- Aur-general - lists.archlinux.org

[aur-general] orphaning some packages in [community]
by Pierre Schmitz 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi TUs, I would like to orphan some packages I don't use anymore. If you want to adopt them just drop a line or contact me. The packages are: gamin kdesvn knetworkmanager php-eaccelerator php-xcache php-xdebug qtcurve-gtk1 (there will be no new version; maybe a candidate for unsupported) solarwolf Greetings, Pierre -- Pierre Schmitz Clemens-August-Straße 76 53115 Bonn Telefon 0228 9716608 Mobil 0160 95269831 Jabber pierre(a)jabber.archlinux.de WWW http://www.archlinux.de

4 7

[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for assaultcube 0.93-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for assaultcube 0.93-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

1 0

[aur-general] Makepkg does not include one file
by Dan Vratil 22 Aug '08

22 Aug '08

Hi, that's me again... I have a problem with makepkg...when making tarball for the nvidia-utils-beta package, I just enter the folder and run 'makepkg --source', which packs all files from 'source' +PKGBUILD into the tarball.... In nvidia-utils-beta, there is 'supported-cards.txt' file. When I use 'makepkg --source', it says -> Adding supported-cards.txt... But when I unpack the created tarball, there is just a symlink, which probably links itself. When I make the tarball manually using tar and gzip, everything works...this is extremely strange - it was always working, I don't understand what has happend. Please, any ideas? Thanks, Dan -- --------------------------------- Dan Vrátil progdan(a)progdansoft.com ICQ 249163429 Jabber progdan(a)jabber.cz Tel. +420 732 326 870

2 1

[aur-general] e17 packages
by Ronald van Haren 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi! This mail is intended for all e17 users, as well as people maintaining packages which depend on the e17 community packages. The people over at enlightenment thought it was a good idea to swith from CVS to SVN, rendering all PKGBUILDs more or less useless (the switch was completed at the 18th of August). What does this mean: - all community packages have been renamed to the new naming convention (all except e-modules-extra-svn have only changed from -cvs to -svn - in the progress of converting the PKGBUILDs two more packages have been included in [community], namely ewl-svn and elitaire-svn - if everything goes as planned the upgrade should be relatively painless except for the ones having additional AUR packages installed with an explicit dependency on a -cvs package instead of a dependency on the provides line which have always been there. In this case I suggest to remove these packages before the upgrade, and compile them with new depends after the upgrade. There is no need to force as you should need to rebuld those anyways ;) - for people maintaining packages from the official enlightenment mirrors, please change your packages to incorporate the switch to SVN. For the ones maintaining packages depending on any of the e17 community packages, be aware that the naming has changed. - the installation instructions are updated in the wiki (same as before only -svn instead of -cvs). Regards, Ronald

1 0

[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for assaultcube 0.93-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for assaultcube 0.93-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

2 1

[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for synce-libmimedir 0.4-1.1! No new package supplied for perl-extutils-parsexs 2.18-5! No new package supplied for perl-module-corelist 2.13-1! No new package supplied for libgalago 0.5.2-2.1! No new package supplied for xf4vnc-xcliplistproto 20080607-1! No new package supplied for g-wrap 1.9.8-1! No new package supplied for helixplayer 1.0.8-4! No new package supplied for perl-locale-maketext-simple 0.18-2! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for cross-arm-wince-cegcc-cegccthrddll 0.51.0-1! No new package supplied for xf4vnc-xcliplistproto 20080607-1! No new package supplied for orange 0.3.2-1! No new package supplied for g-wrap 1.9.8-1! No new package supplied for helixplayer 1.0.8-4! No new package supplied for javasqlite 20080420-1! No new package supplied for perl-locale-maketext-simple 0.18-2! No new package supplied for perl-term-ui 0.18-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

5 5

[aur-general] Foldingathome needs an update
by Nick 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

It seems the maintainer of foldingathome has been awol for over a year and the package needs lots of updates. Is there any chance this could get orphaned? Apologies if I'm using the wrong list, I haven't used this in a while...

2 1

[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for assaultcube 0.93-1! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for fontforge 20060413-1! No new package supplied for assaultcube 0.93-1! No new package supplied for ekg2 0.1.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

2 1

Re: [aur-general] Applying for TU-ship
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Hello, >-----Original Message----- >Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:44:53 +0200 >Subject: Re: [aur-general] Applying for TU-ship >From: "Ronald van Haren" >To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" >Please try to keep the discussion in one thread and don't start a new >one for every question you get. Besides that, you misspelled my name >;) Sorry. >Besides that I took a quick look at some of your packages (started in >alphabetical order I came to dia-svn if someone wants to check >further). >Some remarks: >- The # $ID line has no use for packages in unsupported. If you adopt >a package which has been dropped into unsupported you can safely >remove that line on the first update you do. Okay, I will do so. >- aumix needs a conflicts and provides field with aumix-gtk in >community. Besides that the comment that is still there from the time >it was in extra is a bit confusing. Done. >- '# Adopted by:' is no valid field. See for example autoaur Will change it to another Contributor line. >- A lot of packages have only arch=('i686') set. Please try to verify >if it also works on x86_64. How can I do that? I have no access to a x86_64 machine. If a user reports that he successfully compiled it, I add the architecture to the arch-array. >- In biblatex you can create the directories with one install command >like >install -d >$pkgdir/opt/texlive/texmf-local/{bibtex,doc/biblatex,tex/latex/biblatex} >Same yields for biblatex-dw. I know that, but I do not think that this is convenient. In the way with the three lines it is easier to understand I think. >- In biblatex, LPPL is a custom license, so the license field should >read >license=('custom: LPPL'). Same for biblatex-dw LPPL is a common license. I made a feature request about that some time ago. >- Don't use the replaces field in bibledesktop-devel. For these cases >conflicts and provides is enough (see man PKGBUILD) Will fix that with next update. They update at least once a week. >- try to follow the cvs guidelines in the build part of bluefish-cvs I will try. >- in bmeps: license field should read license=('BSD') not custom:BSD The same may apply for dklibs, i guess. >- concordance: don't use echo inside the build function. If you don't >know the license, use license=('unknown') or something. The author drops no word about license issues. Done. >- Try to avoid using cp for copying one file. Use install instead in >ctwm. Done. >- don't use the replaces field in dia-svn. I will build a new revision at once, fixing this. Regards, Stefan

3 2

[aur-general] 500 Haskell packages now in AUR
by Don Stewart 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

10 weeks after the Arch Haskell group started, there are now 500 Haskell packages bundled up for Arch. I've written about how we automated the construction of Arch packages from Haskell Cabal format, via the cabal2arch tool, and a small survey of 10 nice packages from the set, here, http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/08/21#the_500 Cheers, Don

6 10

[aur-general] question about package naming conventions
by scrawler＠gmail.com 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Howdy guys, I have the gnuserv package in the aur and it's named, amazingly enough, "gnuserv". I noticed, however, that most of the emacs-related packages in community have the form "emacs-whatever". So it would be easy enough to submit with the new name if someone would delete the old one for me. I haven't uploaded anything yet--I just tidied up the package according to suggestions from more knowledgeable guys at the forum. thanks. -- signature sneezing: "achoo!"

2 1

[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for perl-term-ui 0.18-1! No new package supplied for courier-pythonfilter 1.4-2! No new package supplied for colorscheme 0.3.91-2! No new package supplied for warsow 0.3-1! No new package supplied for gstreamer0.10-polyp 0.9.0-1! No new package supplied for texlive-bin 2007.2-2.1! No new package supplied for lastfm-client 1.5.1.31879-1.1! No new package supplied for syncekonnector 0.3.2-3! Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for aqbanking 3.7.0-1! No new package supplied for midori 0.0.19-3! No new package supplied for colorscheme 0.3.91-2! No new package supplied for xen 3.2.1-1! No new package supplied for warsow 0.3-1! No new package supplied for gstreamer0.10-polyp 0.9.0-1! No new package supplied for syncekonnector 0.3.2-3! No new package supplied for dynamite 0.1.1-1! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

2 1

[aur-general] Dropping some packages
by Hugo Doria 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

I am not using GNOME anymore (trying enlightenment and openbox), so i decided to drop some packages. Below is a list of packages that i have no more interest in maintaining: brasero exaile gdm-themes gnome-system-tools (and system-tools-backends) listen murrine-configurator Let me know If you're interested in adopting any of these packages and keep them in [community]. If noone adopt them I will continue maintaining. I do not intend do move them to unsupported. -- Hugo

2 1

[aur-general] Move .proto files into their own directory.
by Loui 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

I was thinking maybe we should move .proto files that are in the community source tree into a directory called prototypes or something. What do the rest of you think?

3 2

[aur-general] Rolands questions to my TU appliance
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

-----Original Message----- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 23:03:12 +0200 Subject: Re: [aur-general] Applying for TU-ship From: "Ronald van Haren" <pressh(a)gmail.com style="margin:0px;"> To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" <aur-general(a)archlinux.org> >On 8/19/08, stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de <stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de> wrote: >> At the time I maintain 108 packages in AUR. Not all of them were >> written my me, but some of them I made after package requests on >> archlinux.org. Also I am active in the forums at archlinux.org and >> archlinux.de. >I haven't checked them yet, I'll do so later. I see a lot of these >packages have few votes, I assume you don't plan to move them all to >community? No, surely not. There are some -git, -cvs, -svn packages among them. Some packages do not need compilation, so users won't benefit too much from having it in a repo. >It is not really a lot of work to build on a remove machine. It only >takes little more time compared to building on your local machine. >Just take as many packages as you can do, but please try to build them >for both architectures at times that there is a build machine >available. Are you willing to do so? I am willing to do so. Maybe I will need some help at the beginning. >You said you want to concentrate on really important packages. That >brings up the million dollar question: what are really important >packages in your eyes? You really want to give me a million dollar if I answer that question? :) Just kidding. The votes are a good hint. But sometimes a package gets few votes because it fullfils a special task or addresses a small audiance. I do not have a list of packages yet I want to put in community. But fotoxx or xaralx could be a candidate. >Ronald Thank you for your reply. Stefan

1 0

[aur-general] AUR Turkish Translation
by H.Gökhan SARI 19 Aug '08

19 Aug '08

Hi all, We Archlinux Turkish users translated AUR into Turkish. I attached the translated files. Thanks, -- H.Gökhan SARI hsa2(a)difuzyon.net

2 2

[aur-general] FW: libncurses in [testing]
by stefan-husmann＠t-online.de 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Sorry, I tried to send this message to the arch-dev-public mailing list and was not allowed to do so. -----Original Message----- Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:50:12 +0200 Subject: libncurses in [testing] From: "stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de" <stefan-husmann(a)t-online.de> To: arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org Hello, I think Eric Belangers list of packages that need a rebuild due to the libncurses package in testing ist not sufficient. I found (not using lddd, but findbrokenpkgs, a tool with a similar task from AUR) darcs emacs (tested for with emacs-otf from AUR, but on the comment-page of emacs-cvs is a similar remark by someone) octave3 gutenprint libcaca librep lua ocaml yaz mplayer rlwrap Some of them are community-packages. Please consider also to add an arch and license array to the PKGBUILD of librep. Thank you Sincerely Stefan

2 2

[aur-general] non-http aur access
by wakeup 18 Aug '08

18 Aug '08

Hi folks, I think there should be a way to access the AUR without having to use a full featured web browser, preferably a command-line client. I suggest exposing a db (like every repository got one) and an ftp site which contains the same as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages to public use. On that way one could easily write clients that fetch the db, perform queries offline and get the tarballs via ftp. I do realize that there is yaourt, but that work-around is not exactly what I thought of. What do you think? best regards, wakeup PS: This is my first post to this list, so if that idea is not new, please excuse me. :) -- An Ashanti Proverb from Ghana - It is because of beauty, that is why the woman holds her breasts when she runs, not because the breasts are going to fall -Fela Kuti

5 5

[aur-general] ACPI problem with latest kernel
by Dan Vratil 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

Hi there, I have MSI laptop. I know, MSI does not have the best ACPI tables (this one should have "Windows Vista Compatible" tables), but with previous versions of the linux kernel (2.6.25.x) it worked pretty well. After updating to 2.6.26.2, it really sucks...after few minutes ACPI just "shuts down" with no reports in dmesg or logs and does not start (in previous version it was shutting down to, but after about half a minute it has started again, running for following hour or more with no problems). Does someone has any little experiences about this? Do you think it is -ARCH problem, or it's bug from vanilla kernel? Thank you for any ideas. With regars Dan Vratil

1 0

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] ncurses rebuilds in testing
by Eric Belanger 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi all, > > I have pushed the ncurses wide-character library rebuilds for i686 to the > [testing] repo. There are bound to be packages I missed so it would be good > if people run lddd and let me know if further rebuilds are needed. Note > libncurses.so and libcurses.so might appear to be in the package but they are > not real libraries... (run cat on them to see). missing rebuilds from extra: lftp xine-ui cmake xemacs dopewars libqalculate libgda gnuplot parted timidity++ abiword-plugins guile I'm forwarding this to the AUR ML as this is a major rebuild. If you use the testing repo and packages in community, be careful. Several community packages (and also packages built from custom/unsupported PKGBUILD) will break as they will need to be rebuild against the ncurses in testing. The community packages will be rebuilt once ncurses will be moved to core. Meanwhile, either stop using the testing repo or rebuild the packages yourself. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

1 0

[aur-general] UID/GID reservation request for pulseaudio
by bardo 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

I hope this is the right ML for asking this... another mail will follow with a similar request for vlock. I'm pulseaudio's maintainer in [community]. This package needs one user (pulse) and three groups (pulse, pulse-access, realtime) to work, but I couldn't find suggested ids for them. I didn't change the values I found when I inherited the package, so at the moment we have id 130 for pulse user and group and 131 for pulse-access. The 'realtime' group was added only recently, replacing the old pulse-rt, which had 132, and doesn't have any assigned gid, which is *bad*. It would be good to officially reserve a few ids for this package (130, 131 and 132, maybe?), also considering this package should someday go to extra... Corrado

1 1

[aur-general] new @ aur please help getting things right with package idjc
by das.t 17 Aug '08

17 Aug '08

hello people, i would like to introduce myself, i am tobias from leipzig, germany and as i love doing radio i love using idjc. after (partially) switching to arch and liking it i compiled it myself, just as i have done for more than a year now on debian. after discovering aur and seeing idjc is unsupported i decided that if i compile each new version myself i might as well help and try to get it updated in aur. unfortunately i am having very little time at the moment, leaving me no time for radio, yet i am trying my best to keep up with new releases. with the last release i had some problems (as mentioned in the forum, it did not build due to some changes in the place some headerfiles of ffmpeg got saved). unfortunately in the german forum i got into the way of a troll which discouraged me a bit for a while. as the latest version even did not work correctly on my own system and i had not enough time to check things out i had to delay working on it. anyway, i just uploaded a new PKGBUILD for the latest release of idjc. to my pleasure it built even without patching or the likes and installs correctly on my system and is working fine. right now i do not have the chance to test idjc on 64 bit, but i am going to install that again soon. i had a broken computer and had to start from scratch on a new machine. i would appreciate any help, i am willing to read manuals, already did read some aur related docs. i might be missing something. i know i am no programmer, i am still learning i just want to do my best and help. if i am missing something, please do tell me. most important: does it build for other people too? i have been broadcasting with radiotux.de from linuxtage chemnitz last linuxtag berlin last year and talking to people there i found that there is a great demand for an application like idjc. i would like to see it in arch and i would like to help others to use it in a simple way. this is my motivation. to give something back for all the great things i am receiving. humble greetings, das.t

2 1

[aur-general] Orphran xautolock
by Florian Pritz 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Hello, I'd like to adopt xautolock, but the current maintainer doesn't answer to my mail. I'd appreciate if a TU orphraned it. http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14281 -- Greetings Florian

2 1

[aur-general] TU Cloak
by Daenyth Blank 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Can I get my TU cloak on IRC? I'm on as Daenyth Thanks.

3 2

[aur-general] Could not create directory /home/aur/unsupported/<pkgname>
by Vitaliy Berdinskikh 15 Aug '08

15 Aug '08

Please fix my packages: tomcat6 and jedit-devel. I can't upload a new version. -- Sincerely yours, Vitaliy Berdinskikh (Виталий Бердинских) xmpp:vitaliy@berdinskikh.in.ua

1 0