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Re: [aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Emilio Miralles 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Hello, I took a first stab at restructuring Virtualbox <https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtualbox>. I brought in the content from Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Linux_VirtualBox_Guest>, and offloaded a bunch of stuff to VirtualBox_Extras<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VirtualBox_Extras>. Discussion of the changes on Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_request<https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:VirtualBox#Page_overhaul_by_dev_r…> . Emilio

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[aur-general] Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin"
by Det 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please rename "virtualbox_bin_beta" to "virtualbox-beta-bin": https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27339

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[aur-general] Deletion Request
by Christopher luna 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

Please delete the package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33036 Is doom II, which is copyrighted and Id software does not give permission for redistribution. The download link is dead, so in teory is not piracy. but the package can be adopted by someone and get "fixed" with a working link. just for the record, is not a trial/shareware version; there is not shareware version of that game. (by mistake I send this message from a different email address too, sorry)

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[aur-general] TU application
by Jonathan Steel 28 Oct '11

28 Oct '11

> Thanks for applying. Do you have a link to your AUR packages and > possibly a sponsor? I see the link has been given. I have also contributed to a few other packages (fakenes for one) but if I do not plan to use them much myself I have disowned them in case someone else has more interest (but I keep an eye on them). I have also created some PKGBUILDs for packages I wanted to try (not already in AUR) but after finding better (existing) alternatives I did not decide to upload them. I have also come across packages that look like they should be removed, so would be interested in the tidy-up procedure. I don't have a sponsor.

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[aur-general] Dynamically evaluating md5sum value in PKGBUILD
by Maciej Sitarz 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Hi all, I'm maintaining hunspell-pl AUR package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44331) The problem with the package is that the maintainer of the source provides only the latest(daily) tarball snapshot. The md5sum of the tarball changes daily and the old files are removed. The packages is very often marked as 'outdated' and I'm asked to update it, both via comments and email. Some users propose to use dynamic values for pkgver= and md5sum=, but I think it's not a good way. Current PKGBUILD is: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/hu/hunspell-pl/PKGBUILD Proposed PKGBUILD: http://pastebin.com/bQCafYGt What would you suggest to do? I think the best way would be to include the package in extra, but I'm not sure if it has enough votes. Thanks Best regards -- Maciej Sitarz

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Re: [aur-general] Forgotten AUR username
by Ross McDonald 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

Please could you send my username to me, I have forgotten it. Ross <ross0mcdonald(a)gmail.com>

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[aur-general] Orphan request
by minimalist 27 Oct '11

27 Oct '11

perl-http-parser-xs is out of date and the maintainer has not responded to any pokes and emails. I would like to take over the package maintenance. Thanks.

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[aur-general] virtualbox wiki page
by Ionut Biru 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

Hi, with the linux 3.1 package we took another approach about handling external modules. Because of that, i want to add back the old virtualbox-modules package that includes the host modules. Now comes the tricky part. I want to replace all the post_install/upgrade messages that we have now in virtualbox and guest additions for arch and replace them with a wiki link. The wiki is a total mess and includes details that doesn't matter for virtualbox on arch. Help me to clear the wiki a bit before adding the link to the package. My idea is to have in virtualbox wiki page this: 1) how to install it 2) what modules to add in rc.conf and a short description of modules functionality 3) how to run it 4) how to run guest additions on arch(as a section rather than a new page like is it now) That's it. I don't care about sharing functionality, tips and tricks for openbsd. Just plain arch functionality. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] Replacing nexuiz with xonotic
by Sven-Hendrik Haase 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

I'd like to see nexuiz replaced by xonotic in [community]. Problem is that nexuiz is still a fairly popular package despite being dead upstream. xonotic devs recommend dropping nexuiz in favor of xonotic. Technically, xonotic does not replace nexuiz because its gameplay is somewhat different. I'd like some opinions on this.

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Brad Fanella 26 Oct '11

26 Oct '11

*sigh* I dreaded having to write this message. If anyone has noticed, I've been inactive in the Arch community for at least two or three weeks now, and my TU duties haven't been fulfilled in at least as long, if not more. With the start of the academic year, I was hopeful for enough spare time to continue what I enjoy (TU-ing, hobbies, both computer and non-computer related) ~ looks like I was sorely mistaken. Operating on the minimum amount of sleep that a human can survive on is not enjoyable, in case you were wondering. All laziness and time-lacking aside, both of my production machines have been fried due to power surges (which components, I yet don't know), and are now reduced to nothing more than fancy metal boxes. This leaves me with an old Thinkpad, but that's not even running Arch at the moment (/heresy), and it's a P4, so trying to manage multicore packages from there would be a no-go. It's just a very frustrating time, and I don't feel that I'm capable of being an active package maintainer considering the circumstances. Hopefully I can reapply sometime in the future if things fall back into place. My packages are, as far as I know, *mostly* up-to-date, although a month's absence can create a bit of mayhem. I will try my best to contribute and close out any open bug reports that I may be assigned to, but I can't make any definite promises. It's been a nice run guys, I hope to see you 'round. Sincerely, Brad p.s. there were some personal issues as well, but I don't really feel the need to get into those here ~ we can let Xyne speculate with one of his riveting stories

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