Re: [aur-general] Store projects snapshots on sigurd

2011-03-27 Thread Florian Pritz
On 03/27/2011 01:05 AM, Andrea Scarpino wrote: VCS PKGBUILDs in officials repositories should use a snapshot of the project and shouldn't fetch the sources directly from git; Why? Fetching git and checking out a specific commit is easier than creating and uploading tarballs. It's also easier to

Re: [aur-general] Should nvidia(-beta)-all replace all the other nvidia-* packages in the AUR?

2011-03-27 Thread Det
On 3/26/11, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: I can assure you that nvidia-beta-all (and nvidia-all which Det maintains) builds the modules for all installed kernels. I do? I didn't even know that. The Maintainer: None phrase was a little confusing to me ^^. Anyway, I posted an updated

Re: [aur-general] Should nvidia(-beta)-all replace all the other nvidia-* packages in the AUR?

2011-03-27 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Det nimetonma...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/26/11, Oon-Ee Ng ngoonee.t...@gmail.com wrote: I can assure you that nvidia-beta-all (and nvidia-all which Det maintains) builds the modules for all installed kernels. I do? I didn't even know that. The Maintainer: None

Re: [aur-general] Store projects snapshots on sigurd

2011-03-27 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On 27 March 2011 08:31, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: Why? Fetching git and checking out a specific commit is easier than creating and uploading tarballs. It's also easier to figure out which commit the repo package is using. How do you figure out which commit the package uses?

Re: [aur-general] Store projects snapshots on sigurd

2011-03-27 Thread Florian Pritz
On 27.03.2011 13:46, Andrea Scarpino wrote: On 27 March 2011 08:31, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: Why? Fetching git and checking out a specific commit is easier than creating and uploading tarballs. It's also easier to figure out which commit the repo package is using. How do

Re: [aur-general] Store projects snapshots on sigurd

2011-03-27 Thread Andrea Scarpino
On 27 March 2011 13:58, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: You'll have to read the PKGBUILD (remember that we checkout that specific commit), but if you only have a snapshot it's quite hard. I think this is a pretty nice solution:

Re: [aur-general] Please remove firefox-bin

2011-03-27 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 03/27/2011 01:46 PM, nimetonmaili wrote: Hey, Please remove 'firefox-bin'. It states that it uses beta versions but there's already 'firefox-beta-bin' for that - and there's also 'firefox' in [extra]. I told about it to the maintainer but he hasn't responded for 2 days (I also e-mailed

Re: [aur-general] Please remove firefox-bin

2011-03-27 Thread Det
On 3/27/11, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: i do prefer to have them in aur, but the maintainer should follow firefox-bin as stable, firebox-beta-bin as beta. now there isn't any beta version available and it should be updated to stable. Firefox-beta-bin has actually already been

Re: [aur-general] Google-earth and bin32-google-earth

2011-03-27 Thread Thorsten Töpper
On Sat, 26 Mar 2011 15:07:18 +0200 Det nimetonma...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, There's been some discussion between me and the maintainer/submitter of 'bin32-google-earth' (srabd) as to whether 'google-earth' should finally replace 'bin32-google-earth'. He disagrees. In his oppinion the

Re: [aur-general] Google-earth and bin32-google-earth

2011-03-27 Thread Det
On 3/27/11, Thorsten Töpper atsut...@freethoughts.de wrote: A solution would be to implement the support for multiple package names into AUR, the AUR-Team surely loves to get support by people who send them useful patches. ;-) Don't look at me :-).

[aur-general] Adopting the paccheck package

2011-03-27 Thread Bernard Baeyens
IgnorantGuru doesn't intend to continue maintaining the paccheck package, which is now broken after the pacman 3.5.1 upgrade. I wrote an updated version which can be used with the new pacman release. I agree to become the new maintainer of that package. Can you change that in the AUR please

Re: [aur-general] Adopting the paccheck package

2011-03-27 Thread Ionuț Bîru
On 03/27/2011 05:13 PM, Bernard Baeyens wrote: IgnorantGuru doesn't intend to continue maintaining the paccheck package, which is now broken after the pacman 3.5.1 upgrade. I wrote an updated version which can be used with the new pacman release. I agree to become the new maintainer of that

Re: [aur-general] Please remove firefox-bin

2011-03-27 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Det nimetonma...@gmail.com wrote: On 3/27/11, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: i do prefer to have them in aur, but the maintainer should follow firefox-bin as stable, firebox-beta-bin as beta. now there isn't any beta version available and it should be

Re: [aur-general] Adopting the paccheck package

2011-03-27 Thread Oon-Ee Ng
On Sun, Mar 27, 2011 at 10:24 PM, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: On 03/27/2011 05:13 PM, Bernard Baeyens wrote: IgnorantGuru doesn't intend to continue maintaining the paccheck package, which is now broken after the pacman 3.5.1 upgrade. I wrote an updated version which can be used

[aur-general] Rename storm

2011-03-27 Thread Aaron DeVore
I recently adopted the storm package. It should be renamed to python2-storm. python because it is a Python library, 2 because a Python 3 version will be put together in the not too far future. -Aaron DeVore