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[aur-general] Fwd: [arch-dev-public] Pacman epoch and what you need to know
by Allan McRae 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

FYI -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [arch-dev-public] Pacman epoch and what you need to know Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:23:03 -0500 From: Dan McGee <dpmcgee(a)gmail.com> Reply-To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> With 3.5.0 out, we no longer recognize the "force" option in PKGBUILDs; this has been replaced by the 'epoch' variable. What you need to know: * If you've never forced a package upgrade, don't go introducing epoch. * Default epoch is 0. * If you've ever used 'force' in a package (even if it isn't there now!), you should probably set epoch to 1 next time you build the package. * Each time you increment epoch, it will completely and utterly outrank any previous version of the package. Make sure this is what you want. * epoch should be seen as a last resort. Can someone forward this along to the TU list as well? And anyone that wants to have a command-line skillz showdown, I challenge you to top this one [1], the list of all packages currently using force. -Dan [1] dmcgee@galway ~ $ zgrep -aE -A1 'FILENAME|FORCE' /var/lib/pacman/sync/*.db | grep -vaE 'FILENAME|--' | grep -a -B1 FORCE | grep pkg /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:alltray-0.7.4dev-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:anki-1.2.7-1-any.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:cedet-1.0-1-any.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:coq-8.3pl1-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:dokuwiki-20101107a-1-any.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:fbnews-0.5-4-any.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:gnump3d-3.0-5-any.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:gnunet-0.8.1b-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:gnunet-gtk-0.8.1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.gz /var/lib/pacman/sync/community.db:gobby-0.4.12-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz 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[aur-general] TU application (Kyle Keen)
by keenerd 17 Mar '11

17 Mar '11

Hi guys. I am Kyle Keen (keenerd) and am applying to be a TU, sponsored by Xyne. You might remember me from a past application three months ago (1). Very little has changed since then, though I do have a few more packages (2). I also started up the first AUR mirror (3), which has allowed me to prototype silly things far far away from any place I could do damage. Some smaller new developments have included jshon (4) (a parser I wrote just because greping the AUR's rpc.php results is painful) and wiki-search (5), a bit of bash to make arch-wiki-docs useful as a stand alone resource. One long term goal would be to get the wiki-search script included with the wiki-docs package. A very long term goal would be to polish up some of the features from AUR3 and get them into the real AUR. Short term, Thomas Hatch has expressed a desire to have two of my packages (pacgraph and zeromq) in community. I've been plugging away at getting the remaining bugs (python3, pacman 3.5, manpage) out of Pacgraph to make this a possibility. ScrotWM should probably also be moved, as it is becoming a more popular window manager. I am also eyeing the request for an ABS maintainer, assuming I can figure out the existing issues. Looking forward to contributing more to Arch! -Kyle (1) http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2010-December/012126.html (2) http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?K=keenerd&SeB=m&SB=v&SO=d&PP=75 (3) http://aur3.org (4) http://kmkeen.com/jshon/ (5) https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=114291

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[aur-general] Deletion requests: libiconv and nepomuk-playground-svn
by mutlu_inek 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi, Please delete libiconv and nepomuk-playground-svn entried from the AUR. Regarding libiconv: the files and functionalities it provided are now part of glibc. Having a package that conflicts with glibc does not make sense. Regarding nepomuk-playground-svn: the code moved to KDE's new git repository and was renamed at the same time. A new PKGBUILD could easily be created, but this fulfills no purpose any more. Cheers, mutlu

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[aur-general] Deletion request: spoonwep2
by 郑文辉 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Please delete spoonwep2[1] as following reasons: 1. The spoonwep2 seems hasn't been supported by BT4[2]. 2. There is no home page or link for spoonwep2 and the link originally provided by PKGBUILD is seems like to be for BT. 3. The package installed into /usr/local,and are not compatitable with newest aircrack-ng. 4. The src package contain an binary file. so,please delete it. [1]:https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31306 [2]:http://www.backtrack-linux.org/

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[aur-general] How should *-devel packages generally be handled?
by Ng Oon-Ee 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Package foo exists in [extra], and foo-devel in the AUR. foo-devel is obviously based off unstable tarball releases (otherwise it would be foo-git, foo-svn, foo-hg or similar). So let's say foo is at version 4.0 (stable), should foo-devel stay at 3.9 (the last beta/rc/unstable release) or update to 4.0? Just a general question. My gnucash-devel package is currently pretty much identical to the one in [extra], and it does seem a bit unnecessary because the project itself does not currently have unstable releases.

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[aur-general] TU Resignation
by Ionuț Bîru 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Hi, i don't have too much time left for myself and i want to cut down some duties in arch. See you guys in devland :) http://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&repo=Community&q=&maintainer=ibiru… From all packages that i maintain in community i only want to keep virtualbox. All the others are up for adoption. -- Ionuț

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[aur-general] disown request package ninja-ide
by helq alluqa 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

please disown the next package ninja-ide http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=46017 the user dont respond any request, by message in aur page and email, for at least a few weeks and, the package is outdated for a weeks

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[aur-general] Please orphan: perl-config-autoconf and perl-text-bibtex
by Victor NOEL 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, The maintainer of these two packages is not taking care of these packages and there is someone willing to do it (see the comments there). Please orphan them, it is blocking the package biblatex-biber! Thank you, Victor

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[aur-general] Please delete hledger-full
by Peter Simons 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

Hi, please delete the obsolete hledger-full package from AUR: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40768 Thanks, Peter

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Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages
by Martti Kühne 14 Mar '11

14 Mar '11

> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2011 04:21:16 +0100 > From: Heiko Baums <lists(a)baums-on-web.de> > To: aur-general(a)archlinux.org > Message-ID: <20110314042116.371e53d9@darkstar> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:08:06 -0400 > schrieb Dave Reisner <d(a)falconindy.com>: > >> I don't see how that absolves you from word splitting during >> expansion. Rather, it enforces the point I made about $varfoo versus >> ${var}foo. Since / is not a valid character in a variable name, the >> var name ends before it. How about you do a simple test? >> >> $ var="foo bar" >> $ touch ${var} >> >> How many files were created? Remember this is bash, not ZSH. > > I thought I have tested this already in a PKGBUILD. Maybe I had false > memories. > > Nevertheless I'd suggest removing the quotation marks. If this is not > the reason he can add them again. > > Heiko > > -1 from me. Please do not stick to the tldp tutorial, it is in many places plain wrong. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/words regards mar77i

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