Re: [aur-general] [PRQ#4382] Deletion Request for b43-firmware

[Daniel Wallace]

Could it not be changed to open or create request?

Both seem better than someone requesting to lodge at the maintainers house
:-)

On Thu, Nov 19, 2015 at 9:18 PM Xavion  wrote:

> On 20 November 2015 at 13:22,  wrote:
>
> > fckinshitag [1] filed a deletion request for b43-firmware [2]:
> >
> > i want this file
> >
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/fckinshitag/
> > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/b43-firmware/
>
>
> ​
> ​Okay, I see what's going on here.  This guy has interpreted the "File
> Request" link (i.e. in the "Package Actions" section of each package
> ​'s AUR webpage​
> ) as being a way of requesting a file (i.e. the package in this case).
>
> To prevent this kind of mixup in future, I would recommend that
> ​said
>  link be renamed to "Lodge Request".  I don't think anyone would be dumb
> enough to
> ​ interpret this as
> a way of requesting lodging at
> ​the maintainer's
>  residence.
> ​
>

Re: [aur-general] PKGBUILD Critique

[Daniel Wallace]

When you do grep like that, you should use two [[, to make sure that it
doesn't care about spaces.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/669452/is-preferable-over-in-bash-scripts

and in this case, you don't need them at all

if grep -qi 'utf-*8' /etc/locale.conf; then


The above will fail and not execute the 'then' portion of the if statement
if the grep fails, the -q also prevents it from out putting anything, and
it will return an exit status of not one.

Even with that, the current PKGBUILD looks fine... just wanted to point it
out.

Daniel



On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 7:02 PM, stef204  wrote:

> 10.02.2015, 17:20, "David Phillips" :
> >  . There are
> >  a few points that need clearing up before your PKGBUILD can be
> >  released for use.
> >
> >  I'm probably really crap at explaining this, but it was worth a shot.
>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks for feedback. It's helpful.
>
> You're right about just using ./configure --prefix=/user (only that).
>
> I took a existing build and tried to update it to new standard, which uses
> package () , etc.
>
> And modified very little, really, above package().  I did see the oddity
> in the ./configure option but got so involved in the error I was getting
> from package () that I forgot to backtrack,
>
> Anyway, here is an updated version.
>
> 
>
> Better?
>
> Thanks.
>

Re: [aur-general] Package deletion request

[Daniel Wallace]

You can make the delete request through the aur interface on that packages 
page.  Check the file request link.

Sent from my iPhone

> On Dec 22, 2014, at 11:45 PM, Mike Dacre  wrote:
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I maintain qguiconnect at https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/qguiconnect/
> 
> It has been superseded by qconnect, so could you please delete qguiconnect?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike

Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git

[Daniel Wallace]

Anyone using VCS packages from the AUR, should be following the package
upstream and rebuilding it as they go.  It is not meant for someone that is
just casually using the package.

The package version should be updated each time you build the package,
specified in the pkgver() function.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines#The_pkgver.28.29_function

Because the version is changed whenever you rebuild it, it can't really be
marked out of date, you should be tracking your packages and rebuilding
them when new features are added or things are changed in order to test
direct upstream packages.

Daniel

> Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2014 23:06:46 -0400
> From: ichimonj...@gmail.com
> To: aur-general@archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Package ownership change request for yaourt-git
> 
> > Really, most ofthis is mostly irrelevant TBH.
> 
> This is a common point of confusion. Because of this, I think it is worth
> addressing and therefore relevant.
> 
> > The official way of using the PKGBUILDs is manually with makepkg.
> 
> I suspect that the usual use case for interacting with the AUR is with an
> AUR helper. I think this qualifies it as subject matter that a capable
> package maintainer should have some familiarity with, even though this use
> case may be disagreeable to you personally.
> 
> > the only times an AUR VCS package is out-of-date is when it's broken in
> some way
> 
> Assuming that AUR helpers are a common tool for interacting with the AUR,
> VCS packages in the AUR are out-of-date when their version number is...
> out-of-date.
> 
> Finally, the situations that trigger a VCS package update should be
> identical whether a package is in the AUR or one of the more official repos.
> 
> — Jeremy "Ichimonji10" Audet
  

Re: [aur-general] Merge request: python2-pyside -> python-pyside

[Daniel Wallace]

> From: adys...@gmail.com
> Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2013 06:56:49 +0100
> To: aur-general@archlinux.org
> Subject: Re: [aur-general] Merge request: python2-pyside -> python-pyside
> 
> On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 6:43 AM, Xyne  wrote:
> > * This is the price we pay for having all metadata trapped in a general
> >   purpose, quirky scripting language that can only be evaluated by executing
> >   arbitrary code.
> 
> Could that be fixed by having makepkg --source generate a file
> containing metadata in an appropriate format? And have the AUR parse
> that file instead.
> 
> J. Leclanche


We kind of have that with .AURINFO . Might be worth wile to submit patches to 
expand the usefullness.

https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2013-March/002428.html
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2013-March/002398.html
  

Re: [aur-general] uuid

[Daniel Wallace]

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Don deJuan  wrote:
>I was the maintainer for uuid and just noticed it was orphaned and uuid
>is in community, or I did not realize it was there before. But just
>curious I never got an email about the package going to be orphaned or
>anything like that. Should the package[1] be deleted from AUR all
>together now?
>
>Thanks
>
>[1]https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/uuid/

Don't delete it yet, I moved it to community when I was packaging uwsgi in 
community testing.  And I am not sure if uuid is needed for what I want yet.

I accidentally disowned it last night and tried to send you an email last night 
to readopt it.
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Re: [aur-general] Circular dependancies

[Daniel Wallace]

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"Patrick Burroughs (Celti)"  wrote:

>On Mon, Apr 15, 2013 at 2:34 AM,   wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> While installing catalyst-dkms, catalyst-utils is required as a
>dependancy,
>> which itself requires xorg-server. But catalyst-utils requests
>removal of
>> xorg-server at the same time. How can we resolve this ?
>>
>> Thanks.
>
>
>You wait for catalyst to be updated to be compatible with the latest
>xorg.
>
>~Celti

Or you use the catalyst and xorg113 repos listed on the catalyst wiki page.
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Re: [aur-general] SVN package, pkgver() and SRCDEST

[Daniel Wallace]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:23:24PM -0300, Rafael Ferreira wrote:
> Hi there.
> 
> I notice that if you have SRCDEST set in makepkg.conf, working in
> 'src/' folder with Subversion doesn't seem to work just like 'git
> log -1 ' or 'git describe | ', as it seems that 'src/' is
> simply a 'svn export' copy of $SRCDEST (e.g.: /home/foobar/sources).
> 
> In pcsx2-svn [1], I'm using the following function to accomplish the
> task of getting pkgver dynamically:
> 
> pkgver () {
> svnversion "${SRCDEST:-$srcdir}"/$pkgname
> }
> 
> Any opinions or better solution to get pkgver?
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pcsx2-svn/
> 
> Rafael Ferreira

you could just cd $pkgnaem and not include $SRCDEST or $srcdir, because
before pkgver, makepkg places you in the correct directory to just cd
into the svn checkout.

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Re: [aur-general] Advice for CVS packages

[Daniel Wallace]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 10:02:54PM +0200, Stefan Husmann wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I did not find an example PKGBUILD for a CVS based, repo-hosted program.
> Especially, how can I rewrite a typical CVS sting like
> 
> :pserver:anonym...@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/sources/auctex
> 
> into an URL?
> 
> Best Regards Stefan

That would be because makepkg doesn't currently support cvs.
If you would like it to, please feel free to submit patches to
pacman-dev for it.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Super_Quick_Git_Guide

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Re: [aur-general] pacman4.1 PKGBUILD-git help needed

[Daniel Wallace]

On Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 09:10:18PM +0200, Rob Til Freedmen wrote:
> I've received a comment this morning from
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/argotlunar-git/
> 
> gtmanfred wrote:
> 'https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines
> pacman 4.1 supporst git
> also, patches should be in the prepare() function'
> 
> I didn't found an updated PKGBUILD-git.proto nor an example of prepare()
> for patches.
> All I had was an example from the VCS_PKGBUILD_Guidelines to convert
> PKGBUILD to pacman4.1 standards
> 
> Alas, makepkg throws an error;
> 
> ==> Retrieving sources...
> ==> ERROR: /src/argotlunar-git/argotlunar is not a clone of git://
> github.com/mourednik/argotlunar
> Aborting...
> 
> http://sprunge.us/LNCi
> 
> What do I missing?
> Any advice are welcome!

it works fine here, I would also change the pkgver to something more
specific than the date of the last commit, as there are probably more
than one each day

if a packages doesn't use tags, i have been using 
.

pkgver() {
cd "$srcdir/$_gitname"
echo $(git rev-list --count master).$(git rev-parse --short master)
}

(if you use one of the fragment things for your source=() url like
#branch=working or something, you need to change master to makepkg)

http://ix.io/552

Also note that 5 lines in your .patch files have whitespace at the end
of the lines.

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Re: [aur-general] font package category in AUR?

[Daniel Wallace]

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johnea  wrote:

>On 04/07/2013 04:36 PM, Jason St. John wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 7, 2013 at 7:08 PM, johnea  wrote:
>>>
>>> I did a quick search to see if this has been discussed before, but
>found nothing.
>>>
>>> It seems it would help organization if there was a "font" category
>for AUR packages.
>>>
>>> Font are in all kinds of categories, and with inconsistent names.
>This makes it difficult to separate fonts from utilities and system
>files, and makes it hard to find all available fonts.
>>>
>>> Could a font category be added for AUR packages?
>>>
>>> Thank You...
>>
>> I agree. This would be very useful. Could you make a feature request
>> for this on the Arch bug tracker?
>>
>> Jason
>>
>
>Done: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/34666

Except you probably should have put it in the aur section of the bug tracker.
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Re: [aur-general] nanoc3 deletion request

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 06:01:44PM -0400, Daniel Wallace wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:19:09PM +, Xyne wrote:
> > On 2013-04-06 14:22 -0400
> > Jeremy Audet wrote:
> > 
> > >> Just remember there is actually no use for replaces in the aur.  That
> > >directive is only useful in the regular repositories.   Provides and
> > >conflicts is all you actually need for a clean update.
> > >>
> > >> Replaces is used by pacman to find if there is anything in the
> > >repositories that replaces something else.  Like when we did all the
> > >renames of python packages.
> > >
> > >Thanks for the tip. I had no idea that `replaces` was only useful in the
> > >reular repositories. I'll add a `conflicts` directive to the ruby-nanoc
> > >package.
> > 
> > 
> > I disagree that "replaces" is not useful in the AUR. Many people create 
> > their
> > own repositories with AUR packages and then it is very useful. Some AUR 
> > helpers
> > may support "replaces" as well.
> 
> Why would you ever build a repository from straight aur packages.  I
> don't know about you, but there is no one I trust enough to just build
> with there PKGBUILD for my repository.  I keep a nice list of PKGBUILDs
> and build from those as I also maintain them.
> 
> > 
> > In general, PKGBUILDs uploaded to the AUR should adhere to all standards in
> > such a way that they could be moved into a repo without further changes.
> 
> Except if we look at the guidelines for submitting to the AUR. There is
> a nice note that they should never use replaces.
> 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_packages_to_the_AUR
> 
> #6, you can't miss it.

Scratch that, I miss interpreted what it was saying, but that section
should really be rewritten. It really shouldn't be talking about pacman
-S because that is not something that really matters in the AUR.

But to the point that started this, you do not need replaces to do a
clean update between the 2 packages for the rename, you only need
conflicts (if there is something being built against it, you may need
provides, or to just rebuild the other package once the first has been
updated.)

> 
> > Omitting key variables just because the AUR lacks support for them is a bad
> > idea in my opinion.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Xyne
> 
> -- 
> Daniel Wallace
> Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
> Georgia Institute of Technology



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Re: [aur-general] nanoc3 deletion request

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 09:19:09PM +, Xyne wrote:
> On 2013-04-06 14:22 -0400
> Jeremy Audet wrote:
> 
> >> Just remember there is actually no use for replaces in the aur.  That
> >directive is only useful in the regular repositories.   Provides and
> >conflicts is all you actually need for a clean update.
> >>
> >> Replaces is used by pacman to find if there is anything in the
> >repositories that replaces something else.  Like when we did all the
> >renames of python packages.
> >
> >Thanks for the tip. I had no idea that `replaces` was only useful in the
> >reular repositories. I'll add a `conflicts` directive to the ruby-nanoc
> >package.
> 
> 
> I disagree that "replaces" is not useful in the AUR. Many people create their
> own repositories with AUR packages and then it is very useful. Some AUR 
> helpers
> may support "replaces" as well.

Why would you ever build a repository from straight aur packages.  I
don't know about you, but there is no one I trust enough to just build
with there PKGBUILD for my repository.  I keep a nice list of PKGBUILDs
and build from those as I also maintain them.

> 
> In general, PKGBUILDs uploaded to the AUR should adhere to all standards in
> such a way that they could be moved into a repo without further changes.

Except if we look at the guidelines for submitting to the AUR. There is
a nice note that they should never use replaces.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Packaging_Standards#Submitting_packages_to_the_AUR

#6, you can't miss it.

> Omitting key variables just because the AUR lacks support for them is a bad
> idea in my opinion.
> 
> Regards,
> Xyne

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Re: [aur-general] nanoc3 deletion request

[Daniel Wallace]

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Xyne  wrote:

>On 2013-04-06 00:25 -0400
>Jeremy Audet wrote:
>
>>I'm requesting the deletion of the AUR package nanoc3. [1]
>>
>>The AUR currently includes two similarly-named packages: nanoc and
>nanoc3.
>>At one time, nanoc provided v2.x of the gem, and nanoc3 provided v3.x
>of
>>the gem. [2] However, nanoc has supseded nanoc3. If you look at
>rubygems.org,
>>you can see that the two development lines merged from 3.2.0 to 3.3.0.
>>After the release of 3.3.0, nanoc3 releases stopped, whereas nanoc
>releases
>>continued. [3][4]
>>
>>Thus, nanoc3 is no longer being developed, and it has been superseded.
>
>The package has been merged into ruby-nanoc. Thanks.
>
>>
>>One last question: assuming the deletion request is approved, should
>the
>>nanoc PKGBUILD both replace() and provide() nanoc3? If I understand
>>correctly, the replace() would allow nanoc3 users a clean upgrade
>path,
>>whereas the provide() would allow programs that depend on nanoc3 to
>use
>>nanoc. (new package maintainer here, so still fleshing out my
>understanding
>>of things)
>
>Your understanding is correct.

Just remember there is actually no use for replaces in the aur.  That directive 
is only useful in the regular repositories.   Provides and conflicts is all you 
actually need for a clean update.

Replaces is used by pacman to find if there is anything in the repositories 
that replaces something else.  Like when we did all the renames of python 
packages.
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Re: [aur-general] please add -depth 1 to makepkg git clone

[Daniel Wallace]

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Tai-Lin Chu  wrote:

>1. you can still pull, so it will not be a reason to go against it
>
>>This is also true. makepkg clones a bare repository to the SRCDEST
>>directory. If this is a shallow bare repo, then clones cannot be made
>of
>>it which is what makepkg does.
>
>2. ... i dont think why it needs to use git clone. using cp is good
>enough...
>
>On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:05 PM, William Giokas <1007...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 06:47:55PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
>>> makepkg only needs the latest git snapshot
>>> there are only 2 cases that wont work:
>>> 1. revert git commit
>>> 2. count # of revisions
>>>
>>> > Won't work as you can't clone shallow repositories, which makepkg
>>> > needs to do to create the working copy for the build.
>>
>> This is also true. makepkg clones a bare repository to the SRCDEST
>> directory. If this is a shallow bare repo, then clones cannot be made
>of
>> it which is what makepkg does.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
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>> Fingerprint: F73F 50EF BBE2 9846 8306  E6B8 6902 06D8 73CD 09CF

I truly do not understand why this conversation exists. We discussed this 
months ago.  The conclusion was that you really shouldn't be using these 
packages unless you are following upstream...  What if the current depth=1 is 
unstable and has a huge bug Then what... Oh those users aren't following 
upstream and have no idea because instead of the developers of the program 
monitoring and telling them this a stable (and hopefully bug free release... 
The use your depth=1 pkgbuild and never update until one of the depends does a 
soname bump and breaks everything... To save space... In my opinion we should 
actually remove git packages from the aur... It adds an air  of instability to 
the distribution... People that use -git should really maintain there own 
pkgbuild... And yes I felt this was so important I interrupted my night out to 
send...


So, unlike you, I hope depth is never supported in package source=()
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Re: [aur-general] please add -depth 1 to makepkg git clone

[Daniel Wallace]

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Tai-Lin Chu  wrote:

>1. you can still pull, so it will not be a reason to go against it
>
>>This is also true. makepkg clones a bare repository to the SRCDEST
>>directory. If this is a shallow bare repo, then clones cannot be made
>of
>>it which is what makepkg does.
>
>2. ... i dont think why it needs to use git clone. using cp is good
>enough...
>
>On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 7:05 PM, William Giokas <1007...@gmail.com>
>wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 05, 2013 at 06:47:55PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
>>> makepkg only needs the latest git snapshot
>>> there are only 2 cases that wont work:
>>> 1. revert git commit
>>> 2. count # of revisions
>>>
>>> > Won't work as you can't clone shallow repositories, which makepkg
>>> > needs to do to create the working copy for the build.
>>
>> This is also true. makepkg clones a bare repository to the SRCDEST
>> directory. If this is a shallow bare repo, then clones cannot be made
>of
>> it which is what makepkg does.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> --
>> William Giokas | KaiSforza
>> GnuPG Key: 0x73CD09CF
>> Fingerprint: F73F 50EF BBE2 9846 8306  E6B8 6902 06D8 73CD 09CF

This is dumb because using cp is not enough, you should be using git clone 
because it is git and straight from git, if you goal is to just use the newest 
you are doing it wrong go write you own pkgbuild. The only reason to use git 
packages is if you are deving upstream and want to actively test development of 
upstream packages... Or if up stream is dumb enough to never tag stable 
releases. Fortunately there are very few of the latter, so to support the 
majority of of users we clone the whole thing.  You are welcome to use the old 
method if you are so naive to believe that people will actually benefit from a 
true shallow clone of a git repository though yaourt. Because no one should 
ever install a git I ask age through yaourt because it is deleted immediately.
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Re: [aur-general] pacman 4.1 (makepkg 4.1) bazaar pkgver autobump problem

[Daniel Wallace]

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Gary van der Merwe  wrote:

>On Thu 04 Apr 2013 15:41:27 SAST, Alucryd wrote:
>> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 15:26 +0200, Gary van der Merwe wrote:
>>> Hi all.
>>>
>>> I'm the one wrote the Bazaar makepkg support, so any bugs are my
>fault.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/04/2013 10:24, Stefan Husmann wrote:
>>>> ==> Retrieving sources...
>>>> -> Branching http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/xwidget
>>>> ...
>>>> bzr: ERROR: No such file:
>>>>
>u'/home/haawda/paketierung/maintained_by_me/emacs-xwidget-bzr/4.1/xwidget/.bzr':
>>>> [Errno 20]
>>>> Not a directory:
>>>>
>'/home/haawda/paketierung/maintained_by_me/emacs-xwidget-bzr/4.1/xwidget/.bzr'
>>>>
>>>> ==> ERROR: Failure while branching
>>>> http://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/r/emacs/xwidget
>>>>   Aborting...
>>>
>>> This error has happened before pkgver is reached, and so the problem
>is
>>> not with your pkgver function.
>>>
>>> I'm busy running makepkg on your PKGBUILD to see if I reproduce the
>error.
>>>
>>>   > pkgver() {
>>>   >bzr version-info $srcdir/$_bzrmod | awk '/revno:/ {print $2}'
>>>   > }
>>>
>>> An easier way to do this is by using bzr version-info's built in
>>> templating:
>>>
>>> pkgver() {
>>>  bzr version-info $srcdir/$_bzrmod --custom
>--template="{revno}\n"
>>> }
>>>
>>> (see `bzr help version-info` for a list of fields you can use)
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 04/04/2013 15:04, Alucryd wrote:
>>>> FYI, I've settled with this for my bzr PKGBUILDs [1]. Only problem
>>>> is, this works well when first installing the package (even the
>>>> pkgver bump) and the repo has not been pulled yet, but it fails at
>>>> any subsequent attempt, throwing this:
>>>>
>>>> ==> Making package: pantheon-notify-bzr 24-1 (Thu Apr 4 14:30:31
>>>> CEST  2013)
>>>> ==> Checking runtime dependencies...
>>>   > ==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
>>>   > ==> Retrieving sources...
>>>   > ==> ERROR: /home/alucryd/Downloads/pantheon-notify is not a
>branch
>>>   > of https://code.launchpad.net/~tombeckmann/pantheon-notify/trunk
>>>> Aborting...
>>>>
>>>> Makepkg uses 'bzr config parent_location' to determine the upstream
>>>> url, which, in this case is
>>>> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~tombeckmann/pantheon-notify/trunk/ and
>>>> not the url in my source array. I'm not sure this qualifies as a
>bug,
>>>> but you have to make sure the upstream url is the one reported by
>>>> that command. I have prepared a small patch for makepkg to print
>the
>>>> correct url, I'll open a bug later today and see if the patch can
>be
>>>> merged.
>>>
>>> Just a note on why the url you have provided and the url stored in
>the
>>> bzr config are different is because launchpad will return a http
>>> permanent redirect.
>>>
>>> My recommendation would be to use the url it redirects to.
>>>
>>> However, I agree that this solution is not the greatest. One thing
>it
>>> stops you from doing is using bzr's directory service urls (e.g.
>lp:)
>>> So I look forward to your patch.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>>
>>> Gary
>>
>> Hi Gary,
>>
>> Thx for adding support for bzr! I was writing the bug report when I
>saw
>> your mail, it'll probably be quicker if I just attach the git patch
>> here.
>> It is not much, but it makes makepkg print the correct http url, so
>> people know what url they should use. It will not help with lp: urls
>> though, and right now I have no idea if there's a way to associate
>the
>> output of 'bzr config parent_location' to a lp: url. I'll try to
>think
>> of an alternate solution.
>>
>> Cheers
>> --
>> Maxime
>
>That sounds good.
>
>I think the best place to send you patch is to pacman-dev
>https://mailman.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/pacman-dev
>
>Regards,
>
>Gary

It is

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Super_Quick_Git_Guide
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[aur-general] Inactive - gtmanfred

[Daniel Wallace]

Hi Trusted Users,

I will be inactive for about a month to plan and execute my move to San
Antonio, TX for my new Job.

Feel free to repackage anything of mine, everything should be up to date
right now except lib32-nspr which I am just waiting for nspr to update
first.

I will probably still be on Irc sporadically to satiate my addiction.
And I will also be reachable from this email address.

Thanks,
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] git-flow-git and gitflow-git merged?

[Daniel Wallace]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:49:40PM +, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder, would it be possible to request merging these two packages?
> 
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-flow-git/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitflow-git/
> 
> First, they are maintained by two different maintainres.
> Second, git-flow-git uses name which is incorrect.
> Call me pedantic, but Vincent Driessen's created GitFlow, not "Git Flow".
> 
> I hope maintainers of both lurk on this list and could agree to merge these 
> two.
> 
> By the way, shouldn't the installation step be executed from package()
> instead of build() as it's now?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net

Bah, I replied before I read your whole email, yes it have anything that
touches $pkgdir in the package() function.

I left a comment, as soon as it is fixed, I will merge the two

-- 
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Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] git-flow-git and gitflow-git merged?

[Daniel Wallace]

On Thu, Mar 21, 2013 at 08:49:40PM +, Mateusz Loskot wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I wonder, would it be possible to request merging these two packages?
> 
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/git-flow-git/
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/gitflow-git/
> 
> First, they are maintained by two different maintainres.
> Second, git-flow-git uses name which is incorrect.
> Call me pedantic, but Vincent Driessen's created GitFlow, not "Git Flow".
> 
> I hope maintainers of both lurk on this list and could agree to merge these 
> two.
> 
> By the way, shouldn't the installation step be executed from package()
> instead of build() as it's now?
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> --
> Mateusz Loskot, http://mateusz.loskot.net


Please fix the PKGBUILD to use the package() function instead of only
the build() function before I merge.

Thanks,
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Delete & Merge Request

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2013 at 10:07:56AM +0800, Eiro Neemous wrote:
> Oh i forget to do that first= = done, thanks for ur notice!
> 
> Daniel Wallace  wrote:
> 
> >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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> >
> >Eiro Neemous  wrote:
> >
> >>Hello,
> >>
> >>Please delete my package e-modules-extra-eweather-svn (dups, there's
> >>eweather-svn),
> >>and merge geneet-svn into geneet-git,
> >>
> >>links attached:
> >>https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/e-modules-extra-eweather-svn/
> >>https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/geneet-svn/
> >>
> >>thanks in advance!
> >>
> >>
> >>Regards,
> >>Eiro Neemous
> >
> >Please fix geneet-git first.
> >
> >The install command shout be in the package function.
> >- --
> >Sent from my Android Phone.
> >Daniel Wallace
> >Arch Linux Trusted User
> >GTManfred

For the record, it should probably also use --root= instead of just
--prefix

python2 setup.py install --prefix=/usr --root="$pkgdir"

Fix that, I already deleted the first one and merged the -svn one

Thanks
-- 
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Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Delete & Merge Request

[Daniel Wallace]

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Eiro Neemous  wrote:

>Hello,
>
>Please delete my package e-modules-extra-eweather-svn (dups, there's
>eweather-svn),
>and merge geneet-svn into geneet-git,
>
>links attached:
>https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/e-modules-extra-eweather-svn/
>https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/geneet-svn/
>
>thanks in advance!
>
>
>Regards,
>Eiro Neemous

Please fix geneet-git first.

The install command shout be in the package function.
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Re: [aur-general] Unexpected aur package removal.

[Daniel Wallace]

On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 12:05:04AM +, Xyne wrote:
> Ionut Biru wrote:
> 
> >mate, you did something wrong, stop trying to find out excuses for your
> >actions.
> >
> >please do not delete builds like that anymore, leave comments about any
> >issues with the build and give them time to accommodate with the changes
> 
> This.
> 
> Obliterating votes and comments and forcing the user to recreate the package
> does not help anyone, and one minute is not enough to read a comment, address
> the issue and re-upload the package even if the maintainer is glued to the
> chair slamming F5. It discourages new users from continuing to contribute and
> it leaves a very bad impression of the TUs and Arch by extension.

Did you actually read what I explained what I did? because your first
sentence would cause me to believe you didn't.  I specifically said I
did not delete any packages that had comments on them or any substantial
amount of votes.  This one packages that is being complained about had 3
votes, that is 2 more than any other packages, and all of the other ones
were only voted on by the maintainer.

> 
> 
> Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
> 
> >What's the point of your drama? It was perfectly correct to remove it
> >(especially if it was new package). You reuploaded and fixed it.
> >Everyone is happy, hurray!
> 
> Everyone is clearly not happy. If you honestly think that it's just "drama"
> when a user has a valid complaint about an overzealous TU then I think you 
> need
> to reconsider your viewpoint. TUs are not beyond scrutiny. If anything we
> should be held to a higher standard than other users.
> 
The users complaint is valid. Fine, he asked for it to be merged to the
new package name, and I missed it on aur-general.

How about this, I would like to lodge a complaint against the TU that
merged the package in the first place without checking for it's validity
and following of packaging guidelines.

> 
> As for my own anecdote, you will find many comments from me linking to updated
> PKGBUILDs that I kindly *recommend* to the maintainer. I wait a few weeks for 
> a
> reply and then either post again or email the maintainer. I think it is the
> most effective way encourage users to adhere to packaging standards and adopt
> better PKGBUILD styles.

YES ABSOLUTELY! I do this, all the time! Including on one of yours
today! Right after you complained about environment variables not being
quoted because they might include spaces.

> 
> 
> 
> Alexander Rødseth wrote:
> 
> >tl;dr Ioni is always right
> 
> What alternate reality is this? :P
I have no comment
>
-- 
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Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Unexpected aur package removal.

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:41:50AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:34 AM, Daniel Wallace
>  wrote:
> > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17:13AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Daniel Wallace
> >>  wrote:
> >> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >> >> Hi,
> >> >>
> >> >> A TU "gtmanfred" have just decided to remove one of my package just
> >> >> one minute after he commented on the package pointed out the missing
> >> >> package() in the PKGBUILD without any further explaination.
> >> >>
> >> >> The package is python-django-git[0], which I have uploaded 2-3 days
> >> >> ago[1] to replacing two old packages including one with 3 vote that I
> >> >> uploaded last Nov.
> >> >>
> >> >> I have already re-upload the package[0] since I don't think anything
> >> >> is wrong with the package (especially not for the package name, I can
> >> >> fix it if anything else with the package is wrong). And I just want to
> >> >> know if that was a delete by mistake or a missing package() somehow is
> >> >> enough reason to remove a package within ~1min after notifying the
> >> >> maintainer now?
> >> >>
> >> >> Yichao Yu
> >> >>
> >> >> [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-django-git/
> >> >> [1] 
> >> >> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-March/022494.html
> >> >
> >> > Please follow packageing guidelines, anything that touches $pkgdir
> >> > should be inside the package() function.
> >> >
> >> > repackaging without a package() function has been deprecated
> >> > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-April/010620.html
> >> >
> >> > and PKGBUILDs without a package() function have been depricated
> >> > https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/515/
> >> > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/clean-up-pkgdir-usage/
> >>
> >> I agree, and I have already fixed it.
> >>
> >> BUT, that is NOT what I am asking!! What I am REALLY asking here is
> >> why did you simply remove the package!!
> >> You can leave a comment (which you did 1min before you go right to the
> >> incorrect last step), flag it out-of-date, send me a email, or even
> >> disown it and correct it yourself according to the AUR two-week policy
> >> if I refuse to update. Is it what you think a TU should do to remove
> >> (without waiting for the shortest reasonable response time or even
> >> attempting to improve) all non-standard/old PKGBUILD on AUR.
> >>
> >> It is fine if you have just removed it by accident (although I will
> >> probably suggest to move the remove button and the flag-out-of-date
> >> button farther away for TU if that's the case), but if you were doing
> >> that on purpose, what you did is totally non-constructive. This is
> >> definitely NOT what a TU should do. Let me remind you what a TU should
> >> do is "check PKGBUILDs for minor mistakes, suggest corrections and
> >> improvements"[1], I am not sure which of the three does "removing
> >> package right away" belong to.
> >>
> >> [1] 
> >> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#The_TU_and_.5Bunsupported.5D
> >>
> >> >
> >> > --
> >> > Daniel Wallace
> >> > Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
> >> > Georgia Institute of Technology
> >
> > If you read the front page of the AUR, you will note the following.
> >
> > Contributed PKGBUILDs must conform to the Arch Packaging Standards
> > otherwise they will be deleted!
> 
> OK, as you are happily deleting every single slightly non-standard AUR
> packages, I want to ask on the mailinglist when did removing package
> immediately becoming the rule.
> 
> >
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Wallace
> > Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
> > Georgia Institute of Technology

For the record, I have only deleted NEWLY updated packages that are
either.

A) Named incorrectly.
Someone uploads a -git or -svn package and doesn't name it -git or
-svn, it has no votes and no comments, so instead of waiting for it
to get to a point where it would have to be merged, I leave a note
explaining that 

Re: [aur-general] Unexpected aur package removal.

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17:13AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Daniel Wallace
>  wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> A TU "gtmanfred" have just decided to remove one of my package just
> >> one minute after he commented on the package pointed out the missing
> >> package() in the PKGBUILD without any further explaination.
> >>
> >> The package is python-django-git[0], which I have uploaded 2-3 days
> >> ago[1] to replacing two old packages including one with 3 vote that I
> >> uploaded last Nov.
> >>
> >> I have already re-upload the package[0] since I don't think anything
> >> is wrong with the package (especially not for the package name, I can
> >> fix it if anything else with the package is wrong). And I just want to
> >> know if that was a delete by mistake or a missing package() somehow is
> >> enough reason to remove a package within ~1min after notifying the
> >> maintainer now?
> >>
> >> Yichao Yu
> >>
> >> [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-django-git/
> >> [1] 
> >> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-March/022494.html
> >
> > Please follow packageing guidelines, anything that touches $pkgdir
> > should be inside the package() function.
> >
> > repackaging without a package() function has been deprecated
> > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-April/010620.html
> >
> > and PKGBUILDs without a package() function have been depricated
> > https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/515/
> > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/clean-up-pkgdir-usage/
> 
> I agree, and I have already fixed it.
> 
> BUT, that is NOT what I am asking!! What I am REALLY asking here is
> why did you simply remove the package!!
> You can leave a comment (which you did 1min before you go right to the
> incorrect last step), flag it out-of-date, send me a email, or even
> disown it and correct it yourself according to the AUR two-week policy
> if I refuse to update. Is it what you think a TU should do to remove
> (without waiting for the shortest reasonable response time or even
> attempting to improve) all non-standard/old PKGBUILD on AUR.
> 
> It is fine if you have just removed it by accident (although I will
> probably suggest to move the remove button and the flag-out-of-date
> button farther away for TU if that's the case), but if you were doing
> that on purpose, what you did is totally non-constructive. This is
> definitely NOT what a TU should do. Let me remind you what a TU should
> do is "check PKGBUILDs for minor mistakes, suggest corrections and
> improvements"[1], I am not sure which of the three does "removing
> package right away" belong to.
> 
> [1] 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#The_TU_and_.5Bunsupported.5D
> 
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Wallace
> > Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
> > Georgia Institute of Technology

Also note that you didn't fix it until I replied to your inquiry about
why it was deleted.  And instead of taking my advice to fix it, you
decided it was correct and just uploaded it again.

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Unexpected aur package removal.

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 12:17:13AM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:49 PM, Daniel Wallace
>  wrote:
> > On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> A TU "gtmanfred" have just decided to remove one of my package just
> >> one minute after he commented on the package pointed out the missing
> >> package() in the PKGBUILD without any further explaination.
> >>
> >> The package is python-django-git[0], which I have uploaded 2-3 days
> >> ago[1] to replacing two old packages including one with 3 vote that I
> >> uploaded last Nov.
> >>
> >> I have already re-upload the package[0] since I don't think anything
> >> is wrong with the package (especially not for the package name, I can
> >> fix it if anything else with the package is wrong). And I just want to
> >> know if that was a delete by mistake or a missing package() somehow is
> >> enough reason to remove a package within ~1min after notifying the
> >> maintainer now?
> >>
> >> Yichao Yu
> >>
> >> [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-django-git/
> >> [1] 
> >> https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-March/022494.html
> >
> > Please follow packageing guidelines, anything that touches $pkgdir
> > should be inside the package() function.
> >
> > repackaging without a package() function has been deprecated
> > https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-April/010620.html
> >
> > and PKGBUILDs without a package() function have been depricated
> > https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/515/
> > https://www.archlinux.org/todo/clean-up-pkgdir-usage/
> 
> I agree, and I have already fixed it.
> 
> BUT, that is NOT what I am asking!! What I am REALLY asking here is
> why did you simply remove the package!!
> You can leave a comment (which you did 1min before you go right to the
> incorrect last step), flag it out-of-date, send me a email, or even
> disown it and correct it yourself according to the AUR two-week policy
> if I refuse to update. Is it what you think a TU should do to remove
> (without waiting for the shortest reasonable response time or even
> attempting to improve) all non-standard/old PKGBUILD on AUR.
> 
> It is fine if you have just removed it by accident (although I will
> probably suggest to move the remove button and the flag-out-of-date
> button farther away for TU if that's the case), but if you were doing
> that on purpose, what you did is totally non-constructive. This is
> definitely NOT what a TU should do. Let me remind you what a TU should
> do is "check PKGBUILDs for minor mistakes, suggest corrections and
> improvements"[1], I am not sure which of the three does "removing
> package right away" belong to.
> 
> [1] 
> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#The_TU_and_.5Bunsupported.5D
> 
> >
> > --
> > Daniel Wallace
> > Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
> > Georgia Institute of Technology

If you read the front page of the AUR, you will note 

Contributed PKGBUILDs must conform to the Arch Packaging Standards
otherwise they will be deleted! 

https://aur.archlinux.org/
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Unexpected aur package removal.

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 11:25:58PM -0400, Yichao Yu wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A TU "gtmanfred" have just decided to remove one of my package just
> one minute after he commented on the package pointed out the missing
> package() in the PKGBUILD without any further explaination.
> 
> The package is python-django-git[0], which I have uploaded 2-3 days
> ago[1] to replacing two old packages including one with 3 vote that I
> uploaded last Nov.
> 
> I have already re-upload the package[0] since I don't think anything
> is wrong with the package (especially not for the package name, I can
> fix it if anything else with the package is wrong). And I just want to
> know if that was a delete by mistake or a missing package() somehow is
> enough reason to remove a package within ~1min after notifying the
> maintainer now?
> 
> Yichao Yu
> 
> [0] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/python-django-git/
> [1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2013-March/022494.html

Please follow packageing guidelines, anything that touches $pkgdir
should be inside the package() function.

repackaging without a package() function has been deprecated
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2010-April/010620.html

and PKGBUILDs without a package() function have been depricated
https://patchwork.archlinux.org/patch/515/
https://www.archlinux.org/todo/clean-up-pkgdir-usage/

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] TU application from graysky

[Daniel Wallace]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 06:11:50PM -0400, member graysky wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 6:04 PM, William Giokas <1007...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 05:58:27PM -0400, member graysky wrote:
> >> Try two using gmail to send an clearsigned message to this list...
> >
> > Still bad. Try using a client, like Thunderbird or Mutt. I can only
> > vouch for Mutt in respect to signing well.
> 
> Actually, when I attached the message.txt.asc to the message, it
> verified for me on the shell.  Is that not the case for you?
> 
> % gpg --verify copy_paste_from_ML.txt
> gpg: Signature made Mon 11 Mar 2013 05:56:46 PM EDT using RSA key ID 5EE46C4C
> gpg: Good signature from "graysky "

What type of packages do you plan on maintaining and what would you want
to move into the repos first?

What part of the Arch Linux philosophy really resonated with you?

From your time helping maintain the wiki, if there was one specific
thing you would change about it, what would it be?

And why for all 3 questions.

Thanks and good luck,
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] User ban request --- can I get a response, please?

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:30:05PM -0500, Limao Luo wrote:
> On 03/05/2013 11:21 PM, William Giokas wrote:
> >On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:10:16PM -0500, Daniel Wallace wrote:
> >>On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:05:07PM -0500, Limao Luo wrote:
> >>>And he's back, with another account [2] with an address on a
> >>>different website (rmqkr.net, which redirects to the disposable
> >>>email site 10minutemail.com). This is a waste of my time. Can
> >>>someone respond to this thread so I know that a TU even knows about
> >>>this? Also, I guess it's really a bot, since the flagging is done
> >>>across congruent intervals (this time it's 1 minute between flags).
> >>>
> >>>[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/9Pwrxb1/
> >>We are well aware of it.
> >>https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2013-February/002371.html
> >>
> >>The problem is every time I suspend an account (after a patch that was
> >>applied yesterday) now he gets logged out, the problem is it creates a
> >>new account and starts tagging them out of date again.
> >Captchas, man. Captchas. I know it will very very slightly inconvenience
> >some people that have to flag a few packages out of date at a time, but
> >really, it would only save us from crap like this.
> >
> Yeah, they mentioned that in the aur-dev conversation, among other
> ideas like IP blocking (which actually sounds good, except more than
> one person can have an IP, so I don't know how much that would work,
> unless there is some timeout period or something for the block) and
> repeatedly doubling intervals after successive flags that time out
> after an hour (which, while annoying, doesn't seem like an enough of
> a deterrent, but I could be wrong).
> 
> Well, not much to do except wait it out, I guess. I just can't
> remember which packages I have to update now.

ip ban doesn't work when they use tor
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] User ban request --- can I get a response, please?

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:05:07PM -0500, Limao Luo wrote:
> And he's back, with another account [2] with an address on a
> different website (rmqkr.net, which redirects to the disposable
> email site 10minutemail.com). This is a waste of my time. Can
> someone respond to this thread so I know that a TU even knows about
> this? Also, I guess it's really a bot, since the flagging is done
> across congruent intervals (this time it's 1 minute between flags).
> 
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/account/9Pwrxb1/

We are well aware of it.
https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2013-February/002371.html

The problem is every time I suspend an account (after a patch that was
applied yesterday) now he gets logged out, the problem is it creates a
new account and starts tagging them out of date again.

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] TU Application

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:40:48PM -0800, Federico Cinelli wrote:
> "cinelli” is what I go by in #archlinux, the Arch Linux forums, the AUR, and 
> the 
> bug tracker. My full name is Federico Cinelli. My sponser is Daniel Wallace 
> (gtmanfred)
> 
> I have been an active member of the Arch Linux community for slightly under a 
> year 
> and have been helping the community for the majority of that time. I’m a 
> Computer
> Science major and also an Automotive Science major. So the willingness to
> understand and see how things operate, has always been a passion of mine.
> 
> I have been using Linux since 1999 and I have cycled through Red Hat, Debian, 
> Crunchbang, 
> FreeBSD, Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora, until finally finding a place to call 
> home, 
> Arch Linux. My reason for moving through so many distributions was that 
> nothing was 
> “up-stream” enough for me. I alway ran the latest “unstable” repo’s with a 
> constant 
> need to be ahead of the game.
> 
> Building off of a background in C/C++ I began getting really into Bash. 
> Bringing me to
> putting together my first PKGBUILD (pygments-hg). It was a messy process but, 
> I kept
> working on them and sure enough began to understand how the Arch Linux Build 
> System and
> makepkg put things in order. I've read through all the man pages and wiki 
> articles that
> I could find and from there I began adopting ten packages at a time from the 
> AUR and 
> just cleaning them and putting their "ducks in a row" according to the 
> packing standards.
> I now maintain forty-two PKGBUILDs in the AUR with a total of 525 votes. I am 
> more 
> than comfortable building them myself and also helping others build them as 
> well. I 
> use devtools for my builds and I have read and understood the packaging 
> standards and 
> TU guidelines. I am always open to any creative criticism / abuse that is 
> handed out by
> the current Trusted Users. And I appreciate it.
> 
> For the past six months I've been working on getting more in-tune with the 
> forums.
> I've recently started answering posts on the forums and working with people 
> that
> request PKGBUILDs. My latest addition to the AUR evansi0n (used for 
> jailbreaking iOS 6.x)
> was the last request I've answered from the forum. I also spend a majority of 
> my time
> on the IRC channel helping with live support. I have also added as much as I 
> felt fit 
> to the wiki when I have the extra time. I feel like thestinger and company do 
> a great
> job on maintaining it and whenever someone mentions something that is needed 
> I try to
> lend a hand or at least give my input on the direction it's going.
> 
> I've also began developing my own application which is an Automotive 
> Diagnostic Tool which
> uses OBD2 through USB to help bring bring the automotive industry into Linux. 
> I'm 
> extremely interested in helping work on anything related to WINE and porting 
> applications 
> over to Arch. I feel this will allow people to feel much more comfortable 
> using Arch as their
> only OS and get them away from the Dual Booting scenarios. It's not that I 
> see dual booting
> as a hassle, but, I strongly feel that anything that can be accomplished on a 
> Mac / Windows
> based system should be able to be done in on a Linux platform.
> 
> Arch Linux and its community fascinates me and doing what I can to help the 
> community grow
> and prosper is very important to me. That is why I'd like to be a Trusted 
> User.
> 
> --
> You can find a list of PKGBUILDs that I maintain here:
> - cinelli (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Cinelli)
> 
> Packages that I would like to start maintaining immediatly [community] are:
> - gmerlin (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/gmerlin/)
> - ifuse (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ifuse/)
> - libquicktime 
> (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libquicktime/)
> 
> Also, I would be interested in taking the following from the AUR into 
> [community]:
> - texmaker (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/texmaker/)
> - screenfetch (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/screenfetch/)
> - zukitwo-themes (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zukitwo-themes/)
> - velox (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/velox/)
> - evasi0n (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evasi0n/)
> 
> My public key can be found here: 
> https://github.com/cinelli/dumptruck/blob/master/cinelli.asc?raw=true
> --
> 
> Thank you for your consideration. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Federico Cinelli 
> "Stay true."


The final tally was 
15 yes
8 no
6 abstain

Congratulations!
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Trusted_User_Guidelines#TODO_list_for_new_Trusted_Users
Here is a list of stuff for you to do now

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Disown request

[Daniel Wallace]

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OmeGa  wrote:

>Could you please disown ruby-jist [1]. I flagged it as out of date on
>Dec 02. I sent an email to the maintainer over two weeks ago, and
>still no response.
>
>Thanks.
>
>[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ruby-jist/

Done, thanks
- --
Sent from my Android Phone.
Daniel Wallace
Arch Linux Trusted User
GTManfred
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Re: [aur-general] TU Application

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:40:48PM -0800, Federico Cinelli wrote:
> "cinelli” is what I go by in #archlinux, the Arch Linux forums, the AUR, and 
> the 
> bug tracker. My full name is Federico Cinelli. My sponser is Daniel Wallace 
> (gtmanfred)
> 
> I have been an active member of the Arch Linux community for slightly under a 
> year 
> and have been helping the community for the majority of that time. I’m a 
> Computer
> Science major and also an Automotive Science major. So the willingness to
> understand and see how things operate, has always been a passion of mine.
> 
> I have been using Linux since 1999 and I have cycled through Red Hat, Debian, 
> Crunchbang, 
> FreeBSD, Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora, until finally finding a place to call 
> home, 
> Arch Linux. My reason for moving through so many distributions was that 
> nothing was 
> “up-stream” enough for me. I alway ran the latest “unstable” repo’s with a 
> constant 
> need to be ahead of the game.
> 
> Building off of a background in C/C++ I began getting really into Bash. 
> Bringing me to
> putting together my first PKGBUILD (pygments-hg). It was a messy process but, 
> I kept
> working on them and sure enough began to understand how the Arch Linux Build 
> System and
> makepkg put things in order. I've read through all the man pages and wiki 
> articles that
> I could find and from there I began adopting ten packages at a time from the 
> AUR and 
> just cleaning them and putting their "ducks in a row" according to the 
> packing standards.
> I now maintain forty-two PKGBUILDs in the AUR with a total of 525 votes. I am 
> more 
> than comfortable building them myself and also helping others build them as 
> well. I 
> use devtools for my builds and I have read and understood the packaging 
> standards and 
> TU guidelines. I am always open to any creative criticism / abuse that is 
> handed out by
> the current Trusted Users. And I appreciate it.
> 
> For the past six months I've been working on getting more in-tune with the 
> forums.
> I've recently started answering posts on the forums and working with people 
> that
> request PKGBUILDs. My latest addition to the AUR evansi0n (used for 
> jailbreaking iOS 6.x)
> was the last request I've answered from the forum. I also spend a majority of 
> my time
> on the IRC channel helping with live support. I have also added as much as I 
> felt fit 
> to the wiki when I have the extra time. I feel like thestinger and company do 
> a great
> job on maintaining it and whenever someone mentions something that is needed 
> I try to
> lend a hand or at least give my input on the direction it's going.
> 
> I've also began developing my own application which is an Automotive 
> Diagnostic Tool which
> uses OBD2 through USB to help bring bring the automotive industry into Linux. 
> I'm 
> extremely interested in helping work on anything related to WINE and porting 
> applications 
> over to Arch. I feel this will allow people to feel much more comfortable 
> using Arch as their
> only OS and get them away from the Dual Booting scenarios. It's not that I 
> see dual booting
> as a hassle, but, I strongly feel that anything that can be accomplished on a 
> Mac / Windows
> based system should be able to be done in on a Linux platform.
> 
> Arch Linux and its community fascinates me and doing what I can to help the 
> community grow
> and prosper is very important to me. That is why I'd like to be a Trusted 
> User.
> 
> --
> You can find a list of PKGBUILDs that I maintain here:
> - cinelli (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Cinelli)
> 
> Packages that I would like to start maintaining immediatly [community] are:
> - gmerlin (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/gmerlin/)
> - ifuse (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ifuse/)
> - libquicktime 
> (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libquicktime/)
> 
> Also, I would be interested in taking the following from the AUR into 
> [community]:
> - texmaker (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/texmaker/)
> - screenfetch (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/screenfetch/)
> - zukitwo-themes (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zukitwo-themes/)
> - velox (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/velox/)
> - evasi0n (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evasi0n/)
> 
> My public key can be found here: 
> https://github.com/cinelli/dumptruck/blob/master/cinelli.asc?raw=true
> --
> 
> Thank you for your consideration. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Federico Cinelli 
> "Stay true."

The discussion period is over. Time to vote!
https://aur.archlinux.org/tu/?id=67

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] TU Application

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 09:40:48PM -0800, Federico Cinelli wrote:
> "cinelli” is what I go by in #archlinux, the Arch Linux forums, the AUR, and 
> the 
> bug tracker. My full name is Federico Cinelli. My sponser is Daniel Wallace 
> (gtmanfred)
> 
> I have been an active member of the Arch Linux community for slightly under a 
> year 
> and have been helping the community for the majority of that time. I’m a 
> Computer
> Science major and also an Automotive Science major. So the willingness to
> understand and see how things operate, has always been a passion of mine.
> 
> I have been using Linux since 1999 and I have cycled through Red Hat, Debian, 
> Crunchbang, 
> FreeBSD, Mint, Ubuntu, and Fedora, until finally finding a place to call 
> home, 
> Arch Linux. My reason for moving through so many distributions was that 
> nothing was 
> “up-stream” enough for me. I alway ran the latest “unstable” repo’s with a 
> constant 
> need to be ahead of the game.
> 
> Building off of a background in C/C++ I began getting really into Bash. 
> Bringing me to
> putting together my first PKGBUILD (pygments-hg). It was a messy process but, 
> I kept
> working on them and sure enough began to understand how the Arch Linux Build 
> System and
> makepkg put things in order. I've read through all the man pages and wiki 
> articles that
> I could find and from there I began adopting ten packages at a time from the 
> AUR and 
> just cleaning them and putting their "ducks in a row" according to the 
> packing standards.
> I now maintain forty-two PKGBUILDs in the AUR with a total of 525 votes. I am 
> more 
> than comfortable building them myself and also helping others build them as 
> well. I 
> use devtools for my builds and I have read and understood the packaging 
> standards and 
> TU guidelines. I am always open to any creative criticism / abuse that is 
> handed out by
> the current Trusted Users. And I appreciate it.
> 
> For the past six months I've been working on getting more in-tune with the 
> forums.
> I've recently started answering posts on the forums and working with people 
> that
> request PKGBUILDs. My latest addition to the AUR evansi0n (used for 
> jailbreaking iOS 6.x)
> was the last request I've answered from the forum. I also spend a majority of 
> my time
> on the IRC channel helping with live support. I have also added as much as I 
> felt fit 
> to the wiki when I have the extra time. I feel like thestinger and company do 
> a great
> job on maintaining it and whenever someone mentions something that is needed 
> I try to
> lend a hand or at least give my input on the direction it's going.
> 
> I've also began developing my own application which is an Automotive 
> Diagnostic Tool which
> uses OBD2 through USB to help bring bring the automotive industry into Linux. 
> I'm 
> extremely interested in helping work on anything related to WINE and porting 
> applications 
> over to Arch. I feel this will allow people to feel much more comfortable 
> using Arch as their
> only OS and get them away from the Dual Booting scenarios. It's not that I 
> see dual booting
> as a hassle, but, I strongly feel that anything that can be accomplished on a 
> Mac / Windows
> based system should be able to be done in on a Linux platform.
> 
> Arch Linux and its community fascinates me and doing what I can to help the 
> community grow
> and prosper is very important to me. That is why I'd like to be a Trusted 
> User.
> 
> --
> You can find a list of PKGBUILDs that I maintain here:
> - cinelli (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/?SeB=m&K=Cinelli)
> 
> Packages that I would like to start maintaining immediatly [community] are:
> - gmerlin (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/gmerlin/)
> - ifuse (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/ifuse/)
> - libquicktime 
> (https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/x86_64/libquicktime/)
> 
> Also, I would be interested in taking the following from the AUR into 
> [community]:
> - texmaker (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/texmaker/)
> - screenfetch (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/screenfetch/)
> - zukitwo-themes (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/zukitwo-themes/)
> - velox (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/velox/)
> - evasi0n (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/evasi0n/)
> 
> My public key can be found here: 
> https://github.com/cinelli/dumptruck/blob/master/cinelli.asc?raw=true
> --
> 
> Thank you for your consideration. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Federico Cinelli 
> "Stay true."

I am proud to sponser cinelli, I think he would make a great addition as
a TU.

Let the discussion period begin.

-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Disown request: feedthebeast

[Daniel Wallace]

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Limao Luo  wrote:

>feedthebeast [1] has been out of date for a while, doesn't follow
>guidelines - it has a jar file inside source package (!), and the
>maintainer hasn't replied to an email from me for two weeks. Requesting
>
>an orphan.
>Thanks in advance,
>luolimao
>
>[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/feedthebeast/

Done.
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Re: [aur-general] Request for comments: new tdom package - replace or additional git

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:58:42AM +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> since I'm really new to archlinux and the AUR I would like to get some
> comments on my first package, derived from an existing one:
>   https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/tdom/
> Since the update to tcl 8.6 it is not possible to build the package.
> 
> Their is no current tagged version so I have created a git-version of
> the PKGBUILD:
>   https://gist.github.com/4614862
> 
> So besides any comment to make the PKGBUILD better, I have the following
> questions:
> 
> What's best: make a new package tdom-git that uses the github master
> branch or just change the current package?
> 
> Or make a "stable" package that uses the last tagged version and patch
> the support for tcl 8.6?  (and maybe make a git package too)
> 
> The current maintainer wants to hand over the package.  What are the
> right steps for this?
> 
> Best regards
> Uwe
try http://ix.io/4bk
and configure the --mandir so you can just get dir of the mkdir and mv
commands all together.

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Re: [aur-general] New PKGBUILD for consideration "ttf-apple"

[Daniel Wallace]

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archli...@jelmail.com wrote:

>On 17/01/13 16:01, Daniel Wallace wrote:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
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>>
>> archli...@jelmail.com wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I was messing around with my fonts today and decided to get some new
>>> ones. There are several packages of apple fonts on the AUR but I had
>>> issues with some of the fonts not being recognised by LibreOffice
>(due
>>> to it seemingly being unable to read ttc - truetype font collection
>-
>>> files) so I thought I'd fix that issue and bring the various font
>>> collections together into a single package for my own use, but I
>>> wondered if this sort of thing would be useful to others.
>>>
>>> The pkgbuild is below. Let me know if I should upload this package.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> # Maintainer: John Lane 
>>> # Based on ttf-mac by Guten Ye
>>> (https://github.com/GutenYe/aur/tree/master/ttf-mac)
>>> #  ttf-mac-fonts by Shanto (at hotmail.com)
>>> #  macfonts by Erus 
>>>
>>> # This packages Apple font packs obtained from multiple
>>> # sources.  Where the same font is in multiple packs,
>>> # this package will contain the one from the last pack
>>> # processed.
>>>
>>> pkgname=ttf-apple
>>> pkgver=0
>>> pkgrel=1
>>> pkgdesc='A collection of Apple Mac/OS X TrueType fonts'
>>> arch=('any')
>>> url='http://www.apple.com/osx/'
>>> license=('custom')
>>> depends=('fontconfig')
>>> makedepends=('subversion' 'fondu' 'fontforge')
>>> conflicts=('ttf-mac-fonts' 'ttf-mac' 'macfonts')
>>> provides=('ttf-mac-fonts' 'ttf-mac' 'macfonts')
>>> install='install'
>>>
>>>
>source=(http://invisible-files.googlecode.com/files/ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz
>>>  http://ompldr.org/vNXFlNA)
>>>
>>> md5sums=('4f84a9630c3c8faf1f4ba8ea075108bc'
>>>   'e185688cf54a2f2020a4bc071316b67b')
>>>
>>> build() {
>>>
>>># font pack from
>>> https://macbuntu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts
>>>svn co
>>> https://macbuntu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts
>>> "$srcdir/macbunt
>>> u"
>>>
>>># font pack from
>>> http://invisible-files.googlecode.com/files/ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz
>>>cd "$srcdir/ttf-mac-fonts"
>>>fondu -force *.dfont
>>>for ttc in *.ttc; do
>>>ttf=${ttc%.*}.ttf
>>>[[ -f $ttf ]] || FONTFORGE_LANGUAGE=ff fontforge -c
>'Open($1);
>>> Generate($2)' $ttc $ttf
>>>done
>>> }
>>>
>>> package() {
>>>
>>># font pack from http://ompldr.org/vNXFlNA
>>>cd "$srcdir/macfonts"
>>>install -d $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/{TTF,Type1}
>>>install *.ttf $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF
>>>install *.PFB $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/Type1
>>>
>>># font pack from
>>> https://macbuntu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts
>>>cd "$srcdir/macbuntu"
>>>install -d $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/{TTF,Type1}
>>>install gbk/*.ttf $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF
>>>install mac/*.ttf $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF
>>>install mac/*.pfb $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/Type1
>>>
>>># font pack from
>>> http://invisible-files.googlecode.com/files/ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz
>>>cd "$srcdir/ttf-mac-fonts"
>>>install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
>>>install -m644 *.ttf *.ttc "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
>>> }
>> Don't just svn checkout, please follow the prototype in
>/usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-svn.proto from the abs package
>> - --
>>
>I've done that, thanks. It's interesting that it drives the version
>number. That doesn't strictly relate to the package as it's a
>collection
>of things from various places. Also curious how this would have worked
>had there been two svn checkouts (luckily only one of the 3 items in
>the
>package came from svn).
>
>But anyway, I've updated my pkgbuild.

This will all be changed when pacman 4.1 finally gets tagged, where you will be 
able to include svn, git, hg, etc repositories in the source array
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Re: [aur-general] New PKGBUILD for consideration "ttf-apple"

[Daniel Wallace]

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archli...@jelmail.com wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I was messing around with my fonts today and decided to get some new
>ones. There are several packages of apple fonts on the AUR but I had
>issues with some of the fonts not being recognised by LibreOffice (due
>to it seemingly being unable to read ttc - truetype font collection -
>files) so I thought I'd fix that issue and bring the various font
>collections together into a single package for my own use, but I
>wondered if this sort of thing would be useful to others.
>
>The pkgbuild is below. Let me know if I should upload this package.
>
>Thanks.
>
># Maintainer: John Lane 
># Based on ttf-mac by Guten Ye
>(https://github.com/GutenYe/aur/tree/master/ttf-mac)
>#  ttf-mac-fonts by Shanto (at hotmail.com)
>#  macfonts by Erus 
>
># This packages Apple font packs obtained from multiple
># sources.  Where the same font is in multiple packs,
># this package will contain the one from the last pack
># processed.
>
>pkgname=ttf-apple
>pkgver=0
>pkgrel=1
>pkgdesc='A collection of Apple Mac/OS X TrueType fonts'
>arch=('any')
>url='http://www.apple.com/osx/'
>license=('custom')
>depends=('fontconfig')
>makedepends=('subversion' 'fondu' 'fontforge')
>conflicts=('ttf-mac-fonts' 'ttf-mac' 'macfonts')
>provides=('ttf-mac-fonts' 'ttf-mac' 'macfonts')
>install='install'
>
>source=(http://invisible-files.googlecode.com/files/ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz
> http://ompldr.org/vNXFlNA)
>
>md5sums=('4f84a9630c3c8faf1f4ba8ea075108bc'
>  'e185688cf54a2f2020a4bc071316b67b')
>
>build() {
>
>   # font pack from
>https://macbuntu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts
>   svn co
>https://macbuntu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts
>"$srcdir/macbunt
>u"
>
>   # font pack from
>http://invisible-files.googlecode.com/files/ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz
>   cd "$srcdir/ttf-mac-fonts"
>   fondu -force *.dfont
>   for ttc in *.ttc; do
>   ttf=${ttc%.*}.ttf
>   [[ -f $ttf ]] || FONTFORGE_LANGUAGE=ff fontforge -c 'Open($1);
>Generate($2)' $ttc $ttf
>   done
>}
>
>package() {
>
>   # font pack from http://ompldr.org/vNXFlNA
>   cd "$srcdir/macfonts"
>   install -d $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/{TTF,Type1}
>   install *.ttf $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF
>   install *.PFB $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/Type1
>
>   # font pack from
>https://macbuntu.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/macbuntu/Macbuntu/fonts
>   cd "$srcdir/macbuntu"
>   install -d $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/{TTF,Type1}
>   install gbk/*.ttf $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF
>   install mac/*.ttf $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF
>   install mac/*.pfb $pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/Type1
>
>   # font pack from
>http://invisible-files.googlecode.com/files/ttf-mac-fonts.tar.gz
>   cd "$srcdir/ttf-mac-fonts"
>   install -dm755 "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
>   install -m644 *.ttf *.ttc "$pkgdir/usr/share/fonts/TTF"
>}

Don't just svn checkout, please follow the prototype in 
/usr/share/pacman/PKGBUILD-svn.proto from the abs package
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Re: [aur-general] A TU keeps removing harmless and relevant comments from my package's webpage

[Daniel Wallace]

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Xavion  wrote:

>Hi All,
>
>I had a feeling this matter would balloon out of proportion, so I took
>a
>screenshot of the comments <http://i.imgur.com/nA5cK.png> before they
>were
>deleted.  After these, the next two were supplied by Alexander
>(xyproto)
>before he wiped them all.  The first of these seems to be a bit
>petulant in
>my opinion.  It looks like he became a bit peeved and intimidated when
>I
>mentioned being qualified.
>
>Alexander's (xyproto) first:
>
>> Your "well and truly qualified" statement is meaningless, unless you
>are
>> aware of the qualifications of the people you talk to here, which I
>assume
>> you are not. It's also offtopic.
>>
>> Fine.
>>
>
>Alexander's (xyproto) second:
>
>> Removing all the comments, as they don't really add anything to the
>> information about the package.
>>
>
>@ keenerd
>I didn't ignore your comment; I responded to it within a day.  You then
>ignored my comment!  You should get your facts straight before
>accusing.
>By the way, thanks for attempting to pick faults with eight of my
>PKGBUILDs
>overnight.  Forgive me for thinking that you've got even more spare
>time on
>your hands than Alexander does.  Also, where does it say on the
>ArchWiki
>that small Bash scripts must be housed outside of the tarball?  You've
>made
>this change to my
>popular-packages<https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/popular-packages/>PKGBUILD
>without noting where it states that doing so is mandatory.  I also
>don't think this should have happened because Alexander (xyproto)
>himself
>wrote in the comments linked above that I didn't actually have to make
>that
>change!
>
>@ Dave & Xyne
>I appreciate your balanced comments.  It's good that you haven't taken
>one
>side of the story and discarded the other.  I just want to note - for
>the
>billionth time - that I didn't disregard official guidelines in the
>PKGBUILD.  A full explanation of this is available in the
>aforementioned
>comments log.
>
>@ Alexander (xyproto)
>It's pretty obvious to all but the bleakest of minds that you deleted
>the
>first round of comments because I defeated all of your arguments and
>made
>you look silly.  There's no way you'll ever admit to this, which is why
>you
>simply deemed the comments irrelevant instead.  Also, you have
>carefully
>dodged the matter of the second round of comment deletions.  You've
>only
>elaborated about your decision to delete the first round, which wasn't
>what
>I was complaining about in the first place!  My issue was that someone
>then
>deleted my next comment, which was the only one listed there at the
>time:
>"As I'm the author of this little script, I will always want it to
>remain
>in the AUR".  It will be interesting to see whether you have the balls
>to
>admit to deleting this isolated comment as well.  The next step would
>be
>for you to formulate a semi-plausible reason for doing so in an attempt
>to
>trick anyone reading this thread.
>
>
>--
>Regards, Xavion.

This is not a channel for personal attacks please do not try to make it one
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Re: [aur-general] Merge request (limbo and limbo_wine)

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 06:08:36PM +0200, D. Can Celasun wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 5:36 PM, Daniel Wallace  > wrote:
> 
> > "D. Can Celasun"  wrote:
> >
> > >Greetings,
> > >
> > >I'm the maintainer of "limbo" [1] and the maintainer of "limbo_wine"
> > >[2]
> > >approached me and wants to merge our packages, which is fine by me.
> > >
> > >Can someone please merge both packages under the name "limbo" but using
> > >the
> > >tarball and having the maintainer of "limbo_wine"?
> > >
> > >Thanks,
> > >Can
> > >
> > >[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59673
> > >[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59799
> >
> > It doesn't work that way, the package name comes from the pkgbuild in the
> > tarball. He needs to disown limbo for this to happen
> > --
> > Sent from my Android phone with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
> >
> 
> 
> I'm the owner of "limbo" and I have now disowned it. Does that work?
you want it to have the tarball from limbo? or limbo_wine?
-- 
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Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Merge request (limbo and limbo_wine)

[Daniel Wallace]

"D. Can Celasun"  wrote:

>Greetings,
>
>I'm the maintainer of "limbo" [1] and the maintainer of "limbo_wine"
>[2]
>approached me and wants to merge our packages, which is fine by me.
>
>Can someone please merge both packages under the name "limbo" but using
>the
>tarball and having the maintainer of "limbo_wine"?
>
>Thanks,
>Can
>
>[1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59673
>[2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59799

It doesn't work that way, the package name comes from the pkgbuild in the 
tarball. He needs to disown limbo for this to happen
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Re: [aur-general] Disown request for ArchLinux package weechat-git

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:05:32AM +0300, Dmitry Korzhevin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Please, disown package weechat-git
> 
> https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14159
> 
> 
> 19.08.2012 12:03, Ike Devolder write:
> > Op zondag 19 augustus 2012 11:36:08 schreef Dmitry Korzhevin:
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> Can you please disown package weechat-git [1], because current version
> >> PKGBUILD is buggy and outdated. I wish to maintain this package.
> >>
> >> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=14159
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >> Dmitry Korzhevin
> > 
> > so i guess this is your first mail towards fastfret79
> > we'll wait for maximum 2 weeks for a response and then we can go over to 
> > disowning the package following the aur rules [1].
> > 
> > [1] 
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#Q:_Foo_in_AUR_is_outdated.3B_what_do_I_do.3F
> > 
> > --Ike
> > 
> 
> 
> Best regards,
> Dmitry Korzhevin
What is buggy about this package? I have been using it for a month now,
and it have not had any problems with it.
-- 
Daniel Wallace
Archlinux Trusted User (gtmanfred)
Georgia Institute of Technology


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Re: [aur-general] Merge Request

[Daniel Wallace]

Done

skydrome  wrote:

>Requesting to merge http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52654 with
>http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=62645
>to correctly specify that this is a python2 module.

Re: [aur-general] Delete request of krunner-firefoxbookmarks

[Daniel Wallace]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 07:02:09AM +0200, Tilo wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> please remove https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=48405
> it is replaced by https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60938
> 
> Regards Tilo

Done


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Re: [aur-general] Delete cx_oracle package

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 10:05:24AM +0700, michael kapelko wrote:
> Hi.
> How do I remove cx_oracle package? I've been maintaining it for some
> time and now have created 2 new ones to conform to Arch policy:
> python-cx_oracle and python2-cx_oracle as was suggested by another
> cx_oracle user.
> Original author of cx_oracle said he doesn't have permissions to
> delete the package and I should ask AUR admin.
> So I'm asking :)
> Thanks.

done


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Re: [aur-general] [Deletion Request] archsysinfo-tiny

[Daniel Wallace]

On Fri, Jun 29, 2012 at 12:24:11AM -0300, Vinycius Maia wrote:
> 
> There are various other applications that do the same thing, and it's not a 
> very useful application, so i decided to kill him.
> 
> and also I was not very satisfied with the work done.
> 
> > From: ike.devol...@gmail.com
> > To: aur-general@archlinux.org
> > Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:10:37 +0200
> > Subject: Re: [aur-general] [Deletion Request] archsysinfo-tiny
> > 
> > Op donderdag 28 juni 2012 10:39:55 schreef Vinycius Maia:
> > > The project was canceled and all files deleted
> > > 
> > > [archsysinfo-tiny] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=59494
> > 
> > huh ? so you pushed a tag less than 2 hours ago and then deleted it ?
> > 
> > 
> > --Ike
> 
sounds good to me, gone


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Re: [aur-general] Merge package

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 01:59:36PM -0700, Kevin Vesga wrote:
> Please merge gedit-latex-plugin [1] into gedit-latex [2].
> gedit-latex-plugin is currently outdated and the maintainer recommends
> using the latter package anyways.
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=13115
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52897

done


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Re: [aur-general] Removal request: udj-git

[Daniel Wallace]

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 05:18:07PM -0400, Jonathan Frederickson wrote:
> Package udj-git was incorrectly named.  It has been reuploaded as
> udj-desktop-client-git.  Please remove the original package.
> 
> Original: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60238
> Corrected: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60371

Done


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Re: [aur-general] Please remove scribd-dl-svn

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 07:42:31PM -0400, merp boop wrote:
> I accidentally called it -svn instead of -git.  Thanks!

gone


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Re: [aur-general] Delete chromium-browser-libpdf

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 11:50:03AM -0700, Kevin Vesga wrote:
> Please delete chromium-browser-libpdf [1]. The maintainer has long since
> made a new package chromium-libpdf [2].
> 
> [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=44121
> [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41519

done


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Re: [aur-general] Deletion request: pcmanfm-fuse

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:05:08AM +0800, Jekyll Wu wrote:
> The upstream svn branch is dead since 2008 (pcmanfm has been written
> and uses git now).
> 
> The package on AUR is unmaintained and fails to build (linking
> problem) after installing the missing dependency intltool manually.
> 
> So please remove https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22992

done


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[aur-general] Remove request skype4

[Daniel Wallace]

skype 4.0.0.7-1 is in the repos so we do not need 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=60059 anymore

Thanks,
Daniel Wallace


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[aur-general] Request to remove package

[Daniel Wallace]

with emacs 24.1-2 in the repos, I see no point in emacs24 in aur

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57282

Thanks


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Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)

[Daniel Wallace]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:05:45PM -0700, José Quintana wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I ask as a user one question. Do you think you are ready?
> 
> I ask this because I see you do not participate in the community much. I see 
> you only joined the forum 2 months ago and only have 4 posts. You also sent 
> very little to the mailing list. You only have 4 submitted packages with more 
> than 5 votes. The majority of your aur packages are Git editions. You said 
> yourself you have no packages that need to be in community.
> 
> What have you done to show you should be trusted user? You say you want to be 
> trusted user to give back? Why not wait a bit longer and prove what you can 
> give to the community? It seems you want to be trusted user and then give 
> back. It should always be the other way around. Those who give to community 
> become trusted user.
> 
> I'm not trying to be mean, but as a user who becomes a trusted user effects 
> me. The decision by other trusted users  decides that I must trust you as 
> well. I ask other trusted users to think about whether it may be a little to 
> soon, but I think it may be.
> 
> Sorry for my english.
> 

i forgot links...

the wiki page was
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users#How_to_become_TU.3F

and zurl (my little project thingy) is on
http://code.gtmanfred.com/cgit/zurl.git


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Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)

[Daniel Wallace]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2012 at 02:05:45PM -0700, José Quintana wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I ask as a user one question. Do you think you are ready?
> 
> I ask this because I see you do not participate in the community much. I see 
> you only joined the forum 2 months ago and only have 4 posts. You also sent 
> very little to the mailing list. You only have 4 submitted packages with more 
> than 5 votes. The majority of your aur packages are Git editions. You said 
> yourself you have no packages that need to be in community.
> 
> What have you done to show you should be trusted user? You say you want to be 
> trusted user to give back? Why not wait a bit longer and prove what you can 
> give to the community? It seems you want to be trusted user and then give 
> back. It should always be the other way around. Those who give to community 
> become trusted user.
> 
> I'm not trying to be mean, but as a user who becomes a trusted user effects 
> me. The decision by other trusted users  decides that I must trust you as 
> well. I ask other trusted users to think about whether it may be a little to 
> soon, but I think it may be.
> 
> Sorry for my english.
> 

I do think I am ready.  I spend much more of my time in irc than I do
on the forums or using the mailing list.  It is just my prefered method
of participating.  

according to the wiki, these are the minimum requirements for being a TU
know basic shell scripting
maintain a few packages in AUR with clean, high-quality PKGBUILDs
basic community involvement (mailing list, forums, IRC)
know Google-Fu
a general idea of the kind of packages you want to maintain (basically, why 
do you want to become TU?) 

I know plenty of bash and zsh.  I maintain 35 pkgbuilds in the AUR (
some of which could use being cleaned up a little more).  I am very
active in irc, while being much less on the mailing list/forums.  My
google-fu is excellent.  And I would like to maintain any package that
would further the grasp of Archlinux and its goal of world
dominations... and ponies.

more from the wiki

Even though you could become a TU by merely fulfilling those minimum 
requirements, the people judging you during voting might expect more of you. 
Such as:
involvement in the bug tracker (reporting, research, info)
patches for Arch projects
involvement in a few open-source projects (even if they are your own) 

I am involved the with bugtracker as much as I know how, including
lurking in #archlinux-bugs and watching arch-bugbot for when Opened
bugs are posted.  I have provided a few patches to pacman-dev, 2 of
which were accepted.  And I am moderatly involved in a couple of small
side projects (mostly zurl [2] where I am trying to make a launcher for
urls which opens pastebins in a text editor and other things in more
user specified ways instead of the browser, right now it is still a
hack abusing zsh replacement to open pastebins in vim, pictures in feh,
and gifs/youtube videos in mplayer)

but to summarize, I do feel that I am ready, I have spent a lot of time
over the past 3 months since I really decided that I wanted to apply to
be a TU, helping people in #archlinux and trying to learn as much bash
and several other languages as I could.  Currently, I am fairly verbose
in java and python.  I am about halfway through Learn you a Haskell,
and have more recently started on Learn C the Hard Way. oh, and I know
plenty of bash.


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Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 09:25:59PM +0200, Balló György wrote:
> 2012-06-10 16:57 keltezéssel, Daniel Wallace írta:
> > On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 02:06:02PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
> >> On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace  wrote:
> >>> I don't really have any packages that I think
> >>> really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I 
> >>> would really like to
> >>> start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it 
> >>> already.  I could start
> >>> by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package.
> >> So your main contribution as you see it now would be zsh completion?
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
> > I would consider that my biggest contribution in the form of code thus
> > far, but I consider helping people in #archilnux to be a larger
> > contribution.  I should also clarify the zsh completion stuff.  I have
> > been working on a couple of different utilities and plan on submitting
> > them upstream in the near future.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can't see a strong reason why you want to be a trusted user, since the
> main tasks are maintaining packages in [community] and managing AUR.
> It's nice that you want to make zsh completion scripts (however, it's
> generally an upstream task), but in a TU application, I would like to
> see, what kind of packages that you interested in maintaining in the future.
> 
> What kind of packages are you interested in? Is there any popular
> packages in AUR that you may want to maintain in [community] in the
> future (even if it's not currently maintained by you)?
> 
> --
> György
> 

Good question,  I would really like to bring pianobar, archlinux-lxdm-theme,
ttf-symbola, termite-git, and livestreamer.   

One of the big reasons I would like to be a TU is to help.  There are
5586 packages in community, and 34 TU's listed on [1] which is just
over 164 packages per TU.  

Basically my goal as a TU is to do my best to help archlinux and the
aur be the best that it can and to give back to the great community
that has evolved around Archlinux.

1. https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Trusted_Users



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Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)

[Daniel Wallace]

On Sun, Jun 10, 2012 at 02:06:02PM +0800, Rashif Ray Rahman wrote:
> On 10 June 2012 11:23, Daniel Wallace  wrote:
> > I don't really have any packages that I think
> > really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I 
> > would really like to
> > start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it 
> > already.  I could start
> > by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package.
> 
> So your main contribution as you see it now would be zsh completion?
> 
> 
> --
> GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1

I would consider that my biggest contribution in the form of code thus
far, but I consider helping people in #archilnux to be a larger
contribution.  I should also clarify the zsh completion stuff.  I have
been working on a couple of different utilities and plan on submitting
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[aur-general] TU Application - Daniel Wallace (gtmanfred)

[Daniel Wallace]

Hello,

I am applying to be a Trusted User.

My name is Daniel Wallace, and I am a 22 year old computer science major at 
Georgia Institute
of Technology in Atlanta, GA.  I have been using linux for just over 2 years 
now, switching
to Archlinux about a year and a half ago.  My irc handle, aur username, and 
forums account
are all gtmanfred.  

As I said I started using Archlinux about a year and a half ago and did not 
immediately
understand what exactly I was doing or at all how the package manager worked.  
I started
running archlinux on my netbook because Windows was too slow on it, and one of 
my roomates at
the time did some amazing things that I just didn't understand at all.  In 
December I started
frequenting the irc channel, starting on the day before Christmas when I had 
problems with
upgrading due to mtab.  After about 2 months I started to think about applying 
to be a
Trusted User and ask Thomas Dziedzic (td123) to be my sponser.

I spent a lot of time learning bash and mainly zsh so that I could make the 
zsh completion
pacman-key and makepkg to be released in the next big pacman release.  I 
recently started
learning haskell, and even more recently became facinated with C while throwing 
myself in and
trying to make patches in response to some of the bugs on the bugtracker and 
have started to
read Learn C the Hard Way.  

My dotfiles and everything are fairly messy and spread out right now 
between github and
my cgit as I am trying to consolidate them before a commit to organize 
everything 
[1] and [2]. I am currently maintaining 35 packages in unsupported [3].  I am 
still getting 
used to the forums, but I am very active in #archlinux and looking to helping 
#archlinux-women
setup classes and see what happens with them in the future as well.  I have 
also more recently
started trying to contribute to the wiki and keeping it up to date.

I would really like to be a TU because I find PKGBUILDs and the future 
possibilities for
Archlinux to be fascinating and I would really like to be able to give back and 
help this
wonderful community to continue to grow.  I don't really have any packages that 
I think
really need to be pulled to community, maybe at some point later, but I would 
really like to
start making zsh completion for a lot of packages which do not have it already. 
 I could start
by maintaining the zathura plugins and the haskell-syb package.

Like I said earlier, td123 is my sponser and my gpg key is here
http://code.gtmanfred.com/cgit/dotfiles.git/tree/signature.asc?h=tower

1. http://github.com/gtmanfred 
2. http://code.gtmanfred.com
3. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=gtmanfred 


Thanks,
Daniel Wallace


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[aur-general] duplicate aur packages

[Daniel Wallace]

this was just created 
Linuxtycoon - https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58404
which is just a copy of https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58139
but uses the deb package for some reason


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[aur-general] merge packages to python2 names

[Daniel Wallace]

could you please merge - 
python-grapefruit https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40104 to
python2-grapefruithttps://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58320 

and python-fabulous https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=40103 to
python2-fabulous https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58321 

so that they can be correctly labeled and since they are only required
by the package http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58322

Thank you,
Daniel Wallace


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Re: [aur-general] Removal request: google-chrome-mini

[Daniel Wallace]

this is the email I just got
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:55:16PM -0700, Tai-Lin Chu wrote:
>i really dont think removing a pkgbuild just because they are
>similar is a
>good idea, given that we have tons of similar PKGBUILD.
>if we do this, please do the same thing for these families:
>1. chromium
>2. vlc
>3. mplayer
>4. ...
>you will see that aur is supposed to be free. anyone should be
>able to
>upload pkgbuild.

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 03:13:45PM +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Taylor Lookabaugh
>  wrote:
> > Have you tried emailing him personally?
> 
> Obviously, from the reply seen earlier in the thread.


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Re: [aur-general] Removal request: google-chrome-mini

[Daniel Wallace]

and it's back https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57963 
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 05:51:10AM +0300, Evangelos Foutras wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 4:00 AM, Evangelos Foutras
>  wrote:
> > @tailinchu: For the reason mentioned by Det above, please do not
> > re-upload this package.
> 
> tailinchu, I'm going to quote your email to me below. However, if you
> would register on the list you would be able to reply directly to the
> list. (That would make things easier to follow.)
> 
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:02> AM, Tai-Lin Chu  wrote:
> >> i dont understand why he is really obsessed about this.
> >> he could simply ignore this package if he chooses to. he could have his own
> >> reason, but i have mine too.
> 
> We try to keep the AUR from becoming too confusing. One way this can
> be done is by discouraging the creation of very similar packages
> and/or removing obsolete packages.
> 
> Det is suggesting that you can have a gconf-free system by installing
> the no-gconf package (also maintained by you). Therefore, *-no-gconf
> packages are redundant.
> 
> Saying that you have a reason to upload this package without being
> more specific isn't enough, considering the package has been deleted 3
> times already.
> 
> (Please try to respond to the list, so I don't act as a messenger. :) )


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Re: [aur-general] Removal request: google-chrome-mini

[Daniel Wallace]

not sure if this is the same guy, but 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57961
I just saw this pop up in the new packages 
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 10:32:56AM +0200, Lukáš Jirkovský wrote:
> On 25 March 2012 01:32, Det  wrote:
> >
> > The maintainer doesn't seem to get the message. He re-uploaded it as
> > "google-chrome-no-gconf", even though I already explained the user can just
> > install "no-gconf" beforehand:
> > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57899
> >
> >            Det
> 
> It seems someone already removed it. Thanks for the notice.
> 
> LUkas


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[aur-general] please merge/delete

[Daniel Wallace]

this is a new package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57714
andoidscreencast
I just had the maintainer disown it and I fixed it here
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57719 androidscreencast-git

thanks


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[aur-general] delete pkg

[Daniel Wallace]

can someone please delete this
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57498

I uploaded it with out changing the package name first,
Thank you

[aur-general] delete/merge squeezeboxserver

[Daniel Wallace]

https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=31569

this package is horribly written and it has actually been succeeded by
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53691  <-- this

Thanks

[aur-general] request for deletion

[Daniel Wallace]

this package 
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55495
and this one
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=20371

as they are both python2 and exist here
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=52696
and here
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=57243


Thank you,
Daniel

[aur-general] please delete, thanks

[Daniel Wallace]

Could someone please delete this for me?
gomstream-git
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=55293

Thanks