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Re: [aur-general] Maintainer vs Contributor tag let's find a solution ; )
by Loui Chang 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 12:43:41PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > # Maintainer: Joe User <joe.user(a)example.com> > > Note the use of Maintainer... In the end, it is a comment and nothing more > so who really cares about this. Yep.

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Re: [aur-general] Maintainer vs Contributor tag let's find a solution ; )
by Loui Chang 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 10:56:33AM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > My summary of this: > > 1) Maintainer tag: It is a comment - makepkg does not care so nor should > you > > 2) $foo vs ${foo} : they do the same thing (except in rare cases where > brackets are needed...) - makepkg does not care so nor should you. > > 3) "$srcdr" vs $srcdir. The quotes are good for people who build in > directories with spaces in their name - so it may be good to use quotes. > But I don't care about people who use spaces in directory names, so I am not > going to do this. Note the prototype does include quotes... > > 4) $startdir/src vs $srcdir. $srcdir is correct. As stated in the > PKGBUILD man page, there is no guarantee that these will continue to point > at the same directory in future pacman versions. Case closed!

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Thomas Jost 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi, I uploaded the wrong PKGBUILD on [1] (it was supposed to be kernel26-source, but I uploaded kernel26 instead...). Could someone please delete this package? Thanks in advance and sorry for the inconvenience. Thomas [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23126

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[aur-general] How to handle interchangeable dependencies?
by hollunder＠gmx.at 07 Apr '09

07 Apr '09

Hi there. I'm looking for a clean way to handle packages that can replace others. Examples: lash can be substituted by lash-git, it works fine, except namcap complains: hydrogen-svn E: Dependency detected and not included (lash-git) from files ['usr/bin/hydrogen'] hydrogen-svn W: Dependency included and not needed (lash) Adding 'lash' or 'lash=0.6.0' to the provides array of lash-git doesn't help. I have the same situation with for example jack-audio-connection-kit where we have quite a number of different packages that all provide the same basic functionality and are interchangeable. Note that it mostly works with provides, it just isn't clean and there are cases where it can break stuff. Is there a solution to this? Best regards, Philipp

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[aur-general] Request deletion lv2-c++-tools
by hollunder＠gmx.at 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23651 It seems like the c++ in the name causes problems, at least with yaourt. I made a new package with cpp instead. Philipp

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[aur-general] AUR package removal request
by revel 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hello, Please remove [1] from AUR. I changed the package name to [2] some time ago and kept [1] in kind of deprecated state. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15158 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22238 -- revel

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[aur-general] Submitting a new package (sunjdk)
by M Rawash 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

hi, i made a PKGBUILD that comprises both sun's jdk+jre (nothing weird), however, i'm not sure if that's OK with aur, so i thought i'd ask first.. tell me if you need more details.. regards M Rawash

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Re: [aur-general] How to handle interchangeable dependencies?
by Jan de Groot 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:46 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > That is a different problem.... > > The brasero-lite PKGBUILD should have provides=("brasero=2.26.0") in > it. Sound-juicer requires "brasero>=2.26.0" so just providing > brasero > is not enough. The be correct: provides=("brasero=${pkgver}") It's shitty to update the provide version everytime ;)

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[aur-general] legal question
by Firmicus 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hi everyone I just noticed that two packages in AUR appear to install fonts whose use is illegal. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10408 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16470 (here the fonts themselves are pirated) Both packages have many votes. Even though it might not be an infringement from our part to offer the PKGBUILDs, it still does not look very good for Arch Linux to be encouraging the use of illegal software (note that font is also software). Unless someone provides me with good arguments against it, I will delete the above two packages during the next few days. Best, F

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[aur-general] TU appliance Jens Maucher (defcon)
by Stefan Husmann 06 Apr '09

06 Apr '09

Hello, the voting period for Defcon has ended, and he did not get the majority of votes. He got four times "yes", eleven times "no" and four abstains. So, that is democracy, but it would be nice if there would be some discussion about the reasons for the failure. Regards Stefan

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