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[aur-general] Random discussion about certificates
by Aaron Griffin 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Magnus Therning<magnus(a)therning.org> wrote: > Aaron Griffin wrote: >> >> On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 2:03 PM, Magnus Therning<magnus(a)therning.org> >> wrote: >>> >>> Aaron Griffin wrote: >>> [..] >>> >>>> It's not invalid, it's self-signed, so there's no certificate authority >>>> stamp-of-approval on it. We had a free year certificate at one point, >>>> but >>>> decided not to waste the money for a real certificate if it's only used >>>> by >>>> the devs. >>> >>> One option would be getting one from CACert.org. Of course it won't be >>> worth >>> a lot without putting their root cert in >>> openssl/firefox/konquerer/epiphany/etc... >> >> We looked into that, but that's not much better than a self signed cert. >> We >> discussed this at length among the devs, and already made a decision. >> We're >> well aware of all the options :) > > What was the line of reasoning behind "not much better than a self signed > cert"? Changing the subject here while we go on this tangent. The reasoning is simple: CACert root certificates aren't generally accepted, and while we actually support them in things like konquerer, firefox and other tools are a different story (silly mozilla). It's just not feasible at this point, so we end up with a certificate that is "untrusted" anyway. Now here's the thing.... we already discussed this, and all I'm doing now is rehashing debates about it. There's not much point in it, and I'm not going to be suddenly convinced to do a bunch of work to change a site that is used by about 30-40 people with no actual benefit besides getting rid of a one-time warning screen. The decision was made, it's over and done with, it's not a big deal.

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[aur-general] Incrementing pkgrel
by Nicola Fontana 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi all, what is the common practice when facing a PKGBUILD update that does not change the final binary package nor the dependency tree (let's say, a type in an "echo" message or a wrong # Contributor: line)? Do I have to increment the pkgrel value anyway? This is the guilty PKGBUILD: it is pretty straightforward but... just in case I have made some other stupid mistake. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk2panel/gtk2panel/PKGBUILD Thanks in advance. -- Nicola

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[aur-general] packages in community
by vlad 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

hi all, are community repo packages going to be deleted from AUR? is the AUR comment interface still used for these packages or should one use only the bugtracker? thanks in advance, vlad --

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[aur-general] Please delete kde4-crystaldiamond-icons
by Vojtech Horky 10 Aug '09

10 Aug '09

Hi, could some of the TUs, please, delete kde4-crystaldiamond-icons as it already exists as kde4icons-crystaldiamond. I created the package as I haven't noticed it in search results. Sorry for the trouble. Thanks in advance. - Vojta

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[aur-general] PKBUILD problems - Tangerine and nini
by Laurie Clark-Michalek 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hi, I'm having problems updating the aur package tangerine. It has recently been revived (as a progect), and the new developer has stoped including "log4net" and "nini", and instead using system installed ones. I have acordingly updated the depends, but the ./configure script is failing to detect nini. More worrying, when I patch out that check, it fails to find nini for the compile, and generaly colapses in a heap on the floor. Anyway, I was wondering if there was anyway of manualy making it point to /usr/lib/mono/gac, where nini is apparently installed. Also, is this the standard place for nini? This is a general plea for help xD. See PKGBUILD below. # Contributor: Christoph Zeiler <rabyte*gmail> # Contributor: William Rea <sillywilly(a)gmail.com> # Maintainer: Laurie Clark-Michalek <bluepeppers(a)archlinux.us> pkgname=tangerine pkgver=0.3.2 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="An application that allows you to publish music over the local network using DAAP" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') url="https://launchpad.net/tangerine/" license=('GPL') depends=('gtk-sharp-2' 'daap-sharp' 'libsm' 'muine' 'beagle' 'mono-zeroconf' 'log4net') makedepends=('nini') source=(http://launchpad.net/tangerine/0.3/$pkgver/+download/$pkgname-$pkgv… md5sums=('2b214900f6b39240ca9388cbcf912d2d') build() { cd $pkgname-$pkgver export MONO_SHARED_DIR=$(pwd) ./configure --prefix=/usr make || return 1 make DESTDIR=$pkgdir install } Thanks, Laurie

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD for updated libtorrent and rtorrent
by Partha Chowdhury 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Following the discussions here, http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2009-August/006881.html i have attached modified PKGBUILDs for libtorrent and rtorrent for updated versions 0.12.5 and 0.8.5 repectively.

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[aur-general] please delete libwnck-python
by vlad 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

ditto. i adopted python-wnck and libwnck-python is basically the same package. vlad --

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[aur-general] Orphaning moovida
by Stefan Husmann 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hello TUs, I would like to get rid of my package moovida since I do not use it. I got two bugreports about it, and so i added the packages python-cssutils-legacy and twisted-web2 to [community] as dependencies. The only other dependencies in [community] are pigment and python-pigment. So if anyone wants to have them, take them. There is also a package python-cssutils in [community]. This formerly was a dependency of moovida, but because of one of the bugreports I reintroduced the older version as python-cssutils-legacy. So python-cssutils now only is needed by two unsupported packages calibre and calibre-ng. Are there objections to move it to [unsupported]? Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] Please delete "matplotlib-mplot3d"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hey, please delete AUR package "matplotlib-mplot3d" because the package is extremely old and completely broken by now (with Python 2.6 anyway) and because it is unnecessary now that matplotlib 0.99 officially adds 3D plot support again (yay!). -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] TU application: Laszlo Papp
by Laszlo Papp 09 Aug '09

09 Aug '09

Hello, I'd like to formally express my interest in becoming a Trusted User. My name is Laszlo Papp and I'm addicted to archlinux. :) I'm a 23 year old from Hungary, working at a resourcement/development company as Embedded Linux Developer. I've been using Linux for more than 7 years. I used Gentoo until early 2008, and I learned a great deal about Linux in the process. I settled on Arch more than 1 year ago, nearly 1 and half :) Moving to Arch was easy for me, because of my years of experience with Gentoo. I was very attracted by the lack of dominance of money and business world and by the warm and friendly community. I have got some experience in Assembly, C, VHDL languages. I have written some open source usb kernel driver (for Passport Reader, Fingerprint Reader, etc.), and a pci kernel driver. I've worked with PIC, AVR microcontrollers, DSP processors, ARM architecture, and FPGA design. I deal with Blackfin DSP board with Embedded Linux on it recently, and I try to help to write C/ASM API for this. My username on the BBS, AUR, Wiki, Bugs, and Freenode is djszapi. Mainly my contribution to archlinux community was on this sites. See the following URL for my packages in AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=djszapi I think that Arch does not have a significant presence in the embedded development area of community. I wish to make Arch a viable choice for an embedded developer, by maintaining more popular embedded development related packages in [community]. My Second purpose to do the best support in Arch for vim editor. I like to work from a text console, with framebuffer, and vim :) 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 would like to add these packages to the [community] repo. 1. AVR microprocessor: avarice, avra, avr-gdb, kontrollerlab, simulavr, tavrasm, uisp, gnome-avrdude 2. PIC microprocessor: picasm, picp, picprog, pikdev, piklab, pk2cmd 3. Blackfin Digital Signal Processor: blackfin-toolchain-elf 4. Tinyos: nesc, tinyos, tinyos-tools 5. ARM architecture: openocd-svn 6. Picoblaze Softcore processor: kpicosim 7. FPGA design: ghdl-bin, verilator 8. Some common, like usb-serial converter driver: libftd2xx. Feel free to ask me, if something is obscure or you would like to know more about me. Thanks to Stefan Husmann for sponsoring me. Best Regards, Laszlo Papp

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[aur-general] PD license/no license
by Anton Shestakov 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hey there. I want to submit sdlmame-cheats package to AUR. Basically, this package would provide a single file; archived collection of user-provided xml files for using in sdlmame. But I have some difficulties with it's license. I couldn't find it nor on the official site, nor in the archive. Actually, I've asked on local forum what license they are providing their work under [1]. The reply was, I quote, "Any individual cheats in this forum/submitted can be taken as Public Domain. I don't know if the collection needs a license or what type of license to put on the full collection". So what do you think, can I put a "license=('PD')" in PKGBUILD? Or even no license at all? [1] http://www.mamecheat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3450&start=0

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[aur-general] Why 'any' is not widely used in [community] ?
by Nezmer＠allurelinux.org 08 Aug '09

08 Aug '09

Hi , I wanted to ask about the "moovida" package specifically . But then I noticed the number of 'any' packages is very small in [community]. I know 'any' support hardly affect users . I'm just curious .

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[aur-general] Removal Request
by Massimiliano Torromeo 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, please remove the aur packages plasma-applet-rememberthemilk, librtm and rtm- dataengine. They are now in extra under the cumulative package kdeplasma-addons-applets- rememberthemilk. Thank you. -- Massimiliano Torromeo mail/xmpp: massimiliano.torromeo(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by Dany Martineau 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

I orphaned gdoomsday because the project has been replaced by enyo-doom (package was created some days ago). I think gdoomsday can be deleted now. Project won't be developed anymore! Thanks! -- Dany Martineau Enseignant en mathématiques En congé parental jusqu'au 25 août 2009 http://arctangente.blogspot.com CSSMI

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[aur-general] Need help updating nbd package
by Peter Simons 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, the nbd package at AUR, http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9691, has been out-of-date for quite a while. I have an updated PKGBUILD (attached below) and wonder whether there is a way to make that update happen even if the maintainer of that package has apparently lost interest. Take care, Peter

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[aur-general] latexmk is gone?
by Florian Preinstorfer 06 Aug '09

06 Aug '09

Hi, is there any reason for this deletion? best regards, -- nblock

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[aur-general] arch=('i686')
by Lucas Salies Brum 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

How do I know that a package will work in an architecture different from mine? --- Lucas Saliés Brum http://sistematico.org lsbrum @ irc.freenode.org

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[aur-general] The KDE 4.3 update for packagers
by Pierre Schmitz 05 Aug '09

05 Aug '09

Hi Devs and TUs, with the recent KDE update the packages were split up. All packages in extra should be updated but if you maintain a KDE related package please check. Try to reduce the deps (use namcap) and replace a dep to kdegraphics with the needed sub packages. At least a KDE pacakges which has some standalone app should depend on kdebase-runtime (namcap wont tell you) In addition to this phonon is included into Qt now. Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre

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[aur-general] Deletion request
by mathieu p 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

I think that someone should remove the "archgdm" package, because : -The project page (gnome look) is a 404 -The package URL is also a 404 -No email is given in the pkgbuild, so it isn't possible to know who made the package, and with which gdm theme was used (the search "Archlinux" in "GDM Themes" in gnome look returns seven results)

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[aur-general] Please orphan AUR package "tao"
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Hey, Please orphan the AUR package "tao" since it has never been updated, the user seems to have gotten inactive starting somewhere 2006 and the PKGBUILD is lacking quality. I will not maintain it because I'm not a big Mono fan but others should be given the opportunity to do so. -- Sven-Hendrik

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[aur-general] Problem with cleanup script
by Biru Ionut 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

repomaint(a)archlinux.org wrote: FTP path '/srv/ftp/core/os/i686' does not exist FTP path '/srv/ftp/extra/os/i686' does not exist FTP path '/srv/ftp/testing/os/i686' does not exist something is fishy here. did someone forget to change the cleanup script after moving to the new db-scripts? -- Ionut

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[aur-general] Removal Request
by mathieu p 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Please remove the packages koulourpaint and koulourpaint-bin from the AUR. They are flagged out of date, unmaintained, and the previous maintainer wants it deleted (I assume it's him who wrote the pkgdesc and the comments) « easy-to-use paint program for KDE. Obsolete dummy package - kdegraphics should be used instead»

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Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] ViewVC URLs for splitted packages
by Abhishek Dasgupta 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

2009/8/4 Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych(a)gmail.com>: > Hi! > > The View SVN Entries link for splitted packages is broken. > For example: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons/ > The link on that page points to > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons/repos/extra… > but because it is a splitted package the SVN tree can be viewed at > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/kde-meta/ > One way is using symlinks; other is using pkgbase information from .PKGINFO (not sure if pkgbase is included in .PKGINFO though) in the web interface. -- Abhishek

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[aur-general] Community transition, SVN, ETA?
by Magnus Therning 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Is there any ETA for the completion of the community move? Especially I'm wondering when the PKGBUILDs for community will be accessible again. Currently all links to SVN (ViewCVS) result in 404 :-( /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[aur-general] New DB scripts are live
by Aaron Griffin 04 Aug '09

04 Aug '09

Both gerolde (archlinux.org) and sigurd (aur.archlinux.org) now have the new DB scripts Important changes include support for "any" architecture packages (yay) and split packages. Please report any issues in the bug tracker

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