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[aur-general] Request to add a rule
by Christopher luna 29 Oct '11

29 Oct '11

This is (again) about forbidding urls to warez on pkgbuilds on AUR. probably you people have seen the discussion on the forum. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=128832 But is not going anyware. Now, I think ewaller, hitted the nail in the head when said: "If you don't have explicit permission to copy and distribute, you may not copy and distribute. Period." I think something as easy like that would solve it all. So I am requesting a rule like that (it can be different, it doesn't have to be those words) to be added to the aur user guidelines. maybe here, on sharing packages? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_User_Guidelines#Sharing_packages Thanks.

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by Max Roder 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hi, on October 9th, I mailed nofxx [1] and asked wether he still has the time to update his packages (some of them are out-of-date/404). I would like to adopt and update some of them. As I did not recieve any reaction, I'm asking you to orphan his packages. Thanks, Max [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account.php?Action=AccountInfo&ID=6641

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Re: [aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Emilio Miralles 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hello, I took a first stab at restructuring Virtualbox <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox>. I brought in the content from Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest>, and offloaded a bunch of stuff to VirtualBox_Extras<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox_Extras>. Discussion of the changes on Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_request<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_r…> . Emilio

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[aur-general] Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin"
by Det 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27339

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Christopher luna 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please delete the package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33036 Is doom II, which is copyrighted and Id software does not give permission for redistribution. The download link is dead, so in teory is not piracy. but the package can be adopted by someone and get "fixed" with a working link. just for the record, is not a trial/shareware version; there is not shareware version of that game. (by mistake I send this message from a different email address too, sorry)

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[aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

> Thanks for applying. Do you have a link to your AUR packages and > possibly a sponsor? I see the link has been given. I have also contributed to a few other packages (fakenes for one) but if I do not plan to use them much myself I have disowned them in case someone else has more interest (but I keep an eye on them). I have also created some PKGBUILDs for packages I wanted to try (not already in AUR) but after finding better (existing) alternatives I did not decide to upload them. I have also come across packages that look like they should be removed, so would be interested in the tidy-up procedure. I don't have a sponsor.

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[aur-general] Dynamically evaluating md5sum value in PKGBUILD
by Maciej Sitarz 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hi all, I'm maintaining hunspell-pl AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44331) The problem with the package is that the maintainer of the source provides only the latest(daily) tarball snapshot. The md5sum of the tarball changes daily and the old files are removed. The packages is very often marked as 'outdated' and I'm asked to update it, both via comments and email. Some users propose to use dynamic values for pkgver= and md5sum=, but I think it's not a good way. Current PKGBUILD is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hu/hunspell-pl/PKGBUILD Proposed PKGBUILD: http://pastebin.com/bQCafYGt What would you suggest to do? I think the best way would be to include the package in extra, but I'm not sure if it has enough votes. Thanks Best regards -- Maciej Sitarz

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Re: [aur-general] Forgotten AUR username
by Ross McDonald 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Please could you send my username to me, I have forgotten it. Ross <ross0mcdonald(a)gmail.com>

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by minimalist 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

perl-http-parser-xs is out of date and the maintainer has not responded to any pokes and emails. I would like to take over the package maintenance. Thanks.

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[aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Ionut Biru 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hi, with the linux 3.1 package we took another approach about handling external modules. Because of that, i want to add back the old virtualbox-modules package that includes the host modules. Now comes the tricky part. I want to replace all the post_install/upgrade messages that we have now in virtualbox and guest additions for arch and replace them with a wiki link. The wiki is a total mess and includes details that doesn't matter for virtualbox on arch. Help me to clear the wiki a bit before adding the link to the package. My idea is to have in virtualbox wiki page this: 1) how to install it 2) what modules to add in rc.conf and a short description of modules functionality 3) how to run it 4) how to run guest additions on arch(as a section rather than a new page like is it now) That's it. I don't care about sharing functionality, tips and tricks for openbsd. Just plain arch functionality. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Replacing nexuiz with xonotic
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

I'd like to see nexuiz replaced by xonotic in [community]. Problem is that nexuiz is still a fairly popular package despite being dead upstream. xonotic devs recommend dropping nexuiz in favor of xonotic. Technically, xonotic does not replace nexuiz because its gameplay is somewhat different. I'd like some opinions on this.

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Brad Fanella 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more. With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering. All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place. My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises. It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round. Sincerely, Brad p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories

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[aur-general] Request for removal
by Jesse Juhani Jaara 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Please remove my package [1]cpupowerutils There is pkg with better name been uploaded, wich also builds from source archive instead of git. [1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47310

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[aur-general] Removal Request
by Simon Perry 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Please remove perl-icontrol. Author has renamed the module and re-based the version (I have a new PKGBUILD ready). Cheers. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52207 -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[aur-general] Please remove kernel26-crusoe
by merp boop 25 Oct '11

25 Oct '11

Hey guys, Word has it that the newest glibc was compiled without long noops (nopl), which makes my kernel26-crusoe package obsolete. If this is true, would someone please remove it? I have a backup :) Thanks! -Max

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[aur-general] Orphaning mediatomb
by Jonathan Conder 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi TUs, In a few days I will be orphaning my package mediatomb, and will delete it too unless anyone is interested in maintaining it. It has been unmaintained upstream for over a year, and currently I don't have enough time to deal with the issues that keep cropping up because of this. At the moment it isn't even installed on my main computer. Thought I'd just let people know first, in case anyone else is interested in maintaining it, and to give my reasons for dropping it. Thanks, Jonathan

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[aur-general] [broadcom-wl] kernel panic
by Vitor Eiji Justus Sakaguti 24 Oct '11

24 Oct '11

Hi, Just a heads up to all users of broadcom-wl: a lot of people (myself included) have been reporting kernel panics at boot time after upgrade to current version, so if you're planing to upgrade, be sure to have a live cd around to chroot into your system. There are still no known workarounds other than blacklisting the wl module (thus disabling wireless board) or removing the package. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19514 Good luck! Vitor

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[aur-general] Duplicate version of blinks-darcs in the AUR
by merp boop 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hey all, Before I sound like anything I'm not! - I don't really care about politics - I hate drama - I try my best to conform to standards in contributed work - I appreciate everyone that contributes to Arch - I understand that one can become emotionally invested in their efforts That being said, another user created a package in the AUR called 'blink', which is basically a copy of my package, 'blink-darcs'. This wouldn't cause any issues if 'blink' built from an archive of sources and didn't use darcs to pull the sources, but that's not the case. What's your opinion on this? How should this be handled? -Max

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[aur-general] Aur error: Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed.
by Ondřej Kučera 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Hello, I'm trying to upload and updated PKGBUILD for my package spring-framework but I'm getting the error message "Invalid name: only lowercase letters are allowed.". I've never seen this before and also this is the first PKGBUILD with package splitting I've ever tried to upload so I guess it may be related (makepkg doesn't complain though). The significant parts of PKGBUILD look as follows: pkgname=('spring-framework' 'spring-framework-doc') pkgbase='spring-framework' pkgver=3.0.6 pkgrel=1 ... build() { ... } package_spring-framework() { ... } package_spring-framework-doc() { ... } Am I doing something wrong? Ondřej -- Cheers, Ondřej Kučera

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[aur-general] merging request: python-suds
by Michael Schubert 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Dear TUs, please merge python-suds into python2-suds. Both have the same contents, yet the latter the correct naming. Thanks Michael

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[aur-general] Removal request: kdeplasma-applets-networkmanagement-l10n
by A Rojas 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52062 The [extra] package contains the translations now

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[aur-general] Deletion request: glib-docs
by Aljosha Papsch 23 Oct '11

23 Oct '11

Please delete glib-docs[0]. It is a duplicate of community/glib2-docs. [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19974

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Re: [aur-general] aur-general Digest, Vol 84, Issue 23
by Jristz Random 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

Please orfan samba4 4.0.0A16-1 [1], I emailed the maintainer the 15 of october and no reseiv any response the package is outdated (the alfa17 is out by 2 moth ago aprox.) [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40043

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[aur-general] tuxtype2 duplicate of tuxtype
by Philipp 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

It seems tuxtype2 is a duplicate of tuxtype, currently tuxtype2 is an older version and the tuxtype PKGBUILD has a couple of problems. tuxtype: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22661 tuxtype2: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=21441 tuxtype is clearly the better name, tuxtype2 is misleading. Another confusing aspect is that the name of the software is actually Tux Typing or TuxTyping, although the executable is tuxtype, so I guess that's ok. Anyway, I suggest the removal of tuxtype2 and hope that the maintainer of tuxtype will tidy up his package.

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[aur-general] Deletion request: gnome-shell-extension-ibus-panel
by Jekyll Wu 22 Oct '11

22 Oct '11

I am the maintainer of this package[1]. AFAIK its features have been merged back into ibus-gjs-git[2] and the development has stopped. It does not work with gnome-shell-3.2.1 from [extra] so please delete it. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50598 [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48085

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