Re: [aur-general] TU resignation - Lukas Jirkovsky (stativ)

[Christian Hesse]

Lukas Jirkovsky via aur-general  on Fri,
2019/10/11 18:06:
> Hello everyone,
>
> [snip]
>
> So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,
> Lukas

Already said in private... Really sad to see you leave! And thanks a lot for
the work you've done.

As I knew before I've already rebuilt your packages. We can revoke your key's
signatures without breakage.

Just adopted rawtherapee, but I am not using this a lot. Who ever wants to is
free to co-maintain.
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Re: [aur-general] TU's invalid key on repos.archlinux.org

[Christian Hesse]

Pierre Neidhardt <ambre...@gmail.com> on Tue, 2017/10/31 07:51:
> Christian Hesse <l...@eworm.de> writes:
> 
> > Yes, an updated keyring package is in the repositories. Anybody needs to
> > update orion or run `pacman-key --refresh-keys`.  
> 
> Err... Who is anybody? TUs cannot update Orion, or can they?

No, they cannot. Ask a member of the devops team or raise your issue in
#archlinux-devops channel.
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Re: [aur-general] TU's invalid key on repos.archlinux.org

[Christian Hesse]

Johannes Löthberg via aur-general  on Mon,
2017/10/30 23:39:
> Quoting Pierre Neidhardt via aur-general (2017-10-30 22:43:27)
> > My key was to expire on October 20th but I extended the date last
> > minute.  Since then when I try to update fzf / udiskie in [community], I
> > get an error about invalid signatures.  Am I supposed to take an extra
> > step on repos.archlinux.org?  Or did miss something else?
> >   
> 
> Did you poke someone to build a new keyring package?  After that orion 
> needs to be updated so it has the extended expiration date.

Yes, an updated keyring package is in the repositories. Anybody needs to
update orion or run `pacman-key --refresh-keys`.
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Re: [aur-general] MariaDB vs MySQL

[Christian Hesse]

Konstantin Gizdov  on Thu, 2017/06/01 16:32:
> Hi all,
> 
> I saw today libmariadbclient was updated to 10.1.24 and dropped the line
> where it provides libmysqlclient. However, it still ships with the shared
> libs and conflicts libmysqlclient. I maintain a few packages that require
> libmysqlclient and I have some installed that require libmariadbclient. So
> with this conflict and no provision statement, my system is broken.
> 
> As a temporary fix, the packages I maintain now require libmariadbclient
> with the hopes that it implicitly provides mysql support too. However, can
> I realistically depend on this as a fact or not?
> 
> If not, isn't that a way bigger problem for others as well?
> 
> Help and advice is much appreciated.

We changed from mysql to mariadb in... 2013? So we dropped libmysqlclient
provide no. (Originally we wanted to switch to MariaDB 10.2.x, but that was
delayed. This drop is a left over from reverting.)

In fact things are still compatible, so just update your depends from
'libmysqlclient' to 'libmariadbclient'.
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Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Bruno Pagani

[Christian Hesse]

Bruno Pagani <bruno.n.pag...@gmail.com> on Mon, 2017/01/09 20:20:
> Le 09/01/2017 à 08:57, Christian Hesse a écrit :
> 
> > Bruno Pagani via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> on Sat,
> > 2017/01/07 15:32:  
> >> Outside of those, they are other packages I might want to maintain in
> >> the future but I felt those above would make a good start. I might just
> >> add uchardet[9], because it’s now needed for mpv[10], and I’m OK to
> >> maintain it if Christian Hesse (eworm) doesn’t want to.  
> > We have package uchardet in [extra] already [0], maintained by Felix Yan.
> > (The uchardet package in AUR confused me as well... Deleted it.)  
> 
> To be fair, uchardet is only in extra since friday, so this wasn’t the
> case when I wrote (most of) my application, and I admit that I didn’t
> checked between that point and when I posted yesterday, especially since
> the related issue had seen no comment and I didn’t received any
> notification related to uchardet package in AUR prior to that (so
> expected it to still not be in [community]). ;)

Ah, Felix and me worked on this in parallel... :-p
I do not want to blame you for anything, he fooled me as well. ;)
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Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Bruno Pagani

[Christian Hesse]

Bruno Pagani via aur-general <aur-general@archlinux.org> on Sat, 2017/01/07
15:32:
> Outside of those, they are other packages I might want to maintain in
> the future but I felt those above would make a good start. I might just
> add uchardet[9], because it’s now needed for mpv[10], and I’m OK to
> maintain it if Christian Hesse (eworm) doesn’t want to.

We have package uchardet in [extra] already [0], maintained by Felix Yan. (The
uchardet package in AUR confused me as well... Deleted it.)

I updated mpv with support for uchardet on Saturday evening [1] (and remove
dependency to enca later on).

[0] https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?name=uchardet
[1]
https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/community.git/commit/trunk?h=packages/mpv=8c1e195e31193d57c887c62ec052488b4f0f34b5
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Re: [aur-general] Expired key

[Christian Hesse]

Jerome Leclanche  on Sun, 2017/01/01 22:53:
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA512
> 
> Hi
> 
> My pgp key expired this morning. :(
> I have refreshed it, an archlinux-keyring rebuild will be necessary.

For most of us just refreshing the keys in pacman keyring should be
sufficient:

$ pacman-key --refresh-keys

> My apologies. Happy new year!

Happy new year!
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Re: [aur-general] Can some TU remove iep package which has been renamed upstream to pyzo

[Christian Hesse]

Hector Martinez-Seara via aur-general  on Mon,
2016/09/19 10:49:
> Hi,
> the package I maintain in AUR iep [1] has been renamed upstream to pyzo.
> I have created a new pyzo package [2] and it is time to remove the old iep.
> Can please some TU do it?
> 
> Thanks,
> Hector
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/iep
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pyzo

Please file a request on the AUR website:

https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/iep/request/
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Re: [aur-general] There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them.

[Christian Hesse]

Florian Bruhin <m...@the-compiler.org> on Wed, 2016/06/01 12:30:
> * Christian Hesse <l...@eworm.de> [2016-06-01 12:19:28 +0200]:
> > Florian Bruhin <m...@the-compiler.org> on Wed, 2016/06/01 12:10:  
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > whenever I push something to the AUR since some days (even a new repo
> > > with a single commit) I get:
> > > 
> > >   error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct
> > > the root cause and remove gc.log.
> > >   Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is
> > > removed.
> > > 
> > >   warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git
> > > prune' to remove them.
> > > 
> > > It seems to be harmless (i.e. the package is uploaded anyways), but
> > > it's kind of confusing - it seems this is something wrong on the
> > > server, and not my local git repo?  
> > 
> > No, it's your local repository. Just run:
> > 
> > git prune
> > git gc  
> 
> I did, and I'm still getting the same after pushing.
> 
> This happening on a fresh repo with a single commit also wouldn't make
> any sense FWIW.

I've seen this myself but did not notice it happens over and over again for
the same repository.

So yes, probably this is an issue with the remote repository. I think it is
caused by the way we use git for AUR on the server. We do not have separate
repositories per packages to share some objects.
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Re: [aur-general] There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git prune' to remove them.

[Christian Hesse]

Florian Bruhin  on Wed, 2016/06/01 12:10:
> Hi,
> 
> whenever I push something to the AUR since some days (even a new repo with a
> single commit) I get:
> 
>   error: The last gc run reported the following. Please correct the
> root cause and remove gc.log.
>   Automatic cleanup will not be performed until the file is removed.
> 
>   warning: There are too many unreachable loose objects; run 'git
> prune' to remove them.
> 
> It seems to be harmless (i.e. the package is uploaded anyways), but
> it's kind of confusing - it seems this is something wrong on the
> server, and not my local git repo?

No, it's your local repository. Just run:

git prune
git gc
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Re: [aur-general] bringing vis to [community]

[Christian Hesse]

Connor Behan <connor.be...@gmail.com> on Wed, 2016/02/17 12:46:
> On 17/02/16 12:09 PM, Christian Hesse wrote:
> > Hello everybody,
> >
> > vis aims to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like
> > editor.
> >
> > That is what the readme says... I think this is a pretty good description.
> > As there is good documentation I suggest taking a look at the readme [0]
> > for anybody interested.
> >
> > Looks like vis is still unknown to most Arch people, though. I do
> > maintain it in AUR [1], but it received just two votes so far.
> > Nevertheless I would like to bring it to [community] when version 0.2 is
> > tagged and released. Any comments? Complains?
> >
> > [0] https://github.com/martanne/vis/blob/master/README.md
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vis/  
>
> I just gave it a vote to help.

Thanks! ;)

> However, [community] is not meant to have
> largely unknown packages. I'd be moving a lot of single vote AUR
> packages there if that were the case.

I do maintain a lot of packages in AUR, and most of these will stay there.

However we have a decent part of our community that likes the suckless [0]
projects, including dwm, dmenu, st, slock and some more. Vis is a perfect fit
here and I am sure a lot of people will use it once they know about it.

Perhaps advertising it here is enough to get the votes. Let's see of it makes
its way.

[0] http://suckless.org/
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[aur-general] bringing vis to [community]

[Christian Hesse]

Hello everybody,

vis aims to be a modern, legacy free, simple yet efficient vim-like
editor.

That is what the readme says... I think this is a pretty good description.
As there is good documentation I suggest taking a look at the readme [0] for
anybody interested.

Looks like vis is still unknown to most Arch people, though. I do maintain it
in AUR [1], but it received just two votes so far. Nevertheless I would like
to bring it to [community] when version 0.2 is tagged and released. Any
comments? Complains?

[0] https://github.com/martanne/vis/blob/master/README.md
[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vis/
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Re: [aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

[Christian Hesse]

Ike Devolder ike.devol...@gmail.com on Wed, 2015/01/14 09:27:
 On behalf of Bartłomiej:
 
 Congratulations Eworm, you got accepted as TU.
 
 28 yes and 3 no votes makes that you are welcome to the team :).
 
 Christian, I changed your AUR account access level.

Thanks a lot! I feel honored.

 Please read [1] and [2].

I am about to prepare step by step.

 For access to #archlinux-tu query Bartłomiej or me.

Just opened the query.

Thanks again!
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Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

[Christian Hesse]

Marcel Korpel marcel.kor...@gmail.com on Tue, 2014/12/30 11:57:
 * Christian Hesse l...@eworm.de (Tue, 30 Dec 2014 11:12:45 +0100):
  this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej
  Piotrowski asked me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user.
  Just some days later Ike Devolder had the same in mind - as I already
  have a sponsor he promised to give his vote. Thanks!
 
 Congrats!

Thanks!

 I think you should apply on aur-general, not on this list.

Yeah, looks like... TUs handle [community], for me this is more than AUR
which made me think arch-general is the correct list. Thanks for the hint.

So please do not reply here, I will repost to aur-general.

 And if I was a TU, I would definitely vote for you, you've been of
 great help in the past!

Thanks again!
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[aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

[Christian Hesse]

Hello Arch Linux community,

this year I received an extra Christmas present: Bartłomiej Piotrowski asked
me to apply to become an Arch Linux trusted user. Just some days later Ike
Devolder had the same in mind - as I already have a sponsor he promised to
give his vote. Thanks!

My name is Christian Hesse (aka eworm), I was born in 1982 and I live in
Germany. I work for an educational institution, with FOM (Fachhochschule für
Ökonomie und Management) being the most prominent part. My work includes
networking and Linux stuff. Most Linux servers are Debian based, some machines
even run Arch.
In my free time I fly radio controlled helicopters, take photographs, read
books, go geocaching, meet friends, ...

My first contact with Linux was about 1998 when SuSE Linux 6.8 (or similar,
not perfectly sure) was offered by my school in a special deal. I installed
it but did not manage to get the X server running. Some time later I bought
a SuSE Linux 7.0 package, installed it and abandoned the well known
proprietary operating system. I am a free software enthusiast since these
days.
Some SuSE versions later I was annoyed by Yast overwriting my configuration
files over and over again... I decided do install LFS (Linux from scratch)
and learned a lot, changed to Gentoo to get a package manager and finally
installed Arch Linux in... Hmm... January 2010? ... for a serious system.
I felt in love with this great distribution and its package manager pacman.
To date I am perfectly happy. My main system is still running my first Arch
Linux installation (though this installation survived at least three
notebooks...).

I started maintaining packages in AUR [0] soon. Within four and a half year
the number increased to over 200, still counting.
I would like to move some of these to [community]: MySQL Workbench comes in
mind with 274 votes, LibreCAD and various Yubikey related packages being
other candidates. Hopefully PackageKit will be prepared for prime time again
soon.

My main focus is on system administration, but I do have an attitude to
programming. A number of open source projects includes changes by me, some
just being bug fixes, some introducing new features. I do not want to bore
you, so I will not list them here.
I even have started some projects on my own [1][2]. Dynamic QR
code on website anybody? Or desktop notifications for journal entries, netlink
or block device changes? Some projects are specific to Arch Linux. Want to
share pacman cache on local network? Full disk encryption with mkinitcpio and
Yubikey?

On community events I got in contact with the Linux Professional Institute. 
Nowadays I am member of LPI German e.V. [3] and working as proctor taking
certification exams.
Additionally my co-author Michael Gisbers and I wrote a German book (Linux
Essentials. Vorbereitung auf die Prüfung des Linux Professional Institute)
for Linux Essentials exam preparation, published at Open Source Press [4].

I am going to marry next month, so do not expect me to be too active until
the end of January. Nevertheless I would be pleased to join the team now and
enhance Arch Linux in the future.
Thanks a lot to all of you for considering my application.

Best Regards,
Chris

[0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=mK=eworm
[1] https://github.com/eworm-de
[2] http://git.eworm.de/
[3]
http://www.lpice.eu/lpi-partner/lpi-ev/die-mitglieder-des-lpi-e-v/christian-hesse.html
[4] http://www.opensourcepress.de/de/autoren/Christian-Hesse
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Re: [aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

[Christian Hesse]

Bartłomiej Piotrowski bpiotrow...@archlinux.org on Tue, 2014/12/30 22:37:
 I confirm that I sponsor Christian's application. Let the discussion
 period begin – Christian, I hope that you will try to find some time to
 reply to questions despite your wedding

I will find some spare time for sure. ;)

Possibly this was a bit harsh... Probably I will not find the time to idle on
IRC and have small talk to all of you. Or update MySQL WB in case Oracle
releases version 7.0 (remembering the hassle with version 6.2.x)...

 (and by the way, congratulations).

Thanks a lot!
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Re: [aur-general] Arch Linux Trusted User application Christian Hesse

[Christian Hesse]

Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de on Tue, 2014/12/30 13:16:
 On Tue, 30 Dec 2014 at 12:17:06, Christian Hesse wrote:
  Hello Arch Linux community,
  [...]
  My main focus is on system administration, but I do have an attitude to
  programming. A number of open source projects includes changes by me, some
  just being bug fixes, some introducing new features. I do not want to bore
  you, so I will not list them here.
  [...]
 
 While listing every single project you contributed to might be boring,
 knowing that you are willing to contribute to upstream projects is an
 important point.

Sure. This is kind of laziness... Every patch committed upstream does not
steal our time maintaining the software downstream. :-P

 I came across Christian's name on a lot of Open Source
 projects I am following; he contributed to archiso, cgit, OpenSSH,
 pacman and zsh. He submitted patches to Git to make the test suite pass
 with GnuPG 2.1 and we currently use those patches in our git package. I
 think he is knowledgeable and would be a good addition to our team.

Thanks for the compliments!

 Christian, glad to see you apply!

The pleasure is all mine.
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Re: [aur-general] virtualbox-extension-pack vs. virtualbox-ext-oracle

[Christian Hesse]

Laurent Carlier lordhea...@gmail.com on Mon, 2014/08/04 23:11:
 Le lundi 4 août 2014, 18:15:32 Christian Hesse a écrit :
  Hello everybody,
  
  following a lengthy discussion sublu just deleted my package
  virtualbox-extension-pack from AUR. This is what his package
  (virtualbox-ext-oracle) does:
  
  * Install an archive file.
  * Use install script to copy a number of files to /usr without pacman
  knowing about it.
  
  I think this is the wrong way, so I created my own package
  (virtualbox-extension-pack) that tries to get it right:
  
  * Just install the files required, ready to use for virtualbox.
  * No crappy install script required!
  
  My package had about 75 votes IIRC, probably there would have been more if
  more people knew about the details. The discussing had a number of
  comments that agreed about my opinion regarding installing/coping files
  to /usr with pacman or the install script.
  
  Although I think it is wrong seblu is free to provide his package via AUR.
  But is there any good reason mine is not allowed to reside there?
 
 I've checked both packages, then i've also checked virtualbox
 documentation. Documentation is available at
 http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/
 * Ch8.36. VBoxManage extpack *
 The extpack command allows you to add or remove VirtualBox extension 
 packs, as described in Section 1.5, “Installing VirtualBox and extension 
 packs”.
 In regards of VirtualBox docs, Seblu is installing extension pack the
 proper way.

Mozilla provides a tarball named firefox-31.0.tar.bz2. We could make pacman
install that, then use the install script to extract the package and run
install.sh. No?

What upstream recommends is a way that should work on all distribution,
ignoring the distribution's tools. I do not think this is the way to follow if
we can get it better. Files in /usr should be tracked by pacman, with some
really rare exceptions only. In my opinion virtualbox or its dependencies are
not.

 Your package isn't following upstream way to install extension package and
 you are not sure it will keep working, you are just lucky.

I can update my package whenever upstream changes how things work. So what?
Packages are modified all the time.

 Your package is only a duplicated package of seblu's one, only differing on
 the way to install extension pack files isn't a good reason enough. Seblu
 was right to remove your package, there was an explanation before
 suppressing, rules were followed.
 
 Nothing more to say.

I do not agree.
This is pretty stupid. My package does not hurt anybody and a lot of people
do want to use it.
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[aur-general] virtualbox-extension-pack vs. virtualbox-ext-oracle

[Christian Hesse]

Hello everybody,

following a lengthy discussion sublu just deleted my package
virtualbox-extension-pack from AUR. This is what his package
(virtualbox-ext-oracle) does:

* Install an archive file.
* Use install script to copy a number of files to /usr without pacman knowing
  about it.

I think this is the wrong way, so I created my own package
(virtualbox-extension-pack) that tries to get it right:

* Just install the files required, ready to use for virtualbox.
* No crappy install script required!

My package had about 75 votes IIRC, probably there would have been more if
more people knew about the details. The discussing had a number of comments
that agreed about my opinion regarding installing/coping files to /usr with
pacman or the install script.

Although I think it is wrong seblu is free to provide his package via AUR.
But is there any good reason mine is not allowed to reside there?
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Re: [aur-general] Announcement Input

[Christian Hesse]

Jens Adam j...@byte.cx on Fri, 2014/07/25 11:59:
 Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:48:02 +0200
 Martti Kühne mysat...@gmail.com:
 
  I haven't understood the deal. Did you announce this already, or do
  you still want to announce something or are you announcing the
  introduction of announcements on the mailing list and not the comments
  (which aren't the comments) of announcements through comments (but not
  as such)?
 
 He would like to have an 'announcement' or 'sticky post' feature
 for individual package pages.

Exactly. Probably 'sticky comment' is a better name for what I want.
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