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[aur-general] algoscore
by Nathan O 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

I am trying to get algoscore to work http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23577 but so far everything I have tried gives me a problem. Using the makepkg -sf gives that there is a reference to the $srcdir and namcap gives algoscore E: Insecure RPATH '/home/ndowens/Aur/algoscore/src/AlgoScore/src/build/nasal' in file ('usr/bin/algoscore')

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[aur-general] A slew of deprecated packages (none of which are mine)
by fasdfsa fsadfsaf 25 Aug '10

25 Aug '10

Hi TUs and... other people(?), So I got this nice list of unneeded packages in AUR that should be removed. None of these are mine so I don't know how justified my suggestions are - at least they've not been updated for some time and there is a replacement for most of them. First off let's stare "xorg-server-xephyr": http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15438 The option "--enable-xephyr" is included in the official [extra]'s xorg-server so this package is not needed. This I'm not too sure about, "xorg-server-antidesktop": http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23750 <http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23750>I guess it's purpose is to start up with a blank screen.. but that should be the case these days anyway(?) xorg-server-catalyst: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26728 There's "xorg-server-1.7-catalyst-maximize-fix", "xorg-server-1.8-catalyst-maximize-fix" and "xorg-server-catalyst-maximize-fix" in AUR so this one is not needed. xorg-server-gentoo: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15089 Currently there are only these two tiny patches in the Gentoo's X server which are to 'disable ACPI' and 'prefer nouveau over nv'. At least it's a lot less than 'Joekey' (the maintainer) is happy to update for. songbird-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/songbird-bin/songbird-bin/PKGBUILD, songbird-stable-bin: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33050 I had to laugh when I saw this. These two PKGBUILDs are virtually _identical_. Why an earth would we need both? Actually the "songbird" package's PKGBUILD should be replaced with either one of those (it currently holds a non-working version of the songbird-svn package... for whatever reason) and then the two others removed (I mean _I think_ that's how it should be done). All that songbird-nightly* stuff should be removed too. In AUR there should be only the old stable Songbird (songbird), a SVN version (songbird-svn), a nightly version (songbird-nightly) and a bleeding edge one (being alpha/beta/rc) (songbird-beta). But only "songbird-svn" exists and works. "Songbird-auto-nightly" and "songbird-auto-beta" should just be moved to as "songbird-nightly" and "songbird-beta" (I take it this can only happen by telling the maintainer, ilikenwf, to upload those packages with the simplified name and then the former ones could be removed) and songbird(-stable)-bin "changed" to "songbird". It'd be _nice_ to also have the "xorg-server*-catalyst-maximize-fix" packages changed to just "xorg-server*-catalyst" but that's probably not worth it taken the "conflicts=()" changes with other PKGBUILDs, the removals of the formerly named package and other stuff like that... Thanks for your time, 'Det'

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[aur-general] Moving vlc-pulse to [community]
by Jan Steffens 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

I would like to move vlc-pulse into [community], to provide VLC with native PulseAudio output. Are there any objections?

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[aur-general] Quality
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hey I was wondering if somebody has time to look at my packages and see if they are of quality :) Some I adopted and got to add my name and email as maintainer and update the quality of it. The ones with my name and email are already updated. If you look you may see ndowens04 at gmail dot com or ndowens04+AUR at gmail dot com I may end up adding this email to the packages, I created this email address for AUR purposes so my main email address doesn't get cluttered. Thanks

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[aur-general] Orphaning of bluej
by PyroPeter 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello TU's, I would like to request orphaning of bluej[1], which is now out-of-date for over a month. I have an updated PKGBUILD and would be happy to upload it. Regards, PyroPeter [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13853 -- freenode/pyropeter "12:50 - Ich drücke Return."

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[aur-general] updated PKGBUILD for gcc-avr
by Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, I am again around here :) * update from 4.5 snapshot to 4.5.1, no other changes needed. * remove || return 1 * use ${_basedir} like gcc package for select snapshot/release * add missing custom licence Patch against svn trunk can be downloaded from here http://gist.github.com/546973 Good luck! -- Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi \cos^2\alpha + \sin^2\alpha = 1

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[aur-general] At last, clean multilib support
by Thomas Bächler 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Jan Steffens and me spent the this weekend putting together a multilib toolchain and a clean lib32-glibc package. I wanted to do this for at least two years, and we finally managed to do it on FrOSCon now. This is the plan of attack on this: * Maintain the PKGBUILDs in svn-community/${pkgname}/trunk/ * Create a separate repo 'multilib', (svn-community/${pkgname}/repos/multilib-x86_64) * Remove ALL multilib packages from community. Do NOT mix pure 64 bit with multilib. All multilib must go into the new multilib repository. * Rebuild all multilib packages with the multilib compiler to solve the numerous problems encountered by the hackish "copy our 32 bit packages into another path" approach. * Find TUs and Devs willing to work on multilib (please add your name to https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Multilib_Project) Any comments are welcome. We will upload the multilib packages and PKGBUILDs into a small test repository in a minute for review.

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[aur-general] removal request
by Lukáš Jirkovský 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

jdownloader-openjdk (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35966) is basically a duplicate of the jdownloader package. The only difference is that jdownloader-openjdk has a dependency on openjdk6 and jdownloader on java-runtime (which is better). Lukas

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[aur-general] Discussion period has ended for Lukáš Jirkovský
by Thomas Dziedzic 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

You can find a thread here: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-August/009959.html

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[aur-general] TU application
by Lukáš Jirkovský 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hello, the discussion about pulling ufoai into [community] made me thing about applying for a TU. Since I've got quite a lot of time recently I finally decided to apply for a TU position which I've been encouraged into several times in the past. My name is Lukas Jirkovsky. I'm from Pilsen, Czech Republic. Currently I'm pursuing my bachelors degree in computer science at the Faculty of Applied Sciences at the University of West Bohemia. I'm using Linux for about six years (I still have the old Mandrake 10.1 CD here). I used Slackware for several years but approximately 3 years ago I moved to Arch Linux which I immediately fell in love with ;-) Currently I maintain 94 packages in AUR. Several packages of mine got it's way into [community] and [extra] too. I can remember ttf-linux-libertine, geeqie, luminance and autopano-sift-c being ones. I'd like to move the klavaro package into community and maybe some other popular packages. I'm also very interested in bringing more graphics software to Arch Linux. Moving ufoai if wanted should be without problems too, I've got a decent connection at home. The last words about my packaging work is that I'm aware that some of my PKGBUILDS still uses contributor instead of maintainer. I'm slowly replacing these packages when a new version comes out or any other update is needed. Now something about my skills. I've a decent knowledge of C and C++ and in my spare time I'm participating in the development of Hugin [1]. I know Java too, but I prefer C++ (templates are just so beautiful). I used to maintain the Arch-graphics repo [2] but since I switched to x86_64 I don't do regular builds (I'd have to rewrite some of the scripts first). I can build for both x86_64 and i686. best regards, Lukas Jirkovsky [1] http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://arch-graphics.kx.cz/

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[aur-general] openmpi, mpich2: provides 'mpi'
by Marco 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Hi people, should we define a provides=("mpi") or something like that in openmpi and mpich2, and eventually also other possible mpi implementations? That way a number of mpi-dependent packages will be made undependent of the chosen mpi implementation one wants to install. domanov

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[aur-general] makechrootpkg
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Is there a way to make 'makechrootpkg' use clyde so it will install missing dependencies from AUR? I looked at /etc/makepkg.conf /etc/pacman.conf and couldn't find an option. I also looked at the source for makechrootpkg and didn't see anything I could change to make it use clyde instead of pacman. Thanks

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[aur-general] Delete request
by Nathan O 24 Aug '10

24 Aug '10

Can batman be deleted http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22177 the package is named wrong, should be named batmand. I am currently updating it to update the package to the correct name. Thanks

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[aur-general] DestroyTwitter
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

How long do I have to wait before a package would be concidered to be orphaned. I left a comment containing how the PKGBUILD should be done and the next day emailed the maintainer, and I have not a response yet. It has been roughly 3-4 days. The current PKGBUILD is really messy in my opinion and I linked to a much cleaner version and still uses $startdir. Thanks

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[aur-general] Orphanin request
by Dan Vratil 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Hi, please orphan package libmusicbrainz2. I emailed maintainer and he has no interest in maintaining it since he's no longer using Arch. Thanks! Dan URL: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18081 -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil vratil(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870 Tento email neobsahuje žádné viry, protože odesílatel nepoužívá Windows. / This email does not contain any viruses because the sender does not use Windows.

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[aur-general] GMdesk Delete Request
by Nathan O 23 Aug '10

23 Aug '10

Can somebody delete GMdesk at http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28388The application crashes, and nor will a previous version run either. Thanks

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[aur-general] TU application
by Florian Pritz 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hi, I've been asked a few times to apply as a TU and finally decided to do so ;). My name is Florian Pritz, I'm from Austria, 18 years old and I've been using Arch for something like 2 years and a few weeks. Before that I've sometimes tried OpenSUSE, Fedora, Ubuntu and Gentoo, but after a few hours/days switched back to Windows. Currently I have 5 boxes running arch, 1 (desktop) testing, 3 servers (2 at home), 1 laptop (my father's). I'm mainly active in #archlinux.de, but also sometimes helping out on bugday. I'm a quite experienced PHP and shell programmer and some time ago I started with perl, which is really cool thanks to CPAN and bauerbill. My C and python skills are somewhat basic, but enough to find and fix some bugs. Currently I have 27 packages in the AUR [1], some even having > 40 votes and I'd like to bring those to community. Quite a lot of them still have "|| return 1", but I'm removing those whenever there are updates available. One of my servers is used for webhosting, myqsl, mail and a few shell accounts and I'd like to help update some of the software that's running on this box (most of it is from extra though :( ). Sometimes I'm rebuilding stuff like mysql, php, dovecot or postfix because of security advisories, but most of the time the you guys are faster. A small side project of mine is a pastebin/file upload service [2] written in PHP, using pygments for highlighting and memcached to reduce the load. [3] Thorsten Töpper asked me to become a TU and also wants to sponsor me. Thanks. If you want to know more, please ask. I'm not a good story writer ;) [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=bluewind [2] http://paste.xinu.at [3] http://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/filebin -- Florian Pritz -- {flo,bluewind}(a)server-speed.net

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[aur-general] Trusted User Application
by Brad Fanella 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

Hello everybody, In response to this (https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250) thread, I (and a few others) have decided that it would be a good idea to have a stream of new TUs to maintain packages that they actually use themselves, which in theory would lessen the gap between upstream and package releases. I guess I should tell you a little about myself and what I do/have done. My name is Brad Fanella and I am from Chicago, Illinois within the United States of America. I am a software developer, web designer, and [no]monkey[/no]. My forum username is itsbrad212 (I doubt anyone cares) and I have a little over 1,200 posts currently. I have been an Arch user since around December 2009 and a Linux user since late 2008. Before I had found Arch, distro hopping was a normal happening and I tended to do a lot of it. >From Ubuntu to Slackware to Debian to Gentoo, none of them every pleased me...until I found Arch. The combination of a simplistic, fast, rolling-release distribution with a great community and team of developers is what keeps me here, and I will definitely be staying for many years to come (if I ever leave at all). My talents? Well, when I first discovered that computers were for more than what happens when you click the Internet icon, the first thing that peaked my interest was web design, so I learned HTML, CSS, and (shortly later) PHP. A couple of months after that, I found another programmer and together we created a content management system (Surf-CMS) that we are currently managing to this day. Of course, how could you be called an "advanced" Linux user without knowing C and shell scripting? Well, I first learned about shell scripting when there were some tasks I needed to be done and I wanted to automate that process. C, on the other hand, was learned for two (maybe three) reasons: 1) Linux and C go together 2) I like speed 3) I wanted to be 1337 Kdding about the last one. Anyway, within the past few weeks, I have been developing a AUR+Pacman (and maybe ABS in the future?) wrapper in C. I thought C would be a good candidate because it's *fast*, and even with more than 500 lines of code, it still fetches, untars, and resolves dependencies in a split second. It is currently incomplete, but I plan to release it under the "Community Contributions" section in the near future. I also know Python and Assembly, but nobody really cares about Assembly anymore, so it's not really worth mentioning. I learned it because I have beens steadily developing a bootloader and kernel in pure 32-bit assembly (along with a few other developers) called LitaOS. Unfortunately, I don't work on it that often (maybe a couple hours a week, if that). What can I bring to the table? Well, as I said before, I use C for pretty much everything, so I do use a good amount of C libraries, so I guess you could say that. I also compile a couple of Python modules here and there. The main reason I wanted to become a TU is because I wanted to help improve the quality of both packages that I use personally and packages that others ask for, as well as help users on the AUR to bring their PKGBUILDs to a near perfected state. Arch deserves to be the very best, and I want to help get it there. Now, about my AUR package count. Allan even said it himself, and I quote: "@itsbrad212: You only have a few packages in the AUR but they look good. I'd say apply if you want..." I was actually a little hesitant about applying to become a trusted user, only because my AUR package count was so low. That being said, I actually have a fairly proficient knowledge of writing PKGBUILDs, building packages, using namcap, etc. For a short time, I was actually hosting a small repository of compiled packages from the AUR (that were either common or I used them myself) for a little linux discussion group on an IRC chat room. I actually am not still hosting those packages or maintaining them anymore as I wasn't getting enough of a response to make it worthwhile. I just recently got a list from a forum user of suggest packages that I should adopt in the AUR and keep up-to-date, so I plan on doing that. Chris Brannon has been kind enough to sponsor me, on behalf of Allan, through this process. I know I said it before, but I'll say it again. My goals are not to maintain 100,000 packages or something silly like that, but to improve other packages, submit clean and working packages myself, and help others on the AUR to improve their packages. Kind regards, Brad

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Re: [aur-general] TU application
by atsutane＠freethoughts.de 22 Aug '10

22 Aug '10

On Sat, 21 Aug 2010 20:42:50 +0200 Florian Pritz <bluewind(a)server-speed.net> wrote: > Hi, > > I've been asked a few times to apply as a TU and finally decided to do > so ;). > ...*snip*... > > Thorsten Töpper asked me to become a TU and also wants to sponsor me. > Thanks. > > If you want to know more, please ask. I'm not a good story writer ;) > > > [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=bluewind > [2] http://paste.xinu.at > [3] http://git.server-speed.net/users/flo/filebin > I happily confirm to sponsor him so: Let the discussion period begin! -- Jabber: atsutane(a)freethoughts.de Blog: http://atsutane.freethoughts.de/ Key: 295AFBF4 FP: 39F8 80E5 0E49 A4D1 1341 E8F9 39E4 F17F 295A FBF4

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[aur-general] TU application / Searching a sponsor
by Adam Hani Schakaki 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hello, I am Adam Hani Schakaki from south-west Germany and I think that this would be the right time to apply or rather to find a sponsor. I hope that there is no age restriction for becoming a TU because I am only 16 years old. Anyway, I got my first Mandriva Linux CD 7 years ago, after that I was using several distributions like Fedora, openSuSE, Ubuntu, Debian. I also tried Gentoo, but most of the time I used Ubuntu for desktops and Debian for servers. But around the beginning of this year I found the great ArchLinux and I loved it. I was/am programming a lot homepage related things in PHP and I also got pretty good programming skills in Java and surely bash. Currently, beside school, I am involved in a project ordered by a school for pupils and companies that every pupil can easily find a job training and the teachers can supervise it. It looks like I will finish school in two years and after that I want to study Software Engineering in London. I am maintaining 103 packages in the AUR, most of them are go-openoffice language packs. But those language packs are all outdated because at the moment I am providing binary version in my repository unless anyone requests a source version for the AUR. One of my goals would be to bring those language pack to the community repo, since there are already openoffice, go-openoffice and openoffice language packs, but no go-openoffice language packs. But the primary goal will ever be to improve ArchLinux and I want to help as much as I can. I hope that I did not forget anything and I would be proud if I found a sponsor. Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Yura Siamashka 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi Please delete: geanydoc, geanyprj, geanyvc These plugins are part of community/geany-plugins -- Yura Siamashka <yurand2(a)gmail.com>

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[aur-general] Package deletion
by Adam Hani Schakaki 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hello, please delete the following packages from the AUR. go-openoffice-da-lang [1]: Replaced by go-openoffice-da. go-openoffice-hu-lang [2]: Replaced by go-openoffice-hu. go-openoffice-zh_tw [3]: Replaced by go-openoffice-zh-tw. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35716 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35731 [3] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26189 Thanks Adam Hani Schakaki

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[aur-general] TU request?
by Brad Fanella 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi everyone, Terribly sorry if this is misplaced. Do I have to send a request to somebody in order to apply to become a trusted user? Anyway, I was recently reading a thread created on the forums that was basically talking about a need for new trusted users from within the community. https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=103250 Most of the discussion is on page two and beyond. We were talking about how having a larger amount of TU's and having them each maintain a smaller number of packages, typically ones that they use themselves, would seem more logical, or at least get packages synced quicker with upstream. After a nudge from Allan, I finally decided to apply. Again, sorry if this is in the wrong location. Could someone point me in the right direction if it isn't? (I checked the TODO section under the "Trusted User Guidelines" page on the wiki, but I assume that is for after you have been approved?) Don't hesitate to ask for more information. :-) Thanks, Brad

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[aur-general] Important: upcoming dbscripts release
by Pierre Schmitz 21 Aug '10

21 Aug '10

Hi all, as the new dbscripts are quite done I'll send you a list with the most important changes. (If you are in a hurry read at least the next paragraph) Incompatible changes: * db-update will now update all packages found in your staging dir from all repositories * db-move has now a different syntax: "<repo-from> <repo-to> <pkgname|pkgbase> ..." You can move as many packages as you like at once. There is no need to specify an architecture here. * The wrapper scripts like testing2core have been removed as they are no longer needed; use db-move instead * testing2x now moves both arches at the same time (testing2x64 has been removed) * I have also started a user documentation at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:dbscripts Important changes: * implementation of a package pool: all packages are now stored in pool/packages or pool/community directories on the ftp server. The current repository directories like extra/os/i686 only contain symlinks. As a results moving pacakges between repositories is now a matter of altering symlinks and as such very cheap. This should solve the problems with not fully synced mirrors we had in the past when a lot of packages were moved from e.g. testing to extra. * Packages are only switched to this new layout if they are updated or moved. This way the migration should be slow but smooth. * db-move can now handle multiple packages within one "transaction". General improvements: * unit tests based on shunit2 * heavy refactoring to share common functions * Added more integrity checks which are run before the repositories are touched. * rewritten functions for easier and smaller code * the scripts can handle other db compressions than gz (but there is no migration path yet) Note: even though the result is more or less a rewrite there are still things that can be improved or new useful features that can be added. The tests only cover some basic use cases so we should still have a look at it once the new version is deployed. I think we should deploy these soon (before Allan's big python rebuild party) with CLEANUP_DRYRUN enabled during the first days. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, https://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Deletion and disown requests
by Jakob Gruber 20 Aug '10

20 Aug '10

Hi, please delete stone-soup-nettiles [1]. The project looks dead and was never actually 100% usable as far as I know. I'm not sure about the second one. stone-soup [2] has a maintainer and was last updated on July 27th. However, it's been perpetually out of date, with AUR updates coming 2 months or so after official updates (even though nothing except pkgver and md5sums needed to be changed) and even then were done carelessly with incorrect links and md5sums. Somebody has even created a stone-soup071 package (which is the current version) because [2] is not up to date. I've marked the package out of date a few times, posted a PKGBUILD diff to the comments on July 31st (still not applied), and emailed the maintainer a week ago without a reply. While I don't want to steal this package, I'd love to maintain it and keep it updated. Your call whether disowning is appropriate. Thanks! schuay [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=37371 [2] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=16020

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