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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Francesco Groccia 05 Dec '09

05 Dec '09

Hi, could anybody orphan localepurge <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11975>? Current maintainer was contacted about two mouths ago and he hasn't replied yet. Regards, -- F.Gr.

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[aur-general] Package Rename
by Steve Holmes 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: RIPEMD160 I recently took over the orca-svn package in AUR and am wondering if or how it can be renamed. I would like to rename it to orca-git because the gnome maintainers now keep the latest changes in git instead of svn. If it cannot be renamed, then I will need to have this package deleted and I can create a new one called orca-git. Thanks for the help to a new AUR package maintainer. <Steve> (sholmes88) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEAREDAAYFAksZSSMACgkQWSjv55S0LfEUyACfYKdgOtNIxoQsRCqFZZQMIdts xXcAoKxtcTRk5hccFH8SMEJJV+e7KgHJ =JboK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] TU application: Laszlo Papp
by Laszlo Papp 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hello TUs, I'd like to re-apply again for TU position. Since I've applied [0], many things have happened, I tried to do my best. My contributions since my previous application: - Packaging (with some new packages) [1] - AUR, Pacman, AIF project patches - Newsletter/Magazine, AUR Hungarian translation - Mailing list, IRC, Forum and Wiki activity/help - Maintaining of AUR2 project (with Sebastian) [2] - Hyper Activity on the last 2 BUG days :) ( + I try to be on Sunday too) After 4 months, I'd like to be a useful member of the TU team again. My earlier goals remained the same, but extended with some new ones: a) Maintain and support embedded development tools/applications. b) To be active on BUG days again and again, try to help in its organisation, help the Community Packages thread too with editing/closing bugs. c) Maintain and support Lua scripting language/modules. d) Maintain and collaborate with the AUR2 Project (later aurman[3], cli frontend), finish the first 'Roadmap' to provide a useful release. This is my main focus definitely these days. Sergej Pupykin has kindly agreed to sponsor my application. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to your great team! Best Regards, Laszlo Papp [0] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/006071.html [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=djszapi [2] http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=aur2;a=summary [3] http://git.berlios.de/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=aurman;a=shortlog

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[aur-general] removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Could anyone please remove my package magickwand [1], I have re-uploaded it under name php-magickwand which is IMO better name. thanks in advance, Lukas [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22762

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Re: [aur-general] Orphan Request
by atsutane＠freethoughts.de 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

On Fri, 4 Dec 2009 13:33:39 +0000 (GMT) Mark Foxwell <markfoxwell79(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi All, > > The linux-wbfs-manager package in AUR > (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29128) has been out of date > for 3 months and has been flagged as out of date for ages too. I have > emailed the maintainer (eirik) with the changes to the PKGBUILD for > the new version (just a version bump and change the md5sum) but I > haven't got a response. > > I would happily maintain the package so can you orphan it for me? Or > is there anything else I need to do first? > > Thanks, > > Mark (fastfret79) done -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Stefan Husmann 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hello, the voting period for Atsutane's TU application has now ended. With 9 yes votes, 3 no votes, 3 abstains and 2 additional voters, who obviously were not counted, and having 22 active TUs (according to the wiki), quorum has been reached and the application has been accepted. So Atsutane now is a TU. Congratulations and welcome aboard, Thorsten! Go through the new TU checklist here (I've already given you TU status on the AUR. Please check if it works and if the language settings are the ones you want): http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist#TODO_list_fo… Feel free to ask questions. Regards Stefan.

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by Mark Foxwell 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi All, The linux-wbfs-manager package in AUR (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29128) has been out of date for 3 months and has been flagged as out of date for ages too. I have emailed the maintainer (eirik) with the changes to the PKGBUILD for the new version (just a version bump and change the md5sum) but I haven't got a response. I would happily maintain the package so can you orphan it for me? Or is there anything else I need to do first? Thanks, Mark (fastfret79)

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[aur-general] KDE 4.4
by Laurie Clark-Michalek 04 Dec '09

04 Dec '09

Hi, In the spirit of all the desktop haters, is anyone here (apart from me) looking forward to KDE 4.4? From this angle, that is, not minding dbus too much, it looks to be very promising. They have some interesting stuff due to be merged into the trunk, like tabbed window management, revamped oxygen, and other such things. I took the time to read their feature list for 4.4 and it all looks good. Also, does anyone have any opinions on their changing of KDE to KDE SC (KDE Software Compilation)? Personally, it feels a bit silly, and I imagine KDE will continue to prevail, but it's not too important anyway. Regards, Laurie

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[aur-general] provides version for VCS packages
by Côme Pruvost 03 Dec '09

03 Dec '09

Hello ! It's been some time I'm facing the same problem. When one build a package from VCS, one should include the original package name (usually $pkgname with -svn -git ... removed) in the provides array so packages depending on the program provided can find it. For example, if I want to package python-poppler-bzr, I will include "provides=('python-poppler')" so desigle can satisfy its own "depends=('python-poppler')". But now, imagine that desigle needs a recent version of python-poppler, and so it has "depends=('python-poppler>=0.2')". Then, makepkg will not detect python-poppler provided by python-poppler-bzr because it cannot compare versions. One then have to specify the version of the package provided. In case of a VCS, it's not always easy because it can change from a revision to another. So one need a way to get that version, and use it in the provides array. That's here I need your advice, because I successfully tested some workarounds, but I'm not really sure of their "ugliness"... Solution 1: Use pkg-config file (not always present) with awk build() { ... _realver=`cat path/to/package.pc | awk '/^Version/{print $2}'` provides=("realname=${_realver}") } Pros : rather easy Cons : Needs awk and some people hate awk, needs file.pc set. Solution 2: Use pkg-config with grep and sed because some people hate awk build() { ... _realver=`cat path/to/package.pc | grep 'Version' | sed 's/Version: //'` provides=("realname=${_realver}") } Pros : only generic tools are used Cons : still needs file.pc, less clear Solution 3: Use configure.ac build { ... echo "provides=(realpkg=@VERSION@)" > ${pkgname}.provides.in echo "AC_OUTPUT([${pkgname}.provides])" >> configure.ac ./autogen.sh ... source ${pkgname}.provides } Pros : should work in more cases, fun somehow isn't it ? Cons : rather complex, maybe incorrect with the new autoconf syntax (AC_CONFIG_FILES) and it seems that files are then generated two times. Well, thanks for reading, let's discuss that now :) Cilyan

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[aur-general] How to include sources from sourceforge + creating links not provided by package
by Javier Vasquez 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, I'd like to know how to specify sources coming from sorceforge in PKGBUILD, and example could work just fine. Also I'd like to know how to create a link automatically once the package has been installed. This implies removing it when removing the package. If necessary, checking if the link exists when upgrading the package (if the package gets removed before installing new version, that might be handled by the removing of the link when removing the package)... Thanks, -- Javier.

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