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[aur-general] Adding MAINTAINER comment box
by james toy 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

AUR, I think we should try to implement a comment box above the general comment box that can be edited ONLY by the package maintainer -- this is important for updates and information about more complex packages -- for example -- kernel26zenmm-git does not automatically have nvidia support built in and can be supplemented by the xf86-video-nvidia (i think thats the package name i'm just doing it from memory now) -- this is useful information that should not get lost in the main comments box -- i just wanted to throw this out there -- never too many documents -- especially when there are caveats -- hope everyone is well respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 09 Jul '08

09 Jul '08

Missing i686 Packages: No new package supplied for cherrypy 3.1.0-1! -- 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] [arch-dev-public] inactivity notice (vacation)
by Ronald van Haren 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Travis Willard <travis(a)archlinux.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Ronald van Haren <pressh(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi devs/Tus, >> >> I'll be on vacation from 9th of August (tomorrow) until 29th of >> August. During this time I will probably not check my mail at regular >> intervals so don't expect quick respones from my side ;) > > 9th of July? > > arghh yeah. from 9th of July until 29th of July.

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[aur-general] encfs
by Patrick Baumgart 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

I need the package as dependency in "cryptkeeper". But the package is gone and I cannot put a "new" encfs package to AUR, although there is none available. I would take the encfs package on my own, if no one maintains it. Baumi --

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[aur-general] kernel26zenmm-git PKGBUILD
by james toy 06 Jul '08

06 Jul '08

all, I was wondering what the demand for this PKGBUILD would be -- its for the git of zenmm -- i am asking first instead of just throwing it on the AUR because it will be a bit of a pain to maintain since its SO bleeding edge -- if people DO want it though i will certainly put in the time to make it readily and easily available -- hope everyone enjoyed the holidays respectfully, -- jt

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[aur-general] community repo no longer updating
by Eric Belanger 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

There's a problem with the community repo which prevents it from updating. >From the log: cvs update: failed to create lock directory for `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' (/var/lock/cvs/community/devel/glib2-docs/#cvs.lock): Permission denied cvs update: failed to obtain dir lock in repository `/home/cvs-community/community/devel/glib2-docs' cvs [update aborted]: read lock failed - giving up Hopefully an admin will fix that soon. Eric -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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[aur-general] TU application
by Anders Bergh 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

Hi! I'd like to apply to become a Trusted User. I talked to Angel Velásquez (angvp) on IRC and he said he would be my sponsor. I've used Arch Linux since early 2006 and Linux since 2001. I've also been doing some work on Arch Linux PPC, mainly been trying to keep the packages that I use up to date, but I've also been working on tools to make it easier to do so... but I haven't yet completely figured out the best human-friendly way to see what needs updating and rebuilding. Currently I maintain packages related to the D programming language in the AUR, and recently got permission for Arch Linux to distribute the D compiler. It's closed source, however the front-end is open source and there are already a couple of open source D compilers, however the gcc-based gdc is not very maintained (doesn't work with gcc versions > 4.1) and the others are quite early in development. I used to maintain a small binary repository but I don't think a lot of people actually used it. But I did get quite a bit of experience with the repository tools and how to build packages. After adopting most of the D-related packages I no longer needed to host my own. I'm also quite interested in the Lua programming language, and I maintain a few Lua packages and so far one got adopted by another TU into community. I used to be a rabid Debian user but the one thing that annoyed me was how you almost had to read a book in order to create your own packages. In Arch Linux it was so easy to create them and that's the main reason I use this distribution. I really like when things are simple! My list of AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=Anders&SeB=m Note that I haven't updated the gdc packages yet, I think they're kind of tricky to install since the gcc makefiles aren't really helpful when you want to install one frontend only. About me: I'm Swedish and 17 years old. Most of my interests involve computers, such as programming, IRC, games... it's a bit hard to think of all the things I do because I often like to try new things. I'm currently focusing quite a bit on web dev such as PHP and Django. I'm not much of a web design guy so it's mostly the coding part that interests me. My native language is Swedish, and I did English in school ever since 1st grade, however most of my English is self taught because of all the time I've spent on IRC and other places on the Internet. I have an Arch 64 installation so building 64-bit packages isn't a problem for me. Regards, Anders

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Re: [aur-general] New Devs
by Simo Leone 04 Jul '08

04 Jul '08

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 09:43:23PM +1000, Allan McRae wrote: > Hi TUs (and other interested parties), > > Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of > developers bought on in the past weeks > (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. > So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. > > The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions > in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some > strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by > oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan > some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes > larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will > deal with that if/when the time comes. > > Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's) > Also note that if you at some point don't want to do the TU stuff but don't want to drop your packages on them either, I'm in the habit of giving devs community access if they ask for it, and no one's complained about it yet. Luckily we all seem to get along :) -S

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[aur-general] New Devs
by Allan McRae 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi TUs (and other interested parties), Many of you may have noticed that there are eight TUs in the new bunch of developers bought on in the past weeks (http://www.archlinux.org/news/401/) That is about 1/3 of the total TUs. So we thought we let you know what was happening with our TU positions. The good news is that we do not intend on resigning from our TU positions in the immediate future. We are joining the dev team to help take some strain of the devs and don't want to create strain for the remaining TUs by oprhaning all our community packages in the process! We may want to orphan some packages in the community/unsupported repo as our workload becomes larger with picking up packages to maintain in the main repos, but we will deal with that if/when the time comes. Allan (on behalf of the newly appointed Dev/TU's)

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[aur-general] Firefox 3
by Slash 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Comrades, Now that Firefox 3 is stable, I think we need to consider cleaning up the packages related to such on the AUR. A lot of these firefox3 ones are no longer needed: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=firefox&SeB=nd&PP=100&d… For example: arch-firefox3-search - "arch-firefox-search" should be updated for version 3 firefox3-bin - "firefox-official" should do the same thing firefox3-bin-pl - "firefox-official-pl" should be created to replace firefox3-i18n - same.. or maybe a variant of this package should be used rather than language-specific ones firefox3-rc-es - no longer needed Thoughts? Thanks, Slash

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