Re: PKGBUILD - /usr/local/share/man exists in filesystem (owned by filesystem)

2025-01-24 Thread Doug Newgard
On 1/24/25 12:11 PM, Klaus Tachtler wrote: Hi, I am encountering a problem with the installation of an AUR package I have built. During the installation I get the following error message: error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files) libtlsrpt-git: /usr/local/share/man exists in f

Re: User "Scimmia" is misusing "Report out-of-date" button for purposely spamming excessive off-topic messages

2024-11-13 Thread Doug Newgard
On 11/13/24 8:32 AM, Actionless Loveless wrote: > and on the flagging  page itself, i don't see anything here  suggesting that there are some rule exemptions for a VCS package. if you have another reliable source, feel free to quote&link that. The full text when flagging a VCS package: Us

Re: User "Scimmia" is misusing "Report out-of-date" button for purposely spamming excessive off-topic messages

2024-11-13 Thread Doug Newgard
On 11/13/24 8:10 AM, Robin Candau wrote: On 11/13/24 2:51 PM, Actionless Loveless wrote: The field is designed for notifying the maintainer of the package when a new release is available, not for reporting any other sort of problems (for which there are other means of reporting). As pointed o

Re: Kernel / utils-linux update breaks nvidia 390.xx driver dkms build - Any ideas what changed?

2024-05-08 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 8 May 2024 19:03:33 -0500 "David C. Rankin" wrote: > AUR folks, > >This is a general question that may catch others off guard. Having patch > for the 6.8 changes when the kernel was release and having no issues through > 6.8.9-Arch1, I was very surprised to see build failures in th

Re: attack on octopi and derived chain

2024-03-18 Thread Doug Newgard
On Tue, 19 Mar 2024 01:35:07 +0100 Mat Moul wrote: > Hi, > > It seem I am attacked by xiota on my AUR octopi packages. > > We had an exchange for over 3 hours before it ended abruptly. > > I think I am within my rights and ask you to look at the situation. > > Comment on https://aur.archlinux

Re: Migration of p7-tools to cahute

2024-03-11 Thread Doug Newgard
On Mon, 11 Mar 2024 15:43:23 + "Eldeberen" wrote: > - How do I manage the decommissioning of the old tools? You request that they be merged into the new package. Anyone that has notifications set should get an email. > - I understand I'm not allowed to use the 'replaces' directive on the > P

Re: Comment spam

2024-01-22 Thread Doug Newgard
On Mon, 22 Jan 2024 09:24:04 +0100 Robin Candau wrote: > On 1/22/24 00:47, Aaron Liu wrote: > > Changing the license does indeed change the package, as it means that > > different license files are installed, though I'm not sure whether that > > warrants bumping the pkgrel, > Here it is not q

Re: My account suspended (MarsSeed) without reason - which PM abused their power?

2024-01-13 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sat, 13 Jan 2024 09:46:04 -0500 "Lime In a Jacket (Aaron Liu)" wrote: > I am quite confused here, nobody seems to have sent 3 emails. Which person > would you be talking about? > > Cheers, > Aᴀʀᴏɴ Sure they did. https://lists.archlinux.org/hyperkitty/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/threa

Re: wiringX-git PKGBUILD Review Request (#3)

2024-01-08 Thread Doug Newgard
On Mon, 8 Jan 2024 16:56:16 -0600 "David C. Rankin" wrote: >There is no way to pull from the internal CPACK name to get precisely the > CPACK_PACKAGE_VERSION out of it. You also cannot simply add a "TZST" > generator and then either "cmake --build . --target package" or "make > package" to u

Re: wiringX-git PKGBUILD Review Request (#2)

2024-01-07 Thread Doug Newgard
> If there is > ever an actual "Release" of wiringX, then we can remove the pkgver() function > entirely. That's not how -git PKGBUILDs work. It builds from HEAD and should always build from HEAD. You really need to fix the pkgver function. Looking at the upstream CMakeLists.txt, I would version

Re: wiringX-git PKGBUILD Review Request

2024-01-06 Thread Doug Newgard
In addition to things others have said. > url="httpx://wiringx.org/" Typo > pkgver() { >cd "${srcdir}/$_gitname" >echo $(git rev-list --count HEAD).$(git rev-parse --short HEAD) > } This will cause problems if there is ever a release. See https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/VCS_package_gui

Re: Removal of linux-bin AUR package (suspended account)

2023-12-20 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:57:46 +0100 (CET) myself...@tutanota.de wrote: > I'm asking for my account to be restored on the basis presented above. > On the basis of ignoring the moderators repeatedly?

Re: Requests and the etiquette involved

2023-11-20 Thread Doug Newgard
On Mon, 20 Nov 2023 18:06:35 +0100 Lex Black wrote: > But today came the next surprise. An orphan request with the words > "Orphaning to facilitate quicker merging to papermerge-core.". Which got > granted and subsequently taken by the new "maintainer". Again without > trying to contact me before

Re: Non-git AUR with submodules

2023-05-06 Thread Doug Newgard
On Sat, 6 May 2023 12:54:42 +0200 Christian wrote: > Hi, > > I took over the package blink1. It is not a -git package so it should > have a stable checksum, in my opinion. But since the project it builds > uses a submodule, the package uses source=("git+https:/…) and SKIP for > the checksum. Thi

Re: Datediff script PKGBUILD review

2023-03-22 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 22 Mar 2023 07:55:44 -0300 jamil bio wrote: > Hello! > > I would like to introduce my project to the AUR mailing list. I am about to > upload a PKGBUILD of a `datediff.sh' script which does calendrical > calculations with shell built-ins, and has got some other few functions as > well. >

Re: request for review of PKGBUILD

2022-12-21 Thread Doug Newgard
On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 22:38:29 +0300 Greg Minshall wrote: > hi. i'm trying to submit my first package to AUR. my package files are > here: > > https://git.sr.ht/~minshall/aur-orgtbl-query/tree > > > if anyone has a chance to look over my PKGBUILD (and any other of the > files), and has

Re: Conventional method of producing -git packages

2022-12-06 Thread Doug Newgard
On Tue, 6 Dec 2022 13:34:05 + Polarian wrote: > Hello, > > I am pretty new to the AUR, however I have read through the arch wiki > and this question is not really referenced there. > > I have seen some -git packages which update the package on each new > commit to master, which is what I

Re: [aur-general] Deletion of vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks

2022-04-22 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Fri, 22 Apr 2022 08:31:27 -0700 Brett Cornwall wrote: > On 2022-04-22 09:58, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote: > >Recently vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks were deleted from the AUR. These > >are used by a lot of people to set up their systems, and a lot of people > &g

[aur-general] Deletion of vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks

2022-04-22 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
Recently vi-vim-symlink and neovim-symlinks were deleted from the AUR. These are used by a lot of people to set up their systems, and a lot of people want to know why [1]. They do not violate any AUR rules and have been available in the AUR for a very long time, well over 6 years for neovim-symlink

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

2022-01-02 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 01:33:20 + Jonathon Fernyhough via aur-general wrote: > On 02/01/2022 22:54, Xyne via aur-general wrote: > > I actually would be in favor of using the -bin suffix even for packages > > without a non-bin variant. > > I was under the impression that `-bin` was to be used f

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

2022-01-01 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Fri, 31 Dec 2021 21:40:38 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > > Would you be kind enough to post that to the thread I started over on > aur-dev? (message ID <20211229050623.2jghonze56wi4fxe@faun>, subject > "Packaging upstream binaries when we already have official releases") > >

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

2022-01-01 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Sat, 1 Jan 2022 05:33:08 +0100 Xyne via aur-general wrote: > On 2021-12-28 19:52 -0800 > Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > > >On 2021-12-29 03:27, eNV25 via aur-general wrote: > >>So in this case the package would be fine if it had a different name, > >>with a suffix like -upstream-bi

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

2021-12-28 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:34:58 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > On 2021-12-28 12:08, Doug Newgard via aur-general wrote: > >On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:21:01 -0800 > >Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > > > >> Feel free to post an RFC. In the mea

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

2021-12-28 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Tue, 28 Dec 2021 09:21:01 -0800 Brett Cornwall via aur-general wrote: > Feel free to post an RFC. In the meantime, I'll continue to follow > the rules that have been established. Established where? Upstream builds as -bin packages were fine in the AUR for years, it's only recently that a coup

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Mon, 17 May 2021 14:11:41 + lawl via aur-general wrote: > The license is very clear. I am not going to debate with everyone if any > individual patch is acceptable or not. > > I expect the ArchLinux project will comply with the license and I'm > unsubscribing again from this mailing lis

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Mon, 17 May 2021 15:48:09 +0200 Michael Kogan via aur-general wrote: > I think the patch in question has been reduced to only modifying the > version 16 hours ago, before that it did a bit more than that[1]. But I > guess, in the current state[2], it should be acceptable? > > [1] > https://au

Re: [aur-general] Notification of GPL violation

2021-05-17 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Mon, 17 May 2021 13:32:26 + lawl via aur-general wrote: > Hello > > I'm the developer of NoiseTorch (https://github.com/lawl/NoiseTorch/). > I faithfully believe that the package "noisetorch" in the ArchLinux User > Repository ("AUR") (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/noisetorch/) viol

Re: [aur-general] Issue with a PKGBUILD

2021-04-11 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Sun, 11 Apr 2021 16:32:43 +0200 Ralf Mardorf via aur-general wrote: > Hi, > > I don't understand why something that worked a short while back, doesn't > work anymore. > > patch-4.19.184-rt75.patch.xz ... Skipped https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/70261

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

2021-02-27 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 12:52:13 +0100 Barnabás Béres via aur-general wrote: > Dear Arch users, > I would like to know how I can submit a package (namely hugo) to the > AUR that is already in the community repo. I would like to do this > because I need the latest version of hugo for my work and the p

Re: [aur-general] Can't access account

2021-02-04 Thread Doug Newgard via aur-general
On Thu, 4 Feb 2021 19:11:48 -0500 Ben Goldberg via aur-general wrote: > > I don't see an account with that email address. What's your username? > > My username is zethra. The email on that account isn't hidden, it's b...@benaaron.dev