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

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines
by Nicky726 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi all, been told by the bot, that selinux-flex has a binary (selinux-flex/flex- arch.patch.gz), which is a gziped patch. Guess I can ungzip it, though as this package is just a copy of a [core] package from some time ago, I guess the original maintainers new, what they were doing, if they included it this way. So should I do it to not include evil gziped patches? Thanx, Nicky -- Don't it always seem to go That you don't know what you've got Till it's gone (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Alessio Sergi 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Hi TUs, please delete rekonq+i18n-git [1] because locales are already provided by rekonq-git [2] package. Thanks in advance [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37865 <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37865>[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22846 <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22846> -- Alessio Sergi

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[aur-general] remove kernel26-slk and nvidia-slk
by Ike Devolder 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

For some reasons i replaced kernel26-slk with kernel26-bede why ?: the original naming is because it is inspired by the slackware config, but now its just some settings which are different from the stock arch kernel which make my linux experience nicer than with the default. so could kernel26-slk and nvidia-slk be replaced by: kernel26-bede and nvidia-bede thx kernel26-slk: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36738 nvidia-slk: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36769

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[aur-general] Augeas request
by Thomas S Hatch 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

I have an odd request with regards to an aur package - augeas: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18533 I have been working toward porting an extremely powerful virtualization application to ArchLinux - Libguestfs: http://libguestfs.org/ The libguestfs package will also enable a number of other virtualization packages to be packaged for Archlinux. The port of Libguestfs has required a number of changes to the upstream project and I have had to submit a fair amount of code to make it possible, and the upstream developers have been more than helpful in this effort. The problem I am facing now is one that I do not yet have the power to repair, as I am not yet a TU and I doubt I have enough clout yet to apply. You see, the build process needs to create a tiny virtual machine image, (the image is quite remarkable, a vm image for Arch in less than 50K) but the process to create the image requires that all packages for the image be available as binary downloads from a main Arch repo, aka core, extra and community. This brings me to my request, the augeas package. Augeas and a number of other packages which are only available in the AUR are required by this image, including hfsutils and zfs-fuse. While hfsutils and zfs-fuse are "nice to have" in the libguestfs image, and can be safely omitted, augeas is a hard requirement. So, since I can not do this myself yet I will request that a TU take up this small responsibility and maintain augeas in community so I can finish the port of libguestfs to Arch. Once I am a TU I will be more than take it off your hands! I have spent the last 3 months working tirelessly in my effort to bring better kvm/libvirt support to Arch, I am the author of varch: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=42428 and I have more software in the wings to bring better virtualization support to Arch that requires libguestfs, please help me out! Thanks Thomas S Hatch - thatch45

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[aur-general] delete kernel26-slk && nvidia-slk
by Ike Devolder 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36738 (kernel26-slk) i will no longer support it, and you can delete it because there are definatly enough kernels available thru aur with it nvidia-slk can be deleted too https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36769 (nvidia-slk) if you should doubt, i maintain these packages (BlackEagle) thx

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[aur-general] rxvt-unicode-256color has been deleted
by Thomas Dziedzic 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

rxvt-unicode in extra has 256 color support built with it which made the deleted package redundant.

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[aur-general] delete package
by Joao Cordeiro 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

gst-python [1] is dupe of gstreamer0.10-python in extra. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3062

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[aur-general] Removal request : atheros-wired-1005-ha
by CalimeroTeknik 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello ! My package atheros-wired-1005-ha isn't needed anymore since kernel 2.6.31 (module merged), I think it can reasonably be dropped by now. Thanks :)

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[aur-general] delete packages
by Joao Cordeiro 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

libreoffice-bin [1] - dupe of package in extra. pyclutter-svn [2] is deprecated since pyclutter now uses git (and there is a git package in aur). Also, pyclutter [3] and python-clutter [4] are dupes. First has better naming but the second was submitted first so I don't know which one should be deleted - up to you. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41812 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18485 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34322 [4] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14044

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[aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen
by keenerd 10 Dec '10

10 Dec '10

Hello all. I am applying to become a TU. My sponsor is Xyne. My name is Kyle Keen, though my handle for irc/bbs/the-last-12-years has been Keenerd. I've been using Arch for a while now, from back when it was still known for refusing to package info files. Before that I did a wee bit of dev work for Puppy Linux. I actually got a bash gui app (yay xdialog) into the ISO but please don't look up the code, it was my first bash script and is rather terrifying. Lately I am a 24 year old freelance electrical engineer and spend my days writing C, my nights writing Python and during the twilight hours some Bash. Right now I host the bugbot in #archlinux-bugs and I've got a few AUR packages(1). Of them, ScrotWM and Slurm probably deserve to be in [community]. I've written several well-liked metatools for Arch including Pacgraph, Pacmatic, and Aurphan. Aurphan is the main reason for trying to apply. Pierre requested a feature to cross check official packages as well as the AUR(2). I was a little shocked to find 35 official orphans on my system. Clearly, we are understaffed. Arch has been nothing short of amazing and I want to do what I can to help keep it going. Other goals include improving the maintenance tools and porting Arch to old or cheap architectures. I also mirrored the AUR for a while and have a nearly complete copy of the old comments from before the Great Table Drop that should be re-inserted. Thanks for your consideration, Kyle http://kmkeen.com 1) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=keenerd&SO=d&SB=v 2) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=108693

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