Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-04 Thread Firmicus
Uwe Vogt a écrit : perl-archive-extract: (local=0.24-1 aur=0.18-3) perl-ipc-cmd: (local=0.40-1 aur=0.36-3) perl-locale-maketext-simple: (local=0.18-2 aur=0.16-3) perl-module-load: (local=0.12-1 aur=0.10-2) perl-module-load-conditional: (local=0.22-1 aur=0.16-3) The perl packages listed abov

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-04 Thread Eric Belanger
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Uwe Vogt wrote: When I run $ yaourt Syu -aur I get this messages. I think this need to be clean up in Aur. libol: not found on AUR perl-archive-extract: (local=0.24-1 aur=0.18-3) perl-ipc-cmd: (local=0.40-1 aur=0.36-3) perl-locale-maketext-simple: (local=0.18-2 aur=0.16-3

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-04 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Sat 2008-05-03 22:19 , Mikko Seppälä wrote: > [...] > Btw OT but I was the one who added dpkg (along with po4a), mainly used > dpkg-deb from it to play with deb packages. > > Still should have old PKGBUILDs lying around if you want :p Protip: wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/dpkg/dpkg.ta

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-04 Thread Ray Rashif
That one may be depending on the xorg meta package, and 2 other packages that may be in official repos with different names, or are gone/replaced in AUR. I think there's a huge number of packages that need to be cleaned up themselves, some even have the buildscript and installscript as executables;

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-03 Thread Uwe Vogt
When I run $ yaourt –Syu –-aur I get this messages. I think this need to be clean up in Aur. libol: not found on AUR perl-archive-extract: (local=0.24-1 aur=0.18-3) perl-ipc-cmd: (local=0.40-1 aur=0.36-3) perl-locale-maketext-simple: (local=0.18-2 aur=0.16-3) perl-module-load: (local=0.12-1 a

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-03 Thread Mikko Seppälä
Allan McRae wrote: Alessio Bolognino wrote: On Fri 2008-05-02 12:08 , Eric Belanger wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: Luká Jirkovský wrote: But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. Then they probably fall in this category of

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-03 Thread Geoffroy Carrier
On 5/3/08, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This sounds interesting. So if I understand this correctly (which is a big > assumption), the packages downloaded to your website? What do you mean by > "make a report"? Yes. Everything is on my server, including the bot's code and its logs. Ex

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-03 Thread Allan McRae
Allan McRae wrote: The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could use cleaning up. Examples of packages that may be cleaned up are: - packages that have been renamed or replaced - old and unmaintained developmental (cvs/svn/etc) packages This is where you can help. Post su

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-03 Thread Allan McRae
Geoffroy Carrier wrote: On 5/2/08, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This situation is behind my reasoning to create a list of potential removals first. I think we need to be careful of removing too many packages, especially in our first cleanup attempt. Just the really unneeded ones

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-03 Thread Geoffroy Carrier
On 5/2/08, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This situation is behind my reasoning to create a list of potential > removals first. I think we need to be careful of removing too many > packages, especially in our first cleanup attempt. Just the really unneeded > ones as a first step. I ha

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
The list is good idea, maybe someone (eg me ;-)) finds out that there is some interesting package and he will adopt it. 2008/5/3 Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alessio Bolognino wrote: > > > On Fri 2008-05-02 12:08 , Eric Belanger wrote: > > > > > > > On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > >

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Alessio Bolognino wrote: On Fri 2008-05-02 12:08 , Eric Belanger wrote: On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: Luká Jirkovský wrote: But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest remo

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
I agree with Alessio here. However, if the upstream development has stopped and the sources for the package can no longer be located, then I think the package should be removed. -- Abhishek

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Alessio Bolognino
On Fri 2008-05-02 12:08 , Eric Belanger wrote: > On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: > >> Luká Jirkovský wrote: >>> But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. >>> >> Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest removal guidelines >> - outdated and orphan

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Loui
On Sat, 03 May 2008 00:57:00 +1000 Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK. Given I know very, very little about IRC, does someone else want to > make an IRC channel. Either that, or we could ask if it would be OK to > use the archlinux-bugs (or whatever it is called) channel which tends to

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Eric Belanger
On Sat, 3 May 2008, Allan McRae wrote: Luká Jirkovský wrote: But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest removal guidelines - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This situation is behind

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Cilyan Olowen
I think you should announce that on a news. A news will be translated for each communities whereas a post in the forum will probably get ignored and non english speaking people won't be advised a cleanup is pending. Maybe a link should be added to the front page of AUR ? Cilyan 2008/5/2, Allan M

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Lukáš Jirkovský wrote: But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. Then they probably fall in this category of the suggest removal guidelines - outdated and orphaned packages with few or no votes This situation is behind my reasoning to create a list of pote

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
But in other way, packages without arch field are usually very, very old. 2008/5/2 Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Callan Barrett wrote: > > > On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > > > Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() fiel

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Callan Barrett wrote: On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() field should be also removed. That seems like a bit much. There's probably a lot of good packages in the AUR without this field and

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Callan Barrett
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 10:08 PM, Lukáš Jirkovský <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() field should > be also removed. That seems like a bit much. There's probably a lot of good packages in the AUR without this field and it's not like it's that hard

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Lukáš Jirkovský
Just my 2 cents: I think, that packages without arch=() field should be also removed. 2008/5/2 Pierre CHAPUIS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Le Fri, 02 May 2008 23:53:51 +1000, > Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > > > > I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 >

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Pierre CHAPUIS
Le Fri, 02 May 2008 23:53:51 +1000, Allan McRae <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > I suggest we get together in the TU IRC channel on the weekend of 17/18 > May and go through the list. I think we should take care not to get too > carried away when we remove packages. While some packages may be

Re: [aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Abhishek Dasgupta
I too never got around to getting my IRC channel key for the same reason! Email the announcement to [EMAIL PROTECTED] too... Then people who don't follow the forums will also get to know. Abhishek

[aur-general] AUR Cleanup Day organization

2008-05-02 Thread Allan McRae
Hi all, I think there is enough support for this to go forward. So it is time we nut out the details. Here is how I suggest we go about it. Firstly, I make a post to the announcements section of the forums along the lines of: The AUR has a large number of obsolete packages which could u