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.
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I'm not maintaining this any more.
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Distribution version: 0.5.3.cvs
Mac
OS X version: 10.2.6
July
On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 10:27 am, David wrote:
I give a damn on being on the front page of freshmeat, to be honest.
But I do. Exposure is the one key issue, which will, amongst other
things, keep Fink alive and kicking. The fact, that Fink really is a
two part effort (package
scanning code in the broken patch was more reliable (and
possibly faster?), did it ever get remerged after I pulled it? :)
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On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 06:46 pm, Carsten Klapp wrote:
I imagine Apple has such a seg_addr_table list internally for use with
all it's frameworks and dylibs. Now we need to get our hands on one to
find out what the format of this file is.
Or just pester some cctools engineers. We
On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 07:02 pm, Ben Hines wrote:
Just do man seg_addr_table to get all the info on the table.
No manual entry for seg_addr_table
Sure about that one?
From cctools src:
/*
* parse_seg_addr_table() opens the file_name passed to it and parses
it as a
* segment
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 09:30 pm, Alexander Strange wrote:
The 'wtf' package does this.
wtf-1.7-1.info:
Source: mirror:sourceforge:fink/direct_download/source/%f.sh
It does?
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On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 10:17 pm, Chris Zubrzycki wrote:
On Tuesday, January 28, 2003, at 12:04 AM, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
Hmm, after I fixed a spurious newline that my test editor had added
in the midst of
`/usr/bin/install_name_tool -change $File::Find::name $newlibrary
$_\n`;,
On Saturday, January 25, 2003, at 01:17 am, Alexander Strange wrote:
Do any of our friendly fink developers out there have any plans to
add a GNUStep package? If so, I'd like to help, if not, then would
anyone like to help me?
JP
I tried some, but gave up. ffcall needs a manual build to
I added a manpage for fink.conf(5) based on the documentation in the
Users Guide. I suggest we remove the documentation from the Users
Guide, as the Users Guide is really a tutorial-style guide on how to
use fink, rather than a reference for all the fields in the
configuration file (new users
I just checked in a patch to Fink CVS which reworks the package
indexing code. Previously, if we detected the db was out-of-date, we
ignored the current one and rebuilt it from scratch. Now I made it so
that if it detects a modified or new package, it injects the
description for just the files
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 10:43 pm, David R. Morrison wrote:
Try 2001-03
Good idea. Still not perfect, but definitely better.
I believe it's convention to use 2001-3 if you're going to omit digits
(like ©1993-4 or whatever).
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Setting up kdelibs3-shlibs (3.1-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdelibs3-dev:
kdelibs3-dev depends on kdelibs3 (= 3.1-1); however:
Version of kdelibs3 on system is 3.0.7-3.
dpkg: error processing kdelibs3-dev (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 12:13 am, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
Setting up kdelibs3-shlibs (3.1-1) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of kdelibs3-dev:
kdelibs3-dev depends on kdelibs3 (= 3.1-1); however:
Version of kdelibs3 on system is 3.0.7-3.
dpkg: error processing
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 03:17 pm, Jared wrote:
What does Fink's daemonic package do? I'm not familiar with it.
Last i checked, it managed a load of startupitem bundles in
/Library/StartupItems (can you say, ick?).
-- Finlay
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 08:17 pm, Max Horn wrote:
Last i checked, it managed a load of startupitem bundles in
/Library/StartupItems (can you say, ick?).
I can say it, but I don't know why you would say it, how about
elaborating?
Mixing daemonic-managed startup items with
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 07:53 am, David wrote:
Installing from the Fink 0.5.0a disk image doesn't prompt me for a
location; it automatically uses '/sw'. I'll go back and reinstall
from the .tar.gz file. (But installing to a location other than the
default will cause precompiled
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 07:48 pm, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
The user install download link at
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/ is broken currently. The
SDK posted there won't help anyone, its just libraries and headers.
The text link in the sidebar works, the graphic one which
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 07:44 pm, Ben Hines wrote:
dpkg -r --force-depends xfree86-base
dpkg -r --force-depends xfree86-base-shlibs
For most of us that should probably be xfree86-base-threaded,
xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs, xfree86-rootless-threaded and
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/
Just thought y'all should know :-)
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On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 07:44 pm, Ben Hines wrote:
The user install download link at
http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/ is broken currently. The SDK
posted there won't help anyone, its just libraries and headers.
The text link in the sidebar works, the graphic one which links
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 10:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
The PDB is stored in a MySQL database. And old entries are normally
left in the DB unless explicitly overwritten, so when a package is
removed, it may not be removed from the PDB. Somebody would have to
go over the DB and clean
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 12:05 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
1) is anyone already planning this?
Not that I'm aware of...
It would be nice to abstract the package management side of things away
from the fink tool, definitely. It would be very helpful if anybody,
say, wanted to write a
On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 02:12 AM, Joe Block wrote:
Merchant accounts cost money every month. Lots of money, I'm told.
If the project is going to accept donations, we should probably look
at PayPal. They charge too, but at least it is on a per-transaction
basis and not
On Thursday, November 21, 2002, at 08:05 PM, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
sed 's:@PREFIX@:%p:g' %a/%f.patch | patch -p1
Assuming I've read that correctly, sed substitutes the current
definition of %p for @PREFIX@ in the patchfile , before feeding the
results to patch.
I want to substitute the proper
curl -f -L -O
http://www.clapper.org/software/poll/poll-emulator-1.2.tar.gz
curl: (6) Couldn't resolve host 'www.clapper.org'
### execution of curl failed, exit code 6
Downloading the file poll-emulator-1.2.tar.gz failed.
Looks like clapper.org is down.
-- Finlay
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 11:41 pm, Carsten Klapp wrote:
By the way I noticed in the Apple Darwin CVS, when I download some
packages I see (what I believe are) dpkg control files along with the
source code.
Could this be an indication that Apple might be updating darwin to
fully
On Friday, October 4, 2002, at 01:35 pm, Nicholas Robbins wrote:
Both worked fine, but I don't know that I would notice if
something were wrong with imlib. Also, Finlay Dobbi's sf
address bounces, anyone know if he has a new address?
Ick, sorry about that. Should be fixed now :-)
However,
On Tuesday, October 1, 2002, at 10:24 am, Xavier HUMBERT wrote:
However, when I started to package net-snmp, I noticed it still was in
the
current branch (see http://fink.sf.net/pdb/package.php/net-snmp-ssl),
in
unstable. It is not in *my* unstable branch.
You did add unstable to your
do not need to recompile C or Objective-C code.
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On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 06:57 PM, Max Horn wrote:
zlib binaries are part of OS X 10.1 and later.
Actually they were in 10.0 and earlier, too, IIRC. :-)
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On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 10:06 PM, Christian Swinehart wrote:
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 04:59 PM, Alexander Strange wrote:
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 03:05 PM, Christian Swinehart wrote:
I'm looking into it, but if anybody knows why it would link to
libSystem instead, I'd be
On Tuesday, May 28, 2002, at 10:44 PM, Jan de Leeuw wrote:
Does the fact that Jaguar comes with python2.2 imply that fink
will no longer maintain its own python version (similar to perl
or java) ?
Not necessarily. We still have our own apache, etc, even though Apple
ships them.
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On Tuesday, May 21, 2002, at 10:28 PM, AdvertisingDept wrote:
Here's another obvious question:
#man make
replies there is no entry
make is actually a symlink to gmake, AKA GNU make (there's another make
implementation, called bsdmake, which is very different). Try man gmake
instead.
On Monday, May 20, 2002, at 03:56 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
So do we need a system-passwd package, which Provides: passwd, and
which
simply tells that user that they better have those users/groups
installed
if they are going to install the appropriate fink pkgs?
Well no, what we
On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 01:07 AM, Mark Rahner wrote:
2) The tool chain for maintaining a bindist must be updated to support
bindist. It must be improved to allow easy use, and be made fool
proof (because everybody, that includes me, makes mistakes and it's
not so nice if that means
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 04:09 PM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
Some users have used NetInfo to delete these users and NetInfo
replies with a dialog asking if the user would like to have ownership
of the
deleted user's files transferred to him. The user thinks, What harm
could
that do?
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 11:57 PM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote:
However, I feel that the
greatest crime is the fact that NetInfo talks about changing ownership
of
files owned by the deleted extra user while, in fact, it changes
ownership
of EVERY file on the computer!
NetInfo has
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 12:56 AM, Ken Williams wrote:
On Wednesday, April 17, 2002, at 08:02 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote:
I would like to try to help package Apache 2.0 in Fink after I get it
running on my own machine, overwriting Apple's version 1.3.
The other day I asked about
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 05:43 PM, Justin Hallett wrote:
snip terminal.app
Missing C++ runtime support for CC (/usr/bin/CC).
HFS+ is case insensitive, so /usr/bin/CC is actually cc, whereas on some
systems I think it's the C++ compiler frontend type thing. Perhaps you
should modify
On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 09:51 PM, Max Horn wrote:
someone would have to keep track of the uids in use, of course.
Yup. I thought about this, too. I'd suggest something to way Daemonic
stuff is handled.
But how do we keep track of user ids?
-- Finlay
On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 12:43 PM, Max Horn wrote:
I don't think it's that silly. Think about it. There has been at least
one security hole in OS X (in NetInfo) in the past that could only be
exploited by local users to gain root. On my box, that's only me, so
almost no risk. On
On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 02:37 AM, Ben Hines wrote:
We do have a Fink buildserver, for those who missed Max's message - Max
is now the admin of Sourceforge OSX Compile Farm. Dual 800s. Rooted.
For those of you who missed fully reading and comprehending Max's
message, building the
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 07:09 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Max Horn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
I just merged Finlay's cacheing code into HEAD CVS. For me it causea
quite a speed boost, from 10-80 secs down to 2-8 secs. Please give it
a try, we need some testing before we can put it into a
On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 07:19 PM, Max Horn wrote:
Thanks, I somehow thought that somebody had tested this *cough* :-)
I'll look into fixing this.
I did too :-/
I *swear* I fixed this. Oh, well.
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On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 06:44 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
Is it possible / how hard / why isn't...
... why isn't there a system-apache?It would seem to be possible
save for the missing header files [that can be obtained from the darwin
source]
?
That, and if you have
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 07:03 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
(But i'll still look into doing a WebObjects fink package as that would
be useful... just have to figure out how to pull the source off the
local disk -- a file:/// url will hopefully work...)
How about nosource and asking
On Wednesday, March 27, 2002, at 09:15 PM, Bill Bumgarner wrote:
The fink installed apache doesn't support OS X's out of the box 'Web
Sharing' feature. This is problematic.
It means that if one wants to use Fink to install various apache
related features, one loses a significant chunk
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 09:44 AM, Michael Baudis wrote:
could it not be nice, to have some interactive feedback when trying to
run commands (that is, programs) provided through fink, but currently
not installed? which could be provided by shell (or perl) placeholders
instead of the
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 06:18 PM, Josh Kuperman wrote:
This is very interesting to me. It certainly points out how the GPL
licensing in the OpenSource community offers that community a great
advantage. Did they ask for the tools back?
No.
From my reading of your
correspondence, it
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 06:58 PM, Max Horn wrote:
I think we might want to define a plan as to when we will consider Fink
to be 1.0. Some ideas of my own:
* package caching. It's just not acceptable that one has to wait 10-60
seconds before the actual command is processed.
Hmm...
On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 07:25 PM, Max Horn wrote:
Sorry, I misexpressed myself. I was actually refering to the package
manager, not the distribution. What you say of course are requirments
for a 1.0 distro, but IMHO we are much farther away from that than from
a 1.0 PM.
Oh right.
).
Mozilla is at 0.9.9 currently. That's less than one, methinks ;)
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On Sunday, March 10, 2002, at 02:42 AM, Ben Hines wrote:
Perhaps an index/database could be implemented for the unstable and
stable trees, and only the local tree should be searched using the
current method? The index could be updated when fink is updated, or
when a selfupdate is
On the other hand, won't any future Fink GUI have to incorporate some
IPC to interact with apt-get and install the binary distribution? So
wouldn't it make sense to go ahead with whatever can be done now? (He
asked hopefully.)
Since apt-get and dpkg are written in C, I think we can
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
On Monday, March 4, 2002, at 12:23 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
I think it might be wise to wait for 10.2 and see if we get a
Perl-Obj-C bridge. Otherwise, I'm not convinced we currently have a
good enough way of communicating
On Wednesday, February 27, 2002, at 07:15 PM, Chris Devers wrote:
Has anyone had any success in getting Mozilla or a Mozilla related
browser
working on Darwin with Fink?
Yes, several people, including Masanori (who made the package) and me.
Coming at it from a different direction,
could
On Friday, February 22, 2002, at 01:46 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote:
On Thursday, February 21, 2002, at 08:28 , Ben Hines wrote:
At 7:18 PM -0500 2/21/02, Alexander Strange wrote:
We've got some good ports, think one of the maintainers (or even the
whole Fink project) could win something?
Is
On Sunday, January 27, 2002, at 06:10 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
I guess the only allowed thing
which is not in the documentation is to add /LDP for linux documentation
project.
I added that to the documentation a few weeks back.
-- Finlay
On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 01:42 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 04:54 PM, Finlay Dobbie wrote:
And compare the number of Debian build servers, Debian donations, and
just resources in general.
SF provides a compile farm. Could those be used
On Saturday, January 26, 2002, at 02:01 PM, Max Horn wrote:
No, since the debian tools require root access. Debian solves this with
the fakeroot tool, but you can't just recompile that for OS X, it has
to be rewritten. Finlay and me were looking into it a bit, not sure if
Finlay is still
On Thursday, January 24, 2002, at 04:34 PM, Justin Hallett wrote:
anyone know a work around for the undefined symbol _pthread_kill ?? I
have -lpthread set. I think I remember Finlay telling my that darwin
couldn't do _pthread_kill IIRC. So is there a work aroung to this?
pthread_kill
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 11:25 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote:
I know it seems unlikely, but Red Hat closed my bug with a patch to
build rpm on MacOSX, with a comment like:
Since Apple is working on this port, we don't need to.
(Not an exact quote, but..)
Hmm yes, I noticed Dave Zarzycki
On Monday, January 21, 2002, at 06:28 PM, Justin Hallett wrote:
I don't know where guys look these things up...or maybe it's an
experience
thing...anyhow anyone know where to find these.
Look like the standard C++ library... Try setting the cc to c++ for
compilation.
-- Finlay
On Sunday, January 20, 2002, at 09:43 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
* Move to a new package format - yes or no, and which. This has to be
carefully designed, I think.
I vote NO. There are excellent reasons for staying with the present
format. IMHO one of the secrets of Fink's spectacular
On Wednesday, January 16, 2002, at 05:50 pm, Gordon Messmer wrote:
ghx still doesn't build.
As I said before, the problems you are encountering have been fixed for
months now, in ghx-0.1.39-2.
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On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 01:35 am, Nicholas Orr wrote:
On 15/1/02 11:57 AM, Matt Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Finlay has already taken over apache and update the package I think
yesterday.
The 1.3.22 in unstable compiles and runs just fine on my powerbook. No
issues at
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 04:15 am, Mike Barnes wrote:
Oh, small request: could someone put the include sys/types.h before
dirent.h problem into an FAQ somewhere. I manged to get Google to pull
it out of the list archives, but it wasn't easy. Spent about half an
hour on that one. :)
On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 10:41 pm, Max Horn wrote:
Also, is it a good idea to use 0.3.2a (originally I thought this was
good to indicate only small things changed), or should we rather use
0.3.3? I am still tending more to 0.3.2a, but I am certainly open on
suggestions :)
'a' is
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:35 pm, Max Horn wrote:
Plus there is no developer FAQ currently. I am not sure if it is
exactly part of our goal to write a full detail porting guide, anyway.
At least I don't see where the resources for such a thing should come,
but if anybody is
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