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[aur-general] Spam in the AUR
by merp boop 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

There's a user by the name "myfilefind" that is promoting his site through the AUR comments it seems. He/she commented on one of my packages, that reads: Comment by: myfilefind on Wed, 04 Mar 2009 08:51:46 +0000 Very useful files search engine. myfilefind.com is a search engine designed to search files in various file sharing and uploading sites http://myfilefind.com Max

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[aur-general] Broken package
by Lucas Salies Brum 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Something seems very wrong here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/emesene-bugfix/emesene-bugfix/PKGBUILD --- Lucas Saliés Brum http://sistematico.org lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org

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[aur-general] Cannot find the source
by Lucas Salies Brum 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

I can not find the sources for this package! http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10316 I wait 24 hours to drop it. Thanks, --- Lucas Saliés Brum http://sistematico.org lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org

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[aur-general] machine-update in AUR
by Mathias Burén 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Could someone please orphan machine-update? Author doesn't respond to emails and I've a working PKGBUILD ready. -- Kind regards, Mathias Burén

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[aur-general] Use of sudo in pkgbuild
by Laurie Clark-Michalek 08 Apr '09

08 Apr '09

Hi, I've been working on the splashy-creator package (updating it to 2.2), and had got it working, when I realised I had a potential problem. I needed to use sudo in the pkgbuild, and so far, I have never seen it used in a package. Is this OK, and/or is there away to avoid it? Here is my package build for inspection: # Contributor: Laurie Clark-Michalek <BluePeppers (at) archlinux (dot) us> pkgname=splashy-creator pkgver=2.2 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A tool for creating Splashy themes." arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.nanolx.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=34" license=('GPL3') depends=('sed' 'pygtk>=2.4' 'python>=2.4' 'splashy') makedepends=('sudo' 'patch') source=(http://nanolx.org/free/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.bz2 $pkgname.patch) md5sums=('615033a2cabab0b132ecc9aff2c07a7b' 'b8095120f36b5f2cc3b1704a7b2e32a6') build() { cd $srcdir/$pkgname ./configure patch ./Makefile $srcdir/splashy-creator.patch sudo make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install || return 1 } The patch is just a small one: 23c23 < @mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/usr/bin/ --- > @mkdir -p $(DESTDIR)/usr/bin/ Thanks, Laurie P.S. This is the first time I've used patch, so is the .patch file alright?

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Re: [aur-general] Use of sudo in pkgbuild
by kludge 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Mathias Burén wrote: > base-devel is a group which includes patch, make etc. > > 2009/4/7 Angel Velásquez <angvp(a)archlinux.com.ve> > >>> You don't need to depend on automake because it's in base-devel >>> >> I said "make", I've installed (office machine) with the FTP image, and >> I don't had make :o, and neither patch >> >> -- >> Angel Velásquez >> angvp @ irc.freenode.net >> Linux Counter: #359909 >> cf: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/13407 for discussion on this point

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[aur-general] gpgme03 from unsupported?
by Chris Brannon 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

I found this one while looking for orphans, and it seems like a candidate for deletion, since gpgme is already in extra. Any objections? -- Chris

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[aur-general] OneSwarm in AUR wants to update itself
by Mathias Burén 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi, I just created a package for OneSwarm [1] and uploaded it to the AUR [2]. The package works fine except that it has an auto-update feature, which of course doesn't work since the user does not have write access to /opt/OneSwarm. What is the correct way of dealing with this? Should I make /opt/OneSwarm writable by the users group? Thanks, Mathias [1] http://oneswarm.cs.washington.edu/ [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25245

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[aur-general] First Package
by Lucas Salies Brum 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

My first package in AUR was submitted today, someone could check to see if I did not crap? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19751 Thank you. --- Lucas Saliés Brum http://sistematico.org lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org

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[aur-general] Adoptable AUR packages
by Ashok Gautham 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

There are three kinds of orphans in AUR at the moment. 1) A sea of packages that have either become obselete or have been added in some other package. ( Like dolphin ). 2) The others are ruby/python/perl libraries. The problem with these is that installing them using pyPI or gems is quite simple (though not highly recommended). So many of these get orphaned 3) The last category is where maintainers do not have the time to do justice to their packages and hence orphan it. I found I had a little free time and could adopt some packages. I found myself in this sea. It would be good if we can start a wiki page where every "useful" package that is currently orphaned can be added and removed once adopted. I checked out the wiki. The AUR cleanup day is the closest I got to. We would need something like an inverse of that now. So any user who wants to adopt a package should go to the page, choose whatever he wants to adopt and remove it from the page. I feel this will clear up a lot of packages in the second and last categories. Also, we can give a guideline for people who disown packages to add it to the corresponding page (obselete/required) in the hope that someone will take over the package --- Ashok `ScriptDevil` Gautham

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