[aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Simon Brulhart
Hi, There are a lot of orphan packages that haven't been updated for months or years, but still work fine and could be considered useful. I understand that these packages will still be available even if nobody port them. However I don't know if the current AUR helpers will be able to see them or

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Florian Bruhin
* Simon Brulhart si...@brulhart.me [2015-06-09 11:36:09 +0200]: There are a lot of orphan packages that haven't been updated for months or years, but still work fine and could be considered useful. I understand that these packages will still be available even if nobody port them. However I

[aur-general] Signoff report for [community-testing]

2015-06-09 Thread Arch Website Notification
=== Signoff report for [community-testing] === https://www.archlinux.org/packages/signoffs/ There are currently: * 0 new packages in last 24 hours * 0 known bad packages * 0 packages not accepting signoffs * 0 fully signed off packages * 15 packages missing signoffs * 6 packages older than 14

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Jesse McClure
Simon Brulhart si...@brulhart.me [2015-06-09 11:36:09 +0200]: There are a lot of orphan packages that haven't been updated for months or years, but still work fine and could be considered useful. Considered useful by whom? We don't need them around because they *might* be useful to some

Re: [aur-general] Should I request deletion for packages in this transition period?

2015-06-09 Thread Lukas Fleischer
On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 at 06:25:43, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: I'm only now looking at the AUR4 migration guidelines, and I only have a few packages so I've been uploading to AUR4 manually. However, in the process I've found old packages which I no longer use or wish to maintain. Some of which should may

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Giancarlo Razzolini
On 09-06-2015 08:17, Jesse McClure wrote: Agreed. All the packages that no one carries over to aur4 will still be archived for some time, so if anyone*actually* wants them in aur4, they can adopt them. One can keep their own store of PKGBUILDs, but the aur is for packages that it is likely

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Ido Rosen
I didn't know that existed! Cool. Maybe this should be front and center next to any links/buttons to disown a package? E.g. Are you sure you want to disown this package? Remember, you can always add co-maintainers rather than disowning and readopting later... On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 11:59 AM,

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Dominik Heidler
Am Dienstag, 9. Juni 2015, 11:53:53 schrieb Ido Rosen: It seems perfectly reasonable to have multiple people maintain a package over time this way. Maybe we just need better support for this style of non-maintainership that isn't quite orphaned? Support for multiple maintainers/collaborators

Re: [aur-general] [AUR4] Recommended procedure for merging several split packages into one pkgbase with split packages inside?

2015-06-09 Thread Bruno Pagani
Le 09/06/2015 18:31, ShadowKyogre a écrit : I was contemplating either filing a bunch of merge requests or a bunch of deletion requests before trying to resubmit, but there's probably a better way to handle this that I'm not sure of. Currently, the way is a bunch of merge requests, unless

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Jiachen Yang
I think the new AUR4 indeed have a co-maintainer list for each package. It is just in the package actions panel. (Although I haven't try this feature) On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 12:53 AM, Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org wrote: I think some of the orphans on AUR are just maintained by multiple people.

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Ido Rosen
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 12:14 PM, Chris Warrick kwpol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org wrote: I think some of the orphans on AUR are just maintained by multiple people. The usage pattern is: Person A adopts, updates, and disowns. Person B some

[aur-general] [AUR4] Recommended procedure for merging several split packages into one pkgbase with split packages inside?

2015-06-09 Thread ShadowKyogre
In the AUR, these packages are currently split off as their own separate packages without a common package base: mse-extrafoils-clights mse-extrafoils-fire mse-extrafoils-fracture mse-extrafoils-ghost mse-extrafoils-gold mse-extrafoils-jss mse-extrafoils-mosaic

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Bruno Pagani
You mean that: https://aur4.archlinux.org/pkgbase/${pkgname}/comaintainers/ ? Le 09/06/2015 17:53, Ido Rosen a écrit : I think some of the orphans on AUR are just maintained by multiple people. The usage pattern is: Person A adopts, updates, and disowns. Person B some time later notices

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Chris Warrick
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org wrote: I think some of the orphans on AUR are just maintained by multiple people. The usage pattern is: Person A adopts, updates, and disowns. Person B some time later notices it's out of date, adopts, updates, disowns. It seems

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Ido Rosen
I think some of the orphans on AUR are just maintained by multiple people. The usage pattern is: Person A adopts, updates, and disowns. Person B some time later notices it's out of date, adopts, updates, disowns. It seems perfectly reasonable to have multiple people maintain a package over time

Re: [aur-general] AUR4 migration of orphan packages

2015-06-09 Thread Joakim Hernberg
On Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:14:58 +0200 Chris Warrick kwpol...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:53 PM, Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org wrote: I think some of the orphans on AUR are just maintained by multiple people. The usage pattern is: IMO, it would be a lot better for the distro to get

Re: [aur-general] How to install wine packages the require drive_c system wide?

2015-06-09 Thread Martti Kühne
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 9:56 PM, Storm Dragon stormdragon2...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I am thinking of packaging some audio games. The problem is, they will require a sapi5 voice to work. I can create a package for that too, except I think it requires something like c:\System32. Is there a way to

Re: [aur-general] Adding a git package to AUR4

2015-06-09 Thread Ido Rosen
On Tue, Jun 9, 2015 at 5:00 PM, Harley W harl...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello,I'm having a lot of trouble transferring my package to AUR4. It is a git package, so after trying for about an hour to get it to work the way that is described on the wiki page, I thought I could try to push it to a

[aur-general] How to install wine packages the require drive_c system wide?

2015-06-09 Thread Storm Dragon
Hi, I am thinking of packaging some audio games. The problem is, they will require a sapi5 voice to work. I can create a package for that too, except I think it requires something like c:\System32. Is there a way to do this system wide instead of using a ~/.wine prefix? Thanks Storm --

Re: [aur-general] Adding a git package to AUR4

2015-06-09 Thread Marcel Korpel
* Harley W harl...@hotmail.com (Tue, 9 Jun 2015 18:26:21 -0400): Just tried the git filter-branch solution, which got rid of the SRCINFO error, however now i get a KeyError... I believe this may be related to the SSH public key, however I'm not sure how I got that wrong. I just copied what was

[aur-general] KeyError(key)

2015-06-09 Thread Harley W
Can you copy the exact contents of the (error) messages? FTR, I didn't copy the complete contents of ~/.ssh/id_rsa-aur.pub to my account page, I had to omit the username@host part at the end, otherwise my key wasn't accepted. Best, MarcelSorry about that. I'm new to all this :)I hope this

Re: [aur-general] Adding a git package to AUR4

2015-06-09 Thread Harley W
Thank you very much. I will try this when I get a chance, and if that doesn't work ill try out your script. Sent from my Samsung device Original message From: Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org Date: 06-09-2015 5:05 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Discussion about the Arch User Repository

Re: [aur-general] Adding a git package to AUR4

2015-06-09 Thread Harley W
Thank you very much. I will try this when I get a chance, and if that doesn't work ill try out your script. Sent from my Samsung device Original message From: Ido Rosen i...@kernel.org Date: 06-09-2015 5:05 PM (GMT-05:00) To: Discussion about the Arch User Repository

Re: [aur-general] How to install wine packages the require drive_c system wide?

2015-06-09 Thread LoneVVolf
On 09-06-15 21:56, Storm Dragon wrote: Hi, I am thinking of packaging some audio games. The problem is, they will require a sapi5 voice to work. I can create a package for that too, except I think it requires something like c:\System32. Is there a way to do this system wide instead of using

Re: [aur-general] Adding a git package to AUR4

2015-06-09 Thread Harley W
Just tried the git filter-branch solution, which got rid of the SRCINFO error, however now i get a KeyError... I believe this may be related to the SSH public key, however I'm not sure how I got that wrong. I just copied what was in my .ssh/id_rsa.pub to the public key field in my AUR

Re: [aur-general] Adding a git package to AUR4

2015-06-09 Thread Harley W
Just tried the git filter-branch solution, which got rid of the SRCINFO error, however now i get a KeyError... I believe this may be related to the SSH public key, however I'm not sure how I got that wrong. I just copied what was in my .ssh/id_rsa.pub to the public key field in my AUR