October 2010 - Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] Removal request
by A Rojas 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Please remove my package knights-kde4 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35969 I have reuploaded as knights, since the old KDE3 version is now gone.

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[aur-general] Delete request: polynominal-free
by and＠cifra.donetsk.ua 18 Oct '10

18 Oct '10

Please delete "polynominal-free" http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41888 Package is created because of my mistake and AUR have more actually package.

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[aur-general] delete
by Juan Diego Tascón 17 Oct '10

17 Oct '10

Good day Could someone please delete this package from the aur: opencv-beta chao

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[aur-general] Cleanup regarding Gens (Genesis emulator) packages
by Try Again 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi, As Gens (which contains i386 asm code) is now compilable on x86_64 thanks to multilib packages, I wrote updated PKGBUILDs for gens and gens-gs (a fork of gens). However, many entries in the AUR provide Gens but are somewhat dead or abandoned. So, here are my requests : - first, gens-opengl, gens-mythgame-opengl, gens-cvs, bin32-gens should be deleted. Theirs sources are unreachable and OpenGL support is integrated in gens-gs. - secondly, I would like to adopt gens-gs. Its maintainer did not answer to our multiple requests for updating the sources URL. On the other end, the maintainer of gens still seems active, so I'll try to contact him. - finally, if I adopt and update gens-gs, bin32-gens-gs becomes useless. AUR URLs : - gens-opengl: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1463 - gens-mythgame-opengl: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10966 - gens-cvs: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=691 - bin32-gens: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19663 - gens-gs: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21612 - bin32-gens-gs: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24073

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by Mark Foxwell 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi, Please can you orphan re-alpine: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29123 Package is out of date and I have emailed the maintainer with an updated PKGBUILD but not had any response for two weeks. Thanks in advance, Mark (fastfret79)

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[aur-general] Greetings from Alibloke
by Alasdair Haswell 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hello, I've recently joined this list and thought I should introduce myself. I'm a linux sysadmin for a fairly large hosting company and have been using linux for around eight years now. I've been running Arch for a little over a year and it's quickly become my distro of choice. The AUR is an exceptional resource and I've decided to contribute some of my time towards maintaining some packages. I've picked up an orphan; rng-tools and updated it to the latest version. It's my first attempt at writing a PKGBUILD, any comments/suggestions would be welcome. I'm also looking at updating the meanwhile library, it looks to have been out of date for some years now. I've emailed the maintainer with no response - how would I go about taking over this package? Regards, Ali.

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Simon Stoakley 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Hi, atlass_cpp [1] can be deleted, it's a dup of atlas_cpp [2] + it's out of date and an orphan. Thanks Simon [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27732 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16720

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[aur-general] Wine removal requests
by Det 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

Heyeyeh, So here's some unnecessary/obsolete wine packages that should be wiped out from the face of AUR Ò_Ó: bin32-wine-wow-hardware-cursor: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33975 wine-stable-wc: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33231 wine-wc: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27298 wine-wow-hardware-cursor: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33974 (users claiming that WoW patch v4.0.1 allows the usage of [community]/[multilib]'s vanilla wine without issues - so all those WoW Wine packages have become obsolete) wine-key: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30473 (maintainer claims that "the key repeat bug has been fixed a loooong time ago") Thanks for your time, Det

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[aur-general] wine-wow-hardware-cursor and bin32-wine-wow-hardware-cursor removal request
by Przemek Aksamit 16 Oct '10

16 Oct '10

wine-wow-hardware-cursor and bin32-wine-wow-hardware-cursor are not needed any more and should be removed. World of Warcraft got opengl hardware cursor in last path (4.0.1). extcake

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by Adam Hani Schakaki 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Hello, please orphan go-openoffice-el [1] and go-openoffice-es [2] since those are outdated for a long time but don't get updated. Thanks in advance Adam Hani Schakaki [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27124 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26321

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[aur-general] Changing email address for account on AUR
by Magnus Therning 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I've just inherited the arch-haskell AUR account from Don, and yesterday I did two things: • Changed the email address associated with the account • Changed the password for the account I managed to fail with both: • I misspelt the email address, it should have been magnus+arch-haskell(a)therning.org • I failed in copy-pasting the correct password into the encrypted file where I keep credentials related to arch-haskell Any chance I can get any help sorting this out? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[aur-general] kdelibs-nohal
by Radu Andries 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Could you please delete kdelibs-nohal? I won't update it any more. admiral0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iF4EAREIAAYFAky20OAACgkQWdPnhb/1V0Lc9wD+OsydtfRcSd3h2RIwN6RKX6fO VMXCchpjvW2QHxml14wA/2+kpQ5fZgeuHJkqjqhpTS/p18bsBsRRG1AIp6p+niXS =ng13 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Assigning Numbers to User and Group
by Steve Holmes 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

I've been working on an alternate PKGBUILD for speech dispatcher where it would run as a system wide service by default. In doing this, I created a user, speechd and a group, a11y so I could keep the speech environment secure through the unix domain socket. So far, it seems to be looking and working pretty good. Anyway, I don't know how numeric IDs are assigned to users and groups - especially those intended to be used by system daemons like mysql or postgreql. I have postgresql on my box and it does this same kind of thing with user and group creation. Do you know what values I should be using so I don't conflict with other potential packages? If you want an example of what I'm talking about, see the PKGBUILD script for postgreql it creates a user and group on the fly as needed. I plan to do the same with my project. Thanks for any help you can.

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[aur-general] Please delete offlineimap-idle-git
by Ng Oon-Ee 14 Oct '10

14 Oct '10

Source no longer exists, it was merged into offlineimap back some time ago (and subsequently deleted for causing too many crashes). offlineimap itself is unfortunately unmaintained (but still working for now). http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30592

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[aur-general] Request for deletion: gmpc-plugins-0.20.0
by Cédric Girard 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

Hi, Could someone please delete the package gmpc-plugins-0.20.0 [1]? The package is a duplicate of gmpc-plugins and has not been updated since its creation despite missing dependencies. I think this package was first created because gmpc-plugins was out-of-date and not orphaned. I've contacted the previous maintainer since and taken over. Thanks. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39206 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29603 -- Cédric Girard

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[aur-general] ttf-ubuntu
by Simon Legner 13 Oct '10

13 Oct '10

Hi, the AUR package ttf-ubuntu-beta [1] is outdated and replaced by the packages mentioned below. I'd remove it. ttf-ubuntu-family-fonts [2] and ttf-ubuntu-font-family [3] provide the new ubuntu font. The former package uses a package name not complying with the source filename. Further on it uses strange version numbers and it is built using a source archive from font.ubuntu.com, but uses only the precompiled ttf-files. Therefore the download 2.3MB instead of 0.7MB seems unnecessary. Please consider deletion of ttf-ubuntu-beta [1] and ttf-ubuntu-family-fonts [2]. Regards, Simon [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40402 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41204 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41465

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[aur-general] Deletion request of dconf
by Adam Hani Schakaki 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

Hello, Please remove my dconf [1] package from the AUR since it is in [extra]. Thanks Adam Hani Schakaki [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38530

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Warning: MESA 7.9 going to testing
by Daniel Isenmann 12 Oct '10

12 Oct '10

On Sat, 9 Oct 2010 09:55:43 +0200 Andreas Radke <a.radke(a)arcor.de> wrote: > I'm working on the new MESA release today. Please don't -Syu until all > 3D drivers have been rebuild properly. If you have trouble with your > card catch me in out IRC channels. > > -Andy I discoverd today that fusion-icon won't run with the new update, because of the missing glxinfo. This program is now located under "mesa-demos". fusion-icon complains about the missing glxinfo and won't start, so install "mesa-demos" manually at the moment. @fusion-icon maintainer: Should be added as a depend to the package or at least a note should be posted to that. -Daniel

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[aur-general] delete pkg: xmltv_grab_de-py
by Ulf Winkelvos 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

hi , please remove: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32631 project seems to be dead. Thanks, Ulf

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[aur-general] Removal Request (ompload)
by fallenwizard 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hello, Please remove ompload from AUR. It got replaced by omploader-git. Thanks in advance.

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[aur-general] please update ruby-gnome2-all
by Guten 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26299

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[aur-general] Delete broadcom-wl-patched
by David Campbell 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Please delete [broadcom-wl-patched][1]. It does not work with the current kernel and [broadcom-wl][2] provides the correct working patch for the current kernel version. [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33876 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 -- David Campbell

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by soup＠soultrap.net 11 Oct '10

11 Oct '10

Hi Please orphan start-stop-daemon ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9808 ). Package has been out of date for a long time and it's been a week since I sent Vladimir an email with no response. Thanks.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] new pkg for extra: LXDM
by Loui Chang 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

On Sun 10 Oct 2010 14:32 +0200, Andreas Radke wrote: > lxdm 0.3.0-1 is now in testing. please check for remaining issues and > maybe how to improve file/dir permissions. > > Please someone with git access add > > #x:5:respawn:/usr/sbin/lxdm >& /dev/null > > to /etc/inittab in our initscripts. Four examples is probably plenty. You probably shouldn't add bashisms into the inittab either.

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[aur-general] Deletion request: grads2
by Xavier Corredor Llano 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hello, Please delete grads2 -> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41147 because real package is http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7868 thanks -- Xavier Corredor Llano Bogotá - Colombia

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[aur-general] Deletion request: fedora-xdg-menu-cvs
by David Spicer 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hello, Please delete my package fedora-xdg-menu-cvs[1] from the AUR. Fedora has moved to git now. Best regards, David Spicer [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35425

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[aur-general] Please orphan haskell-convertible-text
by Peter Simons 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hi, the package <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34179> has been out-of-date for a while, and the maintainers respond neither to e-mail nor to messages left on AUR. Could you please orphan the package? Take care, Peter

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[aur-general] Deletion request: gmpy
by Adam Chidlow 10 Oct '10

10 Oct '10

Hello, Could gmpy http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20377 please be deleted? It has not been updated in 2 years, and does not build. I have made packages to replace it for python3: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41632 and python2: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41633. Regards, Adam

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[aur-general] xf86-video-evergreen-git is obsolete
by Radu Andries 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hi, could you please delete this package? It's obsolete - branch was merged in master - so you can now install xf86-video-ati-git and get up to date code. admiral0 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iF4EAREIAAYFAkywVssACgkQWdPnhb/1V0I18AD/aAH2qJMy8+rLo6YfJKIGecla VvVEUmlnDvujZC2LBzUA/iitQe51JQmz0iI5748uoaipygrdf6EvjhtZ+Z7S13Qc =NR+i -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] python/python2/python3 changes
by Rémy Oudompheng 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

Hello, Since python 2.7 in testing is now /usr/bin/python2 but not /usr/bin/python, most AUR packages using python should be changed to use /usr/bin/python2 and depend on python2 instead of python unless they use Python 3. Idon't think this has been mentioned explicitly on this mailing-list before. This change should leave packages compatible with the python package in extra. Any additional comments? -- Rémy.

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[aur-general] fftw duplicated (extra/aur)
by François Boulogne 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I think [1] in AUR is a duplicate of [2] in extra. [1]http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30594 [2] http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/fftw/ Cheers, - -- François Boulogne. Membre de l'April - Promouvoir et défendre le logiciel libre http://www.april.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJMsCu8AAoJEKkn15fZnrRLn5QP/j27dhNUWm/WCHatjKt4R0fa fmdJVirqntjdXaDHjnOPBIMtE4QgzJQzlRHLFbh5SJY16XEb4QlzYQAA8xHvalis liKaWjgLT6LcMYRpTDH7+uJFEcyEopopPFBzQRZ6lVbkybDbypqMrD7Wkq3eYtK7 DlkV5QXM9K+Y46zDXfEqZBFJbI+cx+4tzhJDlwWhcPCVX6MlfWapvKvnA8THI0VV UtVv92tyuCDvG5hX5P18WS5v2pP6P83iSSvHa543ewysflieoEnz9lA/C2NuKt5W 91NkaLCKee9WvZKbpoKRBkED40/vUSNt6l1FLWhJrhE1w1+Y4UlJ3snK0L13QUeB 5DHLBH0HnTknMPqpOjkwUb/zhAosHUhqU6DORNdzZ8JkuyG4ln43M5miYuQuiGiz SI5qJFcfKyFRzTvzNqXcVzW42eRHAdDUYgZ4/VzY5Id1r9pIDAwKvTvX88nD+0YV rIBxa+tmiSm2y9HRNg7SPN1dm7bIh3UdFyZUJ9IuS0OjaM18FsJ/kzmeNujy/2wD 7TIhQ1AZgKJXksJyJSnIs/4OnRANXm+BIJ6QPrdJxuKIGQJXDAdFP+hTMsLJF0d8 Pn0qXyVMnn3c8NF79zRmiLpB2RAJvzUGVn2orPABaUT3+ACJJUPd9JAWmin1PyQA h+k3ybds6zClt6F1v/YJ =Qy8w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-haskell] What to do now?
by Rémy Oudompheng 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

Magnus Therning <magnus(a)therning.org>: > On 08/10/10 23:04, Peter Simons wrote: >>>> Do we try to do something like what Xyne suggested--set up a Haskell ABS >>>> and publish pre-compiled packages in [arch-haskell]? >>> >>> ...however, in the spirit of Arch (in comparison with the Gentoo which I >>> left 3yrs ago), I consider that having kind of 'Haskell overlay' with >>> binary packages would be very nice... >> >> Yes, I agree that this is probably the best solution. Arch was designed to >> work that way. How difficult is it to set up a repository? Does anyone know >> how to do that? > > I think there are a few Arch devs reading this list, at least a TU or two, > hopefully they can offer some more information. > > AFAIU it's not much to it really. An ABS-like tree (perhaps kept in a Darcs > repo for extra points :-) and a place to upload binary packages and the repo > DB to. I support that idea. I would really like to host that on the same server as [community] and [multilib] repos, if the total size of the repositories is not too big, but I fear it would be several gigabytes. I imagine: - keeping ghc + several basic modules in extra/community for bootstrapping - a darcs repo one for the scripts * a script that builds packages (possibly inspired by devtools, for example an analogue of archbuild taking multiple arguments) * a script handling rebuilds (build all reverse dependencies of something in the right order) possibly just an option to the previous script * a script that updates a given collection of PKGBUILDs by calling cabal2arch * a script that moves built packages to the repositories (like commitpkg in devtools) - a darcs repo for the PKGBUILDs * one dir per package, and subdirs $package/trunk, $package/repo (holding the current WIP version of the PKGBUILD and one corresponding to the binary package in repo) * people are supposed to do only a partial checkout of the darcs repo, I know Git can do that, but that said, a full working copy is only a few thousand files. Is darcs as efficient as Git for storage ? I expect the transfer size for a full cloning to be less than 5MB. Leaving xmonad and its dependencies in the main repos in probably fine. -- Rémy

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[aur-general] delete request pyquery
by SpepS 09 Oct '10

09 Oct '10

Please delete pyquery --> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28775 as a duplicate of python-pyquery --> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39034 Thanks

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[aur-general] Please remove the qemu package on AUR
by Cyker Way 08 Oct '10

08 Oct '10

Deeply sorry but I forgot to rename it before uploading it to AUR. I've loaded another one called qemu-6828 which was intended. So please remove the old one, though I've disowned it. BTW, is there any convenient way for a maintainer to remove his package by himself, err, in case of a mistake... -- Cyker Way Email:cykerway@gmail.com <Email%3Acykerway(a)gmail.com>

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by widomaker2k7＠gmail.com 07 Oct '10

07 Oct '10

Hello, please orphan portmidi since those are outdated for a long time (03 Sep 2009) but don't get updated. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23403

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[aur-general] Proposal: Mass AUR Cleanup
by Jakob Gruber 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Hi TUs, I've just created a new proposal concerning the orphaning of all packages marked 'out of date' which have not been updated (or submitted) since before January 1st, 2009. For details, see the actual proposal text. The voting period ends on October 10th, please cast your votes! schuay

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[aur-general] GUI
by Nathan O 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Probably not allowed to do so, but I figured I would ask. In a PKGBUILD can we do something like: echo "Do you want to enable GTK support?" read gtk if [[ "gtk" == "yes" ]]; then ./configure --with-gtk and so on. Thanks

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[aur-general] delete incorrectly named package
by Andreas Wagner 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

I came across a disowned package( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23013 ). The former contributor just put "svn" in the pkver field. It should be named n2n-svn. I adopted it however there is no non-vcs source release so I can't convert into a stable package. I set the new package ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41506 ) to replace "n2n svn-2". I think this misnamed package should be deleted. Thanks, Andreas Wagner

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[aur-general] Fixing stuff in [community] repos
by Allan McRae 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Hi, While moving the python rebuilds I noticed the following packages have issues: - cgmail - gammu - mathomatic The all have commits in community-staging and some of them had entires in the db but not a package in sight. I'm not sure what happened there but someone needs to clean this up (rebuild and upload to community-testing should be fine). While I am at it, everybody make sure they upload packages using devtools. If you do not, we end up with really strange commits in the repos (e.g. repos/community - note the lack of arch) and this causes issues with ABS. I am getting really annoyed with cleaning these up so I will start naming the people who do not use the official tools for interacting with the repos and maybe blocking access if it keeps up... Allan

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[aur-general] [community] PKGBUILDs incompatible with sourcing
by Ray Rashif 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

I'm not filing (a) bug(s) for these since there's no harm done, but this should serve as a reminder to everyone that we should check our buildscripts for sourcing compatibility whenever possible, for the sake of clarity and consistency. The currently affected PKGBUILDs are as follows: ./community/perl-datetime/PKGBUILD bash: printf: 0,61: invalid number ./community/perl-parse-recdescent/PKGBUILD bash: printf: 1,965001: invalid number ./community/haskell-x11/PKGBUILD error: package "ghc" not found ./community/haskell-x11-xft/PKGBUILD error: package "ghc" not found For the perl packages: provides=("perl-datetime=`printf %.4f ${pkgver/./,} | sed 's#,#.#'`") I don't know what the intention is with ${pkgver/./,} | sed 's#,#.#' but it does not work, as it's replacing "." with "," and then back to ".", but printf naturally fails to deal with the decimal being replaced by a comma. If I understood this correctly, the line should read: provides=("perl-datetime=$(printf "%.4f %s\n" ${pkgver})") For the other two: _ghcver=`pacman -Q ghc | cut -d\ -f 2 | cut -f 1 -d -` depends=("ghc=${_ghcver}" 'libx11') Again, I don't know why go through the trouble of checking a local package that may not exist on all systems (Sergej?). Better "hardcode" the numbers and be done with it.

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[aur-general] Delete request: nvidia-beta-ice-rt
by Ng Oon-Ee 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30371 nvidia-beta-ice-rt My package, initially created it for the RT-variant of kernel26-ice. Forgot all about it because I subsequently created and still use nvidia-beta-all. Doubt anyone is using this package, since as it is it would not work at all (version is woefully out of date compared to nvidia-utils-beta which it depends on ). Please delete.

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[aur-general] Delete request: gnome-python-desktop subpackages
by SpepS 05 Oct '10

05 Oct '10

Recently gnome-python-desktop splitted into subpackages, so python-metacity (mine) python-rsvg (mine) python-wnck python-gnomekeyring in AUR, are no needed anymore. Please delete. C ya

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[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] SCons major revision update
by Ray Rashif 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Currently extra/scons-1.3.0-1 is marked out-of-date, which is probably due to the fact that since last month, version 2 has become the stable branch upstream. From http://www.scons.org: "14 June 2010 SCons production release 2.0.0.final.0 is now available from the download page at SourceForge. This is the production release for the 2.0 series. The 2.0 series drops support for all pre-2.4 versions of Python. See the ChangeLog for a complete list of changes in the release." Version 1 is still supported, as evidenced by the development branch updates: "26 June 2010 SCons release 1.3.0.d20100626 is now available from the download page at SourceForge. Fix the ability to append to default $*FLAGS values (which are implemented as CLVar instances) in a copied construction environment without affecting the original construction environment's value. See the ChangeLog for a complete list of changes in the release." The following are the packages that makedepend on scons: == extra == hydrogen ardour linuxdcpp == community == ffmpeg2theora oregano btanks kleansweep pingus dangerdeep fceux mypaint glob2 We can either update it to version 2 or move version 1 to a scons1 package. If there are no objections and build issues, I'll go ahead with the former, as it doesn't appear to be that popular to warrant both major branches in the repos. -- GPG/PGP ID: B42DDCAD

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[aur-general] Please orphan haskell-numeric-prelude
by Peter Simons 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Hi, the package <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20274> has been out-of-date for a while, and the maintainers respond neither to e-mail nor to messages left on AUR. Could you please orphan the package? Take care, Peter

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[aur-general] orphan request: stjerm
by DarkBaboon 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Please orphan stjerm : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12324 The PKGBUILD is outdated since more than a year (The PKGBUILD version is 0.11 and the current 0.14), the project has been migrated from Gna to GoogleCode and the initial contributor seems to hasn't activity anymore since April 2008 regarding to his last submissions. So, I'm ready to adopt this package because I'm an user of it for a long time. Freely, DarkBaboon.

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[aur-general] epiar
by Ian-Xue Li 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

The renowned shooter game 'epiar' actually has a new version with lower version numbers. (current 0.4.1 is newer than 0.5) The build system of the original source archive is partially broken. However I managed to make up a environment that runs. 1) forgive the original build() function, use sh autogen.sh && ./configure --prefix=/usr && make || return 1 2) because the Lua library comes with it doesn't honour DESTDIR, and the fact that we don't need it since already have one. comment out the entire "install:" block for Source/Lua/Makefile 3) the original 'make install' is broken because it only installs the binary. actually the 'Resource' directory is also needed. 4) make a wrapper script to run the game. -- Li Ian-Xue http://b4283.ath.cx

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[aur-general] Please delete udunits2
by Kaiting Chen 04 Oct '10

04 Oct '10

Please delete udunits2, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41146. The udunits package provides udunits-2.1.19 and has backwards compatibility for udunits1. Kaiting. -- Kiwis and Limes: http://kaitocracy.blogspot.com/

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[aur-general] wwt-svn and wit-svn
by Antonio Lucas 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

hi, wwt-svn[1] and wit-svn[2] are the same package. Both maintainers are active, and both packages get the latest version from svn of this package (even the packages containing a version on them). what do you guys do in this situations? <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37504>[1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34239 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37504 abracos Antonio Lucas

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Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mass AUR Cleanup
by Peter Lewis 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

On Sunday 03 October 2010 at 20:18 Ray Rashif wrote: > Anyway, we cannot mass-orphan them without checking. It is simply not > right, no matter the statistics. For example, cutegod [1] is owned by > Dragonlord, a TU. He might have his reasons. Like him, many others who > are not TUs might have their reasons. I'm erring this way too, but haven't voted yet. Actually, after this list of packages was first posted, I emailed a few of the maintainers to see if they were still interested in maintaining the packages, and if so could they update them or else let us know that they can be orphaned. In at least one case [1] the maintainer had simply forgotten that the packakge had been flagged out of date and promptly updated it. I imagine that there are a few like this who would appreciate some prompting. In another case, the maintainer told me that the packgage was a duplicate of another and could be deleted. I wonder if a better approach might be to have the ability for TUs (or others?) to trigger a "we don't think you're maintaining this any more, it will be orphaned soon if you don't do anything" notification. If the maintainer doesn't unflag it, update it, whatever within a period of time, the package is automatically orphaned. I'm hesitant about going ahead and bulk orphaning things, if only because with the small amount of effort I put in I found a maintainer who was still willing and just forgot. Pete. [1] kdestyle-polyester http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19745

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[aur-general] Delete request: scim-chewing-alt
by Ian-Xue Li 03 Oct '10

03 Oct '10

The package was used to keep up the new versions of the library, when the official repos haven't caught up yet -- I uploaded this pkg. Now that they are the same version, there are no long necessity to keep it. Enclosing the URL: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23637 Regards. -- Li Ian-Xue http://b4283.ath.cx

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