Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation

2010-02-01 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
On 31 January 2010 23:42, Paulo Matias wrote: > Hi all, > > Besides loving Arch, a few reasons made me leave it as my main > distribution. I could surely adapt Arch to my new personal needs, due > to its simplicity and flexibility, but due to lack of time and real > life pressure, it would not be

Re: [aur-general] TU Resignation abhidg

2010-01-29 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2010/1/29 Allan McRae : > On 29/01/10 01:22, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> So long ... >> > > Good luck with you studies and the rest of real life.  Hope to see you come > back when you have more time again. > Thank you all! @Gerardo

[aur-general] TU Resignation abhidg

2010-01-28 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
ling release any more. PPS The zsi package has a missing dep (python-setuptools). Could someone fix it? Thanks! Regards, Abhishek Dasgupta

[aur-general] Inactivity

2009-11-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Semester exams are starting next week, so I'll be inactive till 8th Dec. Cheers, Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] script to check a binary package for architecture-independence

2009-11-02 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/11/2 Thomas Bächler : > Chris Brannon schrieb: >> On second thought, I wonder if these sorts of checks should be done >> within namcap? > > They should. Two checks: > 1) Is an arch=any package architecture-dependent -> error > 2) Is an arch=whatever package architecture-independent -> warning

Re: [aur-general] 64-bit build machine

2009-10-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/10/15 Giovanni Scafora : > 2009/10/15, Abhishek Dasgupta : >> Is the 64-bit build machine still available? > > I'm building gnonlin and blueman packages for x86_64. > Thanks!

[aur-general] 64-bit build machine

2009-10-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Is the 64-bit build machine still available? Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] spam in out-of-date notifications for [community] packages

2009-09-30 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/9/29 Aaron Griffin : > On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Chris Brannon wrote: >> It seems that someone is sending spam via out-of-date notifications >> for packages in the official repos. >> How do I clear the out-of-date flag on my packages these days? >> I can't seem to be able to do that w

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] automatic package builder

2009-09-25 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/9/25 Ronald van Haren : > Hey guys, > > Past week I was reading through the buildbot manual, but I decided not to > use it. IMO it is far too complex, fat and not something which has the > needed functionality easily available (you can extend it with python > scripting, but what's the fun of t

Re: [aur-general] TU applying/voting.

2009-09-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/9/23 member SpeedVin : > Hello Laszlo thanks for some testing about this licenses I don't include > them in my PKGBUILD because they are autodetecting by AUR but if it's needed > Tommorow I will include them in PKGBUILD and update them on AUR. > And about xextproto-git when I building it , it

Re: [aur-general] out-of-date notifications

2009-08-20 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/8/20 Ronald van Haren : > you should get the out-of-date notifications for packages you've > adopted in your own mailbox. Those are not send to the mailing list. > > Ronald Just tested by flagging a package out-of-date, nob...@a.o mailed directly to my Inbox. I never noticed that all the out-

[aur-general] out-of-date notifications

2009-08-20 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Is it possible to have out-of-date notifications to be Cc-ed to the maintainer? Then I can check arch-notifications web interface for the other notifications and still get out-of-date notifications for my packages. Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] Please delete kde4-crystaldiamond-icons

2009-08-10 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/8/10 Vojtech Horky : > Hi, could some of the TUs, please, delete kde4-crystaldiamond-icons as > it already exists as kde4icons-crystaldiamond. > I created the package as I haven't noticed it in search results. > Sorry for the trouble. Thanks in advance. > > - Vojta Done.

Re: [aur-general] Moving from AUR to community

2009-08-09 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/8/10 Xyne : > On Sun, 9 Aug 2009 19:10:35 +0200 > Pierre Schmitz wrote: > >> Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 19:08:24 schrieb Xyne: >> > Is this still possible? >> >> Afaik AUR and [community] are not connected anymore. >> >> -- >> >> Pierre Schmitz, http://users.archlinux.de/~pierre > > So should

Re: [aur-general] PD license/no license

2009-08-08 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/8/8 Allan McRae : > Anton Shestakov wrote: >> >> Hey there. >> I want to submit sdlmame-cheats package to AUR. Basically, this package >> would provide a single file; archived collection of user-provided xml files >> for using in sdlmame. But I have some difficulties with it's license. I >> co

Re: [aur-general] latexmk is gone?

2009-08-06 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/8/6 Stefan Husmann : > latexmk is part of texlive-bin 2009 in [testing]. This can cause file > conflicts, so I removed the PKGBUILD from AUR. > > This issue came up in the forum, too. You can do a forum search and copy and > paste the PKGBUILD from there. It can also be obtained for a while f

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] ViewVC URLs for splitted packages

2009-08-04 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/8/4 Roman Kyrylych : > Hi! > > The View SVN Entries link for splitted packages is broken. > For example: > http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons/ > The link on that page points to > http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/kde-meta-kdeplasma-addons/repos/extra-any/

[aur-general] spam on the mailing lists

2009-08-03 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
While the AL lists are well-maintained and mostly spam free, sometimes a few get through, as on the arch-dev-public list today. I don't know if list admins can specifically mark a message as a spam from the server side but there should be a way to do so. I could mark as spam from Gmail but then the

Re: [aur-general] Install files upload

2009-07-25 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/26 Vit : > Hi all! > I'm new here and I can't upload .install file. Upload page says: > "Unknown file format for uploaded file." So how can I attach an > .install file to the existing package? > Best regards, > Vit. You can't, you should upload a source tarball (make using makepkg --source)

Re: [aur-general] Package search for community repo

2009-07-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/24 Loui Chang : > I know archiving is easy. I could just do a mysqldump. > Is there an application that you need the data for? > No, just the data could be useful in the future. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] Package search for community repo

2009-07-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/23 Loui Chang : > On Thu 23 Jul 2009 22:04 +0530, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: >> This information could be kept archived somewhere. A simple HTML dump >> of the all the community package pages would suffice. > > Well, I won't remove the packages outright. I'll ju

Re: [aur-general] Package search for community repo

2009-07-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/23 Roman Kyrylych : > This is absolutely no-go because this way bugtracker will be flooded > with out-of date messages > that have no useful information. Agreed. The web interface is the best place to mark out-of-date. For now, people can send to the maintainer directly. > +1 for complete

Re: [aur-general] AUR Trusted User Guidelines

2009-07-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/23 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi : > Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: >> I've updated the guidelines. Could someone go through it and see if >> there's anything I've missed? I've only put the [community] specific >> stuff there. >> >> > Looks g

Re: [aur-general] AUR Trusted User Guidelines

2009-07-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
I've updated the guidelines. Could someone go through it and see if there's anything I've missed? I've only put the [community] specific stuff there. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] AUR Trusted User Guidelines

2009-07-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/23 Ronald van Haren : > I've unprotected it for one day (I think it works). Let me know if you need > more time or when you are finished earlier so I can set it back. > Thanks. I will be done by 2000 UTC. -- Abhishek

[aur-general] AUR Trusted User Guidelines

2009-07-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
The guidelines have to be updated for the shift to devtools. I could update it but the page is locked. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] Package search for community repo

2009-07-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/23 Heiko Baums : > Am Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:46:45 -0400 > schrieb Eric Bélanger : > >> The 'flag out of date' option for community still works (unless it was >> disabled).  Users just need to check the package version in the repo >> instead of the version displayed in AUR to know if a package

Re: [aur-general] Package search for community repo

2009-07-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/23 Evangelos Foutras : [snip] > That would be best, in my opinion. It would be quite practical to put > [community] alongside with the other repos. Additionally, if the permission > system in use allows it, we (TUs) could use [testing] (instead of the > proposed [community-testing]) for [com

Re: [aur-general] Initial manual cleanup

2009-07-20 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/20 Xyne : >> They are not. Any packages are not supported yet. We are testing support for >> any packages in addition to split packages on the main arch server. When >> this is complete, I will release new dbscripts > > Do I need to replace ('any') with ('i686' 'x86_64') in the PKGBUILD for

Re: [aur-general] CVS freeze and move to SVN/official tools

2009-07-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/15 Loui Chang : > On Wed 15 Jul 2009 20:55 +0530, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: >> >> Yay! Will the community packages still show up on AUR? > > No. Community is being decoupled from the AUR. > So they'll show up in the archlinux.org main webpage or are they disapp

Re: [aur-general] CVS freeze and move to SVN/official tools

2009-07-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/15 Aaron Griffin : > Hey guys, > I'd like to put a freeze on community CVS later today. Sadly, CVS > doesn't respect files set to RO, so there's not too much I can do > server-side. > > I'm going to do the SVN conversion in approx 8 hours or so, maybe > sooner, if I get some time while at wo

[aur-general] license convention for public domain packages

2009-07-08 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
There are widely varying methods for specifying the license of a public domain package in Arch Linux. We should standardise and use one of them. Some packages use - 'Public Domain' (unclutter, python-webpy) - 'PD' (ttf-mph-2b-damase) - I think some packages might also be using 'none'. I saw one p

Re: [aur-general] Adopted

2009-07-06 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/6 Ray Kohler : > Is there actually a feed that shows all updates, and not just new packages? > The obvious one on the AUR main page only shows new packages. > http://aur.archlinux.org/rss2.php shows all updates. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] CVS problem? AUR Comment for moovida

2009-07-05 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/5 Abhishek Dasgupta : > Also [community] does not have a repo viewer right now > since aur.archlinux.org is not on gerolde any more. > > -- Forget that, repos.archlinux.org does have [community] but I don't know whether it's updated against the latest C

Re: [aur-general] CVS problem? AUR Comment for moovida

2009-07-05 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Also [community] does not have a repo viewer right now since aur.archlinux.org is not on gerolde any more. -- Abhishek

[aur-general] script for running namcap on a AUR maintainer's packages

2009-07-03 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
It's useful to run namcap on a maintainer's packages on the AUR, especially when people apply for TU. This pair of scripts fetches the package names belonging to a maintainer (it only fetches the first 100 results though) and the second runs namcap on the package list by downloading the PKGBUILDs f

Re: [aur-general] Requesting orphanage of libssh and hydra

2009-07-02 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/7/3 SergeantSpoon : > I am interested in taking up maintaining libssh and hydra in the AUR, > and the current maintainer has been inactive for almost a year. I > tried contacting him via email but he has not responded, so I can only > assume that he is no longer interested in maintaining eithe

Re: [aur-general] Application for TU

2009-07-01 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
A few notes on your PKGBUILDs - url is a string, not an array (amule-upnp) - package description should not start with pkgname (baltazar, dirac-codec) - you can use $pkgname-$pkgver in source array, makes maintenance easier (cpuspeed) - backup array has preceding slashes (cpuspeed) - if you put

[aur-general] rsync for AUR

2009-06-30 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Is it feasible to setup an rsync for AUR packages? Would it increase load on the server a lot? Installing packages from AUR would become simpler, as tools can work on the local cache instead. It'll be also easier to keep backups. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] (no subject)

2009-06-30 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/30 Sergej Pupykin : > --- Original message --- > From: Aaron Griffin > To: "Discussion about the Arch User Repository (AUR)" > > Subject: Re: [aur-general] (no subject) > Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:10:51 -0500 >>AG> On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 2:05 AM, Sergej Pupykin >>wrote: >  >>>no> what a

Re: [aur-general] Please delete my package 'newton-archemedia'

2009-06-29 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/29 Sven-Hendrik Haase : > Hey, > > please delete my package 'newton-archemedia ' as it appears to have been > superseded by 'newton-dynamics-beta'. > Deleted. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] AUR Moving

2009-06-28 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/29 bardo : > 2009/6/29 Loui Chang : >> Actually I just realised that it's a longstanding bug/feature that the >> update script does not update the AUR database for x86_64 only packages. >> So that's normal behaviour. i686 packages are being updated. > > The repo doesn't seem to be updated, t

Re: [aur-general] AUR Moving

2009-06-28 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/28 bardo : > Confirmed ssh works, just like cvs checkout and commit. Well, at least > they seem to. I uploaded three packages (eclipse-{emf,gef,mylyn}) for > x86_64 with communitypkg some time ago, but the only confirmation I > got is that running 'cvs update' checks out my latest changes. I

Re: [aur-general] mod_scgi package

2009-06-28 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/28 Henri Häkkinen : > Hello. > > The AUR package 'mod_scgi' seems not to have a maintainer. I would be > willing to take the maintenance of this package. My AUR account is > 'henux'. > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=22171 > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?SeB=m&K=henux > J

Re: [aur-general] Remove vim-scripts-align

2009-06-27 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/28 Magnus Therning : > Please remove this package (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26319). > > I have no intention of supporting it as the upstream author makes it > available as a VBA.  This means it can be easily kept up-to-date from inside > Vim using GetLatestVimScripts, and pac

[aur-general] automatic package creation from pypi

2009-06-27 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Quite a while back, the idea of automatically creating PKGBUILDs from pypi came up: http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2008-August/002099.html It'd be really cool if we could get something similar to cabal2arch for PyPI. Checking the PyPiXmlRpc [1] page does not show any field for list

Re: [aur-general] AUR Moving

2009-06-27 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/27 Aaron Griffin : > A few notes to the TUs: > > * Make sure you have checked out via "aur.archlinux.org" and > everything should go smoothly for you > * Later tomorrow, please send me an ssh key for use on the machine, > and I will setup a shell account for you. > * A conversion to SVN and

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-06-24 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/24 Aaron Griffin : > Which part? Is there a patch I forgot to merge, or are you just > bumping the dbscripts as a whole? > No, I was just saying that the any architecture could be tried out for the kde-unstable branch to find any remaining bugs. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-06-24 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/14 Aaron Griffin : > On Wed, May 13, 2009 at 2:18 PM, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: >> 2009/5/14 Abhishek Dasgupta : >>> 2009/5/14 Aaron Griffin : >>>> One quick thing to note - because pacman reads .PKGINFO files to get >>>> metadata, it's nic

Re: [aur-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?

2009-06-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/24 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi : > Btw now a rebuilded my local pkg of ngspice-r19 with libedit and seems > to works fine ;) > Thanks :) BTW libedit is already in extra though it's out of date http://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/i686/libedit/ -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] readline GPL violation on two pkgs?

2009-06-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/24 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi : > Hi, > > I just do a quick scan of soft linked with readline and  I think that > these two pkgs that are linked with readline violates GPL: > > extra/tftp-hpa > community/ngspice > > Both have the "old" BSD (4-clause) license and is linked with readline > that is

Re: [aur-general] Delete package gtk-engine-glory

2009-06-16 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Deleted 2009/6/16 H.Gökhan SARI : > Can you please delete the package gtk-engine-glory on AUR? I accidentally > uploaded it as a gtk engine, however it's a theme only. > > -- > H.Gökhan SARI > h...@difuzyon.net > -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] Incorrect name when downloading from source=()

2009-06-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/16 Côme Pruvost : > Hello, > > To package cellwriter, I need to download this patch[1]. But once > downloaded, the name of the file is > "attachment?aid=-5287197620305474653&name=cellwriter-1.3.4-cellwidget-dont-disable-xinput.diff" > instead of just > "cellwriter-1.3.4-cellwidget-dont-disab

Re: [aur-general] hsftp build error

2009-06-02 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/3 Nathan Owe. : > well i thought hsftp is working but i get this error : > The following are set in config.h > >  pty/tty type:               GLIBC > /bin/sh ./mkinstalldirs /usr/bin >  /bin/install -c -s -m 755 hsftp /usr/bin/hsftp > /bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/bin/hsftp'

Re: [aur-general] Remove Request for mitter-svn

2009-06-01 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/1 Thomas Bohn : > Please remove the package mitter-svn: > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=19446 > > They switched to git. So the packages is useless. > Deleted

Re: [aur-general] delete ctunnel

2009-06-01 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/1 Vinzenz Vietzke : > nathan owe. schrieb: >> http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=26922 needs deleting, for some >> reason it won't build i give up > first point: > i think using "sudo" in a pkgbuild isn't really useful, especially when > there is no dependency on the sudo-package. > P

Re: [aur-general] Filenames with "_" in it

2009-06-01 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/6/1 Thomas Bohn : > I have one package[1] in AUR which has a "_" in the original file name. > When I put > > source=(http://downloads.sourceforge.net/bibcursed/$pkgname_$pkgver.tgz) > > in the PKGBUILD, it won't work. When I put an \ before the _ it works but > on the AUR page this \ will also

Re: [aur-general] A letter of resignation as a TU

2009-05-30 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/30 Mikko Seppälä : >        Oh, the time has come for young one to enter the world and feel the > first had experience of cruelty, blood and peasoup. >        To take on arms and abandon all hope on having personal feelings or > time to infiltrate the community cvs. >        Nonexisting data

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-29 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/30 Abhishek Dasgupta : > I'll write a script to fetch the maintainers of all packages in the > official repositories and store them in a simple text file, so that > people who need the maintainer information for the whole archive > can just use that instead of polling arc

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-29 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/23 Abhishek Dasgupta : > Of course, all that is really needed is an easy way of getting the current > maintainers. I'll work on adding some kind of API to the web interface > to output the maintainer name given an URI like this: > http://archlinux.org/packages/core/i68

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] __init__.py: gnomemenu removed, prettify code

2009-05-28 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Bump. Any opinions on this patch? 2009/5/13 Abhishek Dasgupta : > Updated patch to remove gnomemenu from namcap.1 as well. > > -- > Abhishek >

Re: [aur-general] Package Removal discid

2009-05-26 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/26 Heiko Baums : > When adding a new task to Flyspray, I only see these repos in the > "Category" field: > Packages: Extra > Packages: Core > Packages: Testing > Bugs for [community] packages are reported in a separate project called "Community Packages". http://bugs.archlinux.org/index.ph

Re: [aur-general] Package Removal discid

2009-05-25 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/25 Heiko Baums : > At least for now, it is necessary to have community packages also in > AUR, because there's no package database for community as it is for > core, extra and testing. At least I don't know such a package database. community.db.tar.gz on the mirrors is downloaded every time

[aur-general] [PATCH] Add URL to get maintainer of a package

2009-05-23 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
This is a simple patch to make URLs like http://archlinux.org/core/i686/bash/maintainer return the current maintainer for the package in plaintext. I don't know if the code works or not since I've almost no experience in Django. I'm not sure whether simply returning pkg.maintainer shall suffice.

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/23 Angel Velásquez : > But now talking about the topic, you can also set the "Maintainer" > flag with an env var and adding it to the .PKGINFO (I thought Andrei > Thorp suggested this anyway) and past maintainers can be parsed in > another .PKGINFO Field. This will need modifications of the

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/22 Allan McRae : > I am very much against adding _unnecessary_ fields to PKGBUILDs...   If > these are not needed by makepkg or pacman, they should only be comments.  It > is going to take a lot of convincing for me to think otherwise. > As long as the information in # Maintainer tags and t

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/22 Heiko Baums : > Comments are more flexible, so that more maintainers and contributors > can be added to the PKGBUILD.In this case the PKGBUILD can be parsed > by AUR - it's already done anyway - when a package is uploaded to AUR. No, it isn't; no script parses the Maintainer or Contribut

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-21 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/22 Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi : > 1) Technical purposes: Having a "# Maintainer" comment line can provide > a simple way to shell scripts to identify the maintainer, that in many > cases the maintainer != packager. (pacman -Qi) This help in many cases, > for example reporting a "mass change/rebu

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-21 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/21 : > email addresses can change and be off, the tag in the PKGBUILD rarely > contains the username but the realname is mostly the same, all > provided a new maintainer didn't forget to add his credentials to the > PKGBUILD. So yeah, the information is almost always different to some > deg

Re: [aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-21 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/21 Alper KANAT : > And what if I adopted a package from someone? Am I a Contributor or a > Maintainer on that case? > In all cases the Maintainer tag if present should have the same information as that of the web interface. Otherwise it loses its relevance. -- Abhishek

[aur-general] changing the status of the maintainer field

2009-05-21 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Many packages in Arch don't have Maintainer tags in their PKGBUILDs (around 345 last time I checked). Also quite a few the PKGBUILDs are not updated by the current maintainer. It is better to do away with maintainer tags altogether, since their functionality can be obtained from the web interface

Re: [aur-general] removing versionpkg from [community]

2009-05-20 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/20 Ronald van Haren : > On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:53 AM, Abhishek Dasgupta wrote: > >> I'll be removing versionpkg [1] from [community] soon as its functionality >> is already built into makepkg now. It was last updated two years ago >> by dtw, > > Just r

[aur-general] removing versionpkg from [community]

2009-05-20 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
I'll be removing versionpkg [1] from [community] soon as its functionality is already built into makepkg now. It was last updated two years ago by dtw, However this will break make_e17 [2] which depends on versionpkg. [1]: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9272 [2]: http://aur.archlinux.or

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Get notified on website updates

2009-05-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/15 Pierre Schmitz :> > You want to get notified when there is a new upstream release. The problem is > that not all projects offer rss feeds or an announce mailing list. And if they > do they are sometimes too verbose or don't cover the updates you like. > > So needed something to watch a ce

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-05-13 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/14 Abhishek Dasgupta : > 2009/5/14 Aaron Griffin : >> One quick thing to note - because pacman reads .PKGINFO files to get >> metadata, it's nice to have them at the beginning of the tar. tar >> --append is going to slap them on the end. This could make a >>

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-05-13 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/14 Aaron Griffin : > One quick thing to note - because pacman reads .PKGINFO files to get > metadata, it's nice to have them at the beginning of the tar. tar > --append is going to slap them on the end. This could make a > significant difference on larger packages > The previous commit was

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] __init__.py: gnomemenu removed, prettify code

2009-05-13 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Updated patch to remove gnomemenu from namcap.1 as well. -- Abhishek 0001-remove-vestiges-of-gnomemenu-prettify-__init__.py.patch Description: Binary data

[aur-general] [PATCH] __init__.py: gnomemenu removed, prettify code

2009-05-13 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Each module is put on a separate line in alphabetical order. This makes removal and addition of modules easier to spot in the diffs. I've used split() here so that I can do without the quotes and commas in the list. Signed-off-by: Abhishek Dasgupta --- Namcap/__init__.py |

Re: [aur-general] some candidates for moving to unsupported

2009-05-13 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/12 Abhishek Dasgupta : > Hi, > > I was going through the community bugtracker and I found a few > bugs which can be solved by moving the relevant packages to [unsupported]. > > games/campgen (maintained by dtw) moved to unsupported. > x11/xgl (#13581) (orphan) >  Co

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-05-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/13 Abhishek Dasgupta : > I've attached a diff for convert-to-any which does away with all the > committing stuff and just makes an i686/x86_64 package into an > architecture independent package putting the file in the same directory. > I tested the code here and it'

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-05-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
the net! Firefox works fine though. -- Abhishek --- convert-to-any 2009-05-11 20:16:15.0 +0530 +++ convert-to-any 2009-05-13 10:13:30.0 +0530 @@ -5,24 +5,15 @@ # -- Abhishek Dasgupta -. "$(dirname $0)/db-functions" [ "$UID" = "" ] &

[aur-general] some candidates for moving to unsupported

2009-05-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
Hi, I was going through the community bugtracker and I found a few bugs which can be solved by moving the relevant packages to [unsupported]. games/campgen (maintained by dtw) Old and the homepage says that there is no version which works with wesnoth 1.6 in Arch repositories. This would remove

Re: [aur-general] Mutt vs Gmail (Was: An idea for vim scripts/plugins)

2009-05-11 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/11 Andrei Thorp : > Also, despite the mutt way being pretty nice and unixy (letting me > script it easily into my window manager and so on), gmail just has an > excellent interface with the folding, images, and so on. I hate to not > use the classic mail setup everywhere, but it's just not a

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-05-06 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/6 Firmicus : > Why move up-to-date packages to simply change the arch parameter? We can > easily change it in the PKGBUILDs in trunk and it will occur > automatically with the next update. There is no benefit in converting > the actual packages, really. It may save some space on the server a

Re: [aur-general] [arch-dev-public] Status of arch=any ?

2009-05-05 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/6 Firmicus : > OK, back to topic. First of all, the git repo you gave me does not have > the patches from Abhishek. I finally figured out that I had to pull his > branch any-arch from github. Aaron's git repo also mirrors my any-arch branch on github so you should have got it when you clone

Re: [aur-general] Huge packages in community

2009-05-03 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/3 Abhishek Dasgupta : > rsync has an exclude option which can selectively exclude files > from being synchronized. Removing a package from community.db.tar.gz > is also easy. > Also, just noticed this option in rsync(1): --max-size: don't transfer any file larger than SIZE -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] Huge packages in community

2009-05-03 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/5/3 Chris Brannon : > This argument is about a technical problem, rather than a social > or cultural one.  The debate will go away when the technical problem is > solved. > Packages in [community] have categories, and one of those categories is > "games".  One solution is a "partial mirror" sc

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request for 'changefirefoxicon'

2009-04-25 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/26 Daenyth Blank : > > Damn, did anyone save a copy? I want to see it... > At least for a few days I think, AUR keeps a copy: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/changefirefoxicon/changefirefoxicon/PKGBUILD In case it's deleted, I'm reproducing it here: pkgname=changefirefoxicon pkgver=0.1 p

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request for 'changefirefoxicon'

2009-04-25 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/26 Sven-Hendrik Haase : > I request the AUR package 'changefirefoxicon' be deleted for duplicate (of > 'firefox-branded') and severe breach of all good PKGBUILD rules. Just look > at it, but I warn you as you might fall right from your chair either > laughing or crying. Please just delete it

Re: [aur-general] namcap modules: gnomemenu gnomemime

2009-04-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/22 Hugo Doria : > Hi Abhishek, > > gnomemenu.py can be removed. I will remove it and create a > desktopfiles.py that verifies if all .desktop files from the package > are in /usr/share/applications. > > To fix gnomemime.py a change from "/opt/gnome/share/" to "/usr/share" is > enough. > > W

Re: [aur-general] namcap modules: gnomemenu gnomemime

2009-04-22 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/15 Abhishek Dasgupta : > The code in the these two files is quite old since they refer > to the /opt/gnome path for GNOME files which was changed > to /usr quite a while back. > > They should either be deleted or changed to reflect the current > changes. Are the tag

Re: [aur-general] Packaging perl modules - best practices for dependancies?

2009-04-20 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/20 Oliver Charles : > Hi all, > > I used to use Arch a while ago, and packaged quite a few Perl modules > [1]. After switching operating systems, I've come back to Arch - and I > need to be a good maintainer of my packages :) > > I remember when I wrote these how frustrating it was manually

[aur-general] [PATCH] fix some errors and omissions in tags and namcap.1

2009-04-18 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
spelling mistake (dependences) Signed-off-by: Abhishek Dasgupta --- namcap.1 | 19 +++ tags |6 +++--- 2 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) diff --git a/namcap.1 b/namcap.1 index af0ccf4..d5b3554 100644 --- a/namcap.1 +++ b/namcap.1 @@ -1,22 +1,25 @@ -.TH

[aur-general] namcap modules: gnomemenu gnomemime

2009-04-15 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
The code in the these two files is quite old since they refer to the /opt/gnome path for GNOME files which was changed to /usr quite a while back. They should either be deleted or changed to reflect the current changes. Are the tags relevant for the current GNOME? -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] python-apsw package

2009-04-13 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/13 Juan Miguel Cejuela : > To Abhishek, > > Thank you for answering. However, I can't make $srcdir/LICENSE since the > license is not included in their source. I made it copying it from their > web. > > *Then, how I can move LICENSE without using $startdir?* > > I can do ../$srcdir but that

Re: [aur-general] python-apsw package

2009-04-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/12 Juan Miguel Cejuela : > I have just updated and started to maintain the python-apsw package (the > current version in AUR was from Oct 2007, when the last version is from Feb > 2009) > > This package is needed for the tribler package (bittorrent client) > > Please let me know if you use t

Re: [aur-general] Questions from a new TU

2009-04-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/12 Xyne : [ snip ] > Wouldn't it make more sense to use these tags to determine the port > when uploading binary packages to community? This would also be useful > for uploading "any" packages (which I suppose need to be uploaded > twice). Just to clarify, currently [community] does not sup

Re: [aur-general] Watch list

2009-04-12 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/12 Xyne : > You could write a script to parse the output from > http://aur.archlinux.org/rpc.php?type=search&arg= > > That includes whether is outdated, the number of votes, version > number, etc. If you want comments then I think you need to scrape the > web page. > The code for seeing co

Re: [aur-general] namcap tag: hicolor-icon-cache-not-updated

2009-04-10 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
2009/4/11 Jan de Groot : > Looks great, and really saves me doing some work (or bugs sneaking in > new versions of packages). > > This dependency check on hicolor-icon-theme, does it traverse down the > dependency tree, or does it only look at what is in depends=()? It just looks at depends() righ

[aur-general] namcap tag: hicolor-icon-cache-not-updated

2009-04-10 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
According to http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Gnome_package_guidelines#GTK_Icon_cache packages which install icons in /usr/share/icons/hicolor should depend on hicolor-icon-theme and invoke gtk-update-icon-cache. I've made a namcap module [1] which checks for the existence of the /usr/share/ic

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