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[aur-general] How to include sources from sourceforge + creating links not provided by package
by Javier Vasquez 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, I'd like to know how to specify sources coming from sorceforge in PKGBUILD, and example could work just fine. Also I'd like to know how to create a link automatically once the package has been installed. This implies removing it when removing the package. If necessary, checking if the link exists when upgrading the package (if the package gets removed before installing new version, that might be handled by the removing of the link when removing the package)... Thanks, -- Javier.

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[aur-general] Please delete my package "dyson"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

I decided not to maintain this package (dyson) anymore because it is closed source, upstream won't fix it as they've released a commercial version of it and it only works 1/4 of the time (not due to packaging issues). I think it is best to just remove it. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Package rename (removal request)
by Rene P. 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi, can someone remove xml-security-c ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32198)? I replaced it by libxml-security-c (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32353) It's just for renaming purposes. Should be right, right? Regards, Rene

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[aur-general] Package rename (deletion request).
by Peter Lewis 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi there, evilgnome quite rightly pointed out that the package cedega-bin32 should be called bin32-cedega, according to the (perhaps defacto?) conventions for 32 bit packages on x86_64. I've re-uploaded the package with the new name. Could someone please delete the old one, located here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29279 Many thanks, Peter.

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[aur-general] PHP 5.2 in [community]
by Evangelos Foutras 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

Hi fellow TUs, Would you mind if I brought php52 [1] to [community]? While backward incompatible changes in PHP 5.3 are limited, last time I tried switching a server to it, it broke a Drupal site (due to some parameters being passed by value to functions that were expecting them to be passed by reference). It also seems that the PHP 5.2 branch is still maintained upstream, with a new version (5.2.12) currently in testing. Any objections to the move? :) ---- [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30384

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[aur-general] Unable to submit package
by edogawaconan 01 Dec '09

01 Dec '09

After 'cleaning up' a package I'm maintaining (nginx-unstable), and verifying it can be built and works fine, AUR rejected the package. Reverting to old version (with updated version) works fine. error message: "Missing build function in PKGBUILD." package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18036 Problematic version attached. -- O< ascii ribbon campaign - stop html mail - www.asciiribbon.org

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Ranguvar 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hello Archers, This is Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar. I'm writing because I have been thinking for a while about applying to become a Trusted User, and I feel that now I have enough basic knowledge of C, Bash, sed, and Perl to apply. I maintain quite a few<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Ranguvar>packages, and I'm very fast at updating them, if I may say so, going so far as to provide my own i686 builds for use by bin32-wine<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7915>when [extra] is taking a long time between updates :) The firefox-pgo <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22296> and firefox-pgo-beta <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22919> packages are not mine, but they were completely rewritten by me, as you can see from the comments there. I do officially maintain firefox-pgo-minefield<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32030> . I have sometimes contributed to [extra] and [community] work; I sent an initial mail<http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-October/007004.html>to aur-general about updating LLVM to 2.6, and worked on the PKGBUILD for it. Also, I filed a bug <http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16165> for the speedup of Vim package building, and wrote a new script to handle fetching patches, which was much faster than the original (until another user used a better idea to make a far better package :p). Lastly, I have commented on other packages many times and suggested improvements (recent example being autoconf-compat<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7224>), and I submit regular bug reports and duplicate packages -- and I'm very active on the forums <http://bbs.archlinux.org/profile.php?id=18355>. As a TU, I will continue to try to improve the quality of AUR PKGBUILDs as a whole, commenting and offering suggestions, deleting duplicates, and orphaning long-out-of-date packages. As for packages I bring into [community], I will probably end up focusing on development tools. Xyne has kindly agreed to sponsor my application; he will likely reply to this soon. Thanks very much for considering me as a possible addition to the TU team! -- Ranguvar

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[aur-general] Remove package
by David Dupin 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

Hi, I do a mistake when creating my AUR teecomp package and do an accidental revival of teeworlds AUR entry. Can you remove it please because teeworlds is in official arch depo for long time now. I apologize for this. Regards.

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[aur-general] Application as a Trusted User
by Thorsten Töpper 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Hello, I've been playing for a while with the thought to apply as a Trusted User, but I never really had the courage to do so, well now I try it. About my person: I'm a 1990 born student from the south of Germany, I study Computer Science(first semester) and use Arch as my main system now since two years and 4 days. I'm mainly active in the german part of the community as the international forums and IRC are too lively for me to actively participate a lot, so I mostly only read the topics, but don't post in the threads. However I read nearly every mail at the mailing lists (except for the ones concerning problems of Users with software I haven't used in years e.g. KDE), but as my opinion was often already stated I don't feel that I have to repeat what's already been said, so I mail rarely to the lists too. About my skills: I'm programming in C since a few years, though I mostly review code in order to learn more, I'm also capable of the basics with python 2.5, several BASIC dialects, C++, Objective C, Java and of course shell scripting. Whereas the focus for the next years lies upon C and Java as they're both needed by my study. About my packages: I maintain 10 packages in AUR[1], whereby I also participate in the development of the i3 window manager to whom's project family 6 of these packages belong(3 projects, each as stable and git package), the other four are the git package of the newsbeuter feedreader and the cococpp package which is a build dependency for the previously named, structorizer which is a Java program to design structograms (or Nassi- Schneiderman diagrams) and a mecurial package for objfw which is a portable framework for the Objective C language, not one of them was adopted. If you want to see their history, I also keep them in a git repository at github.com[2]. About my Application: I asked Stefan Husmann if he would like to sponsor me and he agreed to do so. I have two Arch systems, my laptop running an i686 installation and my desktop machine running a x86_64 installation, both run without the testing repository. As I have to use Java and corresponding util- ities for my study I'd take care of orphanages of the Java development segment, but also orphans in the topics I'm mainly interested in(window managers, development and networks). And as I check my mail whenever it's possible I'd also help with the request of users regarding the administration of the AUR. If you want to search for me, my nick at Arch related sites is Atsutane. Regards Thorsten [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=Atsutane [2] http://github.com/Atsutane/packages - -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAksIGCkACgkQOeTxfyla+/QIXgDgq6vF0HVT5ab9E2eMNjcRvxzw MLDlK0b2ILDHugDeLTJMdLx609Qhnh5Z87jPEDohZiLX0i4Cd/0HZQ== =uTIK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] tablet waltop, linuxwacom 0.8.4-9 patch for waltop
by andrew james 30 Nov '09

30 Nov '09

I want this patch included in the package. It works with the tablet, WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet, two pen buttons are errored currently (both work like mouse middle click ?button 3?), but pressure and button 1 at pen tip work. The patch is one line to include the WALTOP vendor id, written generically at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Wacom#WALTOP_tablet_support_by_the_Waco… Another AUR package has this patch but the package failed to get the controllers from linuxwacom. awx was maintainer. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28999 I think other users may like the convenience of this patch included for their tablet. I wrote the patch for the current package linuxwacom 0.8.4-9. It is attached, to include it in the PKGBUILD add something like, #patch to work with tablet WALTOP # tested WALTOP International Corp. Slim Tablet patch -Np1 -i ${srcdir}/linuxwacom-0.8.4_3-waltop.patch || return andrew diff -aur a/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c b/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c --- a/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c 2009-09-16 21:54:04.000000000 +0200 +++ b/src/xdrv/wcmUSB.c 2009-11-06 03:40:27.904101443 +0200 @@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ ioctl(local->fd, EVIOCGNAME(sizeof(id)), id); /* vendor is wacom */ - if (sID[1] == 0x056A) + if (sID[1] == 0x056A || sID[1] == 0x172f) { common->tablet_id = sID[2];

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[aur-general] Orphaning request (pidgin-hotkeys)
by Lukas Fleischer 29 Nov '09

29 Nov '09

Hi, pidgin-hotkeys is out-of-date for more than two years (0.2.4 has been released on 2007-06-22). Although this plugin doesn't seem to be developed actively anymore, I still use it and would like to see it maintained in the AUR (using a hotkey to switch to the next window with activity - just like Meta-a in irssi's default config - is quite useful). However, pidgin-hotkeys needs to be patched to work with pidgin>=2.2.0. The author didn't react on AUR comments for about 9 months and didn't respond to a detailed mail I wrote one week ago. Could you please orphan this package, so that I can adopt it and upload a working PKGBUILD? Best regards, Lukas Fleischer

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[aur-general] Bunch of deletion candidates
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 28 Nov '09

28 Nov '09

openoffice (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24413) This package is plainly named "openoffice" when it seems to provide a -dev version of some kind and it also appears to duplicate the effort of the packages in [extra]. Personally I think it is confusing even though the package appears to be maintained. Your call. go-oo-bin-base (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19457) This package also seems to duplicate the package of the same mission in [extra]. I know that the difference is that this one uses the provided rpm packages instead of compiling by itself. Your call again. go-oo-{calc,draw,impress,math} These are outdated and at best match the go-oo-bin-base package. We however already have the functionality in [extra]. Also I'd like box2d-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24278) orphaned for me to pick up. The maintainer didn't show any effort to communicate or fix the package. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by Raphael Scholer 27 Nov '09

27 Nov '09

Hello TUs, could you please orphan vim-snipmate, since it needs an update to work with current vim versions. I posted a comment regarding this problem, nearly two months ago in aur, but the maintainer didn't reply/or update the PKGBUILD. I tried today to reach him via e-mail, but the given adress in his aur profile doesn't seem to be active anymore. Regards, Raphael Scholer

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Laszlo Papp 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hello TUs, kermit[1] seems to be a duplicate of ckermit[2]. It installs the same version of kermit project like ckermit. The Maintainer of kermit didn't react for the comments which were taken nearly 3 years ago. I've checked it won't hurt any other package on AUR, because this package is not the dependency of other package. I've checked which name is better to be in AUR, but after a small researching ckermit is better according to the official site/project, and other distribution (like Ubuntu, Gentoo) use ckermit too instead of kermit. [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3385 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14006 Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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[aur-general] Please delete package aurget-git
by Jordy van Wolferen 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hey all, I would like to request the removal of the package aurget-git: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25551 I used some code from brisbin33 scripts and he now wrote a complete AUR frontend and wants to use the name aurget. Aurget-git isn't the dev package of aurget, so to don't confuse people I changed the name to aurget-jordz (non-git). Best Regards, jordz

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[aur-general] LDFLAGS question
by bardo 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

Hi all. Recently I've been having fun with the latest pulseaudio quirk: it doesn't build because of the --as-needed flag in linking. I don't understand linking in depth, but as I understood it there's some dependency cycle that gets triggered by the aforementioned ld flag. However this doesn't happen when building in a chroot, where the package builds fine. It isn't the only package where it happens, and I have a handful of questions about the correct way to handle this. 1. If something like this happens, is it an upstream bug? 2. If it builds fine in a chroot there's obviously a software that triggers the bug, does it mean I am missing a dependency? 3. If a package builds inside a chroot but not outside, should it be changed in such a way that it builds everywhere regardless of the changes that are to be made? Or should it be left as it is, and related bugs closed with "build it in a chroot"? 4. What does the absence of the ld flag imply in practical terms? Is it just a "nice to have" or has it some real implications?

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Re: [aur-general] LDFLAGS question
by Ranguvar 26 Nov '09

26 Nov '09

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 18:58, bardo <ilbardo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all. > Recently I've been having fun with the latest pulseaudio quirk: it > doesn't build because of the --as-needed flag in linking. I don't > understand linking in depth, but as I understood it there's some > dependency cycle that gets triggered by the aforementioned ld flag. > However this doesn't happen when building in a chroot, where the > package builds fine. > > It isn't the only package where it happens, and I have a handful of > questions about the correct way to handle this. > > 1. If something like this happens, is it an upstream bug? > 2. If it builds fine in a chroot there's obviously a software that > triggers the bug, does it mean I am missing a dependency? > 3. If a package builds inside a chroot but not outside, should it be > changed in such a way that it builds everywhere regardless of the > changes that are to be made? Or should it be left as it is, and > related bugs closed with "build it in a chroot"? > 4. What does the absence of the ld flag imply in practical terms? Is > it just a "nice to have" or has it some real implications? > Hello bardo, 1.) Depends on whether they see it as such :p Some upstreams get all annoyed and tag the bug as WONTFIX. Others care about it and take a look into it. I would file it upstream though, just in case. Also, check the Gentoo bug reports, both closed and open, for your problem -- Gentoo has lately been trying to resolve all --as-needed compile issues. 2.) Probably not missing a dependency so much as revealing a flaw in how the software is built (or the linker itself). --as-needed affects how binaries link in other stuff, a certain package may trigger the problem. 3.) I would say, personally, make it build the same everywhere. Do put a comment in the PKGBUILD though, for future reference by others 4.) --as-needed reduces some of the library dependencies of binaries, and also speeds up the dynamic linking step -- applications start faster. Therefore, it's nice to have, but can be removed if it presents problems (as it does every now and again). And lastly, please filter --as-needed in a sane way instead of exporting LDFLAGS :P I like the following three-line solution to filter all variants of --as-needed: LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS//-Wl,--as-needed}" LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS//,--as-needed}" export LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS//--as-needed}" Again, please tag that block with a comment about the failure and that it doesn't fail in a clean chroot or whatever :) Hope that helps, -- Ranguvar [Devin Cofer]

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[aur-general] Deletion request: pulseaudio-airtunes-git
by Clément Démoulins 25 Nov '09

25 Nov '09

Hello, Please delete my package pulseaudio-airtunes-git [1] Thanks Clément Démoulins [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19564

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[aur-general] Anyone who wants to maintain sim instant messenger?
by Tobias Powalowski 24 Nov '09

24 Nov '09

Hi guys, i have still the sim package, which i don't use since ages, someone here who uses it? Else it's time to move it to the AUR or community. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] audio packages
by bardo 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

2009/11/21 Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org>: > There have been plenty of bugs about enabling pulseaudio support in various > packages but they are routinely closed with a "deferred until it is in > [extra]" message. To get better audio support we would probably want to > bring in at least pulseaudio, oss and portaudio from [community]. I maintain pulse in [community] and couldn't agree more, this package should go to [extra], since it is a makedepend for a lot of packages which many users have to rebuild by themselves at the moment. > So is there a current dev willing to maintain these? If anybody wants to step up, get in touch with me, I can recap on the current package situation and give a lot of tips for a mostly hassle-free maintenance. Since as far as I know not all devs read this ml, it could be a good idea if someone forwarded this message to arch-dev-public. Thanks, Corrado

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[aur-general] Inactivity
by Abhishek Dasgupta 23 Nov '09

23 Nov '09

Semester exams are starting next week, so I'll be inactive till 8th Dec. Cheers, Abhishek

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[aur-general] Out-of-Date orphans packages list
by Andrea Scarpino 22 Nov '09

22 Nov '09

Hi, As you already know I am writing a list of ours orphans packages and a candidate maintainer for each. The list is really long (~980) and I haven't more time now (I lost two days for mysql too...). But I thought we can begin from out-of-date packages meantime. So: [extra] bash-completion - (aaron) exim fluidsynth (giovanni) fox - needed by packages in community, move? libtorrent-rasterbar (hugo) mailman myth* (juergen) nasm (aaron) nicotine nss_ldap pam_ldap perl-event (tobias) opencv (tpowa) phonon-xine (pierre) pm-utils (thayer) proftpd (dale) qjackctl (tobias) sawfish (jurgen) silc-toolkit (ibiru) snort tomcat transcode (giovanni) vim (tobias) vsftpd (tobias) x264 (hugo?) xvidcore (tobias) [community] assaultcube beaver duplicity - (elasticdog) eclipse-pydev (bardo?) firefox-spell-pt-br - maybe we should do a firefox-spell-i18n package gtk2-docs (jgc?) libpthread-stubs libxdg-basedir (ronald) moovida musepack-tools proj puzzles python-flup (aschaefer) python-sqlalchemy (ronald) schismtracker tuxcmd (jswierczynski) urlgfe (new project name uget) windowlab xnee (jswierczynski) zziplib (dgriffiths) Please adopt your packages. thanks! -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] package cleanup requests
by TDY 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hopefully this email doesn't turn out blank like my last one. Please remove these packages of mine: pal: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32149 - accidentally uploaded a dupe just now echinus-hg: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16908 - project moved to git gscrot: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16389 - project renamed to shutter Thanks.

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[aur-general] removal of my superseeded packages
by Florian Friesdorf 21 Nov '09

21 Nov '09

Hi, the following packages (which I am the maintainer of) are superseded. (In brackets the number of votes they still have and the new package): - pil-py24 (3, new: python24-pil) - python-ldap-py24 (0, new: python24-ldap) - setuptools-py24 (1, new: python24-setuptools) - vimoutliner (10, new: vim-tvo) I think python-ldap-py24 can be removed. How is the procedure for the others, that still have votes? -- Florian Friesdorf <flo(a)chaoflow.net> GPG FPR: EA5C F2B4 FBBB BA65 3DCD E8ED 82A1 6522 4A1F 4367 Jabber/XMPP: flo(a)chaoflow.net OTR FPR: 9E191746 213321FE C896B37D 24B118C0 31785700 IRC: chaoflow on freenode,ircnet,blafasel,OFTC

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[aur-general] [nuisance guy] please delete this account
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

hi. there was this guy, nicknamed diblidabliduu on AUR. he bug me to update a package that i explained i have no reason to do so. he then repeatdly marked this package out-of-date. As the comments he made are gone i guess his account has been deleted. but this package has again been marked out-of-date by jfdlksafdskjl. i guess he's back. please delete this account

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[aur-general] Deletion request: eglibc-2.10-svn
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 20 Nov '09

20 Nov '09

Hola Please delete eglibc-2.10-svn [#1], it is now replaced by eglibc-2.11-svn [#2] Gracias ;) [#1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26373 [#2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32130 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[aur-general] Resignation
by Timm Preetz 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

I hereby resign from my duties as an Arch Linux Trusted User. Good luck to all the others in the future :) Timm

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[aur-general] gummibaerchen status?
by Andrea Scarpino 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Is Timm Preetz aka gummimbaerchen still a TU? I read he is flagged as active but: - he have not an account on dev platform - last package sent on 05th April '09 - last closed bug on 22th April '09 -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] MythTV
by Manne Merak 18 Nov '09

18 Nov '09

Hi, any idea why MythTV 0.22 branch is flagged out of date? Any plans to start it up again. I can help (well, I can try) Manne

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[aur-general] Package deletion request
by Ranguvar 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, Can you please delete my package, 'llvm-clang-svn<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30359>'? It does not fit in with the new llvm and clang packages in [community], and it'd be better for me to offer contributions to 'llvm-svn' and 'clang-svn', etc. Thanks! -- Ranguvar

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[aur-general] Please remove package "blender2.5"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

It appears as though AUR package "blender2.5" is now broken and also useless because the 2.5 branch has already been merged with blender mainline and thus now blender-svn effectively replaces this package. The author doesn't seem to answer either so I think it'd be best to remove this package. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] SELinux upgrade and packages deletion request
by Nicky726 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hello, First a bit of notice: I upgraded SELinux related packages in AUR. If some kindly had a look at those PKGBUILDs and comment them, I'd be glad. Especially the kernel package gave me a pain (it's config). The same for users having some troubles. And now to business: Following packages of mine are not needed anymore (please delete them): selinux-usr-libselinux-python selinux-usr-libsemanage-python selinux-kernel26 Python bindings are now part of the original packages. I decided to change the name of kernel package to comply Arch Linux naming standards. Have a nice day, Ondrej Vadinsky -- Don`t it always seem to go That you don`t know what you`ve got Till it`s gone. (Joni Mitchell)

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[aur-general] Out-of-date community packages
by Eric Bélanger 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

Hi TU, Since the community repo has been moved to the main web site, you are no longer receiving out-of-date notifications as they are being listed as orphans. We are currently working on finishing the setup, accounts, etc. Meanwhile, here's a list of recently flagged packages (there might be core/extra packages as I didn't bothered filtering the list): [acetoneiso2] [fceux] [listen] [qemu] [aircrack-ng] [gnote] [netbeans] [rubyripper] [pinentry] [virtualbox-additions] [virtualbox-modules] [virtualbox-ose] [virtualbox-ose-additions] [virtualbox-ose-additions-modules] [awesome] [imagemagick] [xtrans] [rtorrent] [libtorrent] [kvpnc] [nilfs] [nilfs-utils] [openttd] [vnstat] [efreet-svn] [eina-svn] [ecore-svn] [embryo-svn] [edje-svn] [e_dbus-svn] [e-svn] [python-sphinx] [libotf] [monit] Eric

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[aur-general] moving jython to AUR? (WAS: Out-of-date community packages)
by Andrea Scarpino 17 Nov '09

17 Nov '09

On 17/11/2009, Alexander Rødseth <rodseth(a)gmail.com> wrote: > The jython package is out of date in Community (2.2.1), while the > lastest version of Jython is 2.5.1 > See: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?q=jython > > I wish there was an updated package of Jython in for instance > Community or AUR and I'm willing to make and maintain such a package. > I'm already maintaining several packages in AUR. See: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=trontonic&O=0&PP=25&SO=d&SB=v > > Since I'm not a TU and I understand that one should not create > packages in AUR that already exists, I wonder what I can do to mend > the current situation. > Should I apply to become a TU, just submit a package named "jython" to > AUR and/or request that the current jython package is deleted? > How is this kind of situation normally handled? Objections? -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] Moving jackbeat to [community]?
by Andrea Scarpino 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hi, I am updating jackbeat, which is orphan, in [extra] and the last release (0.7.2) needs portaudio from [community]. Still, jackbeat provides pulseaudio support if it is built with; pulseaudio is in [community]. This package is orphan, so I think is not a good solution if I update it and add another orphan package into [extra]. But I can update and move it to [community] or AUR (pkgstats says 4.47%). Maybe some TUs is interested. Opinions? -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] [orphan request] deluge-svn
by dave reisner 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Package 'deluge-svn' needs to be updated to fix missing dependencies. Maintainer hasn't responded to comments on AUR page, nor my email sent on 11/10. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18502

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Ranguvar 16 Nov '09

16 Nov '09

Hello, I just recently adopted the firefox-hg-pgo package. Could you please delete it? In a few minutes I am going to upload firefox-pgo-minefield. The name fits better with the other firefox-pgo-* packages, and it is nice in that it is manually updated when a new Firefox HG revision passes the Mozilla Tinderbox unit tests :) Thanks! -- Devin Cofer (Ranguvar)

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[aur-general] Duplicate package
by Ranguvar 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

gnome-colors-extras-icons <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29052>is a duplicate of gnome-colors-icon-theme-extras<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31415> . The latter is better named and is maintained, and the former has comments suggesting they wanted it deleted anyways :)

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[aur-general] Angel Velásquez is not listed as TU at flyspray
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Hi Angel Velásquez is not listed as TU at flyspray, please add it. Thanks. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17137 ¡Good Luck! -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[aur-general] Please remove duplicate "flight-of-the-amazon-queen"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 15 Nov '09

15 Nov '09

Please remove the AUR duplicate package "flight-of-the-amazon-queen" which is technically inferior to "fotaq", a more modern package with the same content. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] [pinentry-qt4] Package removal?
by Peter Lewis 14 Nov '09

14 Nov '09

Hi, I'm pretty sure that this can now be removed from the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20913 It was the package for the Qt4 version of pinentry before that was incorporated in the standard pinentry package in [extra]. No maintainer, no-one objected in its comments section... Cheers, Pete.

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[aur-general] perl-libwww duplicates
by Cedric Staniewski 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi, There are several packages in the AUR which provides exactly the same package as perl-libwww from extra does. Apparently, it is a pacpan related issue and therefore these packages are required by other ones. Deleting them is likely no solution as they will get uploaded again by another pacpan user. Cedric => perl-http-headers http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25730 => perl-http-request http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25736 => perl-http-response http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25735 => perl-lwp-simple http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27566 => perl-lwp-useragent http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25734

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[aur-general] Deletion request for awn-extras-applets-0.4-bzr
by Mikhail Vorozhtsov 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

Hi. I took up maintainership of awn-extras-bzr so awn-extras-applets-0.4-bzr is just a duplicate now.

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[aur-general] too many opera packages
by Nuno André Jeremias de Aniceto 13 Nov '09

13 Nov '09

In the AUR discussion forum, I (quarkup) proposed to make a cleanup on the opera packages. the forum topic is this and it is active: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=84446 you may find some more of the details in the forum there is the "opera" package along with the following ones (as explained on the forum): aur/opera 10.01-1 aur/opera-b1 10.10-1 aur/opera-beta 10.10-10 aur/opera-beta-qt4 10.00b3-1 (Out of Date) aur/opera-bundled 10.01-3 aur/opera-dev 10.10_4694-1 aur/opera-devel-qt4 10.10_4685-1 (Out of Date) aur/opera-dev-qt4 10.00_4493-2 (Out of Date) aur/opera-g4 LATEST-3 aur/opera-qt3 9.64-1 aur/opera-qt4 10.00-6 (Out of Date) aur/opera-shared-b1 10.10-1 aur/opera-static 9.64-1 (Out of Date) aur/opera-unite-devel-qt3 10.00_4440-3 (Out of Date) many of these packages are out of date or are duplicateds. Please check the proposal on the forum.

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[aur-general] C++ problem with conflicting declarations
by Stefan Husmann 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

Hello, when I try to compile xaralx I get In file included from /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/gio.h:28, from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdkapplaunchcontext.h:30, from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gdk/gdk.h:32, from /usr/include/gtk-2.0/gtk/gtk.h:32, from ftfonts.cpp:125: /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/giotypes.h:120: error: conflicting declaration 'typedef struct _GSocket GSocket' /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/unix/gsockunx.h:41: error: 'class GSocket' has a previous declaration as 'class GSocket' ftfonts.cpp: In static member function 'static BOOL FTFontMan::CacheFontCore(String_64*, BOOL)': ftfonts.cpp:262: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' ftfonts.cpp:262: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'TCHAR*' ftfonts.cpp:288: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' ftfonts.cpp:288: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'TCHAR*' ftfonts.cpp: In static member function 'static FTFont* FTFontMan::CreateNewFont(String_64*, FontClass)': ftfonts.cpp:703: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'char*' ftfonts.cpp:703: warning: deprecated conversion from string constant to 'TCHAR*' make[2]: *** [libwxOil_a-ftfonts.o] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/haawda/paketierung/maintained_by_me/xaralx/src/XaraLX-0.7r1785/wxOil' make[1]: *** [all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/haawda/paketierung/maintained_by_me/xaralx/src/XaraLX-0.7r1785/wxOil' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 /usr/include/glib-2.0/gio/giotypes.h is included in glib2, /usr/include/wx-2.8/wx/unix/gsockunx.h is included in wxgtk. What is to do in such cases? Is this a bug in glib2 or in wxgtk? Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] Deletion request for mumble-11x-git
by Lauri Niskanen 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

The AUR package for mumble-11x-git [1] provides a compatibility client for older mumble versions, but uses new code from git. However, it is currently fully obsoleted by mumble-git [2] that provides the latest git version of the application (1.2.0-git) and the compatibility client. The 11x-client part in mumble-git is exactly the same as in mumble-11x-git. I think mumble-11x-git should be removed as obsoleted. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30578 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26865 -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[aur-general] Deletion request: gdata-provider
by Dave 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

My package, will create a new one. Thanks! http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31305

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[aur-general] Reset password of AUR account?
by Magnus Therning 12 Nov '09

12 Nov '09

I seem to have lost my AUR account password. Looking at the site there's no obvious way to get it back, or reset it. What do I do? Username: magus /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[aur-general] Delete Package - kernel-devel-pae
by Phillip Smith 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

Could someone please delete "kernel-devel-pae 2.6.31-23.fc12" from AUR. I have adopted "kernel26-fedora-pae" and I'll resubmit this 'devel' package with the correct name to match it's non-devel counterpart (ie, "kernel26-fedora-pae" and "kernel26-fedora-devel-pae")

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[aur-general] status of libtool slaying
by Ray Rashif 11 Nov '09

11 Nov '09

I remember the consensus used to be !libtool by default and now it's libtool in makepkg.conf, so what happened? In any case, on my system: ~$ for i in `ls /usr/lib/*.la`; do pacman -Qo $i | awk '{print $5}'; done | sort -u fam gnutls kdemod-meanwhile libarchive libgphoto2 libsasl moonlight mpg123 neon

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Laszlo Papp 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hello TUs, The next two packages are with the same application in AUR, I don't know which one is worth to delete, maybe I prefer lua-expat name to luaexpat. luaexpat: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13509 lua-expat: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21939 Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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[aur-general] Deletion Request for libobjfw-hg
by Thorsten Toepper 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Hello, please delete libobjfw-hg[1] as it has been renamed to objfw-hg[2]. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26689 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31906 Greetings Thorsten Töpper / Atsutane - -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAkr5uGUACgkQOeTxfyla+/TNoQDffZRYA6jZA1V3/f/vSHqt6KSD b3YwpNSw9hMrtADcDylZM53/2e32WNc/8XtpYjV4D2t8fqUfBp5JEQ== =Flju -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] unparseable PKGBUILD
by Benoît Rouits 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

hello list, Sorry if i post on the wrong list. I have several PKGBUILDs that were parsed OK by the AUR website but are not anymore. The error given is 'unknown file format'. I re-read the PKGBUILD rules on the wiki but did not found were was the issue. Attached is a PKGBUILD giving such an error. Thanks for comments. - ben # Contributor: Benoit Rouits <brouits(a)free.fr> pkgname=nall pkgver=0.8 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="a user script-based everything notifier on the systray" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://herewe.servebeer.com/nall" license=('GPL') depends=('gtk2' 'glib2') optdepends=('nagios-plugins' 'telnet' 'ssh' 'python') makedepends=('make' 'gcc' 'pkgconfig') source=(http://herewe.servebeer.com/nall/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar) build() { cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver" make PREFIX=/usr || return 1 make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX=/usr install } md5sums=('d4adbe6815371821b11630cbad16a07f')

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Re: [aur-general] Orphaning selinux and xen
by Nicky726 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

Hello, adopted SELinux stuff in AUR, I'll dig into it in my free time, so I may be spamming you with my lame questions. Please bare with me. To Sergej Pupykin: Do you have some special notes or knowledge you learned when maintaining SELinux stuff? Greetings, Ondrej Vadinsky

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[aur-general] unparseable PKGBUILD
by Benoît Rouits 10 Nov '09

10 Nov '09

hello list, Sorry if i post on the wrong list. I have several PKGBUILDs that were parsed OK by the AUR website but are not anymore. The error given is 'unknown file format'. I re-read the PKGBUILD rules on the wiki but did not found were was the issue. Attached is a PKGBUILD giving such an error. Thanks for comments. - ben # Contributor: Benoit Rouits <brouits(a)free.fr> pkgname=nall pkgver=0.8 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="a user script-based everything notifier on the systray" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://herewe.servebeer.com/nall" license=('GPL') depends=('gtk2' 'glib2') optdepends=('nagios-plugins' 'telnet' 'ssh' 'python') makedepends=('make' 'gcc' 'pkgconfig') source=(http://herewe.servebeer.com/nall/releases/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar) build() { cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver" make PREFIX=/usr || return 1 make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX=/usr install } md5sums=('d4adbe6815371821b11630cbad16a07f')

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Re: [aur-general] Orphaning selinux and xen
by Nicky726 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hello If noone is up to it, I could try maitaining SELinux stuff, if it goes to AUR. Getings, Ondrej Vadinsky

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[aur-general] Orphaning selinux and xen
by Sergej Pupykin 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hi, TUs, I am going to orphan SELinux and Xen packages. If nobody wants to maintain them in community, I'll move these packages to aur on next Sat.

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[aur-general] Moving packages to community
by Angel Velásquez 09 Nov '09

09 Nov '09

Hi everyone, I'd like to move the following packages to community: 1) pspshrink [1] 2) ntlmaps [2] In fact I am writting a wiki page about using ntlmaps through the Arch Linux Installation for complementing the begginer guide :). Opinions? [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17076 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11156 -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Arch Linux Trusted User Linux Counter: #359909 http://www.angvp.com

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[aur-general] Request to delete AUR packages
by Rick W. Chen 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Hello, I'm requesting for the following to be deleted: mspgcc: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20830 python-mspgcc: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26434 gstreamermm: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26388 The mspgcc packages are split into separate components -- binutils, gcc, etc. And gstreamermm is now in extra. Thanks. -- Rick

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[aur-general] [emacs-ruby-mode] Deletion request
by Ondřej Kučera 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Hello, since version 23, the Ruby mode is included in Emacs itself, therefore the package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13483 is no longer needed and can be deleted. Thanks, Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[aur-general] want to adopt pyosd
by vlad 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Hello, pyosd (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1836) isn't really maintained for a long time now (19 Oct 2005). The DL link and the homepage is out-of-date. I would like to maintain this package. Could a TU orphan this package? Thanks in advance, Vlad --

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[aur-general] Orphan request ogmrip-mpeg
by § Mark § 08 Nov '09

08 Nov '09

Orphan request for ogmrip-mpeg There was an update available 9/20 but package has not been updated. No responses from emails or comment section to maintainers. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17407 Thanks Mark -- Registered Linux User # 424781 Registered Linux Computer # 364703 Smarter, Faster, Better... Arch Linux

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[aur-general] Community commit messages
by Loui Chang 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

Hey TUs, Please make descriptive commit messages when committing changes to SVN. I've seen a lack of messages, or cryptic ones like 'FS#1234'. Please describe the change, or the issue it's solving in plain language. Thanks.

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[aur-general] [panflute] move to community
by Ionut Biru 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

hi, music-applet which is now in community has been superseded by panflute. All active development is taking place there. Can i replace the current package with panflute? what do you think? -- Ionut

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[aur-general] [schivmeister] Deletion Requests
by Ray Rashif 07 Nov '09

07 Nov '09

I'm going to reply to this from now on to request deletions; makes it a little organised and easier for anyone to track instead of new mails with generic subject lines every now and then. *[ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27760 ] linux-phc-amd-module<duplicate of> phc-k8 [ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22953 ]* *[ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18310 ] acpi-cpufreq-phc<deprecated by> phc-intel [ http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24980 ]*

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[aur-general] [orphan request] pyroom and tuxmath
by Anton Bazhenov 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

Please orhpan "pyroom"[1] and "tuxmath"[2] packages. New versions have been released a half of year ago, but packages haven't yet been updated (although there are working pkgbuild in comments). No responses on emails by maintainers. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24253 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22660

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[aur-general] Java Dependency and Cross-Compilation Questions
by Aaron Schaefer 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

So, my new machine is up and running (and I figured out my previous packaging issues!)...so I'm updating my jGnash package (http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/jgnash/) to the latest release and there is also currently a bug report on the package (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16665) The bug report correctly states that jGnash will not run with openjdk6 (jre works just fine), so what is the current policy for handling that fact? I know that no other packages depend on jre directly, and the prefered method is now java-runtime, but doesn't that mean that openjdk6 users will just have this software silently fail? Also, if you're building an i386 package on an x86_64 machine, is there an easy way to test the software to make sure that it's actually working on i386? Thanks in advance... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] Orphan Packages
by William Díaz 06 Nov '09

06 Nov '09

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[aur-general] [remove request] polypuzzle
by Anton Bazhenov 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Please remove "polypuzzle"[1] package. I uploaded "tkgames"[2] which includes this Polypuzzle game. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8228 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31754

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Anton Bazhenov 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hello! Could you please orphan these packages[1]? They need to be updated, but maintainer isn't active and doesn't respond on emails. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=DarkLady&SeB=m

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[aur-general] Delete Package kernel26-drm
by Alexander Lam 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hello, Please delete kernel26-drm. I accidentally gave it that name when updating kernel26-nodrm Cheers, Alexander Lam

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[aur-general] Deletion request: cuda-visual-profiler
by Thomas Jost 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

Hi, The CUDA Visual Profiler is now part of the CUDA toolkit, and is therefore included in the cuda-toolkit package. (And it has been so for several months, I just forgot that this package even existed :)) Could someone please remove the cuda-visual-profiler package from AUR? Thanks in advance. -- Thomas/Schnouki

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[aur-general] [PATCH] PKGBUILD of blobwars
by Michael Witten 05 Nov '09

05 Nov '09

The PKGBUILD is out-of-date and has not been updated by the maintainer. Apply this patch to update it: 3a4 > # Contributor: Michael Witten <mfwitten> 6c7 < pkgver=1.11 --- > pkgver=1.14 13,14c14,15 < source=(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/blobwars/blobwars-1.11-1.tar.gz) < md5sums=('4da5ec26e0a865a58e3acfeb2e48d3e2') --- > source=(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/8e7e15b2/blobwars/blobwars-1.14-1.tar.gz) > md5sums=('c4133a08d49d63b518e70d67b88fb8be') The result would be: # $Id: PKGBUILD 82 2009-07-17 19:56:55Z aaron $ # Maintainer: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: geekitus # Contributor: Michael Witten <mfwitten> pkgname=blobwars pkgver=1.14 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="Platform action game featuring a variety of different weaponry and multiple objectives" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/projects/blobWars.php" license=('GPL') depends=('sdl_image' 'sdl_mixer' 'sdl_ttf') source=(http://www.parallelrealities.co.uk/download/8e7e15b2/blobwars/blobwars-1.14-1.tar.gz) md5sums=('c4133a08d49d63b518e70d67b88fb8be') build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} sed -i -e 's/-g games//' -e 's/-Werror//' makefile make || return 1 make PREFIX=${pkgdir}/usr BINDIR=${pkgdir}/usr/bin/ install sed -i 's/Game;/Game;ArcadeGame;/' ${pkgdir}/usr/share/applications/blobwars.desktop }

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[aur-general] Package Removal Request
by doorknob60 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

This package isn't mine, but I merged antzek9's changes into my package and we pretty much agreed that this package is no longer needed. Also they updated some stuff so I don't even think this package works anymore anyways. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29532 See the AUR comments and my fofix-svn package ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29226 ) if needed.

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[aur-general] [deletion request] virtualbox_bin_additions is broken
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

hi. there is this package in AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14621 called virtualbox_bin_additions but it is severely broken - it uses sudo to mount an iso on a loopback device - it does not create a vboxadd user needed for the vboxadd service and there already are 2 packages in [community] for additions virtualbox-additions and virtualbox-ose-additions (with virtualbox-ose-additions-modules) so i think it could better be deleted.

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[aur-general] Deletion request: vim-screem
by Randy Morris 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

vim-screem[1] seems to be a duplicate of vim-screen[2]. vim-screem is orphaned has an incorrect $pkgname so I'd suggest we delete that one as the other is named correctly and currently maintained. [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28489 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30530

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD removal request qutim-plugin-yandexnarod
by Borislav Gerassimov 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Hi, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22521 is not needed anymore as it is shipped with qutim. Thanks at advance. -- Борислав Герасимов | Borislav Gerassimov ---------------------------------------- Природосъобразно писмо, не принтирай! Eco-friendly email, don't print!

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[aur-general] even and elasticdog status?
by Andrea Scarpino 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hi TUs, I want to see who is working and who is not. These TUs are flagged as active but they did nothing in the last 4-6 months. What do you think about? Should we start with removal vote? Kessia Pinheiro aka even: - last package sent on 20th March '09 - last closed bug on 13th April '09 - last post on bbs 18th April '09 Aaron Schaefer aka elasticdog: - last package sent on 14th June '09 - last closed bug on 22th April '09 - last post on bbs 19th March '09 -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] OpenLieroX package
by Anton Bazhenov 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Good day! New stable version of OpenLieroX (0.57_rc1) has been released at Oct 05 2009, but AUR package[1] is still outdated. It is a minor release and it needs only small changes in PKGBUILD. I sent a mail to the maintainer (hm, he is TU) - no response, so I decided to write here. Please update or disown/orphan it. Also I want to upload testing version of this game, and it would be convenient for me to maintain both packages. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8235

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[aur-general] Package in AUR with same name of one in extra
by Renato Garcia 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Hi, Forgive me, I send the package opencv version 2.0.0 to AUR, without change its name to opencv-2.0. Now there are two packages with name opencv, one in extra (version 1.1pre1) and other in AUR (version 2.0.0). If you could rename or delete the package in AUR, or update the package in extra (it is orphan), I will be grateful. Regards Renato Garcia

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[aur-general] Install in a click from AUR webpages
by Giorgio 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Here I little hack I coded to install packages directly from the AUR frontend. Needed: - yaourt - Firefox with greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/addon/748) or any greasemonkey-scripts accepting browser. Steps: 1. Create a small bash script called aur_opener.sh containing the following code: #!/usr/bin/env bash gnome-terminal -x /usr/bin/yaourt -S ${1//aur:\/\//} 2. Make the script executable 3. Open about:config in Firefox and add the following variable: network.protocol-handler.app.aur with value: path to aur_opener.sh >From now on, every time you click on a link like the following: aur://pkgname yaourt will start. 4. Install the greasemonkey script AURlizer (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/61015) 5. Visit any page on the AUR db. A new symbol [↓] will appear next to the package name. Click on it and install! Enjoy. PS Obviously, it would be very easy to implement this directly into yaourt / the AUR db. -- Giorgio F. Gilestro http://www.gilestro.tk +1 (608) 301 5864 pgp id: 1024D/DE8D92BF

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Brett Mravec 03 Nov '09

03 Nov '09

Can someone please delete package upstartinitscripts [1]. It has been replaced by a newer and renamed package. Thanks [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31541

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[aur-general] bugreports assigning
by Laszlo Papp 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hello TUs, I'd have a question, what do you do when a bugreport occured for a package which package hasn't got actual Maintainer, or I can't see well. To who do you assign that bugreport? 1. FS#16965 - [preload] init script fails to stop cleanly Maintainer: Jarosław Świerczyński - He isn't a TU anymore, if I heard well. (but he is in the Trusted User list) 2. FS#16969 - [mget] fails to run (due to too new ruby?) Maintainer: Alexander Fehr <pizzapunk gmail com> - I can't see his name in the list, but I can see his name on the fellowers list. Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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[aur-general] script to check a binary package for architecture-independence
by Chris Brannon 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Here's a script to check the architecture-independence of a binary package. It only checks to see whether or not a tarball contains files that start with the ELF magic number, bytes 0x7f E L F. Maybe someone will find it useful. -- Chris

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[aur-general] AUR package removal request
by Willey Chen 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hello, Please remove [1] from AUR, which has been replaced by a better one [2]. Thanks. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19531 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20836 ---- willey

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[aur-general] [orphan request] gnujump, slune and tileracer
by Anton Bazhenov 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Subj. These packages[1-3] need to be updated/fixed. Maintainer isn't active, he doesn't respond to comments. I sent email to him - also no response. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11951 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10101 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17561

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Jakob 'flocke' Nixdorf 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Could someone please delete my xfce4-perl-svn [1] package. They changed from svn to git so i uploaded a new one, the old is not longer needed. Thanks. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24435

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[aur-general] [orphan request] archmage, antiwm
by Anton Bazhenov 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Could you please orphan archmage[1] and antiwm[2]? These packages are already outdated. And I wrote to maintainers, but received no response. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14087 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20506

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Laszlo Papp 01 Nov '09

01 Nov '09

Hello, Please delete the following package from AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19104 It was ported into sourceforge with changing for GIT reversion control, so SVN handling is not available anymore, and the authors released a stable version, with a stable snapshot that wasn't available earlier, and I uploaded into AUR this stable version: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31641 Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Anton Bazhenov 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Please remove the "fusecompress"[1] package. Archives with sources are no longer stored on the server permanently, so now this package is useless. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?I.fiD=15283<http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15283>

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Dan Vrátil 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, please remove package vwm-modules [1]. The modules are now provided within the main vwm package. Thanks, Dan Vratil [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21768 -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 http://www.progdan.homelinux.net

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[aur-general] Drop LLVM from [community]
by Ranguvar 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hello, The package 'llvm' is an orphaned [communuity] package. I'd like to request that it me moved to the AUR so I can maintain it (I have an update and overhaul ready) and I can also create a 'clang' package for it. (split package for llvm AND clang) Then it can be adopted by a TU if they want to bring it back into [community]. Thanks :)

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[aur-general] Status of slimserver
by Eric Bélanger 31 Oct '09

31 Oct '09

Hi, Is there anyone interested in maintaining slimserver? It's currently orphaned, out-of-date and doesn't even install (missing perl-compress-zlib depends FS#16490). If no one wants it, we could solve all these problems by moving it to AUR. Eric

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[aur-general] Deletion request: kdedecor-glowglass-lite
by William Díaz 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Please remove this package, the source no longer exists. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28194

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[aur-general] please delete 21088
by Giorgio 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Hi, can someone please delete the following entry? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21088 It is a nautilus version patched to confirm upon moving files to trashbin (1) but I forgot to change the name and description in PKGBUILD. My apologies. (1) see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=316807 -- Giorgio F. Gilestro http://www.gilestro.tk +1 (608) 301 5864 pgp id: 1024D/DE8D92BF

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[aur-general] chromium-ffmpeg-codecs
by Randy Penguin 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

30571 from http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/waterfall/console "Add yasm and ffmpeg into the build tree for linux. BUG=22307 TEST=builds correctly, and an html5 video runs. Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/300013"

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[aur-general] chromium-ffmpeg-codecs
by Ray Rashif 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

I can't even remember the name of the package, but it has codecs and ffmpeg as part of its name. Now, _why_ was it removed alongside the chromium packages? It was unrelated to the browser package naming issue. I'm just curious to know whether it was a mistake or a decision based upon a certain resolution.

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[aur-general] Split packages
by Ranguvar 30 Oct '09

30 Oct '09

Do split packages work in the AUR? Normal upload process? Thanks.

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[aur-general] Which package for cuda
by Karol Babioch 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hi, I need cuda for some of my applications, and just realized that nvidia has outsourced the cuda driver to another package. I could easily download this driver and install it, however it would be great, if I could use aur. I have seen some packages containing "cuda" in the name, but the package "cuda" just seems to be a meta package, which depends on cuda-toolkit and cuda-sdk, which I don't need at all. So is there any package I can install just to gain the possibility to use cuda, but not to install the sdk (nor the toolkit)? -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[aur-general] Deletion request: juploadr
by Carl Mueller 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

I was the maintainer of juploadr. It hasn't been updated in more than 2 years, and now it's broken. I'd like to request deletion. Carl Mueller

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[aur-general] Packaging LLVM
by Ranguvar 29 Oct '09

29 Oct '09

Hello, I see that the package 'llvm' is in [community], is orphaned, and is out-of-date. I've spent considerable time working on packaging LLVM and its add-ons, the Clang C-family compiler front-end and the GCC frontend. Therefore, I'd like to help package LLVM. I already wrote a PKGBUILD for v2.6 of LLVM (the package we have is v2.5), and it also has a lot of fixes and niceties. I'd like to discuss how best to proceed with LLVM -- whether Clang should be included in the llvm package or as an alternate package of LLVM and Clang, 'llvm-clang', stuff like that. In fact, what may work best is if llvm could be dropped into the AUR, where I will then adopt it and update it (and potentially add 'llvm-clang' and such as is decided), and then if a TU wants it in [community] (which would make sense), it can be adopted by a TU. Thanks! Devin Cofer, aka Ranguvar

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[aur-general] Monodevelop removal request
by Daniel Isenmann 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, monodevelop was moved to [extra], please delete it in [community]. Thanks, Daniel

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[aur-general] Gcc-ada removal request.
by Florent Odier 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi, Now that Ada is enabled in the gcc package :-) my package should be removed from AUR. Thanks !

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[aur-general] TU Vote Results: Angel Velásquez (angvp)
by Evangelos Foutras 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

Hi TUs, The voting period for Angel Velásquez (angvp) has ended. We've reached quorum and Angel is now a TU. Angel, I've changed your AUR account accordingly. Now please follow the steps listed on http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist#TODO_list_fo… and provide Aaron with the details mentioned in http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-August/006242.html to set you up with an account on https://dev.archlinux.org/ Welcome aboard! :)

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[aur-general] xulrunner in AUR and extra?
by Phillip Smith 28 Oct '09

28 Oct '09

I'm going through the orphans list in the AUR at the moment looking for packages to adopt, and came across xulrunner. Given then xulrunner is now in extra, shouldn't it be removed from the AUR?

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[aur-general] Remove vimperator-git
by Michael Witten 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

I am the maintainer of "vimperator-git". That project now uses mercurial (hg) rather than git, so I have uploaded a new package named "vimperator-hg", and now I would like to have "vimperator-git" removed from AUR. Thanks! mfwitten P.S. Under the current conventions, it is necessary to change the package name whenever the underlying version control system (VCS) is changed. Perhaps there should be a policy that encourages a more general suffix for such packages: "vimperator-vcs".

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[aur-general] AUR password reset / cross-compiling some lib32-
by Mikhail Vorozhtsov 27 Oct '09

27 Oct '09

Hi. I was dumb enough to lose my AUR password. Left a request on the forum three days ago, PM'd the guy ('wonder') who did resets for other people earlier with no luck so far. Looking for a kind soul with enough administrative rights to help me. Back to the list topic, I've created a few packages for cross-compiling 32bit apps (namely, cross32-binutils, lib32-glibc-devel, and cross32-gcc, I'll upload them as soon as I recover my password). I use these packages to compile a version of lib32-alsa-lib (will be uploaded as lib32-alsa-lib-fixed) that looks for plugins in /opt/lib32/usr/lib/alsa-lib instead of /usr/lib/alsa-lib (and thus doesn't crash your wine/skype/etc). Feel free to use them when you encounter 32bit apps that have hardcoded paths for dynamic code loading.

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[aur-general] AUR server maintenance.
by Loui Chang 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hello everyone. If anyone is wondering what's going on with the AUR, I'm doing server maintenance right now. Things should be back up 'soon'. Cheers.

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[aur-general] Deletion request of darktable-svn (28117)
by Christian Himpel 26 Oct '09

26 Oct '09

Hi, the darktable-svn[1] package was replaced with darktable-git[2]. Please remove the darktable-svn package, since subversion is no longer supported in this project. Thanks and kind regards, chressie [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28117 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31515

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[aur-general] Disown request for kgmailnotifier
by mutlu_inek 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hi, Kgmailnotifier has not been updated in 16 months. The AUR PKGBUILD still depends on Qt3 and KDE3. I have emailed him/her about two weeks ago, but not received an answer. Moreover, if I did not overlook anything, the maintainer has not updated any of his/her packages in a rather long time. Kgmailnotifier has a new stable version that depends on Qt4 and KDE4. I thus request the package to be disowned so I can adopt it. Cheers, mutlu Link to package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10065

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[aur-general] Adoption of spandsp 0.0.6pre12-1
by Ronny 25 Oct '09

25 Oct '09

Hello! I'm the maintainer of ffgtk and ffgtk needs spandsp. But the PKGBUILD of spandsp doesn't work and needs to be updated. I would do this because the maintainer vinz doesn't it. So please let me adopt this package. Thank you SIRSteiner (Ronny)

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[aur-general] deletion request
by F B 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Hi, This package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=3591 (amsn-plugins-music) can be deleted because this function is now provided by amsn without additional plugins (and it conflicts with it). This package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30586 (bin32-mumble-overlay) because the submitter upload a binary file in aur (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/bin32-mumble-overlay/bin32-mumble-overlay…) and this is forbidden of course :) Thanks in advance.

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[aur-general] package removal request
by Chris Baker 24 Oct '09

24 Oct '09

Could you please remove python3-pyopt. I decided the 'python3' suffix was unnecessary and moved it to 'pyopt'. Thanks, Chris

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[aur-general] octave and scilab startup error
by Uli Armbruster 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hi First of all, I have [testing] enabled and I'm on 32bit. I wanted to take a look at these two alternatives of matlab. Both of them don't work here, both are complaining about a missing library error while loading shared libraries: libgfortran.so.3: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory After installing gcc-fortran it worked, so it seems like we need a rebuild here with corrected dependencies for [testing] (octave) and [community-testing] (scilab) Greetz Army

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[aur-general] Package removal request
by Ranguvar 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Can you please delete 'openboxlogout', http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24889 ? I adopted it from another user, not realizing that the package 'oblogout' already existed. Thanks.

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[aur-general] Package Removal Request
by Tom Wambold 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Hello all, Could someone please remove the following packages: soho, zope-i18nmessageid, zope-pagetemplate, zope-tal, and zope-tales? I own all of those packages, and since the website for soho has been down for awhile now, the package no longer builds. Also, soho is the only thing that depends on those zope packages, so they would be unnecessary. I also don't personally use these packages at all anymore so I don't follow their releases. Thanks! -Tom Wambold

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Please remove package autopano-sift-c (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31424) I've forgot that it was moved to extra. Lukas

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[aur-general] removal request
by Vasily Ryabov 23 Oct '09

23 Oct '09

Please, remove http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31354. I've mistaken in pkgname.

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[aur-general] remove package: checkgmail-svn-new
by Chris Baker 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

The maintainer of the checkgmail-svn package has turned over ownership to me, so my previously created checkgmail-svn-new package should be removed. Thanks! Chris

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[aur-general] Xmonad PKGBUILD improvement
by jelle van der waa 22 Oct '09

22 Oct '09

Hi, I would like the to help the state of the xmonad package in community, currently xmonad depends on ghc , libhaskel-x11 that's correct but if haskell-x11 or ghc get's updated before it's rebuild against this new dependencies, it might break. To fix that issue the pkgbuild could be changed so xmonad would depend on haskel-x11='version' and ghc='version' . Secondly it would also cover an out of date mirror wich could lead to 'breakage'. Here is an example of a related bugreport because haskel-x11 was updated before a rebuild of xmonad: -FS#16606 - xmonad/xmonad-contrib depend on nonexistent haskell-x11 Jelle van der Waa

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[aur-general] chromium packages
by Biru Ionut 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

HI, i'm opening this subject again. sorry for that. i want to delete them tonight and i want to ask you guys which is the best package to have(and renamed) conform this proposal: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium_proposal chromium-browser-svn will not be deleted. chromium-bin i can't choose one from that list because i don't know which one is good. just tell me which one and i'll email the maintainer to upload with a different name. -- Ionut

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[aur-general] community cvs pkgs on web interface
by Ray Rashif 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11952 So we can visit those with their full URIs?

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[aur-general] Delete wxgtk-media (but wait for wxgtk-2.8.10.1-5)
by Dany Martineau 21 Oct '09

21 Oct '09

Hi! I read that mediactrl is now enabled in wxgtk-2.8.10.1-5 When this version appears in extra, could an admin delete wxgtk-media please? Thanks!! -- Dany Martineau Enseignant en mathématiques École secondaire du Harfang 4e et 5e secondaire http://danym.org CSSMI

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[aur-general] should be esound an optdepends?
by Andrea Scarpino 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

>From FS#16502: With GNOME 2.28 arriving, it's time to make esound an optional package, which is currently not the case. Here is the list of the packages which requires esound. I think for all of them that esound should be an optional dependency (except maybe enlightenment?). * bmp * cinelerra-cv * enlightenment * epplet-base * freeciv * gmerlin * gstreamer0.10-good-plugins * kvirc * kvm * libgnome * qemu * vice * xine-lib * xmms What's our decision about this? -- Andrea `bash` Scarpino Arch Linux Developer

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[aur-general] TU Vote: Angel Velásquez (angvp)
by Evangelos Foutras 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Hi TUs, This begins the voting period for the addition of Angel Velásquez (angvp) as a TU, which will end in seven days. You can view his application at http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-October/006803.html Don't forget to vote (using the web interface)! Cheers.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] List of packages that could be rebuilt if you have nothing better to do...
by Allan McRae 20 Oct '09

20 Oct '09

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: > >> Allan McRae wrote: >> >> >>> Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote: >>> >>> >>>> Allan McRae wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> >>>>> I have created a list of packages the could use a rebuild but for >>>>> which there is no hurry. These include packages without the arch in >>>>> their filename, packages containing a .FILELIST file, packages with >>>>> man pages in /usr/man or uncompress man and info pages. See >>>>> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Allan/Unimportant_Rebuild_List >>>>> >>>>> Do people think this is useful and should I move it to the >>>>> DeveloperWiki? >>>>> >>>>> Allan >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> Good job. >>>> >>>> And for "Packages that can be converted to arch=any" sometime ago I >>>> sended a list of tentative packages [#1]. Its old and some of listed >>>> packages [#2] are now "any" >>>> >>>> >>>> [#1] >>>> http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-July/005960.html >>>> [#2] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/misc/any.txt >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> I'm being lazy... any change you can easily generate an updated list >>> for [core]/[extra]? Don't worry about it if it will be a hassle. >>> >>> Allan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> No problem, I can do a "light scan" making a difference between this >> list and list of current packages. >> I guess that doing again a "deep scan" don't make much sense, >> >> >> Good Luck! >> >> >> > List updated [#1] > > This is based on old list, deleting current converted packages and > packages deleted from repos. > No new packages are added because I didn't a deep/fine scan. For each repo. > > If any have a time, the idea to do the deep scan is (what I remember was > done manually in the past) > > 1) Download this db [#2]. > 2) Keep with 0 size files from db. -> packages names. > 3) Scan from previous result list if there are any ELF32/ELF64 LSB > (relocatables (objects files, kernel modules, ar archives, etc), > executables, shared objects) and discard ELF for others archs (for > example AVR, ARM, SPARC) inside each package. > > > [#1] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/misc/any-20091019.txt > [#2] http://archlinux.djgera.com.ar/pkgdyn/db-20091019.tar.bz2 > Thanks, I have added the [core] and [extra] packages to my wiki page. A TU probably wants to add this to the [community] TODO page (which needs a big update: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community_todo) Allan

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[aur-general] nouveau-drm-snapshot
by Xavier 19 Oct '09

19 Oct '09

>From my comment in AUR : " But I am not sure this pkgbuild is needed after all. It does exactly the same as the one in extra : http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/nouveau-drm/repos/extra-i686/PKGBUILD… So it violates AUR guidelines :) " The new "web svn" location is : http://repos.archlinux.org/wsvn/packages/nouveau-drm/repos/extra-i686/PKGBU…

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[aur-general] Deletion request: kernel-eeepc-901-kms
by Smith Dhumbumroong 18 Oct '09

18 Oct '09

Please delete kernel-eeepc-901-kms (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26393) as it have been replaced by kernel-eeepc-901 package in AUR.

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[aur-general] Obsoleted, lacking developer wiki parts
by Laszlo Papp 17 Oct '09

17 Oct '09

Hello some obsoleted, laking part of the Developer Wiki! --- http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Adopting_Packages 1. Browse the *community* Trusted User Repository located at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?L=3 (the link is not available anymore) 3. Retreive the PKGBUILDs for the new packages: CVSROOT=:pserver:anonymous@cvs.archlinux.org:/home/cvs-community and perform the testing/verificatoin on the PKGBUILD. Note that there is no need to change the version number unless changes are made to the package, this will minimize needless re-downloading. (CVS to SVN?) --- http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Sigurd_%28TU%29 <- empty presently (gerolde, gudrun is okay.) --- http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:NewsletterSteps 1. Get most recent version of the newsletter: git clone ssh:// archlinux.org/srv/projects/git/newsletter.git/ <- I can't clone it. (Can the developers maybe do this action only?) --- Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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Re: [aur-general] Deletion request: webkit-sharp
by Tim Yang 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

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[aur-general] Deletion request: webkit-sharp
by tdy＠gmx.com 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

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[aur-general] Filter packages by voted-status
by Lauri Niskanen 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello, Is it possible to only show the packages I have voted for on the AUR web interface? If not could you please add that feature. It would make managing votes much easier. And who doesn't like to have easier control over things. -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[aur-general] [delete request] kde4-servicemenu-pdf
by Christoph 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

There is a package kde4-servicemenu-pdf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21764 and a package servicemenu-pdf-kde4 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24898 I think that one of them should be deleted, in my opinion the first one because the first one is orphaned anyway and the second one is newer and has the better name (I think). Cheers, Christoph

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[aur-general] [bugtracker] Question about tickets for orphaned community pkgs.
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hello guys! To what people and/or group of peoples I can assing tasks for orphaned packages (examples: [#1] [#2] [#3]) ? I think that many packages are always maintained by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) and Ionut Biru (wonder). There are no problems if I assing task to both? Sometimes I assing based on "#Maintainer" field in PKGBUILD and or SVN commiter that is ok, but there are other cases that this information is not valid anymore. Thanks in advance. [#1] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16679 [#2] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16624 [#3] http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16554 -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi ( djgera ) http://www.djgera.com.ar KeyID: 0x1B8C330D Key fingerprint = 0CAA D5D4 CD85 4434 A219 76ED 39AB 221B 1B8C 330D

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[aur-general] Can't build packages for a week or so...
by Aaron Schaefer 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hey all...I'm in the process of migrating to a new machine (and I'll finally be able to build x86_64!), so I won't be able to get anything updated until I'm set up. I've had some oddity with packaging since community's switch to SVN, but hopefully I'll get that all ironed out on the new machine. I don't think there's anything of mine that's too critical to get updated right away (nothing that can't wait a week or so). I'll post back if I continue to have problems or have questions once I'm back up and running...I'm assuming I'll have to send in a copy of my new SSH key for gerold access, and I've never done the building in a chroot before. Anyway, if you need it, feel free to update anything of mine in the mean time...thanks! -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] [TU signoff] pulseaudio-0.9.19
by bardo 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi fellow TUs, I've just moved the latest pulseaudio (x86_64 only, ATM) in [community-testing] because I'd like to get some feedback before committing. I had some problems because it failed to deliver any output with the default configuration (which is _bad_), and I had to manually activate the alsa-sink and alsa-source modules in /etc/pulse/default.pa. So in short, I'd like a couple of signoffs from TUs, but every feedback on this new version is welcome.

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[aur-general] Conventions on packages for cross-compiling
by Vojtech Horky 16 Oct '09

16 Oct '09

Hi all, I am seeking advice how to write correct PKGBUILDs for cross-compilers. The thing I am not sure about is where to install them. Trouble is that even the binary packages use different locations and I haven't found any other source where to get information from (for example, cross-arm-wince-cegcc-binutils uses prefix /opt/cegcc/ while mingw32-gcc uses /usr). So, which location would you recommend/is better? Another thing - is the correct naming convention 'cross-<arch>-<pkgname>'? I already created/uploaded cross-compiling tools for MIPS (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=cross-mips) before I realized that they might be wrong. I would be thankful for any hints on these as well. Thanks for any suggestions! Regards - Vojta

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[aur-general] 64-bit build machine
by Abhishek Dasgupta 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Is the 64-bit build machine still available? Abhishek

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[aur-general] [orphan request] xmind
by Christoph 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Could you please orphan xmind? Current PKGBUILD does not work. Maintainer has repeatedly been asked to update the package, but has not responded. Christoph

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[aur-general] package deletion request (streamtuner2)
by M Rawash 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

official website seems to have disappeared (taking with it the source package): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23738

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[aur-general] [orphan request] mumble-git
by Lauri Niskanen 15 Oct '09

15 Oct '09

Hello, The AUR package for mumble-git is out of date. I have provided the needed updates (packages that are ready to be uploaded). The maintainer haven't been active for some time now and he doesn't reply to email. Could you orphan the package, please. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26865 -- Ape <Lauri Niskanen>

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[aur-general] [delete request] sync-engine
by Bartek Iwaniec 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Since sync-engine is now in community repo (synce-sync-engine), sync-engine from AUR can now be deleted. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19496 -- Best Regards Bartek Iwaniec

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by Anton Bazhenov 14 Oct '09

14 Oct '09

Please orhpan "libinklevel" [1]. It's marked as out-of-date, and there is a pkgbuild for the latest version in comments, but maintainer doesn't respond. This package is required by "ink" which I want to update. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23757

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[aur-general] Open roles
by Farhan Yousaf 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi folks, I'd like to contribute more to Arch. Currently, I have two packages I maintain in AUR. But is there more I can do? I can provide a resume, etc. for review too if that is required. Thanks, Farhan

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[aur-general] [delete request] liferea-minimal
by Nezmer＠allurelinux.org 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Can a TU delete liferea-minimal . It depends on gtkhtml2 backend . Newer releases only offer webkit as a backend .

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[aur-general] Should {libwebkit,libsoup}-newest be deleted
by Nezmer＠allurelinux.org 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

hi, As you might already know , webkit-gtk and its dependency libsoup are always under heavy development . I added {libwebkit,libsoup}-newest PKGBUILDS to the AUR because libwebkit releases started to depend on development releases from libsoup(2.27.x) . With gnome 2.28.x entering extra , the *-newest packages provide the same versions available in the official repos. Should I ask for the deletion of those packages ? Or keep them around in case webkit starts to depend on libsoup 2.29.x ?

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by Phillip Smith 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Could someone please orphan cfengine? Outdated, and comments say maintainer has not responded to e-mail.

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[aur-general] Please delete xfce4-sensors-plugin-svn
by Krzysztof Grygiencz 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hi, I've created today xfce4-sensors-plugin-git. xfce4-sensors-plugin-svn is now obsolete. Regards, Krzysztof

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[aur-general] AUR "Jamie" account
by Xyne 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

A user by the name of "Jamie" on the forum wants an AUR account with the same name: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81872 The problem is that the account is already taken but whoever owns it has never used it to upload a package or vote. If it were up to me alone, I would try to contact the owner of the account and either request that (s)he give it up if I get a response or simply switch it over otherwise. My reasoning is that it makes more sense to have the same name on the forum and the AUR (and everything else with a separate account) because it makes it easy to know who's who, which has implications for the AUR. What do the other TUs (and interested devs) think? I think this is a rare enough event to not have to worry about a flood of requests to grab matching names on the AUR. Btw, in case you're wondering, Jamie tried to post a message to the list following my suggestion on the forum but it apparently didn't get through so he asked me to do it, hence this message. Regards, Xyne

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[aur-general] Please delete hdtfs
by Anton Shestakov 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Package hdtfs[1] is a clone of dhtfs[2] with the only difference being its incorrect name. Both packages provide dhtfs. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28128 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27458

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[aur-general] Request for removal (gnome-bluetooth-svn, obexd-client)
by Joeny Ang 13 Oct '09

13 Oct '09

Hello, The following packages can now be removed: 1. gnome-bluetooth-svn (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27134) Gnome has migrated to GIT, and the SVN is not updated anymore. 2. obexd-client (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28046) This is now a duplicate of the obexd package in extra since the one in extra is also compiled with --disable-server flag. Thanks. Joeny (Biloky in AUR)

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Angel Velásquez 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi all, I'd like to re-apply to my TU position. Since I've resigned [0], many things happened, in my life, and work. In these times I was very dissapointed about myself, cause I was having problems to handle my life, my projects, and of course, Arch, then I decided to go on with less workload at least. Now, I have free time again to dedicate it to the community and the project, and my goals this time are more specific from my first application [1], this time I'd like to: a) Improve and support the python and haskell scene since I am enthusiastic of these languages b) To help others TU, or Devs (with the permission of them), to reduce their loads on community doing tests, maintaining, updating or just simply building their packages in the differents architectures (I have i686 and x86_64 but now I am using x86_64) c) Report, and close bugs from me and others TU or Devs (away or with highly load), of course with the permission of them. d) Maintain and collaborate with the Arch Project in general, writting in the wiki, random coding, etc. I talked with Evangelos Foutras a.k.a foutrelis to ask him if he would like to be my sponsor, and he accepted, so since I knew many of you when I was a TU, I hope you will recognize my skills and my dedication on this project, and even when I wasn't active (as a TU) I ever tried to be helping with the distro, and I always try to do my best overall. Sincerely. [0] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2009-February/003742.html [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/001479.html [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=angvp&SeB=m -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[aur-general] Duplicate packages
by Vojtech Horky 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Hi, I found that there are two packages providing the same program(s): * gcu (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21896) * gnome-chemistry-utils (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24793) Could one of the TUs, please, delete one of them (IMHO gcu is packaged better)? Thanks - Vojta

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[aur-general] Updated PKGBUILD for conky to show hwmon information after kernel upgrade
by Partha Chowdhury 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

I am pasting/attaching updated PKGBUILD for conky with reference to this bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16584 PKGBUILD: # $Id: PKGBUILD 50303 2009-08-25 11:05:41Z giovanni $ # Maintainer: Giovanni Scafora <giovanni(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: James Rayner <james(a)archlinux.org> # Contributor: Partha Chowdhury <kira.laucas(a)gmail.com> pkgname=conky pkgver=1.7.2 pkgrel=2 pkgdesc="An advanced, highly configurable system monitor for X based on torsmo" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="http://conky.sourceforge.net/" license=('custom') replaces=('torsmo') depends=('alsa-lib' 'libxml2' 'curl' 'wireless_tools' 'libxft' 'glib2' 'libxdamage' 'imlib2') makedepends=('pkgconfig') source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/${pkgname}/${pkgname}/${pk… http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Enorsetto/%2Bjunk/conky/download/head%3A/fix_…) build() { cd ${srcdir}/${pkgname}-${pkgver} #Apply patch to make conky look in right place in /sys/class/hwmon/ patch -Np1 < ../../fix_hwmon_for_2.6.31.patch || return 1 ./configure --prefix=/usr \ --sysconfdir=/etc \ --enable-wlan \ --enable-rss \ --enable-ibm \ --enable-imlib2 \ --disable-lua make || return 1 make DESTDIR=${pkgdir} install install -D -m644 COPYING ${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE } md5sums=('cf6f5d45d42ad68c618c00271813b80d' 'efb3e188cd3879fc7b5af51b59d553ec')

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[aur-general] Delete rootactions-servicemenu and rootactions-servicemenu-d3lphin
by Christoph 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Since there is a newer package rootactions-servicemenu-kde4, the two older packages * rootactions-servicemenu and * rootactions-servicemenu-d3lphin which are both orphaned, could be deleted. See: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13051 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14068 The newer package can be found here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20085

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[aur-general] Please delete package filelight in aur
by Christoph 12 Oct '09

12 Oct '09

Please delete the package filelight in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31134 I saw too late that the KDE3-Version is in [extra] I'm sorry about my mistake, Christoph

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Re: [aur-general] mupen64plus distribution collaboration
by Daenyth Blank 10 Oct '09

10 Oct '09

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 05:28, Sven Eckelmann <sven.eckelmann(a)gmx.de> wrote: > Hi, >> Note the comment about the yasm dependency. It appears this is a >> hangover from older mupen64plus versions that did require it (my >> bad...). When you rebuild to remove that, you will obviously need the >> build fix patches from the Debian patch tracker (glibc2.10, as-needed) >> and I would also include the ones to build against the system libraries. > I would recommend to take patches from my git repo[3] as the patch tracker is > (for unknown reasons) complete outdated. > > I think he meant following patches: > * as-needed.patch > * ftbfs-glibc210.patch > * system-libbz2.patch > * system-liblzma.patch > * system-libpng.patch > * system-zlib.patch > > Fixes of crashes and glitches: > * fix-7z-subfolder.patch > * fix_readpng.patch > * gtk-open-filter.patch > * jttl_fix_romclosed.patch > * rice-screenflickering.patch > * rice-texturepack-crash.patch > * version-string.patch > > Experimental patches are: > * xdg-basedir.patch > * noexecstack.patch > > Mostly debian specific (or on architectures you don't support): > * dejavu-font.patch > * default-optimisations.patch > * destdir.patch > * fix-desktop-file.patch > * ftbfs-kfreebsd.patch > * ftbfs-dynarec.patch > * debian-archs.patch > * glide64-noasm.patch > * plugin-searchpath.patch > * remove-gln64.patch > * remove-nondfsg-icons.patch > * static-binutils-libs.patch > > Only debugger related (not activated on Arch) > * ftbfs-debugger.patch > * rice_nodebug.patch > > There is also a glitch which prevents the correctness of the pure interpreter > (haven't checked yet the interpreter and recompiler) submitted upstream as bug > 272. Maybe you have an idea for bug 51. I am digging a little bit around but > without any real success - only got a hack which can be used to open the gate > and then restart the game with a non-hacked version of mupen64plus. > > Before I forget: When you change the PKGBUILD - can you please change the > maintainer field? I just send Allan McRae that mail because he was marked as > maintainer of that package. > > Best regards, > Sven > >> [3] http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/mupen64plus.git;a=tree;f=debian/patch… > I don't really know.. To be honest I don't actually use the software actively, and I wouldn't know where to begin with selecting how/if it should be patched. Maybe another TU would like to take over the package from me?

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[aur-general] Small regexp to update md5 in PKGBUILD
by Sergej Pupykin 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, This script updates or inserts md5sum just run this script in PKGBUILDs dir. It works for my packages at least) It is better than makepkg -g >>PKGBUILD because it inserts md5 just before build() function.

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-notifications] Integrity Check x86_64: core, extra, community 09-10-2009
by Biru Ionut 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

On 10/09/2009 11:01 PM, repomaint(a)archlinux.org wrote: > Duplicate PKGBUILDs > --------------------- > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/griffith vs. > /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/griffith > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/man-pages-it vs. > /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/man-pages-it > /srv/abs/rsync/any/community/php-docs vs. > /srv/abs/rsync/x86_64/community/php-docs fixed -- Ionut

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[aur-general] Package disown request for rubyroom
by Alexander Rødseth 09 Oct '09

09 Oct '09

Hi, rubyroom hasn't been updated (submitted) since 19 Nov 2008. I e-mailed the maintainer almost two months ago and have not got any reply. If the package is disowned, I can fix it. I have the PKGBUILD ready. Thanks, Alexander Rødseth

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[aur-general] wxcam orphaning request
by Игорь 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

- wxcam ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15272 ): should be orphaned. This package hasn't been updated since August 2008. Some users posted updated PKGBUILDs in comments but didn't got an answer. Thank you.

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[aur-general] Package to be Orphaned - vuurmuur
by Phillip Smith 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Can someone orphan vuurmurr please? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14619 Hasn't been updated for several versions. The current package maintainer has 2 packages in the AUR, both out of date.

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Ranguvar 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

Could the package 'shed' be orphaned please? I will maintain it. It lacks the x86_64 arch and does the licenses field improperly, and the maintainer has ignored comments saying so since early this year. Thanks :)

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[aur-general] [Deletion request] cl-asdf-install
by joyfulgirl 08 Oct '09

08 Oct '09

[cl-asdf-install][1] is now included by default in the [cl-asdf][2] package, so there's not much of a need for this package to hang around. I made a note on the cl-asdf-install page a while back that the package has been absorbed by cl-asdf; I figure enough time has passed for users to have upgraded cl-asdf and switched over. [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18801 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18800 Anyway, thanks! Ivy

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[aur-general] postgresql-client package deleted
by Phillip Smith 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Can someone let me know why my postgresql-client package was deleted from the AUR please?

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[aur-general] [Orphaning some packages] Lazy, lazy, lazy
by joyfulgirl 07 Oct '09

07 Oct '09

Hey, folks, Just getting the word out that several of my AUR packages have been orphaned. In most of these cases, I've just found that I actually tend to prefer to manually track them; in the case of screen-vs, I've been using tmux lately. Here's a compleat list: - [cl-asdf][http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18800] - [cl-ppcre][http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14549] - [clx][http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12084] - [emms][http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18853] - [screen-vs][http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6006] - [stumpwm-git][http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12996] None of these are much work. Share & enjoy! Thanks, Ivy

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[aur-general] spam in out-of-date notifications for [community] packages
by Chris Brannon 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

It seems that someone is sending spam via out-of-date notifications for packages in the official repos. How do I clear the out-of-date flag on my packages these days? I can't seem to be able to do that with the new interface. -- Chris

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[aur-general] Removal request
by Massimiliano Torromeo 06 Oct '09

06 Oct '09

Hi, a couple of my packages need to be removed due to the recent pyside update. boostpythongenerator is now generatorrunner boost-patched is not needed anymore since pyside now explicitly requires boost-1.40 Thanks.

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[aur-general] Orphan requests
by Ranguvar 05 Oct '09

05 Oct '09

The package 'rxvt' <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13618> has been out-of-date for a long time and has been flagged and commented as such, with no reply from the maintainer. I also emailed the maintainer to no avail. I'd like to request that that package and all of the maintainer's other packages <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=xaw&SeB=m> that are out-of-date are orphaned so others may maintain them, as it appears they are AWOL.' I'll likely adopt at least some of them. Thanks!

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[aur-general] Some package deletion and orphaning requests...
by Try Again 04 Oct '09

04 Oct '09

Hi, I have some propositions for AUR packages. Here they are : - human-themes: should be orphaned. This package hasn't been updated since December 2008. Some users posted updated PKGBUILDs in comments but didn't got an answer. - lib32-bzip2: same as human-themes. Hasn't been updated since August 2008. - bin32-kega-fusion: should be removed. I submitted this package (x86_64 only) along with kega-fusion which is a 32-bit binary. However, as I found out how to make kega-fusion PKGBUILD multi-arch, so bin32-kega-fusion is no longer needed. - mamepgui: should be orphaned. The PKGBUILD has been submitted not long ago but has many defects. It is already outdated, is i686 only and doesn't rely on compilation from sources, though possible. I flagged the package and posted a improved PKGBUILD in comments one month ago but the maintainer didn't react. I'd like to adopt this package. Thanks in advance!

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[aur-general] package deletion: rdesktop-rawmouse
by Ray Kohler 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Please delete the rdesktop-rawmouse PKGBUILD from AUR. The patch it provides is now included in rdesktop 1.6.0-3 in extra.

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[aur-general] Package removal (dwm-git).
by member SpeedVin 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

Hello.Please remove my package (dwm-git) from AUR. Thanks ;)

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[aur-general] xorg packages
by Xavier 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

These packages are all called -git, but wrongly. They are actually just duplicate of extra packages... http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18966 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29446 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28891 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28907 Actually, I would not recommend using any of these packages because of their poor quality : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=SpeedVin&SeB=m

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[aur-general] The State Of XMonad
by jelle van der waa 03 Oct '09

03 Oct '09

The Last XMonad upgrade a few moths ago had some problems , GHC (haskell compiler ) was released before XMonad was rebuild against the new compiler causing it to potentially break. Can't the XMonad pkgbuild be changed so it sticks with the GHC version it has been build against , that would cause less trouble. Also a new XMonad release , means much haskell-x11-* , xmonad-contrib , xmobar need to be rebuild and pulled together else ghc will complain. Related to my question about XMonad are some issue's (features) on the bugtracker, wich could be added to xmonad-contrib ( xmonad-contrib-darcs from AUR already has this extra dependency's). http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16339 http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14146 Still many thanks for having XMonad in community, if you need some help rebuilding packages mail me ;) Jelle van der Waa

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[aur-general] Package removal (xorg-server , xorg-server-newest).
by member SpeedVin 02 Oct '09

02 Oct '09

Hello.Please remove fllowing packages: xorg-server xorg-server-newest Thanks!

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[aur-general] Yet another test.
by Xyne 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Can one of the list admins please email me so we can figure out why I no longer recieve messages from this list? I'm not a big fan of frustration.

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[aur-general] (Spam) It's Xyne's fault
by Dusty Phillips 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Apparently Xyne is having trouble with e-mail messages sent to aur-general from the archlinux.ca domain. I've been instructed to subscribe with my own archlinux.ca domain and post a message to see if they were getting through. So I have done that. If you are offended by this message, please blame Xyne. Also, to turn this into real spam, we have some neat new goodies at: http://zazzle.com/archlinux* and http://schwag.archlinux.ca/ Dusty

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[aur-general] AUR cleanup page
by Xavier 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Daenyth Blank <daenyth%2Barch(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:58, Stefan Husmann > <stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I will go and delete the entries, whose packages are already gon from AUR. >> But on th long hand we should decide if we use and keep that wiki page or >> remove it completely. >> >> Regards Stefan >> > > I don't really think a wiki page is worth it. We're going to be > constantly struggling to keep it up to date. > But what do you do with all the existing contents then ? That work should just get lost ? Couldn't all the users or TUs interested in AUR cleanup check that page, come up with a good list of packages to be cleaned up, clean it, and then kill the page if it's not worth it ?

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[aur-general] Proposition: google-chrome-svn
by Randy Penguin 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

Now that we're starting to get the chromium proliferation under control we can't leave out chrome :p How about a package based on something like this: http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/962879/chromium-svn.tar.gz but pulled from the Official Chrome Branch at: http://src.chromium.org/svn/branches/chrome_official_branch/src

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[aur-general] Fwd: [arch-general] discussion about arora-git
by Eric Bélanger 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

---------- Forwarded message ---------- hi guys, what are we doing with arora-git? now is unmaintained and arora from extra si more up to date than arora-git. -- Ionut

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] perl 5.10.1 rebuild
by Biru Ionut 01 Oct '09

01 Oct '09

On 10/01/2009 11:03 AM, Firmicus wrote: > Eric Bélanger a écrit : >> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Firmicus<Firmicus(a)gmx.net> wrote: >> >>> I have added the TODO list https://dev.archlinux.org/todo/17/ for perl >>> 5.10.1 >>> >>> Note that I have not yet released the new perl with libperl.so to >>> testing yet, but it should happen tonight. So please wait until 5.10.1-3 >>> is in testing before making those rebuilds. >>> >>> F >>> >>> >> >> I've completed the rebuilds that were in the list. > Thanks! > >> Did anyone checked if there are community packages that need to be rebuilt? >> >> > I have not thorougly checked, no, but I had forgotten > rxvt-unicode-256color, which was on the list sent by Allan. Now added. > > Other possible candidates are: > > cd /var/abs/community > $ find . -name PKGBUILD -exec grep -H "^makedepends=.\+['\"]perl[^-xi]" > '{}' \; > cdck/PKGBUILD:makedepends=('perl') > freewrl/PKGBUILD:makedepends=('java-environment' 'perl' 'patch' 'xulrunner') > gtk-engine-murrine/PKGBUILD:makedepends=('intltool' 'perl') > upx/PKGBUILD:makedepends=('perl' 'ucl') > libmemcached/PKGBUILD:makedepends=('perl') > > Again, most are probably false positives. > > *Real* additions are welcome! > > F i've run the script that allan sent me and here is the list. i don't know which one is false positive http://pastebin.ca/1587475 -- Ionut

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[aur-general] Inactivity
by Jaroslav Lichtblau 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hi Archers, I will be the next 3 weeks traveling - vacation without access to internet and my linux box. I will be inactive until 28.9.09 Bye, Jaroslav

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[aur-general] test 2
by Xyne 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

I'm able to view my own posts to aur-dev and other lists so Sylpheed doesn't seem to be a problem. Maybe someone "hacked" my aur-general preferences. I've unsubscribed, resubscribed and checked my preferences. Now to test it... (sorry for the noise)

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[aur-general] testing
by Xyne 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Schrödinger's emai.... when I open my inbox, it either will or will not be there but before that I cannot know. :P

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[aur-general] up-to-date package management instructions
by Xyne 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Are the instructions on the DeveloperWiki's HOWTO Be A Packager page current? I wrote a script a while ago to handle updating packages but recently it stopped working. I also tried to add reflector but that didn't work either (yesterday). This isn't an ssh issue either as both ssh and svn connections work. I can post the error messages but I want to make sure that I"m following the right instructions before I waste someone's time. Thanks. Xyne

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[aur-general] I can't see my own messages on this list.
by Xyne 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

I've just checked the web archive for aur-general and saw that my message(s) about nexuiz-data when through yet I can't see them or the replies too them (in sylpheed, if that matters). This hasn't been an issue before. Please cc reples to me until the issue is resolved. As for nexuiz-data, I've rebuilt the package against the latest svn checkout and it still complains (just sent another message because I couldn't see my first message on the list). It's amazing how everything goes wrong when you have absolutely no time to deal with it.

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[aur-general] netatalk-2.0.4
by Farhan Yousaf 30 Sep '09

30 Sep '09

Hi folks, I finally got the new package for netatalk working with Arch. The previous one has major build issues. Can someone orphan the existing package so I can maintain this? For those who are wondering, this package allows Apple's Filing Protocol to work on Linux with Macs. For hybrid folks like me, this is essential. Thanks, Farhan

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[aur-general] I need some help with nexuiz-data.
by Xyne 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

I'm having trouble getting nexuiz-data into the db. I get the following error when running /arch/db-community: [xyne@sigurd ~]$ /arch/db-community ==> Processing 1 new/updated arch-independent packages for 'community'... Checked out revision 3188. Validating package arch (any) nexuiz-data Checking SVN for nexuiz-data WARNING: nexuiz-data-2.5.1-1-any.pkg.tar.gz does not match PKGBUILD in community-any Updating DB for community-i686 ==> Copying DB file from 'community'... ==> Processing 1 new/updated packages for repository 'community'... D checkout/nexuiz-data Checked out revision 3188. Errors found when adding packages Updating DB for community-x86_64 ==> Copying DB file from 'community'... ==> Processing 1 new/updated packages for repository 'community'... Checked out revision 3188. Errors found when adding packages I tried removing and re-adding the PKGBUILD, went through all of the steps again, double-checked that the correct PKGBUILD was committed, triple-checked the package's md5sum and rechecked the upload steps against both the wiki and my working scripts. I have even bumped the pkgrel and rebuilt the package on Sigurd (it's data only, all it does it download the source, move the files and repack them... no bandwidth was wasted either as it would still have been 600 MB as an upload from my machine). I've also tried removing nexuiz-data/repos/community-any several times from the svn (svn rm; svn commit) and then run 'archrelease "community-any"' again. I have no idea what to do now and would appreciate any insights. I've left the nexuiz src in my home dir on Sigurd for now in case it requires a rebuild (~/build/). The i686 and x86_64 package were both updated correctly so I really don't see what I'm doing wrong here. Thanks, Xyne

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[aur-general] Disowning some packages
by Artyom Smirnov 29 Sep '09

29 Sep '09

Hi, I'm going to disown some of my packages because of lack of time and switching to KDE. Some of this PKGBUILD's are pretty popular :) I want to disown: exo-alt flush gajim-emoticons-kolobok gajim-hg gdm-arc-colors gdm-archfamily gnome-colors-icon-theme gtk-theme-shiki-colors notification-daemon-engine-ubuntu notify-osd-bzr thunar-svn-plugin x-tile Some of PKGBUILD's in this list need updating. Thanks! -- Artyom

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[aur-general] Delete - dvdauthorwizard
by Dien Nguyen 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

dvdauthorwizard - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1825 Last updated in 2005. There's kdvdauthorwizard in community, as well.

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[aur-general] How to make a PKGBUILD for Kepler/Xavante?
by Pierre Chapuis 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Hi listmates, as I said in an earlier email in another thread, I always try to make a PKGBUILD for every piece of software I install. There's an exception though: the Lua webserver Xavante, which is part of the Kepler distribution (http://www.keplerproject.org/xavante/) I can set it up without Pacman that way: ftp://catwell.info/misc/arch/xavante/howto-setup.txt but I haven't found a way to make it work properly with makepkg. The problem is that the setup process run in a fakeroot leaves the string corresponding to $pkgdir in a lot of places in the resulting files, including binary files. I have tried to use sed on the resulting files but I didn't manage to get rid of it everywhere, neither to get a working package. Has somebody already given a try at packaging such an application, and are there examples of packages that deal with this kind of problem? Thanks, -- catwell

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[aur-general] overriding architecture in split packages
by Xyne 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

I'm (sort of) cross-posting but I'm hoping to get a quick answer so I can start this huge upload: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81143 Any thoughts? Thanks, Xyne

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[aur-general] acer_acpi: Removal Request
by Thorsten Toepper 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA224 Hello, I think the acer_acpi package can be removed from the AUR as it is included in the kernel since 2.6.25(stated in the comments), though the current minumum kernel version of Arch is 2.6.24.5 I don't think that laptop Users run this old kernel. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8184 Kind regards, Thorsten / Atsutane - -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iFYEARELAAYFAkrA8ycACgkQOeTxfyla+/RD5gDghka/A9HsXJVcXPYrUBM0ylez t9oNoDh+8RuvsgDgzRqtudHFh/hpI6tL2qSsnwaUQ/u9e02J+slMIw== =7uIb -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] aurtools, remove?
by Imanol Celaya 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

looking through the community repos seems that aurtools would be completely obsolete, did I miss something or is it time to remove it form community?

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[aur-general] Packages removal
by Anton Bazhenov 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

twisted-web2 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25291 Duplicate of "twisted-web2" package in Community. merkaartor-complete - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25595 Duplicate of "merkaartor" package in AUR (with broken source link). mplayer-mt-git-oss - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27055 Duplicate of "mplayer-mt-oss-git" (see comment). libsipphoneapi-oss - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6186 It seems that it's not needed now. stepmania-cvs-extras - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=4567 Broken links, replaced by "stepmania-extras" package. mp-qt4 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29243 mp-gtk - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29242 Copies of "mp-5" and "mp-5-gtk" packages (see comments). mozilla-firefox-thai - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6334 xulrunner-thai - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6904 thunderbird-nightly-it - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9962 These packages are for old versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. perl-date-korean - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23040 lua-docs - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26840&detail=1 libtheora-thusnelda-svn - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28831 pcfinancial-workaround - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24634 Maintainers wrote that these packages may be deleted (see comments). kmess_blue_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2017 kmess_cartoon_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2018 kmess_crystal_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2019 kmess_violet_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2020 kmess_yellow_ei - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2021 kmess_crystal_ic - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2022 These packages are very old: broken source links, wrong paths in build section. It's simplier to create a new package with themes, than update these.

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

jackdbus - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16272 (orphaned and dupe available as jack-audio-connection-kit-dbus) lv2core - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22216 (not orphan but an unnecessary dupe of lv2)

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[aur-general] Time Taken for Tarball to Reflect Contents
by Ray Rashif 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

Is there a delay between an upload and the time it takes for the tarball to be regenerated? Or is it because for the first time I actually uploaded a src pkg (with the extension) when previously I used to upload my own .tar.gz files?

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[aur-general] advice wanted on "surf" package
by Ray Kohler 28 Sep '09

28 Sep '09

I'm the maintainer of the "surf" package in AUR, and I've discovered an annoyance in the way I've created this package. I'd like some advice on how to resolve it. This package is a web browser from suckless.org, the makers of dwm. It has very much the same coding and build style, involving a config.h file which the user is intended to customize. Most of surf's behavior is decided at compile-time by this file. I've modeled my package after the "dwm" package in community, copying the default config.h into the root of the package tarball and listing it as a local source file. build() then copies it into the unpacked source directory before compiling. This is great for users of dwm who rebuild it from ABS, as it avoids the need to modify build() in order to customize the package - the user just needs to supply their own config.h and change the md5sum for it. This doesn't work so well for my surf package, though, since that's in the AUR. Many (most?) users of AUR packages are auto-updating with helper-tools like yaourt, pbget, and similar utilities, and it's difficult to automatically pull updates to package materials when you've changed one of the files. customizepkg won't help you much either, since that can only modify the PKGBUILD, and not the config.h. It's also annoying to me as the maintainer of the package. Anyone who maintains a package that's meant to have the build customized, rather than compiled as-is, will end up actually maintaining two copies - one "stock" version to submit to AUR, and one customized version for personal use. Obviously, none of these issues are show-stoppers. But they are annoying, and I don't packages I maintain to annoy my end-users. What can I do to make this package more comfortable for the average AUR user? Is software that expects compile-time customization just fundamentally not very compatible with the auto-update concept?

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[aur-general] Removal request
by A Rojas 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

Please remove mathematik-svn: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29834 It has been renamed to cantor

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Re: [aur-general] TU apllaing/voting.
by member SpeedVin 27 Sep '09

27 Sep '09

2009/9/21 member SpeedVin <speedvin(a)archlinux.us> > Hello all. > > I'm using Arch for about 1 year. > I helped Arch community by providing PKGBUILDS and helping on forum. > > I want to introduce me. > My name is Patrick, I'm from the Poland I am working with computers for > long time (12 years). > > Now I'm maintraining 14 packages on AUR in unsupported repo. > List of them > dwm-git 20090813-1 > unsupported devel glib2-newest 2.21.6-1 > unsupported system grub2-git 29072009-1 > unsupported x11 inputproto-git 1.9.99.902-1 > unsupported kernels kernel26-bfs 2.6.31-1 > unsupported lib libsoup-git 20090920-1 1 > unsupported lib libx11-git 1.2.99.901-1 > unsupported modules nvidia-bfs-beta 190.32-1 > unsupported x11 renderproto-git 0.11-1 > unsupported x11 xextproto-git 7.0.99.3-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-keyboard-git 20080809-1 > unsupported x11 xf86-input-mouse-git 20080808-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-server-git 20090529-1 > unsupported x11 xorg-xinit-git 20080807-1 > Some of them are based on PKGBUILD provieded by ABS and some are based on > packages in AUR , and some are builded myself. > I am programming in Python and C++ ;) > > Now that I've introduced myself I'm looking for someone who wants to > sponsor me (if any). Please feel free to ask any questions I do not > have answered yet. > > Thanks for reading this ;) > >

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