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[aur-general] Submit updated package build to the AUR - hey
by Shyamin Ayesh 14 Dec '20

14 Dec '20

Hi, I'm new to this mailing list and don't know if I'm submitting the question to the right one. Please forgive me if I'm doing something wrong. I tried to submit new AUR package for the HTTP load testing tool called hey written in golang and it got failed to "git push" because of the origin repository is not empty. It seems like there is already a repository with past work and I can't submit new package because of that reason. When I try to navigate to the package page I can't find the package. Repository: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/?h=hey Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/hey/ ( 404 - not found ) Thanks ! -- Shyamin Ayesh mobile: 0775251479 email: me(a)shyamin.com <http://www.facebook.com/shyaminayesh> <https://twitter.com/shyaminayesh> <https://lk.linkedin.com/in/shyaminayesh> <https://www.instagram.com/shyaminayesh/>

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[aur-general] TU application - rgacogne
by Remi Gacogne 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

Hello everyone, My name is Remi Gacogne, and I hereby apply to join the Trusted Users team, kindly sponsored by Levente Polyak and Morten Linderud. I'm 37 years old and live in Paris, France. My journey with Linux started around 1999 with Mandrake, quickly replaced by Slackware which has been my favourite distribution until I fell in love with Arch, around 2009. Since then I have been involved in several aspects of the life of the Arch community like the wiki and the bug tracker [1], but my main contributions have been to the security team, often bugging you folks with security issues in your packages :) You can find me on Freenode and OFTC under the nick of rgacogne. I have contributed to many FOSS projects over the years, mainly by writing and fixing C, C++ and Python code, hopefully not introducing too many bugs in the process. Some of them can be found on my GitHub profile [2]. I have held positions as a sysadmin, security engineer and software engineer in the past, and am currently working for the PowerDNS [3] open-source company as a software engineer. In my spare time I enjoy climbing, hiking, paragliding and trail running, as well as drinking beers. I'm also involved in a few non-profit organisations, far away from computers. I am currently maintaining a few packages in the AUR [4], although most of the popular ones I used to maintain having been moved to community by existing TUs along the way, with my blessing and gratitude. As a TU I would like to move two of the remaining ones to community: - bgpq3 - dnsdist My main motivation for becoming a TU is however not to move those, but to relieve the workload of other TUs by helping maintain and/or adopting existing community packages. For obvious reasons I have already discussed adopting the powerdns and powerdns-recursor packages from anthraxx, but I would also be interested in adopting some orphans here and there, like for example hiredis, libopenraw and nsd. I should also mention that being a TU would be very useful to my work on the security team, since I would then be able to help fix critically vulnerable packages. My preferred, old-fashioned, way of keeping track of packages updates is to subscribe to mailing-lists, but I have come to appreciate the use of tools like nvchecker in doing so as well :) Cheers, Remi [1]: https://bugs.archlinux.org/user/9172 [2]: https://github.com/rgacogne [3]: https://www.powerdns.com [4]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=rgacogne

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[aur-general] Please delete arm-none-eabi-gcc74-linaro
by Michael Duell 03 Dec '20

03 Dec '20

Please delete the package arm-none-eabi-gcc74-linaro from AUR. I disowned it. Thanks.

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[aur-general] Proposing knot-resolver for community repo
by Tomas Krizek 25 Nov '20

25 Nov '20

Hi, I'd like to ask if you'd consider adopting knot-resolver from AUR [1] into the community repo. The main reason is that the Knot DNS dependency is in the community repository and a soname bump requires a rebuild of Knot Resolver. This happens about twice a year. As you can see from the AUR comments, the users are often confused if they don't do the rebuild and Knot Resolver breaks. Any further debugging is probably quite complicated, since if they use the software as their system resolver, it effectively breaks the DNS resolution, thus preventing access to internet. The knot-resolver package should be quite low maintenance. We (upstream) use sysusers & tmpfiles, ship ready-to-use systemd units and the build time is less than a minute on my laptop. We also have our own upstream PKGBUILD we keep up-to-date [2], so a simple diff of this file against PKGBUILD should be sufficient for any significant changes. It'd be great if any TU (preferably Knot DNS maintainer) could maintain this package in the community repo. Thank you for the consideration! [1] - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/knot-resolver/ [2] - https://gitlab.nic.cz/knot/knot-resolver/-/blob/master/distro/arch/PKGBUILD -- Tomas Krizek PGP: 4A8B A48C 2AED 933B D495 C509 A1FB A5F7 EF8C 4869

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[aur-general] Fwd: Change committer name
by Cyrusmg 24 Nov '20

24 Nov '20

Hi, could any Trusted User please change committer name for the latest commit I have pushed for "eobcanka" package to "Cyrusmg <aur(a)kulovany.net>" just like I have in previous commits ? I have used my corporate identity and that's not good. "" It should be possible as per "Modify committer or author identity" in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines) Thank you! Cyrus

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[aur-general] TU removal: Evgeniy 'arcanis' Alekseev
by Morten Linderud 17 Nov '20

17 Nov '20

Yo, I would like to start the discussion period for a Trusted User removal of Evgeniy Alekseev, also known as 'arcanis' on the grounds of 'Special Removal of an Inactive TU' [1]. Evgeniy's last action on archweb was '2019-12-25 20:41', and the last vote they participated in was the removal of shiv 13 montsh ago. I have also attempted sending them an email two times the past 5 months, along with Alad having sent them an email. There has been no replies. The voting procedure will commence after seven days of discussion period, in which Evgeniy can state his case. Cheers, [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html#_special_removal_of_an… -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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[aur-general] 1
by .shaia .algahtni 15 Nov '20

15 Nov '20

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[aur-general] Need a password reset for AUR login.
by Derek Taylor 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

I have forgotten my password for login to the AUR page. On the page, it says "If you have forgotten the user name and the primary e-mail address you used to register, please send a message to the aur-general mailing list." My user name should be dwt1. But when I click on "forgot password" I never receive any email for a reset (I waited more than a day).

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[aur-general] TU application - bastelfreak
by Tim Meusel 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Hi! I'm Tim Meusel and I want to spent more time in the Arch Linux community and increase the package quality. I first got in touch with open source some years ago in the Puppet Community [0] where I started to love Puppet and FOSS. At the moment I'm employed at a big ISP where I maintain a few thousand systems. My solution of choice for configuration management is Puppet because it fulfills all requirements and is easy to extend. For a few projects I require up2date systems with modern software, that's why i choose Arch Linux. Since Puppet was already present in the company, the Arch Linux boxes were puppetized as well. I wrote or contributed to multiple packages related to Puppet on Arch Linux. foxxx0 and shibumi were so kind to continue maintaining them in the official repositories: * puppet [1] * puppet5 [2] * facter [3] * libwhereami [4] * ruby-deep_merge [5] * ruby-httpclient [6] * ruby-sync [7] * ruby-puppet-resource_api [8] * ruby-semantic_puppet [9] Besides working on open source projects, I spent a huge amount of time for my second passion, cooking and doing BBQ. From time to time I also attend ice hockey events as visitor but also as hobby-referee or player. As a trusted user I would like to co-maintain those packages, enable tests on the PKGBUILDs where tests are currently missing (for example ruby-puppet-resource_api, ruby-semantic_puppet and Puppet), fix the remaining namcap warnings (for example on facter and libwhereami) and also import some other Puppet related tools into the official repository. Some of them are already in the AUR (not all maintained by myself): * fluent-bit (not Puppet related) [10] * ruby-gettext-setup [11] * ruby-minitar [12] * ruby-puppet_forge [13] * ruby-rr [14] * ruby-cri [15] * ruby-test-unit-rr [16] * ruby-fast_gettext [17] * ruby-gettext [18] * ruby-locale [19] * ruby-text [20] * ruby-colored2 [21] * r10k [22] If you check my AUR packages, you might notice the awful ruby-log4r package. That's a dead project where the source code is gone. It's a dependency for r10k. I'm "maintaining" ruby-log4r in the AUR, so I can test and build r10k, but I'm also in contact with the upstream developers to replace this dead dependency. I've no intention to get log4r into any official repository. I talked to shibumi and hashworks in the past days, both reviewed the packages and agreed to sponsor my application. I'm available on Freenode as bastelfreak. I'm pretty active in #archlinux.de and #voxpupuli. My GPG key fingerprint is C10B6298A584A5632E254DA304D659E6BF1C4CC0 best regards, Tim [0] https://voxpupuli.org [1] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [2] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [3] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [4] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [5] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [6] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [7] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [8] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [9] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack… [10] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/fluent-bit#comment-749760 [11] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-gettext-setup/#comment-725838 [12] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-minitar/#comment-723296 [13] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-puppet_forge [14] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-rr [15] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-cri [16] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=ruby-test-unit-rr [17] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-fast_gettext/#comment-723301 [18] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-gettext/#comment-725388 [19] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-locale/#comment-723294 [20] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-text [21] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-colored2/#comment-771053 [22] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/r10k/#comment-770978

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[aur-general] Fwd: [PRQ#21898] Orphan Request for sge Rejected
by Manhong Dai 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> Date: Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 2:28 PM Subject: Re: [PRQ#21898] Orphan Request for sge Rejected To: <noreply(a)aur.archlinux.org> Cc: <aur-requests(a)archlinux.org>, <i(a)jingbei.li> On Sat, Oct 24, 2020, 7:33 AM Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> wrote: > > > On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:02 AM <notify(a)aur.archlinux.org> wrote: > >> Request #21898 has been rejected by Foxboron [1]: >> >> Not interested. The sge package is not going to point at your fork. >> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Foxboron/ > > > Thanks a lot for the reply! But I never ask the current maintainer to > point to my fork. I guess those markdown syntax messed it up. > > This package is in clear text-book copyright violation right now! The > current maintainer is using my original SGE source code patch file without > mentioning I am the patch's author and University of Michigan's copyright. > Further, he split it into many patch files, now those modifications look to > be his contribution as nobody will dig into git history, not to mention > patching with many files is the worst way to promote a software. > > I believe I am the first one in the world who made SGE work under the > latest SSL and GLIBC. I created the single source code patch file, and > initially put it on AUR sge. > > I also tried to settle with the current maintainer, I proposed that he can > keep the package but he has to use my single patch file with the copyright > and author on the top, then remove my name from the PKGBUILD file. He > rejected me. > > Now here are all the facts, could you please reconsider it again? > > 1, I am the original author of the SGE source code patch file, I put my > source code patch file on AUR sge. > 2. I didn't receive any email notification before the package was taken > over, This is confirmed by a TU > 3, I didn't join AUR-general before the package was taken over, and the > same TU confirmed that this is not required. > 4, I tried to settle with the current maintainer, and asked him to respect > Copyright and original author, he rejected me. > 5, The current maintainer's PKGBUILD doesn't work, and he 'git push' three > times anyway, while knowing it fails. It took him 7 days to fix a 'cd' > error. > > Everything above are true facts, and it can be verified in court, and I am > willing to take any penalty if they are not fact. > > Now, the simple question is, can any original work put on AUR be taken > away like this? > > Best, > Manhong > > Request #22028 has been rejected by Foxboron [1]: Patches has been removed. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Foxboron/ Thanks! @Foxboron. it is all good as long as my original work is not involved now. As programmers, I always respect and acknowledge other people's work and expect the same from others. Truly appreciate those who helped me, including a few users who forwarded me the emails on this list. Or I probably will never know such an email list exists. So sorry I cannot mention your names as I just got 1000+ mail list subscription confirmation in one day. I also want to say sorry to those who feel these are spams. The thing is this kind of issues will happen from time to time as AUR doesn't associate a project with user name. I hope a little waste of your time will set a good AUR standard from now on. This is a good lesson for me too, as I will put copyright/license on all my work, no matter it is MIT, GPL or BSD, and should have published my work originally on github. SGE will be continued on my github project as I will make it more Linux friendly and totally ditch some unnecessary features, such as Windows support, whenever I find nothing better to do. As I added cmake compiling support recently, followup development will be much easier. Have a good day! Feel free to send me email directly at daimh(a)umich.edu. Best, Manhong PS, If someone wants to subscribe me on another 1000+ email lists again, please find some truly interesting ones. My hobbies are hunting, fishing and racing. Thanks in advance! Sorry I just found I sent to a wrong list... again.... Hopefully this is the last email I sent to aur-general.

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[aur-general] Sge delete request
by Manhong Dai 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

Request #22025 has been rejected by Foxboron [1]: PKGBUILDs are standard enough to not constitute original work. Please stop abusing the AUR. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Foxboron/ I am not talking about the PKGBUILD. I even asked the current maintainer to remove my name from the contributor in that file. The copyright violation is my SGE source code patch file. That is my original work. Best, Manhong Sent from phone

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[aur-general] SGE has copyright violation
by Manhong Dai 24 Oct '20

24 Oct '20

On Sat, Oct 24, 2020 at 6:02 AM <notify(a)aur.archlinux.org> wrote: > Request #21898 has been rejected by Foxboron [1]: > > Not interested. The sge package is not going to point at your fork. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Foxboron/ Thanks a lot for the reply! But I never ask the current maintainer to point to my fork. I guess those markdown syntax messed it up. This package is in clear text-book copyright violation right now! The current maintainer is using my original SGE source code patch file without mentioning I am the patch's author and University of Michigan's copyright. Further, he split it into many patch files, now those modifications look to be his contribution as nobody will dig into git history, not to mention patching with many files is the worst way to promote a software. I believe I am the first one in the world who made SGE work under the latest SSL and GLIBC. I created the single source code patch file, and initially put it on AUR sge. I also tried to settle with the current maintainer, I proposed that he can keep the package but he has to use my single patch file with the copyright and author on the top, then remove my name from the PKGBUILD file. He rejected me. Now here are all the facts, could you please reconsider it again? 1, I am the original author of the SGE source code patch file, I put my source code patch file on AUR sge. 2. I didn't receive any email notification before the package was taken over, This is confirmed by a TU 3, I didn't join AUR-general before the package was taken over, and the same TU confirmed that this is not required. 4, I tried to settle with the current maintainer, and asked him to respect Copyright and original author, he rejected me. 5, The current maintainer's PKGBUILD doesn't work, and he 'git push' three times anyway, while knowing it fails. It took him 7 days to fix a 'cd' error. Everything above are true facts, and it can be verified in court, and I am willing to take any penalty if they are not fact. Now, the simple question is, can any original work put on AUR be taken away like this? Best, Manhong

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Re: [aur-general] SGE Orphaning
by Amin Vakil 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

I remember you have said that you use this package on your servers in university, so why don't you just create a new package with any modifications you need in PKGBUILD and even make it specified for your needs if you want to and use it for yourself? What are you trying to accomplish with being called "maintainer" of sge package? You can post your PKGBUILD on github/gitlab or any other git service online to track the modifications, being able to download it from anywhere, ask for other people's opinion, etc.

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[aur-general] Away for a bit due to covid related limitations
by Andrzej Giniewicz 20 Oct '20

20 Oct '20

Hi all, I have to declare away time, for the first time since I've started TU duties. Unfortunately I'm stuck with my work computer for now (Windows only) and my Arch dev box is at another physical address - which I have limited access due to the epidemic situation in Poland right now. I've seen few out of date notifications for my community packages, but I cannot update them right now, so if someone could update them in my place for now it would be great. I hope to be back to maintaining my packages soon. I cannot sign this message either unfortunately. Cheers and stay healthy everybody, Andrzej Giniewicz (https://www.archlinux.org/people/trusted-users/#aginiewicz)

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[aur-general] SGE Orphaning
by Manhong Dai 19 Oct '20

19 Oct '20

Dear Trust User, I submitted an Orphaning request in both comment area and ticket system. Feel free to let me know if there is anything I need to do to follow up. My email address is daimh(a)umich.edu , just in case I missed any emails. Best, Manhong

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 5
by michael＠eowyn.net 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

> Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 10:47:51 -0400 > From: Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 4 > Message-ID: <2972ceb5928384111909983ea92ddc4f6322b616.camel(a)umich.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Alexis, > > Thanks a lot for the contructive feedback! > > I didn't receive your email actually! I found your reply in > the digest. > > It might be our UMich.edu Gmail or AUR-general email server > right now. But this sge drama was not caused by the email issue. It is > caused by that I have an account in AUR, but didn't register the AUR- > general, and I didn't even know it exists until a few days ago. > > I agree that "It seems that in the last times you didn't take > enough care of the sge package". The thing is My PKGBUILD just works > without any glitch on dozens of SGE nodes since day one. It includes > those C code modification I did in the past decade to make it work with > CentOS, Debian and the latest GCC/SSL in current Arch Linux. Further, I > don't have much free time to maintain a PKGBUILD file or read the AUR > wiki, just like many other AUR package maintainers. > > Thanks a lot for the suggestion though, I will host my C code > modification with some upcoming accumulated improvement on github, as > github won't make me lose the package in a period of just two months > ending with two 19-minute apart email notifications. > > Here is my suggestions to AUR though. > > 1, It seems that many PKGBUILD issues can be solved by a script. For > example, the PKGVER mistake that the current maintainer of SGE package > made and user a821 commented "The pkgver used to be 20200527 but now is > 8.1.9. However 20200527 > 8.1.9 so epoch=1 might be > required."?https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sge/ > > Although I won't believe one who 'couldn't even get something as simple > as the pkgver right' cannot make a good AUR package because 'good' is > very subjective and definitely not limited to a PKGBUILD file, AUR > should have a script running from time to time to check such simple > mistakes and notify the maintainer. I actually believe that you already > have such thing because some comments on my other AUR packages are very > professional and like robot :). Or a command to check some common > mistakes in a PKGBUILD file? > > > 2, Force an AUR package maintainer to join AUR-general, or send every > notification to the package maintainer, as I never received any email > notification about orphaning SGE. > > Thanks your very much for your constructive feedback again! > > Best, > Manhong > > On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 12:00 +0000, aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > wrote: >> Send aur-general mailing list submissions to >> ????????aur-general(a)archlinux.org >> >> To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit >> ????????https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general >> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to >> ????????aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org >> >> You can reach the person managing the list at >> ????????aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org >> >> When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific >> than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." >> >> >> Today's Topics: >> >> ?? 1. Re: Reply to your request SGE (Manhong Dai) >> ?? 2. Re: Reply to your request SGE (Doug Newgard) >> ?? 3. Re: Reply to your request SGE (Alexis BRENON) >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> - >> >> Message: 1 >> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:57:52 -0400 >> From: Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> >> To: Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> >> Cc: Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> >> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Reply to your request SGE >> Message-ID: >> ????????<CAAwO+oOcWq0OXvhuAaoayHqfAa7v5egUi3HjA50_xLGKV8gt1A(a)mail.gmail.com >> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> You are right that I don't know what 'out of state' or 'out of date' >> or >> 'out of whatever' is. All I know is that I suddenly lost the >> ownership and >> will have to change my cluster maintenance code tomorrow..... >> >> In terms of pkgver or pkgbuild.? Now you said nobody cares about >> pigver, >> guess who said this sentence below? >> 'You couldn't even get something as simple as the pkgver right' >> >> ? It turned out I can read and actually remember.... >> >> >> Best, >> Manhong >> Sent from phone >> >> On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 10:46 PM Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> >> wrote: >> >> > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:38:02 -0400 >> > Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> > >> > > I actually did read your email. You said I cannot get a simple >> > > thing such >> > > as pkgver right. >> > > >> > > Let me explain to you, from your point of view, you certainly >> > > want to >> > have >> > > some rule or guideline to make all the package? has the same >> > > standard. >> > That >> > > is understandable and it is what make Arch Linux popular. I would >> > > love to >> > > be compliant with the rule whenever I have the resource, and I >> > > did with >> > all >> > > other my AUR packages. >> > > >> > > From my point of view, a pkgver is not the point here. I do need >> > > to make >> > my >> > > modified SGE package can be compiled with the latest SSL, GCC, >> > > other >> > Linux >> > > contribution, and can be used to upgrade an old node without >> > > losing >> > > configuration. No matter how bad a pkgver is defined, an Arch >> > > Linux with >> > a >> > > working SGE is away better, right? >> > > >> > > The problem is actually not on my side. Your request system has >> > > my email >> > > address, I sent you a request after the package was adopted, some >> > > bystanders figured? out I didn't get any reply and sent your >> > > reply to me, >> > > That is when I knew that the request is also in the mail list, >> > > and such >> > > email list exists...... >> > > >> > > Because you are attacking my capability, and I believe everybody >> > > who can >> > > read will know your claim is actually baseless, I did ignore your >> > personal >> > > attack in my previous email. >> > > >> > > Yes, I can say sorry about ignoring hat. >> > > >> > > >> > > Best, >> > > Manhong >> > > Sent from phone >> > > >> > >> > So you read it and you're STILL top posting in violation of the >> > rules. And >> > making up something called "out of state" which doesn't exist. And >> > claiming >> > that you have to be on a mailing list when it's been explained, >> > multiple >> > times, >> > that you don't. You claim you're reading, now try understanding. >> > >> > Nobody cares what your point of view is on pkgver. It's obvious to >> > pretty >> > much >> > anyone that's ever written, or even read, a PKGBUILD. >> > >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 2 >> Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:02:24 -0500 >> From: Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> >> To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org >> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Reply to your request SGE >> Message-ID: <20201012220224.44a4878b@Scimmia> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >> >> On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:57:52 -0400 >> Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: >> >> > You are right that I don't know what 'out of state' or 'out of >> > date' or >> > 'out of whatever' is. All I know is that I suddenly lost the >> > ownership and >> > will have to change my cluster maintenance code tomorrow..... >> > >> > In terms of pkgver or pkgbuild.? Now you said nobody cares about >> > pigver, >> > guess who said this sentence below? >> > 'You couldn't even get something as simple as the pkgver right' >> > >> > ? It turned out I can read and actually remember.... >> >> Then try reading again, as that's not what I said at all. You either >> have a >> serious issue with reading comprehension or you're just making things >> up now. >> >> And you're STILL violating the rules of just about every mailing list >> out >> there, even after being told twice. >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Message: 3 >> Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:02:08 +0200 >> From: Alexis BRENON <brenon.alexis+arch(a)gmail.com> >> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" >> ????????<aur-general(a)archlinux.org> >> Cc: Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> >> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Reply to your request SGE >> Message-ID: >> ????????<CAJPB9o2UNiGi0ox3t-faNbXeme9ekNo+C0rtDJexL-9RZyfsUg(a)mail.gmail.com >> > >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> > Then try reading again, as that's not what I said at all. You >> > either have a >> > serious issue with reading comprehension or you're just making >> > things up now. >> > >> > And you're STILL violating the rules of just about every mailing >> > list out >> > there, even after being told twice. >> >> Just to try to calm down the conversation. >> >> Manhong, you say that this is your package, however, AUR is not the >> right place to host "your own" package, it is a place to host the >> community's packages. >> Actually, there is a dedicated maintainer who takes care of a >> package, >> and it seems that in the last times you didn't take enough care of >> the >> sge package (there is a set of rules to follow that make you a good >> care-taker: >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines) >> so you aren't the maintainer anymore. This seems fair. >> >> You complain about not being notified before you lost the >> maintainership. The maintainer always receives e-mail notifications >> to >> its personal e-mail address. You are the only one who does not >> receive >> it, maybe there is a problem on your side... >> >> In any case, there are some rules. They have been followed. And >> nobody >> can give you back the maintainership. You can ask to become a >> co-maintainer which sounds good, you do not have to bear all the >> burden alone! >> >> If you want to host "your own" package, following your own rules for >> the PKGBUILD format, and don't bothering with the community's rules, >> feel free to host your own AUR service on your cluster. >> >> Kind regards, >> Alexis >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> Subject: Digest Footer >> >> _______________________________________________ >> aur-general mailing list >> aur-general(a)archlinux.org >> https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> >> End of aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 4 >> ******************************************* > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 18:58:35 +0400 > From: Archange <archange(a)archlinux.org> > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Cc: Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 4 > Message-ID: <6eb8705a-b0e0-ce6c-d678-af930082ceb2(a)archlinux.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > Hi, > > Le 14/10/2020 ? 18:47, Manhong Dai via aur-general a ?crit?: >> 2, Force an AUR package maintainer to join AUR-general, or send every >> notification to the package maintainer, as I never received any email >> notification about orphaning SGE. > > I?m not commenting on everything else here, but regarding this point: > subscription to aur-general is not required, and every notifications > are > sent to the package maintainer? or at least should be, because a bug > introduced some months ago broke that (see > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/merge_requests/6) > > So indeed you did not receive the Orphaning requests notifications. But > you did receive comments on the AUR page, and you did receive the > emails > to which you responded and that told you to *stop top-posting*. > > Regards, > Bruno/Archange > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:16:54 -0400 > From: Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> > To: Archange <archange(a)archlinux.org>, "Discussion about the Arch User > Repository (AUR)" <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: [aur-general] SGE > Message-ID: <259c09da06d5caf05708ae2bb765daf023eaa44b.camel(a)umich.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi Bruno, > > Thanks a lot for confirming that I didn't receive Orphaning > email!? > > I did receive the comment. I actually checked the pull request > a little, but decided not to reply because I didn't want to be > negative. I totally believe the current maintainer has a better format > of PKGBUILD (well, except his pkgver mistake). Now let me comment a few > things on SGE. > > In the SGE package comment. > > 1, The current maintainer blamed me "?pkgver???????????????". Google > translation: "It?s really intolerable that even pkgver was filled in > wrong."? > > Now it turned out that the current maintainer made the mistake..... > > 2, He also said "??.install?post install??????????????????", Google > translation "A lot of files that the package manager did not take over > were installed in the post install stage through .install". > > This could be a disaster if somebody want to upgrade SGE by uninstall > and re-install. SGE has been a very special software because it needs > some post installation to let user specify a lot of host/jobs/queue > configuration. Thus all files are put under /opt/sge for the legacy > reason. > > > Best, > Manhong > > > > > On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 18:58 +0400, Archange wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Le 14/10/2020 ? 18:47, Manhong Dai via aur-general a ?crit?: >> > 2, Force an AUR package maintainer to join AUR-general, or send >> > every >> > notification to the package maintainer, as I never received any >> > email >> > notification about orphaning SGE. >> >> I?m not commenting on everything else here, but regarding this point: >> subscription to aur-general is not required, and every notifications >> are >> sent to the package maintainer? or at least should be, because a bug >> introduced some months ago broke that (see >> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/merge_requests/6) >> >> So indeed you did not receive the Orphaning requests notifications. >> But >> you did receive comments on the AUR page, and you did receive the >> emails >> to which you responded and that told you to *stop top-posting*. >> >> Regards, >> Bruno/Archange > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 13:19:05 -0400 > From: Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> > To: Sauyon Lee <s(a)uyon.co>, "Discussion about the Arch User Repository > (AUR)" <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] SGE > Message-ID: <b337ab689ecdb27cd16c01ad51c39626f1519058.camel(a)umich.edu> > Content-Type: text/plain > > Hi Sauyon, > > Thank you! I learned! > > Best, > Manhong > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:03:26 +0200 > From: alad <alad(a)archlinux.org> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] SGE > Message-ID: <683dd11c-f5f1-f0a6-8f97-acde1c8e82b3(a)archlinux.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 14/10/2020 17:16, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: >> Hi Bruno, > > Top-posting, do you know what it means? > > Do not do this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting > > But do this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style or > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting > > Again https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Top_posting > > Don't expect anyone to take you seriously if you keep doing this even > after being asked not to, repeatedly. > > Alad > >> >> Thanks a lot for confirming that I didn't receive Orphaning >> email! >> >> I did receive the comment. I actually checked the pull request >> a little, but decided not to reply because I didn't want to be >> negative. I totally believe the current maintainer has a better format >> of PKGBUILD (well, except his pkgver mistake). Now let me comment a >> few >> things on SGE. >> >> In the SGE package comment. >> >> 1, The current maintainer blamed me "?pkgver???????????????". Google >> translation: "It?s really intolerable that even pkgver was filled in >> wrong." >> >> Now it turned out that the current maintainer made the mistake..... >> >> 2, He also said "??.install?post install??????????????????", Google >> translation "A lot of files that the package manager did not take over >> were installed in the post install stage through .install". >> >> This could be a disaster if somebody want to upgrade SGE by >> uninstall >> and re-install. SGE has been a very special software because it needs >> some post installation to let user specify a lot of host/jobs/queue >> configuration. Thus all files are put under /opt/sge for the legacy >> reason. >> >> >> Best, >> Manhong >> >> >> >> >> On Wed, 2020-10-14 at 18:58 +0400, Archange wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> Le 14/10/2020 ? 18:47, Manhong Dai via aur-general a ?crit?: >>>> 2, Force an AUR package maintainer to join AUR-general, or send >>>> every >>>> notification to the package maintainer, as I never received any >>>> email >>>> notification about orphaning SGE. >>> I?m not commenting on everything else here, but regarding this point: >>> subscription to aur-general is not required, and every notifications >>> are >>> sent to the package maintainer? or at least should be, because a bug >>> introduced some months ago broke that (see >>> https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/merge_requests/6) >>> >>> So indeed you did not receive the Orphaning requests notifications. >>> But >>> you did receive comments on the AUR page, and you did receive the >>> emails >>> to which you responded and that told you to *stop top-posting*. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Bruno/Archange > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > aur-general mailing list > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > > > ------------------------------ > > End of aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 5 > ******************************************* > It seems that many PKGBUILD issues can be solved by a script. This sounds a lot like namcap.

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 4
by Manhong Dai 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Hi Alexis, Thanks a lot for the contructive feedback! I didn't receive your email actually! I found your reply in the digest. It might be our UMich.edu Gmail or AUR-general email server right now. But this sge drama was not caused by the email issue. It is caused by that I have an account in AUR, but didn't register the AUR- general, and I didn't even know it exists until a few days ago. I agree that "It seems that in the last times you didn't take enough care of the sge package". The thing is My PKGBUILD just works without any glitch on dozens of SGE nodes since day one. It includes those C code modification I did in the past decade to make it work with CentOS, Debian and the latest GCC/SSL in current Arch Linux. Further, I don't have much free time to maintain a PKGBUILD file or read the AUR wiki, just like many other AUR package maintainers. Thanks a lot for the suggestion though, I will host my C code modification with some upcoming accumulated improvement on github, as github won't make me lose the package in a period of just two months ending with two 19-minute apart email notifications. Here is my suggestions to AUR though. 1, It seems that many PKGBUILD issues can be solved by a script. For example, the PKGVER mistake that the current maintainer of SGE package made and user a821 commented "The pkgver used to be 20200527 but now is 8.1.9. However 20200527 > 8.1.9 so epoch=1 might be required." https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sge/ Although I won't believe one who 'couldn't even get something as simple as the pkgver right' cannot make a good AUR package because 'good' is very subjective and definitely not limited to a PKGBUILD file, AUR should have a script running from time to time to check such simple mistakes and notify the maintainer. I actually believe that you already have such thing because some comments on my other AUR packages are very professional and like robot :). Or a command to check some common mistakes in a PKGBUILD file? 2, Force an AUR package maintainer to join AUR-general, or send every notification to the package maintainer, as I never received any email notification about orphaning SGE. Thanks your very much for your constructive feedback again! Best, Manhong On Tue, 2020-10-13 at 12:00 +0000, aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Reply to your request SGE (Manhong Dai) > 2. Re: Reply to your request SGE (Doug Newgard) > 3. Re: Reply to your request SGE (Alexis BRENON) > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:57:52 -0400 > From: Manhong Dai <daimh(a)umich.edu> > To: Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> > Cc: Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Reply to your request SGE > Message-ID: > <CAAwO+oOcWq0OXvhuAaoayHqfAa7v5egUi3HjA50_xLGKV8gt1A(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > You are right that I don't know what 'out of state' or 'out of date' > or > 'out of whatever' is. All I know is that I suddenly lost the > ownership and > will have to change my cluster maintenance code tomorrow..... > > In terms of pkgver or pkgbuild. Now you said nobody cares about > pigver, > guess who said this sentence below? > 'You couldn't even get something as simple as the pkgver right' > > It turned out I can read and actually remember.... > > > Best, > Manhong > Sent from phone > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2020, 10:46 PM Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:38:02 -0400 > > Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > > > > I actually did read your email. You said I cannot get a simple > > > thing such > > > as pkgver right. > > > > > > Let me explain to you, from your point of view, you certainly > > > want to > > have > > > some rule or guideline to make all the package has the same > > > standard. > > That > > > is understandable and it is what make Arch Linux popular. I would > > > love to > > > be compliant with the rule whenever I have the resource, and I > > > did with > > all > > > other my AUR packages. > > > > > > From my point of view, a pkgver is not the point here. I do need > > > to make > > my > > > modified SGE package can be compiled with the latest SSL, GCC, > > > other > > Linux > > > contribution, and can be used to upgrade an old node without > > > losing > > > configuration. No matter how bad a pkgver is defined, an Arch > > > Linux with > > a > > > working SGE is away better, right? > > > > > > The problem is actually not on my side. Your request system has > > > my email > > > address, I sent you a request after the package was adopted, some > > > bystanders figured out I didn't get any reply and sent your > > > reply to me, > > > That is when I knew that the request is also in the mail list, > > > and such > > > email list exists...... > > > > > > Because you are attacking my capability, and I believe everybody > > > who can > > > read will know your claim is actually baseless, I did ignore your > > personal > > > attack in my previous email. > > > > > > Yes, I can say sorry about ignoring hat. > > > > > > > > > Best, > > > Manhong > > > Sent from phone > > > > > > > So you read it and you're STILL top posting in violation of the > > rules. And > > making up something called "out of state" which doesn't exist. And > > claiming > > that you have to be on a mailing list when it's been explained, > > multiple > > times, > > that you don't. You claim you're reading, now try understanding. > > > > Nobody cares what your point of view is on pkgver. It's obvious to > > pretty > > much > > anyone that's ever written, or even read, a PKGBUILD. > > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:02:24 -0500 > From: Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Reply to your request SGE > Message-ID: <20201012220224.44a4878b@Scimmia> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > On Mon, 12 Oct 2020 22:57:52 -0400 > Manhong Dai via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > > > You are right that I don't know what 'out of state' or 'out of > > date' or > > 'out of whatever' is. All I know is that I suddenly lost the > > ownership and > > will have to change my cluster maintenance code tomorrow..... > > > > In terms of pkgver or pkgbuild. Now you said nobody cares about > > pigver, > > guess who said this sentence below? > > 'You couldn't even get something as simple as the pkgver right' > > > > It turned out I can read and actually remember.... > > Then try reading again, as that's not what I said at all. You either > have a > serious issue with reading comprehension or you're just making things > up now. > > And you're STILL violating the rules of just about every mailing list > out > there, even after being told twice. > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2020 10:02:08 +0200 > From: Alexis BRENON <brenon.alexis+arch(a)gmail.com> > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Cc: Doug Newgard <scimmia(a)archlinux.org> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] Reply to your request SGE > Message-ID: > <CAJPB9o2UNiGi0ox3t-faNbXeme9ekNo+C0rtDJexL-9RZyfsUg(a)mail.gmail.com > > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > > Then try reading again, as that's not what I said at all. You > > either have a > > serious issue with reading comprehension or you're just making > > things up now. > > > > And you're STILL violating the rules of just about every mailing > > list out > > there, even after being told twice. > > Just to try to calm down the conversation. > > Manhong, you say that this is your package, however, AUR is not the > right place to host "your own" package, it is a place to host the > community's packages. > Actually, there is a dedicated maintainer who takes care of a > package, > and it seems that in the last times you didn't take enough care of > the > sge package (there is a set of rules to follow that make you a good > care-taker: > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_package_guidelines) > so you aren't the maintainer anymore. This seems fair. > > You complain about not being notified before you lost the > maintainership. The maintainer always receives e-mail notifications > to > its personal e-mail address. You are the only one who does not > receive > it, maybe there is a problem on your side... > > In any case, there are some rules. They have been followed. And > nobody > can give you back the maintainership. You can ask to become a > co-maintainer which sounds good, you do not have to bear all the > burden alone! > > If you want to host "your own" package, following your own rules for > the PKGBUILD format, and don't bothering with the community's rules, > feel free to host your own AUR service on your cluster. > > Kind regards, > Alexis > > > ------------------------------ > > Subject: Digest Footer > > _______________________________________________ > aur-general mailing list > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > > > ------------------------------ > > End of aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 4 > *******************************************

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 192, Issue 5
by Manhong Dai 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

> Message: 5 > Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2020 21:03:26 +0200 > From: alad <alad(a)archlinux.org> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] SGE > Message-ID: <683dd11c-f5f1-f0a6-8f97-acde1c8e82b3(a)archlinux.org> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed > > On 14/10/2020 17:16, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: > > Hi Bruno, > > Top-posting, do you know what it means? > > Do not do this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Top-posting > > But do this: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style or > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Bottom-posting > > Again > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Code_of_conduct#Top_posting > > Don't expect anyone to take you seriously if you keep doing this even > after being asked not to, repeatedly. Appreciate it, Alad! I learned! Best, Manhong

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Re: [aur-general] SGE
by Manhong Dai 14 Oct '20

14 Oct '20

Hi Sauyon, Thank you! I learned! Best, Manhong

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[aur-general] Reply to your request SGE
by Manhong Dai 13 Oct '20

13 Oct '20

Hi Freswa, Somebody pointed me to your reply in the list. I didn't even know that the request in the AUR request system was sent to this email list, nor I know such an email list existed. I agree that you think you already gave enough explanation from your point of view. However, please think about it in my shoes, I I didn't even know such an email list existed before I sent the last request through the AUR website, and I just registered it about an hour ago to appeal. If you think I spammed this request system, I am sorry for it. But from my point of view, I have been extremely patient and following the ladder to appeal, because I didn't get any email or any response on the AUR website, which just says one word 'rejected'. I am also a very responsive package maintainer. You can check out my other packages, as long as other people submitted a suggestion, I responded the second day, and accepted their suggestions. In terms of the package SGE, I just searched my email again but didn't find any email saying that the package is marked as out-of-date. It will be hard to believe that a package that was submitted just four months ago is already marked as out of date. It worked on a cluster of all our Arch Linux nodes four months ago, and it is still working on the latest Arch Linux. It worked on both new node installation and old node upgrade . I would never have thought to check the AUR website to see if I am still a maintainer. All I got was the two emails, one saying it was disowned, the other saying it was adopted, and they are 19 minutes apart. Now I understand that each AUR package maintainer should join the email list and keep watching it. Given this special circumstance, can I get the maintainer status for the package SGE back? Best, Manhong

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[aur-general] This Saturday I was deprived the maintainer status of AUR package SGE without reason
by Manhong Dai 12 Oct '20

12 Oct '20

Dear AUR administrator, Can you please change me back to the maintainer of the AUR package SGE? This saturday I got two emails. One is user "freswa" disowned this package, and then 19 minutes later, another email said this package was adopted. When I got the two emails, it was already too late to adopt the package back. I did submit a request at the AUR web interface later, but the request was denied without any explanation. I am an SGE administrator for University of Michigan, and I have been maintaining the legacy SGE C code for many years to make it work with the latest library changes and the newer version of GCC. I published my code modification to AUR to help other Arch Linux user, and also help myself to maintain our own SGE cluster, which runs on both CentOS and Arch Linux. I really don't know why I was deprived of the maintainer status because I am a very responsive AUR maintainer. For example, I received some good suggestions about my other packages, I did accept those suggestions and modified my packages accordingly. The serious issue is I didn't receive any notification about the package sge before the two email notifications. It is quite scary for me, and should be scary for all AUR package maintainers. Is there anything I can do to get the maintainer status back? Best, Manhong

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[aur-general] Wrong E-Mail Adress at registration used
by Matthias 'garionion' Detsch 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

Hi there, sorry to bother you with my stupid mistake. As I wanted to register myself for the AUR a while ago, I misspelled my E-Mail Adress. But I really really want to use my "normal" nickname. As I used a wron E-Mail, I never got a confirmation mail, but the username is still "reserved" (one could consider this as a bug), so I cannot register myself again, with "my" username and the correct EMail Adress. Would it be possible, that someone could please unlock "my" username? Best Regards, garionion

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[aur-general] Package that need external inclusions
by Franck STAUFFER 29 Sep '20

29 Sep '20

Hello, I am trying to update solarus-quest-editor[1] but it needs some files that comes from another package[2][3]. How can I make it works? Should I download the needed files in the $srcdir? Franck STAUFFER [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/solarus-quest-editor/ [2]: https://gitlab.com/solarus-games/solarus-quest-editor#configure/ [3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/solarus/

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[aur-general] Looking for a TU to get gamemode into community repo
by Minze Zwerver 22 Sep '20

22 Sep '20

Hello, I am the current maintainer of the gamemode AUR, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gamemode/ ,and I would like to submit it for the community repository. Currently it has libinih among its dependencies which is also in AUR, however it can be removed if so needed because meson will then fetch it and use a static variant of the library. Thank you for your time, Minze/Ysblokje

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[aur-general] Package clonable via git but not on the web interface?
by Ian Denhardt 21 Sep '20

21 Sep '20

Hi, I recently went looking for a package for [entr][1], didn't find one, and so put together a PKGBUILD myself. When I went to submit it I found the git repo already exists; if you do: git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/entr You get a non-empty repo that was last updated sometime in 2018, and packages version 4.1 of the software. I can't push to the repo since it already exists and I am not the maintainer, but there is no corresponding package available via the web interface: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/entr I am not sure what to make of this. Any insights? -Ian [1]: http://eradman.com/entrproject/

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[aur-general] Lost user/pass on AUR site
by Fábio Emilio Costa 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Lost my password and user on AUR site. It was recommended to get help here... Anything I need to provide? I think I used this email to create it.

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[aur-general] TU application - raster
by Carsten Haitzler 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Hi Everyone. I'm Carsten - or Raster. Sponsors: eschwartz and shibumi agreed to +1 me I'm upstream founder of enlightenment, EFL, terminology and a few other things. I work at Arm in Cambridge, UK (and live here). I've been involved in OSS and releasing software since like 1995/96 or so for Linux (And other Unixen at the time). I've worked on several distributions - RedHat, Debian (made custom variant, not upstream) and Tizen. I pretty much eat, breathe and sleep C, and of course that comes with the requisite "I can drive a shell script off a cliff gracefully" developer skill-set. Linux is my OS. I don't dual boot. All my machines are Linux machines without booting into anything else and that's been the way for me for me since I got my first PC in 1996 after I had to give up on the Amiga. This PC then ran just Linux and nothing else (never saw a DOS or Windows install). In fact all but 2 of my machines are Arch Linux (Rockpro64 dev board (debian SID) and my Ampere Emag aarch64 workstation (Ubuntu), my pinephone has Manjaro for now which is kind-of-close to Arch...). I already maintain the AUR packages for efl-git, enlightenment-git, rage-git, efl-git-asan, enlightenment-git-asan and have for a long while now (also co-maintain terminology-git). You can see that I'm responsive to issues people bring up and fix them pretty fast. I have done some edits to the arch wiki as well over time. I will admit - I haven't really touched the Arch forums... I'm really an IRC/Email person, but I am on #archlinux, #archlinux-offtopic (and #archlinux-arm) most of the time. I've been using arch as my primary/only distro now for maybe about 4-5 years. I like its simplicity and "don't patch/modify things from upstream unless absolutely needed" policy (as an upstream I smile warmly at this direction). It's very developer friendly... and that's who I am. I also run ALARM on my Rapsberry Pis. I do spend most of my effort on the upstream work on these E related projects as those are what I write, release, add features to and fix bugs in. I'm about as googlable as it gets: raster(a)rasterman.com http://www.rasterman.com I know that there are a lot of packages to maintain for a very small number of people, so I'm happy to help out. I'd be best at taking over or being co-maintainer of: * efl * enlightenment * terminology Other packages I can add to community: * rage (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rage - i maintain rage-git already) * evisum (https://www.enlightenment.org/news/2020-06-07-evisum-05-release) And in future any others that I think are past the bar of "worth including in Arch community rather than AUR" over time (there are ones brewing or lurking like EDI https://www.enlightenment.org/about-edi, Ephoto https://www.enlightenment.org/about-ephoto, Enventor https://www.enlightenment.org/about-enventor) I'd also be happy to help maintain packages I know I depend on and work with that might be a bit niche like: * packagekit * ddcutil And in general just help attack anything that I know enough about to be a bit better than a bowl of dried up custard at that is in my general sphere of knowledge/use. My PGP key hash: 04F7A0E31E08D3E08D39AFEBD147F94364295E8C http://keys.gnupg.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0xD147F94364295E8C Looking forward to pitching in and making Arch better :) -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- Carsten Haitzler - raster(a)rasterman.com

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[aur-general] Deletion of sxiv-cdown-git
by Chris Down 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Hi there, It seems this morning sxiv-cdown-git was deleted. It exists as a (small) fork from sxiv with features geared towards using it as a photo manager which Bert has indicated are different from his goals in mainline, not merely a set of config options or whatever. I assume Eli deleted it because he thought it's a one-person package, but it has multiple users. I assume it was removed on this basis due to the name: > Make sure the package you want to upload is useful. Will anyone else want to > use this package? Is it extremely specialized? If more than a few people > would find this package useful, it is appropriate for submission. ...but it is acutually used by a number of people (I know, because I have others in my photography group who use it). Eli, on that basis, would you kindly consider restoring it? I'm happy to rename it sxiv-photomanager-git, or whatever else. I'm also a bit concerned about the predecent set for other packages which happen to bear my name, if that's the criteria for removal. For example, I have `systemd-cdown-git`, which is what I use when people report systemd problems to me and I write and ask them to try out some patches, so it's definitely used by more than a few people, albeit sporadically. Sure, I could just send PKGBUILDs and .install files around, but this seems reasonable to have on the AUR since it means I can just tell them the package to install, and things Just Work(tm). That strategy has been very successful in the past. If the naming is part of the rationale for removal, any suggestion for that one? Thanks, Chris

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[aur-general] Resignation as Trusted User
by Giancarlo Razzolini 09 Sep '20

09 Sep '20

Hi Guys, TL:DR, stepping down as TU, remaining as developer and devops. I have been dabbling with this for a while now, but I think it's time. I haven't been handling a lot of TU related stuff for a long time now (with exception to voting). Keeping TU rights just for voting isn't the right thing to do, so, I therefore step down as a TU. I'll keep working on mkinitcpio and on devops, and I will continue to be available to *everyone*. Please, one of you remove my TU permissions on aurweb. Thank you all. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[aur-general] Renaming package `sublime-text-3-imfix`
by joão marcos pereira bezerra 08 Sep '20

08 Sep '20

Hello, I hope that I'm in the right place to ask this. I am the maintainer of `sublime-text-3-imfix` https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sublime-text-3-imfix/. As the previous maintainer commented before abandoning the package: > Sublime Text 3200 supports fcitx officially, the binary is the same as the original. So, now that the `imfix` suffix is unnecessary (but this package still being the main one), I wanted to rename this package to `sublime-text-3`, should I then delete this and create another one? --- Disclaimer: The package I maintain isn't the main one in popularity IF you compare with `sublime-text-dev` , but it lies about being an dev build, and is actually misleading people into downloading it, just to be the EXACT SAME as the stable version (we can tell about where it downloads the binaries from), so another question: Should I open a request to remove it for being dishonest? If you see the git history, it has always been like that. > commit 42d56cc9d0b082ab82684e5da23424fa296f66a7 > > Downgraded to build 3143, as 3153 can not be used without license. For context, dev builds require an 80$ license. And for some reason `sublime-text-nightly`, on the other hand, does exactly what `sublime-text-dev` description promisses to be doing, up-to-date binaries that require the paid license.

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by khashayar nazari 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD with side-effects outside of build-dir
by Knut Ahlers 06 Sep '20

06 Sep '20

Hey there, Today I received a comment [1] on one of the packages I'm maintaining asking for a change which I'm really not sure about: Basically the requested change is to have the build use an external environment variable (if set) which allows the packager to use an directory outside of the current build directory (the directory `makepkg` was executed in) for build assets. This would on the one hand allow packagers to reuse crates already built and not to build every dependency again within the build process of the package itself. On the other hand this would introduce side-effects to the package building process and also the system of the packager. For builds within isolated environments like Docker containers this would basically not change anything. My personal opinion is strongly biased against allowing side effects outside of the build-dir itself and against letting (developer-)environment-settings, of the systems which execute the build, interfere with the package build. In my opinion the build should stay in a way neither is allowed or at least prevented as far as possible. As I did not find advice / consent on this in the Wiki or AUR-General I'd like to have some opinions of other package maintainers on this: How would you like to have package builds behave? Act as isolated as possible, not reacting to outside influences (like env-vars) though this will never be fully achieved without some wrapper wiping all env-vars from the outside… OR Allow interference of outside influences and allow modifications outside the build directory (for example store the build artefacts outside the build-dir and package them from there)… Cheers, Knut [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dust/#comment-764039 -- Knut Ahlers Software & Infrastructure Developer Web & Blog: https://ahlers.me/ GPG-Key: 0xD34BE99E

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[aur-general] AUR request notify mails
by Michael Straube 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

Hi, in the past, when I filed an AUR request, I got a copy (via CC ?, not sure..) of the request send to my email account. Today I opened https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-August/043176.html but was not emailed. Has this behaviour changed? Is it intended? Went something wrong during the AUR migration to a new server? I'm just curious. ;) Michael

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[aur-general] Removing py2 (make-)dependency vs. keeping py2 features ?
by Kr1ss 28 Aug '20

28 Aug '20

Hi, some while ago, @flying-sheep passed on their `pycharm-community-eap` package to me, which I have been co-maintaining for a while at that point. Recently, I got a user request to remove the (make) dependency to `python2-setuptools`- which was used to pre-compile a Python 2 debugger provided from upstream - or make it optional. Since on the one hand I agree that deprecating Python 2 is a good thing, but on the other hand there might be users who still (need to) work with Python 2, I'm wondering if and how to make a compromise would be the best way to go. There's no way to declare optional make-dependecies as far as I'm aware. For the time being I've removed the makedep, but also have implemented a check in the `PKGBUILD` if `python2-setuptools` is installed anyways and under that condition, the precompiled Python 2 debugger is included. I'm not sure about this anyways, especially in regard to the official `pycharm-community-edition` package in the `community` repo, which does still depend on `python2-setuptools` at build time. Hence my query to the mailing list asking for opinions/recommendations how I should handle this. Any thoughts are welcome. Thanks in advance ! - Kr1ss -

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[aur-general] AUR - Best Practices when Package no longer Supported for Linux upstream but LTS fine?
by David C. Rankin 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Aur devs, The virtualbox 5.2 branch is unsupported as of July 2020. Oracle continues to put out testbuilds for 5.2, but currently it does not build with 5.8 (LTS is fine). 5.2.44 was the last release for the 5.2 branch and there will be no further updates to support Linux 5.8. What do I do with the package? Do I mark it LTS only in some way, or just disown it or have it removed? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.

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[aur-general] Packaging ruby gems
by Anatoly Bashmakov 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

Hello. I need feedback on packaging ruby gems. First, I don't think packaging every gem of the latest version makes a lot of sense. For development there are rvm/rbenv/etc that solve this problem. The only gems need to package (I think) are gems that are required by end-user applications. But such applications may require gems not of the latest versions. So, there are several options here. 1) Bundle dependencies in the application itself. I don't like this approach at all, since the package begins providing a lot of unnecessary gems. Example: ruby-gollum-lib [1]. 2) Package dependency gems only of versions required by the application. For example, gollum-lib gem requires loofah ~2.3 (which means >= 2.3 and < 2.4). The latest version of loofah is 2.6.0. So naming package ruby-loofah of version 2.3.1 for gollum-lib may entails rightly flagging it as out of date. 3) Packaging versioned gems. In previous example the package will be called ruby-loofah-2_3 (or something) and add "provides" in PKGBUILD. It is not forbidden by package guidelines (but not encouraged either) as far as I remember. 4) Not package ruby gems at all. I don't like neither of these options, but I think packaging versioned gems is lesser evil. What are your thoughts? [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-gollum-lib/ -- Anatoly

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[aur-general] Requirements to apply for TU?
by Angel Pérez 09 Aug '20

09 Aug '20

Wich ones are the requirements for apply to be a Trusted User? I know there are some on the ArchWiki, but I want some suggestions from aur-general users. Thanks

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[aur-general] Rrmove package clear of AUR
by Budi 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

How do we remove our own Aur package repo

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[aur-general] what comment in top PKGBUILD
by Budi 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

What or which comment should one put top if he is the original author and creator?

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[aur-general] Ensure it clear
by Budi 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

What or how comment should one put if he is the original author and creator of the package?

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[aur-general] Help for AUR guides
by Budi 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

May one submitted to AUR not binary but a bash script or function (a quite fundamental, necessasry utility wrapper) instead ?

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[aur-general] Commercial spam
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

Hello TUs, there is a unrelated comment for [1] which offers a service for lazy students. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/ucdavisthesis/ Thanks for regarding. Stefan Husmann

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[aur-general] AUR migration
by Giancarlo Razzolini 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

Hi All, In continuing with the improvements being done to our infrastructure, we're planning to migrate the AUR to another machine. This means that, during the migration, there *will* be downtime of the whole AUR. I expect the migration to take around two hours and happen either tomorrow (Friday) or on Saturday, depending on availability. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[aur-general] bit torrent AUR
by Storm Dragon 25 Jul '20

25 Jul '20

Howdy, The recent AUR migration got me to wondering how difficult it would be to set up the AUR as a p2p model with something like bit torrent. I am not at this point even suggesting that it be implemented, I am more just curious about the challenges of such a thing. Thinking about it, there would have to be some kind of security process in place to make sure PKGBUILDs were not modified and retrieved from only one source. Maybe a way to mark certain machines as trusted, and/or setting a minimum of distributers that must agree on the validity of the PKGBUILD in question. I am by no means an expert on this stuff but if something like this were done, and if it worked, it could even be expanded to community packages as well, meaning that any machine with a cache could also serve as a mirror for those packages. So, is something like this feasible? Thanks, Storm -- ⛈🐲 Accessible low cost computers for everyone! https://stormux.org Get my public PGP key: gpg --recv-key 43DDC193 The great thing about Object Oriented code is that it can make small, simple problems look like large, complex ones. "I've seen the tempest in darkest nights I've faced the eyes of Thor" Stormwarrior - Heading Northe

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[aur-general] Spam in AUR Comments
by Mat Moul 24 Jul '20

24 Jul '20

Hello, I've reveived a spam in the comments of one of my AUR package : https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/octopi-dev/#comment-757475 If a TU can take a look Thanks

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[aur-general] know what dependencies in PKGBUILD
by Budi 23 Jul '20

23 Jul '20

h\How to know what dependencies only need to put (surely not all)

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[aur-general] SPAM in AUR comment: piedock package
by John Schroeder 21 Jul '20

21 Jul '20

Hello, There is a spam comment in the AUR package "piedock": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/piedock/. Could a TU remove it? Thanks! --John

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[aur-general] updated AUR intel-opencl-runtime, needs gmm/igc updates
by Nick Black 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

(i sent this to arch-dev originally by mistake; apologies for any duplicates you might receive) I took over the quite out-of-date intel-opencl-runtime, and updated it from 1:18.1.0.013-2 to the current (released 2020-06-04) 1:20.26.17199 from https://github.com/intel/compute-runtime/releases/tag/20.26.17199. Along the way, I cleaned up the packaging a good deal (IMHO). Unfortunately, this is not going to fly without an update to two packages in community: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/intel-gmmlib/ https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/intel-graphics-compiler/ gmmlib needs 20.1.1 -> 20.2.2 igc needs 1.0.3899 -> 1.0.4241 Until these two are updated, use of intel-opencl-runtime 20.X is likely to fail, with errors like the following: [grimes](0) $ clinfo Abort was called at 42 line in file: ../neo/shared/source/built_ins/built_ins.cpp Aborted (core dumped) [grimes](134) $ When I hand-built the newer gmmlib and IGC, however, clinfo once again works fine, and reflects the current version. I'm happy to prepare the necessary patches, but have never contributed to community before, and thought I ought post here first. -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

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[aur-general] Package fails when built with an AUR helper
by rhysperry111＠gmail.com 08 Jul '20

08 Jul '20

Hi, I maintain the package fathom-git. This is a go package. I have had to make the PKGBUILD quite messy because this package requires that it is in the GOPATH which also needs a whole folder structure. In order for it to build I had to create a custom GOPATH in the SRC directory, copy the git repo to there and also make sure it gets removed when the package is rebuilt. Does anyone know of a better solution for go packages that require something to be in GOPATH? === Rhys Perry ===

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Michael Kogan 04 Jul '20

04 Jul '20

Hello, the user https://aur.archlinux.org/account/ZafarYaqoob posted a spam comment at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-json-maybexs/ Please have a look!

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[aur-general] TU application: hashworks
by hashworks 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Hello everyone, My name is Justin Kromlinger aka hashworks and I'm applying as a Trusted User with the sponsorship of Thore Bödecker aka foxxx0 and Christian Rebischke aka shibumi who recently reviewed my AUR packages [1] – thanks for that! Some may know me from freenode#archlinux.de, where I'm lingering since a few years. I am and will be reachable there anytime. I was born in Germany in 1994. My oldest Arch installation dates back to the month of July in 2015, at least according to my pacman logs. Just a year later I successfully qualified as an IT specialist in application development, together with a (soon to be expired) LPIC-1 certificate. Last year I got my bachelor's degree in informatics in Leipzig (come visit me at the C3!), where I currently study for a master's degree. So you could say Arch Linux accompanied my whole education! I started my first job at a small web agency as a Developer, but I slowly but surely turned into their System Administrator. At my current job for a larger IT company my external e-mail signature states I'm a "DevOps Engineer" – and while that term is by all means not fully defined, it kinda describes what I do. I create and maintain pipelines (mainly GitLabCI), design deployment processes and try to make our Docker Images a bit saner every day. And since I was able to enforce using Arch Linux on my work ThinkPad the distribution keeps on supporting my life, so I might try to give a little back! While I try to do some FOSS development in Go or – more recently – Rust now and then [2], my free time mostly flows into the maintenance of software and infrastructure for friends and family – and I have to admit that BASH remains my most fluent language. Regarding my own packages I would like to move filebin and pam-ihosts since I use those on my servers. srrdb-terminal-client is also something I regularly use that I would like to move. Additionally I would like to ask to take over kiwix-desktop of which I maintain the dependency chain (kiwix-lib, libzim and mustache) – and while I'm at it the whole stack (mainly kiwix-tools). Other small packages that would suite Community are mdcat and insect if the current maintainers agree. i3blocks-contrib is another possible candidate, but I would need to request new and frequent releases for that. Out of the orphaned packages the only one I could reasonably maintain is hddtemp (since I still use it). For most of my packages I use a personal GitLab instance to verify the builds with a pipeline [3] and since a while the process of new releases is automated. If possible I would like to support Arch in that direction, things that come to my mind are reproducible builds and CI/CD for repo packages, migration from SVN to Git might be a larger topic I could help with. Since I have an interest in keeping our GitLab packages stable and up-to-date I would like to co-maintain that if anatolik agrees. Since the question comes up frequently in TU applications: I mainly use a Telegram RSS bot [4] to monitor releases and urlwatch for stuff without RSS feeds. Best Regards hashworks [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?K=hashworks&SeB=m [2] https://github.com/hashworks [3] https://git.hashworks.net/aur-packages [4] https://github.com/iovxw/rssbot/blob/2.x/README.en.md

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[aur-general] Upgrade will install package from testing without having testing enabled, it breaks a dependency of a package from AUR
by Ralf Mardorf 01 Jul '20

01 Jul '20

Hi, when upgrading with 'pacman -Syu' I get 'Packages (3) firefox-78.0-1 xorg-fonts-alias-misc-1.0.3-4 xorg-fonts-misc-1.0.3-9', but extra provides xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-8, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/xorg-fonts-misc/ , xorg-fonts-misc 1.0.3-9 is from testing, https://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/any/xorg-fonts-misc/ . Testing is _not_ testing repo enabled: [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ grep testing /etc/pacman.conf # The testing repositories are disabled by default. To enable, uncomment the #[testing] #[community-testing] #[multilib-testing] [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ The upgrade results in "error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) xorg-fonts-alias-misc: /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.alias exists in filesystem (owned by xorg-fonts-alias) Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded." Manual intervention is needed, 'pacman -Rdd xorg-fonts-alias'. The problem is that this is the cause for 'error: missing 'xorg-fonts-alias' dependency for 'white_dune'' https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/white_dune/ and I wonder if a comment to fix the dependencies is appropriated, since actually the issue is caused by a package that should be in testing, but gets installed without testing enabled. Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] Account suspension?
by Tom Hale 28 Jun '20

28 Jun '20

Heya all, When logging in as "Ataraxy" at: https://aur.archlinux.org/login The site says: "Account suspended" Can somebody tell me why my account is suspended, and if in error, reactivate? Thanks, -- Tom Hale

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[aur-general] Question regarding orphan requests
by Tobias Witek 25 Jun '20

25 Jun '20

Hello, I filed an orphan request for a package (bumblebee-status-git) 3 weeks ago - I am the upstream developer and would be willing to take over the package ( I already maintain the bumblebee-status AUR) Unfortunately, I have been unable to establish contact with glaxxx, the current maintainer, and the package is currently broken. How long does it typically take for an orphan request to be processed? I am aware that you all are busy and the project is one of the tiniest on AUR, so I do my best to be patient and I am grateful for the great work you all are doing! Kind regards, tobi-wan

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[aur-general] Search-URL in PKGBUILD
by Ralf Mardorf 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

Hi, I'm using the default DLAGENTS settings in makepkg.conf [1], curl is from the core repo and up to date [2]. Search-URLs never do work on my machine, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/perl-cpanel-json-xs/#comment-749091 What is the recommended solution to solve this issue? Regards, Ralf [1] $ grep -ehttp: /etc/makepkg.conf{,.pacnew} /etc/makepkg.conf: 'http::/usr/bin/curl -gqb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' /etc/makepkg.conf.pacnew: 'http::/usr/bin/curl -gqb "" -fLC - --retry 3 --retry-delay 3 -o %o %u' [2] $ pacman -Q curl curl 7.70.0-1

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[aur-general] TU application; freswa
by Frederik Schwan 28 May '20

28 May '20

Hi everyone, my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In 2010, Debian became my main OS. Only a year later I switched to Arch after I screwed up Debian/sid while hunting for the latest kernel. I'm interested in DevOps topics, mail server, C, Rust, Go and newer JVM languages such as Kotlin. Thanks to svenstaro I've been a bug wrangler since February. You mostly hear from me when I assign bugs to the wrong people from time to time :P OS contributions: - working on the dovecot-xaps code, providing native Mail.app Apple Push for iOS devices - maintaining and writing PKGBUILDs for the AUR - bug reporting and fixing for several projects My AUR packages got reviewed recently by eschwartz, svenstaro and alad - thanks :) If I become a TU, I'd like to focus on the bug tracker until we have a better solution. I'd also like to help out bug fixing when maintainers are busy, away or on vacation. Packages which I would like to move to [Community], some of which are not mine: docker-credential-pass i3status-rust intel-undervolt ispin mysqltuner pdfposter pinentry-rofi protobuf-go sha3sum spin talosctl thermald unifi woeusb I'm aware though that some of these packages do not meet the criteria of 10 votes yet. I'll reevaluate whether they meet this criteria from time to time. I'd also like to go on helping Eli with maintenance of zfs-dkms and zfs-utils in the AUR. In case JetBrains is okay with us packaging their IDE's, I'd also maintain them. But so far all requests I found resulted in a negative response from JB. I am looking forward to working with you! Frederik

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[aur-general] Create user
by karx 22 May '20

22 May '20

Hey, An application I'm thinking about packaging for AUR requires its own user to run. Is it ok to be/How would I go about creating a "user" that will be created on the installer's system when they install the package? Thanks, Yash

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Re: [aur-general] (no subject)
by Amin Vakil 20 May '20

20 May '20

> > Are you aware that you are posting these "test" messages to an English > language mailing list with many thousand readers? If you don't stop, you > will be banned. > > Am 19.05.20 um 20:53 schrieb khashayar nazari via aur-general: >> ???? ???? >> I was wondering why isn't he banned yet, whether he knows it or not, it will save everyone's time banning him.

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by khashayar nazari 20 May '20

20 May '20

لاین لطفا

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[aur-general] GNU Freedink
by Nick Shvelidze 20 May '20

20 May '20

Why was GNU Freedink removed from the AUR? I remember it being there.

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[aur-general] AUR package q -- newbie
by Raj Kombiyil 14 May '20

14 May '20

Dear all, Greetings! Just finished my maiden install of arch-linux on my laptop, with my share of headache. But things are running alright now, I guess. It's kind of difficult to find packages in one place -- e.g.; I could install gedit easily (via pacman), but couldn't find the LaTeX plugin. Searching, I see it is in AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gedit-latex I see that in the comments section, there's some issue. The package is updated in 2017 last. I know all these will be voluntary work and maybe people don't need this plugin much. For me, I could compile LaTeX source on the fly, using gedit with this plugin. What should I do to install this package? I was hoping just to install and move on with my work. I am into science computing and don't have the knowledge base to make this work/make packages etc. I read good things about Arch, so I picked it. Apologies, I am thankful for the great work all the developers/volunteers do, but at this moment I just would like something that works. Thank you for your time and any help would be greatly appreciated. Raj

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[aur-general] (no subject)
by khashayar nazari 11 May '20

11 May '20

75/5510

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 8
by khashayar nazari 11 May '20

11 May '20

Issue 7 ‫<‪aur-general-request@archlinux.org‬‏> در تاریخ یکشنبه ۱۰ مهٔ ۲۰۲۰ ساعت ۵:۰۰ نوشت:‬ > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 7 (khashayar nazari) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:46:37 +0430 > From: khashayar nazari <hasankhoshnazar1356yahoo(a)gmail.com> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 7 > Message-ID: > < > CABj4OpWtWmrXhkQbGKnd4zY69X-oBXeG6vsNHbtEBYqPYSwowg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > 75/5580 > > ?? ????? ???? ? ??? ?????? ??:?? <aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org> ????: > > > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > > > You can reach the person managing the list at > > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > > > > Today's Topics: > > > > 1. Re: TU application; freswa (Christian Rebischke) > > 2. Re: TU application; freswa (Frederik Schwan) > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Message: 1 > > Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 02:43:20 +0200 > > From: Christian Rebischke <Chris.Rebischke(a)archlinux.org> > > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > Subject: Re: [aur-general] TU application; freswa > > Message-ID: <20200508004320.GA391510(a)motoko.shibumi.dev> > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:19:04PM +0200, Discussion about the Arch User > > Repository (AUR) wrote: > > > Hi everyone, > > > my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted > User > > with svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. > > > > > > I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In > > 2010, Debian became my main OS. Only a year later I switched to Arch > after > > I screwed up Debian/sid while hunting for the latest kernel. > > > I'm interested in DevOps topics, mail server, C, Rust, Go and newer JVM > > languages such as Kotlin. > > > > > > Thanks to svenstaro I've been a bug wrangler since February. You mostly > > hear from me when I assign bugs to the wrong people from time to time :P > > > > > > OS contributions: > > > - working on the dovecot-xaps code, providing native Mail.app Apple > Push > > for iOS devices > > > - maintaining and writing PKGBUILDs for the AUR > > > - bug reporting and fixing for several projects > > > > > > My AUR packages got reviewed recently by eschwartz, svenstaro and alad > - > > thanks :) > > > > > > If I become a TU, I'd like to focus on the bug tracker until we have a > > better solution. I'd also like to help out bug fixing when maintainers > are > > busy, away or on vacation. > > > > > > Packages which I would like to move to [Community], some of which are > > not mine: > > > docker-credential-pass > > > i3status-rust > > > intel-undervolt > > > ispin > > > mysqltuner > > > pdfposter > > > pinentry-rofi > > > protobuf-go > > > sha3sum > > > spin > > > talosctl > > > thermald > > > unifi > > > woeusb > > > > > > I'm aware though that some of these packages do not meet the criteria > of > > 10 votes yet. I'll reevaluate whether they meet this criteria from time > to > > time. > > > I'd also like to go on helping Eli with maintenance of zfs-dkms and > > zfs-utils in the AUR. > > > > > > In case JetBrains is okay with us packaging their IDE's, I'd also > > maintain them. But so far all requests I found resulted in a negative > > response from JB. > > > > > > I am looking forward to working with you! > > > Frederik > > > > > > > > > > > Hi freswa, > > > > I would like to ask you the following questions: > > > > 1. How do you monitor new software releases? Do you use a specific tool > > for this like urlwatch? > > > > 2. How do you want to participate in the Arch Linux community? I see > > that you are very active in the IRC and on the bugtracker. Are there > > other areas, where you are active? > > > > 3. Do you use any tools for enforcing a specific PKGBUILD format? For > > example shfmt? > > > > 4. Are you testing your packages? If so, how? Do you spawn a VM via > > vagrant? Or do you use systemd-nspawn or docker images? Or do you just > > test it locally on your machine? > > > > > > Thanks > > > > chris > >

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 187, Issue 7
by khashayar nazari 09 May '20

09 May '20

75/5580 در تاریخ جمعه ۸ مهٔ ۲۰۲۰،‏ ۱۶:۳۰ <aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org> نوشت: > Send aur-general mailing list submissions to > aur-general(a)archlinux.org > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.archlinux.org/listinfo/aur-general > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > aur-general-request(a)archlinux.org > > You can reach the person managing the list at > aur-general-owner(a)archlinux.org > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of aur-general digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: TU application; freswa (Christian Rebischke) > 2. Re: TU application; freswa (Frederik Schwan) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 02:43:20 +0200 > From: Christian Rebischke <Chris.Rebischke(a)archlinux.org> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Subject: Re: [aur-general] TU application; freswa > Message-ID: <20200508004320.GA391510(a)motoko.shibumi.dev> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > On Wed, May 06, 2020 at 11:19:04PM +0200, Discussion about the Arch User > Repository (AUR) wrote: > > Hi everyone, > > my name is Frederik aka freswa and I'm applying to become a Trusted User > with svenstaro's and grazzolini's sponsorship. > > > > I started using Linux around 2004 with some live images of Ubuntu. In > 2010, Debian became my main OS. Only a year later I switched to Arch after > I screwed up Debian/sid while hunting for the latest kernel. > > I'm interested in DevOps topics, mail server, C, Rust, Go and newer JVM > languages such as Kotlin. > > > > Thanks to svenstaro I've been a bug wrangler since February. You mostly > hear from me when I assign bugs to the wrong people from time to time :P > > > > OS contributions: > > - working on the dovecot-xaps code, providing native Mail.app Apple Push > for iOS devices > > - maintaining and writing PKGBUILDs for the AUR > > - bug reporting and fixing for several projects > > > > My AUR packages got reviewed recently by eschwartz, svenstaro and alad - > thanks :) > > > > If I become a TU, I'd like to focus on the bug tracker until we have a > better solution. I'd also like to help out bug fixing when maintainers are > busy, away or on vacation. > > > > Packages which I would like to move to [Community], some of which are > not mine: > > docker-credential-pass > > i3status-rust > > intel-undervolt > > ispin > > mysqltuner > > pdfposter > > pinentry-rofi > > protobuf-go > > sha3sum > > spin > > talosctl > > thermald > > unifi > > woeusb > > > > I'm aware though that some of these packages do not meet the criteria of > 10 votes yet. I'll reevaluate whether they meet this criteria from time to > time. > > I'd also like to go on helping Eli with maintenance of zfs-dkms and > zfs-utils in the AUR. > > > > In case JetBrains is okay with us packaging their IDE's, I'd also > maintain them. But so far all requests I found resulted in a negative > response from JB. > > > > I am looking forward to working with you! > > Frederik > > > > > > Hi freswa, > > I would like to ask you the following questions: > > 1. How do you monitor new software releases? Do you use a specific tool > for this like urlwatch? > > 2. How do you want to participate in the Arch Linux community? I see > that you are very active in the IRC and on the bugtracker. Are there > other areas, where you are active? > > 3. Do you use any tools for enforcing a specific PKGBUILD format? For > example shfmt? > > 4. Are you testing your packages? If so, how? Do you spawn a VM via > vagrant? Or do you use systemd-nspawn or docker images? Or do you just > test it locally on your machine? > > > Thanks > > chris >

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[aur-general] AUR requests not handled anymore?
by Christoph Gysin 06 May '20

06 May '20

I have made two deletion requests on my packages 2 weeks ago, that were never handled: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-April/039815.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-April/039825.html Has the process changed? What can I do to get these handled? Thanks, Chris -- echo mailto: NOSPAM !#$.'<*>'|sed 's. ..'|tr "<*> !#:2" org@fr33z3

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[aur-general] intel-opencl-sdk updated to 2020, probably poorly
by Nick Black 05 May '20

05 May '20

Late last night, I put together an update to intel-opencl-sdk, updating it from the 2017 edition to 2020. This was by far the most difficult PKGBUILD I've ever done, and I suspect it is less than optimal in one or more ways. If anyone feels competent to take a look at the packaging or (more importantly IMHO) the installed result, please do so. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intel-opencl-sdk/ I intend to get to intel-opencl-runtime, helpfully flagged as out-of-date last week, today or tomorrow. Hack on! -- nick black -=- https://www.nick-black.com to make an apple pie from scratch, you need first invent a universe.

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD submission: osrs-launcher
by Nick Shvelidze 03 May '20

03 May '20

Hi, I couldn't find the official Old School RuneScape launcher in the AUR, so I decided to package it, using the official mac client as source. I have written a simple sh script to launch the included jar file (with options extracted from Info.plist file). I'm also extracting the icons from mac icns The pkgver I also got from the Info.plist file, I don't know if it's possible to extract programmatically. I couldn't find the official license for this anywhere, except a generic terms and conditions page of Jagex, which is in HTML format, I don't know if I should scrape it as text and include in package. # Maintainer: Nikoloz Shvelidze <captain(a)pirrate.me> pkgname=osrs-launcher pkgver=1.2 pkgrel=1 epoch= pkgdesc="Official OldSchool RuneScape launcher" arch=(any) url="https://oldschool.runescape.com/" license=('unknown') groups=() depends=(java-runtime bash) makedepends=(p7zip libicns) checkdepends=() optdepends=() provides=() conflicts=() replaces=() backup=() options=() install= changelog= source=("https://www.runescape.com/l=1/downloads/OldSchool.dmg" "osrs-launcher" "osrs-launcher.desktop") noextract=() md5sums=(af345cb11c7e392c15e4d2681d9de17f SKIP SKIP) validpgpkeys=() prepare() { cd "$srcdir" 7z e "OldSchool.dmg" -o"$pkgname-$pkgver" -aoa "Old School RuneScape/Old School RuneScape.app/Contents/Java/jagexappletviewer.jar" 7z e "OldSchool.dmg" -o"$pkgname-$pkgver" -aoa "Old School RuneScape/Old School RuneScape.app/Contents/Resources/OSRS.icns" cd "$pkgname-$pkgver" icns2png -x "OSRS.icns" } package() { mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/osrs-launcher" mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps" mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications" mkdir -p "$pkgdir/usr/bin" install -Dm644 "$pkgname-$pkgver/OSRS_512x512x32.png" "$pkgdir/usr/share/pixmaps/osrs-launcher.png" install -Dm644 "$pkgname-$pkgver/jagexappletviewer.jar" "$pkgdir/usr/share/osrs-launcher/jagexappletviewer.jar" install -Dm755 "osrs-launcher" "$pkgdir/usr/bin/osrs-launcher" install -Dm644 "osrs-launcher.desktop" "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/osrs-launcher.desktop" }

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[aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build
by Nick Shvelidze 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hello everyone, as you know, some packages on AUR take many minutes to build on all but very powerful machines. I think it would be helpful to have an optional bit of metadata that will mark these packages, or possibly even a general thing that will describe approximately how intensive the package is to build. Writing this as freecad-git melts my laptop.

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[aur-general] Package needed: xcalib
by Kristian N. 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hello. I'm going to be a new Arch user soon and there is an important package I need called xcalib. I need it to adjust my screen due to some vision problems. It is currently in the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcalib/ Would any developer be willing to adopt it to the official repositories? I can use the AUR, but this one thing is missing that I need from the repository and it would be very convenient to have it there too. It's a very small and simple program that will not need much upkeep work for the maintainer.

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[aur-general] adoptable packages
by Joseph Carta 28 Apr '20

28 Apr '20

Hi All, I added these packages for an application in the aur that no longer requires them, so there is no need for them to exist anymore. If anyone want's to adopt them, let me know, as I'm going to orphan or request delete them soon. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-wxpython/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-six/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-pillow/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python37-gobject/ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pygobject37-devel/

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[aur-general] Spam account - barryie
by Marcin Wieczorek 25 Apr '20

25 Apr '20

Hello, A comment has been posted under gitkraken package in AUR: > I have got the idea of your product but not everyone can get that idea. > So please give some more description so that your clients can excess > you faster which I visit <redacted> to find out quality work. I hope to > see a little more description very soon. I don't know if this is a single event or something massive, but should be checked. Package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitkraken/ Account link: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/barryie Best regards, Marcin Wieczorek

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[aur-general] Append latest commit link to package update notification
by Amin Vakil 20 Apr '20

20 Apr '20

Arch Linux Wiki has said explicitly that they don't have any responsibilities about what a package in AUR does and they also say that it's mandatory to read and understand PKGBUILD (or any other file or patch that a installation requires) before installing any package. But when a package gets updated and those who have enabled notifications want to update the package, they should (I would say everyone must) click on package page, view changes, and click on latest commit to see what has changed. So appending latest commit link "helps" and "encourages" people to check latest update and I don't think in any possible way has a downside except for a little more text to email which I assume it's OK.

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Diab Neiroukh 08 Apr '20

08 Apr '20

I accidentally pushed a new package to "kayan-gtk-theme-git" instead of "krayan-gtk-theme-git" this morning (now both exist and I will only update the latter) and would like to request it's removal. Apologies for the disturbance. Thanks, Diab Neiroukh

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[aur-general] User deletion request
by Giusy 06 Apr '20

06 Apr '20

I've been banned from AUR, but I keep getting notification of package I maintained on my email and that's annoying. Please delete my user. Thanks.

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[aur-general] aurweb 5.0.0 released
by Lukas Fleischer 27 Mar '20

27 Mar '20

Dear aurweb contributors and users, aurweb 5.0.0 has just been released! You can now add a secondary email address that can be used to recover your account in case access to the primary email address is lost. Reset keys for an account are always sent to both the primary and the backup email address. Most other changes were internal. Shout-out to Frédéric Mangano-Tarumi for doing some amazing work on the backend! For a comprehensive list of changes, please consult the Git log [2]. As usual, bugs should be reported to the aurweb bug tracker [3]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/log/?id=v5.0.0 [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2

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[aur-general] Away until July 1st
by Jerome Leclanche 23 Mar '20

23 Mar '20

Hi list, I was already pretty tight on time, but with the latest cross-platform virus going around, I'm focusing on different projects right now so I'm just going to mark myself as away until things calm down a little. Be safe, folks. J. Leclanche

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[aur-general] Trying to push to AUR, having trouble with GitHub actions
by Yash Karandikar 14 Mar '20

14 Mar '20

Hey all So I was trying to push a new version of my package to the AUR. This repository has two remotes. One is for GitHub, and one is for the AUR. Yesterday, I set up GitHub actions to test my package, but did not push to AUR. The GitHub actions folder has some subdirectories which contain my actions config. However, I cannot push to AUR because of these subdirectories. Any ideas? Thanks, Yash

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[aur-general] Cannot push modifications to my PKGBUILD
by fredbezies 07 Mar '20

07 Mar '20

Hello. I wanted to update this PKGBUILD: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pamac-aur-git/ But after updating .SRCINFO, adding changing, adding commit note, git pull is not working. Here is what I got every single time: fred@fredo-arch-mate ~/pamac-aur-git (git)-[master] % git push Enumerating objects: 7, done. Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 427 bytes | 427.00 KiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: Traceback (most recent call last): remote: File "hooks/update", line 11, in <module> remote: load_entry_point('aurweb==4.8.0', 'console_scripts', 'aurweb-git-update')() remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 490, in load_entry_point remote: return get_distribution(dist).load_entry_point(group, name) remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2854, in load_entry_point remote: return ep.load() remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2445, in load remote: return self.resolve() remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pkg_resources/__init__.py", line 2451, in resolve remote: module = __import__(self.module_name, fromlist=['__name__'], level=0) remote: File "<frozen zipimport>", line 259, in load_module remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aurweb-4.8.0-py3.8.egg/aurweb/git/update.py", line 4, in <module> remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/pygit2/__init__.py", line 30, in <module> remote: from _pygit2 import * remote: ImportError: /usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/_pygit2.cpython-38-x86_64-linux-gnu.so: undefined symbol: git_worktree_prune_init_options remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/pamac-aur-git.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/pamac-aur-git.git' Any idea? Thanks. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] Spam comment
by Fabius 06 Mar '20

06 Mar '20

User: liteblueson Spam comment posted on: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python2-distutils-extra/#comment-732381

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[aur-general] Spring cleaning (moving orphaned packages from [community] to AUR)
by Alexander F Rødseth 05 Mar '20

05 Mar '20

Hello, It's time for the semi-yearly package cleanup of [community] packages, as is tradition. I have gathered a list of "unneeded orphans" in [community] (packages that currently has no maintainer, and no other package depends on them) from the excellent list on our web page. TUs and Devs, please adopt, if you're interested: adapta-kde - Adapta theme for KDE Plasma 5 agg - High Quality Rendering Engine for C++ aide - A file integrity checker and intrusion detection program. arch - A modern and remarkable revision control system. arc-kde - Arc theme for KDE Plasma 5 aspell-it - Italian dictionary for aspell aspell-ru - Russian dictionary for aspell autofs - A kernel-based automounter for Linux bar - A script for showing progress bars. bomberclone - Clone of the game Atomic Bomberman cellwriter - A grid-entry natural handwriting input panel. curseofwar - Fast-paced RTS/Action game with ncurses interface dcfldd - DCFL (DoD Computer Forensics Lab) dd replacement with hashing deadbeef - A GTK+ audio player for GNU/Linux. dumb-a4 - IT, XM, S3M and MOD player library (for Allegro 4) easystroke - Use mouse gestures to initiate commands and hotkeys. eclipse-cpp - Highly extensible IDE for C++ eclipse-java - Highly extensible IDE for Java eclipse-javascript - Highly extensible IDE for JavaScript eclipse-jee - Highly extensible IDE for JEE eclipse-php - Highly extensible IDE for PHP eclipse-rust - Highly extensible IDE for Rust esmtp - An easy SMTP forwarder. flac123 - Command-line program for playing FLAC audio files gimp-dbp - David's batch processor for the GIMP gimp-plugin-fblur - Makes out of focus with luminosity and depth gimp-plugin-lqr - Plugin for The GIMP providing Liquid Rescale gimp-plugin-wavelet-denoise - Tool to reduce noise in each channel of an image separately gimp-refocus - A sharpen plugin for gimp using FIR Wiener filtering glide - Dependency management and vendoring for Go projects glitz - OpenGL image compositing library gnunet-gtk - A frontend for GNUnet gtk-theme-switch2 - Gtk2 theme switcher gvmd - greenbone-vulnerability-manager gvm-tools - greenbone-vulnerability-manager tools icecast - Streaming audio over the Internet ifuse - A fuse filesystem to access the contents of an iPhone or iPod Touch iverilog - Icarus Verilog compiler and simulation tool javasqlite - Java wrapper including a basic JDBC driver for the SQLite 2/3 database engine matrix-appservice-irc - Node.js IRC bridge for Matrix minbif - An IRC gateway to IM networks that uses libpurple. mod_wsgi - Python WSGI adapter module for Apache monica - Monitor calibration tool mythes-pl - Polish thesaurus ntop - A network traffic probe that shows the network usage. ode - High performance library for simulating rigid body dynamics openvas - Vulnerability scanning Daemon pdfmod - Simple application for modifying PDF written in C Sharp pidgin-otr - Off-the-Record Messaging plugin for Pidgin. pinta - Drawing/editing program modeled after Paint.NET. It's goal is to provide a simplified alternative to GIMP for casual users privoxy - A web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities. processing - Programming environment for creating images, animations and interactions projectm-pulseaudio - Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image based rendering (pulseaudio) projectm-sdl - Music visualizer which uses 3D accelerated iterative image based rendering (sdl) python2-pyxmpp - Python XMPP and Jabber implementation based on libxml2 python-pyinsane - Python library to access and use image scanners qtspim - New user interface for spim, a MIPS simulator. rdiff-backup - A utility for local/remote mirroring and incremental backups. remacs - Emacs with parts of it written in Rust steghide - Embeds a message in a file by replacing some of the least significant bits surf - A simple web browser based on WebKit/GTK+. tabbed - Simple generic tabbed fronted to xembed aware applications. transset-df - A patched version of X.Org's transset with added functionality. tuxpaint-config - Tux Paint configuration tool uncrustify - A source code beautifier vim-jellybeans - Colorful, dark color scheme, inspired by ir_black and twilight vim-ultisnips - TextMate-style snippets for Vim. wren - Small, fast, class-based concurrent scripting language xautomation - Controls X from the command line and does "visual scraping". xbindkeys - Launch shell commands with your keyboard or your mouse under X zapcc - C++ compiler based on Clang, but significantly faster zeal - An offline API documentation browser I'll wait two weeks before adding them to AUR, running both `db-remove` and `svn rm` on the unmaintained packages. PS. If unmaintained orphans in [core] could be moved to [extra], and unmaintained orphans in [extra] could be moved to [community], that could be a nice "trickle down" effect and would be an appreciated cleanup as well, but that is just my opinion. To quote our newly elected leader, in connection with the previous spring cleaning: > Cleanup is always good > > - Levente Polyak -- Best regards, Alexander F. Rødseth / xyproto

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[aur-general] What is pkgrel and why/how should I use it?
by karx 04 Mar '20

04 Mar '20

Hello all, sorry if this is not in the appropriate mailing list. I am developing an AUR package, and it says that pkgrel is a required field. Right now, I simply leave it at 1, but I want to know how I should really use it and what its purpose is. Thanks, Yash

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[aur-general] Upgrade AUR visp package to get ViSP 3.3.0 release
by Fabien Spindler 02 Mar '20

02 Mar '20

Hi, There is the visp package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/visp/ that needs to be updated with 3.3.0 release. In https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=visp changes should be |pkgver=3.3.0 ||md5sums=('||b210fff3c47f362c54238f33759d6e7d') | I would appreciate if someone can update the package. Thanks Fabien ||||

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[aur-general] Anydesk 404 not found
by Amin Vakil 01 Mar '20

01 Mar '20

This page gives 404 not found: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/anydesk/ But this url works: https://aur.archlinux.org/anydesk.git What am I missing?

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[aur-general] Question about AUR submission guidelines rule #1
by Lone_Wolf 27 Feb '20

27 Feb '20

Hi, Scimmia pointed me to [1] in answer of a request by me on forum. I re-read the page and realised the exception to the first rule leaves some things open. text quoted from wiki for reference : * The submitted PKGBUILDs must not build applications *already in any* of the *official* binary *repositories* under any circumstances. Check the official package database <https://www.archlinux.org/packages/> for the package. If any version of it exists, *do not* submit the package. If the official package is out-of-date, flag it as such. If the official package is broken or is lacking a feature, then please file a bug report <https://bugs.archlinux.org/>. *Exception* to this strict rule may only be packages having *extra features* enabled and/or *patches* in comparison to the official ones. In such an occasion the |pkgname| should be different to express that difference. For example, a package for GNU screen containing the sidebar patch could be named |screen-sidebar|. Additionally the |provides=('screen')| array should be used in order to avoid conflicts with the official package. The package types listed below are in AUR and appear to be allowed but are not mentioned in the exception . - packages that *remove *features. example : mesa-noglvnd[2] disables glvnd support but is otherwise the same as extra/mesa of the same upstream version . Maybe change the wording to clarify this ? - VCS packages building trunk master or specific branches example : gcc-git [3] The PKGBUILD is very similar to repo version, but it does build trunk master. Are they considered to have 'patches' or should they be mentioned specifically ? - VCS packages building a specific commit or revision (Sorry, can't find an example atm.) Usually these are considered 'stable' versions. Are they seen as packages having patches or should they have their own rule ? Suppose we have 2 packages of this type : A builds a commit that matches exactly with latest released version, B builds some commit without a tag or label.. In my opinion A violates rule#1, but I'm unsure about B. How do we make the difference clear ? - Older versions of repo packages There are plenty of older versions of repo packages in AUR . Just search for gcc or llvm. I don't see anything in the exception that applies to these packages. Lone_Wolf [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mesa-noglvnd [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gcc-git/

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[aur-general] CVEs Listing issue
by Vijay Kumar Kamannavar 24 Feb '20

24 Feb '20

Hello Team, https://security.archlinux.org/issues/all is not listing all CVES. Thanks, Vijay

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[aur-general] review of getax2019 PKGBUILD
by Yoan Blanc 23 Feb '20

23 Feb '20

Hi folks, I've built my first PKGBUILD based on Brunio Renié's vaudtax, https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vaudtax/ https://gitlab.com/greut/getax Do you think I could propose it as is to aur-request? Do you see anything that could be improved? Cheers, -- Yoan

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[aur-general] No way to disable AUR notifications
by Alberto Salvia Novella 19 Feb '20

19 Feb '20

My account is banned from the AUR, but I'm still receiving email notifications from it with no way to disable them. Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

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[aur-general] guile-json package disappeared
by 藍挺瑋 15 Feb '20

15 Feb '20

My guix package on AUR depends on guile-json >= 3. This package used to be available on AUR, but now I could not find it. A user reported an installation failure on guix because of missing guile-json. Why the package disappeared? I tried to find guile-json on aur-requests, but I only found an accepted orphan request. I found no deletion request. https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2019-December/036025.html https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-requests/2020-January/036592.html

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[aur-general] Review of clickhouse-static PKGBUILD
by Felixoid 14 Feb '20

14 Feb '20

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Hello, dear TUs and Arch developers. I'd like to ask relative the package clickhouse-static[1]. The officially supported way to build ClickHouse binaries is static linking[2]. And my question: is it possible that the package with the current building structure (getting contribs like submodules in upstream, static linking etc.) would theoretically come to [community] repository? Best regards, Mikhail f. Shiryaev [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/clickhouse-static/ [2] https://clickhouse.tech/docs/en/development/style/#platform -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEESIZn3Pa5datRJo5TOc1XU71dhW8FAl5AolAACgkQOc1XU71d hW9BsBAAjrsvRpWHLyUwFtc8iku6U6mzeOSPPG5WqgzREXBCxbniEYuDRbvUOfr5 C4Ua8y8vzq+x42Hg82PM5hcJErftcSPcQvD1o86Omxb7ZRIkeMcWmfVKcegcOTtm a/4VhUb5RuriC7L8euY6jL7a3v6j047VHZPFO5HYU0OJqL40dBR1zdBcRKw8uJXi GvmB7nJVhdPDGHP+HrE3ke7etyHB0yv8BqiQO/EPeqR3xxok6AdZYcARx/THSskV j8F2G3gOVYjDnDfn2e0J7eGN3ZjjuEIJg6133Fv3sh52akvU/zFT0WEMNkO6L6YZ Ku9uPWZ+1oaTYpqEimRNRTrpth+JqozthlUzFn+wNOxSJuUtu6a4/Qd0RJeYW80b l3Qm83aTSwv5vjMpm09eD6djfD7q6XZ3U+gPrY/Ntc1AxR8R6FuRiozxOYPzR2HA c7JZNm2li7WnoXh5wm5f3rPJo6SfdJRDIfLPAn6gigLed4WRJKE9VCDc8WtCWwcU kbfi9GBD95bd1XqSXf3OGfSaAnc71dXPWr8MV23QFNrmkPbx21+d6AW0CNBTmHpg 6OXLWkJIRMHFxtbdk043Ne/wq05jLnF6+a5adllkwmlnI14auaR2Ud5RUN1Gy6St 7zu07Ozv7yM/Y9+Q154l8r7ivy7+l9tynUs0FGTHjASKSc0vFvY= =Knpg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Traceback from aurweb upon git push
by Chris Billington 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

Hi all, I received the below traceback when pushing to the AUR. The push appears to have been successful, but it seems to me this may indicate an issue with aurweb, so I'm providing it here as a bug report. If it is not a bug and actually my fault, please enlighten me :) -Chris [bilbo:yaru]$ makepkg --printsrcinfo > .SRCINFO [bilbo:yaru]$ git add .SRCINFO PKGBUILD [bilbo:yaru]$ git commit -m "forgot to update .SRCINFO" [master 928f730] forgot to update .SRCINFO 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) [bilbo:yaru]$ git push Enumerating objects: 7, done. Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. Delta compression using up to 8 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 543 bytes | 543.00 KiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: Traceback (most recent call last): remote: File "/usr/bin/aurweb-notify", line 11, in <module> remote: load_entry_point('aurweb==4.8.0', 'console_scripts', 'aurweb-notify')() remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aurweb-4.8.0-py3.8.egg/aurweb/scripts/notify.py", line 554, in main remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/aurweb-4.8.0-py3.8.egg/aurweb/scripts/notify.py", line 86, in send remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 854, in __init__ remote: self._execute_child(args, executable, preexec_fn, close_fds, remote: File "/usr/lib/python3.8/subprocess.py", line 1702, in _execute_child remote: raise child_exception_type(errno_num, err_msg, err_filename) remote: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '' To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/yaru 3d4130a..928f730 master -> master

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[aur-general] Primary email provider is dead.
by Thegala 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

Hello, I used to have account "gala" with email gala(a)openaliasbox.org. I lost password. And Openmailbox service is dead. I think it is wise to delete that account. Best Regards -- thegala thegala(a)disroot.org

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[aur-general] Issue python PKGBUILD
by Iyán Méndez Veiga 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Hi, After a new release of a python module, I'm facing an issue to update the PKGBUILD. I get a permission error in the package() section: Traceback (most recent call last): File "setup.py", line 52, in <module> setup( File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/skbuild/setuptools_wrap.py", line 639, in setup _copy_file(data_file, dest_data_file, hide_listing) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/site-packages/skbuild/setuptools_wrap.py", line 828, in _copy_file copyfile(src_file, dest_file) File "/usr/lib/python3.8/shutil.py", line 259, in copyfile with open(src, 'rb') as fsrc, open(dst, 'wb') as fdst: PermissionError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '_skbuild/linux-x86_64-3.8/ cmake-install/src/third-party/headers/muparserx/.git/objects/pack/pack- bcece967ee9ec3297e6c8709d2c6d670ad7e3af2.idx' However, if I execute python setup.py install --root="test-install" -- optimize=1 --skip-build manually I cannot replicate the error. Is there any difference between when makepkg executes that command and when I do it myself? Thanks, Iyán

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[aur-general] chirp-daily
by Zion Zero 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Greetings I'd like to contribute to the Arch community by updating the chirp-daily AUR pkgbuild. I've updated the pkgbuild, added my ssh key to my AUR account and tested this on my local system with success. After reviewing the wiki I'm unsure of how to become the maintainer. I've emailed the current maintainer and received his blessing to take over the package. Otherwise I'm unable to push the changes as I do not have the proper ssh origin. Thanks! Kayin

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[aur-general] git push failed 8-(
by J. Scheurich 30 Jan '20

30 Jan '20

Hi, I used git add/git commit as usual. But "git push" fails with: $ git push fatal: unable to access 'https://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 There is no https://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git/ in the git configuration files: $ find . -type f | xargs grep aur ./.git/config: url = https://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git ./.git/logs/HEAD:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 45172971ba7f6a37537a68b2ba7f15e5f2f8180b J. Schurich <mufti11(a)web.de> 1580375715 +0100 clone: from https://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git ./.git/logs/refs/heads/master:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 45172971ba7f6a37537a68b2ba7f15e5f2f8180b J. Schurich <mufti11(a)web.de> 1580375715 +0100 clone: from https://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git ./.git/logs/refs/remotes/origin/HEAD:0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 45172971ba7f6a37537a68b2ba7f15e5f2f8180b J. Schurich <mufti11(a)web.de> 1580375715 +0100 clone: from https://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git Binary file ./white_dune-1.700.tar.bz2 matches any idears ? so long MUFTI

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[aur-general] AUR problem: 403 for white_dune package
by J.Scheurich 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Hi, When i try $ git remote add white_dune ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase.git $ git push fatal: unable to access 'https://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git/': The requested URL returned error: 403 $ / I run "ssh-keygen" and uploaded the .pub key. I had no problems using "git push" before.... What is wrong ? so long MUFTI /

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Re: [aur-general] AUR problem: 403 for white_dune package
by eye 24 Jan '20

24 Jan '20

Just try ``` ~ ssh aur(a)aur.archlinux.org help Commands: adopt <name> Adopt a package base. disown <name> Disown a package base. flag <name> <comment> Flag a package base out-of-date. git-receive-pack Internal command used with Git. git-upload-pack Internal command used with Git. help Show this help message and exit. list-repos List all your repositories. restore <name> Restore a deleted package base. set-comaintainers <name> [...] Set package base co-maintainers. set-keywords <name> [...] Change package base keywords. setup-repo <name> Create a repository (deprecated). unflag <name> Remove out-of-date flag from a package base. unvote <name> Remove vote from a package base. vote <name> Vote for a package base. ``` if this does not work for you, you'll need to fix your ssh config / keys. Toni "J. Scheurich" mufti11(a)web.de – January 24, 2020 11:18 AM > Hi > >> $ git clone ssh://aur.archlinux.org/white_dune.git > >> Cloning into 'white_dune'... > >> aur(a)aur.archlinux.org: Permission denied (publickey). > >> fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > > Is your key added to the ssh-agent? > $ cat ~/.ssh/config > Host aur.archlinux.org > User aur > PreferredAuthentications publickey > IdentityFile ~/.ssh/aur > AddKeysToAgent yes > ... > $ git push > aur(a)aur.archlinux.org: Permission denied (publickey). > fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > > Please make sure you have the correct access rights > $ > > Is this .ssh/config enough for ssh-agent ? > > so long > MUFTI > >

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[aur-general] EQ And Community Kindness
by michael Bostwick 17 Jan '20

17 Jan '20

Hi, This is my first time writing the mailing list, to be honest I would have preferred anther way of bringing this up, but *I didn't see an easy way to bring my concern to someone who's empowered to fix this strong comment or make it better.* I was looking into a package to solve a complex programming task when I encountered a rather jarring pinned comment . ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libc%2B%2B/#pinned-678768 ) " Hi people, this is your regular reminder to SHUT UP about validpgpkeys checks and complaints about the fact that test suites exist. This package is doing the correct thing, and there has been a great deal of pointless moaning and whining about it, but there is also multiple pinned comments explaining why every one of those complaints is not only null and void, but retroactively ridiculous. The banhammer is ready and waiting in case you *still* want to ignore all this on top of the Trusted User warning." I really hope no one was banned by the writer of this comment, and I really hope as trusted users in the future you guys would *be a little more kind* to members of the aur community. Many linux users may be familiar with Linus Torvalds writings on his mistakes with EQ, I hope no one in aur has to experience that. For those trusted AUR members that have been kind I say *thank you for your hard work*, and for those that mean well but are harsh please keep in mind when you see a package the first thing you see in the pinned comment (and alot of context that is missed), and that speaks loudly to your impressions of aur. Thanks For your time in reading my comment, Michael B

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Re: [aur-general] Being an asshole to package maintainers is a bannable offense, and that's okay
by Niels Egidius Johan Meijer 16 Jan '20

16 Jan '20

Hello everyone, this is my first time posting too, I hope nothing went wrong. To demonstrate that it is the presentation of the comment in question but not the content that some experience as inappropriate, I tried to re-write it for myself in a less 'emotive' way. It is usually really hard to properly express emotive content in a written text without creating ambiguity about the intention of the original poster, which I feel underlies most controversies about 'unwelcomingness' on the Internet: > Hi people, there have been a large number of complaints about the testing this package does, such as validpgpkeys checks. This package is doing the correct thing, and several previous pinned comments [have attempted to] explain why these complaints are not valid. Please refer to those before posting any additional comments. The text in []s would make the message a bit more polite, as not including it might make what other might consider a subjective claim. I put it in brackets as I it might change the content of the message a bit. The final sentence prevents users from bringing up the stale arguments that the original message tried to prevent, but does not assume anything about the intentions of the reader, which is more polite IMO. If the poster wants to be a bit more explicit, it could be replaced with the following. > Please refrain from posting any additional comments [that are already addressed by this discussion]. I feel that this is probably rude to say without the parts in brackets (as it forbids a reader who might bring up a valid point from participating), but that part might change the content a bit, hence the brackets. So far the message politely asks the reader not to do something, which might make any willing violation of this request against the implicit expectation of civilised behaviour one can/should assume in a public 'medium' such as the AUR. If somebody does this anyway I am pretty sure everyone can agree that banning could be logical next step. However, to not change the content: to make the threat of a ban explicit one could add the following line: > Please note that Moderators/TUs might [need to] resort to banning users to minimise additional noise in the comment section. However, I really think such a consequence should already be clear from the previous text. Including it might therefore make the message more hostile than it needs to be in order to achieve the desired goal (no more spammy complaints), and also slightly implies that the writer is just pretending to sound polite. (Is it called a 'comment section'?) I'd like to mention that I am not too sure about the mentioned technicalities. I also tried my best not to 'censor' the message in any kind, just change the presentation. Switching to a more formal (less-emotive) register is my go-to approach when a discussion might get heated, and I wanted to add my two cents. I hope they are of some use in any future considerations! Kind regards, Niels E. J. Meijer

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[aur-general] Sha256sum unexpected behaviour
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 10 Jan '20

10 Jan '20

Hello, I got a weird issue with sha256sum behaviour. When creating the package with makepkg --geninteg I get a hash and when trying to build it with makepkg the hash fails. The interesting bit is --ptintsrcinfo comes up with a different hash. Anyone got some idea why this might happen? See below some debugging info ~/linux-gc$ makepkg --geninteg ==> Retrieving sources... -> Found linux-v5.4.10-arch1.tar.gz -> Found config -> Found 0001_bmq_v5.4-r1.patch -> Found 0002_enable_additional_cpu_optimizations-20190822.tar.gz ==> Generating checksums for source files... sha256sums=('bd51016d038277d2edd4e6d6def53b0ba24e0b238662d404a07a7d706ad2b5d3' 'aa77f7e3b611787f734c7e7d7503d3debf9af86ac999e8bccf533c5a854ec15b' '0b770209a72171dfd46401d67d13204a767eb1749ef522df7ea7292b83046537' '8c11086809864b5cef7d079f930bd40da8d0869c091965fa62e95de9a0fe13b5') ~/linux-gc$ makepkg --printsrcinfo pkgbase = linux-gc pkgdesc = Linux pkgver = 5.4.10 pkgrel = 1 url = https://cchalpha.blogspot.co.uk/ arch = x86_64 license = GPL2 makedepends = bc makedepends = kmod makedepends = libelf makedepends = xmlto makedepends = python-sphinx makedepends = python-sphinx_rtd_theme makedepends = graphviz makedepends = imagemagick makedepends = git options = !strip source = linux-v5.4.10-arch1.tar.gz::https://git.archlinux.org/linux.git/snapshot/li… source = config source = 0001_bmq_v5.4-r1.patch::https://gitlab.com/alfredchen/bmq/raw/master/5.4/bm… source = 0002_enable_additional_cpu_optimizations-20190822.tar.gz::https://github.co… validpgpkeys = ABAF11C65A2970B130ABE3C479BE3E4300411886 validpgpkeys = 647F28654894E3BD457199BE38DBBDC86092693E validpgpkeys = 8218F88849AAC522E94CF470A5E9288C4FA415FA sha256sums = 1fda6369ec7038c9ca1fe7aa6206977c5b8983c77e9d74e4ba458a4d042d1d31 sha256sums = aa77f7e3b611787f734c7e7d7503d3debf9af86ac999e8bccf533c5a854ec15b sha256sums = 0b770209a72171dfd46401d67d13204a767eb1749ef522df7ea7292b83046537 sha256sums = 8c11086809864b5cef7d079f930bd40da8d0869c091965fa62e95de9a0fe13b5 pkgname = linux-gc pkgdesc = The Linux kernel and modules with the BMQ CPU scheduler depends = coreutils depends = kmod depends = initramfs optdepends = crda: to set the correct wireless channels of your country optdepends = linux-firmware: firmware images needed for some devices provides = linux-gc=5.4.10 pkgname = linux-gc-headers pkgdesc = Headers and scripts for building modules for the Linux kernel depends = linux-gc provides = linux-gc-headers=5.4.10 provides = linux-headers=5.4.10 Thanks, -- Leonidas Spyropoulos A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is it such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

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[aur-general] Spam
by Michael Duell 09 Jan '20

09 Jan '20

User `hellyjanes900` is spamming at [2] [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/hellyjanes900/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/android-studio/

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[aur-general] SweetHome3D related PKGBUILDs
by Alexis BRENON 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hi all, By default, SweetHome3D comes with only a few 3D models to add to your scene. Some are advertised on its site but it requires that you download them manually and then add them to SweetHome3D. I think it could be nice to have some assets package in AUR which download and add assets automatically. 8 different libraries are provided, some which are specific (for trees or for persons), and they aren't so lightweight so I choose to make 1 package for each library. Hence I wrote some scripts which generate PKGBUILDs and .install script for each package: https://github.com/AlexisBRENON/3dmodels-pkgbuild Here is the PKGBUILD for one of them to show you an example: --- # Maintainer: Alexis BRENON <brenon.alexis+arch at gmail dot com> pkgname=sweethome3d-3dmodels-contributions pkgver=1.7.1 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Free 3D models advertised on SweetHome3D website" arch=('any') url="http://www.sweethome3d.com/freeModels.jsp" license=("custom:FreeArtLicence") optdepends=("sweethome3d: Models rendering" "sweethome3d-3dmodels-blendswap-cc0: More 3D models" "sweethome3d-3dmodels-blendswap-ccby: More 3D models" "sweethome3d-3dmodels-katorlegaz: More 3D models" "sweethome3d-3dmodels-lucapresidente: More 3D models" "sweethome3d-3dmodels-reallusion: More 3D models" "sweethome3d-3dmodels-scopia: More 3D models" "sweethome3d-3dmodels-trees: More 3D models") install="$pkgname.install" source=(" http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/sweethome3d/3DModels-Contributions-1.7.1… ") sha1sums=("5db3609b754747b018fc5362cc5421271656ceca") package() { mkdir -p $pkgdir/usr/share/eteks/sweethome3d/furniture/contributions I=0 for lib in "${srcdir}"/*.sh3f; do install -Dm644 "$lib" "$pkgdir/usr/share/eteks/sweethome3d/furniture/contributions/contributions-$(printf "%02d" "$I").sh3f" I=$(( I + 1 )) done install -Dm644 "${srcdir}"/LICENSE* "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE" } --- Do you think that this kind of packages would be useful and fit in the rules of submissions? Kind, Alexis.

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[aur-general] Change package name?
by Brian Allred 08 Jan '20

08 Jan '20

Hi all, yochananmarqos made a good point on my gpmdp <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gpmdp/> package. It's a -bin package, but I didn't originally submit it as such. Is there a way to change its name without losing the comment history and changelog? I can resubmit as gpmdp-bin if necessary, just wanted to check first. Thanks, Brian

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[aur-general] Dropping official gitlab packages
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

Hi guys, I maintain the official gitlab packages gitlab, gitlab-gitaly, gitlab-runner, gitlab-shell, gitlab-workhorse and python-gitlab. Out of these, I'll be dropping gitlab, gitlab-gitaly, gitlab-shell and gitlab-workhorse because they are way too much work to maintain and I can't keep up and the result isn't great. Currently known bugs: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/62837 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63679 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63688 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63935 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63950 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64337 https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/64887 Unless any other masochistic TU really wants to feel the pain, I'll be dropping them in about two weeks. Sven

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Re: [aur-general] AUR Comment for white_dune
by J. Scheurich 27 Dec '19

27 Dec '19

> Ralf_Mardorf [1] added the following comment to white_dune [2]: > > white_dune 1.660 isn't provided by ftp://ftp.ourproject.org/pub/wdune/ > Sorry, white_dune 1.660 is a defect package 8-( I am unable to rollback to white_dune-1.654: $ git add PKGBUILD .SRCINFO $ git commit On branch master nothing to commit, working tree clean $ git push fatal: 'mufti(a)aur.archlinux.org/packages/white_dune' does not appear to be a git repository fatal: Could not read from remote repository. Please make sure you have the correct access rights and the repository exists. I used the AUR web interface to disown the package and hope to use git commit/psuh in future... sorry so long MUFTI

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[aur-general] surf-git doesn't build (for me, anyway)
by Greg Minshall 17 Dec '19

17 Dec '19

hi. surf-git https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/surf-git/ gets an error when building with makepkg (see below). the problem is correctable by cp -p src/surf/config.def.h src/surf/config.h i.e., copying the suckless-supplied "default" config.h (named config.def.h) to the config.h used in the build, then doing a makepkg -e (there are also config.h files in . and in ./src identical to the one supplied in ./src/surf; i didn't need to change those and am not sure what they are for.) cheers, Greg ps: here's the error (the older function scroll() in surf was split into two, i guess): ---- c99 `pkg-config --cflags x11` `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-3.0 gcr-3 webkit2gtk-4.0` -DVERSION=\"2.0\" -DWEBEXTDIR=\"/usr/lib/surf\" -D_DEFAULT_SOURCE -DGCR_API_SUBJECT_TO_CHANGE -fPIC -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fno-plt -c surf.c In file included from surf.c:302: config.h:149:43: error: ‘scroll’ undeclared here (not in a function); did you mean ‘scrollh’? 149 | { MODKEY, GDK_KEY_j, scroll, { .i = 'd' } }, | ^~~~~~ | scrollh

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[aur-general] AUR VCS cleanup
by Lukas Fleischer 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

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[aur-general] AUR cleanup
by Lukas Fleischer 07 Dec '19

07 Dec '19

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[aur-general] AUR Merge request for kubebox and kubebox-bin
by David Rodriguez 06 Dec '19

06 Dec '19

Hello, I am the maintainer of both kubebox and kubebox-bin. It has been brought to my attention that kubebox, since it is not built from source, would be more appropriately named "kubebox-bin". I've already uploaded the new package and am requesting a merge for comments and votes. Thank you, David Rodriguez

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[aur-general] New Maintainers for some AUR packages needed (mostly Hamradion stuff)
by Andreas Schreiner 05 Dec '19

05 Dec '19

Hi! I currently have no more Arch Boxes running and do want to give up the AUR Packages I maintain. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=m&K=axpu It's mostly Hamradio stuff and things related to that. Please contact me for a direct handover. Packeges not taken will be disowned in about two weeks. Thank you! Andi, OE4DNS

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[aur-general] forgot password
by Yi Qingliang 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

Hello, I have forgot the password, can't login on aur.archlinux.org, after fill email, it said: Password Reset Check your e-mail for the confirmation link. but I have not received any message, anyone can help? THANKS!

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[aur-general] Orphaned my AUR packages
by Michael Straube 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

Hi all, I don't use Arch anymore and orphaned my AUR packages. Feel free to adopt. They are all low maintenance. :) Cheers Michael freedoko freedoko-git chipmachine chipmachine-git enyo-doom

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[aur-general] Transition from split package to unsplit package
by Georg 27 Nov '19

27 Nov '19

Hi list, with the deprecation of Python2 ahead lots of packages currently built as split packages for py2/py3 will have to transition to non-split packages building only the py3 version, but this is not the only scenario when this could be needed. What is the correct workflow for this? It might depend on whether the pkgbase is the py2 vs py3 package vs another name (all cases exist). best regards Georg

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#16805] Deletion Request for the-darkmod-tweaked
by Alberto Salvia Novella 26 Nov '19

26 Nov '19

On 26/11/19 2:27, notify(a)aur.archlinux.org wrote: > eschwartz [1] filed a deletion request for the-darkmod-tweaked [2]: > > After discussion in the package comments for thedarkmod-bin, it was > determined that the custom installer used in the former package > "darkmod" violated the rules of submission on numerous levels. > > The package was reimplemented by a Trusted User, and for good measure > cleaned up and renamed to something more closely matching upstream > intentions, but for all this, the core issue with > https://gitlab.com/es20490446e/the-darkmod-tweaked had nothing to do > whether mv is better than cp, or whatever else this justification > entails: > > ``` > So I'm providing an alternative version for this package, called "the- > darkmod-tweaked", with the following enhancements over the official > bundle: > > Separated saved games and downloaded mission repository for each > user. > Missions cache auto-cleanup. > Enhanced installation speed compared with the official installer. > ``` > > No, this is not acceptable. Your new package is still obfuscation and > violates the rules of submission. > > Your "tweaks" in comparison with thedarkmod-bin do not answer the > question: "why was the previous package orphaned via moderator > action". > > You may not re-upload a package which was deemed inadmissible to the > AUR, and simply rename the pkgname in order to justify its existence. > You are REQUIRED to either: > - first defend your claim that the initial judgment "this is unfit for > the AUR" was incorrect, or > - fix the problems > > You have done neither. > > [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/account/eschwartz/ > [2]https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/the-darkmod-tweaked/ Even when I thought that could piss you off, I genuinely believed that would fall within the rules. Now you suspended my account, and destroyed all my work on Arch. But that was a less risky decision than keeping you around. Your purpose was never to enforce good practices but to boycott. What you call quality standards won't allow me to reach my goals. You don't care about the contents of the book, you only care about how well it's written.

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[aur-general] xmrig-amd package deleted?
by Matt Harrison 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

Hi, It looks like the xmrig-amd [1] was recently deleted from the AUR. I don't currently see any mention anywhere of why or how it was deleted, so I am wondering why it was deleted? I can re-created it from the archive and maintain it myself, but I wanted to check first to not step on anyone's feet if it was deleted for a specific reason. Thanks, Matt Harrison [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xmrig-amd/

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[aur-general] Dispute on thedarkmod-bin
by Alberto Salvia Novella 25 Nov '19

25 Nov '19

A Trusted User decided to orphan one of my packages, and override it with their own version. The reason given was I was using a custom installer for it, but without that installer the software cannot run properly as it was never designed to be used in a Linux filesystem system wide. Still they insisted it could be done. Now that they orphaned the packaged and implemented their own solution, the software is no longer working and it can never do so. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thedarkmod-bin

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[aur-general] hook failed on git-push, package not displayed
by Rafael Fontenelle 23 Nov '19

23 Nov '19

Hello, I just created a new package 'obs-xdg-portal' and with containing a PKGBUILD, a .SRCINFO and a .gitignore, pushed it to AUR, but it didn't went well. Firstly, the package is not available https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/obs-xdg-portal/ When I ran 'git push', it complained about hooks/update not being executable: $ git push Enumerating objects: 4, done. Counting objects: 100% (4/4), done. Delta compression using up to 4 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 830 bytes | 830.00 KiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0) hint: The 'hooks/update' hook was ignored because it's not set as executable. hint: You can disable this warning with `git config advice.ignoredHook false`. To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/obs-xdg-portal * [new branch] master -> master Whenever I try to clone the directory again, it reports "nonexistent ref" $ git clone ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/obs-xdg-portal Cloning into 'obs-xdg-portal'... remote: Enumerating objects: 7, done. remote: Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (7/7), done. remote: Total 7 (delta 0), reused 1 (delta 0) Receiving objects: 100% (7/7), done. warning: remote HEAD refers to nonexistent ref, unable to checkout. Ideas? Best regards, Rafael Fontenelle

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[aur-general] Updating AUR versions server side
by Alberto Salvia Novella 06 Nov '19

06 Nov '19

What if regular, non development, AUR packages were tested server side for new versions? Won't that make more sense than the maintainer having to run pkgver() manually from time to time? (Reply including me on the recipients) Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

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Re: [aur-general] aur client
by Alberto Salvia Novella 02 Nov '19

02 Nov '19

Loui Chang: > I would hope some TU does add 'aur' to the blacklist > of package names. That would make sense if the package was misleading, but "aur" is an aur client for publishing to the AUR. It couldn't have clearer naming. Have a look at "sex", described as "spouts silly mad-lib style porn-like text". I'm still wondering what that means. Bottom line is that packages can be named after anything you want. As long as they are named the same as upstream, and the software is legal and useful.

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Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#16499] Deletion Request for aur-git
by Alberto Salvia Novella 31 Oct '19

31 Oct '19

AUR: > Alad deleted aur-git: > > Why are you submitting this again after agreeing that a name change is > in order? That was the original package which was there before the discussion, and only one day has passed. I haven't had time that fast for thinking a new name and requesting a change, which I was planning to do this very week. I suggest that you make standard in Arch waiting a couple of days for feedback before making unilateral decisions.

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[aur-general] aur client
by Alberto Salvia Novella 30 Oct '19

30 Oct '19

Since publishing to the AUR is something that all packagers do quite frequently, I have developed a software that reduces the related operations to the bare minimum, making publishing to the AUR instant. Basically it's a SMED <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aoqra9bXAAg> system. The software is called "aur <https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aur-git>" itself, and you can check its manual out by in the terminal entering: curl --silent https://gitlab.com/es20490446e/aur/raw/master/assets/aur.1 > aur.1; man ./aur.1; rm aur.1 As long as constructive, suggestions are very welcome. When replying please include my email address in the recipients list. Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

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[aur-general] Doubt conflict array & request check PKGBUILDS
by Iyán Méndez Veiga 28 Oct '19

28 Oct '19

Hi, I recently adopted two packages from AUR: adwaita-qt and adwaita-qt4. Today @morealaz (who is maintaining adwaita-qt-git) asked me to edit some of the arrays in the PKGBUILD (please read comments in the AUR website) and after reading the wiki I did a commit with those little changes. I am not sure if they are correct and he argues that I should a conflict array. Can someone have a look at these two (three) PKGBUILDS and tell me if I should change something and why? Thanks, Iyán

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[aur-general] aurweb 4.8.0 released
by Lukas Fleischer 26 Oct '19

26 Oct '19

Dear aurweb contributors and users, This is a bit of a late announcement but we are pleased to announce that aurweb 4.8.0 has been released last week! Several bugs have been fixed, we made some significant performance improvements by caching results of expensive database queries, and a simple CAPTCHA has been added to combat the growing number of spam accounts. For a comprehensive list of changes, please consult the Git log [2]. As usual, bugs should be reported to the aurweb bug tracker [3]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/aurweb.git/log/?id=v4.8.0 [3] https://bugs.archlinux.org/index.php?project=2

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[aur-general] Rename Request for python-spotipy, python-spotipy-git and python2-spotipy
by Mario Ortiz 23 Oct '19

23 Oct '19

First of all: this is one of my first contributions to a mailing list so if I did something incorrectly, please let me know. I sent this to aur-requests but was told to post here instead. A rename is being discussed for the spotipy package, since the original one hasn't been updated since 2017 and its maintainer is inactive. Here's the new API's GitHub issue where this is being discussed https://github.com/felix-hilden/spotipy/issues/22. The package is going to be renamed on PyPi and Read The Docs, with depreciation warnings and enough time for the current users to update it. But the old version shouldn't be removed in case someone still wants to use it. The same thing applies to the AUR packages. Currently these are python-spotipy, python-spotipy-git and python2-spotipy. The maintainers of these projects should either update it to the new API once it's ready and create the old API packages, or rename them and create a new package with the new API. And by maintainers I also mean myself. I can help by maintaining these packages if necessary. Also, please note that this new API isn't available for Python2 so python2-spotipy would only have to be renamed. I'd appreciate suggestions on this change and how it could be done. Thanks

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Rafael Fontenelle 22 Oct '19

22 Oct '19

DanielWilliams [1] seems to be a spam account, and sent one to trizen [2] comments. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/DanielWilliams [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trizen/

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Re: [aur-general] TU removal: Ray Rashif
by Giancarlo Razzolini 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Em outubro 20, 2019 14:19 Ray Rashif via aur-general escreveu: > Sorry folks, I should have probably sent in a resignation for this. I > have also made unfulfilled promises as a developer and never sent in > an inactivity declaration in the hopes of getting back to Arch/Linux > once I have a new computer. As funny as it sounds my undeclared > inactivity is as long as this current machine ~3-4 years and a > purchase has been pending since last year but keeps getting > down-prioritized due to $$ requirements elsewhere in RL. > Hi Ray, Sorry to hear that. Can you also clarify your status as a developer? It is not clear from this email what is it. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[aur-general] SPAM user account
by John 21 Oct '19

21 Oct '19

Please see the latest comment in the following package which I believe to be made by a SPAM user. Any chance to delete the comment too? Thanks. https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/distccd-alarm/

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[aur-general] TU removal: Ray Rashif
by David Runge 20 Oct '19

20 Oct '19

Hi all, I would like to start the discussion period for a Trusted User removal of Ray 'schiv' Rashif on the grounds of 'Special Removal of an Inactive TU' [1]. Note, that this is separate from any motion in regards to Ray's developer status. Currently Ray is the maintainer of 60 packages in [community] and [extra], of which none are actively maintained by him (for years). Ray's last action as a community member (in archweb) has been on '2019-03-12 12:50'. The account 'schivmeister' doesn't maintain any packages in the AUR and the last login in aurweb was on '2019-03-12'. However, the last counted Trusted User vote is number 117 (current vote: 118). The voting procedure will commence after seven days of discussion period, in which Ray can state his case. Bests, David [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html#_special_removal_of_an… -- https://sleepmap.de

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[aur-general] TU resignation - Lukas Jirkovsky (stativ)
by Lukas Jirkovsky 14 Oct '19

14 Oct '19

Hello everyone, after much time I've finally came to admit to myself that I can no longer fulfill my duties as a trusted user the way Arch Linux deserves. While I still manage to update the packages I actively use, such as rawtherapee, I can no longer keep up with other packages and updates often come late. I've given up on other duties such as keeping AUR clean already. I'm very sorry for that, but time has come for me to pack. Arch Linux community is one of the best communities out there and it was a great pleasure to be part of the team. I still love Arch Linux very much and it's surely going to be my distro of choice for time to come. Lot of you were very helpful with keeping the more complicated packages up to date already. A stellar example is intellij-idea-community-edition, which is now thanks to Maxime built from sources. The packages left that I'm still listed as a sole maintainer doesn't get updates too often and are fairly trivial to update. Though I guess some of them can be safely dropped without anyone noticing (I'm looking at you, gimp plugin packages). So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Lukas

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[aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd
by kpcyrd 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

Hello, My name is kpcyrd and I'm applying to become a Trusted User with anthraxx', sangys and jelles sponsorship. I'm interested in rust, defensive programming and offensive security tooling. Open source became an essential part of my life at some point and the idea of contributing back to the community that gave me so much for free kept me going the last few years. I worked as both a software and IT security engineer in the past and I currently do a combination of both as a contractor. --- # How I started using linux - Started with linux by trying to remaster knoppix in 2010 for a while - Wiped my laptop in 2011 and installed debian with no way of return since it was my only computer at that time - First successful Arch Linux install I did was by helping a friend in 2013 - Eventually migrated to Arch Linux myself in 2015 due to anthraxx - I currently run a combination of Arch Linux, debian and openbsd at home and on servers # How I contributed to the opensource community in the past (somewhat chronological) - Too many pull requests (stopped counting a long time ago) - Assisted debian-security with some issues (redis, mongodb and xul-ext-wot) - Wrote some PKGBUILDs that got moved into community - Revived http://tests.reproducible-builds.org/archlinux/ - Packaged software for alpine, brew and openbsd - Packaged about 1/3 of the rust packages in debian - Co-authored the current reproducible builds rebuilder prototype with NYU - Recently became a debian maintainer (while running Arch Linux) # AUR packages I maintain a few packages in the AUR, the most relevant that I would like to maintain in community at some point are: - diesel_cli - cargo-tree - cargo-fuzz - cargo-crev - python-fints - python-mt-940 - python-sepaxml I'm also interested in co-maintaining reprotest and some of the packages anthraxx currently maintains for me. # Community packages I wrote or contributed to - cjdns - go-ipfs - alacritty - reprotest - sniffglue - badtouch - rshijack - sn0int # Upstream for the following packages in Arch Linux - sniffglue - badtouch - rshijack - sn0int --- Thanks for taking the time reading this, kpcyrd

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[aur-general] Package Rename Requests (2) - waterfox-git and waterfox-alpha-git
by Matt Parnell 11 Oct '19

11 Oct '19

I request that my git PKGBUILDs for Waterfox be renamed thusly to reflect the current release naming scheme that Waterfox is now using: waterfox-git -> waterfox-classic-git waterfox-alpha-git -> waterfox-current-git Thank you!

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[aur-general] Why was nerd-fonts-roboto-mono deleted?
by Alexander Fasching 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi, jleclanche deleted the nerd-fonts-roboto-mono package in the AUR after uploading ttf-roboto-mono to the community repository. What was the reason? The two packages provide different fonts. Regards, Alexander

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[aur-general] Spam comments
by fg-devel+archmail＠mailbox.org 08 Oct '19

08 Oct '19

Hi, there are some spam messages in the comments section of AUR package akira-git: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akira-git#comment-704048 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/akira-git#comment-703169 Greetings, Felix

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[aur-general] package-base PKGBUILD with different architecture list for packages inside
by Attila Greguss 06 Oct '19

06 Oct '19

Hello, I have a PKGBUILD Here <https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=dotnet-core-2.1> Is there a way to enable the commented out package in the PKGBUILD without said package blocking the installation of the other packages on the architecture it does not support? I'm OK with splitting it out, but I thought I ask first if because I don't know the capabilities of PKGBUILD/makepkg. Some (not necessary) context: Package is for dotnet, and the source archive includes dotnet-host, dotnet-runtime, aspnet-runtime, dotnet-sdk for x86_64 and armv7h. For aarch64 it does NOT contain aspnet-runtime files, but all the rest. I tried to specify the architecture list for aspnet-runtime in the PKGBUILD, but if someone tries to install any of the other packages on aarch64 it will fail. (see commented out part in file) Thanks, Attila

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[aur-general] Retiring as a Trusted User
by Florian Pritz 02 Oct '19

02 Oct '19

Hi, I no longer have the time necessary to properly handle actual TU duties so I am retiring my TU hat. I will still continue maintaining some packages I have in [community] via my developer hat. That said, I'd like to orphan some of them too. If anyone is interested in taking over one of these packages (and its dependencies), please feel free to adopt it and tell me so that I can orphan it. asciidoc filezilla libfilezilla gcolor2 gmrun obconf openbox openshot libopenshot libopenshot-audio pydf slock tipp10 vimpager xplc zim Florian

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day September 20th 2019
by Daniel M. Capella 28 Sep '19

28 Sep '19

Do you like popping other people's pimples? Gross, me neither. Anyways, next Friday is our bi-yearly AUR Cleanup Day -- join #archlinux-aur and BYOB. The wiki article[1] has instructions for how to proceed and space to compile our list of candidates. Here's[2] an example from a previous rendition of Purge Day. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:AUR_Cleanup_Day [2] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=AUR_Cleanup_Day/2010&oldid=353326 -- Good hunting, Daniel <https://danielcapella.com>

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[aur-general] TU application: Jonas Witschel (diabonas)
by Jonas Witschel 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi all, my name is Jonas Witschel (online nick "diabonas" on the AUR/GitHub/GitLab/...) and I am applying as an Arch Linux Trusted User under the sponsorship of Bruno Pagani and Alad Wenter. A few words about myself: I am a math PhD student and long-time Linux user. I switched to Arch Linux around 2016 because I like the idea of a rolling release distribution that stays close to upstream, which is especially beneficial when doing software development. I got more actively involved in contributing to Arch when the previous AUR maintainer of the tpm2-software stack (tpm2-tss, tpm2-abrmd and tpm2-tools) orphaned these packages, so I took over maintenance until they were adopted to [community]. I am interested in many security-related thing such as Secure Boot, Trusted Platform Modules (TPMs), disk encryption, PGP, ... As such, I am a member of the tpm2-software organisation and a maintainer of tpm2-totp [1]. Recently I have been working on getting Web Key Directory support into pacman for fetching PGP keys independently of the key server network [2,3]. A repository of all my AUR packages can be found on Gitlab [4]. If I were accepted as a trusted user, I would take over maintenance of the tpm2-software stack from my sponsor Bruno Pagani. This makes sense since I am an upstream member of tpm2-software anyway and had been maintaining these packages until they were adopted to [community]. Another long-time goal as a trusted user would be getting out of the box Secure Boot support for the Arch Linux installation images [5,6]. Packages I would like to adopt from the AUR to [community] for starters are: - The rest of the tpm2-software stack: tpm2-tss-engine and tpm2-totp (when they have reached the 1% usage from pkgstats/10 votes on the AUR threshold), tpm2-pkcs11-git (as soon as it gets a release). - clevis and tang (and their dependencies jose, luksmeta) - sbupdate-git (I need to speak to upstream about making a release first) - paperkey - cryptomator - deheader - texworks - pdftk-java (an exact Java reimplementation of the very popular pdftk/pdftk-bin, which is hard to package since it relies on an outdated version of GCC) I am looking forward to working with you and welcome any questions and comments! Cheers, Jonas [1] https://github.com/tpm2-software/tpm2-totp [2] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/63171 [3] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2019-July/023493.html [4] https://gitlab.com/diabonas/aur-packages [5] https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/53864 [6] https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-releng/2019-January/003891.html

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[aur-general] spam messages
by Lone_Wolf 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Hi, cndrvcups-lb gained a new spam message, and I also listed older ones. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-709467 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-702798 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701682 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-701681 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695882 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695880 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695879 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/?O=10&PP=10#comment-695877 Lone

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Re: [aur-general] TU application: kpcyrd
by Giancarlo Razzolini 21 Sep '19

21 Sep '19

Levente Polyak via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> writes: > > > > I'm hereby confirming my sponsorship. kpcyrd is a friend of mine in > both, cyber- and meatspace. He is a very kind person and I like his way > of thinking. His technical skills would be a great benefit for the TU > community. > Even though I'm not one of kpcyrd sponsors, I can vouch for him as well. Given that I've worked with him in the past. He's a very nice person to work with and quite technically skilled. Regards, Giancarlo Razzolini

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[aur-general] Why keeping OpenRC related packages on AUR?
by fredbezies 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

Hello. Note: posting in the right mailing list now. Oops! I hope it is the right place to discuss about this issue. I noticed there is a lot of OpenRC related packages on AUR. I don't want to start a flamewar, I just want to know what is going on with these PKGBUILDs. A quick search gave me 42 answers - some not related to this init system - 95% of them last updated between 2015 and 2018. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&K=openrc Is there any interest of keeping these PKGBUILDs? There is an official Archlinux + OpenRC init system called Artix, providing a migration guide from Arch or Manjaro. It is also listed in https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch-based_distributions#Active "Artix Linux *2016, previously Arch-OpenRC" https://artixlinux.org/ https://wiki.artixlinux.org/Main/Migration By the way, it is written in the wiki that : "Warning: Arch Linux only has official support for systemd. When using OpenRC, please mention so in support requests." Source: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/OpenRC Is there any explanations for keeping them? Thanks for your answers. -- Frederic Bezies fredbezies(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] Naming issue of mysql-shell and (possibly) request for adoption
by Frederick Zhang 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

Hi all, I am writing about the naming issue that I noticed about the AUR package mysql-shell, i.e. I reckon it's better to rename it to mysql-shell-bin since MySQL Shell is an open-source project and the package actually downloads the prebuilt Ubuntu package. I tried reaching out to Raphaël, who is the current maintainer, via the website comments and flagged it out-of-date on 05 Aug but so far I've got no response. The maintainer's account seems to still be active (package openrefine, which is also owned by the maintainer, was updated on 01 Aug) but I'm not sure whether this particular package is still maintained. If not, I'm willing to adopt the package but instead of renaming it, I would actually like to maintain one that's built from source. However since it needs to be linked against V8 v6.7 (I've submitted an AUR pacakge [1] for this), it'll take a while to build and it could be an unexpected change for users I guess, so I wonder whether it's possible to: 1. rename mysql-shell to mysql-shell-bin 2. allow current mysql-shell users to upgrade to mysql-shell-bin by default like how 'replaces' works 3. ...and I can submit a new mysql-shell package Please shed some light on me. Thanks. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/v8-6.7-static/ -- Best Regards, Frederick Zhang Email: frederick888(a)tsundere.moe

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[aur-general] TU membership application
by Jean Lucas 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Hi all, My name is Jean Lucas, and I'm sending this email to submit my candidacy for Trusted User member. As per the latest TU bylaws, I'm being sponsored by both Alexander Rødseth and Sergej Pupykin. I've been an Arch Linux user since around a little before I registered my AUR account (January 2015, username "flacks" [1]), and I've recently had a few of my packages adopted into [community], namely "cage", "coturn", and "swaybg". I'm currently a computer science student with a particular interest in software engineering ranging from low-level (with a few contributions to projects like coreboot and postmarketOS) all the way up to web development (my current focus), and as such, would love to help maintain Arch's [community] repo in an official capacity to be part of the team that gives Arch users a robust, high-quality Linux software experience; as well as to help maintain, manage, and watch over the operation of the AUR and it's vast sea of software packaging recipes. If I were accepted to become a TU, I'd like to adopt and move the following packages (all having over 10 votes in the AUR) from the AUR into [community]: anydesk, downgrade, exercism, flutter, godot, itch, mattermost-desktop, nvm, reaper, spotify, teamviewer, thermald, unity-editor, and unityhub, for starters! Additionally, I would express my willingness to help co-maintain "firejail" (already in [community]), as its a project I have a higher interest in and contribute to occasionally; as well as to help get "ghidra" in good enough shape to propose moving it into [community], since I've had lots of fun building it [2], its a phenomenal piece of open-source software, and it'd be nice to have it officially supported by the Arch community (it also has a nice number of votes in the AUR)! Thank you for your time, and thank you to all who help make Arch a great OS! Best regards, Jean Lucas [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/flacks [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/log/?h=ghidra-git

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[aur-general] Spam from user stupidblogger
by Michael Duell 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

User: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/stupidblogger spamming here: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/android-studio/#comment-707098

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[aur-general] Rescinding my TU application
by Jean Lucas 08 Sep '19

08 Sep '19

Hello all, I am sending this notice to formally announce the rescinding of my TU application sent on August 16th. I'd like to thank everyone for their feedback, as well as apologize for not taking the time to better prepare and iron out all the details with my sponsors. Cordially, Jean Lucas

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[aur-general] spam comments
by Lone_Wolf 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi, please remove some spam comments from cndrvcups-lb package . https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704963 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/cndrvcups-lb/#comment-704962 user account is https://aur.archlinux.org/account/shandireza , please disable. I'm 99% sure I've seen that homepage listed with many other spam accounts, is there a way to block certain homepages from registering ? Lone_Wolf

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[aur-general] Packaging a go application
by Rhys Perry 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

Hi, I am currently trying to package an application for use in the aur. The problem I am having is the install() section. The only thing i need to be done is for the package to move '$srcdir/$_gitname/fathom' into '/bin/'. How would I turn that into a .tar.gz? Sorry if my question doesn't make sense, but here is my current PKGBUILD (it is not finished as I can't seem to get git to provide a version) ####### PKGBUILD STARTS HERE ####### pkgname="fathom-git" pkgrel=1 pkgver="i.dont.know.what.to.put.here" pkgdesc="Fathom - simple website analytics (Community Edition)" url="https://github.com/usefathom/fathom" license=("MIT") arch=("any") provides=("fathom") conflicts=("fathom") makedepends=("git" "go" "npm") source=("git://github.com/usefathom/fathom.git") md5sums=("SKIP") _gitname="fathom" prepare(){ mkdir -p gopath/src/github.com/usefathom ln -rTsf $_gitname gopath/src/github.com/usefathom/fathom export GOPATH="$srcdir"/gopath } build(){ export GOPATH="$srcdir"/gopath cd $srcdir/$_gitname make build } package(){ echo "I don't know what to do now" } ####### PKGBUILD ENDS HERE ###### Also, if you have any problems with other things in the PKGBUILD then please feel free to give me tips on better ways to do them. Yours sincerely, Rhys Perry

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[aur-general] Spam user report: melissareese
by Stanislav Seletskiy 06 Sep '19

06 Sep '19

Profile: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/melissareese/ Spam message: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ash-mailcap-autoview/#comment-706920 -- Stanislav

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[aur-general] Followup on comaintainers and maintainers help requests
by Sapphira Armageddos 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

(( the following post is a cross post of the forum post here - https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1861865 )) Since making the previous post about retiring my AUR account, the following occurred to me. * I still like doing AUR work. But it's not something I can reliably provide like before. So I'm not sure how to handle being able to do it on the sidelines without making myself seem unavailable on purpose. * People might not be willing to pick up a package after it's been orphaned due to not knowing the maintenance problems I've had with some packages in the past. * Some packages might not be used enough to know when the sources are broken, thus needing updating. * Some packages required maintenance from upstream developers due to no one else being available to maintain it. So I've compiled a list of packages that need co-maintainers, those that I've kept due to low maintenance time, and those that are potentially orphanable due to maintenance circumstances. This list can be found here. https://write.as/l15zfw3838y89q0c.md Is there anything else I should do to make it easier for future maintainers to help ease their workload?

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[aur-general] Spam users: garrlee and harrywepich9
by Mark Weiman 05 Sep '19

05 Sep '19

My turn! I've got a couple of spam comments on [1] from the latest two comments. Mark Weiman [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-latex/

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[aur-general] Update: disklow
by Holger Jahn 04 Sep '19

04 Sep '19

Good day, Please find attached the updated disklow PKGBUILD. Notable changes: source() tarball now on source server where it belongs, added a landing page for url(), and using sha256sums() for checksumming. Let me know if this latest version is passing the quality bar for introduction to AUR. Many thanks, Holger

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[aur-general] New package: disklow
by Holger Jahn 03 Sep '19

03 Sep '19

Good evening, If someone would be interested in reviewing my first contribution to Arch, disklow, then that would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Holger

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Re: [aur-general] Retiring my account, orphaning some packages.
by Matthew Sexton 01 Sep '19

01 Sep '19

On Wed, Aug 14, 2019 at 10:41 AM Aniket Pradhan <aniket17133 at iiitd.ac.in> wrote: > I would request the interested people to have a look at my profile [1] > which states the packages I am maintaining currently. If you want to > maintain/adopt some package, shoot an e-mail in the same thread (no > personal e-mails would be considered). I apologize for sending a personal email regarding packages I wish to adopt. I didn't read the OP close enough. I am willing to adopt * python-gitchangelog * craft-git My AUR username is the same as my email, WSDMatty.

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[aur-general] Spam account alvindutt on polybar package
by Amin Vakil 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

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[aur-general] Deletion request for ipython
by pavel.finkelshtein＠gmail.com 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

Hi Antonio, hi community You've requested deletion of ipython-7 package, mainaned by me with 2 comments: 1. Duplicate of python-prompt_toolkit 2. absurd commit messages While both of them are true I would like to comment on both: 1. Yes, it's duplicate, but it wasn't at a time of publishing. I'll tell you more: community was long behind AUR at that moment because it needs more time to go from upstream to community and less time from upstream to AUR. If you think that it's not the case — then we can safely delete it 2. Comments are absolutely random, but… I just think that when there are no important changes in repository, just version bumps then no comment can make sense. Of course I'm absolutely ready to rewrite history to make them just normal boring comments. -- Regrads, Pasha

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Re: [aur-general] Spammers in AUR
by Johannes Graën 30 Aug '19

30 Aug '19

Please also remove https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Rencompany/.

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[aur-general] Spotify paying attention to requests for redistribution permission
by Chris Billington 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

Hi all, It looks like Spotify had paid some small amount of attention to the request that they change their license to allow redistribution, or that they give permission to redistribute to specific Linux distros, which is the main thing blocking Spotify from being in the repos instead of on the AUR. Today they have marked the issue as "new" and left a note saying they are assessing its popularity by waiting for people to vote for it. It's not clear how much of an effect it will have, but if you are interested you can vote for the issue here: https://community.spotify.com/t5/Live-Ideas/Linux-Add-Spotify-to-the-offici… -Chris

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[aur-general] Spam account (crack4sure)
by Amin Vakil 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Rafael Fontenelle 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

"Julia_Rose1" [1] was created yesterday and sent spam to skypeforlinux-stable-bin [2]. Please someone nuke this spam account. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Julia_Rose1 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/skypeforlinux-stable-bin/#comment-705039

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[aur-general] Spam account: csjoshi9755
by Tom Wambold 27 Aug '19

27 Aug '19

An account created three days ago, csjoshi9755 [1] is spamming links on my package at [2]. Can they be removed? Thanks! -Tom Wambold [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/csjoshi9755/ [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/core/#comment-705710

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[aur-general] Spam account: manaan
by Christoph Gysin 24 Aug '19

24 Aug '19

Account manaan[1] is sending spam to macbook12-spi-driver-dkms[2]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/manaan/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/macbook12-spi-driver-dkms/

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[aur-general] Retiring AUR account formally, requesting maintainers/comaintainers
by Sapphira Armageddos 21 Aug '19

21 Aug '19

Hi everyone, Firstly, I'd like to apologize to all the people who've been waiting on support requests that I haven't been able to follow up on. I should've made the circumstances of my situation clearer to the people that depended on me. Secondly, hopping back into packaging in is turning out to be a lot harder than I thought. It's been two years at my new job. While my schedule doesn't use up a lot of the week, it does leave me tired to the point where I can't support as many people (or packages) as I'd like to. Additional stressors from other parts of life made it hard to keep up with prior activity I maintained before. Finally, there's the communication gaps that happened from needing to reconfigure email clients on both desktop and phone. Thus, it'd be best to orphan the packages so they can find new homes. Or request co-maintainers for packages where I have written code for upstream, but don't know who to contact to check for willing packagers. Of the packages I want to be co-maintained, the Compiz-Reloaded packages are the highest priority in finding a new maintainer. Those are pretty popular, and I still use those myself everyday. If there's a package you'd like to adopt or co-maintain, please let me know. Full listing of packages is here:: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?O=0&SeB=m&K=ShadowKyogre&outdated=&SB=n… Best regards, ShadowKyogre

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[aur-general] Spam Comments: rmmagentd
by Sean Snell 19 Aug '19

19 Aug '19

Hello, upon investigating how I as a package maintainer should deal with spam comments on the packages I maintain, I found that I'm supposed to email aur-general(a)archlinux.org seeking more direct assistance. The relevant package in question: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rmmagent/ Let me know if there's anything further I can do. Thanks! Sean

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[aur-general] kodi-devel-bin
by Paul M. Finkelshteyn 18 Aug '19

18 Aug '19

Hi folks, It looks like to me that all kodi-devel packages are named wrong. For example kodi-devel-bin isn't binary package. Is there some way to force renaming it? Regards, Pasha

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[aur-general] Custom arch repository
by pavel.finkelshtein＠gmail.com 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

Hi everyone, I'm looking for any description on how arch linux repository should be organized. I've found way to publish built packages to github pages, but it's absolutely not enough to just put them somewhere. It looks like repository should have some predefined structure, maybe index files and so on. Any ideas on where I can find them? -- Regrads, Paul

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[aur-general] request for action on orphan request
by Joel Shapiro 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

Hi all, I (jshap[1]) put in a request on `nvidia-docker`[2] for it to be orphaned 2 weeks ago and seeing as some reasonable time has gone by I'd like to ask that the request be granted. It is preventing me from being able to delete a dead package[3]. Thanks, Joel [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/jshap [2]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-docker/ [3]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/nvidia-container-runtime-hook/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[aur-general] Retiring my account, orphaning some packages.
by Aniket Pradhan 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

Hello everyone! I am writing this mail with a sad heart. I have to shift to some other distro now, and hence would be unable to maintain the few packages that I am doing now. I would request the interested people to have a look at my profile [1] which states the packages I am maintaining currently. If you want to maintain/adopt some package, shoot an e-mail in the same thread (no personal e-mails would be considered). I will be orphaning all the packages from the next week, and hence would be really pleased if most of them get adopted before that. [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=major -- Thanks Regards Aniket Pradhan Byld Member ECE Undergrad | IIIT Delhi http://home.iiitd.edu.in/~aniket17133/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments

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Re: [aur-general] Retiring my account, orphaning some packages
by Kr1ss 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

>From: Aniket Pradhan <aniket17133(a)iiitd.ac.in> > >[...] If you want to maintain/adopt some package, shoot an e-mail in >the same thread (no personal e-mails would be considered). [...] Hey Aniket, thx a lot for announcung this rather than just dropping your packages. I would offer to adopt `git-open-git`, since I'm using this one myself. In the AUR, I go by "Kr1ss", btw. In case that there would still be other packages left at the time you'll leave, I'd probably consider picking up some more. Anyways, thank you for contributing to the AUR, and I hope we'll soon have you back ! ;D Best, Kriss

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[aur-general] Please remove spam account: ASDqwelk
by Andy Kluger 13 Aug '19

13 Aug '19

https://aur.archlinux.org/account/ASDqwelk/comments

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[aur-general] AUR package with prebuilt packages
by Paul Finkelshteyn 12 Aug '19

12 Aug '19

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi folks, As kodi-devel-bin take almost forever to build I've created github https://github.com/asm0dey/arch-kodi-devel-builder/ with pre-built packages. Now I want to create AUR packages which will be able to install these binary packages. As you can see I have some knowledge on how to maintain packages: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=asm0dey but in this concrete situation I have no any idea on how to create packages. Of course I can't just use these packages in source field because they have their own dependencies. Also I think I can't just install them inside build or package phase… So question is: is there any recommended way to do what I want? Paul -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCgAdFiEErP6J0y7ivdLXSlrfhwddvf7TUbUFAl1RpEMACgkQhwddvf7T UbV8/A//Sl7FQrZEpCCmXsV9rvrUjZ63FQ949AHSdS6cYMN3ijNYNCLPryGGnHIY gH1EwV7u8RSnrEmWXaWF/Xz/QzUpkYO4Eg9CjkibvuU06N1F5YeI43rKeuYu+QJQ vykfdCaXfnCbfe+YzbNCUUYb5D1M+uVRPh3kkUzuICsUdBbjk2Ez4xGKdTmAHqo2 D3gZQPbb/+ajPe/fBjzRvsune3j7g8de/7/MIM8BjGmu6JnScn3zg4dxauRsSUXP wrVoUUB1tYJwGLpAfszwKySgXmz16+ZINaCrj45sn89zw4MMjEb3MuLxeP8JrqS6 qSzHg47PRS+26cWhN2jpnY939F+rH7kj445NsiPnOLGllUk1vJj29YlN8zCHQCn3 BAqzQdxMgEsi7v6mlcsFn9FG9Ugol/LL7tdgq5KtbAU9/3JDzu5EywwTYIx6Rn3U gllXfNd0hih/tESM7qbSSE1R1+hxq5uZ8EP0+hc1ZsY6vhe76DPlOQjUnJwmTFfO 4a5ahUbkzAfW4hHR8NQ6R18u68LK4UoLfI6PlYW2aKg4Vh2y7YfWxxGAoBMEjca1 /kJApJde7eJxwaSJZAQ9KKwmIHh0qBt9cLaKHRRqKKb3iWqUVRTNmhI50+9mo7y4 LyyIJENhOFw5wWyqSoefVJhfvZiBlHq5X2AMmZIGCR5e6kXV79c= =nUG3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] AUR spammer seoratdp
by James Harvey 07 Aug '19

07 Aug '19

Look at https://aur.archlinux.org/account/seoratdp/comments ... and see 3/3 comments are off topic and just giving links to off topic websites.

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD rfc
by Vladimir Bauer 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

Hi! I have a PKGBUILD I would like to submit: https://github.com/vbauerster/getparty-PKGBUILD What is further steps? -- Kind Regards, Vladimir Bauer

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[aur-general] Fwd: Replacing package
by Rhys Perry 06 Aug '19

06 Aug '19

I have a package (i3-gaps-rounded) and would like to rename it to i3-gaps-rounded-git in order to comply with standards. What would I have to add to the PKGBUILD of each packages in order to force people who have installed i3-gaps-rounded to move to i3-gaps-rounded-git?

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 178, Issue 2
by Kr1ss 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

>Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2019 12:51:02 +0500 >From: Vladimir Bauer <vbauerster(a)gmail.com> > >I have a PKGBUILD I would like to submit: >https://github.com/vbauerster/getparty-PKGBUILD > >What is further steps? > >------------------------------ > >From: Michael Kogan <michael.kogan(a)gmx.net> > >Also, are you sure that the dependencies are actually dependencies, that >is, are required on runtime? Say, pacman and git rather look like >makedependencies. But of course, I might be completely wrong. > >------------------------------ - End of Quote - With `pacman` and `sudo` both belonging to the `base-devel` group, they don't need to be explicitely listed in `makedepends()`, see chapter 4.3 (makedepends) at [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD] Best, Kriss

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[aur-general] spam account report
by Joel Shapiro 31 Jul '19

31 Jul '19

Hey all, Yet another spam account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/annajohnsn/comments Strangely their account was around for 3 months before spamming? seems odd... Thanks ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[aur-general] Virtualbox quite suddenly can't access shared folder anymore
by Ralf Mardorf 28 Jul '19

28 Jul '19

Hi, on 2019-07-25 systemd-udev-reload.hook was running, let alone that I rebooted, before later that day, I used a shared folder by a Windows 7 guest, without experiencing an issue. I don't notice a related upgrade since then, systemd-udev-reload.hook wasn't running anymore, but I rebooted in the meantime. If I try to use a shared folder today, Windows 7 crashes and the VirtualBox log mentions "Failed to open "/dev/vboxdrvu", errno=13, rc=VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_ACCESSIBLE". I tried with two kernels. I don't know if it is related to udev at all. $ pacman -Q virtualbox-bin virtualbox-bin 6.0.10-1 $ ls -hAld /dev/vbox* crw------- 1 root root 10, 56 Jul 27 13:00 /dev/vboxdrv crw------- 1 root root 10, 55 Jul 27 13:00 /dev/vboxdrvu crw------- 1 root root 10, 54 Jul 27 13:00 /dev/vboxnetctl drwxr-x--- 3 root vboxusers 60 Jul 27 13:00 /dev/vboxusb As soon as possible, I need to use the guest with a shared folder again, but I don't have a clue how to fix the issue. Unfortunately https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/ is down due to maintenance. Regards, Ralf

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[aur-general] Spam account
by Bert Peters 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

Hi all, The spam account jha321 just left a comment on ruby-yajl-ruby, and a few others. Could he be deleted? https://aur.archlinux.org/account/jha321/comments

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[aur-general] Advise on updating/uploading binary package
by Oon-Ee Ng 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

I've been using cin-git for a while (which draws on cinelerra-gg project). For those who are unfamiliar, there's the 'original' (old and out-of-date) cinelerra, and a newer cinelerra-heroine, and the most popular one is cinelerra-gg. The 'cin-bin' PKGBUILD on AUR points to the original website, and is practically useless in an up-to-date Arch system. For convenience (and because recently some problems have been happening with cin-git), I want to upload a binary verison of cinelerra-gg. As cin-bin is currently quite useless (and IMO the -gg project is the real heir of the cinelerra heritage), is there any reason I shouldn't adopt it and update it to point to cinelerra-gg binary package?

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[aur-general] Trouble receiving email to reset password
by Etienne Wan 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Hello, I had an account with the username etiennewan for some months now. I tried to login today but was not able to, so tried to send a reset email to the email address the account was registered with, but I did not receive anything. I signed up a new account today with the same username (and it was accepted) and this email address, but I did not receive any email to set my password. Can you help me on this ? Thank you in advance, etiennewan

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[aur-general] Packages that include other project code
by Brett Cornwall 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

I'd like a sanity check! Waybar has a dependency on a C++ logging library called spdlog. This project depends on fmt and by default uses an included copy. I've raised a ticket about removing this but it doesn't look like the developer is interested [2]. In this case, I feel it expedient to patch out the logic to use the bundled headers [2] and outright remove the directories [3]. Am I correct in this conclusion or is this too far-reaching? [1] https://github.com/gabime/spdlog/issues/1146 [2] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/spdlog/trunk/rm_bundl… [3] https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/tree/trunk/PKGBUILD?h=pack…

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[aur-general] Spam accounts
by Alfredo Ramos 15 Jul '19

15 Jul '19

Hello, I just saw some spam comments in the android-studio package. https://aur.archlinux.org/account/JozephChristophe/comments https://aur.archlinux.org/account/oliversmith1407/comments

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Re: [aur-general] Question about creating AUR package
by Tomasz Gąsior 13 Jul '19

13 Jul '19

I think this links are relevant: - <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Creating_packages> - <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_submission_guidelines> --- Tomasz Gąsior https://tomaszgasior.pl W dniu sob, 13 lip 2019 o 17∶56 użytkownik joão marcos pereira bezerra via aur-general <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> napisał: > Hello, i'm new to this mailing list, here because i want to submit a > AUR Package > > It's called "corrupter-bin", an alternative to "corrupter-git" that > avoids installing Go-Lang package (400MB) > > What are the steps? after creating the PKGBUILD what do i do? >

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[aur-general] Question about creating AUR package
by joão marcos pereira bezerra 13 Jul '19

13 Jul '19

Hello, i'm new to this mailing list, here because i want to submit a AUR Package It's called "corrupter-bin", an alternative to "corrupter-git" that avoids installing Go-Lang package (400MB) What are the steps? after creating the PKGBUILD what do i do?

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[aur-general] Spam Account
by Georg Pfahler 12 Jul '19

12 Jul '19

Hi, another Spam Account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/karishma366/comments -- Georg Pfahler <georgpfahler(a)wachenzell.org>

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[aur-general] Spam report
by Justin Wong 06 Jul '19

06 Jul '19

user: helensten link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/aseprite-git#comment-699395 For mod action please. Thanks! - Justin

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[aur-general] Spam account/comments
by Henry-Joseph Audéoud 03 Jul '19

03 Jul '19

Hello, I have some comments in one of my packages (20kly). The three emitter accounts seems clearly spammers: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/gerrykirsten/comments https://aur.archlinux.org/account/robert1833/comments https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sweetzzz/comments -- Henry-Joseph Audéoud ryolait(a)archlinux.org

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[aur-general] Spam account/comments
by Joan Figueras 02 Jul '19

02 Jul '19

Hi, just saw a comment in one of my packages (icecat). The account seems clearly a spammer: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/jennifer247/comments Thanks to take care of. Cheers -- Joan Figueras

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[aur-general] Fwd: [AUR] esp-idf
by Gonçalo Pereira 30 Jun '19

30 Jun '19

Hello, This package is outdated for a month and the maintainer grabbed the package in the beggining of this year and never touched it. I tried contacting him and nothing. Maybe I can maintain this package? (I was the last packager). Let me know what you think. Best Regards, Gonçalo Pereira (G-Pereira) ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: [AUR] esp-idf Date: Friday, June 14, 2019, 5:59:41 PM WEST From: Gonçalo Pereira <goncalo_pereira(a)outlook.pt> To: a(a)arti-nt.ru Hi, I see your package is outdated for a while. Since I use this package for my day-time job maybe I can help you keep it up-to-date. What I suggest is if you want I could be a co-mantainer. What do you think? Best Regards, Gonçalo Pereira (G-Pereira) -----------------------------------------

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[aur-general] The AUR package "svp" is suspicious
by Hirela 30 Jun '19

30 Jun '19

TL;DR: The AUR package "svp" (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/svp/) might be injecting suspicious binary patches. Here are the relevant lines from the PKGBUILD version 4.3.0.165: pkgver=4.3.0.165 source=("https://gist.githubusercontent.com/phiresky/1e2cbd30bed4e5978771af232d11afd…") # I am rehosting the binaries # taken from # http://www.svp-team.com/files/svp4-linux-64.tbz2 # at https://gist.github.com/phiresky/1e2cbd30bed4e5978771af232d11afd1 # so they are correctly versioned and old versions still exist sha256sums=('00a025ce7c06660bafbad8cf5d889e9a6f09a9c9c9585dbee2415a8bf0256f53') First of all, I do not agree with him rehosting binary software and would much prefer this PKGBUILD to just download the latest version of svp4-linux-64.tbz2 straight from the official source. Since this is proprietary freeware, the maintainer might not have a license to redistribute binaries, and even if he did, the advantage of "correctly versioned" does not match up to the disadvantage of having to trust the maintainer to not tamper with his rehosted versions. Loose versions are acceptable for all the *-git packages, so it should be acceptable for SVP. I decided to get the binaries from the official source to verify whether his rehosted packages weren't tampered with. The package version of the PKGBUILD (4.3.0.165) matches up with the latest version of SVP according to the official website (https://www.svp-team.com/wiki/Main_Page) I tried downloading the SVP binary from the official source and compare the hashes: $ curl https://www.svp-team.com/files/svp4-linux-64.tbz2 > svp4-linux-64.tbz2 $ sha256sum svp4-linux-64.tbz2 070411ab60d429e03632fa80bb3ded7d5b2c60c2f5b85dff136f65eb83da3bdb svp4-linux-64.tbz2 This hash does not match up with the hash claimed by the PKGBUILD for his rehosted version, which suggests that the rehosted package is not identical to the official one. I don't know whether this is due to incompetence or malice, but it is worrisome, as it may be possible that the maintainer has injected his own patches into the rehosted versions.

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[aur-general] SPAM report, AUR comment
by Rylie James Thomas 29 Jun '19

29 Jun '19

Hi! Just noticed a SPAM comment on the debtap package, it's the user's only comment: - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/debtap/#comment-693148 - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/jeniferlewis77/comments

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[aur-general] Copyrighted source on https://aur.archlinux.org/
by Jones, Philip 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Hi There is a package hosted on https://aur.archlinux.org/ that is copyrighted and not open source. How do I get it removed? Thanks Philip ----------------- Siemens Industry Software Limited is a limited company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 3476850. Registered office: Faraday House, Sir William Siemens Square, Frimley, Surrey, GU16 8QD.

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[aur-general] Postman
by Gonçalo Pereira 25 Jun '19

25 Jun '19

Hi all, The package "postman" has been broken for months now although a maintainer has put some effort to fix it. However, postman-bin works perfectly fine. Does it make sense to have this two packages? Let me know what you think. Best Regards, Gonçalo Pereira

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[aur-general] Spammer Accounts
by ali.mousavi＠gmail.com 24 Jun '19

24 Jun '19

Hi, The following users are spamming the AUR comments: - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/dhavalpatel/comments - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/badmanlive/comments - https://aur.archlinux.org/account/badmanlive/comments Regards, Ali Mousavi

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[aur-general] Two spammer accounts/comments
by Ronny Lorenz 21 Jun '19

21 Jun '19

Hi, one of my AUR packages (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/mlapack/) has two obvious spammer comments, one from https://aur.archlinux.org/account/loritalear and the other from https://aur.archlinux.org/account/Melvinchunter Would the admins please be so kind to manually remove those two comments, possibly together with removing the spammer accounts at the same time ;) Cheers, Ronny -- Dipl.-Inform. Dr. rer. nat. Ronny Lorenz Institute for Theoretical Chemistry University of Vienna Waehringerstrasse 17 1090 - Vienna AUSTRIA web: http://www.tbi.univie.ac.at/ phone: +43-1-4277-52734 fax: +43-1-4277-52793 mail: ronny(a)tbi.univie.ac.at

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[aur-general] Yet another spammer
by Edvinas Valatka 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

https://aur.archlinux.org/account/jocker12/comments

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[aur-general] ttf-google-webfonts{,-distilled,-git,-hg} mess
by Jason St. John 19 Jun '19

19 Jun '19

I am the current maintainer of the AUR package ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4], and I'm bothered by the mess of various packages there are for Google's Web Fonts project. It's not at all KISS in its current state. There are currently four different AUR packages[1][2][3][4] that essentially supply the same files, and all four packages conflict with each other. Around August of 2012, the package named ttf-google-webfonts[1] was orphaned, and user w0ng created a GitHub repository[5] that mirrors the Mercurial repository[6] on Google Code (why?). Then, the new maintainer changed the original ttf-google-webfonts package from a VCS-type package that simply lacked "-hg" in the name to a package that pulls tarballs from w0ng's GitHub repo[5]. As you can see in the comments for ttf-google-webfonts[1], this has caused all sorts of confusion and messages about the package being out-of-date or having invalid checksums. To get around these issues, user epinephrine created the package ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] that clones w0ng's GitHub repo[5] instead of pulling tarballs from it, which significantly reduces the maintenance required on the package. Then, user Gently created a package named ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] that pulls a tarball from w0ng's GitHub repo[5] and only installs a small subset of the fonts therein. Shortly after ttf-google-webfonts[1] was changed from being a Mercurial-based package and not liking the direction that the package was taking, I reuploaded the original ttf-google-webfonts package as ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] for people that simply wanted the old package back that uses the actual Google Web Fonts repository to download the files. To clean up this mess, I propose that ttf-google-webfonts-distilled[2] and ttf-google-webfonts-git[3] be deleted outright, for what should be obvious reasons. I also propose that ttf-google-webfonts[1] be deleted because of how frequently the Web Fonts project is updated and because the project lacks version numbers. If people really feel strongly about keeping that maintenance nightmare, then let them have it, but I really don't see what advantage it provides over the original ttf-google-webfonts-hg[4] other than one less makedepends. I apologize for the huge email, but this situation really is a mess. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-distilled/ [3] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-git/ [4] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ttf-google-webfonts-hg/ [5] https://github.com/w0ng/googlefontdirectory [6] https://code.google.com/p/googlefontdirectory/ Jason

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[aur-general] Another spammer
by Edvinas Valatka 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

https://aur.archlinux.org/account/rosaleefay

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[aur-general] Another spam account in AUR
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

Hello, are UN ambassadors and hollywood actresses using Arch and comment on AUR? Maybe they do, but this one only spams: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/angelina Please delete and ban. Best Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] Spam account
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 16 Jun '19

16 Jun '19

Hello, this account is spamming the AUR with stupid unrelated online game invotations. https://aur.archlinux.org/account/sunny007 ssvv17997(a)gmail.com Please consider deletion and ban Best Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] Account
by Gonçalo Pereira 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

Hi, I was wondering if I could get my account unsuspended :) Best Regards, Gonçalo Pereira (G-Pereira)

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[aur-general] Spam user: david34
by Joseph Fox-Rabinovitz 13 Jun '19

13 Jun '19

User david34 posted spam on easyloggingpp package and others. Pretty sure it's a spam account. - Joe

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[aur-general] Spam accounts/comments
by Kr1ss 03 Jun '19

03 Jun '19

Hello, I just noticed some spam comments on the `ariang-allinone` AUR web page, both of which are from quite recent accounts w/o any submitted packages or reasonable comments. Could one of the TU's please have a look at : - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ariang-allinone/#comment-693956 - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ariang-allinone/#comment-688757 Thank you ! Cheers, Kr1ss -- PGP: 7A19 4E3F 7A8F 867B EA8A 5339 023F 0788 62AC FE50 http://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x62ACFE50 http://sks-keyservers.net/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x023F078862ACFE50

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