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[aur-general] question on devtools / aurtools
by Firmicus 13 Mar '08

13 Mar '08

Just a quick question relating to devtools and aurtools. pacman / makepkg now support arch=any, but AFAICS the current version of extrapkg (to which communitypkg is a symlink) does not support uploading packages built with $CARCH="any"... Is this likely to change soon? François

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[aur-general] VOTE: bash (Andrea Scarpino)
by Giovanni Scafora 12 Mar '08

12 Mar '08

This begins the 7 day voting thread for the addition of bash (Andrea Scarpino) as a TU, don't forget to vote. You can see his introduction and the discussion period here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-February/007121.html I vote YES. -- Giovanni Scafora Arch Linux Trusted User (voidnull) http://www.archlinux.org linuxmania(a)gmail.com

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[aur-general] firefox4 4.0a1pre-1
by JaDa 11 Mar '08

11 Mar '08

It's now in Aur http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15636 testers are welcome -- Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.

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[aur-general] some jokers spuriously flagging out-of-date?
by Firmicus 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

In recent weeks I've had too many cases of up-to-date packages being flagged out-of-date by some jokers. I find this annoying. Did some of you experience that too? I hope this is not done out of malevolence, but I would urge users to PLEASE check twice before flagging out-of-date! Thanks F

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[aur-general] lzma
by Firmicus 10 Mar '08

10 Mar '08

Hi everyone, The TeXLive project is considering using the lzma format instead of bz2 for its next release, and I wondered whether it is supported by makepkg. It is not, as I expected. But to my suprise, there is not even a PKGBUILD for it in AUR/unsupported! I have thus just uploaded lzma-utils to [community]. In case some of you are interested, it is said to achieve 15% better compression rates than bzip2 while being 2 to 5 times faster. And decompression is nearly as fast as gunzip (see http://tukaani.org/lzma/) Regards, François PS: A quick question: I have built a x86_64 package on Aaron's machine. What should I do to upload and commit it to the repo? Just "communitypkg" ?

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[aur-general] Orphan package
by Robert Hollencamp 09 Mar '08

09 Mar '08

Please orphan the AUR packages codeblocks and codeblocks-svn; the current maintainer is unreachable (hotmail says the user does not exist) and there is a new stable version; I have already posted pkgbuilds for it on the forum and am willing to adopt the packages. Robert Hollencamp rhollencamp(a)gmail.com

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

08 Mar '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for sakura 2.0.1-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] orphan request
by Dragonlord 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Hi, please orphan these 4 AUR packages: "cream, foremost, magicrescue, openoffice-spell-cs" The user Mikos is unreachable. I have new PKGBUILDS ready. Thanks! D -- Kdo chvíli stál, již stojí opodál, den žádný dvakrát se již nenarodí, čin dvakrát nezraje. -- Jan Neruda

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[aur-general] Missing Packages
by aur-notify＠archlinux.org 07 Mar '08

07 Mar '08

Missing x86_64 Packages: No new package supplied for sakura 2.0.1-2! -- This is an automated message. If you wish to stop receiving it twice a day, fix the package(s).

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[aur-general] Can it be done?
by Collin 29 Feb '08

29 Feb '08

NOTE: This is my first actual fresh pkgbuild. What a way to start! I've been looking into creating a package for FreePBX. However, I'm now wondering if it can be done with the pkgbuild system. The problem is that FreePBX wants a # of changes to a variety of packages (namely, mysql, apache, and php) and it wants to check to see that those changes are done before it installs. For instance, it wants mysql to already have a user account and PW for it as well as tables setup, etc. It seems like it might be difficult to make a package first add a bunch of system changes and then install the files. Is this possible to do? I'm thinking that my only hope would be to patch the FreePBX installer so that it no longer checks and instead make all of the necessary changes in an .install file which would run after the package is installed, correct? It would have been helpful if there was much of any documentation on how to go about building packages. But, I can't seem to find much of anything concrete.

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