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[aur-general] How to make a PKGBUILD for Kepler/Xavante?
by Pierre Chapuis 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hi listmates, as I said in an earlier email in another thread, I always try to make a PKGBUILD for every piece of software I install. There's an exception though: the Lua webserver Xavante, which is part of the Kepler distribution (http://www.keplerproject.org/xavante/) I can set it up without Pacman that way: ftp://catwell.info/misc/arch/xavante/howto-setup.txt but I haven't found a way to make it work properly with makepkg. The problem is that the setup process run in a fakeroot leaves the string corresponding to $pkgdir in a lot of places in the resulting files, including binary files. I have tried to use sed on the resulting files but I didn't manage to get rid of it everywhere, neither to get a working package. Has somebody already given a try at packaging such an application, and are there examples of packages that deal with this kind of problem? Thanks, -- catwell

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[aur-general] overriding architecture in split packages
by Xyne 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

I'm (sort of) cross-posting but I'm hoping to get a quick answer so I can start this huge upload: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81143 Any thoughts? Thanks, Xyne

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[aur-general] acer_acpi: Removal Request
by Thorsten Toepper 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Hello, I think the acer_acpi package can be removed from the AUR as it is included in the kernel since 2.6.25(stated in the comments), though the current minumum kernel version of Arch is 2.6.24.5 I don't think that laptop Users run this old kernel. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8184 Kind regards, Thorsten / Atsutane - -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAkrA8ycACgkQOeTxfyla+/RD5gDghka/A9HsXJVcXPYrUBM0ylez t9oNoDh+8RuvsgDgzRqtudHFh/hpI6tL2qSsnwaUQ/u9e02J+slMIw== =7uIb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] aurtools, remove?
by Imanol Celaya 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

looking through the community repos seems that aurtools would be completely obsolete, did I miss something or is it time to remove it form community?

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[aur-general] Packages removal
by Anton Bazhenov 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

twisted-web2 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25291 Duplicate of "twisted-web2" package in Community. merkaartor-complete - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25595 Duplicate of "merkaartor" package in AUR (with broken source link). mplayer-mt-git-oss - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27055 Duplicate of "mplayer-mt-oss-git" (see comment). libsipphoneapi-oss - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6186 It seems that it's not needed now. stepmania-cvs-extras - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=4567 Broken links, replaced by "stepmania-extras" package. mp-qt4 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29243 mp-gtk - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29242 Copies of "mp-5" and "mp-5-gtk" packages (see comments). mozilla-firefox-thai - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6334 xulrunner-thai - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6904 thunderbird-nightly-it - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9962 These packages are for old versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. perl-date-korean - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23040 lua-docs - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26840&detail=1 libtheora-thusnelda-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28831 pcfinancial-workaround - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24634 Maintainers wrote that these packages may be deleted (see comments). kmess_blue_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2017 kmess_cartoon_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2018 kmess_crystal_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2019 kmess_violet_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2020 kmess_yellow_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2021 kmess_crystal_ic - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2022 These packages are very old: broken source links, wrong paths in build section. It's simplier to create a new package with themes, than update these.

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

jackdbus - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16272 (orphaned and dupe available as jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus) lv2core - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22216 (not orphan but an unnecessary dupe of lv2)

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[aur-general] Time Taken for Tarball to Reflect Contents
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Is there a delay between an upload and the time it takes for the tarball to be regenerated? Or is it because for the first time I actually uploaded a src pkg (with the extension) when previously I used to upload my own .tar.gz files?

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[aur-general] advice wanted on "surf" package
by Ray Kohler 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

I'm the maintainer of the "surf" package in AUR, and I've discovered an annoyance in the way I've created this package. I'd like some advice on how to resolve it. This package is a web browser from suckless.org, the makers of dwm. It has very much the same coding and build style, involving a config.h file which the user is intended to customize. Most of surf's behavior is decided at compile-time by this file. I've modeled my package after the "dwm" package in community, copying the default config.h into the root of the package tarball and listing it as a local source file. build() then copies it into the unpacked source directory before compiling. This is great for users of dwm who rebuild it from ABS, as it avoids the need to modify build() in order to customize the package - the user just needs to supply their own config.h and change the md5sum for it. This doesn't work so well for my surf package, though, since that's in the AUR. Many (most?) users of AUR packages are auto-updating with helper-tools like yaourt, pbget, and similar utilities, and it's difficult to automatically pull updates to package materials when you've changed one of the files. customizepkg won't help you much either, since that can only modify the PKGBUILD, and not the config.h. It's also annoying to me as the maintainer of the package. Anyone who maintains a package that's meant to have the build customized, rather than compiled as-is, will end up actually maintaining two copies - one "stock" version to submit to AUR, and one customized version for personal use. Obviously, none of these issues are show-stoppers. But they are annoying, and I don't packages I maintain to annoy my end-users. What can I do to make this package more comfortable for the average AUR user? Is software that expects compile-time customization just fundamentally not very compatible with the auto-update concept?

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[aur-general] Removal request
by A Rojas 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Please remove mathematik-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29834 It has been renamed to cantor

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Re: [aur-general] TU apllaing/voting.
by member SpeedVin 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

2009/9/21 member SpeedVin <speedvin(a)archlinux.us> > Hello all. > > I'm using Arch for about 1 year. > I helped Arch community by providing PKGBUILDS and helping on forum. > > I want to introduce me. > My name is Patrick, I'm from the Poland I am working with computers for > long time (12 years). > > Now I'm maintraining 14 packages on AUR in unsupported repo. > List of them > dwm-git 20090813-1 > unsupported devel glib2-newest 2.21.6-1 > unsupported system grub2-git 29072009-1 > unsupported x11 inputproto-git 1.9.99.902-1 > unsupported kernels kernel26-bfs 2.6.31-1 > unsupported lib libsoup-git 20090920-1 1 > unsupported lib libx11-git 1.2.99.901-1 > unsupported modules nvidia-bfs-beta 190.32-1 > unsupported x11 renderproto-git 0.11-1 > unsupported x11 xextproto-git 7.0.99.3-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-keyboard-git 20080809-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-mouse-git 20080808-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-server-git 20090529-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-xinit-git 20080807-1 > Some of them are based on PKGBUILD provieded by ABS and some are based on > packages in AUR , and some are builded myself. > I am programming in Python and C++ ;) > > Now that I've introduced myself I'm looking for someone who wants to > sponsor me (if any). Please feel free to ask any questions I do not > have answered yet. > > Thanks for reading this ;) > >

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