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First PKGBUILD (hpsahba-git), any tips?
by Fermín Olaiz 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

Hey guys! I just made my first PKGBUILD [1] for a tool I use and would like to see what could be improved. I've been maintaining some things for a while but they don't have that much use and this is the first one I make from scratch. So far I've checked things with namcap. Thank you! Fermín Olaiz [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hpsahba-git

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Hello
by Salah Warlike 02 Mar '26

02 Mar '26

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Telegram
by Salah Warlike 01 Mar '26

01 Mar '26

Android

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Very old AUR account recovery
by Katie Bohnenkamper 22 Feb '26

22 Feb '26

Hello! I'm trying to gain access to an AUR account I haven't touched in years: KittyKatt (email: kittykatt(a)archlinux.us) The "Forgot password" page directed me to send a message here if I couldn't remember my username or email. That's not exactly the case, but hopefully I can get help here anyways. Unfortunately that email address has been dead for probably close to 6-7 years so there is no way for me to recover this by normal means. Is there any way to gain access back into this account or any way I can verify my identity? Thank you, Katie

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Internal Server Error in AUR while trying to login
by Javier Tia 19 Feb '26

19 Feb '26

Hi, Today I have been unable to log in to AUR because of this error: 500 - Internal Server Error A fatal error has occurred. Details have been logged and will be reviewed by the postmaster posthaste. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. It was working yesterday. I have checked this Arch Linux forum and the several arch-general mailing lists for any reported issues, but I have not seen any. Thanks, » Javier Tia ✍

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Temporarily suspend matthewq337 user
by Michał 18 Feb '26

18 Feb '26

Hello, I've seen this user squats many packages dropped which are either dropped to AUR or abandoned, and then adds other people who are actually interested in said packages to co-maintainers. I've had this happen to me with 3 packages, which are also mentioned in examples list below. In the past few months I have seen this user push various nonsense commits to many packages. Some examples are: ruby-rails (and dependencies) where only pkgver was bumped, without testing any build. This resulted in build failures for simple reasons such as missing files: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=ruby-actionview&id=a98abc6… https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-actionview#comment-1019144 pyload-ng, pushing changes without pulling first and other nonsense "updated" commits without testing also visible in git log https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=pyload-ng&id=c91cc2cb90daa… librewolf-hg, package "fixed" which resulted in pkgbuild being unusable https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/librewolf-hg#comment-981229 python-dukpy, changing license file name from right to wrong which prevented install: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=python-dukpy&id=2ddc02e9fa… https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/commit/?h=python-dukpy&id=9d7aab0205… python-glfw, bumping pkgver, but this did not actually result in new version being built: https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=python-glfw#n13 These examples are not from malice or anything, but from not testing changes and incompetence. "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone", but I think that such over such long period of time (~6 months at least) mistakes in packaging without seemingly any improvement show that matthewq337 doesn't care about state of packages. I am therefore calling for moderator action, to prevent this from happening so that Matthew can reflect. Kind regards, micwoj92

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Invisible pkgbase "radicle" prevents pushing — database intervention needed?
by Ivan Shapovalov 15 Feb '26

15 Feb '26

Hi, I am trying to push a pkgbase `radicle` consisting of one pkgname `radicle-node` (with the intention of subsequently asking the maintainer of `radicle-cli` to merge). There is no package `radicle` or `radicle-node` visible in the search or via direct URLs: https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/radicle -> 404 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/radicle -> 404 https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/radicle-node -> 404 However, I am unable to push `radicle` via Git: ``` $ git remote add origin https://aur.archlinux.org/radicle $ git push -u origin master To aur.archlinux.org:radicle ! [rejected] master -> master (fetch first) error: failed to push some refs to 'aur.archlinux.org:radicle' hint: Updates were rejected because the remote contains work that you do not hint: have locally. This is usually caused by another repository pushing to hint: the same ref. If you want to integrate the remote changes, use hint: 'git pull' before pushing again. hint: See the 'Note about fast-forwards' in 'git push --help' for details. ``` The PKGBUILD on the AUR server under this repo is severely out of date. Would it be possible for AUR admins to manually clean up this repo, so that I could push the package I intend to maintain? Thanks, -- Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /

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makepkg - Debug Package
by Björn Försterling 14 Feb '26

14 Feb '26

Hello, when creating and installing a custom package with `makepkg -i -c` how can I prevent that a "*-debug-*" package will be created and installed? I could not find any related information in `man 5 PKGBUILD` or `makepkg -h`. Regards Björn

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Packaging a fork with different name
by Zen 13 Feb '26

13 Feb '26

Hi! I am trying to package [librempeg](https://github.com/librempeg/librempeg) which is a fork of ffmpeg and is supposed to be a drop-in replacement to it. In PKGBUILD, provides, depends are all the same and I added "conflicts=('ffmpeg')". How do I make other packages use the new package (librempeg-git) as ffmpeg? Build works but installation fails with: ``` looking for conflicting packages... :: librempeg-git-r124983.f986adf-1 and ffmpeg-2:8.0.1-5 are in conflict. Remove ffmpeg? [y/N] y error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'ffmpeg' required by ffmpegthumbs :: removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'ffmpeg' required by firefox:: removing ffmpeg breaks dependency 'ffmpeg' required by freerdp ``` Thanks! Zentropivity

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Is there any guideline for different packages with conflicting names?
by Fermín Olaiz 09 Feb '26

09 Feb '26

Hey there! I'm reaching out because I didn't find any reference to the topic in the wiki [1] or in the discussion page. I'm making a package around an app called Thrive [2], but I found that there is already a completely different package with the same name. For the package I'm making there's an app and a cli version, so I'm guessing in this case they could perfectly be named `thrive-app` and `thrive-cli`. In any case, with a growing number of packages in the AUR, it would be reasonable to think this kind of things will happen more frequently. Is there any guideline or ideas for this? Should a discussion (maybe RFC) be started? Thanks! Fermín Olaiz. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Arch_package_guidelines#Package_naming [2] https://github.com/horia141/thrive

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