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[aur-general] Orphaned Community packages
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Hello, there are 23 orphaned packages in community, some are dependencies of other community packages. (comments by me) cat. name version votes description (comment) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- games tintin 1.98.8-1 15 A console-based MUD client lib haskell-cabal 1.6.0.1-2 117 A framework for packaging Haskell software i18n thunderbird-spell-pt-br 2.0-1 5 Portuguese (Brazil) dictionary for Mozilla Thunderbird (i18n, native speakers appreciated:)) lib haskell-utf8-string 0.3.3-1 92 Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings lib haskell-x11-xft 0.3-1 32 Bindings to the Xft, X Free Type interface library, and some Xrender parts x11 xmobar 0.9-2 75 A Minimalistic Text Based Status Bar multimedia elisa-base 0.5.22-1 16 An open source cross-platform media center solution multimedia elisa-plugins 0.5.22-1 73 Plugins pack for elisa devel twisted-web2 8.1.0-2 51 The twisted.web2 package in Twisted. (dep. of elisa-base) lib python-cssutils 0.9.5.1-2 5 A CSS Cascading Style Sheets library for Python (dep. of elisa-base) network rutilt 0.18-1 19 Gtk2 utility that helps you configure your wireless network devices gnome sensors-applet 2.2.1-3 117 an applet for the GNOME Panel to display readings from hardware sensors, including CPU temperature, fan speeds and voltage readings. gnome awn-extras-applets 0.2.6-2 153 A collection of applets for avant-window-navigator x11 xgl 0.0.1.20080407-1 50 OpenGL accelerated X server x11 xdg-user-dirs 0.10-1 36 Tool to help manage 'well known' user directories like the desktop folder and the music folder. It also handles localization (i.e. translation) of the filenames. multimedia vamps 0.99.2-5 18 Very fast requantisizing tool for backup DVDs x11 gtk2_prefs 0.4.1-1 57 A GTK2 theme selector and font switcher Low votes, maybe hould go to unsupported: devel gputils 0.13.5-1 10 PIC Programming Utilities x11 system-config-printer-gnome 1.1.1-1 1 Pygtk CUPS Configuration (no package for x86_64) lib shapelib 1.2.10-3 0 simple C API for reading and writing ESRI Shapefiles lib libxml-perl 0.08-1 5 Perl library for working with XML deppendencies of other packages in community lib diacanvas 0.15.4-1 1 Library for drawing diagrams (dependency off gnuconcept in community) lib python-jinja 1.2-1 14 A simple pythonic template language written in Python (dep. of sphinx in community) If no-one else wants them, I will take the elisa-stuff. Regards Stefan

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[aur-general] Request for orphaning some more packages
by Christoph Zeiler 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

I'd like to request the orphaning of all packages formerly maintained by user shinlun. I contacted him some days ago about the outdated packages owned by him, w/o response. When looking at the dates of his last package updates, it appears he quit using Arch in June 2007. -- Follow The White Rabyte . . .

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Re: [aur-general] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by kludge 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

> IMO votes are no more needed on packages in repostories, neither any > dividing into categories usig tags. > Looking forward to the new order :) > > Jaro one user's question: if there is no voting on packages in [community], then what mechanism exists for users to suggest/cheer on a package's promotion to [extra]? -kludge

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for tintin 1.98.8-1! No new package supplied for tintin 1.98.8-1! -- 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] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by kludge 27 Jan '09

27 Jan '09

Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: > On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 02:39:38PM -0600, kludge wrote: >>> IMO votes are no more needed on packages in repostories, neither any >>> dividing into categories usig tags. >>> Looking forward to the new order :) >>> >>> Jaro >> one user's question: >> >> if there is no voting on packages in [community], then what mechanism >> exists for users to suggest/cheer on a package's promotion to [extra]? >> >> -kludge > > One users answer: > > Maybe the same mechanism that would move packages out of extra to > unsupported or community? > Its called pkgstats. pacman -S pkgstats and then exec pkgstats as root > IIRC. > > Greg accepted. for what it's worth, pkstats seems too "passive" an interaction to me. i feel more involved in any system when i can make active decision about what goes where (even if it's just one voice in the wilderness saying, "hey, wouldn't this be cool?!?"). hence why i run arch. then again, i have no hands-on experience managing packages, so my opinion is entirely from the user-side. maybe it's just my humanities degree showing :) -kludge p.s.: greg, i thought you left!

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Re: [aur-general] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by Grigorios Bouzakis 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:50:10PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Loui Chang wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:51:40PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: >> >>> As far as the web changes go, I suggest the relevant AUR developers >>> talk to the people who do the Arch site work and sort this out. >>> >> >> Well it depends. Do we want [community] to remain in AUR so we keep >> votes and comments and such, or do we drop those packages from AUR? >> > > I think non-coders opinions begin to matter less in this because they > will not be doing the work. > > Saying that, personally, I do not see the need for messages or votes > once a packages is in [community]. Many messages should probably go to > the bug tracker and votes mean nothing once a package enters the repos. > Maybe the main site needs an area where maintainers can leave a comment > about their package. > > Allan > > > +1 even if my vote doesnt count. Cpmments for what? Out of date? -> Flag it Problem? -> Bug report Comments -> Feature request Cudos/Anything else -> Send personal email Donations -> Paypal Just like its been with any other package in binary repos. Greg

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[aur-general] Request for package orphaning and removal
by Tri Nguyen 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

I'm tri170391, maintainer of winff-amd64. I see that the original winff package is now out-of-date and it's maintainer is not update it for a while, and it supported i686 only. I've now worked on a PKGBUILD that works on both architecture and I request TUs to orpan the winff package so that I can maintain it, and remove the winff-amd64 if you do so.

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[aur-general] Method to get all Packages
by Lukas Appelhans 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hey! I'm currently writing a GUI-Frontend for AUR integrated into Shaman (Qt-Alpm- Frontend)... Some people already pointed me to: http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php which seems to be quite cool in combination with QtJson... So now as far as I can see the only thing missing is a method to get the names of _all_ Packages... I tried to parse the Apache output of aur.archlinux.org/packages/ but that might not be a good idea, since the layout can change... So, I would like to ask if there is any method to get all package names or if that is planned? Lukas

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[aur-general] Arch64 community repo broken
by Giovanni Scafora 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi guys, I guess that arch64 repo is broken again. I checked out the logs located in /var/log/aur and I noticed this error: Error: cannot access config file (/etc/tupkgs64.conf) Can someone check out what's wrong? Thanks. -- Arch Linux Developer (voidnull) AUR & Pacman Italian Translations Microdia Developer http://www.archlinux.it

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[aur-general] Was my package removed?
by Robin Pedersen 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

I submitted a package, digikam-0.10.0rc1, yesterday and today it's not there. Was it removed? Why? I also submitted kipi-plugins-0.2.0rc1, which is still there. -- Robin Pedersen

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[aur-general] AUR package removal
by Ricardo Martins 25 Jan '09

25 Jan '09

Hi, I'd like to remove a package I maintain (ncmpc-tradiaz-svn [1]), since it was superseded by other package. However, I couldn't find anything in AUR's interface to delete it, so I had to ask here. [1] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=18291 Regards, -- Ricardo Martins * scarybox.net * GPG key: 0x1308F1B4

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Re: [aur-general] Community and the AUR (Was: Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos)
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

-----Original Message----- > Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 06:59:10 +0100 > Subject: [aur-general] Community and the AUR (Was: Vote - Moving > [community] to use same system as main repos) > From: Allan McRae <allan(a)archlinux.org> > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> > Loui Chang wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 03:36:56PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > > > Loui Chang wrote: > > > > > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:51:40PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > As far as the web changes go, I suggest the relevant AUR > > > > > developers talk to the people who do the Arch site work and > > > > > sort this out. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Well it depends. Do we want [community] to remain in AUR so we > > > > keep votes and comments and such, or do we drop those packages > > > > from AUR? > > > > > > > > > > > One thing I think no-one has brought up regarding this. The main > > > repos don't have package categories. So how would the AUR handle > > > that? > > > > > > > I think the categories would be removed. > > > > Any other people want to comment on this? Any TUs feel keeping AUR > pages for [community] packages is necessary? > > Allan > > Hello, I do not get bugreports, but I get AUR comments for my packages. So people seem to use them. I think they should be kept. Categories con be removed IMHO. Regards Stefan

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Re: [aur-general] Vote - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by Loui Chang 24 Jan '09

24 Jan '09

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 01:51:40PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > As far as the web changes go, I suggest the relevant AUR developers talk to > the people who do the Arch site work and sort this out. Well it depends. Do we want [community] to remain in AUR so we keep votes and comments and such, or do we drop those packages from AUR?

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[aur-general] lha removing request
by Артем Смирнов 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hi, I occasionally uploaded package which already in [extra] http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=507. Also lha not provided for x86_64, can anybody build it? Thanks. -- Artyom

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[aur-general] Discussion period - Moving [community] to use same system as main repos
by Allan McRae 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hi all, To get this moving along, I would like to start the official discussion period. Standard rules, 5 days discussion, 7 days voting, 75% quorum. If discussion raises some points which really need to be addressed before a vote then it can be delayed. Abhishek has mad a good summary with some additions by Loui at http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Community_move_to_devtools . I am very much in favour of this move as it will allow use to use [testing] for community packages, which remove the current problems we have during big rebuilds. It also means that any other changes made to the repos (e.g. arch=any packages, delta support to name my favourites) only needs to be made in one place. I also like the idea of the AUR being just unsupported packages and (despite not actually contributing code to the AUR) I have the feeling that this separation would make AUR development cleaner. Loosing the ability for users to leave comments about a package on the AUR is not a big deal for me as I think most of these should probably go to the bug tracker where they will not get lost. The concern about autonomy of the TUs is difficult for me to judge being a dev too, but given ~1/3 TUs are devs... Allan

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[aur-general] PKGBUILD Contributors lost
by Jordi Cerdan 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hi, Because of a crash of my HDD I lost some of the information I had and some (nearly all) of the PKGBUILD I maintain. I have a problem with: pommed, drpython, unicap and ucview. I didn't create them but I adopted them when they were orphaned. In the contributors list there's just my name, as I can't find any backup containing the creator, and maybe other contributors before. I Would like to update this list to the reality, so nobody thinks I'm trying to steal any creation... Is there a way to connect to aur svn and checkout any previous revision or to travel aur svn through the web? Regards, - Jordi Cerdan http://www.jordicerdan.com Andorra

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[aur-general] PulseAudio doesn't work after update to 0.9.14
by Jeff Cook 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hi all. After recent update to 0.9.14, PulseAudio no longer allows clients to connect. The server appears to be running properly. On startup, it outputs to both console and messages.log: Jan 21 15:47:37 arch pulseaudio[13203]: ltdl-bind-now.c: Failed to find original dlopen loader. Jan 21 15:47:37 arch pulseaudio[13203]: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-exit not set! Jan 21 15:47:37 arch pulseaudio[13203]: main.c: Running in system mode, but --disallow-module-loading not set! Jan 21 15:47:37 arch pulseaudio[13203]: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling SHM mode! Jan 21 15:47:37 arch pulseaudio[13203]: main.c: Running in system mode, forcibly disabling exit idle time! It's done this before without significant problems, but a couple of those messages are new. The error presented by pavucontrol and alsamixer is Connection failed: Connection refused. Please let me know if anything not appended is pertinent. Thanks for any and all help. Signed Jeff My .asoundrc: pcm.!default { type pulse } ctl.!default { type pulse } My default.pa: #!/usr/bin/pulseaudio -nF # # This file is part of PulseAudio. # # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it # under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, # Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA. # This startup script is used only if PulseAudio is started per-user # (i.e. not in system mode) .nofail ### Load something into the sample cache #load-sample-lazy x11-bell /usr/share/sounds/gtk-events/activate.wav #load-sample-lazy pulse-hotplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav #load-sample-lazy pulse-coldplug /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav #load-sample-lazy pulse-access /usr/share/sounds/generic.wav .fail ### Automatically restore the volume of streams and devices load-module module-device-restore load-module module-stream-restore ### Load audio drivers statically (it's probably better to not load ### these drivers manually, but instead use module-hal-detect -- ### see below -- for doing this automatically) #load-module module-alsa-sink #load-module module-alsa-source device=hw:1,0 #load-module module-oss device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input #load-module module-oss-mmap device="/dev/dsp" sink_name=output source_name=input #load-module module-null-sink #load-module module-pipe-sink ### Automatically load driver modules depending on the hardware available .ifexists module-hal-detect.so load-module module-hal-detect .else ### Alternatively use the static hardware detection module (for systems that ### lack HAL support) load-module module-detect .endif ### Automatically load driver modules for Bluetooth hardware #.ifexists module-bluetooth-discover.so #load-module module-bluetooth-discover #.endif ### Load several protocols .ifexists module-esound-protocol-unix.so load-module module-esound-protocol-unix .endif load-module module-native-protocol-unix ### Network access (may be configured with paprefs, so leave this commented ### here if you plan to use paprefs) #load-module module-esound-protocol-tcp #load-module module-native-protocol-tcp #load-module module-zeroconf-publish ### Load the RTP reciever module (also configured via paprefs, see above) #load-module module-rtp-recv ### Load the RTP sender module (also configured via paprefs, see above) #load-module module-null-sink sink_name=rtp format=s16be channels=2 rate=44100 description="RTP Multicast Sink" #load-module module-rtp-send source=rtp.monitor ### Automatically restore the default sink/source when changed by the user during runtime load-module module-default-device-restore ### Automatically move streams to the default sink if the sink they are ### connected to dies, similar for sources load-module module-rescue-streams ### Make sure we always have a sink around, even if it is a null sink. load-module module-always-sink ### Automatically suspend sinks/sources that become idle for too long load-module module-suspend-on-idle ### If autoexit on idle is enabled we want to make sure we only quit ### when no local session needs us anymore. load-module module-console-kit ### Enable positioned event sounds load-module module-position-event-sounds ### Load additional modules from GConf settings. This can be configured with the paprefs tool. ### Please keep in mind that the modules configured by paprefs might conflict with manually ### loaded modules. .ifexists module-gconf.so .nofail load-module module-gconf .fail .endif # X11 modules should not be started from default.pa so that one daemon # can be shared by multiple sessions. ### Load X11 bell module #load-module module-x11-bell sample=bell-windowing-system ### Register ourselves in the X11 session manager #load-module module-x11-xsmp ### Publish connection data in the X11 root window #.ifexists module-x11-publish.so #.nofail #load-module module-x11-publish #.fail #.endif ### Make some devices default #set-default-sink output #set-default-source input # #NETOWRK # load-module module-native-protocol-tcp My client.conf: #This file is part of PulseAudio. # # PulseAudio is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # # PulseAudio is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but # WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU # General Public License for more details. # # You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License # along with PulseAudio; if not, write to the Free Software # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 # USA. ## Configuration file for PulseAudio clients. See pulse-client.conf(5) for ## more information. Default values a commented out. Use either ; or # for ## commenting. ; default-sink = ; default-source = ; default-server = ; autospawn = yes ; daemon-binary = /usr/bin/pulseaudio ; extra-arguments = --log-target=syslog ; cookie-file = ; disable-shm = no ; shm-size-bytes = 0 # setting this 0 will use the system-default, usually 64 MiB

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[aur-general] Orphaning request
by Christoph Zeiler 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Could a TU orphan the three packages by user scottlc, please? Two of them are outdated and I contacted him some time ago and haven't gotten a response.

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[aur-general] Package remove request
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 21 Jan '09

21 Jan '09

Hi TUs! Because xmlrpc-c was added to extra http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?arch=&repo=&q=xmlrpc&last_update=&limit=… remove my package from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=5885 Thanks! -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) xmpp:vitaliy@berdinskikh.in.ua <xmpp%3Avitaliy(a)berdinskikh.in.ua> skype:skipper.barbossa

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[aur-general] Packages removal request
by Grigorios Bouzakis 20 Jan '09

20 Jan '09

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14433 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2464 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=8415 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2041 All part of the extra repository. Greg

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[aur-general] Building in a chroot
by Allan McRae 19 Jan '09

19 Jan '09

Hi TUs, I wrote a page on build packages in a chroot in the DeveloperWiki that I think might be useful for TU too. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:Building_in_a_Clean_Chroot This is good for TUs who want to run [testing] and build packages for [community] on the same system. Any questions, just ask. Cheers, Allan

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[aur-general] Package removal
by Florian Pritz 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

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[aur-general] A small thank you
by Benjamin Andresen 17 Jan '09

17 Jan '09

Hello everyone, I just read this blog entry: http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/01/14/the-beauty-of-aur/ and thought: I need to say thank you, too. It's a nice product. So thanks to the AUR developers: BaSh, et al. And of course thanks to bfinch for getting the whole thing rolling. br, a happy AUR-user

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Re: [aur-general] grub-gfx install failed
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

On 2009-01-16 13:25:34, Allan McRae wrote: > goodmenzy(a)gmail.com wrote: >> It said : >> >> >> checking package integrity... >> (1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################] 100% >> error: could not prepare transaction >> error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) >> grub-gfx: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem >> Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded. >> > > File a bug report. > > Done, a bug report has been posted at http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/12811?tasks=all&project=2

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[aur-general] grub-gfx install failed
by goodmenzy＠gmail.com 16 Jan '09

16 Jan '09

It said : checking package integrity... (1/1) checking for file conflicts [####################################################] 100% error: could not prepare transaction error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) grub-gfx: /usr/share/info/dir exists in filesystem Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

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