Re: [aur-general] TVMobili PKGBUILD

2012-08-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 4 Aug 2012 19:34:20 -0400 schrieb Jacob Block : > Brand new here. I'm switching to Arch Linux as my primary OS. I use > TVMobili for > all my DLNA streaming needs and was surprised it wasn't in the AUR. > So, here is my first PKGBUILD. I think I hit the appropriat

Re: [aur-general] Package deletion request

2012-06-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 27 Jun 2012 18:33:10 -0700 schrieb Connor Behan : > On 27/06/12 06:20 PM, Skydrome wrote: > > Requesting to delete my aur pkg > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=53452 I have made a split > > package https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30375 which > > incorporates the forme

Re: [aur-general] small AUR cleanup

2012-06-27 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 27 Jun 2012 11:11:29 +0200 schrieb Ike Devolder : > > Please merge qutim [7] into qutim-stable [8]. > > > > [7] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=17708 > > [8] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=58695 > > > > 7 -> 8 : merged Wouldn't it have been better to merge it the o

Re: [aur-general] Idea for AUR improvement

2012-06-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 02 Jun 2012 01:23:46 +0200 schrieb Christian Stadegaart : > You were not sharing an opinion, you were sharing facts, right? I > advise you to be careful with the words you choose. Why? Answer my questions, and you will see that it's true. In the most cases you will come to the same conclu

Re: [aur-general] Idea for AUR improvement

2012-06-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 2 Jun 2012 01:23:30 +0200 schrieb Cédric Girard : > On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 1:04 AM, Heiko Baums > wrote: > > > Btw., I read at least one comment in the AUR in which the old > > maintainer asked to be removed from the #Contributor flag in the > > PKGBUILD. So

Re: [aur-general] Idea for AUR improvement

2012-06-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:42:47 + schrieb Xyne : > Um, I don't think you understood his idea, I think I did understand his idea. > but at least it didn't > stop you from replying with your usual abrasive tone. Am I not allowed to answer, particularly if I think the idea is pointless? And, no, i

Re: [aur-general] Idea for AUR improvement

2012-06-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 1 Jun 2012 20:20:14 +0200 schrieb Marcin 'sirmacik' Karpezo : > I think you misunderstood me. It's not about taking packages back if > they are maintained. It's about giving orphaned packages back to the > previous maintainer if they are still orphaned and he has logged in > again and push

[aur-general] Removal request: arch-gensplash

2012-04-17 Thread Heiko Baums
I think the AUR package arch-gensplash [1] can be removed. It's orphaned, the last update is from 2008, it's flagged as out-of-date since more than a year, the URL doesn't exist anymore and the source package isn't available anymore. [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15707 Heiko

Re: [aur-general] Deletion requests

2012-04-10 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 09 Apr 2012 23:57:26 -0300 schrieb Hugo Osvaldo Barrera : > The following are all orphan. They each have additional reason(s) > that make them candidate for deletion. > > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=45124 > Is out of date (marked 11 months ago). Stable version is newer

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request (?): libxfce4menu-devel, xfce4-notifyd-devel 0.2.1-1

2012-04-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 08 Apr 2012 12:20:05 +0200 schrieb Dirk : > I see a lot of package flagged out-of-date on 02 Jun 2011, is this > some sort of 'marked for deletion'? No, it's not. Out-of-date means that there is a new version available from upstream. Unfortunately some people regularly misuse this button

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

2012-03-26 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 26 Mar 2012 18:47:11 + schrieb Tai-Lin Chu : > @Alexander Rødseth > that's "how it should work", but unfortunately none of these work well > in reality. That's how it does work in reality. If you find such a package which fits in one of the cases Alexander mentioned, do what Alexander

Re: [aur-general] mysql-gui-tools unmaintained

2012-03-23 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 23 Mar 2012 14:14:55 -0600 schrieb Jeff Cook : > mysql-gui-tools 5.0r14-5 has not been updated since Jun '11. It no > longer builds. A fix for the build failure has been in the comments > since December. The package has been marked out of date since Dec 1. > Can we get this package orphane

Re: [aur-general] astrolog package errors

2012-03-15 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:22:40 -0400 (EDT) schrieb Jude DaShiell : > The source file astrolog.dat is not one to delete from the build of > the astrolog package. At a minimum it ought to go > into /usr/share/astrolog since it is a configuration file the > installed astrolog package will use if it fi

Re: [aur-general] Misconceptions about the AUR?

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 21:00:54 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang : > Yes. Because I say so. Because everyone else says so. Because you are > one of those imbeciles that don't stop to listen and simply talk over > everyone so that you can only hear yourself shouting. So, you are everybody, and what you say is

Re: [aur-general] Misconceptions about the AUR?

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 17:16:16 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang : > First of all I'll deplore you for hijacking György's TU Application > thread to rant about your own qualms. You should be ashamed. You > should apologise. You are wrong. I'm not wrong, I didn't hijack anything, and I didn't rant. I gave my

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 23:40:55 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae : > Where is it written that you can't do that? PKGBUILDs are bash. Any > valid bash is a valid PKGBUILD. So, what if I would build a package which contains an .install file with an `rm -Rf /` in its post_install() function and upload it to

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 18:49:47 + schrieb Xyne : > The choice > of Bash was myopic and lazy in my opinion, and something that should > be reversed as far as possible, not glorified. Don't say that too loud, because Gentoo's ebuilds are principally bash, too, but Gentoo has its own functions to al

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 10:22:46 -0300 schrieb Angel Velásquez : > Heiko, > > I've always had several discussions with you, now Gaetan, and many > people seems to have disagree with your opinion. If they disagree with my opinion, they can happily explain why. I explained my concerns. But I only got

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 22:01:59 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae : > I see what was done there... makedepends in split packages probably > need to become depends when built as individual packages. > > @György: Let that be a lesson in being careful when making > reactionary changes to packages. Don't wor

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 07:11:21 -0500 schrieb Stéphane Gaudreault : > STOP. > > Heiko, you had the chance to express you opinion about this > application (and you did it in a totally inappropiate way). I didn't do it in a inappropriate way. I did it in a factual way and explained why I am concerned

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 00:27:39 +0100 schrieb Balló György : > I understand Heiko's opinion and now I replaced these hackish split > packages by individual packages even if it's requires more maintenance > time on updates. So now users should able to install all of my > packages with AUR helpers, how

Re: [aur-general] AUR helpers and AUR standards

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 15:23:16 +0800 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng : > As I understand it the reason the AUR doesn't support split packages > is more along the lines of "hard to implement" and/or "noone has > bothered to add it" rather than "the AUR shall not have split > packages". As long as there's not suppo

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:59:56 +1100 schrieb Gaetan Bisson : > Like I said, nobody cares. Oh, you are nobody? Interesting. > If you have problems reading between the lines, try growing up. Between the lines are spaces otherwise there would be other lines. I'd say, the one who needs to grow up is y

Re: [aur-general] AUR helpers and AUR standards

2012-03-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 1 Mar 2012 20:12:29 -0600 schrieb Nick Miller : > As far as I know it's not since aur helpers are not and will never be > officially supported. And what? Almost everybody uses them. And split packages are also not officially supported. But while AUR helpers are useful and usually working

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 11:36:18 +1100 schrieb Gaetan Bisson : > [2012-03-02 00:13:33 +0100] Heiko Baums: > > Are you sure that your attitude is the right one? > > Yes. Not me. > > And that comes from a dev who should know about packaging standards, > > policies and pack

Re: [aur-general] AUR helpers and AUR standards

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 07:45:34 +0800 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng : > Splitting off from the TU application thread that's becoming more of a > discussion on the above:- > > My (user) perspective - when did being able/not to install packages > from a helper (for example yaourt) become a benchmark for deciding h

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:51:16 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae : > You keep saying "official policies"... Where is this official policy > document that says do not use the split PKGBUILD hack to upload > packages to the AUR? > > Yes, the AUR does not support split packages. But there is nothing > actua

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:21:33 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae : > You do realize who first came up with the workaround for adding split > packages to the AUR... Because from memory it was figured out in the > TU IRC channel. I don't know, because I'm not in the IRC channels. But if I recall correctly

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 01 Mar 2012 23:10:11 + schrieb Peter Lewis : > On Thursday 01 Mar 2012 23:35:16 Heiko Baums wrote: > > 4. AUR is meant for providing PKGBUILDs for other users, so that > > they don't need to do the same work again (writing the PKGBUILDs). > > Since e.g. i

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 2 Mar 2012 09:51:41 +1100 schrieb Gaetan Bisson : > [2012-03-01 23:35:16 +0100] Heiko Baums: > > I guess you are kidding, aren't you? > > Nobody cares what you guess. > > Just quit posing for an expert on everything already. Are you sure that your attitude

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 1 Mar 2012 16:27:45 -0500 schrieb Dave Reisner : > Feel free to provide such PKGBUILDs and actually prove that this can > be done rather than soapboxing about something that he isn't doing. > It's just that simple. I guess you are kidding, aren't you? 1. I'm not soapboxing. 2. I'm not in

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 01 Mar 2012 21:46:41 +0200 schrieb Ionut Biru : > Most GTK2 GTK3 ports are hard to be supported in AUR since most of the > time it depends on what packages a user has installed on his system > and may be picked different because almost 99% of our users do not > compile in clean chroots. W

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - György Balló

2012-03-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 01 Mar 2012 19:00:52 +0100 schrieb Balló György : > I currently have 150 packages in AUR with a total of 5775 votes. I > already maintain more than 200 packages as source packages on > github[4] and as built i686 packages in my [ayatana] repo[5]. I don't > want to move all of these package

Re: [aur-general] AUR is doubling required by packages

2012-02-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 27 Feb 2012 20:07:22 -0500 schrieb member graysky : > Browse to: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50911 > > Here is what I show for required by package... why are some of these > doubled? Required by broadcom-wl-ck broadcom-wl-ck lirc-ck lirc-ck > nvidia-275xx-ck nvidia-275xx-ck

[aur-general] Removal request: vulture-nethack

2012-02-15 Thread Heiko Baums
The package vulture-nethack [1] doesn't run and can't be built anymore since the latest libpng update. The maintainer created a new package vulture [2] which is patched for the new libpng and installs the full upstream package containing the variants for nethack, slashem and unnethack, and orphane

Re: [aur-general] (no subject)

2012-01-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:44:18 +0300 schrieb Cyril Lashkevich : > Package split2flac-hg is replaced by split2flac-git and as I guess > should be removed. > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=28877 And I guess the votes etc. of split2flac-hg should then be moved to split2flac-git, too. Bt

Re: [aur-general] New package: ttytter

2012-01-11 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 11 Jan 2012 23:59:35 + schrieb Peter Lewis : > Actually, I moved it to [community] since it seemed popular :-) Then it would be an idea to removing it from AUR again. ;-) Heiko

Re: [aur-general] Drop mplayer2 from [community]

2012-01-03 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:25:46 -0300 schrieb Angel Velásquez : > If it's broken move it to AUR .. or ask if some tu wants to maintain > on community. If it's broken and doesn't compile anymore, why should it be moved to AUR? Just drop it. Heiko

Re: [aur-general] Please remove my AUR account

2011-11-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 30 Nov 2011 07:43:29 -0500 schrieb Dave Reisner : > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 01:19:46PM +0100, Moritz Wilhelmy wrote: > > You see how well that worked with the wall in > > Germany. > > You seem bitter. You should fix that, or at least not parade it around > when asking for a favor. And th

Re: [aur-general] Update request for supertuxkart

2011-11-21 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 21 Nov 2011 09:01:29 +0100 schrieb Alexander Rødseth : > 2011/11/19 Heiko Baums : > > But it could have been that you have forgotten it in the > > meantime. ;-) > > An unnecessary joke, when this was obviously not the case here. It was neither a joke, nor unnece

Re: [aur-general] Update request for supertuxkart

2011-11-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 19 Nov 2011 06:24:51 +0100 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase : > Alright then. In general, if an Arch package isn't updated, there > usually is a good reason. But it could have been that you have forgotten it in the meantime. ;-) Heiko

Re: [aur-general] Update request for supertuxkart

2011-11-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 19 Nov 2011 02:17:10 +0100 schrieb Sven-Hendrik Haase : > A better solution is likely to package irrlicht straight from svn but > I'm not sure I feel comfortable with that. > > It would at least need to conflict. This is what upstream of supertuxkart has written: "note that at this time

[aur-general] Update request for supertuxkart

2011-11-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Hi TUs, may I request an update of supertuxkart in [community]? It's already flagged as out-of-date since 2011-04-15 and was last updated on 2010-12-21. Meanwhile the third update was released by upstream. The latest version in [community] is 0.7, the latest upstream version is 0.7.3. So it woul

Re: [aur-general] [Rename request] xdtv & xdtv-stable

2011-11-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 16 Nov 2011 19:46:31 +0200 schrieb Evangelos Foutras : > On 16/11/11 19:22, Krzysztof Grygiencz wrote: > > Hi. Can someone rename my packages [1] & [2] > > > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=1376 > > [2] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=34223 > > I would suggest t

Re: [aur-general] Orphan request

2011-10-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 29 Oct 2011 21:22:10 +0300 schrieb "D. Can Celasun" : > Uhm.. if there are no further objections, can someone please go ahead > and orphan this? As Jelle already asked you to do this, you should first send the maintainer an e-mail to his e-mail address(es) mentioned in the PKGBUILD and in

Re: [aur-general] Virtualbox kernel modules and initscript?

2011-10-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 4 Oct 2011 20:02:28 -0300 schrieb Ángel Velásquez : > 2011/10/4 Heiko Baums : > > Am Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:30:39 -0400 > > schrieb "David J. Haines" : > > > >> By the way, thanks to the maintainer(s) for the change. It was a > >> really odd

Re: [aur-general] Virtualbox kernel modules and initscript?

2011-10-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 4 Oct 2011 18:30:39 -0400 schrieb "David J. Haines" : > By the way, thanks to the maintainer(s) for the change. It was a > really odd way of handling things before. I mean, I don't mind, but is it really such a big difference if you have to run the script /usr/bin/vboxbuild instead of the

Re: [aur-general] Virtualbox kernel modules and initscript?

2011-10-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 5 Oct 2011 01:28:58 +0300 schrieb Evangelos Foutras : > The answer is in pacman's output during installation and its log files > afterwards. Thanks. Haven't seen it, since there have been updated a lot of other packages, too. Heiko

[aur-general] Virtualbox kernel modules and initscript?

2011-10-04 Thread Heiko Baums
I just wanted to ask what happened to the virtualbox kernel modules and /etc/rc.d/vbox. They seem to be missing in the new virtualbox package. Is this a bug or a new feature? Heiko

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Massimiliano Torromeo

2011-10-03 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 3 Oct 2011 12:30:10 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner : > Please don't do this. provides and conflicts, yes, ... Do they really conflict or is mariadb just an alternative replacement for mysql? Means, can they both be installed parallel or just only one of them at a time? Heiko

Re: [aur-general] Merge request: ttf-ubuntu-font-family and ttf-ubuntu

2011-09-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:46:28 +0800 schrieb Jekyll Wu : > I am not sure which name is better, but I think this comment from [1] > might help: > > Comment by: mtorromeo on Fri, 12 Aug 2011 09:52:56 + > > @schivmeister: the upstream project is named "ubuntu font family" > and ttf-ubun

Re: [aur-general] Merge request: ttf-ubuntu-font-family and ttf-ubuntu

2011-09-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 07 Sep 2011 10:02:53 +0800 schrieb Jekyll Wu : > ttf-ubuntu-font-family[1] and ttf-ubuntu[2] are essentially the same, > except that the latter provides an outdated version. > > Please merge [2] into [1]. > > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=41465 > [2] https://aur.archlinu

Re: [aur-general] Securing the AUR website

2011-09-03 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 3 Sep 2011 20:25:41 +0100 schrieb Gordon JC Pearce : > The AUR search function doesn't necessarily work very well, and > aurbuild/yaourt/clyde et al don't show you the comments on a package. For me the AUR search function has worked perfectly for me so far, and yaourt shows you the latest

Re: [aur-general] Securing the AUR website

2011-09-03 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 3 Sep 2011 16:49:21 +0100 schrieb Gordon JC Pearce : > So, the only way to use AUR from (say) Google is to search for a > package, ... Why do you need Google to search the AUR? I do it either with the AUR search function or with a wrapper like yaourt or aurbuild. Heiko

Re: [aur-general] Securing the AUR website

2011-09-01 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 1 Sep 2011 19:57:51 -0300 schrieb rafael ff1 : > I normally look for AUR packages in my google search engine, in case > I'm not already in AUR interface. Since https is the default login, > google search find the http interface. > That's not much bad, but if I want to login after that, I c

Re: [aur-general] Deletion Requests

2011-08-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:49:04 +0100 schrieb gadget3000 : > Ah, I thought it was 20 votes but with a bit of wiki searching that > was apparently an old minimum. I usually quote the votes because > "Votes are an indicator of package interest or usage." Not necessarily. The votes don't need to mean s

Re: [aur-general] Deletion Requests

2011-08-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 29 Aug 2011 11:59:06 +0100 schrieb gadget3000 : > I don't think I flagged either package out of date but either way > thanks for letting me know about old projects. I'm still a bit of a > noob here :P I don't know who has flagged this package as out-of-date, but it was. So I mentioned it.

Re: [aur-general] Deletion Requests

2011-08-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 29 Aug 2011 12:28:50 +0200 schrieb Heiko Baums : > Am Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:59:32 +0100 > schrieb gadget3000 : > > > clickosquare > > (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43425) - Dead project > > since 2002. No maintainer and only 7 votes. > > Act

Re: [aur-general] Deletion Requests

2011-08-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 29 Aug 2011 10:59:32 +0100 schrieb gadget3000 : > clickosquare > (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43425) - Dead project > since 2002. No maintainer and only 7 votes. Actually I'm not a TU and don't know this package, but I think as long as it works there's no need to remove it j

Re: [aur-general] Adoption request for google-musicmanager

2011-08-25 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 26 Aug 2011 02:22:43 +0100 schrieb Matej Ľach : > Hallo everyone, > > I would like to request adoption of Google Music beta Desktop Manager > [google-musicmanager] PKGBUILD[1]. > it doesn't seem to be updated anymore by its creator. > I will be doing my best to keep the package up-to-d

[aur-general] Removal request for kernel26-fbcondecor

2011-08-08 Thread Heiko Baums
Hi TUs, you can remove my package kernel26-fbcondecor (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=15603) from AUR. I have renamed it to linux-fbcondecor (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=50924) and upgraded it to 3.0.1. Heiko

Re: [aur-general] delete grub-gfx

2011-07-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 30 Jul 2011 01:08:42 +0530 schrieb "KESHAV P.R." : > I mentioned "current" upstream naming. According to upstream, > presently grub2 aka grub 1.9x == grub and grub 0.97 == grub-legacy . Grub legacy is just an inofficial name by upstream to make clear that this version is not developed any

Re: [aur-general] delete grub-gfx

2011-07-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:47:03 +0530 schrieb "KESHAV P.R." : > On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 00:36, KESHAV P.R. > wrote: > > Hi, > >     Please delete grub-gfx > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=2416 . Although it has > > more votes, I modified the PKGBUILD a bit and replaced the package > > w

Re: [aur-general] Delete gtk-theme-equinox-radiance

2011-07-17 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 17 Jul 2011 13:38:10 +0100 schrieb Joao Cordeiro : > Maintainer created a new package for the same theme (see comments). And which package is the new one? "(see comments)" makes much sense if a package gets deleted? ;-) Heiko

Re: [aur-general] large number of deprecated/duplicate flashplugin packages

2011-07-14 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 15 Jul 2011 02:08:11 +0300 schrieb Evangelos Foutras : > On 14 July 2011 22:34, Anish Bhatt wrote: > > All of these packages are either orphaned/out-of-date/duplicate or > > deprecated. Could someone delete these please ? > > > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=47038 > > http://a

[aur-general] Removal request for xfce-menu-edit

2011-06-30 Thread Heiko Baums
xfce-menu-edit is obsolete. It doesn't compile anymore, doesn't work with Xfce 4.8 anyway and is orphaned. So I guess it should be removed from AUR. https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=39370 See also the last maintainer's comment in AUR. Heiko

Re: [aur-general] [deletion request] Please delete my package mkvtoolnix-gtk and mkvtoolnix-nogui

2011-06-22 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:18:04 +0200 schrieb Uli Armbruster : > Here's the link https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=49992 > I reuploaded under the name mkvmerge-gui because the name fits better > (I also added mmg and mkvtoolnix to the description, so it can be > found as good as possible) >

Re: [aur-general] Why deletion reasons go to the mailing list (Was: Deletion request)

2011-06-21 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 21 Jun 2011 01:19:38 -0400 schrieb keenerd : > All the comments are archived on aur3.org. They are parsed into JSON > too. The general form is > http://aur3.org/mirror/$package/comments.gz > And nothing is ever deleted from Aur3. (Yet. This is currently a > bug/feature.) I don't know

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

2011-06-18 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 18 Jun 2011 11:34:55 +0200 schrieb Martti Kühne : > On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Bartek Piotrowski > wrote: > > From aur-general archives: > > http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2011-June/014884.html > > > > Bartek Piotrowski > > > > Hi > > You did not yet name any

Re: [aur-general] Orphans [extra] repository cleanup

2011-05-12 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 12 May 2011 17:10:14 +0200 schrieb Andrea Scarpino : > Isn't the only one, but I'll keep it. Thanks. If you have a proper alternative at best for GTK I'd be glad to get to know it. I already know Tux Commander, Gnome Commander, Midnight Commander, Thunar, PCManFM, EmelFM. EmelFM2, Gentoo

Re: [aur-general] Orphans [extra] repository cleanup

2011-05-12 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 12 May 2011 13:53:10 +0200 schrieb Andrea Scarpino : > # These will be moved to AUR > krusader > > If there are no objections I'll move all them tomorrow. I have one objection. Krusader should stay in the binary repos. It's simply the best file manager I know. Heiko

[aur-general] Removal request for bonnie++

2011-05-04 Thread Heiko Baums
Hi TUs, I guess bonnie++ (http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=43476) can bei removed from AUR, since it's in [community]. Heiko

Re: [aur-general] Orphan, deletion requests

2011-04-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 16 Apr 2011 17:52:41 -0700 schrieb Aaron DeVore : > It's been 4 days with no response. You should wait at least two weeks. Heiko

Re: [aur-general] When should pkgrel be updated?

2011-03-31 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Fri, 1 Apr 2011 08:12:42 +0800 schrieb Oon-Ee Ng : > I've seen (in the past) various packages on the AUR which jumped by 3 > or 4 pkgrels in a very short period of time. Sometimes it happens like > this:- > > 1. Maintainer changes something and breaks the package with pkgrel=2 > 2. Bug reporte

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-14 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 14 Mar 2011 15:31:04 +0100 schrieb Martti Kühne : > -1 from me. > Please do not stick to the tldp tutorial, it is in many places plain > wrong. http://mywiki.wooledge.org/Quotes > http://wiki.bash-hackers.org/syntax/words $ man bash What have the links to do with the variables and the in

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:59:38 +0800 schrieb Ray Rashif : > On 14 March 2011 10:32, Heiko Baums wrote: > > Could the reason be some syntax errors? > > There are a lot of quotation marks too much. And the settings of > > your quotation marks seem to be quite inconsistent. >

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:18:34 -0400 schrieb Loui Chang : > What does any of that have to do with a problem uploading the package? Nothing, but if I read the PKGBUILD and I notice it I mention it, too. What's the problem? Heiko

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 23:08:06 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner : > I don't see how that absolves you from word splitting during > expansion. Rather, it enforces the point I made about $varfoo versus > ${var}foo. Since / is not a valid character in a variable name, the > var name ends before it. How about

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:58:21 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner : > Absolutely not. ${var} is identical to $var in every way except one: > > $varfoo != ${var}foo > > The curly braces otherwise provide zero differentiation in expansion > rules when used in this fashion. You're wrong again. ${variable}

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 22:37:06 -0400 schrieb Dave Reisner : > s/Better/Worse/ > > Inconsistant quoting is better than not quoting at all. If someone's > $srcdir expand with a space in it, the build breaks. He should try it, because double quoting can bring some problems. ${variable} is almost the

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:20:04 -0700 schrieb Tony C : > pkgname=lft > pkgver=3.31 > pkgrel=1 > pkgdesc="A layer four traceroute implementing numerous other features" > arch=('i686' 'x86_64') > license=('custom') > url="http://oppleman.com/lft/"; The new url is: http://pwhois.org/lft/ > depends=('g

Re: [aur-general] AUR 1.8.1 - Can No Longer Upload Packages

2011-03-13 Thread Heiko Baums
Could the reason be some syntax errors? There are a lot of quotation marks too much. And the settings of your quotation marks seem to be quite inconsistent. > build() { > cd "${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver" Better: cd ${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver > package() { > cd "${srcdir}/$pkgname-$pkgver" Bett

Re: [aur-general] Request to take over aur package xmail.

2011-03-05 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 5 Mar 2011 10:07:33 +0200 schrieb Evangelos Foutras : > On Sat, Mar 5, 2011 at 9:31 AM, 郑文辉 > wrote: > > https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=30034 > > > > The PKGBUILD install to the system folder directly,and the package > > is empty,and i'd like to fix it,so,please orphan it. > >

Re: [aur-general] Wrong configuration of sigurd?

2011-02-22 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sat, 19 Feb 2011 23:51:12 +0100 schrieb PyroPeter : > I sent http-requests to sigurd.archlinux.org and aur.archlinux.org, > but was unable to reproduce the problem (wireshark did not show > illegal flag combinations) The issue seems to occur with abs. I'll keep observing it, but it seems that

[aur-general] Wrong configuration of sigurd?

2011-02-19 Thread Heiko Baums
Hi TUs, Is it possible that sigurd is not correct configured? Since a short time ago I sometimes get some messages from my router that it has detected and protected me against a hacker attack, when I was on AUR or updated my system. I don't know when it happens exactly, but it doesn't happen alwa

Re: [aur-general] [community], [unsupported] and AUR

2011-02-02 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 3 Feb 2011 04:14:16 +0100 schrieb Xyne : > I also believe that most users immediately think of [unsupported] and > only [unsupported] when speaking of the AUR. No, I guess most new Arch Linux users like me in the beginning of using Arch Linux are quite confused about the parallel usage of

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu

2011-01-16 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Sun, 16 Jan 2011 23:16:58 -0600 schrieb Brad Fanella : > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 7:39 PM, Martti Kühne > wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2011 at 10:44:10PM +0100, Seblu wrote: > >>> Yes great. I'm not paid by package i maintain. > >>> Do not misunderstand my intentions, this package is more often >

Re: [aur-general] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]

2010-12-30 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 00:11:54 -0600 schrieb Nathan Owens : > I know I am not a TU, though I figured I would put in my "two-cents". > I agree it may be bad for first time users to have an AUR helper if > they don't understand there is risks. Though this gave me a idea, > that may not be liked or app

Re: [aur-general] Breaking the unspoken rule: AUR helper in [community]

2010-12-29 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:43:46 +0200 schrieb Evangelos Foutras : > Personally, I don't feel strong either way. As it was explained to me > on IRC, cower doesn't include any building or installation > functionality, it only searches for packages, downloads them, and can > also check for updates to in

Re: [aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]

2010-12-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 28 Dec 2010 18:33:26 +0200 schrieb jesse jaara : > What about like this: > > Name: virtualbox > Desc: powerfull and easy to use virtualizing app. > > Name: virtualbox-guest-mudules > Desc: virtualbox guest system dribers and tools for stock arch kernel. > > Name: virtualbox-additions-cd

Re: [aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]

2010-12-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:49:32 +0800 schrieb Ray Rashif : > virtualbox-guest-additions -> virtualbox-additions-linux ('guest' not > important; shall be implied by description) > desc: "Additions for Linux guests (userspace tools)" > > virtualbox-guest-modules -> virtualbox-modules-linux (as above

Re: [aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]

2010-12-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:59:33 +0100 schrieb Heiko Baums : > I would suggest these names as they are clearer: > > virtualbox-additions -> virtualbox-guest-additions > > This implies that these are the additions for all supported guests and > it's Oracle's official n

Re: [aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]

2010-12-28 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 28 Dec 2010 12:09:15 +0100 schrieb Dieter Plaetinck : > I would rename as follows: > virtualbox-additions -> virtualbox-additions-image > virtualbox-guest-additions -> virtualbox-additions > > or to be extra clear: > virtualbox-additions -> virtualbox-guest-additions-image > virtualbox-gu

[aur-general] VirtualBox in [community]

2010-12-27 Thread Heiko Baums
In the [community] repo there are the following packages in addition to the package virtualbox 4.0.0-2: virtualbox-additions 4.0.0-1 (any) virtualbox-guest-additions 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64) virtualbox-guest-modules 4.0.0-2 (i686 and x86_64) In ABS there's only virtualbox-additions. What is wha

Re: [aur-general] Arch holiday madness! nominations

2010-12-14 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Tue, 14 Dec 2010 11:57:30 -0600 schrieb "Daniel J Griffiths (Ghost1227)" : > Given my position, I'm exempting myself from this process, however I > have to admit I'm intrigued by lightspark. I never would have heard > of it if not for this message. Perhaps someone should do an article > on it (

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 6 Dec 2010 21:02:00 -0500 schrieb Loui Chang : > I might be kind of crazy here, but maybe desktop files and icons are > things that should be distributed from upstream. So maintainers should > work to get those included like a patch or whatnot. I generally agree, but not every upstream do

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 6 Dec 2010 16:53:08 -0500 schrieb keenerd : > > find /var/abs -name *.png | wc -l == 60 > > Of +4800 packages, that is 1.2%. The AUR is more than twice that > rate. But while we are running the numbers to determine best > practices. This would be about 48+ e-mails to users if y

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 6 Dec 2010 17:35:33 +0100 schrieb Thorsten Töpper : > > I'm pretty sure binaries originally referred to executables and > > libraries (which are in fact executables). My proposal is to change > > this sentence accordingly. Either use "ABSOLUTELY no executables" or > > "ABSOLUTELY no binari

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-06 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 6 Dec 2010 00:26:22 -0500 schrieb keenerd : > It's an experiment I've been working on for some time. To appease > Heiko I've removed all trace of personality and variety from the form > message. In most cases there's a reason for having binaries, icons and the like in a package. And whet

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-05 Thread Heiko Baums
Am Mon, 6 Dec 2010 05:50:39 +0100 schrieb Heiko Baums : > Please, don't exaggerate the "QA". And, please, stop that! If you - and not a stupid bot - think there's a real issue with a package, write a comment for this package manually or contact the maintainer by private e-mail. Heiko

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