Re: [aur-general] SGE

2020-10-14 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 14 Oct 2020 21:13 +0200, alad via aur-general wrote: > On 14/10/2020 21:09, t...@tswartz.net wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 09:03:26PM +0200, alad via aur-general wrote: > > > On 14/10/2020 17:16, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: > > > > Hi Bruno, > > > Top-posting, do you know what

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of sxiv-cdown-git

2020-09-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 13 Sep 2020 19:03 -0400, Eli Schwartz via aur-general wrote: > Perhaps there should be a general discussion about how to handle the > proliferation of suckless.org software forks, and what constitutes > uniqueness. My wild idea is that maybe each package could enable their own mini-aur

Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mark packages that require significant computational power to build

2020-04-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 03 Apr 2020 23:24 +0400, Nick Shvelidze wrote: > Hello everyone, as you know, some packages on AUR take many minutes to > build on all but very powerful machines. I think it would be helpful to > have an optional bit of metadata that will mark these packages, or possibly > even a general

Re: [aur-general] aur client

2019-10-29 Thread Loui Chang
Replying on the most relevant mailing list. On Tue 29 Oct 2019 02:49 +0100, Alberto Salvia Novella wrote: > Since publishing to the AUR is something that all packagers do quite > frequently, I have developed a software that reduces the related operations > to the bare minimum, making publishing

[aur-general] Separating PKGBUILDs for architectures

2012-06-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 01 Jun 2012 20:28 +, Xyne wrote: Loui Chang wrote: It may be a bit of chicken-and-egg, though. The ppc/arm userbase might grow if arch is seen stable enough and seems to have sufficient packages, possibly making it worth being supported, but the lack of infrastructure

Re: [aur-general] AUR and unsuported architectures

2012-05-31 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 31 May 2012 09:56 -0300, Hugo Osvaldo Barrera wrote: On 2012-05-31 08:10, Phillip Smith wrote: On 31 May 2012 17:38, Jelle van der Waa je...@vdwaa.nl wrote: When I first though about it, I wanted to say why not, it doesn't hurt the functioning of the normal i686,x86_64 packages.

Re: [aur-general] Lost AUR username linked to this email account

2012-04-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 19 Apr 2012 20:55 +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: On 04/19/2012 08:10 PM, Filipe Pinheiro wrote: *How can I get it back?* *The email is : filipe.cantare...@gmail.com* user is LipeCantarelli Hmm. Maybe this should be a feature in the AUR?

[aur-general] Misconceptions about the AUR?

2012-03-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 02 Mar 2012 00:49 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:21:33 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: 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

Re: [aur-general] GPG Key Signing

2011-12-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 02 Dec 2011 14:02 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 02/12/11 12:37, Loui Chang wrote: Let Ionut be the first to provide enough personal information to satisfy naysayers. I've never met him, so I have my doubts. :P Such as Is that supposed to be a question? gpg --list-sigs Ionut

Re: [aur-general] GPG Key Signing

2011-12-01 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 02 Dec 2011 01:23 +0100, Xyne wrote: Ionut Biru wrote: why are you so sure that I'll sign it? I no longer am, but until you replied I never had any reason to doubt it. As for the discussion about my name: I could easily claim a fake name to make you happy and you would never know

[aur-general] TU Resignation

2011-08-30 Thread Loui Chang
Hello everyone! I haven't been very involved with the AUR for a long while, and I don't really see that changing much. Since I only have a few packages I think it's time for me to resign as a TU. I may still throw a few patches around if I find the time. I've asked Lukas Fleischer to assume my

Re: [aur-general] Securing the AUR website

2011-08-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 06 Aug 2011 13:25 +0200, Florian Pritz wrote: On 06.08.2011 13:13, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:02:03PM +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 05.08.2011 23:54, schrieb Lukas Fleischer: [1] http://projects.archlinux.org/aur.git/commit/?id=1e7b9d57 [2]

Re: [aur-general] Securing the AUR website

2011-08-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 06 Aug 2011 11:21 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Fri, 5 Aug 2011 19:22:21 -0400, Loui Chang wrote: If I recall correctly some time after that debate/argument there was a problem with certificates and wget Wget was broken, yes. But this is fixed by now. - a problem

Re: [aur-general] Securing the AUR website

2011-08-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 06 Aug 2011 13:39 +0200, Thomas Bächler wrote: Alternatively: Do not display a login form on http, instead display a link If you want to login, switch to a secure connection first.. This way, the user verifies the certificate and URL first (by looking at the URL bar), then enters his

Re: [aur-general] Securing the AUR website

2011-08-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 06 Aug 2011 02:18 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 01:16:45AM +0300, Ionut Biru wrote: On 08/06/2011 12:54 AM, Lukas Fleischer wrote: To prevent session hijacking, mtm attacks or whatnot I'd recommend the following: * Redirect all http traffic to https by

Re: [aur-general] Aurphan in community

2011-04-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 30 Apr 2011 09:39 +0300, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Loui Chang wrote: On Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:49 -0400, keenerd wrote: I would like to move Aurphan into community. I've added a number of features to it lately, and it has become an automated means of answering what can I do to help

Re: [aur-general] Aurphan in community

2011-04-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 30 Apr 2011 16:12 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 30/04/11 12:25, Loui Chang wrote: On Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:49 -0400, keenerd wrote: I would like to move Aurphan into community. I've added a number of features to it lately, and it has become an automated means of answering what can I do

Re: [aur-general] Aurphan in community

2011-04-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 29 Apr 2011 21:49 -0400, keenerd wrote: I would like to move Aurphan into community. I've added a number of features to it lately, and it has become an automated means of answering what can I do to help Arch, parsing and summarizing the todo list, the bugtracker and the orphans. The

Re: [aur-general] Web-client for emails: [WAS:Reflector]

2011-04-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 05 Apr 2011 18:00 +0800, Oon-Ee Ng wrote: Gmail's web interface has THE best approach to threading. Ever. If you have any other suggestion (web client or linux desktop client) which comes anywhere close please let me know. Evolution's threading just doesn't cut it, thunderbird's new one

Re: [aur-general] AUR message notification

2011-04-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 03 Apr 2011 23:16 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 11:00:24PM +0200, Baptiste wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2011 at 10:36:03PM +0200, Pierre Bourdon wrote: On Sun, Apr 3, 2011 at 22:30, Baptiste zersto...@free.fr wrote: I know there is a way to get an email

Re: [aur-general] AUR message notification

2011-04-03 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 03 Apr 2011 23:16 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: Nah, I sent a patch fixing that to aur-dev a long time ago [1] - Loui rejected it back then for some reason tho. I'll probably just push it now... [1] http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-dev/2010-September/001260.html

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

2011-03-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 14 Mar 2011 03:44 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Sun, 13 Mar 2011 19:20:04 -0700 schrieb Tony C crt@gmail.com: pkgname=lft pkgver=3.31 pkgrel=1 pkgdesc=A layer four traceroute implementing numerous other features arch=('i686' 'x86_64') license=('custom')

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

2011-03-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 13 Mar 2011 20:19 -0700, Tony C wrote: On 03/13/2011 06:47 PM, Tony C wrote: Prior to AUR 1.8.1 being deployed, I could upload a *.tar.gz containing my PKGBUILD to AUR. Now with AUR 1.8.1, here I am trying to upload an updated PKGBUILD which I have verified does exist within my

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

2011-03-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 13 Mar 2011 20:44 -0700, Tony C wrote: Apologies for the noise. AUR does not reject my package now after first creating the directory name for the package I have. I do not ever remember needing to create a special directory before. So I simply did mkdir package-name and tar'd that up

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

2011-03-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 14 Mar 2011 05:08 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Mon, 14 Mar 2011 11:59:38 +0800 schrieb Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org: On 14 March 2011 10:32, Heiko Baums li...@baums-on-web.de wrote: Could the reason be some syntax errors? There are a lot of quotation marks too much. And the

Re: [aur-general] Please delete minecraft-data

2011-02-25 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 25 Feb 2011 16:31 +0100, Cédric Girard wrote: The package minecraft-data [1] is supposed to provide game data for Minecraft. This package is outdated, orphaned and does not comply with the game license [2] (hosting of original game content). Please delete it. Thanks. [1]

Re: [aur-general] AUR no more extracting source tarballs ( was: Upgraded AUR to 1.8.0)

2011-02-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 21 Feb 2011 16:35 +0100, Lukas Fleischer wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 03:46:47PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:50:39 +0100 Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: The only issue that might affect the end users as well is ZIP bombs. Most

Re: [aur-general] AUR no more extracting source tarballs ( was: Upgraded AUR to 1.8.0)

2011-02-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 21 Feb 2011 16:42 +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:35:33 +0100 Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de wrote: On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 03:46:47PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote: On Mon, 21 Feb 2011 14:50:39 +0100 Lukas Fleischer archli...@cryptocrack.de

Re: [aur-general] AUR no more extracting source tarballs ( was: Upgraded AUR to 1.8.0)

2011-02-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 22 Feb 2011 00:51 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 02/22/2011 12:35 AM, Isaac Dupree wrote: On 02/21/11 10:54, Lukas Fleischer wrote: Yes, like having two 1GB large files `tar -czf`'ed and uploading the resulting tarball to the AUR. I don't think that can be detected without being

Re: [aur-general] [Announcement] First public git repo of the complete AUR.

2011-02-21 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 07 Feb 2011 09:21 -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: Well, whatever the case, I stayed up a while working on finishing this new version of the system. The new version syncs only the .tar.gz files, which makes it less resource hungry, and this also adds a natural ability to commit per

Re: [aur-general] [Announcement] First public git repo of the complete AUR.

2011-02-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 06 Feb 2011 14:34 -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: 2011/2/6 Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkov...@gmail.com: 2011/2/6 Lukáš Jirkovský l.jirkov...@gmail.com: What's this? http://pkgbuild.com/git/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD It seems there's more: apercu.tgz Since this clean up is more of an

Re: [aur-general] [Announcement] First public git repo of the complete AUR.

2011-02-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 06 Feb 2011 17:52 -0600, Thomas Dziedzic wrote: On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 4:58 PM, keenerd keen...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/6/11, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: You probably want to grab the tarballs, and extract what's in those. The next release of the AUR will only have tarballs

Re: [aur-general] new aur mirror

2011-01-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 1:23 PM, keenerd keen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all. I am now mirroring the AUR continuously, and am starting to open it up to public access. It is not a perfect byte-for-byte clone, as I felt like adding a few features :-) For now, there is an enhanced RPC database.

Re: [aur-general] AUR cleanup

2011-01-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 26 Jan 2011 20:36 -0500, Dave Reisner wrote: So, on the subject of cleanup, I've come across a list of 530 packages on sigurd that aren't accessible from the web interface. Judging from some of the names, I'd wager that these are packages which were deleted but something went wrong, etc

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu

2011-01-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 23 Jan 2011 11:53 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 01/22/2011 08:35 PM, Loui Chang wrote: On Sat 22 Jan 2011 19:03 +0100, Ronald van Haren wrote: Seriously? Since when is adding a package that is already in the repos with a different configure flag a good idea? We don't even allow

Re: [aur-general] TU Bylaws Amendment (SVP Section): Voting Period

2011-01-23 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 15 Jan 2011 20:10 +0100, Xyne wrote: Christopher Brannon wrote: Shouldn't this be: the number of no votes is greater than or equal to half the number of active TUs? Yes it should. Here's a corrected patch: http://aur.pastebin.com/dBdinYb9 Thank you. I've applied the patch. See

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu

2011-01-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 21 Jan 2011 21:38 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 01/21/2011 09:10 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Seblu wrote: It looks like a trick question! But if I want to be a good maintainer, I do understand the reasons. and **The trust does not exclude the audit.** Excuse me for asking but is

Re: [aur-general] TU Application - Seblu

2011-01-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 22 Jan 2011 19:03 +0100, Ronald van Haren wrote: On Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 12:13 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Fri 21 Jan 2011 21:38 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 01/21/2011 09:10 PM, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote: Seblu wrote: It looks like a trick question! But if I want

[aur-general] Changing AUR development infrastructure.

2011-01-16 Thread Loui Chang
Recently I've had the idea that I should move the 'main' AUR git repo, which I have been the caretaker of to the community server where all other community and AUR development is done. This would also mean we would have to run a git daemon, and should also install a web interface like cgit to

Re: [aur-general] Changing AUR development infrastructure.

2011-01-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 17 Jan 2011 09:40 +0800, Gergely Imreh wrote: I know I'm an outsider (no TU, only did a bit of AUR developement before), so I just have a question: On 17 January 2011 09:19, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: Here are the reasons I have for moving the repo: * We don't need

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

2010-12-30 Thread Loui Chang
On 12/30/2010 12:36 AM, Brad Fanella wrote: On Dec 30, 2010, at 12:11 AM, Nathan Owens ndowens@gmail.com wrote: On 12/29/2010 08:56 PM, Heiko Baums wrote: 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

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

2010-12-30 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 30 Dec 2010 14:26 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/30/2010 04:16 AM, Dan McGee wrote: http://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/i686/cower/ Thoughts? I was under the impression we didn't do this, and definitely on purpose, otherwise people have *no* idea the AUR is different in a lot

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

2010-12-29 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 30 Dec 2010 03:56 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:43:46 +0200 schrieb Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com: 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

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

2010-12-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 19 Dec 2010 16:55 +0100, Seblu wrote: 2010/12/13 Cédric Girard girard.ced...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Stefan Husmann stefan-husm...@t-online.de There is a similar case with packages like steinberg-vst [1]. The package just assumes the source are already downloaded

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

2010-12-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 19 Dec 2010 17:58 +0200, cantabile wrote: Le 19/12/2010 17:55, Seblu a écrit : 2010/12/13 Cédric Girardgirard.ced...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Stefan Husmannstefan-husm...@t-online.de There is a similar case with packages like steinberg-vst [1]. The package just

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

2010-12-19 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 19 Dec 2010 17:15 +0100, Seblu wrote: On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 4:58 PM, cantabile cantabile.d...@gmail.com wrote: Le 19/12/2010 17:55, Seblu a écrit : 2010/12/13 Cédric Girardgirard.ced...@gmail.com: On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Stefan Husmannstefan-husm...@t-online.de

Re: [aur-general] TU Bylaws Amendment (SVP Section): Discussion Period

2010-12-15 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 16 Dec 2010 01:32 +0100, Xyne wrote: Ronald van Haren wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org wrote: On 12 December 2010 11:39, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sun 12 Dec 2010 04:21 +0100, Xyne wrote: The following is a proposed

Re: [aur-general] voting period for removing Ranguvar

2010-12-13 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 14 Dec 2010 01:57 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/08/2010 10:07 PM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: application is here: https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=43 Ranguvar is not allowed to vote, therefor i temporally disabled his TU access. the voting period ended. The results are: yes17 no

Re: [aur-general] Deletion request

2010-12-12 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 13 Dec 2010 00:14 +0100, Seblu wrote: Delete package : oracle 11gR1-1 (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=23730O=L=C=K=SB=SO=PP=do_Orphans=SeB=) Because, it's orphan, it's out-of-date, source link is broken (==cannot be built). Well, I must have deleted the source file in a

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 10 Dec 2010 15:15 +0100, Xyne wrote: Loui Chang wrote: If the patch is large then what's the problem with compressing it? I would argue that we should not have large patches applied to Arch, or AUR packages at all. If there is enough patching, that constitues a fork, and we

Re: [aur-general] TU Bylaws Amendment (SVP Section): Discussion Period

2010-12-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 12 Dec 2010 04:21 +0100, Xyne wrote: The following is a proposed replacement for the current SVP section of the TU bylaws: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?title=Bylaw_Amendmentoldid=124557 The changes address several issues recently brought up on this list. Briefly, these

Re: [aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen

2010-12-09 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 09 Dec 2010 09:54 -0500, keenerd wrote: On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 2:49 AM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: The issue as I see it is that you presented the idea on this list for discussion but didn't care to follow that discussion until a conclusion was reached. It seemed discussion had

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-09 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 16:49 +0100, Xyne wrote: keenerd wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:59 AM, Nicky726 nicky...@gmail.com wrote: been told by the bot, that selinux-flex has a binary (selinux-flex/flex- arch.patch.gz), which is a gziped patch. Guess I can ungzip it, though as this

Re: [aur-general] voting period for removing Ranguvar

2010-12-08 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 08 Dec 2010 15:27 -0500, Ranguvar wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 15:07, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: application is here: https://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=43 Ranguvar is not allowed to vote, therefor i temporally disabled his TU access. Just referring to my response, as

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 08 Dec 2010 16:23 +0100, Xyne wrote: I think the passage concerning similar proposals is too vague. There is no way to define those terms in a way that is unambiguous in all cases and trying to do so is futile and condemned to a pedantic spiral. I trust the human factor to handle

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-08 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 08 Dec 2010 11:59 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 11:01 AM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Let's wait another day to get some more comments and incorporate any last changes. If it changes during the discussion period without unanimous consent then we would end up

Re: [aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 16:44 -0500, keenerd wrote: After much heavy thought, I withdraw my application. My apologies for the trouble. N. I was interested in your analysis of the AUR and I think we could make good use of it. I kind of wish I could spam users about their bad packages. I have

Re: [aur-general] TU Application

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 22:50 +0100, Jelle van der Waa wrote: Hello all. I would like apply to become a TU! Daenyth has decided to sponsor me for my TU application I'm 21 years old and a Bachelor student Computer Science. I have experience with C++, C, x86 ASM, Java, Python, PHP, SQL and

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-07 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 20:27 +, Peter Lewis wrote: On Tuesday 07 December 2010 19:02:59 Xyne wrote: Peter Lewis wrote: This means that we cannot override (A) in the rest of the byelaws. I can imagine that we might want to create something requiring (say) a 2/3rds majority for some

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 17:31 +0100, Thorsten Töpper wrote: On Sun, 5 Dec 2010 16:13:55 -0500 Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: This proposal clarifies the Standard Voting Procedure, and allows another condition for passing a motion. Signed-off-by: Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 07 Dec 2010 03:58 +0800, Ray Rashif wrote: On 6 December 2010 22:47, Dave Reisner d...@falconindy.com wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 03:20:06PM +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: In most cases there's a reason for having binaries, icons and the like in a package. And whether such a package

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 10:59 +0100, Nicky726 wrote: been told by the bot, that selinux-flex has a binary (selinux-flex/flex- arch.patch.gz), which is a gziped patch. Guess I can ungzip it, though as this package is just a copy of a [core] package from some time ago, I guess the original

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 23:08 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Thorsten Töpper atsut...@freethoughts.dewrote: So far it is mostly fine for me, however from this paragraph it is not clear if the vote is still open when the quorum was reached and the application

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 06 Dec 2010 23:42 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 11:37 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: I've read through this a couple more times and I'm little concerned about the particular wording. Unfortunately I don't know how to make this any clearer so I

Re: [aur-general] Fix the Bylaws?

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 03:35 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: Sorry for all the mail regarding the bylaws but let me take a quick moment to go through one extremely broken case of the current procedure. Let's take falconindy's vote as an example; at the moment he has seventeen votes for, one vote

Re: [aur-general] voting period for Dave Reisner

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 08:19 -0500, Shacristo wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 3:07 AM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote: This is sort of what I was talking about in my previous mail about the refinement of the bylaws. Thirteen hours have passed since the beginning of the voting period and

Re: [aur-general] Amendment

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 11:53 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Shacristo shacri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote: One of the stated purposes of the quorum is to ensure that TUs remain active in the job

Re: [aur-general] Amendment

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 14:23 -0500, Shacristo wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Xyne x...@archlinux.ca wrote: Xyne wrote: Xyne wrote: See attachment :P Trying again... ? Are attachments disabled or is there something wrong on my end? Here's the script in-line. Sorry for

Re: [aur-general] Non-native English speakers and the AUR by-laws [WAS: removal proposal for Ranguvar]

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 13:47 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 1:42 PM, PyroPeter abi1...@googlemail.com wrote: On 12/05/2010 03:11 AM, Xyne wrote: I'm halfway tempted to create the flowchart but I just don't have the time. If someone wants to adapt the dot file from the

Re: [aur-general] Amendment

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 19:55 +0100, Xyne wrote: On 2010-12-05 12:20 -0500 (48:7) Loui Chang wrote: On Sun 05 Dec 2010 11:53 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:33 AM, Shacristo shacri...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 11:16 AM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr

Re: [aur-general] [PATCH] tu-bylaws: Amend Standard Voting Procedure

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 16:19 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 4:13 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: This proposal clarifies the Standard Voting Procedure, and allows another condition for passing a motion. address Trusted

Re: [aur-general] Fix the Bylaws?

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 23:23 +, Peter Lewis wrote: On Sunday 05 December 2010 23:14:14 Loui Chang wrote: On Sun 05 Dec 2010 22:52 +, Peter Lewis wrote: I'd support some kind of reworking of the quorum for TU votes, since as Kaitling points out, missing a meeting due to weather, car

Re: [aur-general] Tarball Guidelines

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Fri 03 Dec 2010 16:54 -0500, David Campbell wrote: Excerpts from keenerd's message of 2010-12-03 13:46:10 -0500: If no one can think of a better way to deal with the nonconforming packages, I'll write a bot to post insulting comments. Personally, I really like this solution. The AUR

Re: [aur-general] TU application - Kyle Keen

2010-12-05 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 02 Dec 2010 13:20 -0500, keenerd wrote: Hello all. I am applying to become a TU. My sponsor is Xyne. My name is Kyle Keen, though my handle for irc/bbs/the-last-12-years has been Keenerd. I've been using Arch for a while now, from back when it was still known for refusing to

Re: [aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar

2010-12-04 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 04 Dec 2010 22:19 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/03/2010 12:06 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: I'm waiting to see your replies and then act based on them. i don't see this being discuss any further and all messages have been only in one direction. i modified his account on aur to normal

Re: [aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar

2010-12-04 Thread Loui Chang
On Sat 04 Dec 2010 23:59 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/04/2010 11:53 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 5 December 2010 05:46, Loui Changlouipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sat 04 Dec 2010 22:19 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/03/2010 12:06 AM, Ionuț Bîru wrote: I'm waiting to see your replies and then

Re: [aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar

2010-12-04 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 00:15 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/05/2010 12:07 AM, Loui Chang wrote: On Sat 04 Dec 2010 23:59 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/04/2010 11:53 PM, Ray Rashif wrote: On 5 December 2010 05:46, Loui Changlouipc@gmail.com wrote: On Sat 04 Dec 2010 22:19 +0200, Ionuț Bîru

[aur-general] Understanding the Trusted User Bylaws

2010-12-04 Thread Loui Chang
http://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html I've noticed that there have been a few cases relatively recently where people don't really understand the bylaws. I'd like to encourage all Trusted Users to read over the bylaws periodically to make sure that they fully understand the

Re: [aur-general] removal proposal for Ranguvar

2010-12-04 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 00:15 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: maybe i lack the understanding of words and to quote from bylaws: The removal of a Trusted User may also occur at any time. A motion must be made by at least two active Trusted Users for the removal of a Trusted User. (THIS IS ME) I also

Re: [aur-general] Understanding the Trusted User Bylaws

2010-12-04 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 05 Dec 2010 00:44 +0200, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 12/05/2010 12:25 AM, Loui Chang wrote: http://aur.archlinux.org/trusted-user/TUbylaws.html I've noticed that there have been a few cases relatively recently where people don't really understand the bylaws. I'd like to encourage all

Re: [aur-general] VCS PKGBUILDs

2010-12-02 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 02 Dec 2010 10:39 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Ray Rashif sc...@archlinux.org wrote: My original view had been that a package would be simply called 'package' regardless of whether or not a source tarball was offered. Then if someone makes a version that

Re: [aur-general] TUs: low disk space on sigurd

2010-11-22 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 22 Nov 2010 20:17 +0100, Florian Pritz wrote: On 22.11.2010 20:16, Ionuț Bîru wrote: can we buy a new hard drive for that server? The server is a donation so no. Who said no? It really wouldn't make any sense for them to refuse money if offered, or would it?

Re: [aur-general] Various new packages in [community]

2010-11-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 17 Nov 2010 22:22 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 17/11/10 21:59, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 11/17/2010 03:03 AM, Gaetan Bisson wrote: Dear TUs, I'm Gaetan, a (discreet) junior dev, mentored by Allan. I recently got access to sigurd and thought I would use that opportunity to maintain in

Re: [aur-general] AUR Improvement Thread

2010-11-17 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 16 Nov 2010 23:17 -0500, Kaiting Chen wrote: How can we make the AUR even better? I'll start: 1. Integrated distributed version control system 2. User provided binaries (if case anyone wants to volunteer) (this should probably be carefully controlled) 3. Time-adjusted 'relevance'

Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 16 Nov 2010 13:06 +0100, Heiko Baums wrote: Am Tue, 16 Nov 2010 21:54:23 +1000 schrieb Allan McRae al...@archlinux.org: It is true as long as the developers say it is true. Just because I tell GM their car is an aeroplane does not mean they will start flying. Wrong. It is

Re: [aur-general] [community] repository cleanup

2010-11-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 16 Nov 2010 21:21 -0600, Brad Fanella wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 9:04 PM, Kaiting Chen kaitocr...@gmail.com wrote: Honestly if it were up to me I would remove half of the packages from the official repositories and stick them in the AUR because past 40 your packages start to

Re: [aur-general] Welcome our newest TU, Kaiting Chen!

2010-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 10 Nov 2010 21:27 +1000, Allan McRae wrote: On 10/11/10 21:15, Xyne wrote: Xyne wrote: Ok, 5 days have passed. TUs, please cast your votes: http://aur.archlinux.org/tu.php?id=41 The voting period is over. (Sorry for the delayed announcement.) Yes: 12 No: 5 Abstain: 6

Re: [aur-general] determining inverse AUR dependencies of binary packages

2010-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 10 Nov 2010 14:05 +, Christopher Brannon wrote: Hi all, I'll start this discussion with an example of the problem. I notice that python-sqlalchemy is about to change in [community]. Most of the packages which depend on it will need to change their dependency to

Re: [aur-general] Proposal: Mass AUR Cleanup (Discussion Period)

2010-11-10 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 18 Oct 2010 17:38 +0200, Jakob Gruber wrote: On 10/18/2010 04:10 PM, Stefan Husmann wrote: Am 10.10.2010 13:46, schrieb Jakob Gruber: On 10/04/2010 11:18 AM, Jakob Gruber wrote: In response to Louis objections about skipping the discussion period, I'm posting the full text of the

Re: [aur-general] TU Application

2010-10-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 28 Oct 2010 18:03 +0200, Xyne wrote: On 2010-10-27 00:33 -0400 (43:3) Kaiting Chen wrote: Hi aur-general, my name is Kaiting Chen and Xyne has decided to sponsor me for my TU application. /snip Hi all, I confirm that I have agreed to sponsor Kaiting. He has the skills and

Re: [aur-general] aur website default ssl

2010-10-28 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 28 Oct 2010 18:01 +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote: On 10/28/2010 03:27 AM, Loui Chang wrote: On Wed 27 Oct 2010 14:14 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:40:19 +0300, Ionuț Bîruib...@archlinux.org wrote: As i said earlier in a reply to Loui, maybe we can do it better.Having

Re: [aur-general] aur website default ssl

2010-10-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 27 Oct 2010 14:14 +0200, Pierre Schmitz wrote: On Wed, 27 Oct 2010 11:40:19 +0300, Ionuț Bîru ib...@archlinux.org wrote: As i said earlier in a reply to Loui, maybe we can do it better.Having https only for login and then redirecting to http is like not having it at all. Simply

Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and unused [community] packages

2010-10-27 Thread Loui Chang
On Wed 27 Oct 2010 08:35 -0700, Aaron Bull Schaefer wrote: On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 6:53 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: I wouldn't say that. I would say that the only users who matter are the ones that participate. For example you can't justly complain about the results

Re: [aur-general] aur website default ssl

2010-10-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 26 Oct 2010 23:50 +0300, Ionuț Bîru wrote: we are now using default https for aur.archlinux.org. Some aur helpers may need adjustment, others like cower/slurpy already works as expected. Kudos for their maintainers for following the aur development Hmm. How did you go about doing

Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and unused [community] packages

2010-10-26 Thread Loui Chang
On Tue 26 Oct 2010 16:36 +0200, Xyne wrote: On 2010-10-26 08:20 +0800 (43:2) Ray Rashif wrote: I take back part of what I mentioned earlier. There are indeed some packages that I believe no one uses. The best way to handle this is to selectively remove each package that we still want to

Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and unused [community] packages

2010-10-25 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:46 +0200, Xyne wrote: Brieuc ROBLIN wrote: On 25 October 2010 15:06, Florian Pritz bluew...@server-speed.net wrote: On 25.10.2010 12:35, Christopher Brannon wrote: I've been polling https://archlinux.de/?page=PackageStatistics regularly for several weeks,

Re: [aur-general] pkgstats and unused [community] packages

2010-10-25 Thread Loui Chang
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 10:38 PM, Loui Chang louipc@gmail.com wrote: On Mon 25 Oct 2010 19:46 +0200, Xyne wrote: Not all users submit stats so unless Arch installs spyware on everyone's system or pools download stats from the mirrors, those states are not sufficient to motivate

[aur-general] New Trusted User: Lukas Fleischer

2010-10-24 Thread Loui Chang
Hello TUs With 21 yes, 0 no, and 4 abstains out of 27 active members, we have a 92.5% quorum and a new Trusted User! Lukas please follow the steps described in the Trusted User Guidelines for new members.

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Lukas Fleischer - Voting!

2010-10-16 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 10 Oct 2010 21:27 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: Hi! My name is Lukas Fleischer, I'm a 20-year-old student from Germany, studying Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, freelance web-developper, IT consultant and hobbyist DJ. I've been using GNU/Linux for about three years

Re: [aur-general] TU Application: Lukas Fleischer

2010-10-11 Thread Loui Chang
On Sun 10 Oct 2010 21:27 +0200, Lukas Fleischer wrote: My name is Lukas Fleischer, I'm a 20-year-old student from Germany, studying Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart, freelance web-developper, IT consultant and hobbyist DJ. As I read about Loui looking for help with the AUR

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