Re: [Fink-devel] libao - need 10.5 tester

2010-03-28 Thread Ben Hines
I would rather hand off maintaining these packages to someone else, if you'd like to take them feel free! Unfortunately distracted with many things these days so not much time/motivation to work on fink stuff. thanks, -Ben On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 4:30 PM, Max Horn m...@quendi.de wrote: Hi

[Fink-devel] Glib

2005-06-03 Thread Ben Hines
Perhaps if it had a maintainer then it would be up to date. This is silly that we are well over six months behind on such core things. -Ben On Jun 2, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Our glib2 is too old for pygtk2-2.3.x :( dan On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:02:18PM -0700, Ben Hines

[Fink-devel] Re: Glib

2005-06-03 Thread Ben Hines
and do so. thanks -Ben On Jun 3, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Perhaps if it had a maintainer then it would be up to date. This is silly that we are well over six months behind on such core things. -Ben On Jun 2, 2005, at 9:45 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Our glib2 is too old for pygtk2

[Fink-devel] Validation change

2005-02-12 Thread Ben Hines
I disagree with making ALL of these desc checks only verb 3. Did you mean to only change the 45 char desc warning? (due to bracketing, all were lowered to verb 4, which means noone will ever see them. -Ben } elsif (Fink::Config::verbosity_level() 3) { # Some pedantic checks if

[Fink-devel] Re: Validation change

2005-02-12 Thread Ben Hines
Sorry that was dmacks :) Silly cvs. -Ben On Feb 12, 2005, at 7:15 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I disagree with making ALL of these desc checks only verb 3. Did you mean to only change the 45 char desc warning? (due to bracketing, all were lowered to verb 4, which means noone will ever see them

[Fink-devel] Contents submission patch(es) for review

2005-02-10 Thread Ben Hines
The deb contents database is pretty much ready for basic testing, see the patch here: experimental/benh57/fink/Reporting.pm experimental/benh57/fink/reporting.patch Folks are wondering why i don't make it live. I do want to put it into CVS, HEAD actually, but since 24 is imminent it does make

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.351,1.352 ChangeLog,1.842,1.843

2005-02-05 Thread Ben Hines
Why not make 'fink build' ignore the depends line completely in all cases? -Ben On Feb 5, 2005, at 7:30 AM, TheSin wrote: Just to clarify this a little, only comment out the depends and use 'fink build' for testing, make sure you don't commit the pkg with the depends commented, they are still

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.351,1.352 ChangeLog,1.842,1.843

2005-02-04 Thread Ben Hines
All of fink needs to be built with this patch before releasing this. We've never audited this policy, my guess is a lot of stuff will break. -Ben On Feb 3, 2005, at 10:29 AM, TheSin wrote: Also this needs to be docu'd and a policy for this needs to be made. Lots of perlmods don't comply to

[Fink-devel] Re: Bug ID 3978724: Cups headers are not included

2005-02-04 Thread Ben Hines
They lie. Perhaps they are there on tiger? They aren't on panther, even with the dev tools installed. -Ben On Feb 4, 2005, at 8:54 PM, John T. Shaw wrote: I asked a little while back about the cups headers in Mac OS. Interestingly enough I got a response that said the headers are included in a

Re: [Fink-devel] Libnids, DSniff, and Libnet

2005-02-02 Thread Ben Hines
never got around to packaging it, although I had almost working packages in the tracker a year (or more?) ago. Does it compile on a clean fink install? Thanx! JP On 30 Jan 2005, at 15:29, Ben Hines wrote: I went ahead and switched libnids to libnet1.0 - and packaged dsniff, which was not in fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Libnids, DSniff, and Libnet

2005-01-30 Thread Ben Hines
I went ahead and switched libnids to libnet1.0 - and packaged dsniff, which was not in fink yet. I dont think a lot of folks have been using libnids especially since dsniff wasn't in fink, and the libnids was installing directly into /sw which is very bad. So i fixed that as well. Anyway, try

Re: [Fink-devel] Upgrading stuck fink versions

2004-11-28 Thread Ben Hines
We should not put those instructions up unless we know that they work. I don't think it will because 0.5.0a bindist doesn't contain that version of fink. The fix on the website was known to work for certain for that specific upgrade problem, if there is some other version which also has the

[Fink-devel] Re: startperl with perl584

2004-11-09 Thread Ben Hines
But why shouldn't perl584-core specify /sw/bin/perl5.8.4 as the startperl option? Specifying /sw/bin/perl seems inherently broken since that file is not included in the -core package. -Ben On Nov 9, 2004, at 5:52 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Ben Hines wrote

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs libdvdnav.info,NONE,1.1 libdvdnav2.info,1.1,NONE

2004-06-13 Thread Ben Hines
On Jun 13, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Justin F. Hallett wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv28997 Added Files: libdvdnav.info Removed Files: libdvdnav2.info Log Message: New upstream release, renaming

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs libdvdnav.info,NONE,1.1 libdvdnav2.info,1.1,NONE

2004-06-13 Thread Ben Hines
the Shlibs field deals with compat. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 13-Jun-04, at 4:27 PM, Ben Hines wrote: The old package should remain, and the new package should be called 'libdvdnav5-shlibs' to comply with the shlibs policy

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods locale-gettext-pm.info,1.1,1.2

2004-06-11 Thread Ben Hines
, the one provided by perl581-core might not be available, so you could imagine needing a bunch of -pm584's to handle this. -- Dave From: Ben Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods locale-gettext-pm.info,1.1,1.2 Modified Files

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] can't install gramps

2004-06-03 Thread Ben Hines
On Jun 2, 2004, at 7:55 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: That's because nautilus-shlibs is only available in the unstable tree (which is why a binary isn't available). By rights, gnome-python2-py23 and therefore gramps should not be available in stable either, because of this. Anyway, you'll

Re: [Fink-devel] Patch and PatchScript ignored

2004-05-31 Thread Ben Hines
On May 31, 2004, at 1:39 PM, Martin Langhoff (NZL) wrote: Ben Hines wrote: Works fine here, with those info files. (the patch fails, though) Perhaps you have an old version of your info file there somewhere. If all else fails try putting the revision on 2 and see if 'fink update' updates

Re: [Fink-devel] Patch and PatchScript ignored

2004-05-30 Thread Ben Hines
On May 29, 2004, at 11:43 PM, Martin Langhoff (NZL) wrote: Building my 1st fink packages and I cannot for the life of me get Patch or PatchScript entries to be observed. Is there any mechanism to debug this situation? If I prevent the builddir from being removed, I can apply the patch

Re: [Fink-devel] Busted /etc due to a fink bug?

2004-05-30 Thread Ben Hines
On May 29, 2004, at 6:04 PM, Martin Langhoff (NZL) wrote: And that was the last time /etc was seen alive. After a moment of panic, I fixed it mounting the iBook as a FW device -- connected to another mac. Recreated the symlink, easy enough. However, I find distressing that I was able to do this

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils rzip.patch,NONE,1.1 rzip.info,1.1,1.2

2004-05-30 Thread Ben Hines
Revert this -Ben On May 27, 2004, at 6:33 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv2740 Modified Files: rzip.info Added Files: rzip.patch Log Message: rzip compression program

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Upgrading to 10.3.4 and emacs21

2004-05-30 Thread Ben Hines
On May 28, 2004, at 7:52 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: but this principle has always been more a pious wish than reality. Could you explain in more detail what you mean? I think it's a pretty accurate comment. It has been stated goal of fink to make sure that fink packages always compile the same

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Checking MacOSX version number

2004-05-30 Thread Ben Hines
On May 28, 2004, at 5:23 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: Sébastien Maret wrote: I'm working on a package that compiles and runs only on MacOSX10.3.4, because of a libm bug in previous versions. How can I check in my package the version of MacOSX before compiling ? actually, I guess you would need both

Re: [Fink-devel] Checking MacOSX version number

2004-05-30 Thread Ben Hines
On May 30, 2004, at 2:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: Le 30 mai 04, à 10:56, Ben Hines a écrit : On May 28, 2004, at 1:40 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: I'm working on a package that compiles and runs only on MacOSX10.3.4, because of a libm bug in previous versions. There is no such thing as libm

[Fink-devel] Shlibs field

2004-05-15 Thread Ben Hines
On May 15, 2004, at 11:12 AM, Spundun Bhatt wrote: - Shlibs: %p/lib/libgsf-1.1.dylib 10.2.0 %n (= 1.8.2-1) + Shlibs: %p/lib/libgsf-1.1.dylib 10.2.0 %n (= 1.9.0-1) To reiterate for everyone, this is wrong. See http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php?

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: readline-4.3-26

2004-05-08 Thread Ben Hines
On May 8, 2004, at 9:21 AM, jfm wrote: turned up only pari-gp (the executable)_ and that's no problem, since otool shows gp links only with ncurses. This must already cover a fair number of your 70 pkgs ... So there is no problem then. We can update the 3 packages which have the problem. -Ben

[Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods c-scan-pm.info,NONE,1.1 data-flow-pm.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 dbix-searchbuilder-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 glib-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.patch,NONE,1.1 gtk-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtk2-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.patch,NONE,1.1 html-tree-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 interpolation-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 libsablot.info,NONE,1.1 libwww-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 libxml-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 mime-base64-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 rmagic.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 term-progressbar-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 uri-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-altavista-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-libxml-! pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-simple-pm5

2004-05-08 Thread Ben Hines
We made variants to get rid of the multiple-info files messiness of 560* 580*, etc etc, shouldn't add new ones. You should use variant packages for any new perl module setup. The old style is extremely deprecated. -Ben On May 8, 2004, at 6:45 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Modified Files:

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods c-scan-pm.info,NONE,1.1 data-flow-pm.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 dbix-searchbuilder-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 glib-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.patch,NONE,1.1 gtk-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtk2-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.patch,NONE,1.1 html-tree-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 interpolation-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 libsablot.info,NONE,1.1 libwww-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 libxml-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 mime-base64-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 rmagic.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 term-progressbar-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 uri-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-altavista-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-libxml-! pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-simple-pm5

2004-05-08 Thread Ben Hines
On May 8, 2004, at 3:05 PM, David H. wrote: Ben Hines wrote: The old style is extremely deprecated. ^^^ When did we decide on that? Since I was not reading the mailing lists for a bit last wekk (was very busy), I might have overlooked the discussion, but I am

[Fink-devel] Re: readline-4.3-26

2004-05-07 Thread Ben Hines
On May 7, 2004, at 9:38 AM, jfm wrote: Hi, Today's update was motivated by : Put an end to: warning multiple definitions of symbol _BC /sw/lib/libreadline.dylib(terminal.so) definition of _BC But since then I got with several programs : # Singular dyld: Singular Undefined symbols:

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: readline-4.3-26

2004-05-07 Thread Ben Hines
On May 7, 2004, at 4:42 PM, Ben Hines wrote: That did not happen to me. Perhaps it will only occur with programs which do not use ncurses, but which do use readline? Which programs ? Also, at this point we might as well start adding versioned deps on the latest readline on anything

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] fink update-all fails.

2004-05-01 Thread Ben Hines
Still a long-time bug in the packaging of db42, which needs to be fixed at some point, if anyone feels like figuring out why it happens by debugging the dependency resolver. -Ben On Apr 30, 2004, at 9:21 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Did you try the suggestion from:

Re: [Fink-devel] Still 500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-20 Thread Ben Hines
On Apr 19, 2004, at 6:45 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: We need a mechanism to mark packages as should not be moved to 10.3, especially if there is going to be a general call to action like this. This is done. See http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/compare.php now. Maintainers can change the status

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text cwtext.info,NONE,1.1

2004-04-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Apr 19, 2004, at 12:47 AM, D. Höhn wrote: | I suggested this. The University of Tokio will be supplying Fink with numerous packages, mainly targeted toward the Japanese user. Asari You should not have done that. Takashi is only _one_ of the Tutors that take care of the submission and package

[Fink-devel] Still 500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-19 Thread Ben Hines
Still 500 pkgs show 'not moved' from 10.2-gcc3.3 to 10.3. A number of these are obsolete, but many are not. Anyone with commit access feel free to move over anything that works. (I usually start them out in the 10.3 tree with the new filename format, but be sure to fix any references to the

Re: [Fink-devel] Still 500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Apr 19, 2004, at 5:08 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 04:46:03PM -0700, Ben Hines wrote: Still 500 pkgs show 'not moved' from 10.2-gcc3.3 to 10.3. http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/finknotmoved.html Something's wrong...you list gnome/pygtk2-py* and libs/term-ansicolor-rb

Re: [Fink-devel] Still 500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Apr 19, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I think the #Package: term-ansicolor-rb16 commented out Package fields broke my script. (these are old scripts from the 10.1 move, they don't call fink and used a sketchy parser.. i updated the script to use some of the read_properties_lines regex

Re: [Fink-devel] Still 500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Apr 19, 2004, at 5:47 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Apr 19, 2004, at 5:44 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I think the #Package: term-ansicolor-rb16 commented out Package fields broke my script. (these are old scripts from the 10.1 move, they don't call fink and used a sketchy parser.. i updated the script

Re: [Fink-devel] Still 500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Apr 19, 2004, at 6:45 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: All of the packages on that list which have me as the maintainer were deliberately not moved, and should not be moved. I will be happy to supply reasons if required. We need a mechanism to mark packages as should not be moved to 10.3,

Re: [Fink-devel] new installers

2004-03-30 Thread Ben Hines
On Mar 30, 2004, at 3:36 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Release candidates for the new installers are up at: http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/Fink-0.6.3-Installer.dmg http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/Fink-0.7.0-Installer.dmg The PDB will need some code changes to handle the new release and

[Fink-devel] Re: web people.fr.php,1.1,1.2

2004-03-05 Thread Ben Hines
Why remove them? -Ben On Mar 5, 2004, at 6:02 AM, Mich?le Garoche wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/web In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv4123 Modified Files: people.fr.php Log Message: revert to old version without Language team Leaders Index: people.fr.php

Re: [Fink-devel] binary release plans

2004-02-28 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 28, 2004, at 4:34 AM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: OK... How come they aren't compliant? Sorry I haven't been keeping up... I've started full-time work experience, and have uni starting next week on top of that, so I've been very pre-occupied! Since gramps seems to work fine, I can move

[Fink-devel] Re: web fink.css,1.16,1.17

2004-02-28 Thread Ben Hines
Yuck.. hmm Maybe if the purple were darker. On Feb 28, 2004, at 10:25 AM, Max Horn wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/web In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv29389 Modified Files: fink.css Log Message: new color scheme (looks IMO better, but taste will vary :-) this is by no

Re: [Fink-devel] binary release plans

2004-02-27 Thread Ben Hines
gnome-python and hence, gramps need to be removed from stable since they aren't compliant with the python policy. The versions in unstable; gramps, gnome-python2, pytgtk2-py23, pygtk2-py22 need to be moved to stable. I have good reports from gramps users which depends heavily on the pygtk and

Re: [Fink-devel] Multiline .info fields: use heredoc instead of RFC-822

2004-02-24 Thread Ben Hines
Why warn at runtime? It doesn't hurt users. It is no big deal, just more SPAM. Put the warning in the validation.pm. -Ben On Feb 24, 2004, at 1:49 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: I just converted all the .info files in the 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3 trees and enabled a warning (during indexing) about the

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-15 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 14, 2004, at 11:49 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: I don't know how you count, but I see 149 patch files in 10.2-gcc3.3 and 10.3 (both stable and unstable) which are above 30k. Sounds pretty low to me... under 1 percent since you're counting most packages 2 or even 3 times. (so you're counting

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-15 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 15, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: How many *packages* is it? (stick to ONE tree) Why? If these packages need to be changed, you have to fix/test 149 of them. Some might be easy as they are identical in all 4 trees, others have maybe 4 different versions. IMO it doesn't matter

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo m2crypto-python22.info,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python22.patch,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python23.info,NONE,1.1 m2crypto-python23.patch,NONE,1.1

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
Packages submitted to the tracker should be rejected if the .patch files are not in unified diff format. That's our standard. -Ben On Feb 13, 2004, at 12:29 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: That appears to be some hard-coded /sw. I don't think the validator catches it, however...whoever wrote the check

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 xv.info,1.3,1.4 xv.patch,1.1,1.2

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 12, 2004, at 9:09 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: The DescDetail is one giant line, so it looks like crap on plain-text displays. A couple of weeks ago I added a validator warning for this a couple of weeks ago, but I don't think it's gotten into a fink-release yet. All desc fields should be hard

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
I disagree. We should not accept patches this big in fink. As pogma said, please make it a tar.gz and put it on a web site. If you don't have one, we do. I don't think we should commit patches over 30k. In fact fink should reject such patch files. Please submit a revision to this package

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 14, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: That should read of course be a limit of 300k for patches. If you really impose a limit on 30k the list would be too long to be sent here (-: No, it shouldnt be 300k. 30k is quite reasonable, even generous. Doing some quick lists i don't see

Re: [Fink-devel] bug in 0.18.1 (virtual provides)

2004-02-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 10, 2004, at 7:39 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Peter ran into a problem where apt is installing perl 5.6 modules because it doesn't think that perl581-core is there, even though fink-virtual-provides says it is. it appears that somehow fink is not showing the Provides: of virtuals as being

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/devel intltool.info,1.3,1.4

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 5, 2004, at 11:17 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Keith Conger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +Source-MD5: 7285d5f792966b563519996ea3af58d5 ConfigureParams: --mandir='${prefix}/share/man' -InstallScript: - make install prefix=%i - mkdir -p %i/lib/perl5/XML/Parser/Style - cp

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/devel intltool.info,1.3,1.4

2004-02-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Feb 6, 2004, at 7:27 PM, Ben Hines wrote: LC_ALL=C ../intltool-merge ../po database-properties.desktop.in database-properties.desktop -d -u -c ../po/.intltool-merge-cache The OrigTree module doesn't seem to be properly installed .../intltool-merge make[1]: *** [database-properties.desktop

[Fink-devel] 'Groups' on fink pkg submission tracker

2004-02-01 Thread Ben Hines
I added some 'groups' to the fink package submission tracker. Please set the field when you modify a submission tracker item. It will let us track the state of the tracker easier by allowing people to see which items have not been touched. All 'open' items with group 'Undergoing Validation'

Re: .app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-25 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 25, 2004, at 4:59 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: OK, I suppose this is going to be controversial. Any discussion? Fine by me, as long as we stick to open source applications ONLY. The objection about 'moving apps around' never did make sense to me, i think a more important objection

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 gimp-freefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1 gimp-sharefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1

2004-01-22 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:49 PM, Alexander Strange wrote: install -d -m 755 %d`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/freefont install -c -m 644 * %d`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/freefont I don't think this is legal.. it will make different .debs for different people. It'll be luck of the draw to

[Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 13, 2004, at 5:39 PM, Keith Conger wrote: Hi, This is unstable. You are right, it is unstable tree. But you miss my point. People on the list (Martin in this case) just tell users to remove things first, and i see no evidence that anyone even considered this to be a problem. It *IS*

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:29 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: perl -pi -e 's/hardcode_direct=yes/hardcode_direct=no/g' configure Will also often fix this. You may need to do hardcode_direct_CXX too if the build uses c++. Aha, you're right, that does fix it. I rememeber that now... Kieth that is the

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: passwd_20030621-1_darwin-powerpc.deb

2004-01-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 13, 2004, at 8:18 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: I am no longer maintaining passwd, and it looks like this is a problem in the apt-get package depending on an old version anyway. We fixed that (long ago) by removing the postfix user from the newest passwd version. In stable, too I believe.

[Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-13 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 13, 2004, at 4:32 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Jan 12, 2004, at 11:40 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Ben Hines wrote: [] ld: Undefined symbols: _rsvg_set_default_dpi This one has been answered many times (see also the post fink-gnome-core black hole to fink-devel). You need to remove the old

Re: [Fink-devel] ld: warning -prebind has no effect with -bundle

2004-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 12, 2004, at 6:23 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Any ideas how to fix this? Try adding -lcsirocsa -lcsironn to your libraries (LIBS or LDFLAGS if LIBS fails) Make sure they come after the -L../../src/.libs -lplplotd -Ben --- This

Re: [Fink-devel] Please help bring my packages up-to-date (or take over some) :)

2004-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 12, 2004, at 3:23 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: (For example, do we really need separate binaries for all those perlmod versions? I thought we should only have two: 5.6.0+, or earlier. Is there again ANOTHER perl binary incompatibility between 5.6.0 and 5.6.1? etc. Once again, I have had

Re: [Fink-devel] ld: warning -prebind has no effect with -bundle

2004-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 12, 2004, at 7:34 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Try adding -lcsirocsa -lcsironn to your libraries (LIBS or LDFLAGS if LIBS fails) Make sure they come after the -L../../src/.libs -lplplotd How do I make sure they come after the -L../../src/.libs -lplplotd (if that is what I did wrong)?

Re: [Fink-devel] building The GIMP 2.0pre1

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 9, 2004, at 10:16 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: The install script for freetype2 moves lib/libfreetype.la into a lib/freetype2/ directory, but that doesn't get installed from %i into %p so there appears to be a problem with that package. It gets installed into %p when you install the

Re: [Fink-devel] Heureka! (Was: Fink-0.18.0 doesn't compile)

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Hines
This could be easily tested with a disk image, for example. Mount a read/write disk image, get info, choose 'ignore permissions' (looks like it is default) and try to install fink. It does indeed fail: This first test is designed to die, so please ignore the error message on the next line. #

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.518,1.518.2.1 Engine.pm,1.156,1.156.2.1 PkgVersion.pm,1.209,1.209.2.1 SourceItem.pm,1.1,1.1.2.1

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Hines
If there is anything we don't need it is to slow down indexing. I don't care how much cleaner it makes the code, we need to index constantly. It needs to be fast. -Ben On Jan 11, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Switch to an object-oriented and consistent way of handling source tarballs.

[Fink-devel] CVS conflict detection

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
Fink should be able to realize what this is: WARNING: Unable to parse the line libbonobo2.info in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/libbonobo2.info. WARNING: Unable to parse the line === in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/libbonobo2.info. WARNING: Unable to parse the

Re: [Fink-devel] Perl modules ambiguity with xml-parser-pm581-2.34-10

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 10, 2004, at 12:05 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: I need to explicitly pick the pm581 modules to make it work. I'm not sure about the versioned perl modules business. I guess that all versioned perl modules must depend explicitly on versioned perl modules. But why do we need the placeholders

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-maintainer-gaim :: gaim = 0.71 please

2004-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Jan 8, 2004, at 7:24 PM, Max Horn wrote: We can't get anything into 0.6.2 - that's a fixed release :-). Not totally correct as you know, we do have an 'current' dir which we can throw packages into which point release stable users can access. For occasionally totally broken packages such as

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 31, 2003, at 9:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: What I find interesting about this is that we are apparently so close in some regards, Ben... I am too lazy to search through the trackers, but I think I could easily find similar examples quoting *you*... :-). I certainly would admit it agree with

[Fink-devel] libgnugetopt

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Hines
libgnugetopt dependencirs are never needed on 10.3... the missing getopt functions were added to libsystem. Just remove all gnugetopt deps completely! It will work fine. -Ben On Jan 1, 2004, at 3:21 AM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/games

Re: [Fink-devel] fink builds twice

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Hines
This is interesting. I used a test package that was Type: nosource and fink rebuild baz baz-shlibs 'compiles' baz twice no matter the order. Is your foo test package Type nosource? When i added a source tarball, it only builds once. -Ben On Jan 1, 2004, at 5:48 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote:

Re: [Fink-devel] fink builds twice

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Hines
Ok, yeah, I can reproduce it with my test package after i remove.. it appears it only happens if a package is NOT installed and is rebuilt. Source line does not matter. -Ben On Jan 1, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: No, I don't use that field. I'll try to find an existing package

Re: [Fink-devel] fink builds twice

2004-01-01 Thread Ben Hines
Still occurs with cvs. Note that the parent does not depend on the -shlibs in my test package. I think this might be a very old bug from max. (fix at bottom) Here is the pkg, fink remove them all then do 'fink rebuild baz baz-blammo Package: baz Version: 2.1 Revision: 11 #Depends: %N-blammo,

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 31, 2003, at 12:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: Am 31.12.2003 um 21:00 schrieb Martin Costabel: Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: [] I am dreaming of a mechanism that would remove a BuilDependsOnly package immediately after it is used. This would not only solve

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 31, 2003, at 1:21 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I have been thinking about this some more, and I would now like to propose this seriously as a solution for several problems that were biting us recently. The more I think about it, the more it seems to me that we will *have to* do this. Here

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Ben Hines
, some wouldn't be bothered at all, and the large center ground would simply read it and say 'that guy was a bit harsh eh? He was just making a proposal' Hm, in the light of what Ben Hines that (namely that for 'developers', one can 'hold' packages), does that mean that we essential will start

Re: [Fink-devel] linker question

2003-12-26 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 26, 2003, at 5:31 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: That's weird though, if I don't use the SetLDFLAGS: -lstdc++ line, I get the c++ error during compilation ld: Undefined symbols: std::ios_base::Init::Init[in-charge]() std::ios_base::Init::~Init[in-charge]() std::cerr . Because its

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base fink-0.17.3-1.info,NONE,1.1 fink-mirrors-0.0.2-2.info,NONE,1.1 fink-0.17.2-1.info,1.1,NONE fink-mirrors-0.0.2-1.info,1.2,NONE

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Why not use the new info file name format? it sure helps to track changes. -Ben On Dec 24, 2003, at 12:38 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv2951 Added Files: fink-0.17.3-1.info

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dpendencies

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Solutions: Either one allows gettext-dev to Depend on libiconv-dev (but this not only violates policy but may also break bootstrapping, because gettext-dev might be needed before libiconv is built), or all packages that are susceptible to be

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 11, 2003, at 5:38 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: The obvious solution to this problem would be to use versioned Provides statements. That is, if you installed perl581 (or the virtual system-perl581), you would get You seem to misunderstand my issue. We already have versioned provides.

Re: [Fink-devel] Manual pages in /sw/man (code2html, shntool, gaim-ssl, jove, trackballs, snownews, shorten)

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Yes, it does check that on the deb file, but most folks probably don't realize that deb files can be validated. Its also easy to miss changes when updating packages. btw: main/finkinfo/libs 166 % fink validate libfinch0.info Validating package file libfinch0.info... Warning: Field files of

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 24, 2003, at 9:37 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: My belief is that the Provides line is not enough to satisfy dpkg. Certainly that was true in the early days of fink. It's possible that it has changed, and that I haven't kept up with dpkg's capabilities. I'm not talking about adding

[Fink-devel] inject.pl broken

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Looks like its not clearing out the index again. % ./inject.pl sudo ./inject.pl /sw Password: Creating fink tarball... tar -cf /sw/src/fink-0.17.2.cvs.tar COPYING INSTALL INSTALL.html README README.html USAGE USAGE.html Makefile ChangeLog VERSION fink.in fink.8.in fink.conf.5.in install.sh

Re: [Fink-devel] inject.pl broken

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Ah, nevermind, looks like the fink VERSION file simply wasn't updated to .3 in CVS. -Ben On Dec 24, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Looks like its not clearing out the index again. % ./inject.pl sudo ./inject.pl /sw Password: Creating fink tarball... tar -cf /sw/src/fink-0.17.2.cvs.tar

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2-gcc3.3/stable/main/finkinfo/database mysql-3.23.58-11.info,1.4,NONE mysql-3.23.58-11.patch,1.1,NONE

2003-12-19 Thread Ben Hines
Thats it right there. -Ben On Dec 19, 2003, at 4:27 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: ../10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/database/mysql.info ../10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/database/mysql.patch ../10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/database/mysql.info ../10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/database/mysql.patch

Re: [Fink-devel] Identically named packages

2003-12-15 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 15, 2003, at 6:24 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Things should not be depending on python, they ought to depend on the specific version of python that they require, if the package is indeed So what then is the 'python' splitoff for? -Ben

Re: [Fink-devel] bin-dist made more regularely

2003-12-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 12, 2003, at 7:28 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: Of course, this would require a little more advocacy of popularity-contest, besides any changes to the inner workings of the code.. I like popularity-contest, however it currently requires an MTA running locally to submit results. If somone

[Fink-devel] Identically named packages

2003-12-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:44 PM, Max Horn wrote: Why was this done? Why not netpbm10-bin, which then Provides: netpbm-bin ? I agree, and was complaining about this the other day. Identically named packages should be illegal. 'python' has a similar problem. If a user with python21 installs a

Re: [Fink-devel] successful port of Licq to os x

2003-12-14 Thread Ben Hines
Feel free to submit a fink package to the submission tracker at: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=414256group_id=17203 The .info file format is very easy. You can find examples in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/ I know that Chris Z was working on one previously.. -Ben On Dec 11,

Re: [Fink-devel] grass status

2003-12-14 Thread Ben Hines
I moved this to the 10.3/unstable tree today. -Ben On Nov 3, 2003, at 9:21 AM, Kirk R. Wythers wrote: I have just moved from FreeBSD to OSX and want to get grass running. Can anyone give me quick rundown on the status of grass on fink? Who is the maintainer? Where did it go (seems like a

[Fink-devel] perls

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Hines
Since you've removed the system-perl packages, we're going to have to add all the Provided: perl modules to fink's virtual packages system, provided by those, hard coding the perl version into fink (or, maybe just looking up the perl modules dynamically?... that'd be slick). I had already

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2/stable/main/finkinfo/libs popt-1.7-1.info,1.3,1.4

2003-12-11 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 10, 2003, at 8:10 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: 'popt' contains i18n data, so it can't be BuildDependsOnly I believe that lots of BuildDependsOnly (header) packages contain i18n data. Do things actually fail at runtime due to this? -Ben

Re: I am giving this 24 hours - (Re: [Fink-devel] Is it ok to remove phpmyadmin and pws from the web-module?)

2003-12-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 8, 2003, at 10:57 PM, D. Höhn wrote: Geezes you people are picky ;) I will remove the data contained in teh two mentioned flders so that it does not have to be checked anymore better? ;) see yas Yes i still use phpmyadmin. Leave them. -Ben

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/web amaya.info,1.1,1.2 amaya.patch,1.1,1.2

2003-12-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 8, 2003, at 9:45 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: Actually, the maintainer removed them. I'll put them back. No, he didn't remove them, they were added by someone else, and he didn't notice. -Ben --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: I am giving this 24 hours - (Re: [Fink-devel] Is it ok to remove phpmyadmin and pws from the web-module?)

2003-12-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 8, 2003, at 11:11 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 8, 2003, at 10:57 PM, D. Höhn wrote: Geezes you people are picky ;) I will remove the data contained in teh two mentioned flders so that it does not have to be checked anymore better? ;) see yas Yes i still use phpmyadmin. Leave them

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly field

2003-12-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 4, 2003, at 1:36 PM, TheSin wrote: Already stated I will no longer work be working on fink's code base unless it's to fix something that I created. Sorry to try and advance fink instead of complaining yet again about something that has been discuss a dozen times already. Aw cmon don't

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly field

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 2, 2003, at 3:29 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: 3. Calls the utility program rmorphans2 to remove all the packages that were only installed as a [Build]Depend, but that I don't want kept. This would be a really nice feature to have implemented directly in fink. -Ben

[Fink-devel] Re: experimental/benh57/finkinfo/test dia.info,NONE,1.1

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Hines
That sentence makes no sense -Ben On Dec 2, 2003, at 8:45 PM, TheSin wrote: it's not dia isn't libunicode-gnome, I've already posted this to fink-devel... --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 2-Dec-03, at 9:17 PM, Ben Hines wrote

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly field

2003-12-02 Thread Ben Hines
it is good to work in CVS. But for major dep engine changes you might want to work in a 'branch' instead, not HEAD. -Ben On Dec 2, 2003, at 7:22 PM, TheSin wrote: I'm just gonna do it steps, first I need BuildConflicts, which I just added, now I'm gonna add the transparent check before every

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