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Onedev-docs - check
by Polarian 29 Jan '23

29 Jan '23

Hello again, Could you please check a new package I have been working on to allow for onedev documentation to be viewed offline. You can view the PKGBUILD on the aur, or using the link below: https://onedev.polarian.dev/aur/onedev-docs/~files/master/PKGBUILD Before anyone comments why I have fetched the source within the prepare function, which is non-conventional, git-lfs does not support makepkg as it can not fetch from local filesystem, which is how MAKEPKG syncs the cloned repository (bare) to the repository within the src directory, thus I have had to manually clone the package with git-lfs installed, this will properly fetch the git-lfs files. Also for those who are wondering why you cant view the html directory, read the edit I have made to the onedev page here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Onedev Thank you, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Eureka-notes AUR package - check
by Polarian 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hello, Could anyone who has experience with AUR packages please check over the PKGBUILD I have submitted to the AUR. It works, and I have already written up the ArchWiki page for it (https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Eureka) but I want a second set of eyes to read through my work to ensure I have not screwed anything up, and to ensure my package is sticking to conventions (and in case anyone has any improvements). You can either read it from the git interface provided by the AUR (this can be a little annoying) or you can read it on the git repository which is hosted elsewhere here: https://onedev.polarian.dev/aur/eureka-notes/~files/master/PKGBUILD Any issues with the package let me know :) Thank you, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Building in clean chroot dilemma
by Polarian 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hello, So I currently do not test my packages in a clean chroot because of this issue: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/devtools/-/issues/105 It seems a little stupid but I hate sudo being installed on my system, I do not like it, and I do not like when tools force me to use sudo. Without sudo installed the makechrootpkg script breaks and thus I can't use dev tools to test in a chroot environment. I did try and just manually build a chroot environment, but for whatever reason it was not writable to disk, in other words I kept getting "filesystem full" errors when the filesystem was not full, and I couldn't see to find a decent guide on how to actually setup a chroot manually, all recommend using different parts of the devtools. I have posted this for 2 reasons: 1. I want to know if anyone else agrees that doas support should be added to the devtool scripts. 2. I am looking for temporary alternatives from using devtools to build AUR packages in a clean environment. I have in the case of the movim package built it in an lxc container, which are similar to chroots, but the issue is the base arch linux container image contains a few dependencies which could mean I miss out some of the dependencies. And also every time I want to deploy a package to the container I have to copy it over to my production server which is not ideal. If anyone has any solutions please let me know :) Thank you, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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TU Application - Antiz
by Robin Candau 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hello, My name's Robin Candau and I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. My sponsors are Leonidas Spyropoulos <artafinde> and T.J. Townsend <blakkheim>. I'm 26 years old and I live in France. I'm working as a Linux system, Infrastructure and DevOps engineer. I've been using Linux for the last decade and been using Arch for a few years now. During my Arch journey, I started contributing to it in various ways: - I subscribed to every "major" mailing lists and reply to users' questions in it from time to time (mostly in the AUR-General one). - I'm answering questions on the Arch subreddit (even though I'm aware it is not an official Arch resource) and on the IRC channels from time to time. I'm a bit less present on IRC though, but I'm still passing by here and there. - I contribute to some wiki pages. - I maintain some packages on the AUR. - I'm reviewing PKGBUILDs (both on aurweb and the AUR-General mailing list). - I'm a member of the "Arch Testing Team" and I'm regularly testing and signing off packages. - I made rare contributions to the Arch DevOps Gitlab's issues (this is something I'd like to do more in the future, I just haven't take the time yet). Since I started contributing to Arch, my interest for it kept growing and I'd like to do more. This is why I'm applying to become a TU through this mail. For the minimum requirements: - I'm fine with shell scripting. - I maintain a few packages in the AUR with what I think are high-quality/clean PKGBUILDs [1]. - I'm doing basic community involvement (as stated earlier). - I can Google. - Aside from Arch, I've been involved in a few open-source projects: - My own open-source projects are hosted on GitHub [2]. - I'm a package and infrastructure maintainer for Crystal-Linux [3] which is an Arch based distribution that promotes the use of current and modern technologies and that brings an alternative to some widely used software through its own tools such as "jade" (the Crystal Linux's installer) or "amethyst" (the Crystal Linux's pacman wrapper and AUR helper). I'm basically maintaining the Crystal's specific PKGBUILDs [4] and helping them with infrastructure stuff. - More recently, I've been working with Rudra Saraswat (the Ubuntu Unity project lead) to help him properly packaging the Unity desktop environment for Arch (this is still a WIP) [5]. As a TU, I'm looking forward to help with the AUR moderation (reviewing PKGBUILDs, answering AUR related questions and handling AUR requests). I'd also be interested in moving the following AUR packages to Community: - protonmail-bridge - distrobox - unrar-free (which I currently maintain) - ddgr (which I currently maintain) Finally, those are the packages I use and/or I'd be interested in (co-)maintaining in Community: - glow - flameshot - xautolock - numlockx - playerctl - autorandr - hq - hexchat - pacman-contrib - zathura* (zathura, zathura-cb, zathura-djvu, zathura-pdf-mupdf, zathura-pdf-poppler, zathura-ps) - tmux - icewm - firewalld - picom - notification-daemon - blueman - redshift - xautolock - gsimplecal - tint2 - feh Globally, my package interests are CLI tools and GTK apps, but I can maintain anything else if needed. My primary goal is to help/contribute :) Also, even though it has no direct link with the TU position, I'm willing to take the time to bring some help and contributions to the DevOps side of things in the future, as stated in the beginning of my application. I'm looking forward to contribute more to Arch Linux. Thanks for reading my application! [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages?O=0&SeB=M&K=Antiz&outdated=&SB=p&SO=d&PP… [2] https://github.com/Antiz96 [3] https://getcryst.al/site [4] https://git.getcryst.al/crystal/pkgbuilds [5] https://gitlab.com/users/Antiz96/activity Regards, Robin Candau - Antiz

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GPG signature renewal vs new key
by Polarian 25 Jan '23

25 Jan '23

Hello, When looking at the archlinux gpg keyring, I notice that when GPG keys expire, TU's regenerate a new key instead of renewing it. Why do they regenerate a new key instead of renewing, is it the same reason we put expire dates on our TLS certificates (for security). Is it bad to just renew your key without regenerating it? Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Package updating database schema
by Polarian 16 Jan '23

16 Jan '23

Hello AUR community, I have a very annoying issue which I have not been able to find a solution to. So conventionally Arch Linux packages which require migration and updating of database schemas tend to have the following pattern: - Stop service - Update the package - Run some script which migrates the database manually - Start service However I have been packaging https://code.onedev.io/onedev/server with Bengcooper for the AUR and we have hit into a major issue. The upgrade guide, as defined in their wiki page (https://docs.onedev.io/upgrade-guide) requires the old code and the new code. This is due to the use of JSW (a proprietary wrapper) which they ship their binaries with. This does not comply with how you traditionally package software, and thus I have no clue how I am meant to integrate this into the AUR. I have in my own time been working on packaging the raw java code without JSW (cause f*ck the proprietary wrapper), however this is taking longer than I thought it would and I really need an AUR package to make things easier for me running my public OneDev instance over at https://onedev.polarian.dev Does anyone have any ideas of how I can at least get the package semi-working with database migrations, even if it is unconventional and annoying to do so? Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Re: Package updating database schema
by Polarian 13 Jan '23

13 Jan '23

Hello, I have used the pre_upgrade hook, but the issue is I need access to the pkg contents, and I do not think that is possible using the pre_upgrade hook, I need it to execute the update.sh script which is within the package on the /opt/onedev directory when before upgrading. Basically, onedevs update script will migrate everything itself and also back it up. When installing onedev for the first time, there is no problems it will go smoothly, its when it needs to execute the update script on the directory (then preferably) discard of the upgrade files because onedevs update script also replaces all the code with the new code. It is highly annoying as it is semi-packaged by onedev, I dont mind if pacman comes along and just overwrites stuff, but I need to use the update.sh script from within the package from within the pre_upgrade hook. Thanks, -- Polarian GPG signature: 0770E5312238C760 Website: https://polarian.dev JID/XMPP: polarian(a)polarian.dev

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Lost Account
by Lara 11 Jan '23

11 Jan '23

I lost my aur account password and the reset doesn't seems to work. Probably the registered email doesn't exist anymore (I've been away for a long time). Could someone help me recovering the account? my username is shypixie Thanks

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I'm out of commission for a while
by Jonathon Fernyhough 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Hi all, I'm out of commission for a while (not sure how long) so I won't be able to update my packages. If any TU wants to bump the obvious ones (e.g. firefox-esr) please feel free. Best, Jonathon

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For AUR PKGBUILD checkup
by Sharafat Karim 09 Jan '23

09 Jan '23

Hi there, I'm writing to request that my PKGBUILD for *kate-wakatime* be added to the Arch User Repository (AUR). I have tested the PKGBUILD and it works as expected. But I'm unsure about this script's formatting or other checkups. I'll really appreciate any advice. Here's my PKGBUILD, > # Maintainer: sharafat <sharafat two thousand four at gmail> > > pkgname=kate-wakatime-git > pkgver=1.3.10 > pkgrel=1 > pkgdesc=" Kate plugin to interface with WakaTime" > arch=('x86_64') > url="https://github.com/wakatime/$pkgname" > license=('unknown') > makedepends=('git' 'cmake' 'extra-cmake-modules') > depends=('kate') > conflicts=('kate-wakatime') > source=("git+https://github.com/Tatsh/kate-wakatime") > md5sums=('SKIP') > > build() { > cmake -B build -S "kate-wakatime" \ > -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE='None' \ > -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX='/usr' \ > -Wno-dev > cmake --build build > } > > check() { > ctest --test-dir build --output-on-failure > } > > package() { > DESTDIR="$pkgdir" cmake --install build > } > Thank you for considering my request.

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proble installing Skychart
by Carlo Vinante 03 Jan '23

03 Jan '23

Hello I'm pretty new on Arch linux. Already installed AUR packages. I'm experiencing problem installing SKYCHART link: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/skychart Installed separately the two missed dependencies - libpasastro - xplanet Received these errors on compiling skychart -------------------------------------------------------------- Compiling bgrafreetype.pas bgrafreetype.pas(31,60) Fatal: Can't find unit EasyLazFreeType used by BGRAFreeType Fatal: Compilation aborted make[3]: *** [Makefile:1270: bgrabitmappack_nogl.ppu] Error 1 make[3]: Leaving directory '/home/carlo/skychart/src/skychart-4.2.1-4073-src/skychart/component/bgrabitmap' make[2]: *** [Makefile:2188: bgrabitmap_all] Error 2 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/carlo/skychart/src/skychart-4.2.1-4073-src/skychart/component' make[1]: *** [Makefile:1731: component_all] Error 2 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/carlo/skychart/src/skychart-4.2.1-4073-src/skychart' make: *** [Makefile:1593: skychart_all] Error 2 ==> ERROR: A failure occurred in build(). Aborting... -------------------------------------------------------------- help is appreciated thanks a lot Carlo -- Carlo Vinante Presidente Associazione Astronomica Euganea Fiduciario Regionale Nord Est UAI Sezione Comete & Progetto CARA UAI ARI Sez. Padova - IZ3XTL

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Removal of Benjamin Denhartog (sudoforge) as a Trusted User
by Morten Linderud 29 Dec '22

29 Dec '22

Yo, This is a motion for for "Special Removal of an Inactive TU" [1] for Ben Denhartog (sudoforge) based on prolonged inactivity. sudoforge has largely been unresponsive for 6 months after trying to get his key signed by our master key holders. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/issues/174 Attempts have been made to establish contact, and 2 weeks ago I got a positive response from Ben that he would submit a resignation. However no emails has appeared thus this removal request has been submitted instead. The discussion period will last for three days, after that I will open the vote, which will last for five days. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16

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request for review of PKGBUILD
by Greg Minshall 26 Dec '22

26 Dec '22

hi. i'm trying to submit my first package to AUR. my package files are here: ---- https://git.sr.ht/~minshall/aur-orgtbl-query/tree ---- if anyone has a chance to look over my PKGBUILD (and any other of the files), and has any comments, i'm all ears. cheers, Greg

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SPAM in AUR comment rvm package
by Eduardo Hernández 21 Dec '22

21 Dec '22

Hello, see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/rvm Comments by users malkovich and alaina are spam

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Re: Removal of Benjamin Denhartog (sudoforge) as a Trusted User
by Morten Linderud 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

On Fri, Dec 16, 2022 at 10:35:34AM -0700, Ben Denhartog wrote: > consider this my resignation, and no contest on the removal due to inactivity > -- i have not had the time i thought i would to contribute. I would greatly appreciate if you could sign this email. -- Morten Linderud PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16 > On Fri, Dec 16, 2022, at 10:29, Morten Linderud wrote: > > Yo, > > > > This is a motion for for "Special Removal of an Inactive TU" [1] for Ben > > Denhartog (sudoforge) based on prolonged inactivity. > > > > sudoforge has largely been unresponsive for 6 months after trying to get his key > > signed by our master key holders. > > > > https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/archlinux-keyring/-/issues/174 > > > > Attempts have been made to establish contact, and 2 weeks ago I got a positive > > response from Ben that he would submit a resignation. However no emails has > > appeared thus this removal request has been submitted instead. > > > > The discussion period will last for three days, after that I will open > > the vote, which will last for five days. > > > > -- > > Morten Linderud > > PGP: 9C02FF419FECBE16 > > > > Attachments: > > * signature.asc

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git in makedepends?
by Greg Minshall 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

hi, again. if git is needed only for the "source" line of PKGBUILD (i.e., to download, and optionally verify, the source file(s)), does git need to be listed in "makedepends"? cheers, Greg

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XMPP support for Arch Linux
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, So currently there is two methods (which I know of) with communicating with the Arch Community, those are email (mailing list) and IRC (I believe on libera.chat?!?!?). Is there any plans to support XMPP? Thanks, Polarian

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Java code in AUR
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, I have discovered an annoying issue with java within the AUR. One of the projects I aim to wrap is written in java, however it contains a lot of other dependencies in java, and I have been thinking about the idea of how to package, and installing a jar with all the dependencies compressed within it defeats the purpose of packaging. I assume I should have each dependency as its own package, which means its more maintainable and each dependency can be bumped manually, but I doubt it is conventional to put .jar's in with shared objects (.so) within the libraries directory. Does anyone have any ideas how you would package a large Java codebase with the dependencies separated to be more maintainable? I am aware Java is such a pain to package, distributions such as gentoo do not even bother sometimes and do not support java packaging that well. Thanks, Polarian

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Submitting packages to AUR
by Polarian 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, I have read both the submission guideline and also aur packages, but I am a little confused on how to actually create the repository. Does cloning a pkgbase (whatever name you want to call the package) automatically create the remote repository? What if you have got a local repository already (using git init) and want to push it to a AUR remote, but it does not yet exist? Thank you, Polarian

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Package popularity
by Polarian 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, Out of curiosity, how is the value of the package popularity calculated? Thanks, Polarian

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PKGBUILD review.
by Wyatt C Jackson 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I recently put together a PKGBUILD file for a tool I made and want to put on the AUR. While I believe it should be fine, I would like to have it reviewed before I upload it. - --- ``` # Maintainer: Minecraftchest1 <minecraftchest1 at outlook dot com> pkgname=file-sharing-tool pkgver=0.2.0 pkgrel=1 epoch= pkgdesc="A tool to help setup file sharing using ssh." arch=('any') url="https://gitlab.com/minecraftchest1/steamdeck-file-share-tool" license=('GPL3') groups=() depends=('openssh' 'zenity' 'sed' 'bash') makedepends=('coreutils') checkdepends=() optdepends=() provides=() conflicts=() replaces=() backup=() options=() install= changelog= source=("git+https://gitlab.com/minecraftchest1/steamdeck-file-share-tool#tag=$pkgver") noextract=() md5sums=() validpgpkeys=('B136A3601568A8CE2493') sha256sums=('SKIP') package() { cd steamdeck-file-share-tool install -D -v bin/file-sharing-tool.sh -t $pkgdir/usr/bin } ``` -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEsTajYBVoqM4kk+rB78FhxAtMwcYFAmOXbGEACgkQ78FhxAtM wcbL2A//apFD18OCEAWLJCIfq7cW/suL8mGEVLgGfoxH5zTqqtJBkS8AkXLk+eyL LVIQvFfGjeo7Zk/1R7XP/lgwzgbV1Y45Z8PxFiFYrIS56pgw+q2HdsTENyRcJVaC 2ol7ezJQZcItxmF0CJyC7z+kyEyv/rzrKAdh+M7cxRCqE9EpiUGco6IqQ41+Cyvu oRR1UcsBuGPtqt1xw6rBZ7PRfPBgy5GDJby5njRDJR17SpYBJ8EyKknOVWcOnEYn uUsZ6XjoY0ucAtB9LRbbtYL0CH1LdoohTKsjpZsZ6D7MkQ7UpfoAyBgTKysQR3BR l+N2q7rjVDzstIi51k1TxG3RwbJAASPtkyfXePfYsTIsCz19Z7ITjVqZRJ6HWRcu KahMhTVCBsx6h9xNvpJhWgiuxb97eUkupJOG0IuqVA3II1svqwXSCkNEox2duiRr wIj4IlWl2JBUYlf9DHsXlciiVK0bJvyPCUOJNqNnc4A8i5IbOkQuANf2YM4alB4K qh6GE1maWLMosophxkdMXfggNLcpoIWFCgII6s9MZ3w8CgFNveiV6EI76PYiaQXO WdOiA+Q/lLYyQ4brSWtRGkgJeAtDNzIKunlv8ec5S8/mzF8SJiesOqG4NZZDjNMc nJM89kcHjGJ7g3uOep7O1EhXrfes+D/ZyD81rUfVXPbO/fLf1U4= =Xwsg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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PKGBUILD: on makedepends
by Greg Minshall 12 Dec '22

12 Dec '22

hi. i am putting together a PKGBUILD. there are certain dependencies required for cutting a release, rolling a version, etc. but, for just downloading the sources and building, these dependencies are not needed. can i leave dependencies *out* of makedepends that are only used for non-mainline build/installation tasks? cheers, Greg

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Conventional method of producing -git packages
by Polarian 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Hello, I am pretty new to the AUR, however I have read through the arch wiki and this question is not really referenced there. I have seen some -git packages which update the package on each new commit to master, which is what I thought -git packages should aim to do, however I have seen others which only do it for every 5 or so commits to save time. However I have also seen another method, of just not bumping the package version and have the package clone master and then append the latest git commit to the package name when building it. What is the actual conventional method of producing a -git package for a piece of software? Thank you, Polarian

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aurweb new release v6.1.9
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Hello AUR users, A new version of Aurweb has been deployed. There has been some issues lately when users were trying to delete their accounts. These should be solved and if anyone got errors before I would urge them to try again. Full changelog is available https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/tags/v6.1.9 Kind Regards, -- Leonidas Spyropoulos TU and junior DevOps PGP: 59E43E106B247368

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Change pkgbase from python2-eyed3 to python-eyed3
by Amish 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hello all, I am maintainer of a package which has pkgname as python-eyed3 but has pkgbase as python2-eyed3. This package was moved from Arch repository to AUR few months back. The package does not work on python2 but works on python3 and hence I am trying to remove pkgbase=python2-eyed3 from it, as it gives wrong impression that package is dependent on python2. If I remove pkgbase line from PKGBUILD and then try to push the package (with updated .SRCINFO) it throws the following error: > git push Enumerating objects: 7, done. Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 354 bytes | 354.00 KiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: error: invalid pkgbase: python-eyed3, expected python2-eyed3 remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/python2-eyed3.git There seems to be another "deleted" package called python-eyed3 too. I cloned it and updated PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO and pushed the changes. This also throws an error. > git push Enumerating objects: 7, done. Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 1.40 KiB | 1.40 MiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: error: cannot overwrite package: python-eyed3 remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/python-eyed3.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://aur.archlinux.org/python-eyed3.git' Error above does not give much information on why it can not overwrite. But its possibly because python2-eyed3 creates a pkgname conflict with it. In short, how do I update the package to remove python2-eyed3 as pkgbase? Any idea? Please let me know. Thank you, Amish

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