Re: [aur-general] AUR Comment for white_dune
On Thu, Dec 26, 2019 at 09:49:30PM +0100, J. Scheurich wrote: > > > Ralf_Mardorf [1] added the following comment to white_dune [2]: > > > > white_dune 1.660 isn't provided by ftp://ftp.ourproject.org/pub/wdune/ > > > Sorry, white_dune 1.660 is a defect package 8-( > > I am unable to rollback to white_dune-1.654: > > $ git add PKGBUILD .SRCINFO > $ git commit > On branch master > nothing to commit, working tree clean > $ git push > fatal: 'mu...@aur.archlinux.org/packages/white_dune' does not appear to > be a git repository > fatal: Could not read from remote repository. > > Please make sure you have the correct access rights > and the repository exists. > > I used the AUR web interface to disown the package and hope to use git > commit/psuh in future... > > sorry > so long > MUFTI Your remote URL looks wrong. You want to be using the username `aur`, not `mufti`, and the format is not like the one used on the web interface. I.e. git remote set-url origin a...@aur.archlinux.org:white_dune.git To change to the correct format so you can pull/push to and from the repo. BR, David
Re: [aur-general] acroread package compromised
On Sun, Jul 08, 2018 at 11:23:37AM +0200, justus-...@piater.name wrote: > Good catch, guys. > > Shouldn't someone also contact the operators of ptpb.pw to take down the > (at least) two URLs in question? > > I'd also like to understand how xeactor took over the packages. > > Justus Meh, ptpb is mostly censorship-free. David
Re: [aur-general] Git based AUR package repo
On Mon, Nov 06, 2017 at 07:25:04PM -0800, Amitav Mohanty via aur-general wrote: > Hi Hello > I have a proposition for AUR package builds. Currently, if a package goes > out of date, it can be flagged so but we need the maintainer to update it. Makes sense so far. > So, if a non-maintainer wants to send the update the package build, (s)he > will need to create a new package. [...] What? Why not just post a link to a patch/diff on the package? > [...] My proposition is to have a git based > system where a package's related files can be maintained. The AUR /is/ currently git-based? > [...] So, the following > benefits can be targeted: > - to update a package build, one does not need to copy the old one and > create a new package; sending a PR will suffice Again, what is wrong with posting a link to a patch or diff in the package's comments > - the maintainer model can be improved. A core set of maintainers or an > active and trusted set of maintainers can review such PRs if the maintainer > is not available. Packages can have more than one maintainer on the AUR. If a package is ditched for so long that intervention is needed for a package to be taken off the maintainer and given to someone else who is willing to maintain it, then this is what the Trusted Users are for. > - even if no reviewer is available, the modified package build can be > released as non-approved one and users will still be able to use the > package build. This comes inherently with the user-submitted diff/patch in the comments, as is currently the "approved" behaviour. > > I would like to know thoughts about this proposition. > > Regards, > Amitav Thanks, David
Re: [aur-general] Can my AUR package be reinstated?
On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 09:02:00PM -0700, Adam Fontenot via aur-general wrote: > [snip] > Furthermore, you have been deleting dozens of AUR packages in the last > week since you became a TU. [snip] AUR cleanup day happened recently, so there is more talk of package removal in the air. > [snip] Respectfully, perhaps you should check to > see if your expectations for AUR inclusion are quite as stringent as > those of the other TUs? Somewhat valid, but I would like to assert that it's not a matter of copying everyone else; it's a matter of following the guidelines the community is goverened under. Thanks, David
Re: [aur-general] add base-devel / multilib-devel group as makedepend to AUR packages ?
On Sat, Sep 16, 2017 at 02:19:09PM +0200, LoneVVolf wrote: > Hi, > > I do have the impression that the number of aur comments about pacakges not > building unless foo is installed has gone up. > Very often foo turns out to be part of base-devel or multilib-devel. > > Answering that is easy, by linking to main AUR wiki page that clearly states > base-devel is assumed to be installed when building aur packages. > That part appears to be overlooked often though and results in unnecessary > clutter in aur comments. > > Perhaps we could put base-devel group in makedepends of aur pacakages ? > Lib32-* / multilib packages could list both multilib-devel and base-devel. > > Lone_Wolf I can see where you're coming from. I have to be stubborn. Arch assumes some sort of sensible working brain of its users. Users building software that haven't installed things for building software… it makes me concerned for the community. David
Re: [aur-general] Hello from Jethro, and could someone take a look at my first pkgbuild?
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 05:13:05PM -0400, J3thro via aur-general wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I am very happy that I finally get the chance to join AUR community and
> contribute something. I just adopted an orphan AUR package and submitted my
> first pkgbuild (see https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pycharm-community/).
> Is there anyone willing to double check that I didn't make stupid mistakes?
>
>
> Regards,
You have in your PKGBUILD
arch=('any')
and then later
if [[ $CARCH = 'i686' ]]; then
…
Are these not contradictory? Or am I overlooking something?
Thanks,
David
Re: [aur-general] Trusted User Application: Giancarlo Razzolini
> > Heh, seems Jelle inconveniently went on vacation just before it ended, so on > behalf of Jelle: > > Congrats grazzolini, you've been accepted! > > Yes: 20 > No: 6 > Abstain: 6 > Oh of course - how did I forget he went on vacation. Congratulations, grazzolini, and best wishes ☺ signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [aur-general] Trusted User Application: Giancarlo Razzolini
On Thu, Oct 27, 2016 at 09:28:42PM +0200, Jelle van der Waa wrote: > > The discussion period has ended, please cast your votes! > I assume voting period is still seven days and has ended, what was result? Thanks
Re: [aur-general] Handling of virtual packages
On Wed, Sep 21, 2016 at 09:19:10AM +0200, Martin Kühne via aur-general wrote: > > It is also a good idea to use conflicts=() to prevent packages from > providing the same thing from being installed. I'd clarify this by saying that if two packages have conflicting files, pacman will still not allow the installation of both at the same time (without the force flag). The conflicts array is still definitely the right way to go, however. There could be a valid case for installing two packages that provide the same thing if they do not conflict on the filesystem. Another key purpose of the conflicts array is to facilitate switching between the two packages. If A depends on X and Y provides X, then without the conficts array set, switching to Y would require separate actions of removal of X and installation of Y. But the removal of X is (near) impossible because A depends on X. With Y's conflicts array containing X, installing Y will offer to replace X with Y in one shot. Cheers David
Re: [aur-general] Issues Pushing
Looks good this way, I'm very happy you guys were able to find a solution. Thanks and all the best
Re: [aur-general] [aur-dev] [PRQ#4382] Deletion Request for b43-firmware
I almost forgot about the translated versions of this string. After all, aurweb is offered in multiple languages…
[aur-general] [aur-dev] [PRQ#4382] Deletion Request for b43-firmware
I'm not surprised it's come up. I used to read it and be in a state of thinking "this means two things" but logic prevailed and I discarded one of the interpretations. The user who filed the request is obviously a troll, looking at the username.
[aur-general] Email address too long for login page?
Is it just me, or is the field marked "Username or email address" on the AUR login page setting a character limit below the length of my email address? I will assume it's setting the maximum input length to that of some other limit, like a maximum username length? If so, then perhaps this field should be marked for usernames only and not username or email address… Cheers
Re: [aur-general] Issues Pushing
Okay, good to know it's being worked on. I seem to recall the TU who looked at it mentioning that using separate repositories would use up more disc space but avoid this issue? I may be wrong, but this seems like quite a large/important problem/flaw to me. I feel like this may have been discussed before—Is there a thread I've missed on the ML which covers this discussion? Thanks
[aur-general] Issues Pushing
Hi all, I discovered this problem back in June with the help of the guys on IRC. The guy who helped me discover the root of the problem went on to discuss with one of the TUs about this problem and the solution for it. IIRC, Lukas was on holiday at the time, so he wasn't pestered with it at the time :) Three to four months later and nothing seems to have changed, so I thought I'd start a paper trail and bring this to the attention of a few more people. I committed changes to an already-established AUR package, and attempted to push these commits. Running `git push` on my slow connection just hangs. 'Impatient me' killed it after 5 minutes of hanging. Trying to push from a faster connection, I found it uploaded almost instantly. Setting GIT_TRACE_PACKET=1 when running `git push` showed up a (warning: large) log [1] showing that git is being sent a bunch of refs (?), presumably for packages which aren't even mine. On a slow connection, this makes updating AUR packages to impossible. It takes a solid 20 minutes for the push to complete for me. I won't maintain AUR packages if this is the way it's going to be. Even though faster connections solve the time problem, it then becomes an issue of the amount of data transferred needlessly. Why is this happening? IIRC, the IRC folk mentioned something about the underlying structure of the git repository at the AUR end, but I don't know enough about this stuff to say either way. Log, xzipped for size reasons. Unpacks to ~82 000 lines. [1] https://ptpb.pw/XmET
Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4
I suppose some may subscribe to the view that if someone wants it badly enough, they'll submit, maintain and stick with it.
Re: [aur-general] AUR Package deleted: pypy-setuptools
Hi, The thread on this list titled Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4 may be of use to you: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2015-August/031357.html Thanks
Re: [aur-general] Deletion of orphaned packages on AUR4
A certain TU went around deleting orphaned stuff… won't name them though ;-)
Re: [aur-general] AUR4 keywords in PKGBUILD?
I'm aware of that and I hope I didn't imply otherwise. The point I was trying to get at is that .SRCINFOs are summaries of a package's metadata. I understand that keywords are metadata so if they had to be put somewhere, it would make sense to put them in .SRCINFOs. However (assuming we refuse to allow them into a PKGBUILD) this would require another input to the SRCINFO other than the PKGBUILD. Assuming this input took the form of another separate file, it would be unnecessary clutter. I suppose if mksrcinfo left the proposed keyword field alone but updated the rest of the file, it might be a tidier solution…
Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR
I agree with gt. Not meaning to bike shed further, but if we had a 'not constructive' or 'destructive' flag, and have the comment appear grayed out and flagged for moderation after n flags, this would be a more sane implementation of 'voting' on comments.
Re: [aur-general] We've got a spam issue in our AUR
I should add that I am not yet advocating such a solution. As others have said, the spam problem is not large enough to warrant it.
Re: [aur-general] AUR4 keywords in PKGBUILD?
I wouldn't say having keywords in the .SRCINFO is any better than having it in the PKGBUILD. SRCINFOs contain metadata drawn directly from the PKGBUILD, with the exception of things like the `epoch` field. To have the keywords present in the SRCINFO but not the PKGBUILD would be nonsensical in my opinion.
Re: [aur-general] password cracker program in AUR
PERSONALLY i have no problem with this program, and completely disagree with laws that forbid tools like this. Ah okay, that addresses the assumption I (and I'm sure others) have made -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] password cracker program in AUR
I'd like to drop a note that john is in [community], and nobody has an issue with that Thanks -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD Critique
I question whether checking the locale is appropriate at all. It isn't something that should be compiled-in, surely? -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD Critique
Hi stef, contragulations on writing your first (?) PKGBUILD. There are
a few points that need clearing up before your PKGBUILD can be
released for use.
2) You can see I have some questions/doubts re. line 26/27 (original PKGBUILD
has 26, I changed it to 27, out of habit I guess. I don't think it's an
important point though as I guess one should clean up the various dirs left
after installing an AUR package, in any event, though. Comments?)
You should almost never use `make clean`. It is up to `makepkg` and
the user to ensure the build directory is fresh. Also `|| return 1` is
not required.
Do not use `configure --foo=anything including pkgdir`. It will
not do what you expect it to. `./configure` is a script which dictates
various aspects of the suite after compilation. Options such as
--prefix or --foodir set values which become compiled into the
program.
Imagine that $pkgdir is `/home/user/blah/pkg`. Setting
--prefix=$pkgdir will mean that instead of /{etc,usr,var}/ the program
will have /home/user/blah/pkg/{etc,usr,var}/. So when installed using
pacman, the package is going to put a bunch of files at
/home/user/blah/pkg/, right? That's why you're getting errors
involving your home dir.
Since the program is going to eventually be installed with pacman to
`/` then you need to treat the build as if you're installing it to `/`
up until the point that you run make install. This way, all the
compiled-in values won't involve /home/blah/.
I'm probably really crap at explaining this, but it was worth a shot.
I can only suggest you read makefiles and learn what each recipe
generally does and what variables it draws on.
--
Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Email Notifications of new AUR orphaning/deletion/merging method
Hi all, I'd like to chip in here and let everyone know that I had a reply off-list from another ML watcher a while back where (s)he recommended greasemonkey and I ended up solving the problem. IIRC, I forwarded the ensuing thread to the ML. If this topic requires further discussion, could I recommend changing the subject line? -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Please enable zh_TW locale on AUR
Hi, This might be better if posted on the [aur-dev] list. Thanks -- Four word witty remark
[aur-general] Bottom-posting on gmail | Was: Orphan packages, Policy on bots
On 2015-01-06 22:24, David Phillips wrote:
Ahh far out, sorry. I keep top-posting on this list. As a site note,
has anyone found a way to stop the 'Include quoted text with reply'
tick box from being ticked by default in GMail?
--
Four word witty remark
There used to be greasemonkey scripts that did this. I haven't used gmail in
years, so I've no idea if those still work, but
http://userscripts-mirror.org/
might be a good place to start searching.
Cheers,
--
Hugo Osvaldo Barrera
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
Thanks for your interest. I hope this becomes useful to more users than just
me.
There used to be greasemonkey scripts that did this. [...]
http://userscripts-mirror.org/
might be a good place to start searching.
Luckily, I'm fluent in basic Javascript, so a simple one line script
containing:
document.getElementById('haot').checked = false;
is all it took.
A: Because we read from top to bottom, left to right.
Q: Why should I start my reply below the quoted text?
Your signature makes you sounds quite hot on this topic!
Thanks for your help, it makes posting to lists a lot less irritating.
Cheers
I've forwarded to this list as it is likely other users may find this useful.
--
Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Orphan packages, Policy on bots
Yeah, I was looking at calling wget or curl to download PKGBUILDs locally for processing, which would achieve the same thing, except in a more nasty way. My only qualm with the git mirror is that it keeps deleted packages, no? On 06/01/2015, Florian Bruhin m...@the-compiler.org wrote: * David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com [2015-01-06 21:51:27 +1300]: Hi all, I've been looking at writing a small bot which will crawl over orphaned packages' PKGBUILDs, performing analysis and gathering stats. If you just need the PKGBUILDs and update history, the AUR git mirror[1] might be interesting for you so you can get that data locally. Florian [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=113099 -- http://www.the-compiler.org | m...@the-compiler.org (Mail/XMPP) GPG: 916E B0C8 FD55 A072 | http://the-compiler.org/pubkey.asc I love long mails! | http://email.is-not-s.ms/ -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Orphan packages, Policy on bots
Ahh far out, sorry. I keep top-posting on this list. As a site note, has anyone found a way to stop the 'Include quoted text with reply' tick box from being ticked by default in GMail? -- Four word witty remark
[aur-general] Orphan packages, Policy on bots
Hi all, I've been looking at writing a small bot which will crawl over orphaned packages' PKGBUILDs, performing analysis and gathering stats. For example, I'm really keen on making an attempt to clean a bunch of them up. 25% of the 53587 packages in the AUR today are orphans and, like many others, I'd like to see this number decreased. In the past, I have manually gone down the list of orphans, but that's just horrible and slow (also, can't get my browser to do HTTP head requests). So naturally, I started writing a bot. I did start thinking about having the bot comment on packages with dead end sources, but soon realised this would complicate things too much if it were to stop repeating itself each time it is run etc. Being able to pull various lists (for humans, not bots, to act up) out of a magic hat. As a random example, it'd be useful to pull out a list of packages which: * Are orhpans * Have less than five votes * Have dead end sources * Haven't been updated in the last year So we could send a couple of people to, eg, adopt or file appropriate requests. So anyway, I've seen wiki bots doing their thing on our wiki, but what's the policy on AUR bots? -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Orphan packages, Policy on bots
Ahh that's right, how could I forget! Could be useful down the line eventually though... -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Orphan packages, Policy on bots
Cool thanks. I had heard of the RPC interface, but it never surfaced to mind for some reason. -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Orphan packages, Policy on bots
The AUR doesn't have a nice json API thingy does it? That would make some of this much cleaner... -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] More trolling
IOW it more likely is a person or they are persons from eastern nations, than from western nations. I live in one of the most eastern countries in the world, and racism, sexism etc isn't nearly as much of a problem as other parts of the world. We're ~175 degrees east :P But I know that's not what Bigby meant -- Four word witty remark
Re: [aur-general] Trusted User application
Wait, aren't you already a TU? I could have sworn you were; you have one of those names I recognise immediately. I mean obviously you're not a TU, but I think it points to your level of participation in the community. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Delete ipycli-git
That thread [1] died a while ago. See the last message on that thread: Sounds like a good idea. Who do we go to in order to get something like this done? Can any TU get this done, or what? We're stuck until we can contact the right person. [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.tur.user/35958 -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Mass-mail about File Request link instead of mails to aur-general
For the sake of completeness, here is the precursor to this thread, as this thread's title differs from the original. http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.arch.tur.user/35958 -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] AUR 4.0.0 pre-alpha
I'd like to chime in. I'm in the same boat as SpinFlo. Only thing I did differently is add PKGBUILD in one commit, attempt to push, then added .SRCINFO in another commit. Cheers. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] AUR 4.0.0 pre-alpha
Thanks Lukas. I did try to rebase, but my git-foo isn't very remarkable. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Delete ipycli-git
From https://aur.archlinux.org/ : Package orphan requests, merge requests, and deletion requests should be filed in the Package Actions box. This point has also been brought up at least twice a week for the last six months on this list. Cheers On 29/12/2014, François Boulogne fboulo...@sciunto.org wrote: Hi, Please delete ipycli-git. It's my package. The reason is that the project is not compatible with last ipython versions and it's not maintained any more. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ipycli-git/ Thank you. -- François Boulogne. http://www.sciunto.org GPG: 32D5F22F -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Email Notifications of new AUR orphaning/deletion/merging method
It would also be an opportunity to weed out accounts with dead and bogus email addresses that bounce out. These accounts could be disabled for a fixed amount of time to smoke out their owners and deleted after the predetermined time; packages should be orphaned immediately. Sounds like a good idea. Who do we go to in order to get something like this done? Can any TU get this done, or what? On 15/12/2014, P. A. López-Valencia vorb...@outlook.com wrote: On 06/12/14 17:25, David Phillips wrote: [snip] AUR front page hasn't proved to be fully effective. Perhaps if there are a lot of AUR accounts who never maintain or own any packages, we could simply send email messages only to those who currently have one or more packages under their wing? What do you all think? Seconded. It would also be an opportunity to weed out accounts with dead and bogus email addresses that bounce out. These accounts could be disabled for a fixed amount of time to smoke out their owners and deleted after the predetermined time; packages should be orphaned immediately. -- Pedro Alejandro López-Valencia http://about.me/palopezv/ Every nation gets the government it deserves. -- Joseph de Maistre -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Email Notifications of new AUR orphaning/deletion/merging method
Apologies for the top-post, I still haven't got Gmail to untick the 'include quoted text with reply' box by default. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] Email Notifications of new AUR orphaning/deletion/merging method
Given that we're still getting requests on this list for removal/merging/orphaning of packages, could we not simply send an email out to all those who have AUR accounts explaining the fact that we've changed the way things are done since then? I recognise that this might be viewed as spammy or annoying by those who are already fully aware of this fact, but passive notification on the AUR front page hasn't proved to be fully effective. Perhaps if there are a lot of AUR accounts who never maintain or own any packages, we could simply send email messages only to those who currently have one or more packages under their wing? What do you all think? -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [aur-dev] AUR 3.5.0 released
Consider this is the beginning of my efforts to deprecate mkaurball. Of of the pacman 4.2.0, mkaurball will be obsolete and will likely be replaced with a script which just yells at you to use makepkg instead. I'm confused. Would someone like to clear this up for me? I thought that mkaurball was becoming the favoured method of making source packages for the AUR? Wasn't it fairly recent that we switched from `makepkg --source` to `mkaurball`? -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [aur-dev] AUR 3.5.0 released
Ahh right, thanks! That makes a lot more sense now. Ta. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Our troll is going another round
Can we not just reject those who sign up with minutemail etc? On 23/11/2014, Rob McCathie korr...@gmail.com wrote: Hello AUR general, Some of you may remember this: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-July/029069.html Our troll recently tried to sneak back on to our forums and of course got banned, and now they're throwing another little tantrum. All my packages are flagged out of date once again, when none of them are, and the package delete request for my aqualung package is not legitimate. This is the troll's account: https://aur.archlinux.org/account/bomberman Again the troll is attempting to cause problems with other services outside of Manjaro's, again AUR is one of them. Apologies. -- Regards, Rob McCathie -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Unsupported architectures in the AUR
The wiki page on PKGBUILDs [1] gives me the strong impression it *has* to be at least i686 and/or x86_64. To quote it: Currently, it [the arch field] should contain i686 and/or x86_64 It goes on to mention that the 'any' pseudo-architecture can be used for platform independent packages. So in theory, if it doesn't contain i686, x86_64 or any, it's not allowed. The key word here is 'contain'. The most common interpretation of this word makes it synonymous with 'include'. This means that you are allowed to have 'arch=(i686 armv5h)' or 'arch=(i686 x86_64 armv5h)' but not solely 'arch=(armv5h)'. ...as I (not unreasonably) interpret it. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] Regex on search page
Hi all, I started wondering today about whether or not we could benefit from having the option of searching for AUR packages using regular expressions on the search page. For example, today I wanted to list all ruby gems on the AUR, so I thought searching `ruby-` would be enough, but it's got a bunch of other packages like `chruby-git` in there too. If we could even just use basic regex techniques like start of line and end of line, it'd be a big help. What do you all think? -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page
I could use an AUR helper except that I'm fundamentally opposed to them ;) -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page
I don't understand why some people are against such helpers. Without veering too far off this thread's topic, there's a large number of discussions on the web which cover this. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Regex on search page
So assumed there would be a helper that provides the kind of search you need, you won't use it, as a matter of principle and because there are freakish discussions about helpers? If (more or less) all it did was search the AUR, then I would look at using it. But the regex thing is such a trivial thing to implement on the AUR search. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Request for Orphaning Csound-doc
I'm no TU, but as far as I am aware, there's a 'Gentlemen's Agreement' that the waiting period for this sort of situation is two weeks. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Request for Orphaning Csound-doc
Not only that, but speps is a TU, so that complicates things a bit. Hmm. His activity does seem sporadic. A couple of requests for disownment of some of his packages came through in March and April this year, with some comments being made on the list about the state of his packages back in August. Perhaps he is struggling to keep on top of things. Nevertheless, the two week period would apply. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Supported Architectures
There isn't really an official stance. It's neither explicitly allowed nor denied. Feel free to add the architecture if the package works on a specific ARM architecture if you want. There is an official stance as dictated on the wiki [1] however I happen to agree with the last part of what you said. Strictly speaking, maintainers shouldn't add anything except i686, x86_64 or any. That said, I don't see why anyone short of being truely anal would request that, say, an armv6h architecture entry be removed from a PKGBUILD if it also already specifies i686 and x86_64. i686-x86_64-any anal-ness belongs in the official repos, the forum and to a large extent, the wiki. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Architectures -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] AUR Best Practice for New Package Upload
A repository for any doesn't make sense. It would mean that there's not the potential for duplication between the various architectures' repos. I *am* assuming they'd use symlinks for the 'any' packages on the mirrors? On 24/09/2014, Giovanni Santini giovannisantin...@yahoo.it wrote: Also, it can be used for packages which uses python or similar; python has to be 32bit or 64bit, apps written in python has not. In general, packages with an interpreter or a VM needs no architecture specific package, as its dependency is the interpeter/VM, which is arch dependant. Il 24/set/2014 06:50 Ralf Mardorf info.mard...@rocketmail.com ha scritto: On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 09:28 +0800, Fernando Gilberto Pereira da Silva wrote: Since 'any' is the architecture of the package, why isn't there a folder called 'any' in the repo? I can see only 'i686' and 'x86_64' in repo 'core', 'extra' and 'community', and all of the 'any'-architecture packages are put into both 'i686' and 'x86_64' folders. People might use 32-bit architecture or 64-bit architecture, there isn't an any architecture. The any only refers to the content of a package. The content isn't compiled to work on 32-bit or 64-bit architecture, e.g. a dash script, so it can be used on both architectures, ergo a package that can be used for any architecture, needs to be put to the 32-bit and to the 64-bit architecture repository. A repository for any doesn't make sense. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] AUR Best Practice for New Package Upload
makepkg doesn't delete them. It's your work. Not by default, but if you call makepkg with the -c flag, it will perform a clean-up of those temp directories. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Requests
To be honest, the package name alone would satisfy me. Oh wow! Despite having had a few successful requests myself, I wasn't aware that didn't even show up. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] qemu-spice package naming
You'll have to create a new package with the new name (in this case `qemu-all`) and file a merge request. On 03/08/2014, Patryk Kowalczyk pat...@kowalczyk.ws wrote: Hello, Whether it is possible to change name of qemu-spice package to qemu-all. I'll try support all options from qemu in the package. best regards, Patryk [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qemu-spice/ -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [Bulk] Re: qemu-spice package naming
True. I should've been more clear: file a merge request as in click the 'File request' link on the page of the package you're renaming. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] move sc and python2-mrjob to [community]
but it's a problem if it has indeed not been updated since 2002 Simple question: why? -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] AUR logo
KISS?
Consistency, I'd say.
My point exactly.
On 22/06/2014, Thiago Barroso Perrotta thiagoperrott...@gmail.com wrote:
2014-06-21 22:18 GMT-03:00 Jeremy Audet ichimonj...@gmail.com:
Is there a reason the Arch services {aur,bbs,wiki,bugs}.archlinux.org
all use the same logo?
KISS?
Consistency, I'd say.
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Re: [aur-general] Python Dependancy Issue
At a glance, pypump-git is a Python 3 package, not Python 2. python2-click is for python 2. Go figure. On 23/06/2014, Storm Dragon stormdragon2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have the PKGBUILDs for both p-git and pypump-git. One of the dependancies is something called click. I found python2-click and figured this would be what is needed. However, when the package is installed, the name changes to just python-click. Ichanged the PKGBUILD to depend on python-click which works for the building process, but then, when everything is installed: p Traceback (most recent call last): File /usr/bin/p, line 27, in module import click ImportError: No module named click So, do I have the wrong library, or is something wrong with the python2-click PKGBUILD? thanks Storm -- -- Registered Linux user number 508465: https://linuxcounter.net/user/508465.html My blog, Thoughts of a Dragon: http://www.stormdragon.us/ get my public PGP key: gpg --keyserver wwwkeys.pgp.net --recv-key 43DDC193 Get paid to read email: http://is.gd/feRiB _ MOO - \ ^__^ \ (oo)\___ (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] AUR logo
Is there a reason the Arch services {aur,bbs,wiki,bugs}.archlinux.org
all use the same logo?
On 21/06/2014, Özgür Sarıer ozgursarier1011601...@gmail.com wrote:
I think that AUR should have a simple logo.It will symbolize the importance
and power of the AUR.
http://ozgur.bugs3.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/AUR.png
The image above is an example for dark backgraunds.
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Re: [aur-general] Delete request: gtkpacman
I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it. On 14/06/2014, Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info wrote: This one might be a bit controversial. gtkpacman hadn't been updated in over 6 years and hasn't functioned since pacman 4.1 at least, possibly before. I think it's safe at this point to say that it's dead. Dead + non-functional = should be removed IMO. Yes, it was a popular package with over 300 votes, but it's time is passed. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkpacman/ -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Delete request: gtkpacman
Actually, in light of the information present at https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_GUI_Frontends I will retract my previous comment. Too many existing, working Gtk front-ends for me to bother with gtkpacman. On 14/06/2014, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it. On 14/06/2014, Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info wrote: This one might be a bit controversial. gtkpacman hadn't been updated in over 6 years and hasn't functioned since pacman 4.1 at least, possibly before. I think it's safe at this point to say that it's dead. Dead + non-functional = should be removed IMO. Yes, it was a popular package with over 300 votes, but it's time is passed. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gtkpacman/ -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Delete request: gtkpacman
Oh, so Wakka was abandoned. I had assumed it was still running. I might have a look at forking Wakka or something... anyway, that's outside the scope of this thread, I'm no longer opposing deletion. On 14/06/2014, Doug Newgard scim...@archlinux.info wrote: On 2014-06-14 01:27, David Phillips wrote: I wonder if anyone's interested in getting it working again? If nobody else is willing, I'll adopt it. You're pretty much talking about forking it to do that. There are tarballs on Sourceforge, so it should be doable. You'd probably need to rename the software unless you could get permission from the original author to just take over as-is. I know there was one fork, wakka, that was also abandoned. Doug -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Removal request: arc-status
Ahh okay, thanks for clarifying that for me On 10/05/2014, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Saturday, May 10, 2014 10:58:31 David Phillips wrote: On a related note, I'd just like to ask why initscripts AUR packages aren't accepted. I was under the impression that while initscripts are no longer the official/supported init method for Arch, some people are still using them instead of systemd? They're okay to me as long as they are maintained. The package in the original request (arc-status) was an orphan and didn't get an update for more than 4 years, and that's why I think its removal is a good idea. Regards, Felix Yan -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Fwd: firefox-stable deleted
Here's an idea: If he wants to have Firefox (or any package already in an official repo for that matter) on such a bleeding edge that it may not actually be tested by the friendly *-testing repo users, why doesn't he get free web hosting somewhere and host his own cute little repository, or email out a PKGBUILD to his friends? Some people :) On 10/05/2014, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: Forwarding this to AUR General so that the world can see how nice a guy you are. Insults, racism, what else have you got in store? I've taken the liberty to suspend your AUR account, because, yeah, us higher ranks motherfuckers can do that. Now please reflect upon your behavior and realize what an hypocrit you are saying _we_ are the one who destroy the community, there is no destroying people who behave like _you_ do. Now, if you don't want to depend on us doing the work for you, for free, be my guest, make your own distro, alone, see how you fare. But stop creating duplicates out of sheer lunacy because you couldn't bear waiting a single day. That's right, _a_ day. FYI, Firefox 29 was released on 2014-04-29 [1] and according to our SVN our package was updated 10 days ago [2], so that makes a 1 day delay, not a week. Please get your facts straight before assaulting people. BTW, that bit about grammar was quite funny, there isn't a single error in mine, however I'd really not vouch for yours. [1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/log/trunk?h=packages/firefox Have a nice day, -- Forwarded message -- From: Aaron Caffrey aaron_caff...@hotmail.com Date: Sat, May 10, 2014 at 11:22 AM Subject: firefox-stable deleted To: aluc...@gmail.com aluc...@gmail.com Wow just wow. What a ignorance. As I said, me and my friends do NOT want to rely on someone else to update the packages with a delay of whole week. I do have plenty of free time and your grammar isn't much different than the average African American. Fuck yourself and wish you all the worse, that's why motherfuckers with higher rank like are killing the archlinux community and partly the forum users. Burn in Hell, Aaron -- Maxime -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Removal request: arc-status
On a related note, I'd just like to ask why initscripts AUR packages aren't accepted. I was under the impression that while initscripts are no longer the official/supported init method for Arch, some people are still using them instead of systemd? On 09/05/2014, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, May 08, 2014 15:46:28 Thiago Barroso Perrotta wrote: Hi, Just stumbled upon this[1] package, it is very old (last updated in 2009) and useful only when Arch used to have RC init scripts. I'd suggest its removal. [1]: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/arc-status/ Removed. Also, I think there are still a number of packages related to old initscripts. Do you mind if every time we find one, we request its removal here, or would this be too cumbersome? It's fine, and thanks for helping us cleaning AUR :) Regards, Felix Yan -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [Deletion Request] Multimon
Mutlimon was orphaned and abandoned, being superseeded by Multimon-ng (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/multimon-ng-git/), accoring to the ex-comment. On 23/04/2014, Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Apr 23, 2014 at 4:06 AM, Felix Yan felixonm...@gmail.com wrote: On Wednesday, April 23, 2014 13:34:59 David Phillips wrote: Please delete https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/multimon/ as it appears to have been orphaned and superseeded by another package, as noted in the comments. That comment is gone now, too. What has become of it? -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] [Deletion Request] 115backup-gtk{2,3}
Could [1] and [2] please be removed? They aren't pointing to source files, they're pointing to .debs which are, as far as I am aware, binaries and not source. They were orphaned up to a month ago and don't have any votes or comments, so don't seem to be popular anyway. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/115backup-gtk2/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/115backup-gtk3/ Cheers -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [Deletion Request] 115backup-gtk{2,3}
I was (for some reason) under the impression that AUR packages had to be source-only with the exception of fonts, images, icons etc, but it seems that I was wrong. Cheers for the clarification! On 23/04/2014, Nowaker enwuk...@gmail.com wrote: I thought it was permissible to point to binaries just as long as you don't include binaries in the tarball that's uploaded to the AUR. There is no strict rule for this - it's rather common sense. Binaries built by the upstream are OK (but if sources are available, then of course it's better to use them, but there's no obligation). Binaries from other sources... it depends. If you download some non-executable data like fonts, then it's justifiable too as long as checksums are provided. Executable from odd-looking sources on the internet, or self-compiled executables are not. 115backup-gtk2 and 115backup-gtk3 are OK - they download the sources directly from the upstream. Upstream doesn't provide sources. Skype works the same way. -- Kind regards, Damian Nowak StratusHost www.AtlasHost.eu -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] [Deletion Request] Multimon
Please delete https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/multimon/ as it appears to have been orphaned and superseeded by another package, as noted in the comments. Cheers -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] [Merge Request] trayfreq-fr - trayfreq-archlinux
Hi, please merge [1] into [2] as [2] now provides the features of [1] so there's no need for the patched version, [1]. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq-fr/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq-archlinux/ Cheers -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [Merge Request] trayfreq - trayfreq-archlinux
No worries, it's just great to have it all finished now. Thanks again, you TUs are great to volunteer your time like this. On 01/04/2014, Maxime Gauduin aluc...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 16:02 +1300, David Phillips wrote: I hate to look like I'm being pushy, but I'd just like to kindly bump this request as I've seen numerous other merges occur since I requested this one :) Cheers! On 28/03/2014, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: I maintain [1] and have decided to move it to follow my fork as the original source isn't compatible with Archlinux any more. Could I please have [1] merged into [2]? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq-archlinux/ Cheers, all the best. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B Merged, thx. Sorry about the delay. -- Maxime -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [Merge Request] trayfreq - trayfreq-archlinux
I hate to look like I'm being pushy, but I'd just like to kindly bump this request as I've seen numerous other merges occur since I requested this one :) Cheers! On 28/03/2014, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: I maintain [1] and have decided to move it to follow my fork as the original source isn't compatible with Archlinux any more. Could I please have [1] merged into [2]? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq-archlinux/ Cheers, all the best. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] [Merge Request] trayfreq - trayfreq-archlinux
I maintain [1] and have decided to move it to follow my fork as the original source isn't compatible with Archlinux any more. Could I please have [1] merged into [2]? [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq-archlinux/ Cheers, all the best. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] Package naming where sources are not official
Hi all, I adopted https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ a while ago to nurture it back into health after seeing that it was trying to use outdated files in /proc/ amongst other fatal bugs. The owners haven't updated their sourceforge in a while (five years), so decided to have a hack at rewriting it myself to work with modern installations. That's enough background, it's mostly working now, but the PKGBUILD is pointing to my source code. Question: Should I have the aur package renamed to account for the fact it's not using the 'true', 'official' sources even though those haven't worked for years? Cheers for your opinions. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Package naming where sources are not official
Ahh of course. (I'm new to developing for the public so wasn't quite sure.) I'll take your suggestion and contact the devs even though I have my doubts. Cheers for the clarification. On 28/03/2014, LoneVVolf lonew...@xs4all.nl wrote: On 27-03-14 10:24, David Phillips wrote: Hi all, I adopted https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ a while ago to nurture it back into health after seeing that it was trying to use outdated files in /proc/ amongst other fatal bugs. The owners haven't updated their sourceforge in a while (five years), so decided to have a hack at rewriting it myself to work with modern installations. That's enough background, it's mostly working now, but the PKGBUILD is pointing to my source code. Question: Should I have the aur package renamed to account for the fact it's not using the 'true', 'official' sources even though those haven't worked for years? Cheers for your opinions. David, it does sound like you forked trayfreq . If that's correct, you should give your project another name and then the aur package would ofcourse also need to change. There may be an alternative however : contact dzs6w3 starfall87 ,the people that created trayfreq, and team up with them ? You can contact them through their sourceforge profile pages : http://sourceforge.net/u/dzs6w3/profile/ http://sourceforge.net/u/starfall87/profile/ Lone_Wolf -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] [Rename Request] Move [trayfreq] to [trayfreq-archlinux]
I've decided to keep [ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ ] following my fork, as the original source isn't compatible with archlinux any more. Could I please have this package renamed to `trayfreq-archlinux` to indicate it's not using the official source? -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] [Rename Request] Move [trayfreq] to [trayfreq-archlinux]
Ahh that's right. My memory's not serving me well today. I've created a new package [1], could a TU please merge [2] into [1] for the reasons I mentioned in my first message. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq-archlinux/ [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ Cheers. On 28/03/2014, Taylor Lookabaugh jesus.christ.i.l...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 27, 2014 2:58 PM, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: I've decided to keep [ https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/trayfreq/ ] following my fork, as the original source isn't compatible with archlinux any more. Could I please have this package renamed to `trayfreq-archlinux` to indicate it's not using the official source? You have to upload the pkgbuild with the new name and then ask one of the TUs for a merge request. LookTJ -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
[aur-general] Quick question about sl
Please excuse me if this isn't the right list for this (I feel confident it is), but is there any reason why is it that something that's as reasonably update- and maintenance-free as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sl not in community yet? It's got over three hundred votes; is there a reason for it staying out of community? I can understand the viewpoint of it being such a small package that it's not worth the time and space on mirrors, but still? Wow, I'm proof reading this message just now and it sounds more demanding than intended. Cheers all -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Quick question about sl
Ahh, okay, that makes sense. I thought that would be the case -- these guys 'n' gals are volunteers after all. On 14/03/2014, Karol Blazewicz karol.blazew...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 8:16 AM, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com wrote: Please excuse me if this isn't the right list for this (I feel confident it is), but is there any reason why is it that something that's as reasonably update- and maintenance-free as http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/sl not in community yet? It's got over three hundred votes; is there a reason for it staying out of community? I can understand the viewpoint of it being such a small package that it's not worth the time and space on mirrors, but still? Wow, I'm proof reading this message just now and it sounds more demanding than intended. Cheers all -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B It's not exactly essential. If some dev or TU wants to pick it, he will. People tend to maintain packages they use. -- David Phillips GPG Key 0x7BF3D17D0884BF5B Fingerprint 2426 235A 7831 AA2F 56AF 4BC0 7BF3 D17D 0884 BF5B
Re: [aur-general] Code review request: new PKGBUILD omodoro
Related to (4): I've got a PKGBUILD
(https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/passgen/PKGBUILD) which points
to a git repo, but *not* using a git://xyz.git url. Instead, I'm
using the format
https://github.com/phillid/passgen/archive/master.zip; - should this
package have -git appended? I'm thinking it doesn't need the -git
suffix because it's pulled over HTTP and doesn't need git... What's
the convention on this?
Cheers.
On 10/02/2014, Doug Newgard scimmi...@outlook.com wrote:
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:15:55 +0100
From: okra...@arcor.de
To: aur-general@archlinux.org
Subject: [aur-general] Code review request: new PKGBUILD omodoro
Hello trusty Arch people,
i just created my first PKGBUILD for the little python script omodoro
i wrote. It would be nice if you guys could do a code review to approve
the PKGBUILD i wrote for the AUR.
The PKGBUILD is here:
http://www.okraits.de/upload/omodoro/PKGBUILD
Any feedback/criticism is appreciated!
Greetings,
Oliver
1. Your pkgver function doesn't work. pkgver should not be random, it should
increase with each commit to the repo.
2. Don't have it depend on an old, replaced package (python3). You just want
'python'.
3. Please quote paths that contain a variable like $pkgdir.
4. You should append -git to the pkgname when you're pulling from git
master.
5. Why bother to define _gitname if it's the same as pkgname? Since you
should be changing pkgname, _gitname can make sense or you can just do
${pkgname%-git} and get the same thing without having to use an extra
variable.
Those are my suggestions, nothing too serious.
--
David Phillips
Re: [aur-general] Code review request: new PKGBUILD omodoro
Right, that makes sense. In that case, I'll just switch it back to
using static source tarballs.
Thanks for your help.
On 10/02/2014, Anatol Pomozov anatol.pomo...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 9:08 PM, David Phillips dbphillip...@gmail.com
wrote:
Related to (4): I've got a PKGBUILD
(https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pa/passgen/PKGBUILD) which points
to a git repo, but *not* using a git://xyz.git url. Instead, I'm
using the format
https://github.com/phillid/passgen/archive/master.zip; - should this
package have -git appended?
Yes, it should. The -git suffix indicates that the package is built
from VCS. master.zip source file *also* comes from VCS, from git
repo and means current HEAD of master branch. The main point of VCS
package is that the source is moving target and it changes
independently from package maintainer. And it differs from 'versioned'
package where sources are changed only when maintainer updates
PKGBUILD.
Using master.zip is a bad idea because:
- Once master.zip downloaded it is cached in the local directory. If
you run makepkg again nothing will be redownloaded even if upstream
repository has changed.
- Updating local git repository is more effective as it fetches only
the latest changes. Thus package rebuild is faster.
So what you want for passgen:
- rename it to passgen-git
- use git repository for sources=() instead of 'master.zip'
- add 'git' to makedepends
- add proper pkgver()
- use 'SKIP' for sha1sum as project head can change at any moment
I'm thinking it doesn't need the -git
suffix because it's pulled over HTTP and doesn't need git... What's
the convention on this?
Cheers.
On 10/02/2014, Doug Newgard scimmi...@outlook.com wrote:
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 00:15:55 +0100
From: okra...@arcor.de
To: aur-general@archlinux.org
Subject: [aur-general] Code review request: new PKGBUILD omodoro
Hello trusty Arch people,
i just created my first PKGBUILD for the little python script omodoro
i wrote. It would be nice if you guys could do a code review to approve
the PKGBUILD i wrote for the AUR.
The PKGBUILD is here:
http://www.okraits.de/upload/omodoro/PKGBUILD
Any feedback/criticism is appreciated!
Greetings,
Oliver
1. Your pkgver function doesn't work. pkgver should not be random, it
should
increase with each commit to the repo.
2. Don't have it depend on an old, replaced package (python3). You just
want
'python'.
3. Please quote paths that contain a variable like $pkgdir.
4. You should append -git to the pkgname when you're pulling from git
master.
5. Why bother to define _gitname if it's the same as pkgname? Since you
should be changing pkgname, _gitname can make sense or you can just do
${pkgname%-git} and get the same thing without having to use an extra
variable.
Those are my suggestions, nothing too serious.
--
David Phillips
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David Phillips
