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[aur-general] orphan request molly-guard
by Moritz Rudert 17 Mar '10

17 Mar '10

Hi TUs, could one of you please orphan the package molly-guard http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24349? He didn't respond to my comment as you can see. Best Regards, Moritz <helios> Rudert

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[aur-general] package removal request for rst2pdf
by solsTiCe d'Hiver 16 Mar '10

16 Mar '10

hi. there is python-rst2pdf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19398 and rst2pdf http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31535 one of these must go away. the author of rst2pdf acknowledge that "No it's a duplicate I hastily created when I could not find rst2pdf in the aur." in the comment so rst2pdf could be deleted, I think. cheers

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[aur-general] How to name package?
by Dave 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

I would like to create a new package for lightning, which is the calendar extension for Thunderbird. I currently manage lightning-nightly for 32-bit systems, but for 64-bit systems (which I'm using now), I have to build the extension from source. This process initially downloads a lot of files, so if I created a package for this, it would take an hour to download and build a 1.2MB extension. Thus, I was going to build the extension on my computer and upload the XPIs to a server. However, I'm not sure what I should name the package and keep track of the versions. The process is: use mercurial to clone the comm-central code, then run a python script which will update the source with cvs. After that, I can run make to build the lightning extension, upload it to a server, and then allow anyone to download it. To update, I need only to run the python script and rebuild. Any suggestions on how the package should be named? Maybe -hg or -src? I'm also not sure which package version to use (since I may only update the XPI itself once a week/month).

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[aur-general] Package Removal Request: dzlad-git
by lolilolicon 15 Mar '10

15 Mar '10

Hi, I've orphaned the dzlad-git package: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33881 Since the dzlad package now pulls from git, there's no need for this package any more, so please delete it from AUR, thanks!

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[aur-general] Newcomer
by Érico Nunes 14 Mar '10

14 Mar '10

Hello, I'm a newcomer to this list. I've been using Arch for about a year and today I decided to learn what it takes to make an Arch package. I took a simple app I had developed in C++/OpenGL, learned how to use autotools to compile and install it. Had been using handcoded Makefiles before. Then, I followed the guidelines to write a PKGBUILD for it and went about making my package installable/uninstallable via pacman. Took a couple hours to grasp it right, but now that I understand how it works, I love Arch even more. I feel like helping the community and I think maintaining packages would be a starting point. How do I go about starting it, shall I just search for orphans/out of date that should/could be fixed, take them and thats it? :) Érico de Morais Nunes Engenharia de Computação Universidade Federal do Pampa Campus Bagé

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[aur-general] Removal package request
by Moritz Rudert 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Hi, I've renamed quagga-patched - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=24649 to quagga-dn42 - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=35430 So please delete the first one. Thanks, Moritz <helios> Rudert

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[aur-general] snd-gtk-jack
by Andrew Antle 13 Mar '10

13 Mar '10

Hello - There is a package named [snd-ls](http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15580) which is orphaned and quite out of date. I would like to adopt it and update it with the following PKGBUILD: --- # Maintainer: Andrew Antle <andrew dot antle at gmail dot com> pkgname=snd-gtk-jack _pkgname=snd pkgver=11.3 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc="A sound editor, with GTK+ and JACK enabled" arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('custom') depends=('fftw' 'gamin' 'gsl' 'gtk2' 'jack' 'ladspa') url="http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/snd/" source=(ftp://ccrma-ftp.stanford.edu/pub/Lisp/$_pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz) md5sums=('71168f92e77a14f80c6bcf5c1dd3df26') build() { cd $srcdir/$_pkgname-$pkgver ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-gtk --with-jack make || return 1 make prefix=$pkgdir/usr install rm -f $pkgdir/usr/share/$_pkgname/*.{fs,rb} install -D -m 644 COPYING $pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/LICENSE } --- Do I need a TU to change the name of the package, and then I'll adopt it and update it? Or should I just upload my PKGBUILD and ask for the old, orphaned one to be deleted? P.S. The manpage is being installed -rwx-r-x-r-x, but in the tarball it's -rw-r--r--. How can I fix this? Should I chmod it at the end of build()? Thanks, -- Andrew Antle <andrew dot antle at gmail dot com>

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[aur-general] orphan request midisport-firmware 1.2-1
by masutu Subric 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

Hi TUs, could one of you please orphan the package midisport-firmware 1.2-1 http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=25765? I emailed the maintaining user about 10 days ago, but did not get an answer yet. Version is not out of date, but i'd like to adopt this package for several reason: -sources need to be patched, use of outdated udev command; does not compile without patch -PKGBUILD does not contain a valid source string -maintainer mail address in PKGBUILD is no more valid (mail account deleted) -source udev.rules do not work -i like my little midisport box so much :) All the changes i'd like to add to the PKGBUILD were already mentioned in other user's comments. Best Regards, masutu

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[aur-general] Duplicate package removal request.
by Moritz Rudert 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

google-gadgets-qt is in community and in AUR http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=29372 So please delete the AUR package. Thanks helios

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[aur-general] Duplicate package removal request.
by Thomas Dziedzic 12 Mar '10

12 Mar '10

argparse - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=27609 reason: replaced by python-argparse -http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26000 airoscript - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23499 reason: replaced by airoscript-ng - http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=33596

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