Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
The list is good idea, maybe someone (eg me ;-)) finds out that there is some interesting package and he will adopt it. 2008/5/3 Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alessio Bolognino wrote: > > > On Fri 2008-05-02 12:08 , Eric Belanger wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > >

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Alessio Bolognino wrote: On Fri 2008-05-02 12:08 , Eric Belanger wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: Luká Jirkovský wrote: But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest remo

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
I agree with Alessio here. However, if the upstream development has stopped and the sources for the package can no longer be located, then I think the package should be removed. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] orphans in community

2008-05-02 Thread ivy . foster
On 02 May 2008, at 2:20 pm +0200, Firmicus wrote: > > I was thinking of having an AUR cleanup day. I tend notice a lot > > of packages that have been renames or obsoleted by another package > > and left in the AUR. Not necessarily orphans either. If we do > > have an AUR cleanup day, we should

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Fri 2008-05-02 12:08 , Eric Belanger wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > >> Luká Jirkovský wrote: >>> But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. >>> >> Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest removal guidelines >> - outdated and orphan

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Loui
On Sat, 03 May 2008 00:57:00 +1000 Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. Given I know very, very little about IRC, does someone else want to > make an IRC channel. Either that, or we could ask if it would be OK to > use the archlinux-bugs (or whatever it is called) channel which tends to

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Eric Belanger
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: Luká Jirkovský wrote: But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest removal guidelines - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This situation is behind

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Cilyan Olowen
I think you should announce that on a news. A news will be translated for each communities whereas a post in the forum will probably get ignored and non english speaking people won't be advised a cleanup is pending. Maybe a link should be added to the front page of AUR ? Cilyan 2008/5/2, Allan M

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest removal guidelines - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This situation is behind my reasoning to create a list of pote

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. 2008/5/2 Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Callan Barrett wrote: > > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() fiel

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Callan Barrett wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() field should be also removed. That seems like a bit much. There's probably a lot of good packages in the AUR without this field and

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Callan Barrett
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() field should > be also removed. That seems like a bit much. There's probably a lot of good packages in the AUR without this field and it's not like it's that hard

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() field should be also removed. 2008/5/2 Pierre CHAPUIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le Fri, 02 May 2008 23:53:51 +1000, > Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 >

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Pierre CHAPUIS
Le Fri, 02 May 2008 23:53:51 +1000, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 > May and go through the list. I think we should take care not to get too > carried away when we remove packages. While some packages may be

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
I too never got around to getting my IRC channel key for the same reason! Email the announcement to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too... Then people who don't follow the forums will also get to know. Abhishek

[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Hi all, I think there is enough support for this to go forward. So it is time we nut out the details. Here is how I suggest we go about it. Firstly, I make a post to the announcements section of the forums along the lines of: The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could u

Re: [aur-general] TU application

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Allan McRae wrote: Dragonlord wrote: Hi! Sincerely, Jaroslav My AUR packages: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&L=0&C=0&K=Dragonlord&SeB=m&PP=100&do_Search=Go And here goes my sponsoring. This starts the usual discussion period. Now I'm finished losing at poker I will

Re: [aur-general] orphans in community

2008-05-02 Thread Firmicus
I was thinking of having an AUR cleanup day. I tend notice a lot of packages that have been renames or obsoleted by another package and left in the AUR. Not necessarily orphans either. If we do have an AUR cleanup day, we should open a thread on the forums where users can suggest which pac

Re: [aur-general] Pommed initscript

2008-05-02 Thread Jordi Cerdan
El vie, 02-05-2008 a las 13:48 +0200, BaSh escribió: > Hi, > 2008/5/2 Jordi Cerdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm the maintainer of pommed in AUR and I would like to adapt the init > > daemon script to the Archlinux standard, as user royrocks suggested me. > this is the rc-script.proto: > > #!/

Re: [aur-general] Pommed initscript

2008-05-02 Thread BaSh
Hi, 2008/5/2 Jordi Cerdan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm the maintainer of pommed in AUR and I would like to adapt the init > daemon script to the Archlinux standard, as user royrocks suggested me. this is the rc-script.proto: #!/bin/bash daemon_name=DAEMON_NAME . /etc/rc.d/functions . /etc/conf.

[aur-general] Pommed initscript

2008-05-02 Thread Jordi Cerdan
Hi, I'm the maintainer of pommed in AUR and I would like to adapt the init daemon script to the Archlinux standard, as user royrocks suggested me. I had a look to the wiki but didn't saw any page conscerning the rules and the way to build an init script adapting to Archlinux rules. Of course, I

Re: [aur-general] orphans in community

2008-05-02 Thread BaSh
2008/5/2 Hugo Doria <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Great idea! +1 for the ACD (AUR Cleanup Day)! +1 -- Andrea `BaSh` Scarpino Arch Linux Trusted User Linux User: #430842

Re: [aur-general] orphans in community

2008-05-02 Thread Hugo Doria
Great idea! +1 for the ACD (AUR Cleanup Day)! -- Hugo Doria http://hdoria.archlinux-br.org

Re: [aur-general] TU application

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Dragonlord wrote: Hi! My name is Jaroslav Lichtblau and I live in Czech Republic. I'm 26 and this year my study time will be over. I discovered GNU/Linux in year 2003. It took me about one year to learn the basics and since then I'm using it solely - on my home PC and my NB. Until now I went t

[aur-general] TU application

2008-05-02 Thread Dragonlord
Hi! My name is Jaroslav Lichtblau and I live in Czech Republic. I'm 26 and this year my study time will be over. I discovered GNU/Linux in year 2003. It took me about one year to learn the basics and since then I'm using it solely - on my home PC and my NB. Until now I went through Mandrake and U

Re: [aur-general] orphan request : octave3

2008-05-02 Thread Xavier
Giovanni Scafora wrote: 2008/5/1 Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: The last update of this package was on 30/03. That day, cyberdune also offered me to orphan the package, which I accepted, but he didn't do it. And no news since then. In the meantime, the package didn't build anymore because of gcc 4

Re: [aur-general] Missing Packages

2008-05-02 Thread Mikko Seppälä
[official]$ tupkg netbeans-6.1-1.pkg.tar.gz {'size0': ['0'], 'numpkgs': ['1'], 'name0': ['netbeans-6.1-1.pkg.tar.gz']} Uploading: netbeans-6.1-1.pkg.tar.gz 156276 kb 156200 of 156276 kb {'md5sum0': ['PASS'], 'numpkgs': ['1']} about 1:40 to upload, if it still fails, someone else has to upload it.