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[aur-general] Colin Pitrat is out of the office.
by Colin Pitrat 02 Aug '08

02 Aug '08

I will be out of the office starting 01/08/2008 and will not return until 11/08/2008. I will respond to your message when I return.

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[aur-general] Problem with community repo (x86_64)
by Eric Belanger 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

The community repo (x86_64) is no longer updating. From the logs: Traceback (most recent call last): File "/home/aur/aur/tupkg/update/tupkgupdate64", line 450, in <module> pkgname, ver = infoFromPackageFile(c_file) File "/home/aur/aur/tupkg/update/tupkgupdate64", line 218, in infoFromPackageFile raise Exception("Non-standard filename") Exception: Non-standard filename I don't know what might've caused that. There also now another error message: nice: /home/aur/run-tupkgupdate64: No such file or directory which is also in the logs for i686: nice: /home/aur/run-tupkgupdate: No such file or directory Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Problem with compizconfig-backend-kconfig and KDE3
by DaNiMoTh 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hello to all, I am trying to compile this backend for ccsm with kde3 enabled, because with kde4 it seems don't work. So, I add to depends kdelibs3, qt3, added --without-arts, added source /etc/profile.d/{kde3,qt3}.sh, but in configure I read: checking for Qt... libraries /opt/qt/lib, headers /opt/qt/include using -mt checking for moc... /opt/qt/bin/moc checking for uic... /opt/qt/bin/uic checking whether uic supports -L ... yes checking whether uic supports -nounload ... yes checking if Qt needs -ljpeg... no checking for rpath... yes checking for KDE... libraries /opt/kde/lib, headers /usr/include What?!?! headers in /usr/include? Oh, no... and I can't compile it successful, because I have error like In file included from /usr/include/QtCore/qbasicatomic.h:209, from /usr/include/QtCore/qatomic.h:48, from /usr/include/QtCore/qvariant.h:47, from /usr/include/QtCore/QVariant:1, from /usr/include/kconfig.h:32, from kconfig_backend.cpp:24: /usr/include/QtCore/qatomic_arch.h:84:4: error: #error "Qt has not been ported to this architecture" kconfig_backend.cpp:29:23: error: kinstance.h: No such file or directory kconfig_backend.cpp:31:18: error: kipc.h: No such file or directory kconfig_backend.cpp:33:24: error: dcopclient.h: No such file or directory Also, the error that qt has not been ported to $CARCH (that is i686 in my case) is ridiculous ^^. I think the problem is that it use headers from /usr/include (kde4) that aren't like headers in kde3. Am I wrong in something? Thanks

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Please stop the install message insanity
by bardo 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com> wrote: > Thanks for pointing that out. I changed this to a post_install in dnsmasq > 2.43-2, not post_upgrade, since this one you have to read the first time and > not thereafter. This is a problem I've been thinking about for a while. It happens far too often that a message needs to be shown to the user only the first time a package gets upgraded because something important has changed. Without the need to modify anything we could use the parameters passed to post_upgrade: if the old version is affected by the change (can we use anything like vercmp in install files?) then the message will be shown, otherwise it won't. It's an extra effort on our side, but it helps a lot in cleaning up package installation output. Of course we'll also need to pay attention to when it's time to remove the message. I have other possible solutions in mind, but they all require changes to pacman or arch, and by far they aren't KISS. Any additional proposal or comment? Corrado

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[aur-general] Requesting orphaned package
by Cabbage 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

The package plone is way out of date. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7448 Package in the AUR is 2.5.1, the official package is 3.1.3. I'm requesting that this package be orphaned so that someone else may assume responsibility.

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Jeff Horelick 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi! My name is JD Horelick and i'd like to become a TU. I'm 23 and working as a sysadmin for a decent-sized company (linux and windows stuff). I first started with ArchLinux in early 2007 (if i had to guess) and ever since then, i've loved it. I think pacman is quite possibly the greatest package manager i've used and i think the PKGBUILD package format is quite nice. I haven't done a crazy amount of development on Arch, but i've been using linux since 1999 and i was a Debian Developer for ~3 years (where i maintained 10-15 packages). As a TU I will offer my knowledge, skills and time to improve my favourite distribution and it's packages. Some of my specific goals as a TU are: * Work on expanding the community repo (for example, clutter is in community, but clutter-gtk, clutter-cairo and clutter-gtk are still in AUR :( ). * Make sure packages in AUR/community are working. For example, i tried to build dpkg (i think...It's late) from aur a bit ago and the URL changed, if i was a TU (and i will probably do this tomorrow anyway), i would email the guy and say like: "Hey, please fix the 404 on your package or i'm going to take it over". * My goal is to upload, fix or update a minimum of 1 package a day. In my free time I like...wait...I have free time? ahh...but seriously, in my free time...Well...I'm a atypical computer geek...I like watching me some movies/TV, playing video games...goin out and doing some parkour...having fun. Oh, and tacos...Tacos FTW! The final thing, Allan was so kind as to sponsor my application and here is the list of packages i have uploaded to the AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore Let's start up the inquisition :P Any questions and suggestions will be answered as quickly as possible (I'm usually around from 1PM EST to 5AM EST daily). Thank you all very much. I very much hope to become part of the Arch team. Sincerely, JD In case my AUR link gets buried/is hard to see: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=jdhore

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[aur-general] Disowning some pkgs
by DaNiMoTh 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Hello to all, I want to disown these packages: ktechlab, doesn't compile anyomore and it isn't maintained gpsim and gputils, needed by ktechlab and for some others pkg in unsupported. If anyone wants it, i will move these on unsupported. Thank you

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[aur-general] Gone for a bit.
by Loui 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Hey everyone! I'll be gone for a little bit, I'll be returning some time in the second week of August (maybe the 11th or 12th). Cheers.

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[aur-general] TU Application.
by Daenyth Blank 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Geoffroy Carrier <geoffroy.carrier(a)koon.fr> wrote: > I am happy with this application. Thanks! > Could most of the arch-games packages come into [community]? Probably. I don't think there would be an issue with it really, just that there wasn't a TU interested.

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

> I'm sorry, but i'm not going to do that. It was drama, it was a few > years ago when i was younger and stupider. It's no longer an issue > between myself and the parties involved so as i mentioned, i'm not > going to bring it up and i very much hope this will be the last of the > issue of if i was a Debian Developer or not. Let's just say i didn't > want my name affiliated with Debian anymore when i left and leave it > at that. Hey JD and the gang; No I am not intending to be "heaping it on" here, but alas I cannot let this go without comment. If you expected the TU community to not go and check your credentials then, as you can clearly see, it did not work. And since you brought this matter up without any prompting from any of us, it is NOT your position to expect the scrutiny OR the discussion in this matter to end now, (simply because you wish it to). Best regards; Bob Finch P.S. What I read below is beneath comment. It saddens me that you wrote this. More especially since it was in reply to your sponsor. A short observation -> IMHO adding someone who appears so willing to be confrontational is *NOT* doing the "right thing FOR THE COMMUNITY". > > Here's my honest, no BS opinion: There are currently only 27 TU's and > 36 developers in this project. I have the skills to be a very capable > TU. I more or less don't care if you vote for me to be a TU to be > perfectly honest. It's not going to plague me in the morning that i > didn't get enough votes. I only feel that i'd bring something useful > to a community with currently a lot of ground to cover (~9600 packages > in the AUR) and from what i can see, not enough people to cover it. > > Thanks > I hope you all do the right thing FOR THE COMMUNITY. > JD > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 10:58 PM, Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> > wrote: >> Jeff Horelick wrote: >>> >>> That would be a long story involving some "secretive" Debian Drama >>> (between me and 2/3 other people via email/IM) that i'd really >>> rather not pull into the mix. >>> >> But I'm afraid you are going to have to be a bit more specific about >> you being an ex Debian developer if you want anyone to vote for you. >> There is also no mention of you in the changelogs of gftp and conky. >> This experience was a primary factor in my choosing to sponsor you >> despite having few packages in the AUR. With that being questioned, >> your whole application is on very, very shaky ground, which is more >> than a bit embarrassing for me as your sponsor. >> >> Allan

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[aur-general] Haddock
by Ashok Gautham 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

I am the maintainer of the haddock package on aur. I was planning to update it in some time... by then I got a message from arch-haskell requesting a change in maintainership. Should I orphan it so that you can take over it?

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[aur-general] Resignation part 2 - List of packages
by Bjørn Lindeijer 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

Hello all, Here is the list of packages, most of them aren't updated often and probably still up to date. dumb-xmms empathy enet (dependency of tmw and cube) farsight gnome-art (candidate for removal, package is dead) gnome-splashscreen-manager (see gnome-art) gnonlin gstreamer-0.10-farsight guichan (out of date, but there is no patch out for tmw to build against the newer version, I'm working on pushing tmw 0.0.25 out soon though) jokosher jrtplib (gstreamer-0.10-farsight dependency) jthread (jrtplib dependency) kanatest libgrapple libmimic libtelepathy ltris mod_ruby nopaste physfs python-telepathy qbittorrent (apparently needs 64-bit rebuild) qmmp (out of date) qsvn qtm rake rb_libtorrent (should be renamed to libtorrent-rasterbar probably) ruby-amazon ruby-atk ruby-event-loop ruby-gconf2 ruby-gdkpixbuf2 ruby-gettext (out of date, but new version is a bit broken) ruby-glib2 ruby-gnome2 ruby-gnomecanvas ruby-gnomeprint ruby-gnomeprintui ruby-gnomevfs ruby-gtk2 ruby-gtkhtml2 ruby-gtkmozembed ruby-gtksourceview ruby-gtktrayicon ruby-libart ruby-libglade ruby-pango ruby-postgress ruby-rcairo ruby-rsvg ruby-scw ruby-shout ruby-sqlite3 (out of date) rubygame scw shackshag sofio-sip tablet-apps (for wacom) tapioca tapioca-xmpp tapiocaui (candidate for removal, old and broken) telepathy-butterfly telepathy-gabble (out of date) telepathy-glib telepathy-idle telepathy-inspector telepathy-mission-control telepathy-salut telepathy-stream-engine tetringo tmw tmwmusic visualboyadvance xdg-user-dirs Most of the Ruby Gnome related packages are from the same upstream source. Note that there is a whole group of packages related to Empathy and Telepathy, it would probably be best if this was picked up by the same TU. Link to AUR interface for convenience, sorted by votes: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=bjorn&SB=v&SO=d&PP=100&… Regards, Bjørn

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 25 Jul '08

25 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for ttf-linux-libertine 2.8.14-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for ttf-linux-libertine 2.8.14-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Resignation
by Bjørn Lindeijer 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Dear all, Even since I got a full time job back in September 2007, my time for TU duties has been limited. A few months ago I switched to a different DSL provider (since the previous one couldn't get their act together), and they gave me a PPPoE modem instead of a router, which I couldn't get to dial in on Arch Linux, which basically forced me to switch to something else, Ubuntu in this case (pppoeconf had it done in seconds). From then on it just went downhill. I kept updating and sometimes rebuilding packages on an Arch Linux installed on VirtualBox at work. However on each Ubuntu kernel upgrade it broke down and recently it seems to have done its last breath since it no longer boots after Arch Linux ran out of harddrive space while upgrading the kernel. I decided this is where it ends. I've really enjoyed Arch Linux while it last, and I think it really rocks for those who want to be always up to date and also easily package their own stuff, allowing for a convenient and complete management of all system files. However, frequent breaks and security problems (no doubt mostly my own fault) had already made me prefer other distributions on my laptop and server. I'll post my list of packages in a separate email. Thanks for several enjoyable years! Regards, Bjørn Lindeijer

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[aur-general] Semi-inactivity
by bardo 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi all! Two days ago I had my last exam for the semester and promptly got on a train for a deserved (?) vacation. I have some connectivity to check how things are going and if there are any problems with my packages (in fact I'm planning to update everything I left behind because of these exams) but you never know. So if any TU or dev feels the need to tinker with my things, then just do it. Well, if you can wait a bit just drop an e-mail =) I'll be back on July, 1st. Have a great time while you impatiently wait for me ;-) Corrado

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for linux-uvc-svn 235-1! No new package supplied for guake 0.3.0-3! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] IRC shenanigans
by Aaron Griffin 22 Jul '08

22 Jul '08

Hey guys, I'm updating and fixing some things on IRC today, so I'm looking for a list of IRC usernames for those of you who need new cloaks. New developers, new TUs, things like that. Also, (sadly) I will be removing cloaks for people who have left our noble ranks. Please let me know when you can. Thanks, Aaron

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[aur-general] inactivity notice (vacation)
by Ronald van Haren 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

Hi devs/Tus, I'll be on vacation from 9th of August (tomorrow) until 29th of August. During this time I will probably not check my mail at regular intervals so don't expect quick respones from my side ;) Of course, feel free to update any of my packages if needed, or fix any new opened bugs. At the dev side I didn't adopt a lot of packages just yet for above reason so I suspect things to be quiet. On the TU side of things, I don't expect any major issues with any of my packages. Just keep an eye on bug reports that require just a simple rebuild. Btw I have already voted in the current running thread so you can count me in. See you on the other side! Regards, Ronald

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[aur-general] TU Vote: Anders Bergh (anders)
by Angel Velásquez 19 Jul '08

19 Jul '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Anders Bergh (anders) as a TU. Please, dont forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-July/008031.html You can vote using the web interface. Good Luck anders! -- Angel Velásquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909 Arch Linux Trusted User

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[aur-general] Integrity Check i686
by Allan McRae 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi TUs, I have run the repo integrity check script and filtered out the results for the community repo. Please have a look through the list and check if any of your packages are involved. One thing to notice is the missing PKGBUILDs are from packages that were removed from the repos. It appears that untagging the PKGBUILD removes the package from community repo but is not enough to remove the package from abs these days. I will look into fixing that... Allan Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /community/kde/kplayer/PKGBUILD (fixed) /community/system/mc-utf8/PKGBUILD (fixed) /community/system/endeavour/PKGBUILD (fixed) Duplicate PKGBUILDs --------------------- /community/lib/libotr/PKGBUILD vs. /extra/libotr/PKGBUILD (fixed) Missing Dependencies ---------------------- medit --> 'gcc-objc' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' flumotion --> 'twisted-web' jokosher --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' gnustep-gui --> 'gcc-objc' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' gnustep-base --> 'gcc-objc' qtemu --> 'qt4' gnustep-back --> 'gcc-objc' Missing Makedepends --------------------- pandoc --> 'haskell-mtl' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc' gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' Unmet Dependency Provisions ----------------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'fldigi=2.10' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' Invalid Archs --------------- luasql-mysql --> ppc coxpcall --> ppc copas --> ppc premake --> ppc

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for poedit 1.4.1-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] secondlife need help
by Amanai 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 secondlife i686 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18446 you can play this game, but there are several small bugs to fix. looks like this Wiki is out dated http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/Compiling_the_viewer_(Linux) I orphan this package and hope someone will fix the last things. THx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh9l2MACgkQ+IsChyUV2oFiEgCgjilKj29PJSRttyLqIvPuDPrN I7cAnj/Qq4FxILMm3C8RuDkWtpkDZ7aN =qZw2 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for python-lxml 2.1-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for copas 1.1.3-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] google-perftools
by Amanai 16 Jul '08

16 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Can one of the TU please orphan the package google-perftools http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7785 looks like the owner don't update it anymore. Thx -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkh9hhEACgkQ+IsChyUV2oHprwCgjL9//ej7ehTCn37yLntCfhus Q40An1uspkxmEpHOX1ck1FO44M/YYPoi =0dpD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] sancho-gtk removal from [community]: discussion thread
by bardo 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Hi fellow TUs, devs and archers! I'm writing this long e-mail to discuss the current situation about sancho-gtk, a [community] package I'm maintaining. I inherited sancho-gtk, a front-end for mldonkey, when mOLOk resigned from his TU position, and some time ago I checked if everything was ok with it. In the PKGBUILD I found an ugly hack to download the software, which is hosted on Sourceforge but isn't available at the traditional download location. It is rather distributed through a direct link in its homepage (http://sancho-gui.sourceforge.net/) but that link changes every few minutes: because of this came the ugly hack. The whole thing, I discovered, was done on purpose by its author, whom I contacted for explainations. He pointed out that the download page page states "no redist/pkging/mirrors pls". I don't like forwarding private e-mails, so here's a summary of what I found out and some of my assumptions. * The author doesn't like his software to be repackaged because he doesn't want users complaining upstream for distribution-level bugs. * He doesn't really care if his user base drops to near-zero because his software isn't easily available and integrated in linux distributions. * I wasn't able to find the application's source code (the GTK version, at least) on his site, so I assume it is a closed source app. When the author was asked to clarify his position, include a license and, in case of a free one, the corresponding source code, he didn't answer. * The author thinks software inclusion in a linux distro is "opt-in" (his words), and states he never asked for it. When I pointed out that free software has nothing to do with opt-in, he stopped answering my e-mails. * The author never clearly stated (even though I asked) if we are infringing any license by redistributing the software. * An important phrase I think i just have to report is "I don't think a license has ever written any software", referring to his preference of distributing his software only through the homepage. I want to drop this software from our repos. Not because he asked for it, but because it looks like this person doesn't really understand what free software and a community are, and that we are persons, too, with our rights. He's not the kind of person I want to deal with. I also think he is in violation of Sourceforge terms, since he's maintaining what looks like proprietary software on their servers. What do you think about the whole thing? I already decided to drop both sancho-gtk and mldonkey (its development seems to be stalled), but there are more questions. Should I notify him to Sourceforge in case he is infringing? Should I drop the package to [unsupported]? Should I delete it? Should I hand it to another maintainer? I wouldn't want to see another ion3, but I don't think it's very different. Should we try to define special policies for cases like these? Corrado

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[aur-general] TU reminder: set PACKAGER variable in makepkg.conf
by bardo 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

(This is also valid for some devs.) Please, remember to set the PACKAGER variable in all your build machines. It really helps being able to know who built a package through pacman -Qi or -Si. Thanks, Corrado

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[aur-general] offline for a bit
by Aaron Schaefer 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Ahoy all...both the NICs on my Arch box got fried during a thunderstorm last week, so my machine has been without teh intertubes. I have a couple of packages flagged out of date and one bug report (which I am most likely just going to update the package to the development version to solve). Anyway, I've got to order a new NIC to get back up and running, but wanted to inform you that I'm not just slacking off :-) I should be back up and running early next week I would guess... -- Aaron "ElasticDog" Schaefer

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 10 Jul '08

10 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for hedgewars 0.9.5-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Adding MAINTAINER comment box
by james toy 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

AUR, I think we should try to implement a comment box above the general comment box that can be edited ONLY by the package maintainer -- this is important for updates and information about more complex packages -- for example -- kernel26zenmm-git does not automatically have nvidia support built in and can be supplemented by the xf86-video-nvidia (i think thats the package name i'm just doing it from memory now) -- this is useful information that should not get lost in the main comments box -- i just wanted to throw this out there -- never too many documents -- especially when there are caveats -- hope everyone is well respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for cherrypy 3.1.0-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] inactivity notice (vacation)
by Ronald van Haren 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Travis Willard <travis(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi devs/Tus, >> >> I'll be on vacation from 9th of August (tomorrow) until 29th of >> August. During this time I will probably not check my mail at regular >> intervals so don't expect quick respones from my side ;) > > 9th of July? > > arghh yeah. from 9th of July until 29th of July.

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[aur-general] encfs
by Patrick Baumgart 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

I need the package as dependency in "cryptkeeper". But the package is gone and I cannot put a "new" encfs package to AUR, although there is none available. I would take the encfs package on my own, if no one maintains it. Baumi --

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[aur-general] kernel26zenmm-git PKGBUILD
by james toy 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

all, I was wondering what the demand for this PKGBUILD would be -- its for the git of zenmm -- i am asking first instead of just throwing it on the AUR because it will be a bit of a pain to maintain since its SO bleeding edge -- if people DO want it though i will certainly put in the time to make it readily and easily available -- hope everyone enjoyed the holidays respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] community repo no longer updating
by Eric Belanger 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

There's a problem with the community repo which prevents it from updating. >From the log: cvs update: failed to create lock directory for `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' (/var/lock/cvs/community/devel/glib2-docs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Hopefully an admin will fix that soon. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] TU application
by Anders Bergh 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi! I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. I talked to Angel Velásquez (angvp) on IRC and he said he would be my sponsor. I've used Arch Linux since early 2006 and Linux since 2001. I've also been doing some work on Arch Linux PPC, mainly been trying to keep the packages that I use up to date, but I've also been working on tools to make it easier to do so... but I haven't yet completely figured out the best human-friendly way to see what needs updating and rebuilding. Currently I maintain packages related to the D programming language in the AUR, and recently got permission for Arch Linux to distribute the D compiler. It's closed source, however the front-end is open source and there are already a couple of open source D compilers, however the gcc-based gdc is not very maintained (doesn't work with gcc versions > 4.1) and the others are quite early in development. I used to maintain a small binary repository but I don't think a lot of people actually used it. But I did get quite a bit of experience with the repository tools and how to build packages. After adopting most of the D-related packages I no longer needed to host my own. I'm also quite interested in the Lua programming language, and I maintain a few Lua packages and so far one got adopted by another TU into community. I used to be a rabid Debian user but the one thing that annoyed me was how you almost had to read a book in order to create your own packages. In Arch Linux it was so easy to create them and that's the main reason I use this distribution. I really like when things are simple! My list of AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=Anders&SeB=m Note that I haven't updated the gdc packages yet, I think they're kind of tricky to install since the gcc makefiles aren't really helpful when you want to install one frontend only. About me: I'm Swedish and 17 years old. Most of my interests involve computers, such as programming, IRC, games... it's a bit hard to think of all the things I do because I often like to try new things. I'm currently focusing quite a bit on web dev such as PHP and Django. I'm not much of a web design guy so it's mostly the coding part that interests me. My native language is Swedish, and I did English in school ever since 1st grade, however most of my English is self taught because of all the time I've spent on IRC and other places on the Internet. I have an Arch 64 installation so building 64-bit packages isn't a problem for me. Regards, Anders

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Re: [aur-general] New Devs
by Simo Leone 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:43:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi TUs (and other interested parties), > > Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of > developers bought on in the past weeks > (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. > So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. > > The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions > in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some > strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by > oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan > some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes > larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will > deal with that if/when the time comes. > > Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's) > Also note that if you at some point don't want to do the TU stuff but don't want to drop your packages on them either, I'm in the habit of giving devs community access if they ask for it, and no one's complained about it yet. Luckily we all seem to get along :) -S

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[aur-general] New Devs
by Allan McRae 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi TUs (and other interested parties), Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of developers bought on in the past weeks (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will deal with that if/when the time comes. Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's)

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[aur-general] Firefox 3
by Slash 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Comrades, Now that Firefox 3 is stable, I think we need to consider cleaning up the packages related to such on the AUR. A lot of these firefox3 ones are no longer needed: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=firefox&SeB=nd&PP=100&d… For example: arch-firefox3-search - "arch-firefox-search" should be updated for version 3 firefox3-bin - "firefox-official" should do the same thing firefox3-bin-pl - "firefox-official-pl" should be created to replace firefox3-i18n - same.. or maybe a variant of this package should be used rather than language-specific ones firefox3-rc-es - no longer needed Thoughts? Thanks, Slash

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[aur-general] Request to remove xcursor-industrial from filesystem
by Kristaps Esterlinsh 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi, please remove http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcursor-industrial/ from filesystem as it is orphaned (I was the maintainer), within the few days I'll upload it again ;) Thanks

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[aur-general] i2p aur package - maintainer did not answer
by Thomas Krauss 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hello, i made a aur package for the latest i2p version. The pgkbuild in aur is evil out of date, but the maintainer does not answer to my email what is the best thing, i can do now? eichi -- open source for an open mind! use Linux and feel free! - Mein Weblog: http://der-eichi.de Themen unter anderem aus den Bereichen |Politik|, |Linux| und |freie Software| ----- Mein öffentlicher PGP Schlüssel: http://pgp.der-eichi.de ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Leider konnte ich Ihren öffentlichen Schlüssel nicht finden, daher schreibe ich Ihnen | | unverschlüsselt und hoffe, dies ist akzeptabel | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ! Freie Alternative zu Google Maps & Co.: http://www.openstreetmap.org !

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[aur-general] About emacs org-mode
by Jiyunatori 02 Jul '08

02 Jul '08

Hi there. I've just stepped into the arch and I'd like to participate. The org package is highly out of date, so I updated it. I'd like to share this small contribution with everyone, but the package is already maintained by rwanderley. I contacted the maintainer and sent him my updated version ten days ago, but had no answer to this day. Would it be possible to take the charge of maintaining this package ? take care Jiyunatori PS : what is the policy about renaming a package in the AUR ? is there a naming policy for emacs modes ?

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[aur-general] Old packages in AUR
by Shaika-Dzari Shaika-Dzari 01 Jul '08

01 Jul '08

Hello everyone. This morning I looked orphan package and I found some packages that could be remove: - sharpmusique : source is not available anymore - eclipse-kde : source is not available anymore - fvwm-trans : outdate, did not build - gimp-freetype : made for gimp 2.0, not available from official gimp website - gnash-cvs : gnash use Bazaar now - kanola : did not build, no update by his creator since 2 years - kdeaddons4 : made and submited in 2006 - kdeedu4 : same ^ - kdepim4 : same ^ - kdeless : splited by his maintainer into other package - madman-devel : no update, problem with Faad, official website is down - menu : replace by archlinux-xdg-menu in community - menu-xdg : same ^ - netscape-navigator : closed-sources, end of support by netscape - poppler-qt4 : use old Qt4 from community - pynealpm: use old libalpm - qgnokii : depend on qt3 but still use depend=(qt) - sqcam-cvs : depend on kernel26 and was not update since 1 year... - xscreensaver-arch : did not work - ymessenger : no update since 3 years, PKGBUILD license is GPL ? - fluxbox-styles-boxwhore : boxwhore website is dead Hope this help.

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[aur-general] Orphan Request: libotr pidgin-otr
by Marcel W. Wysocki 30 Jun '08

30 Jun '08

The packages are flagged out of date for quite some time now. Also there have been comments to inform the maintainer about the new version. I'd like to take over those packages. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] TUs: anyone want to take dmd into community?
by Anders Bergh 28 Jun '08

28 Jun '08

Hey, I spoke to Walter and he told me that it would be okay to let Arch Linux distribute dmd in the repositories. I'm not a TU, but feel free to take over the dmd and libphobos packages (and perhaps even libtango). (for those who don't know what dmd is: it's the main compiler for the D programming language) Anders

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[aur-general] orphans again
by Ronald van Haren 27 Jun '08

27 Jun '08

just so we won't let this list grow like we did in the past, here are the current orphans in community: <category><name><pkgver><votes> multimedia denemo 0.7.6-1 7 x11 lxtask 0.1-1 15 network pound 2.4.2-1 1 lib python-geotypes 0.7.0-1 0 please adopt if if one of these packages is yours, or you want to maintain one of these. I'll move the ones left orphan to unsupported somewhere next week. note that python-geotypes is a dependency of mezogis (0 votes, maintained by dtw) so it should stay in community if mezogis stays. Ronald

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[aur-general] python rebuilds needed
by Allan McRae 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hi TUs, I have uploaded an updated python package to testing. This removes the searching of the /usr/lib/python2.4 directory for modules (as python2.5 modules should be installed in the 2.5 directory). This will break a few packages whose files are still on the old python2.4 directory and anything that depends on them. Here is the packages I have found that need rebuilt: bhv-0.0.10-1 (sergej) diacanvas-0.14.4-1 (BaSh) everygui-0.99.b-1 (Romashka) pychecker-0.8.17-2 (sergej) pyrtf-0.45-1 (sergej) pysdl_mixer-0.0.3-2 (sergej) python-chardet-1.0-1 (sergej) python-galago-0.5.0-1 (sergej) python-galago-gtk-0.5.0-1 (sergej) python-mpdclient2-0.11.1-2 (codemac) webboard-0.2-3 (sergej) These just need rebuilt with python (v2.5) so their files are installed in /usr/lib/python2.5. In general, it should not be necessary to use the python version in [testing] as the current version in [extra] will package most files in the right place. I think packages built using scons may require the [testing] version. Just check that there are no files in /usr/lib/python2.4 once you have finished rebuilding the packages. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for jap 00.10.003-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] AUR upload problem
by Gerhard Brauer 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hello, i have a problem uploading a package to AUR. It's revoked, but there isn't a package named nxcomp, neither in AUR nor in official Repos. Error is(translated): You are not allowd to overwrite the existing package nxcomp I've send a mail on arch-genereal ML and Callan point me to a releavant bugreport http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672 The problem is: This package is a dependency of some other packages which i already put in AUR. So could one of you TUs please put the package in AUR? Maybe orphand after that, so i could take it. I attach the tarball, it should be in category libs. Thanks Gerhard -- Try rm -rf (_R_ead _M_ail _R_ealy _F_ast)

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[aur-general] python-elementtree now part of python
by Ronald van Haren 24 Jun '08

24 Jun '08

see subject. the following community packages are affected: lsiten (hdoria) freevo (pressh) further two more AUR packages: avant-window-navigator-bzr lottanzb I'll add comments to the two AUR packages. ronald

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[aur-general] Repository Maintenance
by Eric Belanger 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

In case some TU are not subscribed to the public dev ML, please check: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-June/006591.html http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-June/006592.html Some of these errors concern community packages. Thanks, Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Orphaning my packages
by Neil Darlow 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi, I have orphaned my unsupported packages as I will no longer be using Arch. I don't agree with Arch's reluctance to fix bugs which they consider upstream. I recently installed Mandriva on one of my systems and was amazed to see all the features that are broken in Arch's GNOME, due to them being upstream bugs, fully working in that distribution. As my principle reason for using GNU/Linux is to get work done and Arch's philosophy seems, to me, to be working against this I feel it is time to depart from Arch. My packages were: * asl * bouml * freehdl * gnome-hearts * subcommander Regards, Neil Darlow

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[aur-general] CinelerraCV patch
by Hubert Korpulski 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hello, I've tried compile the newest revision of CinelerraCV (rev.1058) but it stops with numerous errors. Firstly, cinelerra-cv-swscaler.patch it's not needed yet because it's added to official tree. Here's error that I've received during compilation: libtool: compile: unable to infer tagged configuration libtool: compile: specify a tag with `--tag' Same error is here http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227299 So I've made a patch: --- hvirtual-build/libmpeg3/video/Makefile +++hvirtual-build/libmpeg3/video /Makefile @@ -172,6 +172,6 @@ LIBX264_LIBS = -lx264 LIPO = LN_S = ln -s -LTCXX_FLAGS = -LTC_FLAGS = +LTCXX_FLAGS = --tag=CXX +LTC_FLAGS = --tag=CC LTLIBICONV = -liconv LTLIBINTL = --- hvirtual-build/mpeg2enc/Makefile +++hvirtual-build/mpeg2enc/Makefile @@ -174,6 +174,6 @@ LIBX264_LIBS = -lx264 LIPO = LN_S = ln -s -LTCXX_FLAGS = -LTC_FLAGS = +LTCXX_FLAGS = --tag=CXX +LTC_FLAGS = --tag=CC LTLIBICONV = -liconv LTLIBINTL = Changes in PKGBUILD: ... msg "SVN checkout done or server timeout" cp -r $_svnmod $_svnmod-build cp -r makefilepatch.patch $_svnmod-build cd $_svnmod-build ./autogen.sh -i if [ "$CARCH" = "x86_64" ]; then ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-buildinfo=svn/recompile --with-external-ffmpeg --disable-mmx else ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-buildinfo=svn/recompile --with-external-ffmpeg --enable-mmx fi # here I insert patch patch -Np1 -i $startdir/src/$_svnmod-build/makefilepatch.patch || return 1 make || return 1 ... I'm not a programmer so that's why it looks so but it works. ArchHK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Gdzie warto jechac na urlop? Sprawdz! kliknij >>> http://link.interia.pl/f1e32

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[aur-general] skype in [community]
by Pierre Schmitz 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi there, I just noticed that we have skype in [community]. After a quick review of their license I would assume we are not allowed to redistribute it: http://www.skype.com/legal/promote/distribute/ "You will not distribute Skype Software through other media than CD-ROM or DVD, unless approved by Skype in an explicit written communication to You." If I am not really wrong here I would assume we should remove that crap asap. As a sidenote: please read the license before adding any package to a repo. It's not enough to copy the license file into the right directory. :-) Pierre -- http://www.archlinux.de

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for tintin 1.98.2-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] libfbclient
by Firmicus 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

I just noticed that community/network/libfbclient contains tons of patches and other files amounting to 2.1MB. And these are not used in the PKGBUILD at all. Douglas, was this stuff perhaps added by mistake? Just wondering ;-) F

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[aur-general] path problem for OpenOffice extensions
by Dincer Celik 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hi all I'm trying to create a package for an OpenOffice extension but I couldn't find the right path where to extract the extension file. I've tried below but didn't work. /opt/openoffice/share/extension /opt/openoffice/extensions -- Dincer Celik ~ info(a)dincercelik.com ~ dincer(a)bornovali.com ~ http://dincercelik.com/pub.asc Please encrypt every mail you can. Privacy is your right. Don't let anyone take it from you. Look at GnuPG or PGP and ask for my key D352EEBA.

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[aur-general] Initial "haskell overlay" available
by Don Stewart 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Hey all, A week ago I announced a group had formed to improve Haskell support in the Arch package system. One week ago, the Haskell on Arch story was rather sketchy, GHC had just been orphaned as a package from 'extra', and only half a dozen apps and libs were available in binary form. 20 or so extra Haskell packages were available in AUR. A week later, a lot has happened. We've now completely automated the packaging of Haskell apps and libraries, via a new tool, cabal2arch. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17471 which is able to package 90% of the available Haskell software without user intervention. This is the first time this has been done on any distro (Gentoo has similar Haskell package coverage, but it is done manually) This enabled us to create a Haskell overlay repository, of binary packages (x86_64 only): http://code.haskell.org/arch/x86_64 with more than 350 packages. Automatically built. An RSS feed of new things added is also available: http://code.haskell.org/arch/x86_64/haskell.xml Begining with the #arch-haskell IRC channel, we've now got a mailing list and extensive documentation on the wiki. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines And the autopackaging has made it possible to migrate more than 300 recipes for building Haskell software into AUR. I think the rapid progress is a testament to the quality packaging infrastructure in Arch. Good work! The next steps are to un-orphan GHC, and the other Haskell things Simo can't work on now, and to then ensure an appropriate core toolset is available in extra. Given we don't have a Haskell-expert dev now, advice on how to proceed here would be welcome. Cheers, Don

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[aur-general] lxpanel
by Marcel W. Wysocki 18 Jun '08

18 Jun '08

what happened to lxpanel in AUR? seems the package has been deleted. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] orphan request for emacs-{planner,remember}
by Jan Spakula 17 Jun '08

17 Jun '08

I would like to request orphaning of emacs-planner and emacs-remember. The maintainer does not respond to comments (since Feb 10, 2008), nor to e-mails (sent Jun 2, 2008). There's a problem with the PKGBUILDs - outdated, and unfortunate versioning ("latest" instead of a true version number). Thank you. PS: It seems that I cannot send emails to aur-general from sup without getting this: The reason it is being held: Message has implicit destination

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[aur-general] Trusted User vote - louipc
by Allan McRae 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

HI TUs, This begins the 7 day voting period for louipc (Loui Chang). Please go to the AUR and cast your vote. His introduction can be viewed here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-June/007833.html Good luck Loui. Allan

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[aur-general] New TU Checklist
by Allan McRae 15 Jun '08

15 Jun '08

Hi TUs, I have made a wiki page with the guidelines we post for new TUs (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New_Trusted_User_Checklist) This will save the copy/pasting that is currently required. Thanks to Xavier for the idea. Allan

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[aur-general] Packages available for adoption
by Eric Belanger 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Hi, I would be willing to give up most of my packages in community/AUR for adoption in order to decrease my workload. Please check the list: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=Snowman&SeB=m&PP=100 and let me know if you would like to adopt some of them. Most of them are in the community repo but I would be willing to move them in unsupported if a non-TU is interested in them and if it's not something I use. The following packages are not available because they are pet packages and/or I intend to move them to extra eventually: agave anacron auctex colorgcc comix electricsheep hardinfo kdiff3 keytouch keytouch-editor kftpgrabber krename libqalculate lincity-ng pingus pkgbuild-mode prosper qalculate-gtk qalculate-kde wormux xmms xmms-volnorm xv Thanks, Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] Orphan Request `unp'
by Hannes Rist 14 Jun '08

14 Jun '08

Hi, would someone pleas orphan `unp'? I asked for an update of the package last year, nothing has happened. Then I contacted the maintainer by mail some days ago and haven't got a reply so far. best hrist

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[aur-general] New tool to automate Haskell package creation
by Don Stewart 13 Jun '08

13 Jun '08

Hey all, Just a little announcement. A few of the Haskell fans have formed a little dev group to work on and improve Haskell packages for Arch. To start with there's an IRC channel #arch-haskell @ freenode And the start of a packaging guide for Haskell on the wiki, http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Haskell_package_guidelines And a new tool has been written that automates the process of creating PKGBUILDs from Haskell 'cabal' packages (those on hackage.haskell.org) This has meant we've been able to rapidly ramp up creation of new Haskell packages for Arch. The cabal2arch tool lives here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17471 If you work on, or maintain Haskell packages, perhaps drop by the IRC channel, so we can work out the final details for standard Haskell support. Cheers, Don

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Re: [aur-general] Empty python-dateutil-1.4-1.pkg.tar.gz
by Aaron Griffin 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 5:43 PM, Ning Bao <phabulosa(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Hi! phrakture, > > Could you please check whether the latest package for python-dateutil in > [community] x86_64 repo is empty. > > I checked two mirrors ftp://ftp.archlinux.org/community/os/x86_64 and > http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/archlinux/community/os/x86_64 Hi Ning, I was not the one to build python-dateutil for x86_64, so I am forwarding this to the aur-general list. Hopefully someone knows what happened. > BTW, I am unable to retrieve the PKGBUILD for this package from CVS. The CVS viewer is gone. I do not know why the AUR still maintains those links, but the proper place is here: http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/community/?root=community

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[aur-general] I made a mistake... Categories in [community]
by Geoffroy Carrier 11 Jun '08

11 Jun '08

I might have believed that creating a new folder in community would work... There was gnome, kde, xfce; I worked on lxde packages, so I created a lxde folder with packages in it... Normal, uh? Can someone fix my mistake and make the packages appear on the AUR? -- Geoffroy Carrier http://gcarrier.koon.fr/

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[aur-general] octave3
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 10 Jun '08

10 Jun '08

Hello list members, I would like to ask if there is someone who would like to put the octave3 package to community. There are three main reasons for doing so. - Octave 3 is the stable and development version of octave upstream. - Octave 3 is not just an update of octave 2 but another program: the differences are big and incompatible - it takes long to build, so having a binary version would be nice. Is this the correct place for discussing this, or should I write a feature request? Sincerely Stefan

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[aur-general] Request to orphan transmission-svn
by J de Swart 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

Hello TU's, please orphan transmission-svn. It's way outdated, and I'd like to upload my update and maintain it. I've mailed the author, without any response. Thanks, Jerry _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/

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Re: [aur-general] TU Application
by Rick 09 Jun '08

09 Jun '08

On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 05:03:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Rick Rein wrote: >> Hello list, >> >> I'm writing to apply for TU status, as I'm sure you can tell by the >> subject. > <snip> > > Hi Rick, > > Do you have a sponsor lined up? I'm not on IRC very much so perhaps one > of the other TU's who is and recognizes you will do it. > > Anyway, what are you planing on doing as a TU? I noticed you have only > have a small number of packages in the AUR, so are you thinking of > adopting other for the community repo? Or do you plan on contributing > in other ways? > > Cheers, > Allan > > Allan and all, As stated I have only a few packages. I thought about adopting some more before putting in my application, however after thinking about it I realized that having a small amount of packages fits my motives well. As a TU my main goal for now is to help lessen the load of the existing TUs. I'm also a x86_64 user and would like to make contributions in that area. And last but not least, as I stated before I would like the opportunity to do my part for a distro I've been using for so long. In regards to a sponsor, I have spoken with a few people on IRC and I've spoken with a few before I applied. Is anyone willing to put themselves on the line? :D Rick -- http://isawsome.net GPG key at http://isawsome.net/blog/static/gpg

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[aur-general] Absence, and some news
by Firmicus 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hello all, I'll be away until next week-end. By the same token, I'm happy to tell you that I should soon join the dev team. My job will be mainly to take care of TeXLive packages in extra (and probably some perl packages also). I'll move the outdated and unmaintained tetex to community. I really hope to be able to continue my job as a TU, but only time will tell whether this will be feasible. Cheers, F

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Rick Rein 08 Jun '08

08 Jun '08

Hello list, I'm writing to apply for TU status, as I'm sure you can tell by the subject. My name is Rick, and I'm a recent addition to the Orlando, FL area. I was a Sergeant with the US Marines where I was a 5974, a Tactical Data Systems Administrator. I am now a Unix SysAd with a local company here in Florida. I had some minor experience with Red Hat in the late, late 90s running a Half Life Dedicated Server, but that box caught on fire, thus ending my pre-millenium linux experience. I picked up Archlinux sometime in 2004 2005 (Wombat) and have not been able to find a distro that fits me better since. I now have Arch installed on about 5 machines: a desktop(x86_64 and i686), laptop(i686), 2 myth boxes and an asterisk server. I have an affinity for light and fast and clean applications, but who doesn't? My prior contributions are mainly centered on IRC, however I have written a wiki article or two and have begun to go through them when I'm bored looking for edits/missing items. I currently have about 9 packages in the AUR, a mixture of adopted and created packages. I would like to become a TU so that I may give back to the community that I have been around for so long. It would also be an honor to say I was a part of such a top notch, and growing distro. I realize this message is a bit short winded so if you have any questions, or I left something out ,please feel free to ask. Thank you all for your consideration and have a lovely weekend, Rick <jeebusroxors> -- http://isawsome.net GPG key at http://isawsome.net/blog/static/gpg

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Re: [aur-general] can't "overwrite" coxpcall
by Adam Vogt 07 Jun '08

07 Jun '08

* On Thursday, May 22 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > Worlds most annoying bug strikes again > (http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8672) Please put a comment in the bug > report with your PKGBUILD. Best workaround at the moment is to put the > PKGBUILD as a comment in the copas package. > > Allan> I have a similar issue. I tried to submit haskell-edison-api, as it is required by haskell-edison-core. But I am not allowed to overwrite it, but the directory does not exist on the aur filesystem. (that I can see) I guess I submitted in the 'wrong' (it shouldn't matter) order, so now I cannot submit a package that already exists (though only as a dependency).

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[aur-general] [SPLITTED] AUR package categories (WAS: drpython PKGBUILD update)
by Ronald van Haren 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Alessio Bolognino <themolok.ml(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu 2008-06-05 20:20, Ronald van Haren wrote: >> on a sidenote, I really don't see any point in having these >> categories. The categories are really not intuitive and don't help >> searching for a kind of package any easier. >> Well, it may be just me of course :p > > I don't think they are extremely useful, but they don't hurt neither. > Someone may think: "Let's see what cool game it's on the AUR" and then > look at the "games" category. > > Every distro has packages in categories, and I think it does make sense. > package categories are dropped from [core] and [extra] it seems from both the ABS tree and the package browser on www.archlinux.org Anyways, having package categories does indeed make sense as you described in the case of games, as well as some other sorts of packages. I just think the categories are really bad defined IMHO. For example you need an editor. Most likely the editors are to be found in the following categories: editors, devel, gnome, kde, xfce and maybe even x11 Especially the gnome/kde/xfce categories seem not really needed to me. > P.s. > The first time I read your mail I thought you were proposing to drop > categories, but probably you were not. > > -- > Alessio (molok) Bolognino > no if I was proposing something I would have started a new thread. It was just to see what others were thinking about it.

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[aur-general] drpython PKGBUILD update
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I have created a new PKGBUILD for drpython. Currently drpython is assigned to devel category. Should I modify this one and upload it to editors? Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Roman Kyrylych 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all! I was thinking about this for a long time, and now finally got to this announcement. I've been inactive recently, due to troubles with internet, seeking new job, moving to the new city, and this will continue as I won't have a laptop and Internet here for at least 1 week. In the meantime, I have a lot of unread bugtracker notification threads in my gmailbox (844 at this moment), and this will be my top priority for the next months. In addition, I want to concentrate more on fixing bugs in Core/Extra packages (my plan is to lower the number of open bugreports to <400 by the end of this year). I can still continue maintaining some packages in community/unsupported, if noone will want to maintain them. I won't be following TU discussions actively anymore though. Thank you all for the nice time I spent as part of the TU group. Health and growth to the group! P.S.: the list of my packages is large enough, so I will post it in a separate message later today. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] pkg_diff location
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

For those TUs who don't follow the arch-dev-public list (you really should...), the pkg_diff pages has not been updated in a while because Andy is moving and has no internet connection. Pierre has come up with a nicer looking version: http://www.archlinux.de/?page=ArchitectureDifferences From that list, you can see that community64, as always, needs some attention. I will do my part when I finish work. Allan

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[aur-general] drpython package and shrinkta
by Jordi Cerdan 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi, I would like to update drpython package ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6419 ) because its maintainer ( http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=591 ) does not respond to e-mails and does not update it since May 2007. Could someone orphan it please? On the other hand, I have created a PKGBUILD for shrinkta ( http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17343 ) and I think it's almost well done, but I can't find the dependencies nedded for this package (only found libdvdread). How can I discover the dependencies needed by a package? I could not find nothing on the wiki about that... Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] Deleting packages in AUR
by Allan McRae 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Hi all, At the moment anyone can delete a package they maintain from the AUR. This seems to be being exploited by an evil minority to remove packages that have been orphaned. e.g. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=373831 I thought that it may be better if we restricted the deleting to only devs/TUs so this con no longer happen. (see bug http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10527) The question is, how often do packages get deleted from the AUR and thus how much work would this generate? I guess it would be in similar volume to what we already get from orphan requests but this is just a guess. Anyway, pressh suggested I post this here so all TUs would see it. Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 05 Jun '08

05 Jun '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for gnome-vfs-docs 2.22.0-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Can't upload package
by Biru Ionut 04 Jun '08

04 Jun '08

Hi, Somebody has deleted *-ubuntu packages and i wanted to adopte and maintain them. But i have a minor problem. I can't upload 2 of 4 packages: fontconfig-ubuntu and libxft-ubuntu. It gives me that error: You are not allowed to overwrite the fontconfig-ubuntu package. You are not allowed to overwrite the libxft-ubuntu package. Can somebody fix that problem?

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Loui 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Hello Trusted Users! I'd like to formally express my interest in becoming a Trusted User. My name is Loui Chang and I've been using Arch Linux for about a year and a half. My alias is louipc in aur/wiki/bugs/bbs/freenode. I'm the current developer of aurbuild and I've also submitted many patches to help improve AUR. I'm generally interested in improving the ways that we build, distribute and manage packages. To be honest, I maintain few packages in unsupported. Most packages I need already seem to be taken care of, so I don't plan on bringing many new packages to community. Here's what I have submitted to AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=louipc&SeB=s Mostly what I offer is this: - Helping to clean up and administer AUR and community. - Help squashing bugs. - Continue developing AUR with the added perspective of a Trusted User. - Take on some packages that are already in community or packages that get dropped from the official repos. Some of my big goals are: - Develop a new system for sharing PKGBUILDs. - Give TUs more direct access and control of that system. - Get every single darn bug closed. I greatly appreciate if you can see a benefit in appointing me as a Trusted User. You guys already seem to do a very good job though. If anyone has packages that they don't really use, please let me know and maybe I can take care of them. :D Cheers!

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for screenlets 0.1.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Finally updating my packages
by rabyte 03 Jun '08

03 Jun '08

Just wanted to let everyone know that I'll update (most) of my outdated packages within the next 24 hours. I'd like to thank everybody for their patience, read: not taking all those lovely pkgs away from me ;-) Special thanks go to Anders for taking over my webkitgtk-svn pkg, saving me hours of compile time. Yep, I'm serious :-)

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[aur-general] Inactivity notice (07/05/08 - 14/05/08)
by Sebastian Nowicki 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi, I flying over to the USA for Apple's World Wide Developers Conference '08, so I'll be inactive from the 7th June to the 14th. I have some outdated packages, which I hope to update before I fly out, but I currently have exams. The packages usually aren't that active upstream so it shouldn't be a big deal. I'll update them when I get back.

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[aur-general] Please orphan python-simplejson
by David Moore 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Please orphan python-simplejson. This has been marked out of date for about a month and a half. I tried to email the maintainer (pythonwarrior) but the email bounced. thanks, Dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhDw10ACgkQOP+t1LlaoiGTJACdGbB2ZoiOEoGAeWuyjZzPZWSg PVkAn2eCHCPQDGhkLN4zPdy6WEgumoCH =gpQM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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[aur-general] TU Vote - Angel Velásquez (angvp)
by Hugo Doria 02 Jun '08

02 Jun '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Angel Velásquez (angvp) as a TU. Please, dont forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007742.html You can vote using the web interface. Good Luck angvp! -- Hugo Doria http://hdoria.archlinux-br.org

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Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Dragonlord 01 Jun '08

01 Jun '08

Not much traffic on the wiki page until now! Do we have at least any unofficial date to finish this thing? Not that it stays this way for one month or so ... Cheers Jaro On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 01:51:24PM +0200, Allan McRae wrote: > HI TUs, > > The call for people to list packages in the AUR to cleanup has been quite > successful with around 100 packages recommended. See the wiki page: > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day > > Now we have to go through the list and confirm which packages deserve to be > deleted. Remember not to get carried away here. We don't want to delete > work that may still be useful. > > [snip] > > If you have a disagreement with another TUs decision, move it to a new > section call "further discussion" or something. If the suggestions are > checked properly before moving the the remove or keep list, then this > shouldn't happen but we will deal with it if it happens. > > I will go through and make the removals in a few days. > > Cheers, > Allan >

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[aur-general] not quite orphaned request - mugshot
by Ryan Corder 29 May '08

29 May '08

The mugshot package in AUR has been out of date for some time and the author has not responded to requests to update it since July of 2007. I have provided a new PKGBUILD in the comments along with creating new PKGBUILDs for software it now depends on, desktop-data-model and hippo-canvas. desktop-data-model: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16867 hippo-canvas: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16868 I would like to make a request to take over ownership of the mugshot package found here: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=10180 thanks. ryanc

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[aur-general] Package removal request - xcursor-industrial
by Kristaps Esterlinsh 28 May '08

28 May '08

Due to lack of my knowledge in the AUR (submitting an modified PKGBUILD), I orphaned the package to upload it again, but without success. As you can see the structure for this package is a mess :) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/xcursor-industrial/ So please remove it and I will upload a clean one again. Thank you :)

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] abs tree checker
by bardo 27 May '08

27 May '08

Sorry, tried to send this @ arch-dev-public. On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:44 PM, bardo <ilbardo(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:00 AM, Xavier <shiningxc(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) >> should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. > > Great work, thanks for the heads up. Now to my packages. > >> eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' > > There's nothing I can do here: the latest visual editor doesn't work > with Europa. They say they're working on it. They've been saying this > for many months. > >> acerhk --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' > > Fixed this morning before seeing this e-mail ;-) > > > Corrado

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Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Abhishek Dasgupta 27 May '08

27 May '08

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:52:16PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > org - included in emacs 22+? The Emacs 22.2 release ships with Org-mode version 4.67d. (orgmode.org) The current version is 6.04c. I don't know what should be done in this case. Data::Dumper is also part of perl 5.10 and it's there as a separate CPAN package as well. ion-modules should not be removed but should be moved to unsupported as ion3 is no longer in [extra]. gshare's website is down for quite a long time. I think it should be moved to unsupported. Also moved some packages into the keep/remove list. -- Abhishek Dasgupta <http://abhidg.mine.nu> GPG 67972DOF pgp.mit.edu

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[aur-general] abs tree checker
by Xavier 27 May '08

27 May '08

Hello, stonecrest wrote a very useful script in my opinion a while ago : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch/2007-November/016238.html However, it hasn't been updated since the svn move and the new abs. It had a feature to fetch the abs tree itself, using csup directly. But anyway it is not required, abs can be used manually instead, so I just removed that part. The second problem is the directory structure, which is now different for core/extra/etc, where the package dir are on the first level, compared to community which still has the old layout with an additional level of category. This breaks the following function : def repo_from_path(path): return path.split("/")[-4] It should be -4 for community and -3 for the rest. Instead I just used 3, but it will only work on /var/abs/ tree (or any other structure with just 2 directory levels). Anyway, this was just two quick hacks to get the script working again and see what were its results now. And it is still far from perfect :) I think this script is something that packagers (of the official repos) should check regularly to ensure the quality of arch pkgbuilds and packages. So here is the result I get currently : $ ./check_archlinux.py --abs-tree=/var/abs ======================== = i686 Integrity Check = ======================== Performing integrity checks... ==> parsing pkgbuilds ==> checking dependencies ==> checking makedepends ==> checking archs ==> checking for circular dependencies ==> checking repo packages Missing PKGBUILDs ------------------- /community/devel/codeblocks/PKGBUILD /community/devel/php-apc/PKGBUILD /community/kde/kima/PKGBUILD /community/system/pommed/PKGBUILD /community/x11/gpomme/PKGBUILD /community/x11/e/PKGBUILD /community/lib/python-ctypes/PKGBUILD /community/lib/python-elementtree/PKGBUILD /community/multimedia/miro/PKGBUILD /community/gnome/cheese/PKGBUILD Mismatched Pkgnames --------------------- 'dbhub' vs. /community/daemons/dbhub/PKGBUILD 'dina-font' vs. /community/x11/dina-font/PKGBUILD 'offlineimap' vs. /community/network/offlineimap/PKGBUILD Missing Dependencies ---------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'acroread' gnome-media --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-alsa' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' listen --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' perl-mail-dkim --> 'perl-digest-sha' perl-app-cli --> 'perl-locale-maketext-simple' striim --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' striim --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' medit --> 'gcc-objc' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-lame' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-flac' soundconverter --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' flumotion --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' fdlog --> 'acroread' jokosher --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' gnustep-gui --> 'gcc-objc' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-libpng' kungfu --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' perl-critic --> 'perl-readonly' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-theora' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-dvdread' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-a52dec' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-mpeg2dec' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' thoggen --> 'gstreamer0.10-ogg' perl-graphics-colornames --> 'perl-module-load' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gnomevfs' exaile --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-alsa' bmpx --> 'gstreamer0.10-cdparanoia' archboot --> 'rt2x00-cvs' archboot --> 'iwlwifi' ion-modules --> 'ion' ion-modules --> 'ion-scripts' gnustep-back --> 'gcc-objc' quodlibet --> 'gstreamer0.10-mad' quodlibet --> 'gstreamer0.10-vorbis' gnustep-base --> 'gcc-objc' muine --> 'gstreamer0.10-faad' Missing Makedepends --------------------- perl-app-cli --> 'perl-locale-maketext-simple' perl-time-duration --> 'perl-test-pod-coverage' pandoc --> 'haskell-mtl' pygoocanvas --> 'pygobject-doc' perl-graphics-colornames --> 'perl-module-load' totem-plugin --> 'gstreamer0.10-gconf' gensplash --> 'klibc-beyond' Unmet Dependency Provisions ----------------------------- fldigi-docs --> 'fldigi=2.10' d4x --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' bincimap --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' arora-git --> 'qt>=4.4.0' drscheme --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' eclipse-ve --> 'eclipse<3.3' socat --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' qc-usb --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' libfwbuilder --> 'openssl<=0.9.8' acerhk --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' martian --> 'kernel26<=2.6.25-0' Unmet Makedepends Provisions ------------------------------ wpa_supplicant --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' v86d --> 'kernel26<2.6.25' Repo Hierarchy for Makedepends -------------------------------- extra/xosd depends on community/xmms extra/flac depends on community/xmms core/iputils depends on extra/jade core/madwifi-utils depends on extra/sharutils core/e2fsprogs depends on extra/bc core/madwifi depends on extra/sharutils Invalid Archs --------------- libofa --> x64_86 kexec-tools --> 686 zsnes --> ppc mod_perl --> x64_86 minicom --> !x86_64 Circular Dependencies ----------------------- coreutils>pam>db>coreutils eclipse-ecj>gcc-gcj>eclipse-ecj archboot>archboot Missing Repo Packages ----------------------- postgis-1.2.1-1 in community/os/i686 lmms-0.3.2-1 in community/os/i686 sakura-2.1.0-2 in community/os/i686 'dina-font'-2.89-2 in community/os/i686 qc-usb-0.6.6-6 in community/os/i686 musicmanager-0.9.8-1 in community/os/i686 open-vm-tools-modules-2008.04.14-1 in community/os/i686 proj-4.5.0-2 in community/os/i686 'offlineimap'-5.99.14-1 in community/os/i686 'dbhub'-'0.450'-3 in community/os/i686 open-vm-tools-2008.04.14-1 in community/os/i686 gnash-common-0.8.2-1 in extra/os/i686 evolution-data-server-2.22.1.1-1 in extra/os/i686 enscript-1.6.4-3 in extra/os/i686 Summary --------- Dirs with missing PKGBUILDs: 10 Duplicate PKGBUILDs: 0 Missing (make)dependencies: 55 Unmet provisioned (make)dependencies: 13 Circular dependencies: 3 Invalid archs: 5 Missing packages in repos: 14 Mismatching PKGBUILD names: 3 Repo hierarchy problems: 6

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[aur-general] TU resignation
by Shinlun Hsieh 26 May '08

26 May '08

Hello friends, I've been thinking about this for a while, and finally decide to step down. These days I don't have much time to maintain the packages publicly released on AUR due to my personal issue and as a result, I should resign from this position because I don't serve the AUR users who are using my packages as before. It's a great experience to work with you all, keep working guys! Thanks for bringing this great distro to the community. Though resigning from my packaging job, I'll stay involved with Arch as a user. Good luck to you. Best regards, Shinlun

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[aur-general] Inactivity for CVS problem
by JJDaNiMoTh 25 May '08

25 May '08

Hello to all, I have a problem with CVS: I can't do anything. Every actions result in a timeout. I tried many repos, but nothing: I'm blocked. I think it is a connection issue, because for two or tree days it worked. I don't know how proceed now, feel free to adjust / update my packages, I will remain available ( other internet functionality are OK ). -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User

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[aur-general] [website] accessing maintainer information
by cyril Romain 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, Although the information of a package maintainer can be retrieved from a package page, that information cannot be retrieved from the searching package page. For instance, the maintainer info is accessible from here (by clicking his/her name): http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7111 whereas clicking on his/her name from here doesn't work: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=uwolfer&SeB=m Clicking on the name in the searching package page actually filters the search result with that maintainer. But I'm wondering if it would not be more consistent to display the maintainer information instead. Regards, Cyril

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[aur-general] force flag usage
by Xavier 24 May '08

24 May '08

I believe this thread concerns the community repo as well, so please have a look: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2008-May/006243.html However there is something to figure out about how the community repo is built : packages need to be built with makepkg >= 3.1.2, and added to the database with repo-add >= 3.1.2 In the meantime, the following two steps can still be done: * reevaluate if the flag is still needed. I would guess if it hasn't needed a 'force' since before the last ISO, then we should be fine. * convert the old force=y syntax to new options=('force') syntax Note that the community database itself doesn't contain a single FORCE flag, which means all the force flag below are not used at all. If nobody even noticed / complained, they probably can be removed. community/devel/pygtk-docs/PKGBUILD:options=('docs' 'force') community/devel/fox-legacy/PKGBUILD:options=('!libtool' 'force') community/daemons/gnump3d/PKGBUILD:force=y community/daemons/nas/PKGBUILD:force=y community/x11/compiz-core/PKGBUILD:options=(!libtool !emptydir force) community/x11/compiz-decorator-gtk/PKGBUILD:options=(!libtool force) community/games/etracer/PKGBUILD:options=('force') community/lib/libjingle/PKGBUILD:force=y community/lib/colorer/PKGBUILD:options=(force) community/multimedia/alsa-plugins/PKGBUILD:force=y community/multimedia/xmms2/PKGBUILD:force=y community/modules/nokia_dku2/PKGBUILD:force=y community/science/qgis/PKGBUILD:options=('force') community/office/fbreader/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/pyaim/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/dokuwiki/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/pyicq/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/checkgmail/PKGBUILD:options=(force) community/network/gnunet-gtk/PKGBUILD:force=y community/network/gnunet/PKGBUILD:options=('!libtool' '!makeflags' 'force')

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[aur-general] AUR RPC search results custom fields
by Francesc Ortiz 24 May '08

24 May '08

Hi, I just subscribed to the AUR mailing list. I developed tupac, a script that does fast aur searches. I got really glad when i found that there is an RPC for AUR, but all my happiness vanished when i saw that the search results show no information, and that i have to add another query for each result if i want to show aditional information to the search results. From my house, this adds a 550 ms query to each result. I gave a try to arson to proove it. Adding the possibility of specifying the fields you want to show in the search results would reduce rpc query time and would also reduce server load. Getting custom fields would be 1 connection vs N+1 (N=number results, 1 the search) connections that you have to do now for a pacman-like search. And in what time regards, as an example, for 30 results now I need (30+1)*550ms = around 17 seconds. I also see that this would be more intense work for the database, so it would be reasonable to add a result limit to the search, if you use custom fields, in order to reduce subqueries. And, about usability, imagine that http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php took 13 seconds to load. What do you think, did I sound convincing enough? :P

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[aur-general] problems with x86_64 build machine?
by Ronald van Haren 23 May '08

23 May '08

Are there more people having problems building packages on the build machine? I'm getting an "error: failed to init transaction (unable to lock database)" error, or is this related only to my account? So for the time being I'm not able to update the x86_64 versions of my packages :( If somebody has a bit time left feel free to update them, otherwise I'll do it when it is working again (the packages currently in need are: sakura, ristretto, wxmaxima, and youtube-dl). Ronald ps. I'm active again

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[aur-general] problem uploading
by Firmicus 22 May '08

22 May '08

I am trying to upload the package perl-ppi to AUR, but I get the error message "You are not allowed to overwrite the perl-ppi package" even though this package does not exist on AUR. Thanks for help Firmicus

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[aur-general] can't "overwrite" coxpcall
by Anders Bergh 22 May '08

22 May '08

Hi, I'm trying to upload a new package to the AUR, "coxpcall", but it says I can't overwrite it. I have a feeling it's because I uploaded copas first, a package that depends on coxpcall. Then AUR registered that package somehow, and doesn't let me upload it. I'm only speculating here. Anders

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 21 May '08

21 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for mandvd 2.4-5! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] [OUTDATED] qtjambi
by Bráulio Barros de Oliveira 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hello all, I have a new package to qtjambi and I would like to publish it. Apparently there is a user who is owning it and it is not responding my emails. Also, I've talked to the creator of the package. Anyone could please orphan it? Gratefully, bráulio

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[aur-general] TU Application
by Angel Velásquez 21 May '08

21 May '08

Hello everyone My name is Angel Velásquez and I live in Venezuela. I have 24 years old and I just finished my studies in the university (Computer Technician), so now I have enough time to work in my favorite distro. My native language is Spanish and I also speak Italian and English (at a regular level, I can be easily understood); also, I understand Portuguese and some French (at a beginners level). I work as PHP/Python Developer (under Linux) and of course, now I'm working on Arch ;-). I have been using Linux since 1998: I started with Red Hat 5.2, but I got disappointed about many of the rpm's limitants, so I moved back again to Win** (yeah, this is sad), until 2000 when I met Slackware and I liked it because with this distro you are not 'rpm dependent', so you maintain your distro and your libraries. Working this way was good until I needed to get new things, so I moved to Debian unstable for a long time; back in 2005 I discovered Arch Linux because a friend of mine proposed me 'hey, what about to test another and different distro?' and I liked it, but due to job reasons at that moment I didn't have the time to install Arch completely (as a main distro), but finally I became an 'archer' in 2006 when I had enough time to learn and use it proficiently. I was expecting to join an Arch Linux community here in Venezuela but at that moment, nothing happened and no groups were created, however we had one of the biggest events on the country (FLiSoL) so I had to search some local archers (Ricardo Hernández, Miguel Useche, Flavio Percoco, Victor Roman, etc) and we created the local community :-), and I can say that I'm proud of our little (for now) team. Now we have a community and we are learning new things everyday and we are getting new users into the community, whom have agreed to collaborate with us. So, I would like to be a TU, I have been developing and fixing some AUR / ABS packages for my own use (and other friends who needed them), I have also worked documenting and helping Arch Articles in the Spanish Community, and I have been in contact with some people from the Brazilian and Italian community. Maybe I do not have many packages in AUR (just 16 and not all are from scratch many of them have been adopted) but I am very connected with the Arch Linux community, specially working on the part that I'm responsible of, which is the Arch Linux Venezuelan Community. Right now, I think I have time to do some important things with some packages (especially those based on haskell, because I've been studying it) and helping developing some new features to AUR and the Arch Linux Community. Hugo Doria a.k.a hdoria proposed to be my sponsor (thank you :-)) My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=angvp&SeB=m Arch Linux Venezuelan Community: http://www.archlinux.com.ve (working on this) My Website: http://www.angvp.com (not ready yet, but soon) Thank you for reading this. -- Angel Velasquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[aur-general] list for reserverd UIDs for special system users
by Michael Krauss 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hello again, I must apologize for asking so many questions but I don't want dma to get in the way with an other daemon or service. Today I want to know if a list of reserved UIDs (and GIDs) for Arch Linux is available. I figured out that commonly the first 100 UIDs are used for system users like mail, ftp, hal and so on. So I want to use one of these numbers for dma but don't won't to interfere with an other system user in Arch Linux. Is there something similar to reserved port numbers in TCP? Kind Regards, Michael Krauss

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[aur-general] [Inactivity notice] Dragonlord
by Dragonlord 19 May '08

19 May '08

Hi, as I wrote in my TU application, my study time will be over this summer. I do have some last exams and duties connected with it. So there are going to be some inactivity notices from my side. This is the first one, I will be 1 week hard working for the Uni, inactive in these days 20-27.5.08. Thanks, wish me luck :) Jaroslav (Dragonlord) Lichtblau -- earthquake n. [IBM] The ultimate real-world shock test for computer hardware. Hackish sources at IBM deny the rumor that the Bay Area quake of 1989 was initiated by the company to test quality-assurance procedures at its California plants.

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[aur-general] amendment bylaws: voting & tur-users
by Ronald van Haren 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi TUs, As Xavier pointed out (http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007651.html) , we still haven't decided if we want to use the new voting system. So it is time to do decide. According to the bylaws we need to discuss & vote before we can change things in the bylaws. I propose two changes: 1. change all appearances of tur-users to aur-general 2. the fourth section of the standard voting procedure to (at least similar to) ####################################### Following the discussion period, a voting period opens. Simple YES, NO , or ABSTAIN votes are to be cast under the Trusted User section of the AUR homepage by at least a quorum of active TUs. ###################################### The SVP for changing the bylaws is: SVP( amend_bylaws, 5, 0.75, 7); This mail starts the 5 day discussion period. Please note that in the discussion period you have to vote for both points ;) Ronald

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[aur-general] TU Vote - gcarrier
by JJDaNiMoTh 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of gcarrier (Geoffroy Carrier) as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007575.html For the first time, the vote is stored *only* on web interface. Good Luck Geoffroy! At the same time, I write for my absence from today to Monday. -- JJDaNiMoTh - ArchLinux Trusted User

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Re: [aur-general] TU Vote - Dragonlord
by Dragonlord 18 May '08

18 May '08

Hi TUs! Thanks for your wise and ingenious decision :) I'm very happy! I will do my best for the Arch community and to be a good TU. Special thanks to Allan for sponsoring me and Bardo for checking my PKGBUILDs. And to all of you for your votes. Regards Jaroslav PS: the next time you need a lab mouse for testing anything new, feel free to ask :D On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 03:52:31PM +0200, Allan McRae wrote: > Congrats and welcome to the team! > > Allan >

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[aur-general] [arch-dev-public] I'm online
by Roman Kyrylych 17 May '08

17 May '08

Hi all! Here's a "quick" status report. 1) I have an internet connection at home again! 2) I will finally move to another city by the end of this month (this process is so tiresome and time consuming). 3) My archbox at home is heavily outdated. I will download the needed packages at my job though, so it should be up-to-date on Tuesday. 4) It would be hard to upload updated versions of my packages from my home due to very slow internet connection, and I will be able to do this only during the weekends and 1-2 hours at nights maybe. So bringing all outdated packages to new versions will take some time. Oh, an I need to get used to SVN workflow first. Big thanks to everyone who updated my packages or took them under his maintainership! 5) After the move I will try to get a laptop as soon as possible (I do not plan to take my archbox from home) so I will be able to do everything at the new place. There is a possibility to get a fast internet connection via 3G cell network, so finally all connection problems should gone. Oh, and I think my main system on it will be x86_64 (with a bunch of i686 and x86_64 virtual machines of course). 6) I have around 2000 of unread threads in my gmailbox, already started to read them. 7) Thanks Grigorios, Aaron and everyone else involved in keeping the amount of open bugs at the manageable level. I will try to get back to this as soon as I can, and I need to fix the bugs assigned to me first (what a shame, I have many of them still not fixed). 8) I'm thinking about resigning from from the TU position and concentrate more on core Arch development. I can still maintain some packages in Community if I will have time, but I haven't been active in TUland recently so I feel that it will be better to remove the second part from the "Dev/TU" title. We continue to see more TUs aboard, so I'm sure there are more than enought skillend and confident people to handle packages I used to maintain. Many of them are gnome-related packages and I'm willing to provide any needed help for the people who will take care of them. Formal announcement, package giveout etc. will come later, in the mean time feel free to pick packages you want to maintain. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] SSL-Encrypted AUR?
by Marcel W. Wysocki 17 May '08

17 May '08

I'd really like to see the AUR being SSL encrypted. Everytime I login from an untrusted network someone could read my AUR password. Imho thats quite a security flaw. -- Marcel W. Wysocki <maci(a)satgnu.net>

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[aur-general] AUR cleanup package list
by Allan McRae 16 May '08

16 May '08

HI TUs, The call for people to list packages in the AUR to cleanup has been quite successful with around 100 packages recommended. See the wiki page: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day Now we have to go through the list and confirm which packages deserve to be deleted. Remember not to get carried away here. We don't want to delete work that may still be useful. Reasons to flag a package for deletion: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - developmental packages (cvs/svn/etc) that have change source management systems Reasons not to flag a package for deletion: - out of date I have made a section of the wiki page where we can sort the packages. Please sign your name by any package that you put in the remove/keep list. This will allow me to monitor any abuse of the system more easily. It also makes you take responsibility for your decision to remove a package which should never be taken lightly. If you have a disagreement with another TUs decision, move it to a new section call "further discussion" or something. If the suggestions are checked properly before moving the the remove or keep list, then this shouldn't happen but we will deal with it if it happens. I will go through and make the removals in a few days. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 15 May '08

15 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for shorewall-perl 4.0.10.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] TU Vote - Dragonlord
by Allan McRae 14 May '08

14 May '08

Hi TUs, This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Dragonlord (Jaroslav Lichtblau) as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007530.html I vote YES. Cheers, Allan -- Allan McRae Arch Linux Trusted User

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[aur-general] remove user: Tuxbubling
by Lukáš Jirkovský 13 May '08

13 May '08

Hi! I think that this user can be safely removed: http://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=587 His last update is from 05 Jul 2005 Regards, Lukas '6xx' Jirkovsky

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Re: [aur-general] TU Vote - Dragonlord
by Timm Preetz 11 May '08

11 May '08

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 20:51 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Dragonlord > (Jaroslav Lichtblau) as a TU, don't forget to vote. Yes.

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Re: [aur-general] orphan request - vegastrike
by Dragonlord 11 May '08

11 May '08

That's no problem, I can wait. It's just another package to correct. Thanks for orphaning it. Dragonlord On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 02:52:57AM +0200, Allan McRae wrote: > Done. I was considering just investing you with TU powers on the AUR, but > I will wait until it becomes official on Wednesday.... > > Allan > > -- Willow: The school paper is edging on depressing lately. Have you guys noticed that? Oz: I don't know. I always go straight to the obits.

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[aur-general] orphan request - vegastrike
by Dragonlord 11 May '08

11 May '08

Hi, please orphan the vegastrike package. The PKGBUILD in AUR is poorly written and the maintainer doesn't answer and reflect the comments. The package only contains source for the binaries, no game data. I have a working PKGBUILD ready. Thanks TUs :)

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[aur-general] Inactivity notice
by Ronald van Haren 09 May '08

09 May '08

I'll be away from this afternoon for a short trip. I'll be back next wednesday (14/5). Ronald

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[aur-general] Concerning my absence from AUR...
by rabyte 08 May '08

08 May '08

... a chain of events has/is currently happening in my personal life, so I don't have the time to update my packages. Please bear with me, I hope to catch up again within next month. --- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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[aur-general] qt44 in AUR
by Allan McRae 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hi all, Am I being too mean here or does this really need to go: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16842 I don't know qt that well so I could be missing something. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Qdevelop modification
by Shaika-Dzari 08 May '08

08 May '08

Hello everyone. I maintain qdevelop package in Aur. Since 0.25.2, the source did not compile. See comments : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14930 I made a bug report and provide the solution ibsen-aur gave me but there are no new version out there and my bugreport did not have any response from qdevelop author since 6 weeks. A user suggested to add this line in the pkgbuild to solve the problem: sed -i -e "s/free(allinherits)/delete [] allinherits/" src/QIComplete/tree.cpp Is it alright to do this? I can do a patch if it's a better (and more standard) solution. Thanks you. -- Shaika-Dzari http://www.guidelinux.org http://code.google.com/p/animeshell

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Re: [aur-general] TU Vote - Dragonlord
by w9ya＠qrparci.net 07 May '08

07 May '08

> Hi TUs, > > This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of Dragonlord > (Jaroslav Lichtblau) as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see his > introduction and the discussion period here: > > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-May/007530.html > > I vote YES. > > Cheers, > Allan > > -- > Allan McRae > Arch Linux Trusted User I also vote yes Very best regards; Bob Finch Liviu Librescu - În veci pomenirea lui. (May his memory be eternal.)

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[aur-general] Wanted: courier-mta maintainer
by Tobias Kieslich 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi guys. I'm currently the maintainer of all courier* related stuff. I was using the courier mailserver on my own machine including a full fledged versiom of courier-mta. However, I recently fell for a dovecot/tarmail combo, and not using courier-mta myself makes maintainance harder and way more error prone. I will be able to maintain it for a while because changes happen gradually, and there is also no question that courier-imap stays in extra. But we are looking for a courier-mta maintainer in extra otherwise we will drop it down to community in time. Just answer to that thread if you have experience with courier-mta and are willing to maintain it for Archlinux. Thanks, -Tobias

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[aur-general] TU Voting On The AUR
by Xavier 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello, I am curious why no one is interested in this : http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/tur-users/2008-February/007020.html Besides many other advantages like automation and anonymity, it should remove noise on this ML and prevent non-TU from voting. But maybe that's where the fun is (old school ftw) :) Otherwise, if there was a real interest, then finishing that project shouldn't be a big problem.

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[aur-general] Initial voting testing in AUR - Dragonlord
by Douglas Andrade 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi TUs, I created a voting thread in AUR for Dragonlord. Please vote there and in this ML, so we can test the voting process in AUR, and if we all like it, we could start to benefit from Callan work and use it in the next voting process. Thanks

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Re: [aur-general] amendment bylaws: voting & tur-users
by Timm Preetz 07 May '08

07 May '08

On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 23:09 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > As a query, can we see who has voted for a proposal. We might start > running into quorum issues if we can't track who has voted and give > those who don't a boot (a bit pessimistic I know, but probably > justified...) I think it is possible to find out who has voted (otherwise you could vote twice), not sure who can actually see this. Maybe make that public after the vote is closed, to give an overview.

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[aur-general] Inclusion of ChangeLog Files
by Dennis Craven 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hi list, I often find it useful (as do many I'm sure) to keep ChangeLog files up to date when maintaining things like Arch packages etc. Is it bad practice to include this file in the tarball submitted to the AUR? Cheers, ~djc

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[aur-general] Helixplayer
by Tony Dodd 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hey All, The version of helixplayer that's in community is both orphaned and extremely old. Is a TU planning to adopt this, or can it be kicked back into unsupported? Thanks Tony

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[aur-general] makepkg and unzip
by Xavier 07 May '08

07 May '08

Hello, I am not sure if it's widely known that makepkg 3.1 now uses bsdtar for extracting .zip sources. I see many PKGBUILDs still have makedepends=(unzip) while unzip is in fact never used. It was often discussed before whether that makedepends line was required or not. eg : http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5280 Now the situation is clearer, since unzip is no longer used by makepkg. So the makedepends line can be safely removed. There might be some special zip files that are not handled (correctly) by bsdtar. In that case, it's probably a good idea to contact both bsdtar maintainer and the creators of the zip archive about the problem. To work around it, you can use noextract and call unzip manually like in that example : http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9792?getfile=2016 (in that pkgbuild, unzip is put in makedepends, and I think it's correct) If the above makes sense, and is not yet mentioned in the wiki, and someone finds a relevant place to add it, then go for it :)

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[aur-general] orphan request: libopensync-plugins
by Hauke Wesselmann 07 May '08

07 May '08

Could you please orphan libopensync-plugin-moto, libopensync-plugin-python and libopensync-plugin-vformat. These packages were last updated in October 2007. All of them are flagged out-of-date as newer versions are available since january. I have tried to contact the maintainer via AUR. When he did not answer after a while I contacted him by mail and did not get a response to date(I have sent my mail about 4 weeks ago). Thanks in advance Hauke

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[aur-general] gdc & gdc-svn
by Anders Bergh 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi, If a TU could please orphan gdc and gdc-svn it'd be great, because they're very outdated and I'd like to try and update them. It's a bit difficult to update gdc because it needs its own gcc (4.1.x) and I haven't yet really found a good way of installing only the necessary files, but I'll post a new thread in case I run into any issues. Anders

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[aur-general] python-pyfits in AUR/unsupported
by Mike Ressler 06 May '08

06 May '08

The python-pyfits package is listed as an orphan and has been flagged as out of date. Bringing it up to date is relatively trivial - anyone mind if I have a go at it? It is useful to me and I don't want to see it die. By way if introduction since this is my first post, I've been using Linux for 16 years (yes, since 1992), and Arch for about 6 months. Though it took me a long time to find it, Arch just suits me. This will be my first try at contributing something to Arch; since I didn't see any specific protocols for updating someone else's (or orphan) packages in the AUR User Guide, I thought I'd check here first. Mike -- mike.ressler(a)alum.mit.edu

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[aur-general] Packages with pkgver hackery
by Anders Bergh 06 May '08

06 May '08

I just now saw two packages in the recent updates box on the AUR front page with screwed up version numbers: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16828 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16829 I don't really know if this causes any issues other than making the pages look weird, but I think perhaps a TU should look into it. Anders

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[aur-general] should make be in makedepends?
by Abhishek Dasgupta 06 May '08

06 May '08

Should we expect that the user already has make installed when a makepkg is invoked? Or should we put 'make' in makedepends? -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] TU application
by Dragonlord 06 May '08

06 May '08

Hi! My name is Jaroslav Lichtblau and I live in Czech Republic. I'm 26 and this year my study time will be over. I discovered GNU/Linux in year 2003. It took me about one year to learn the basics and since then I'm using it solely - on my home PC and my NB. Until now I went through Mandrake and Ubuntu. I was also trying out some other distros, but wasn't quite happy. One year ago I heard some rumors about ArchLinux and gave it a try. Since then I'm catched and forgot about other distributions :) One of the reasons was AUR. Me and my girlfriend used to play game named cuyo together pretty often. But I didn't find it packaged in Arch. So after some time reading in the wiki I was able to make my first working PKGBUILD for it and I had our game nice packaged and installed in the system. Since then I am adopting and contributing PKGBUILD because it's so much fun to me. Besides of that, I do translate programs (osmo, epdfview, ...) into czech because the subject of my studies is languages - german mostly, but I can also talk/understand english, so let's use it. As a TU I will offer my knowledge and time to improve my favourite distribution and also the open source world, which gave me so much in the last few years. I think I have also some nice packages like subtitleeditor, cream, fillets-ng ... and cuyo :) which I would like to add to the [community] repo. In the last time I watched closely on new and updated PKGBUILDs, so I would be happy to do it further as a TU. In my free time I like reading fantasy/sci-fi books. Knowing this, my AUR login is obvious - Dragonlord. My irc and arch forum nick is drag0nl0rd. The last thing, Allan is so kind to sponsor my application. Let's start the trial :) any questions and suggestions will be answered. Sincerely, Jaroslav My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=Dragonlord&SeB=m&PP=100…

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[aur-general] I am out
by Uwe Vogt 05 May '08

05 May '08

anope-devel gnome-menu-extended kmenu-gnome phpbb3 If someone like to adopt my packages, the are now free to go and they are all up to date! cheers jada

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[aur-general] TU application
by Geoffroy Carrier 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi! My name is Geoffroy Carrier. I'm a 20-year-old French comp.sci. student. I started using Linux on 1998, and Archlinux around a year ago, after a lot of Debian, some Gentoo and Fedora, and tests of many other distributions. I now use it on all my 6 computers, from the server to the eeepc. I've been available for more than 50 weeks per year for the last 3 years. My main subjects of interest are: - community64 - The-Unix-way console-based tools - Server-oriented tools - Security issues I'll focus on adopting orphaned packages in a first time, but there are plenty of packages that I'd like to work on, as localepurge, wol, btanks, docutils, aur-sync, etc. I'm working on automated makedepends checks with a tool using nilfs called mdma. I'll give you some more information soon. I also joined uArch recently, and follow kdemod with much intereset. I already created/adopted a few packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=gcarrier&PP=40 I speak a poor English, so I'll keep this message short ;) But I am willing to answer all your questions. A big "Thank you" to the people I recently met through flyspray, IRC, jabber and who confirmed me in my will to apply. -- Geoffroy Carrier

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[aur-general] cleanup: duplicate packages
by Lukáš Jirkovský 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi, I've found two duplicate packages: gimp-resynth http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6823 gimp-plugin-resynthesizer http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=12273 I think one of them should be deleted. In my opinion it would be better to remove gimp-resynth, even though it was uploaded first. It's contributor owns only this package and it doesn't conform so well with gimp plug-ins naming habit.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

Hi all, I think there is enough support for this to go forward. So it is time we nut out the details. Here is how I suggest we go about it. Firstly, I make a post to the announcements section of the forums along the lines of: <draft> The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (url here) or as a reply to this thread. TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. </draft> I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 May and go through the list. I think we should take care not to get too carried away when we remove packages. While some packages may be orphans, if they are not out of date then the PKGBUILD could still be useful for some people. Any comments before I create the wiki page and post to the forums? Cheers, Allan PS. Someone will have to give me the TU IRC channel key because I never got around to getting it given I rarely use IRC.

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[aur-general] AUR Cleanup
by Allan McRae 05 May '08

05 May '08

The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages This is where you can help. Post suggestions of packages in the AUR Cleanup wiki page (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_CleanUp_Day) TUs will get together and go though the list in a couple of weeks and confirm which packages should be removed. Please do not remove suggestions from the wiki page but add a comment on why it should be kept instead. TUs will take great care not to delete any useful package. Cheers, Allan -- Allan McRae Arch Linux Trusted User

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 05 May '08

05 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for scilab 4.1.2-4! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Problem uploading packages on i686
by Allan McRae 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi all, At the moment the is a problem uploading packages to i686 community. I know this because I have moved a couple of packages to community and the AUR does not reflect this after several hours. Now, I know in the next 12 hours, we will probably get one of those "missing package" emails and fixing that will fix the problem. Then again, it might be one of the duplicate/missing PKGBUILD problems. Surely given I know it is a problem already, then I can fix it! My question is, does the output from the community/AUR integration daemon get posted anywhere visible to us TUs? Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Problem uploading packages on i686
by Allan McRae 04 May '08

04 May '08

Hi all, At the moment the is a problem uploading packages to i686 community. I know this because I have moved a couple of packages to community and the AUR does not reflect this after several hours. Now, I know in the next 12 hours, we will probably get one of those "missing package" emails and fixing that will fix the problem. Then again, it might be one of the duplicate/missing PKGBUILD problems. Surely given I know it is a problem already, then I can fix it! My question is, does the output from the community/AUR integration daemon get posted anywhere visible to us TUs? Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Problem with tupkg
by DaNiMoTh 04 May '08

04 May '08

Uhm, I have this problem: tupkg doesn't upload. I have this output: [danimoth@jane scilab]$communitypkg {'size0': ['0'], 'numpkgs': ['1'], 'name0': ['scilab-4.1.2-4.pkg.tar.gz']} Uploading: scilab-4.1.2-4.pkg.tar.gz 14394 kb then nothing.. I think the problem is tupkg, but password and username are right. I answer to bash yesterday to upload it and he tells me that he has upload... why it isn't recognised?

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 04 May '08

04 May '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for scilab 4.1.2-4! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] orphans in community
by Firmicus 02 May '08

02 May '08

Reminder: these are our current orphans in community: awn-extras-applets helixplayer kchmviewer kde-adblock-improvement knetstats man-pages-pt_br openssh-chroot psqlodbc python-geotypes Should they be moved to unsupported? Also, I notice that we have 877 orphans in unsupported (many out-of-date)! Should we remove them eventually? Especially those with very few or no votes? Firmicus

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[aur-general] Pommed initscript
by Jordi Cerdan 02 May '08

02 May '08

Hi, I'm the maintainer of pommed in AUR and I would like to adapt the init daemon script to the Archlinux standard, as user royrocks suggested me. I had a look to the wiki but didn't saw any page conscerning the rules and the way to build an init script adapting to Archlinux rules. Of course, I could build one having a look to other daemons and to the /etc/rc.d/functions script, but I would like to know if there's some kind of documentation I haven't found, so I don't forget anything in the script. Regards, jcerdan

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[aur-general] orphan request : octave3
by Xavier 02 May '08

02 May '08

The last update of this package was on 30/03. That day, cyberdune also offered me to orphan the package, which I accepted, but he didn't do it. And no news since then. In the meantime, the package didn't build anymore because of gcc 4.3, which required a small patch. And then octave 3.0.1 was also released, which includes the fix.

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 02 May '08

02 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Community64 status again...
by Allan McRae 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hi TUs, I know I keep on about this but I just had a look at the pkg_diff page [1] and I noticed there has been a big increase in the number of differences between the i686 and x86_64 community repos. To put some numbers to this, since the 17th there has been 11 packages added to i686 but not x86_64 and another 29 packages have been updated in i686 but not x86_64. We are now up to 190 differences between the architectures. Taking away the lib32 packages and the known build failures [2] leaves about 80 differences that can be fixed. That is about double the amount in the extra repo and it has more packages in total... How do we fix this? Here is what I propose: 1. If you add a new package to community and can only build for one repo then you must post a message to the list asking for someone to build it for the other. I.e. if you are bringing the package to community, then you are responsible for getting it in both arches. 2. Everyone who does not have access to a x86_64 machine, should get access to the build machine by contacting Aaron. 3. If it is inconvenient to build x86_64 packages on the build box (e.g. because of having to wait on deps to sync) then you should arrange with one of the x86_64 using TU's to do the building for you. What do TU's think about these ideas? I'd like to get some official guidelines out there so I can prod consistent offenders (you know who you are....)! Regards, Allan [1] http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html [2] http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community64_Status

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 01 May '08

01 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 01 May '08

01 May '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] wine in AUR
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 01 May '08

01 May '08

Hello, there is a wine package in AUR, which is just a version bump of the package in extra. The maintainer refuses to remove it. Sincerely Stefan

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[aur-general] [Help] Vegastrike
by Uwe Vogt 01 May '08

01 May '08

I like to build the packages for the Game Vegastrike http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ I am not shure now how I will do it. I need some ideas. Option No. 1 I build one package all in one from http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/ Option No. 2 I build 3 packages "vegastrike", "vegastrike-data" and "vegastrike-music" build from Ubuntu's deb packages. Why I am asking is, I am in doubt with using ubuntu's deb packages and the download size from Vega Strike 0.5.0 is 488 Megabytes. With a fast Internet it will be no problem, but many people still using slower dialup or DSL. It is something what I don't like about AUR, that we only provide PKGBUILD and not the packages. regards Uwe

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 30 Apr '08

30 Apr '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for netbeans 6.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] my absence
by Roman Kyrylych 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi all! I apologize for being absent for so long time without a notice. Like some of you may remember - I've got a new full-time job in another city. I haven't found an apartment there yet, so I'm spending 5-6 hours each day in a bus or train, in total I'm not at home from 6 to 23 every working day. I do not have much time during a working day to spend in Internet, so I am unable to keep an eye on bugtracker. Even worse - I don't have internet at home again for a long time already. :-( I am hoping for things to came back to a good state next month. If someone have some free time - updating my packages is greatly appreciated. I'm open to orphaning my packages - just tell which one. If things won't get better next month - I will have to step down from TU position. Miss you and Arch... P.S.: The next time I'll be able to read email and reply to messages will be on Monday. -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)

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[aur-general] whoops
by Jason Tarbet 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

So I've been having an issue with uploading only one of my packages, the others seem to be fine. I have(had) the zaptel package and for several weeks now have been trying to update the package with the newest version (kept getting a failure to create the directory error. Today I tried what somebody on flyspray (or the mailing list, I forget) had suggested, which was to delete the package and try to re-upload. Well, that yielded same results and now there is no package to even comment on. Once the package is deleted, is it gone forever, or are their little bits of information left about it? I don't care about votes or anything, there were only 5 anyway, I just want to know if we could figure out why even with the package gone there was an error about creating the directory. Also there is no "are you sure" option for deleting so if you erroneously click delete, there is no recovery. Even a check box near the button would be ok. Any information/help would be useful! Thanks, Jason

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[aur-general] luvcview package
by Angel Velásquez 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi i was configuring my webcam (an uvc one), i downloaded the package (luvcview) from AUR, and i had errors when i tried to compiling to test my webcam. When i went to the AUR url from the package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=7763 i read in the comments that someone fix the package, and in fact, works for me. So, also i've checked the packages of the user Michel and he isn't recently envolved with them (from December 2006 or something), so if someone orphan luvcview at least i can addopt that package. Thanks! P.S: the webcam works, weeee :-D -- Angel Velasquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[aur-general] b43-fwcutter
by Angel Velásquez 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Why this package is in AUR when is in core with the same name?. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13433 check this out. cheers -- Angel Velasquez angvp @ irc.freenode.net Linux Counter: #359909

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[aur-general] Orphan request: avra
by Jan Tichavský 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

I'd like to maintain avra package, it's long time out of date and the maintainer didn't respond to my mail. Thanks

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[aur-general] another orphan request
by Dragonlord 29 Apr '08

29 Apr '08

Hi, while browsing AUR, I found out the user George_K has almost half of his packages out of date. I sent him an e-mail and it came back as undelivered, so I think someone could orphan all his packages... Thanks D PS: Thanks, Giovanni, for the quick response in the previous request :)

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[aur-general] orphan request emacs-nox
by Dragonlord 28 Apr '08

28 Apr '08

Hi, can someone please orphan "emacs-nox" in AUR? The package is out of date and Karro doesn't respond even on email messages ... I'm using this package and would like to adopt it. Thanks D

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[aur-general] Adoption of contextfree
by Tony Dodd 27 Apr '08

27 Apr '08

Hi, I've contacted Mark (skymt) - the current maintainer - regarding adoption of this package, unfortunately he cannot remember his password to orphan it manually. Could someone orphan this package so that I can adopt it? Thanks Tony

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[aur-general] Inactivity notice
by Allan McRae 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Hi TUs, I will be on holiday until the Sunday the 27th. Going to Noumea, New Caledonia. I don't speak any French so it will be like April Fool's Day without Google translator... Feel free to fix any bugs in my packages while I am away! :D Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Vote: kdeicons-crystaldiamond
by Uwe Vogt 26 Apr '08

26 Apr '08

Please go and Vote for it! http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8318 I personally thinking this package need to be supported in the "community" Please go and Vote for it! Regards Uwe

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[aur-general] [TU Inactivity] Shinlun
by Ray Rashif 25 Apr '08

25 Apr '08

I don't know when he last updated anything but at least 20-21 of his packages are outdated. If he's still active then it's alright, maybe he deems the packages stable as they are. If not, and no other TU adopts them, then I could take on the following 12: ardourvst dssi-vst lash libgig linuxsampler lmms pd qsampler qtractor traverso vkeybd wineasio

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[aur-general] list of community pkgs that install manpages to deprecated location
by Firmicus 24 Apr '08

24 Apr '08

PLEASE SEE http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9189 Thanks F

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[aur-general] Request: Milkytracker
by Christopher O'Neill 22 Apr '08

22 Apr '08

Hi, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=11764 Sorry to pester.. but could a TU please either adopt this package or deport to unsupported so I can adopt it? Thanks. - Chris

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[aur-general] Orphan request: Milkytracker
by Christopher O'Neill 20 Apr '08

20 Apr '08

Current package installs an old binary-only version, I would like to update it for the latest version as per the comments. - Chris

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[aur-general] orphan packages of user comete
by Lukáš Jirkovský 19 Apr '08

19 Apr '08

Hi, it seems that user comete doesn't maintain any of his packages anymore. Almost half of his packages is outdated and his last update is dated back to 25 Feb 2007.

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[aur-general] Delete Request - wine0959, full-urbanterror
by Slash 18 Apr '08

18 Apr '08

Greetings Comrades, Here are two packages that need to be removed from the AUR by a TU because the original contributors have not done so: 1) wine0959 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16364 This is simply wine from [extra] with the pkgver changed to the latest stable wine release. Obviously against AUR Guidelines. 2) full-urbanterror - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?do_Details&ID=16430 I think the user may have been a little confused- The URL to download the source for the quake3-urbanterror PKGBUILD was a 404, so the user changed the URL and uploaded a new PKGBUILD instead of just leaving a comment for me to fix it :P ( quake3-urbanterror: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=6873 ) Thanks, Slash

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[aur-general] Orphan webkitgtk-svn please
by Anders Bergh 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hi, Seems like the guy who made the webkitgtk-svn package no longer fixes it - it hasn't worked for weeks now because they changed their build system. If a TU please could orphan that package it would be great! Anders

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[aur-general] orphan request
by Dragonlord 17 Apr '08

17 Apr '08

Hi, user Mikos seems to be dead for arch linux. Half of his packages are out of date and he doesn't respond on email messages. Can someone please orphan his AUR packages? Thanks D

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[aur-general] Orphans packages in community
by BaSh 13 Apr '08

13 Apr '08

Hi ML, there are many orphans packages into community repository. Their aren't necessary at others community's packages and I think they can be moved to unsupported. I want to know if someone is interested at these packages before I'll move they to unsupported. (4 days) Packages List: 9wm aldrin billreminder crawl cwiid gjots2 haskell-fingertree hearse hlist-darcs libzzub mhwaveedit mlt++ mlt-svn mono-addins perl-dbd-pg perl-test-longstring perl-test-pod-coverage perlio-gzip php-gtk2 pound python-pysvn pyzzub slashem striim treeline ttf-mgopen uqm w9wm -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842

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[aur-general] AUR upload problem
by BaSh 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Hi ML, I've moved advanceutils to unsupported from community I can't upload the package, when I upload it to AUR, I get: "You are not allowed to overwrite the advanceutils package." What I must do? Thank you -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842

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[aur-general] out of date flagging
by Adam Vogt 12 Apr '08

12 Apr '08

Could someone confirm my observation that the aur does not reset out of date flags on packages when they are updated? Maybe it's just on packages that I've flagged myself then adopted. I don't update enough stuff to know. If this is the intended behavior, I would expect that resetting out of date flags on updates is the most reasonable thing to do.

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[aur-general] Menu categories
by Tomás Acauan Schertel 11 Apr '08

11 Apr '08

Hi there, I'm new to AUR, and I've just assumed my first package. The original package doesn't come with a .desktop file. So I've created my own on alacarte, and modified to use it on my packeg. The problem is app's icon shows in "other" group, and not in "audio & video". Where can I find a tutorial on categories? Thanks. Here is my .desktop content: [Desktop Entry] Name=Floola GenericName=Floola Comment=Floola is a freeware application to efficiently manage your iPod Exec=floola Icon=floola Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=AudioVideo; -- Tomás A. Schertel tschertel[at]gmail.com ---------------------------------------------- Arch Linux User http://www.archlinux.org/ Linux Registered User #304838 ----------------------------------------------

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[aur-general] Flashplugin DRM free?
by JaDa 10 Apr '08

10 Apr '08

I need some help and ideas, because the new Flashplugin 9.0.124.0 comes with DRM. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16293 Is it legal, if we crack it and build a DRM free Flashplugin? -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[aur-general] Orphaned: debhelper
by A. Klitzing 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Hello, could someone remove debhelper from AUR? I can't adopt it because I can't see it anymore. If I want to upload it by myself I will get an error message. Thanks, André Klitzing

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for tix 8.4.2-3! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] GAIM-related packages in AUR
by Ivy Foster 09 Apr '08

09 Apr '08

So thanks to a typo while looking for a package using yaourt, yesterday I discovered that although GAIM itself is no longer available from Arch proper or from AUR, there are still several packages in the AUR related to GAIM, many of which are orphaned and few if any of which have been updated in over a year. I'd like to suggest that unless any folks still maintaining these packages object, that they be removed, what with GAIM being superseded by pidgin/finch/libpurple. Hopefully this won't cause too much controversy :-). Thanks!

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Hi! Please orphan oracle-instantclient. I'va tried to write on AUR and to him. But haven't received any messages. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) aka skipper13

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] The move to SVN
by Mateusz Herych 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

2008/4/8, Paul Mattal <paul(a)mattal.com>: > > I think you have. I have just released an aurtools 1.3.0-2 that > incorporates a frozen copy of the old extrapkg for now. > > Can someone build for x86_64? > > - P > > Done. Regards, Mateusz.

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for perl-test-exception 0.27-1! No new package supplied for w3cam 0.7.2-5! No new package supplied for gnubiff 2.2.9-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] eet alpha version
by Igor "FeR" Scabini 08 Apr '08

08 Apr '08

There is a alpha version of eet as you can read here: http://xenos.altervista.org/blogs/index.php?blog=3&title=enlightenment_dr17… I wrote a PKGBUILD for this version and named it simply eet, the PKGBUILD could be found here: http://xenos.altervista.org/blogs/index.php?blog=3&title=eet_pkgbuild_della… but AUR didn't permit me to upload that package due to: You are not allowed to overwrite the eet package. I also opened a thread in Archlinux forum you can find here: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=350841#p350841 what I have to do now? Is it possible to upload that package? -- Igor "FeR" Scabini ================================================= url: http://xenos.altervista.org ..primavera non bussa, lei entra sicura.. - F. DeAndré - GPG Key ID: 0x7841 199A 0047 1FE0 disponibile @ keyserver.linux.it =================================================

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[aur-general] Should I bring rpm/dkpg to community
by Allan McRae 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hi TU's, I was wondering what peoples opinions are about putting rpm/dpkg in [community]. They both have a descent number of votes (27 & 33) so people obviously find them useful. Does anyone have objections about their "unArchness" (it is a real word, honest!)? It is what has stopped me moving dpkg so far... Allan

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[aur-general] stepping down
by Vinay S Shastry 07 Apr '08

07 Apr '08

Hello dear TUs, Life's calling, I've gotta go! :) Busy days are here, lots of work, lots to study. Bylaws suggest that TU should step down if planning on going inactive for more than 2 months (which I am). It's been a pleasure being involved with the tu community for almost 2 years. Thanks! After qt4 got into extra, there has not been much to maintain. Also, I recently updated my few packages (i686 only) without licenses to include it. So, not much trouble from my side I hope! Here's a list of packages I maintain for your ready reference. Please snatch as much as possible ;) community daemons openssh-chroot 4.7p1-2 community devel astyle 1.21-2 community devel tcc 0.9.23-4 community emulators i8086emu 0.9.2-4 community kde kde-adblock-improvement 0.0.5-3 community kde kompose 0.5.4-2 community kde rsibreak 0.8.0-2 community lib beecrypt 4.1.2-3 community lib python-magic 4.21-1 community multimedia mp3info 0.8.5a-1 community multimedia qmpdclient 1.0.8-2 community multimedia swftools 0.8.1-1 community multimedia xmms-itouch 0.1.2-1 community network bmon 2.1.0-2 community network knetstats 1.6.1-1 community network reddo 0.1.5-1 community office freemind 0.8.1-1 community office kchmviewer 3.1-3 community office kdissert 1.0.7-1 community science wxmaxima 0.7.4-1 community system coreutils-info 6.10-1 community system ncrypt 0.6.11-1 unsupported devel eclipse-kde 0-1 unsupported network kasablanca 0.4.0.2-1 unsupported network ymessenger 1.0.6.1-2 unsupported system rar 3.7.1-3 unsupported system rpm 4.4.2.2-1 unsupported x11 kdestyle-thinkeramik 3.2.1-1 Regards, -- Vinay S Shastry http://thenub.one09.net

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[aur-general] New packages, quick question Re: proposals
by Ivy Foster 06 Apr '08

06 Apr '08

Hi, folks... I started using Arch about a month ago, and recently decided it might be good to (a) pick up orphaned packages I find useful (1 so far) and (b) upload new packages that might be useful. Therefore, I've adopted the ps annotator flpsed and submitted a few packages for clisp that are either built in to sbcl (asdf, asdf-install) or were packaged specifically for sbcl on AUR (cl-ppcre, stumpwm). That brings me to my question. If I wanted to, say, submit a clisp module/library packaging standards proposal, would I just write it up and send it here? Basically, I'd like to see a few things happen, particularly in regards to packaging programs for specific lisp implementations when they don't need to be (I'd be fine seeing the packages I uploaded merged with someone else's PKGBUILD, for example) and in regards to where things get put, just so things don't end up being all haphazard. Thanks a lot! Ivy

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[aur-general] Orphan Request
by Byron Clark 05 Apr '08

05 Apr '08

Please orphan clive. I've tried to contact klapmuetz, but the domain for his email address doesn't exist. -- Byron Clark

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[aur-general] xfce4-*-svn and others xfce packages
by BaSh 04 Apr '08

04 Apr '08

Hi ML, there are many orphans packages into community repository and I think who xfce-svn would have to be moved to unsupported. I want to know if someone is interested at these packages before I'll move they to unsupported. Packages list: exo-svn gtk-xfce-engine-svn libxfce4mcs-svn libxfce4menu-svn libxfce4util-svn libxfcegui4-svn mlt-svn mousepad-svn orage-svn pyxfce-svn ristretto-svn squeeze-svn terminal-svn thunar-archive-plugin-svn thunar-media-tags-plugin-svn thunar-svn thunar-volman-svn xarchiver-svn xfburn-svn xfce-devtools-svn xfce-mcs-manager-svn xfce-mcs-plugins-svn xfce-notification-daemon-svn xfce-utils-svn xfce4-appfinder-svn xfce4-battery-plugin-svn xfce4-clipman-plugin-svn xfce4-icon-theme-svn xfce4-mailwatch-plugin-svn xfce4-mixer-svn xfce4-mount-plugin-svn xfce4-mpc-plugin-svn xfce4-netload-plugin-svn xfce4-notes-plugin-svn xfce4-panel-svn xfce4-rss-plugin-svn xfce4-screenshooter-plugin-svn xfce4-sensors-plugin-svn xfce4-session-svn xfce4-systemload-plugin-svn xfce4-taskmanager-svn xfce4-trigger-launcher-svn xfce4-verve-plugin-svn xfce4-weather-plugin-svn xfce4-websearch-plugin-svn xfce4-xfapplet-plugin-svn xfce4-xkb-plugin-svn xfdesktop-svn xfmedia-svn xfprint-svn xfwm4-svn xfwm4-themes-svn Regards, Andrea -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842

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[aur-general] Removal of ethereal from AUR
by Erwin Van de Velde 02 Apr '08

02 Apr '08

ethereal has been replaced by extra/wireshark since June 2006. Could someone please remove this PKGBUILD? Thanks in advance Erwin

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[aur-general] orphaning packages
by Lukáš Jirkovský 30 Mar '08

30 Mar '08

Hello, can you please orphan packages of user russianpirate? It seems that he isn't maintaining any of his packages anymore. I've tried to contact him, but his email doesn't exist. Regards Lukas '6xx' Jirkovsky

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[aur-general] Remove stone-soup from unsupported
by Nathan Jones 29 Mar '08

29 Mar '08

I would like to adopt stone-soup, but it is currently in community. Could someone demote it to unsupported?

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[aur-general] help needed with x86_64
by Firmicus 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

I am willing to kill this http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9765 I have built texlive-bin on i686 a long time ago, and some other TU took care of providing it for Arch64. But recently, to my great surprise, the above bug report was issued. (Quite amazing!) A few days ago I decided to liberate a partition and install Arch64 on it. I must say, it went without a glitch, and from now on I will be able to help keeping x86_64 in sync with i686 (I used Aaron's machine for a while, but for some packages it is not convenient, or even impossible to rely on a chroot). So last night I issued a makepkg for texlive-bin on my arch64 system and went to bed. But this morning I saw that the build had failed. I have a strong intuition that this is related to gcc 4.3, because I have had a similar issue with another package which compiled fine with gcc 4.2.3 on i686 but failed with gcc 4.3. Since I really have no time to investigate the problem and eventually make a patch for gcc 4.3, I would prefer to downgrade to gcc 4.2.3 and try to see if it works. Also, since TeXLive 2008 will be available in about two months, I don't want to spend too much time on the 2007 version. Does anybody have a copy of gcc-4.2.3-*-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz lying in its cache? I guess I'd need the corresponding gcc-libs too. That'd be a great help (well, I hope!) Thanks, Firmicus

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[aur-general] Keeping community64 up to date
by Allan McRae 28 Mar '08

28 Mar '08

Hi, I have come to realize that the current way of keeping community64 in sync could use some improving. I realized this when looking at the pkg_diff web page [1] thinking I would build some packages. After being distracted by the internet for a few minutes... I reloaded the page and noticed that some of the packages had been uploaded. Now had I actually built those packages, it would have been a waste of time. Also, I'm never sure how much time to wait and see whether the TU who uploaded the i686 package is going to upload the x86_64 package. How can this be improved? The best I can come up with is making a wiki page with a list of x86_64 build requests. TU's who upload a i686 package and are not going to build the x86_64 package themselves would need to add the package to the page. Think of it as punishment for not building it yourself. :) When someone else goes to build the package they either remove it from the list or tag that it is being built. That probably isn't the best idea, but I feel that the current system is a bit flawed. Any other suggestions/comments? Allan [1] http://dev.archlinux.org/~andyrtr/pkg_diff.html

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[aur-general] List of packages with no license information in core, extra and community
by Ronald van Haren 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

Hi all, I just came across some package in extra and noticed it had no license information at all in the PKGBUILD (though the package is not even gpl). So I got the idea of checking if more packages had this problem and came up with a list of the core, extra and community repositories (it should be easy to run the script for unstable and testing too if required). Please all take a look at the list and fix the packages. It really are too much packages without license information! Respective bug reports can be found for core & extra: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9971 community: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9970 I also attached the lists to this mail. Regards, Ronald

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[aur-general] AUR need a clean up?
by JaDa 26 Mar '08

26 Mar '08

perl-archive-extract: (local=0.24-1 aur=0.18-3) perl-ipc-cmd: (local=0.40-1 aur=0.36-3) perl-locale-maketext-simple: (local=0.18-2 aur=0.16-3) perl-module-load: (local=0.12-1 aur=0.10-2) perl-module-load-conditional: (local=0.22-1 aur=0.16-3) -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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Re: [aur-general] Problems uploading i686 packages to community?
by Simo Leone 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 10:48:02PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> > Well given it is not just me and I have not touched .tupkg since I became a > TU, so I'm pretty sure it is not that. > My guess is the script that deals with the AUR/communty integration either > got broken by the update or has not been restarted. > There were no changes to that code. More likely your problems are coming from the update daemon still refusing to put through the update because of errors. -S Pkgbuild '/home/aur/cvs/lib/perl-xml-libxml-common/PKGBUILD' is a duplicate! Aborting due to errors

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[aur-general] perl 5.10 is there
by Firmicus 25 Mar '08

25 Mar '08

*Perl 5.10 is now in core.* I have started my perl commit/upload orgy... Sergej, please upload perl-libxml, perl-libxml-common, perl-net-dbus and perl-xml-rss as priority, because until it is done, all pkgs that depend on them (I have some) will be non-functional! Since I have built them for both architectures anyway, I could take care of them, if you want. Best, F

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