrett #Maintainer: Garrett Battaglia <garrett(a)garrettbattaglia.info> pkgname=sysdig-falco pkgver=0.8.1 _sysdigver=0.19.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Behavioral Activity Monitoring With Container Support" arch=('x86_64') url=https://github.com/draios/falco license=('GPL') depends=('dkms') makedepends=('git' 'cmake' 'linux-headers') provides=('sysdig-falco') source=( "http://download.draios.com/stable/rpm/${arch}/falco-${pkgver}-${arch}.rpm" "https://github.com/draios/falco/archive/${pkgver}.tar.gz" "https://github.com/draios/sysdig/archive/${_sysdigver}.tar.gz" "sysdig-falco.install" "sysdig-falco.service") install=$pkgname.install md5sums=( '5e017c747184101a0cc93ffc5b19ca47' 'f3c654ded00f3186f3ff92320204a747' '6ad8b4a7d1b0aa10cd62397318117a67' '8bdb4c61dadd116f4901fa15c20da728' '58fe0d406874c6f565f648d3b10da62a') prepare() { cd ${srcdir} mv sysdig-${_sysdigver} sysdig mv falco-${pkgver} falco rm -rf ./etc/rc.d cd ./falco mkdir build } build() { cd $srcdir/falco/build cmake .. make driver } package() { cd $srcdir mkdir $pkgdir/usr cp -r ./usr/* $pkgdir/usr/ mkdir $pkgdir/etc cp -r ./etc/* $pkgdir/etc/ mkdir -p "$pkgdir/var/lib/dkms/falco/${pkgver}/${kernelVer}/${arch}/module/" cp "$srcdir/falco/build/driver/falco-probe.ko" "$pkgdir/var/lib/dkms/falco/${pkgver}/${kernelVer}/${arch}/module/falco-probe.ko" mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/ cp sysdig-falco.service $pkgdir/usr/lib/systemd/system/ }

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[aur-general] python2-faulthandler
by Pierre-Gildas MILLON 18 Oct '17

18 Oct '17

Hi people, I'm trying to update python2-faulthandler to 3.0. I've created the AUR package 2 years ago and I cannot find it anylonger at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-faulthandler and when I try to push the update I have an error message: python2-faulthandler $ git push remote: error: package already provided by []: python2-faulthandler remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/python2-faulthandler.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) If anyone could help me. Many thanks. Regards, Pierre-Gildas

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[aur-general] Package review
by Konstantin Gizdov 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Hi all, Looking for a bit of help with two new python packages I uploaded to AUR. Packages in question are python-root_numpy & python-hep_ml. So I think I've done the PKGBUILDs correctly, but when I run namcap on the packages I get warnings about unneeded dependencies included and specifically for hep_ml I get warning about not including any ELF files but not labelling it as 'any' platform. My issue is that I have included only dependencies that are listed by the package developers, but I still have namcap complaining. Also, I thought we weren't not supposed to label packages as 'any'. Or am I wrong? Thanks for the help. Regards, Konstantin

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 156, Issue 5
by Jens Hojgaard 16 Oct '17

16 Oct '17

Unsucscribe On Sun, Oct 15, 2017 at 2:00 PM <aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Package review (Eli Schwartz) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2017 00:56:32 -0400 > From: Eli Schwartz <eschwartz(a)archlinux.org> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Package review > Message-ID: <628f318c-75fa-baaa-3867-f6d6151dc48c(a)archlinux.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > On 10/13/2017 11:06 AM, Konstantin Gizdov wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Looking for a bit of help with two new python packages I uploaded to AUR. > > Packages in question are python-root_numpy & python-hep_ml. > > > > So I think I've done the PKGBUILDs correctly, but when I run namcap on > the > > packages I get warnings about unneeded dependencies included and > > specifically for hep_ml I get warning about not including any ELF files > but > > not labelling it as 'any' platform. > > sed -i -e ... $(find -name '*.py') is terrible, see > http://mywiki.wooledge.org/ParsingLs for why, as well as the proper way > to do this. > > Please do not add pointless `msg "now I'm doing this thing that was > obvious from context"` messages. > > As for namcap warning about unneeded dependencies, namcap is a rough > hack and one of its big weaknesses is reliably determining what is > actually a needed dependency. It can only really detect shared library > dependencies, and assumes anything else, like for example python module > dependencies, are unneeded... > > Take everything namcap says with a grain of salt, it can be useful to > point out potential trouble spots but is hardly authoritative. > > > My issue is that I have included only dependencies that are listed by the > > package developers, but I still have namcap complaining. Also, I thought > we > > weren't not supposed to label packages as 'any'. Or am I wrong? > > If this were true, then why does "any" exist? > > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#arch > > -- > Eli Schwartz > >

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[aur-general] When to make a separate package.
by Mikael Blomstrand 07 Oct '17

07 Oct '17

Hi! I just started playing around with making my own PKGBUILDs and just made one for the "*remarkable*" markdown editor. The problem with *remarkable* is that it uses webkitgtk. I was able to find a PR to the official project fixing this and I used this patch in my PKGBUILD. I uploaded the packet as *remarkable-webkit2gtk*. I'm now rethinking if this was the correct approach or if I should have just adopted the existing packet. (Which is orphaned.) My thought was that since the patch have not been incorporated into the official project, I shouldn't taint the pure *remarkable* package. Am I being overconsiderate? In general is this something people care about? Regards, Mikael

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Re: [aur-general] Can my AUR package be reinstated?
by Adam Fontenot 05 Oct '17

05 Oct '17

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 12:19:34PM +0000, Alad Wenter via aur-general wrote > On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 02:17:45AM +0000, Adam Fontenot via aur-general wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The TU "alad" deleted my package, firefox-clean, from the AUR. I'm > > assuming this is a mistake, but I can't contact alad directly because > > their email is hidden on their profile. At first glance, it may appear > > that my version of the Firefox PKGBUILD in Extra does not do anything > > notable, but this is not the case. My package is intended to do three > > things: > > > It's not a mistake. Check the submission guidelines [1]; a package > should only be submitted if it's not overly specialized and useful to > more than 1 user. In this case, all but a few users will be able to > achieve what this package offers by configuration of the regular firefox > package in the repositories. I disagree strongly. It is useful to multiple people: not only did the package already have feedback (a comment from a user), it was extremely popular when I posted about it on Reddit the day before you deleted it: https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comments/72id6q/firefoxclean_a_firefox_b… Furthermore, you have been deleting dozens of AUR packages in the last week since you became a TU. Respectfully, perhaps you should check to see if your expectations for AUR inclusion are quite as stringent as those of the other TUs? > If you had such concern about these "features" > and wanted to disable them at compile time, there's existing packages > which take this further e.g. firefox-esr-privacy. [2] > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/firefox-esr-privacy/ Oddly enough, my AUR package does most of what this one does and more, but it has the extra advantage of tracking the latest version of Firefox instead of ESR. > A restart button is available through an addon. [3] > > [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/restart-my-fox This will not be usable when Firefox 57 hits, because it (along with all other restart addons), isn't compatible with webextensions. I've been purging all XUL extensions from my browser, and that's why I wrote the patch as a replacement. If there's a consensus among TUs that packages like mine are not welcome on the AUR, I'm happy to back down and host the PKGBUILD on Github. Cheers, Adam

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[aur-general] Can my AUR package be reinstated?
by Adam Fontenot 29 Sep '17

29 Sep '17

Hi all, The TU "alad" deleted my package, firefox-clean, from the AUR. I'm assuming this is a mistake, but I can't contact alad directly because their email is hidden on their profile. At first glance, it may appear that my version of the Firefox PKGBUILD in Extra does not do anything notable, but this is not the case. My package is intended to do three things: 1. Set sensible default options that most users will want in the first place. 2. Eliminate *at compile time* code that is not web-browser related (e.g. Pocket). 3. Fix pain points for power users with small, maintainable patches. (e.g. inclusion of a restart button in the file menu) At least items 2 and 3 cannot be done with adjustments to user.js, as the deletion request claims. I don't claim that many people will want to use it, but for those who might, having a package in the AUR to use could save a considerable amount of work. Inclusion in the AUR has never been dependent on the number of users the package benefits, and so far as I can see, firefox-clean doesn't break any rules. Can I recreate the package, or can it be reinstated? Thanks! -Adam Fontenot

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[aur-general] Force Push to AUR Package GIT
by Elias Werberich 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Hello AUR Mailing List, I would like to ask if it is possible to force push to an AUR GIT repository. Sometimes it may be useful if you adobt a package and want to keep your own git history - merging unrelated histories should not be done. Regards, Elias Werberich

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