Quick Question re: Vintage AUR Packages...

Hi,
Just loaded Arch again after a few years, and noticed that a couple of my favorite command line apps had been relegated to the AUR for becoming "out of date." I really liked the apps, so I built them in the prescribed manner, using the -s and -r arguments for makepkg. The process whet smoothly, and I have my apps back (yay!), but I'm wondering about the long-term implications of this sort of thing. Is it generally a good / bad idea, in terms of system maintenace, to install older programs in this way?
Thanks very much!
Last edited by purple12 (2011-08-24 21:54:02)

purple12 wrote:Yep...they built just fine and they perform perfectly. I guess I was mainly just wondering about the implications of loading a bunch of older apps that maybe aren't actively maintained. Are they ignored when you do a system update? Is there an increased chance of having update-related issues if you stuff your install with these kinds of apps?
--just curious. thx.
That depends how are those packages linked w/ e.g. system libraries. If the libraries get a major update, you need to rebuild the stuff that links to those libraries, maybe patch things to make them work.
pacman deals only with the packages installed from the repos - both official repositories and unofficial user repositories. You can use an AUR helper to update packages installed from the AUR. If you do so, packages will be updated if there is an update available. Some packages might work for years even if they're orphaned in the AUR, others might break a month after being dropped to AUR due to some related update.

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[SOLVED] yaourt how to update aur packages

Hi!
I got a quick question. I thought that yaourt is able to update old packages installed from Aur automatically.
So for example I type as usually yaourt -Syu --aur but I noticed it doesn't show AUR packages I can update. Only from core/extra/community
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yaourt yaourt
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edit:
so I am happy to mark it as solved. It wasn't a bug, but it is a way how yaourt works.
yaourt -Syu --aur shows packages from core/extra/community.
If I press Y (to install them). It shows a list again with the information how much to download and install and then after pressing "No" to install them, yaourt continues to check AUR packages in this case.
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Last edited by ngsupb (2009-08-21 13:15:09)

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[SOLVED] Archiso : installing AUR packages on a live image

Hi all,
I'm quite an arch newbie, I'm trying to setup a live USB stick, with the help of archiso. My goal is to finally get an "audio oriented" system (with jack, ardour, qsampler, and so more...).
During the setup everything was working very well, until I tried to add some AUR packages to the install.
On the arch website, I found this tip, which gave me a great hope about this.
I'm not so familiar with Arch package management, but ok, I try to make a test : adding the "qsampler" AUR package. It needs "linuxsampler", "qt4", and "liblscp" as dependencies. "linuxsampler" and "qt4" are official packages, so I just have to add them to packages.both in the archiso working directory. "liblscp" is an AUR package (with no dependency); so there is 2 AUR packages to install : "liblscp", and "qsampler".
So I create a directory tree like described in the tip, download the two build packages from AUR, and for each of them I do (something) like described there :
# tar -xvf tarball_filename.tar.gz
# cd tarball_filename
# makepkg --asroot
# mv *.xz ..
# cd ..
# rm -r tarball_filename{,.tar.gz}
And then:
# repo-add customrepo.db.tar.gz *.xz
(I'm staying as root because it's red written to stay as root for the image creation. I think it's stupid, but people make stupid things when they are desesperate. Sorry I didn't take the time to test the code above again, it's only memory, but it was very similar)
I did the same for both architectures (i686 and x86_64), so that my custom repo looks like this:
~/liveusb/customrepo # ls -R
i686 x86_64
./i686:
customrepo.db customrepo.db.tar.gz liblscp-0.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz qsampler-0.2.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
./x86_64:
customrepo.db customrepo.db.tar.gz liblscp-0.5.6-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz qsampler-0.2.3-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
Oops... I just noticed I did wrong for i686 machines, but it doesn't matter for the moment, since I'm working on an x86_64 machine.
As explained in the tip, I add the following lines to pacman.conf (in the archiso working directory):
[customrepo]
SigLevel = Optional TrustAll
Server = file:///my/path/to/customrepo/$arch
From my point of view, at this point, the USB stick is ready to be updated:
~/liveusb # ./build.sh -v
and then (with /dev/sdf as my usb stick device):
~/liveusb # dd if=out/archlinux-2014.10.01-dual.iso of=/dev/sdf
But when I boot on the USB stick, there's no trace of qsampler (linuxsampler, however, is present).
Since it happened, I'm feeling like a lost, lonely man, on a desert island... Thinking about the "why", the "how"..., the meaning of life..., of package management... all this stuff
I'm sure I did something wrong about the "custom repository", and the main reason is I don't deeply understand all the steps about this; that's why I'm looking for help
Any idea?
Many thanks
Last edited by yolenoyer (2014-10-02 09:16:57)

Thank you for the reply,
I think I did a more trivial mistake :
With archiso, the packages are automatically installed, from a package list file called "packages.both", and "packages.x86_64", "packages.i686" for architecture dependent packages. But they only use common repos by default. The "'qsampler" is not in official repos (that's why I choosed this one for my question).
So, ok, I setup a common repo (with some mistakes but it was working), BUT...
I just forgot to put the package name in the packages.both file...
So, now that I did it, I just have an error about the package architecture, which I think possible to fix, just by rebuilding the common repo in a correct manner:
~/liveusb # ./build -v
warning: vlc-2.1.5-3 is up to date -- reinstalling
warning: mplayer-37224-2 is up to date -- reinstalling
error: failed to prepare transaction (package architecture is not valid)
:: package qsampler-0.2.3-1-x86_64 does not have a valid architecture
==> ERROR: Failed to install packages to new root
Trilby wrote:Also, does this need to be a static iso image - is there a reason not to just do a persistent usb install?
About the static iso image : the idea of building an iso image with all my personnal tools and config already installed on it is very pleasant to me, including the fact that you can burn it on a CD as well. The persistent acpect would be pleasant too, but in a secondary way.
While I'm writing this message I really understand a bit more about all of this, since yesterday... Sometimes, simply posting a message in forums helps you to understand your own problem, because you have to be clear and concise!
Thanks

[yaourt] Keep sources/build files only for specific AUR packages

Hi,
By default, packages are build in BUILDDIR=/tmp/makepkg, which itself usually is a virtual dir in RAM. I generally like this behaviour, so I don't wanna change the BUILDDIR variable to point to a dir on the harddisk, but for a few packages I'd welcome the sources/build dir to be kept, e.g. for *-git packages to reduce build time on consecutive updates. Is there a neat Arch-way to tell the makepkg system to use a different dir (i.e., one on the harddisk) for specific packages? It'd be even greater to be able to use wildcards as well, so I could just enable this option for all *-git packages.
And as I said, I generally like the idea of building in RAM so the trick to just let BUILDDIR point to a dir on my hdd and put a command in some shutdown-script to delete all but the directories ending in -git wouldn't be perfect
Cheers
Last edited by epinephrine (2013-01-27 16:25:17)

Oh you're right in that BUILDDIR isn't set by default. I use yaourt for building AUR packages, so this is a yaourt related question, oops. I'll ask in the appropriate forum...
Some packages are only available as git packages, and that for a good reason. Some git repository maintainers follow the good working principle to always have their master branch stable and deployable and do development and testing in respective branches to keep master clean. E.g. I maintain 2 git packages on the AUR, and there are no other "stable" options, also as git makes sense for these packages.
And sometimes you just need a more up2date version

Did I install the AUR packages correctly and safely ?

Hello
I'm interested in several packages in AUR, but to be honest, it's the first time that I install an AUR pkg without using the yaourt frontend.
I just installed archey, I tried to follow the wiki but I would like to know if I followed all the steps correctly or not...
I've done:
sudo pacman -S fakeroot
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archey/archey.tar.gz
wget http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/archey/archey/PKGBUILD
makepkg -s
[makepkg -s installed git, and perl-error through pacman I supposed]
sudo pacman -U archey-20100704-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz
My questions are:
1] I've done "sudo pacman -U archey-20100704-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz" but the wiki said "$ pacman -U /path/to/pkg.tar.gz" => because the prompt said something like "only root can perform this action" when I was not using sudo
2] After the installation, I've done "pacman -Qdt" and it appeared that git, and perl-error were not longer used, so I removed them => Is it a mistake ?
3] How can I update the AUR packages when a newer version will be released ?
Sorry for my english, and thank you for helping me understanding
Last edited by Lowra (2010-07-04 11:34:03)

Lowra wrote:
Thank you Allan:
"3) there are many helpers to keep AUR packages up to date. See the wiki." => Sorry that was not that I wanted to say, I hope I will do this things in the future, but I have not enough experience for that now ^^
In fact, I wanted to say: How can I update the packages installed in my computer from AUR (example: archey) when the maintainer will update his program ?
Thanks again, it's nice to learn news things about Arch, AUR, and Linux ^^
Read what Allan said again.
You want an AUR helper, like packer, clyde or bauerbill, for example. ;)

AUR package for konica minolta laser printer (CUPS)

Hi there,
currently I'm writing a AUR package for the Konica Minolta Magicolor 5430 Desklaser.
I have a question to put the ICC profiles files and special KM files to the cups tree.
The Konica Minolta makefile put the binary "rstertokm5430" to the directory "/usr/lib/cups/filter/" which is completely correct but the *.ppd file and *.icm files are going by default to /usr/share/KONICA_MINOLTA/mc5430DL/Profiles (icm files) and to
/usr/share/cups/model/KONICA_MINOLTA/km5430dl.ppd.gz (ppd file)
The directory in my running archlinux is
usrsharecupsmodel*.ppd and
usrsharecupsprofiles*.icm
Additionally there are "Halftones" files (*.bmp)
usrshareKONICA_MINOLTAmc5430DLHalftones*.bmp
I think about to put the Konica Minolta files in to this (new) directory tree:
usrsharecupskm5430dlmodel*.ppd
usrsharecupskm5430dlprofiles*.icm
usrsharecupskm5430dlhalftones*.bmp
How do I have to copy these files to be archlinux compliant ?
best regards,
Frank

frigg, my apologies for overlooking an important point in my last post. The three magicolor drivers have different version numbers, unlike the other examples of multiple printer drivers in one PKGBUILD. This means you will need one PKGBUILD for each driver, in order to have the correct Arch version number. There is still value in doing them together, since they have many common elements.
As a consequence of this change, I think it might be best to put the single PPD file in /usr/share/cups/model/, rather than have a directory with one ppd file in it. It appears that the KM_PPDDIR variable in the configure script controls this location, so I have added a sed command to the build script accordingly.
As another consequence, the package names need to be changed. I would suggest cups-mc2430dl, etc. This uses the short internal names used by the drivers, and Arch package names are supposed to be lower-case. This means that your awk script no longer works for all three drivers. Rather than write three different awk scripts, I have ported your directory change to a sed command. When you package a stand-alone script with the PKGBUILD, you have to also maintain its md5sum, so it is simpler to do everything inside the build script if you can.
Following are the three incomplete PKGBUILD scripts incorporating these changes. They are complete enough that when you run makepkg, they will download the tarball (if it isn't already present), check its md5sum, copy it into the src directory, uncompress it, and modify the configure script. One way for you to proceed from here is to add lines to the build script, run makepkg, check that the right things happen in the src directory, and then that the correct things are put into the correct place in the pkg directory. The next line in the build script runs configure, which won't finish on my system due to the lack of libjbig.
# Contributor: Frank Ickstadt (frank dot ickstadt at gmail dot com)
# For Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 Desklaser
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pkgver=1.6.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="CUPS driver for Konica Minolta magicolor 2430 Desklaser printer"
url="http://konicaminolta.com/"
license="GPL"
depends=('cups' 'gcc')
source=(http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/konicaminolta/magicolor2430DL-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('a97b4ee5c949ca791764457ead3a5b9c')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/magicolor2430DL-$pkgver
sed -i '/KM_PPDDIR/s//KONICA_MINOLTA//' ./configure
sed -i "/KM_DATADIR/s/KONICA_MINOLTA/$pkgname/" ./configure
#./configure --prefix=/usr
#make || return 1
#make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
# Contributor: Frank Ickstadt (frank dot ickstadt at gmail dot com)
# For Konica Minolta magicolor 5430 Desklaser
pkgname=cups-mc5430dl
pkgver=1.8.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="CUPS driver for Konica Minolta magicolor 5430 Desklaser printer"
url="http://konicaminolta.com/"
license="GPL"
depends=('cups' 'gcc')
source=(http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/konicaminolta/magicolor5430DL-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('1460477f2dd195c301e961a6cbfe1f54')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/magicolor5430DL-$pkgver
sed -i '/KM_PPDDIR/s//KONICA_MINOLTA//' ./configure
sed -i "/KM_DATADIR/s/KONICA_MINOLTA/$pkgname/" ./configure
#./configure --prefix=/usr
#make || return 1
#make prefix=$startdir/pkg/usr install
# Contributor: Frank Ickstadt (frank dot ickstadt at gmail dot com)
# For Konica Minolta magicolor 5440 Desklaser
pkgname=cups-mc5440dl
pkgver=1.2.0
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="CUPS driver for Konica Minolta magicolor 5440 Desklaser printer"
url="http://konicaminolta.com/"
license="GPL"
depends=('cups' 'gcc')
source=(http://www.linuxprinting.org/download/printing/konicaminolta/magicolor5440DL-$pkgver.tar.gz)
md5sums=('abd54f32517ebeb7a56f902b159c7dea')
build() {
cd $startdir/src/cups-mc5440DL-$pkgver
sed -i '/KM_PPDDIR/s//KONICA_MINOLTA//' ./configure
sed -i "/KM_DATADIR/s/KONICA_MINOLTA/$pkgname/" ./configure
#./configure --prefix=/usr
#make || return 1
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[solved] have to update my aur package

One of my aur package, lib32-libva, was in the need to be be updated.
I've already uploaded my aur packages to aur4 some days ago, so now, has long as i understood, if i update the old "aur" domain package, the change will never be reflected to the new aur4.
So i've updated it via git only to aur4, but the change is not visible to the "old" aur domain.
Is this supposed to happen?
Did i do it right?
Am i supposed to update the old aur packages manually?
Thanks and sorry if those questions has already been answered.
Last edited by kokoko3k (Today 09:31:26)

I think It is supposed to be so, you have to update the packages on both domains. From this email announcing the AUR 4.0.0 pre-alpha release
AUR package maintainers are then asked to upload their packages
to aur-dev.archlinux.org and co-maintain them on aur.archlinux.org and
the Git repository on aur-dev.archlinux.org for some time (roughly four
weeks).

Some quick questions before I purchase LE8..

Hi all,
I'm a longtime mac user and I just got into music production. I plan on mainly making Hip Hop beats and also record me playing bass on sampled tracks. I have already purchased an audio interface( PreSonus Firebox 6x10) and some monitors (KRK RP5's). I'm going to be purchasing LE8 and a MIDI keyboard soon, as well as a turntable for sampling vinyl sometime this week.
I got some quick questions though. If I'm loading samples off vinyl into the ESX24 sampler in LE8, what program can I use within LE8 to cut the desired parts of the sample? Then assign them to my MIDI keyboard or Akai MPD24.
I plan on hooking everything up to my 2.16ghz w/2MB Macbook and was wondering if it could withstand Logic. Also, will I need to update any drivers for the firebox? I remember reading problems about it working with Logic.
Any help would greatly be appreciated. If any Hip Hop heads here have any tips/ suggestions, lemme know!
Thanks,
JC
Message was edited by: sonofabass

I'm not a big expert on audio recording, but other than the video card (which would not be a big factor for audio) you can't really upgrade it to much further than what you specified. You could increase the internal storage, but I've always been inclined to keep most of my personal files (things I am not actively working on now) on an external drive, and keep the OS, applications, and my current ongoing work on the internal drive, along with plenty of free space. I think that improves performance. If you did get the larger internal storage option, you might consider partitioning it into two volumes. You could keep your OS, apps, ongoing work, and that free space on one volume, and use the other volume for the long-term storage of your user files. Or maybe for your audio work, it is better to have a separate volume that is a dedicated +scratch space+, so if you had the larger internal drive, you can use that space more flexibly.
One other consideration is the CPU speed. There is really very little difference between 2.93 GHz and 3.06 GHz. It's about 4%, but in the real world, the performance difference is probably even less. So you could trade the $150 for the slightly faster speed and get the extra internal storage for $100, saving you $50.
Also, the online store has a page for clearance and refurbs (Special Deals). For example, this one is currently listed
http://store.apple.com/us/product/FB419LL/A?mco=MjE0NDk5Mw
It is the current gen iMac model. Note: Many of the items on the Special Deals section are previous generation Mac models (so keep that in mind if you look at other listings). My current iMac is a refurb. In my experience, the one Mac and two iPods I have purchased as refurbs have looked new. They just come in a plain brown box instead of the fancy retail packaging. The warranty is the same as new.

Deleted AUR packages

Hi,
Is there any policy regarding the deletion of some AUR packages ?
Recently, I packaged rinse which is similar to debootstrap, but for RPM-based distributions. rinse requires rpm but it seems rpm was deleted. Can anyone tell me why ?
Thanks.
Mildred

brebs wrote:
Allan wrote:all deletions had to be approved by a TU
Who writes a web app and doesn't think of the potential ways of abuse, anyway?
People ...
... with less time and energy?
... who do believe the honour system works?
... who are not as cynical as some seem to be?
I realise your question is rhetorical but it seemed a bit uncalled for ergo I am answering in an uncalled manner.

A few quick questions about publishing for iPhone/Android

I'm currently developing an iPhone/Android game in CS5 and I just have a few quick questions. If anyone can answer even one or two I'd really appreciate it
1- I'm developing using a 320 x 480 resolution for the iphone. When I tested it, the status bar on the top of the screen makes the edges disappear. How should I turn off the status bar? And if I can't what resolution should I use?
2- The performance is a little slow, and the game isn't very intense at all. What's a good way to improve performance?
3- For Android, what should I do for the resolution? Is there a standard resolution or do I have to have multiple resolutions for multiple devices?
4- Finally, is it worth getting the free trial of CS5.5 before I publish? Is there anything in there that will be a huge improvement over CS5?
All help is appreciated

1. Publish in fullscreen
2. Use bitmaps, cache all bitmaps, use minimized looping structure etc.
http://www.yeahbutisitflash.com/?p=986
3. Android: 480 * 800
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[SOLVED]Intel XDK AUR package is not running

Hi,
I have installed Intel-XDK from AUR:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/intel-xdk/
The install completed successfully but when i tried to launch the program by typing intel-xdk or intel-xdk.sh nothing happens. And there is no error message. This is freshly installed 64 bit ArchLinux with PekWM.
Last edited by Paingiver (2015-02-02 22:21:17)

Thank you Lone_Wolf for alerting me about the matter. I think it is a problem for some other programs too because someone created an AUR package just for this symlink:
https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/libudev.so.0/
When the package didn't run without any error message i emailed the AUR maintainer. He quickly replied and said he is a developer at Intel and will look into matter when he got free time. I searched the internet but couldn't find a lot of information about it. Then i stumbled upon a thread on Manjaro(https://forum.manjaro.org/index.php?topic=11695.0) forums. In their system AUR package was giving the error of libudev.so.0 not found and suggested to install AUR package libudev.so.0. Installed that and program worked.
What can we do about that beside that symlinking?
Later edit: Also i stumbled upon some post that Intel-Xdk Linux install script looks for a package named gtk2. If your distro's gtk2 package is not named gtk2 it is not installing. Someone created a dummy gtk2 package and fooled the program to run.
Why install scripts from big companies always have problems on Linux? Until today there isn't even one package that haven't given me problems. On the other side installed a lot of Linux distros and %99 of time it went flawlessly.
Last edited by Paingiver (2015-02-04 00:33:28)

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