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git in makedepends?
by Greg Minshall 16 Dec '22

16 Dec '22

hi, again. if git is needed only for the "source" line of PKGBUILD (i.e., to download, and optionally verify, the source file(s)), does git need to be listed in "makedepends"? cheers, Greg

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XMPP support for Arch Linux
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, So currently there is two methods (which I know of) with communicating with the Arch Community, those are email (mailing list) and IRC (I believe on libera.chat?!?!?). Is there any plans to support XMPP? Thanks, Polarian

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Java code in AUR
by Polarian 15 Dec '22

15 Dec '22

Hello, I have discovered an annoying issue with java within the AUR. One of the projects I aim to wrap is written in java, however it contains a lot of other dependencies in java, and I have been thinking about the idea of how to package, and installing a jar with all the dependencies compressed within it defeats the purpose of packaging. I assume I should have each dependency as its own package, which means its more maintainable and each dependency can be bumped manually, but I doubt it is conventional to put .jar's in with shared objects (.so) within the libraries directory. Does anyone have any ideas how you would package a large Java codebase with the dependencies separated to be more maintainable? I am aware Java is such a pain to package, distributions such as gentoo do not even bother sometimes and do not support java packaging that well. Thanks, Polarian

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Submitting packages to AUR
by Polarian 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, I have read both the submission guideline and also aur packages, but I am a little confused on how to actually create the repository. Does cloning a pkgbase (whatever name you want to call the package) automatically create the remote repository? What if you have got a local repository already (using git init) and want to push it to a AUR remote, but it does not yet exist? Thank you, Polarian

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Package popularity
by Polarian 14 Dec '22

14 Dec '22

Hello, Out of curiosity, how is the value of the package popularity calculated? Thanks, Polarian

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PKGBUILD review.
by Wyatt C Jackson 13 Dec '22

13 Dec '22

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 I recently put together a PKGBUILD file for a tool I made and want to put on the AUR. While I believe it should be fine, I would like to have it reviewed before I upload it. - --- ``` # Maintainer: Minecraftchest1 <minecraftchest1 at outlook dot com> pkgname=file-sharing-tool pkgver=0.2.0 pkgrel=1 epoch= pkgdesc="A tool to help setup file sharing using ssh." arch=('any') url="https://gitlab.com/minecraftchest1/steamdeck-file-share-tool" license=('GPL3') groups=() depends=('openssh' 'zenity' 'sed' 'bash') makedepends=('coreutils') checkdepends=() optdepends=() provides=() conflicts=() replaces=() backup=() options=() install= changelog= source=("git+https://gitlab.com/minecraftchest1/steamdeck-file-share-tool#tag=$pkgver") noextract=() md5sums=() validpgpkeys=('B136A3601568A8CE2493') sha256sums=('SKIP') package() { cd steamdeck-file-share-tool install -D -v bin/file-sharing-tool.sh -t $pkgdir/usr/bin } ``` -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEsTajYBVoqM4kk+rB78FhxAtMwcYFAmOXbGEACgkQ78FhxAtM wcbL2A//apFD18OCEAWLJCIfq7cW/suL8mGEVLgGfoxH5zTqqtJBkS8AkXLk+eyL LVIQvFfGjeo7Zk/1R7XP/lgwzgbV1Y45Z8PxFiFYrIS56pgw+q2HdsTENyRcJVaC 2ol7ezJQZcItxmF0CJyC7z+kyEyv/rzrKAdh+M7cxRCqE9EpiUGco6IqQ41+Cyvu oRR1UcsBuGPtqt1xw6rBZ7PRfPBgy5GDJby5njRDJR17SpYBJ8EyKknOVWcOnEYn uUsZ6XjoY0ucAtB9LRbbtYL0CH1LdoohTKsjpZsZ6D7MkQ7UpfoAyBgTKysQR3BR l+N2q7rjVDzstIi51k1TxG3RwbJAASPtkyfXePfYsTIsCz19Z7ITjVqZRJ6HWRcu KahMhTVCBsx6h9xNvpJhWgiuxb97eUkupJOG0IuqVA3II1svqwXSCkNEox2duiRr wIj4IlWl2JBUYlf9DHsXlciiVK0bJvyPCUOJNqNnc4A8i5IbOkQuANf2YM4alB4K qh6GE1maWLMosophxkdMXfggNLcpoIWFCgII6s9MZ3w8CgFNveiV6EI76PYiaQXO WdOiA+Q/lLYyQ4brSWtRGkgJeAtDNzIKunlv8ec5S8/mzF8SJiesOqG4NZZDjNMc nJM89kcHjGJ7g3uOep7O1EhXrfes+D/ZyD81rUfVXPbO/fLf1U4= =Xwsg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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PKGBUILD: on makedepends
by Greg Minshall 12 Dec '22

12 Dec '22

hi. i am putting together a PKGBUILD. there are certain dependencies required for cutting a release, rolling a version, etc. but, for just downloading the sources and building, these dependencies are not needed. can i leave dependencies *out* of makedepends that are only used for non-mainline build/installation tasks? cheers, Greg

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Conventional method of producing -git packages
by Polarian 06 Dec '22

06 Dec '22

Hello, I am pretty new to the AUR, however I have read through the arch wiki and this question is not really referenced there. I have seen some -git packages which update the package on each new commit to master, which is what I thought -git packages should aim to do, however I have seen others which only do it for every 5 or so commits to save time. However I have also seen another method, of just not bumping the package version and have the package clone master and then append the latest git commit to the package name when building it. What is the actual conventional method of producing a -git package for a piece of software? Thank you, Polarian

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aurweb new release v6.1.9
by Leonidas Spyropoulos 27 Nov '22

27 Nov '22

Hello AUR users, A new version of Aurweb has been deployed. There has been some issues lately when users were trying to delete their accounts. These should be solved and if anyone got errors before I would urge them to try again. Full changelog is available https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/aurweb/-/tags/v6.1.9 Kind Regards, -- Leonidas Spyropoulos TU and junior DevOps PGP: 59E43E106B247368

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Change pkgbase from python2-eyed3 to python-eyed3
by Amish 22 Nov '22

22 Nov '22

Hello all, I am maintainer of a package which has pkgname as python-eyed3 but has pkgbase as python2-eyed3. This package was moved from Arch repository to AUR few months back. The package does not work on python2 but works on python3 and hence I am trying to remove pkgbase=python2-eyed3 from it, as it gives wrong impression that package is dependent on python2. If I remove pkgbase line from PKGBUILD and then try to push the package (with updated .SRCINFO) it throws the following error: > git push Enumerating objects: 7, done. Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 354 bytes | 354.00 KiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 2), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: error: invalid pkgbase: python-eyed3, expected python2-eyed3 remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/python2-eyed3.git There seems to be another "deleted" package called python-eyed3 too. I cloned it and updated PKGBUILD and .SRCINFO and pushed the changes. This also throws an error. > git push Enumerating objects: 7, done. Counting objects: 100% (7/7), done. Delta compression using up to 2 threads Compressing objects: 100% (4/4), done. Writing objects: 100% (4/4), 1.40 KiB | 1.40 MiB/s, done. Total 4 (delta 0), reused 0 (delta 0), pack-reused 0 remote: error: cannot overwrite package: python-eyed3 remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/python-eyed3.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://aur.archlinux.org/python-eyed3.git' Error above does not give much information on why it can not overwrite. But its possibly because python2-eyed3 creates a pkgname conflict with it. In short, how do I update the package to remove python2-eyed3 as pkgbase? Any idea? Please let me know. Thank you, Amish

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