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[aur-general] Packages that can be moved to aur
by Laurent Carlier 18 Jul '10

18 Jul '10

I would like to start a talk about packages that can be moved to aur, for various reasons, not only because they are orphaned, but essencially due to lack of maintainance upstream. Feel free to comment and add other packages. striim: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/striim/ Project seem dead upstream, better alternatives exist xf4vnc-xcliplistproto http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/xf4vnc-xcliplistproto/ Depend on a cvs snapshot from 2007, not update for 3 years (project is dead ?) xf4vnc-vncproto http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/xf4vnc-vncproto/ Similar to xf4vnc-xcliplistproto sfarkxtc http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/sfarkxtc/ Binary only, x86 only (x86_64 with lib32), doesn't seem maintain upstream .......

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[aur-general] Move libatomic_ops to AUR?
by Jan Steffens 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

I just removed the last dependency on it (makedepend from pulseaudio). As far as I know gcc >= 4.1 has its own support for atomic ops and doesn't need this library.

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[aur-general] Rebuild community/skype-call-recorder
by Michael Witten 17 Jul '10

17 Jul '10

The `skype-call-recorder' package in the `community' repository simply needs to be rebuilt. The current binary fails to run because it cannot load `libpng12' (which no longer seems to exist officially and is indeed not required by skype-call-recorder). -------------------- The following may be of interest to the developer of skype-call-recorder (who has been added to the Bcc list out of respect for a seemingly keen interest for remaining private). Interestingly, after rebuilding skype-call-recorder, the output of this command (which gives the direct shared library dependencies): readelf -d `which skype-call-recorder` | awk -F'[][]' '/NEEDED/ {print $2}' went from this: libmp3lame.so.0 libid3-3.8.so.3 libvorbisenc.so.2 libQtGui.so.4 libpng12.so.0 libSM.so.6 libICE.so.6 libXrender.so.1 libfreetype.so.6 libfontconfig.so.1 libXext.so.6 libX11.so.6 libQtDBus.so.4 libdbus-1.so.3 libQtXml.so.4 libQtNetwork.so.4 libssl.so.0.9.8 libQtCore.so.4 libz.so.1 libgthread-2.0.so.0 libglib-2.0.so.0 librt.so.1 libpthread.so.0 libdl.so.2 libstdc++.so.6 libm.so.6 libgcc_s.so.1 libc.so.6 libvorbis.so.0 libogg.so.0 to this: libmp3lame.so.0 libid3-3.8.so.3 libvorbisenc.so.2 libQtGui.so.4 libQtDBus.so.4 libQtNetwork.so.4 libQtCore.so.4 libstdc++.so.6 libm.so.6 libgcc_s.so.1 libc.so.6 libvorbis.so.0 libogg.so.0 More interesting is that even some of these aren't actually direct dependencies; the output of this command: ldd -u `which skype-call-recorder` is this: Unused direct dependencies: /usr/lib/libmp3lame.so.0 /usr/lib/libid3-3.8.so.3 /usr/lib/libvorbisenc.so.2 /usr/lib/libQtNetwork.so.4 /lib/libm.so.6 /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /lib/libc.so.6 /usr/lib/libvorbis.so.0 For instance, I imagine that `libc' is listed as unused because skype-call-recorder is actually a C++ program that only depends directly on `libstdc++'. Perhaps the commands used to build skype-call-recorder can be cleaned up. Sincerely, Michael Witten

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[aur-general] any rules for groupadd in .install files?
by Christian Himpel 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

hi, it happens that i'm the current maintainer of the go-hg[1] package in aur. currently the package installs in /opt/go. go has nice support for installing third-party packages (goinstall), but it's a security risk for people to goinstall these third-party libraries as root. installing the gofiles with group 'go' and setting sgid bit for all (or only affected) directories this security flaw could be avoided (or at least reduced). so my question is: are there any rules or policies for packages, that call groupadd in the .install files? i saw that extra/qemu-kvm adds the group kvm with gid 78, so is there somewhere a list with `available' gids? do you have any other/better idea how to face the problem? thank you very much in advance! cheers, chressie [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33695

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[aur-general] Why is there no option to delete your own package in AUR yourself?
by Michael Düll (akurei) 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

Hello fellow Archers! I wonder why there's no option to delete your own package from AUR. Some users pointed out, that there once was too much abusive behaviour. I can't think of a way how this could be abused, if you are only allowed to delete your _own_ uploaded packages, except one: If there's many users (and OTHER packages from AUR that rely on that perticular package [eg bin32-wine relies on lib32-libldap from AUR]), and you delete it, thus breaking dependencies. My proposal is: Allow people to delete their own AUR packages if a) No other AUR package depends on it and b) if there's less than 10 people "using" it (aurvote). This way it would be easy to delete a faulty package without first asking on the list and it would hopefully encourage more people to try and put PKGBUILDS on AUR. akurei

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[aur-general] Orphan or deletion request
by Stanislav N. 16 Jul '10

16 Jul '10

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26708 EMail address no longer exists and I cant contact with linopolus. PKGBUILD incorrect, but I have correct one. -- Stanislav N. <pztrn(a)pozitpoh.is-a-geek.org> Blog: http://pozitpoh.is-a-geek.org/ Jabber: pztrn(a)pozitpoh.is-a-geek.org

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[aur-general] delete request libcdio-legacy
by Ike Devolder 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

I originally submitted thisone for compatibility issues of xbmc with the more recent versions of libcdio it has no purpose anymore http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32502 thx

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[aur-general] please drop "trickle" from AUR
by David Watzke 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

hi, please drop "trickle" from AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=38896 the thing is, I didn't expect it in [community] so I went ahead and submitted the pkgbuild straight away... not to mention that in [community] is a newer version (that I didn't know about as it's not listed on the homepage) thanks guys David Watzke

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[aur-general] new PKGBUILD for esmska-unstable
by David Watzke 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Hi there, I'd like to upload a new version of the PKGBUILD for the "esmska-unstable" package to AUR as it's outdated for a very long time but the maintainer didn't reply to my email so it'd be nice if a TU could orphan the package as I'd be happy to take over the maintainership of this one thanks upfront, David Watzke

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[aur-general] Please delete the AUR package ID=36541
by Michael Düll (akurei) 15 Jul '10

15 Jul '10

Hi! Can somebody please delete my failed attempt to create a useful package? http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=36541&detail=1 Thanks ;)

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