Packages for a simple symbolic link?

2023-12-04 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, I came across the following packages purely by chance. https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=cachy-browser-firefox-shim https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=librewolf-firefox-shim Should I submit a deletion request? IMO it's strange to build a package just

Re: Dealing with unclear upstream licensing and legality

2023-09-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf
123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 123456789 12 On Wed, 2023-09-27 at 04:18 +, a...@nullvoid.me wrote: > For packages that may be immoral but legal, such as a package that > changes everything to racial slurs, sexist, or vulgar language. > I think it also should stay

Re: Dealing with unclear upstream licensing and legality

2023-09-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2023-09-26 at 21:23 +0200, Robin Candau wrote: > However, I don't think it's fine having "Minecraft-cracked" AUR package, > not because of the (not) redistributing part but because of ethically of > letting/allowing a **clearly** illegal package on the AUR. Hi, in the case of a

Re: Problems with AUR packager Xiota and motivewave

2023-09-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Mon, 2023-09-04 at 23:16 +0100, Polarian wrote: >On Mon, 2023-09-04 at 12:20 -0700, Xavier Baez wrote: > > I would like to know what the rules are, today at Labor Day 3 AM the change > > requests arrive again, yesterday I had to leave church to come home and do > > more changes Test the

Re: unable to build with makepkg (No such file or directory)

2023-07-29 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-07-29 at 15:45 +, james smith wrote: > trying to build this https://github.com/matthewq337/auto-fdisk > https://bpa.st/H6XQ Hi, your PKGBUILD expects ...src/auto-fdisk.sh-source.r12.1712784/auto-fdisk.sh but the correct path and the filename seem to be different

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 10:53 -0400, 2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com wrote: > We could argue the merits of static vs. dynamic linking, but neither of > us is an expert, so that argument would likely be sub-optimal.  ;-) That's incorrect. Everybody is an expert. It's possible to audit a single

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 15:24 +0100, Polarian wrote: > So I don't find the entire "Oh the library can be replaced with a > malicious one" to be a good reason. At least the one and only shared library needs to be replaced, a task that isn't that easy to do, while the 300 outdated libraries of

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 08:15 +, paul.mirkwood wrote: > I'm not sure whether this is intended as a joke Hi, my apologies for the bad satire. Is there a rational for naming packages "golang-golang-"* ? Probably naming packages just "go-"* is suboptimal, but actually the language is called "Go"

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 09:27 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > "C" is just a letter of the alphabet and/or a hex numeral system number :D. A B https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B_(programming_language) C

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 03:47 +0100, Polarian wrote: > go was just its shortened name but its > a verb so can be confused when using it as a noun. "C" is just a letter of the alphabet ;), much likely nobody using Arch Linux does confuse the letter of the alphabet with the programming language,

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2023-06-18 at 08:55 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > faked pseudo-Asian My apologies for the "double negative"/"tautology". I must have been a little emotional after reading package names starting with "extra/golang-golang-".

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-18 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, when doing a command line package search for "go" it returns many unrelated packages, such as extra/evolution-bogofilter 3.48.3-1 Spam filtering for Evolution, using Bogofilter so there is a point in using "golang". OTOH, when I look at the naming scheme of the Go packages

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 21:11 -0400, Tom Swartz wrote: > Holy smokes that's racist as hell. Again, it's not part of my vocabulary! In addition it is very difficult to be more misanthropic than Google!

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 21:11 -0400, Tom Swartz wrote: > On Sat, Jun 17, 2023, 21:04 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > "To me "golang" > > sounds similar to "ching chang chong",  > > > Holy smokes that's racist as hell. > > Mods? > Hi. as

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: "It is often referred to as Golang because of its former domain name, golang.org, but its proper name is Go." - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)

Re: Conflicting go package naming

2023-06-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sat, 2023-06-17 at 21:57 +0100, Polarian wrote: > The naming for go packages seems inconsistent, I can see both go-* and > golang-* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_(programming_language)#/media/File:Go_Logo_Blue.svg Nobody says "Englishlang", "Germanlang" or "C++lang". To me "golang" sounds

Re: Conventional method of producing -git packages

2022-12-06 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi, to my knowledge, if it's for an explicit branch, that doesn't change, you bump pkgrel, to build against updated dependencies. If you provide a package building the last commit, you usually don't do anything. If a user does build the package, pkgver does change automatically. It's an

Re: [aur-general] aurweb v6.0.0 Release

2022-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Sat, 5 Feb 2022 11:29:03 +0100, Michael Kogan via aur-general wrote: >Thanks, guys! Everything is still functional with yay as it seems. Hooray, yaourt has risen... On Fri, 4 Feb 2022 21:12:59 -0800, Kevin Morris via aur-general wrote: >Regarding `/rpc.php`, we will continue to support this

[aur-general] yaourt - Was: aurweb v6.0.0 Release

2022-02-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Today we take farewell of yaourt. Some of us remained steadfastly at yaourt's side, while it became old. It was a good friend. Until yesterday some of us used the manual build process, but in addition we checked the aur for updates and searched for software using yaourt and quite often we even

Re: [aur-general] Clarification for Deletion request #30701

2022-01-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Last March I increased my power bill, since from running makepkg to electron9-9.4.4-2-x86_64.pkg.tar.zst by building from source > 19 hours passed. If users need bloadware that is already available by official repositories, but they need another version or the same version with different build

Re: [aur-general] aur/virtualbox-bin or extra/dkms is broken

2021-11-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
1. important to me are 4.19 rt patched kernels 2. however, IIRC the modules for the 5+ kernels were missing, too, but I might be mistaken 3. I'm building 4.19 rt patched kernels myself, but install "linux" from official repositories, too 4. [rocketmouse@archlinux ~]$ pacman -Q linux linux

Re: [aur-general] aur/virtualbox-bin or extra/dkms is broken

2021-11-26 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Fri, 26 Nov 2021 12:17:10 -0600, David C. Rankin wrote: >Passed along to the vbox-users-commun...@lists.sourceforge.net list Thank you David :). I'm not subscribed. Actually I tend to migrate to QEMU/KVM after I have done my very first test, https://i.imgur.com/xUjIoa4.png . OTOH VirtualBox

[aur-general] aur/virtualbox-bin or extra/dkms is broken

2021-11-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Hi, I have to work, so there's no time to check log files before the weekend and I couldn't find something related at https://bugs.archlinux.org/ or https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-bin/ . However, maybe somebody noticed this, too. I build and installed virtualbox-bin 6.1.30-1 from

Re: [aur-general] What's happened with URxvt upstream? And how to build dependent packages now?

2021-08-24 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Tue, 24 Aug 2021 23:57:19 +0300, Radislav Golubtsov wrote: >[1]  http://dist.schmorp.de Perhaps just a temporarily unavailability? [rocketmouse@archlinux rxvt]$ wget http://dist.schmorp.de/rxvt-unicode/rxvt-unicode-9.26.tar.bz2{,.sig} --2021-08-25 03:03:57--

Re: [aur-general] Strange pikaur behaviour

2021-08-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
retrieve a package's metadata without parsing the PKGBUILD directly." https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/.SRCINFO On Sat, 31 Jul 2021 12:39:59 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >the very first thing to do by yourself [...] is trying to build without >an AUR helper. https://lists.archlinux.org/pip

Re: [aur-general] Strange pikaur behaviour

2021-08-01 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Sun, 1 Aug 2021 17:20:01 +0200, Peter Nabbefeld wrote: >I've tried to use aura, but same problems. PKGBUILD >(https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=meshroom-git) >does not contain any dependency on alembic-qfix, so it's probably a >repository/versioning problem. Hi, I've

Re: [aur-general] [arch-general] [aur] cctag build error

2021-07-31 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Hi, it might not be related to your issue, however, when updating AUR packages, an AUR helper might build packages in lexical order, but not in the order they need to be build. For example, there might be an update for a-foo and b-bar. Since b-bar is a dependency of a-foo, there's the need to

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Tue, 25 May 2021 19:04:33 +0200, alad via aur-general wrote: >https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2021-May/036236.html "The Arch Linux project does not distribute your software." Probably hairsplitting, but in some kind of way it does. Anyway, IMHO this isn't the point. Word

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Tue, 25 May 2021 13:27:07 -0400, Manhong Dai via aur-general wrote: >I beg to differ, as 'trivial' is subjective. In an ideal world nobody would care about vanity, glory and/or money and all would be happy, if intellectual property would be completely unimportant. Often the wording of a law

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Fri, 21 May 2021 13:48:49 -0400, Manhong Dai wrote: >That being said, I always hope AUR can have as little conflicts like >this as possible, so I can continuously benefit from Arch Linux. In my experiences most of the AUR is without problems, a benefit for all of us. We are all humans and the

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Fri, 21 May 2021 19:10:57 +0200, ente wrote: >Oh, sorry to say Ralf: in any scenario you should never again consider >to write a song! That song is horrible! :D While I have to agree that my analogy doesn't work perfectly, this part of the analogy does a good job. You and I probably agree,

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Fri, 21 May 2021 12:37:05 -0400, Manhong Dai wrote: >I still think even 'sensible modifications' is still a modification, >especially if the original author has an issue with it. Yesno ;)! There are GPL vs BSD license disputes for no good reasons. How Pooterish can we go? As long as the world

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-21 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Hi Manhong, it's squishy to form an opinion related to violation of a license and toleration of sensible modifications and sometimes even to distinguish between theft and fortuitousness. If you wrote a song named "love song" composed of holding the note c for 1000 beats and after that holding

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
>Did you sent it off-list on purpose? Oops, tricky, one of the recipient send "via aur-general". Pardon, I missed that. So it wasn't offlist.

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Mon, 17 May 2021 23:50:51 +0300, Pasha Finkelshtein wrote: >When my children are running around and laughing my peers almost can't >hear them. > >This is enough for me to say that this software is useful. Ok! Without this software, it would be an issue? IOW did you compare the result with and

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Mon, 2021-05-17 at 22:23 +0200, Markus Schaaf via aur-general wrote: > Danke fürs Corn-Poppen! :-) Hi, please, don't consider my 2 cents as bikeshedding. "Make sure the package you want to upload is useful." - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AUR_submission_guidelines#Rules_of_submission I

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Mon, 17 May 2021 20:38:33 +0200, Justin Kromlinger via aur-general wrote: >I've switched the PKGBUILD to a VCS source and removed any source code >modifications [0]. It should now be compliant with the license and the >wishes of the upstream maintainer. > >[0]

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Apart of whatever noise reduction is used, the possible full gated (mute) part of this app IMO is a no-go for communication. In (e.g. music) audio engineering this kind of gate can be used to some degree, but if you've ever talked with somebody who's phone used this kind of gate approach, you'll

Re: [aur-general] Status of Garuda Linux PKGBUILD on AUR?

2021-05-12 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Wed, 12 May 2021 12:07:49 +0200, fredbezies via aur-general wrote: >I saw that packages meant for Manjaro or another archlinux based >distro - not ArchLinux itself - were removed. Were they removed because they were Manjaro related or for some other reason? "FAQ What kind of packages are

[aur-general] [solved] Issue with a PKGBUILD

2021-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 09:41:09 -0500, Doug Newgard wrote: >https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/70261 Thank you, working around the xz issue solved the problem. Ralf

[aur-general] Issue with a PKGBUILD

2021-04-11 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
Hi, I don't understand why something that worked a short while back, doesn't work anymore. $ makepkg -s ==> Making package: linux-rt-pussytoes 4.19.184_rt75-0.300 (Sun 11 Apr 2021 15:52:17 CEST) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ==>

[aur-general] electron9 - Misusage of comments

2021-03-23 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
://aur.archlinux.org/packages/electron9/#pinned-795189 . Btw. consider to verify, if this package is needed at all by your install, see: Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2021 23:26:44 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf To: Kunda, erfanmola, jonathon Subject: [AUR] electron9 Hi, [snip] To list packages

Re: [aur-general] How to submit a package to the AUR that is already in the community repo

2021-02-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 17:22:26 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:44:57 +, Jonathon Fernyhough via aur-general >wrote: >>On 28/02/2021 04:45, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote: >>> It might be unnecessary to build "the single `hugo` binary",

Re: [aur-general] How to submit a package to the AUR that is already in the community repo

2021-02-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 14:44:57 +, Jonathon Fernyhough via aur-general wrote: >On 28/02/2021 04:45, Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote: >> It might be unnecessary to build "the single `hugo` binary", but it's >> sort of necessary to build a package, at least if you pr

Re: [aur-general] How to submit a package to the AUR that is already in the community repo

2021-02-27 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 01:20:49 +, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: >On 27/02/2021 12:42, Kr1ss via aur-general wrote: >> On the other hand, why not just build it locally, and forego >> uploading it to the AUR ? > >It's not even necessary to build it - download the single `hugo` binary >from the

Re: [aur-general] [off-topic][ansible-aur] call for comment on pull request 50

2021-02-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
ers not necessarily include 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/0#Mathematics [1] Begin forwarded message: Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2021 13:09:42 +0100 From: Ralf Mardorf To: aur-general@lists.archlinux.org Subject: [off-topic][ansible-aur] call for comment on pull request 50 On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:03

[aur-general] [off-topic][ansible-aur] call for comment on pull request 50

2021-01-25 Thread Ralf Mardorf via aur-general
On Mon, 25 Jan 2021 12:03:12 +0100, Roland Puntaier wrote: >>On 1/23/21 1:31 PM, Roland Puntaier via aur-general wrote: >>>mathematics allows 0. >0 is a number like every other. Yesno https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_number