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[aur-general] Rustup in [community] is making rust-nightly-bin, cargo-nightly-bin and rust-always-nightly obsolete?
by Fabio Loli 19 May '18

19 May '18

Rustup download the latest nightly releases without effort, so these AUR package are just duplicates and should be removed?

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[aur-general] spammer account in aur
by LoneVVolf 17 May '18

17 May '18

Check https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/indicator-bulletin-git/?comments=all It does look to me like that tyson24 account belongs to a spambot OR the email addy has been infected by spambots. Can a TU look into this ? LW

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[aur-general] Advice needed on bundling a specific Python library
by Simon Perry 15 May '18

15 May '18

Hi all, I'm the maintainer of pyfa [1][2], a tool for EVE Online players. I was wondering if I could get some advice on how to include an arbitrary version of a Python library into the package? The problem is that the current version of python-wxpython in community has a bug that causes the latest version of pyfa to crash, and the pyfa developers have set a hard requirement of wxPython == 4.0.0b2 [3] (the issue will apparently by fixed in 4.0.2). What's the best or most elegant way to handle this? The only thing I can think of is using pip to install this version into my $pkgdir and setting PYTHONPATH in the startup shell script to force pyfa to use the bundled version. However, I'm not sure of this and would like any pointers or better a better way to handle it. Cheers. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pyfa/ [2] https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa [3] https://github.com/pyfa-org/Pyfa/blob/master/requirements.txt -- Simon Perry (aka Pezz)

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[aur-general] Deletion of discord-updater{,-canary}?
by Morgan Adamiec 10 May '18

10 May '18

discord-updater is quite a confusing package to me. I'm not sure is I should file a deletion request for it. When discord needs an update it will refuse to start until it is updated. This package appears to be designed to download the latest discord .tar.gz and extract it to ~/.local. By passing the need to wait for updates on the main discord AUR package. My question here is does this count as a duplicate to discord? And even if it does not should this really be in the AUR in the first place? It is just a simple script really. For future reference I would appreciate if anyone can tell me the correct place to send this sort of thing. Here, to aur-requests or type it into the request box on the AUR page. Also on a similar topic, the package discord-always-canary was removed from the AUR by Eschwartz. This package is essentially discord-canary with a pkgver() function. Meanwhile firefox-always-nightly is still on the AUR and is essentially the same idea. Is there a reason the discord-always-canary can not exist, similar to pkg and pkg-git? I get they comparison is not exactly the same because both discord packages source stable versions. Instead would it be a good idea to add a pkgver() function to the main discord packages? As mentioned discord will refuse to start when out of date, so most users are stuck waiting for the maintainer to update it.

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[aur-general] Taking over Discord-PTB
by Morgan Adamiec 01 May '18

01 May '18

Hi, a week ago i submitted an orphan request for Discord-PTB https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/discord-ptb/. It finally got accepted but the co-maintainer 'discordapp' got set as the maintainer so I can not adopt this package. As far as I know 'discordapp' is an account owned by one of the Discord devs, I believe it's just there in case they need it, the account does not seem to actively do anything nor reply to comments. I would hate to wait another week for an orphan request to go through, is there a way this could be bypassed as I did just wait a week?

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[aur-general] Renaming xiccd to colord-xiccd
by Alberto Salvia Novella 25 Apr '18

25 Apr '18

I want to propose this <https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1781774>. Alberto <https://es20490446e.wordpress.com>

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[aur-general] git package policy
by Ralf Mardorf 18 Apr '18

18 Apr '18

Hi, I wonder if I'm too picky. Each time a new git commit is available, the pkgver of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtk-theme-macos-sierra-archers-git/ gets increased, while nothing else changes. IMO it should stay untouched unless the dependencies, URL, sources, etc. change and perhaps if it's required to build against an updated lib, too. Regards, Ralf -- pacman -Q linux{,-rt{-pussytoes,-securityink,-cornflower,}}|cut -d\ -f2 4.16.2-2 4.14.34_rt27-1 4.14.29_rt25-1 4.14.28_rt23-1 4.14.24_rt19-1

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[aur-general] [Submission] nginx-http-flv-module
by Tony Zhou 12 Apr '18

12 Apr '18

Hello all, This is my first submission to AUR, the attachment is the PKGBUILD for nginx-http-flv-module, a media streaming module for nginx, based on the work of nginx-rtmp. It has all the features that nginx-rtmp has, and added the http trigger for flv streaming. With this, it is possible to create http request-triggered on-demand rtmp live flow. Reviews and comments are welcomed. Thanks, TZ

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[aur-general] Build packages without Arch on pkgbuild.com
by Pierre Neidhardt 09 Apr '18

09 Apr '18

I've recently written a paragraph on how to build Arch Linux packages on pkgbuild.com (a.k.a. soyuz): https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#Remote_bui… To perform the complete operation on soyuz, we need to forward the gpg-socket (and the SSH socket if different) to soyuz, which defeats the PGP / Web of Trust security model: for a person with root access to soyuz, the private key is only one passphrase away. Thoughts? As I understand it for now, the full-PGP way to package on soyuz is to only run extra-x86_64-build there. All other operations can be run locally. The only area where I'm left in the dark is the "archrelease" step of "communitypkg": what's the equivalent on a foreign distribution? -- Pierre Neidhardt

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[aur-general] Attempt to upload llvm35 to AUR gets rejected
by Albert Graef 08 Apr '18

08 Apr '18

The llvm35 package recently got kicked from extra, but I need it for my Pure package (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pure/) which in turn is needed for a bunch of other packages I maintain in the AUR. So I resurrected llvm35 from extra, brushed it up a little so that it compiles again (also bumped the package revision), and tried to upload it to the AUR under the previous package name llvm35. All I get is: Writing objects: 100% (8/8), 4.76 KiB | 2.38 MiB/s, done. Total 8 (delta 1), reused 0 (delta 0) remote: error: package already provided by []: llvm35 remote: error: hook declined to update refs/heads/master To ssh://aur.archlinux.org/llvm35.git ! [remote rejected] master -> master (hook declined) error: failed to push some refs to 'ssh://aur@aur.archlinux.org/llvm35.git' My version of the PKGBUILD is available here: https://bitbucket.org/agraef/llvm35-pkgbuild It's a split package, but isn't that supposed to be supported by the AUR? Anything else wrong with it? Any help appreciated, many thanks in advance. Albert -- Dr. Albert Gr"af Computer Music Research Group, JGU Mainz, Germany Email: aggraef(a)gmail.com WWW: https://plus.google.com/+AlbertGraef

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