[aur-general] What's happened with URxvt upstream? And how to build dependent packages now?

Radislav Golubtsov

24 Aug 2021 24 Aug '21

6:55 p.m.

Hi guys, First of all, I’d like to say, I’m a long-time and happy user of the URxvt terminal emulator and more precisely — of its AUR package "rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling" [1]. It’s the very good complement to a WM of my choice (Window Maker) for many years. From aside, I didn’t updated Arch on my laptop around a year (11 months with a couple-triple of extra days). And in the end of last eek I’ve decided to do so (with help, of couse, pacman-static from the private repo of Eli Schwartz [2] — and then with the stock pacman straight out). Finally, my system is running well with all the official packages updated and those from the AUR too, except one mentioned for this asking — URxvt. AFAIK, and as checked out some of the AUR packages, resembling and augmenting functionality of the URxvt terminal emulator, — they are all pulling out the upstream tarball in their PKGBUILDs from Mark Lehmann’s website. The latter is currently unavailable, unfortunately. And the URxvt tarball is also unavailable for downloading. What to do now with this, guys? — Maybe some of you know where to get aforementined URxvt tarball (another URL, publicly advertised, or someone hosted it on their website). Thanks in advance for a suitable solution or direction to solve this out there. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling/ [2] https://pkgbuild.com/~eschwartz/repo/x86_64-extracted/ -- Kind regards, Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov

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Caleb Maclennan

24 Aug 24 Aug

7:09 p.m.

On 2021-08-24 21:55, Radislav Golubtsov via aur-general wrote:

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What to do now with this, guys? — Maybe some of you know where to get aforementined URxvt tarball (another URL, publicly advertised, or someone hosted it on their website).

The current version of rxvt-unicode is 9.26. The upstream site has all the old versions available going back decades, but they are in a directory called Attic. The AUR package you use needs to be updated to either point at the Attic URL if it needs an old version or the current version if it can do that. I suggest commenting to this effect on the AUR package. Also, since it's been a while since you looked around, and as a 10+ year user of URXVT myself can I suggest there are some better alternatives these days? Alacritty would be my top suggestion, but but no means the only good one. Caleb

Radislav Golubtsov

8:03 p.m.

Wednesday, August 25, 2021 6:09 AM +11:00 from Caleb Maclennan :

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On 2021-08-24 21:55, Radislav Golubtsov via aur-general wrote: What to do now with this, guys? — Maybe some of you know where to get aforementined URxvt tarball (another URL, publicly advertised, or someone hosted it on their website).

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The current version of rxvt-unicode is 9.26. The upstream site has all the old versions available going back decades, but they are in a directory called Attic. The AUR package you use needs to be updated to either point at the Attic URL if it needs an old version or the current version if it can do that. I suggest commenting to this effect on the AUR package.

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Also, since it's been a while since you looked around, and as a 10+ year user of URXVT myself can I suggest there are some better alternatives these days? Alacritty would be my top suggestion, but but no means the only good one.

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Caleb Thank you, Caleb, for a quick answer! But how to reach this directory (and URxvt tarballs within it)? — What is the actual URL for it? — I’ve tried some combinations but with no luck: in general I get very long timeouts in a web browser trying to reach that website [1] and even cURL responses from it like the following, timed out too: $ curl -I http://dist.schmorp.de curl: (28) Failed to connect to dist.schmorp.de port 80 after 128869 ms: Connection timed out $ $ curl -I http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 curl: (28) Failed to connect to dist.schmorp.de port 80 after 130024 ms: Connection timed out $ $ curl -I http://schmorp.de HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2021 19:54:41 GMT Server: Apache/2.4.48 (Debian) mod_perl/2.0.11 Perl/v5.32.1 Location: http://www.schmorp.de/ Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 $ $ curl -I http://software.schmorp.de curl: (28) Failed to connect to software.schmorp.de port 80 after 129540 ms: Connection timed out The affected AUR package’s page has already had a comment from the user called "natezb" that the version shoud be changed to 9.26 [2]; I’ve tried to change it in the PKGBUILD (and even manually type it in the tarball’s filename (when intended to download it directly), but with no luck — response timeouts still in effect on my side. What’s regarding your proposal instead of URxvt (Better Wheel Scrolling) — Alacritty [3] — I’d indeed, definitely have to try it out. Thank you for a suggestion. [1] http://dist.schmorp.de [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling/#comm... [3] https://alacritty.org -- Kind regards, Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov

nick black

8:23 p.m.

Radislav Golubtsov via aur-general left as an exercise for the reader:

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What’s regarding your proposal instead of URxvt (Better Wheel Scrolling) — Alacritty [3] — I’d indeed, definitely have to try it out. Thank you for a suggestion.

I highly recommend giving Kitty and WezTerm (especially the latter's most recent nightly builds) a try, or foot if you're on wayland. Alacritty is pretty weak on emoji, combining characters, and has no mainline bitmap protocol (ayosec has his graphics branch, but even that only implements Sixel). It's of course a fine terminal, and certainly a step up from URxvt. foot is a piece of art. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Radislav Golubtsov

8:57 p.m.

Thank you, Nick, too for your proposals, But what’s regarding unavailability of Mark Lehmann’s website and those URxvt tarballs from my side is probably caused by network problems, as Caleb supposed to be — maybe my ISP provider has blocked his website [1], that is very-very strange thing.)) Anyway, thank you for the terminal emulator alternatives to URxvt. [1] http://dist.schmorp.de -- Kind regards, Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov

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Wednesday, August 25, 2021 7:23 AM +11:00 from nick black : Radislav Golubtsov via aur-general left as an exercise for the reader:

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What’s regarding your proposal instead of URxvt (Better Wheel Scrolling) — Alacritty [3] — I’d indeed, definitely have to try it out. Thank you for a suggestion. I highly recommend giving Kitty and WezTerm (especially the latter's most recent nightly builds) a try, or foot if you're on wayland. Alacritty is pretty weak on emoji, combining characters, and has no mainline bitmap protocol (ayosec has his graphics branch, but even that only implements Sixel).

It's of course a fine terminal, and certainly a step up from URxvt.

foot is a piece of art.

-- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

Ralf Mardorf

25 Aug 25 Aug

1:09 a.m.

On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:57:19 +0300, Radislav Golubtsov wrote:

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[1] http://dist.schmorp.de

Perhaps just a temporarily unavailability? [rocketmouse@archlinux rxvt]$ wget http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2{,.sig} --2021-08-25 03:03:57-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 Resolving dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)... 5.9.56.12 Connecting to dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)|5.9.56.12|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 904950 (884K) [application/x-tar] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2’ rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 100%[======================================================================================================>] 883.74K 5.14MB/s in 0.2s 2021-08-25 03:03:58 (5.14 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2’ saved [904950/904950] --2021-08-25 03:03:58-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig Reusing existing connection to dist.schmorp.de:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 152 [application/pgp-signature] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig’ rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig 100%[======================================================================================================>] 152 --.-KB/s in 0s 2021-08-25 03:03:58 (9.33 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig’ saved [152/152] FINISHED --2021-08-25 03:03:58-- Total wall clock time: 0.3s Downloaded: 2 files, 884K in 0.2s (5.14 MB/s) [rocketmouse@archlinux rxvt]$ wget http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2{,.sig} --2021-08-25 03:05:03-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2 Resolving dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)... 5.9.56.12 Connecting to dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)|5.9.56.12|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 900910 (880K) [application/x-tar] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2’ rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2 100%[======================================================================================================>] 879.79K 5.14MB/s in 0.2s 2021-08-25 03:05:03 (5.14 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2’ saved [900910/900910] --2021-08-25 03:05:03-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig Reusing existing connection to dist.schmorp.de:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 152 [application/pgp-signature] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig’ rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig 100%[======================================================================================================>] 152 --.-KB/s in 0s 2021-08-25 03:05:03 (8.93 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig’ saved [152/152] FINISHED --2021-08-25 03:05:03-- Total wall clock time: 0.3s Downloaded: 2 files, 880K in 0.2s (5.14 MB/s)

Radislav Golubtsov

12:40 p.m.

Hi Ralf, First of all, the Community, sorry for my top-posting here — I'm currently writing from a smartphone with myMail defaults. Regarding "temporary unavailability" of Mark Lehmann's website and those URxvt tarballs there, Ralf, on my side, I'd like to say, they are unavailable in my location from the end of last week up to now. Please be so kind to email me the current stable source tarball of URxvt: rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 along with its respective signature file — they weigh less then one megabyte — so, this is not, I think, a burden for your mail service to send them out to me. First, I have to rehabilitate the possibility to work with the URxvt Better Wheel Scrolling AUR package on a daily basis (because currently I'm limited to use Xterm only), and after that I have to discover and to try out those terminal emulators, listed to me in previous replies by Caleb and Nick. Thank you in advance! -- Kind regards, Radislav Golubtsov (Sent from myMail for Android) Wednesday, 25 August 2021, 04:10AM +03:00 from Ralf Mardorf via aur-general aur-general@lists.archlinux.org :

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On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:57:19 +0300, Radislav Golubtsov wrote: [1] http://dist.schmorp.de

Perhaps just a temporarily unavailability?

[rocketmouse@archlinux rxvt]$ wget http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2{,.sig } --2021-08-25 03:03:57-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 Resolving dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)... 5.9.56.12 Connecting to dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)|5.9.56.12|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 904950 (884K) [application/x-tar] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2’

rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 100%[======================================================================================================> ] 883.74K 5.14MB/s in 0.2s

2021-08-25 03:03:58 (5.14 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2’ saved [904950/904950]

--2021-08-25 03:03:58-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig Reusing existing connection to dist.schmorp.de:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 152 [application/pgp-signature] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig’

rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig 100%[======================================================================================================> ] 152 --.-KB/s in 0s

2021-08-25 03:03:58 (9.33 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2.sig’ saved [152/152]

FINISHED --2021-08-25 03:03:58-- Total wall clock time: 0.3s Downloaded: 2 files, 884K in 0.2s (5.14 MB/s) [rocketmouse@archlinux rxvt]$ wget http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2{,.sig } --2021-08-25 03:05:03-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2 Resolving dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)... 5.9.56.12 Connecting to dist.schmorp.de (dist.schmorp.de)|5.9.56.12|:80... connected. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 900910 (880K) [application/x-tar] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2’

rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2 100%[======================================================================================================> ] 879.79K 5.14MB/s in 0.2s

2021-08-25 03:05:03 (5.14 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2’ saved [900910/900910]

--2021-08-25 03:05:03-- http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/Attic/rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig Reusing existing connection to dist.schmorp.de:80. HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK Length: 152 [application/pgp-signature] Saving to: ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig’

rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig 100%[======================================================================================================> ] 152 --.-KB/s in 0s

2021-08-25 03:05:03 (8.93 MB/s) - ‘rxvt-unicode-9.25.tar.bz2.sig’ saved [152/152]

FINISHED --2021-08-25 03:05:03-- Total wall clock time: 0.3s Downloaded: 2 files, 880K in 0.2s (5.14 MB/s)

Mehdi Sadeghi

26 Aug 26 Aug

7:35 a.m.

On 25.08.21 14:40, Radislav Golubtsov via aur-general wrote:

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Hi Ralf, First of all, the Community, sorry for my top-posting here — I'm currently writing from a smartphone with myMail defaults. Regarding "temporary unavailability" of Mark Lehmann's website and those URxvt tarballs there, Ralf, on my side, I'd like to say, they are unavailable in my location from the end of last week up to now. Please be so kind to email me the current stable source tarball of URxvt: rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 along with its respective signature file — they weigh less then one megabyte — so, this is not, I think, a burden for your mail service to send them out to me. First, I have to rehabilitate the possibility to work with the URxvt Better Wheel Scrolling AUR package on a daily basis (because currently I'm limited to use Xterm only), and after that I have to discover and to try out those terminal emulators, listed to me in previous replies by Caleb and Nick. Thank you in advance!

Hi Radislav, I made a temporary mirror of the top most directory, you can download the file from there: https://mehdix.org/~mx/rxvt-unicode/ Cheers, Mehdi

Radislav Golubtsov

30 Aug 30 Aug

6:25 p.m.

Thursday, August 26, 2021 6:36 PM +11:00 from Mehdi Sadeghi via aur-general : On 25.08.21 14:40, Radislav Golubtsov via aur-general wrote:

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Hi Ralf, First of all, the Community, sorry for my top-posting here — I'm currently writing from a smartphone with myMail defaults. Regarding "temporary unavailability" of Mark Lehmann's website and those URxvt tarballs there, Ralf, on my side, I'd like to say, they are unavailable in my location from the end of last week up to now. Please be so kind to email me the current stable source tarball of URxvt: rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 along with its respective signature file — they weigh less then one megabyte — so, this is not, I think, a burden for your mail service to send them out to me. First, I have to rehabilitate the possibility to work with the URxvt Better Wheel Scrolling AUR package on a daily basis (because currently I'm limited to use Xterm only), and after that I have to discover and to try out those terminal emulators, listed to me in previous replies by Caleb and Nick. Thank you in advance! Hi Radislav,

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I made a temporary mirror of the top most directory, you can download the file from there:

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https://mehdix.org/~mx/rxvt-unicode/

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Cheers, Mehdi Hi Mehdi, Thank you very much for creating this mirror of the URxvt current source for me (and for those like me). Yes, I have downloaded the tarball from your mirror site, but prior to this I have already got this tarball with accompanied signature files, directly emailed me by Ralf (rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 et al.). Today I have rebuilt ($ makepkg -sirc) my favorite AUR package (Rxvt Unicode Better Wheel Scrolling) using the source tarball from Ralf email. But yours, Mehdi, is also the same - I have compared them both.)))) - Thank you! $ ls -al ~/aur/build/rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling/ ... -rw-r--r-- 1 904950 Aug 30 19:27 rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2 -rw-r--r-- 1 901544 Aug 30 19:34 rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling-9.26-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst ... And now I am again a happy user of the URxvt Better Wheel Scrolling terminal emu: $ pacman -Qm ... rxvt-unicode-better-wheel-scrolling 9.26-1 ... Thank you very much to all of you guys! -- Kind regards, Radislav (Radicchio) Golubtsov

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