[Fink-devel] cvs lock

2005-01-24 Thread James Gibbs
Someone just emailed me saying they've been trying to selfupdate-cvs for the past hour but get a message about waiting for finkcvs lock. Thought I'd tell someone here... James --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IntelliVIEW -- Interactive

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] mldonkey install wants ocaml 3.07 (still need help)

2004-07-25 Thread James Gibbs
On Jul 23, 2004, at 3:12 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: I am bouncing this to the devel list; maybe someone there has already had a look at this package and might look again and salvage it. Its maintainer doesn't seem to be active any more, and the package in its present state doesn't build. It

Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this NEW url?

2004-03-21 Thread James Gibbs
On Mar 21, 2004, at 6:39 PM, William Scott wrote: For those who had trouble with the ftp, would you be kind enough to check this link to see if it works? : http://www.ysbl.york.ac.uk/~garib/refmac/latest_refmac.html If it does, then I will switch it. If it doesn't, I wouldn't mind some

Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this url?

2004-03-19 Thread James Gibbs
On Mar 19, 2004, at 5:39 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Yes, I've repeatedly (over the past day or two) tried it from my comcast.net address and an address in SAVVIS space. In both cases, the curl just starts, but will sit there for 3-5 minutes before I Ctrl-C it. And I can't ping that host from

Re: [Fink-devel] chroot environment to test 10.2-gcc3.3 packages on 10.3 (help needed!)

2004-03-17 Thread James Gibbs
On Mar 17, 2004, at 6:12 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote: cvs crash: /usr/bin/su cschaffn -c 'cvs -z3 -d:ext:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/fink checkout -d fink dists' Bus error ### execution of /usr/bin/su failed, exit code 138 I wish I could help more about this, but I want to gripe about cvs

[Fink-devel] pango and freetype question

2004-02-25 Thread James Gibbs
Could someone look at the following snippet from the compilation of pango1-xft2 and tell me if it looks wrong to them, too. Specifically, in the last call to gcc, -L/sw/lib comes before -L/usr/X11R6/lib and there is also a -lfreetype. Wouldn't this make the libfreetype from /sw/lib be used

[Fink-devel] Fwd: [Fink-users] Re: [Repost] xmms no plugins or visualisation or general preferences after

2004-02-23 Thread James Gibbs
Begin forwarded message: From: d0k [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: February 22, 2004 7:50:21 AM EST To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fink-users] Re: [Repost] xmms no plugins or visualisation or general preferences after Ok, I'm gonna try this way right now. Just a question to fink crew: Why keep the not

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods proc-processtable-pm581.info,NONE,1.1

2004-02-22 Thread James Gibbs
Aren't you the one complaining about the spaces on the left margin in heredocs? I'm not trying to be critical, I'm just trying to understand the issue. They are bad, right? James On Feb 22, 2004, at 7:49 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Update of

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

2004-02-15 Thread James Gibbs
On Feb 14, 2004, at 7:58 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Feb 14, 2004, at 5:59 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Packages submitted to the tracker should be rejected if the .patch files are not in unified diff format. That's our standard. Where is this documented? I cannot find that not in the 'creating

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-14 Thread James Gibbs
On Feb 14, 2004, at 6:17 PM, Ben Hines wrote: 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.

[Fink-devel] multiple versions in same tree

2004-02-08 Thread James Gibbs
I notice that there are a lot of packages that have two or even three versions in the same tree. It never dawned on me that this would be possible or acceptable. My package xplanet lost many features going from 0.9x to 1.x, that users are complaining about, so I'm thinking of bringing back the

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-08 Thread James Gibbs
On Feb 5, 2004, at 8:04 AM, Eric Lee wrote: Hi, I have a patch for xv that is 337k (compressed), and sourceforge won't let me submit it (250k limit or something like that). Can anyone tell me how I should submit large patches? Split it up into two patches foo1.patch and foo2.patch. Use the

[Fink-devel] Manual installation of XS module

2004-01-31 Thread James Gibbs
I have a package that builds lots of binaries, but also builds an XS module (compiled C with perl routines in a file foo.bundle). Right now, I depend on perl581-core | system-perl581 and call UpdatePOD: true. The .bundle and associated files get put in the proper versioned directories. The

Re: [Fink-devel] Questions about .info file

2004-01-26 Thread James Gibbs
On Jan 25, 2004, at 8:44 PM, James Gibbs wrote: On Jan 25, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Pierre Mazoyer wrote: ## Dependencies Depends: tcltk (= 8.0), tcltk-dev (= 8.0), tcltk-shlibs (= 8.0) Forgot to mention that versioned deps have to have a revision, like: Depends: tcltk (= 8.0.0-1), etc. James

Re: [Fink-devel] Questions about .info file

2004-01-25 Thread James Gibbs
On Jan 25, 2004, at 10:33 AM, Pierre Mazoyer wrote: The software I am trying to port is bsvc (a Motorola 68000 simulator assembler). I managed to patch and compile it and I have also started to write .info and .patch files. Another question is about documentation. Is DocFiles: sufficient to

Re: [Fink-devel] How to get a package from 10.2-gcc3.3 to 10.3

2004-01-24 Thread James Gibbs
On Jan 20, 2004, at 9:05 AM, Beat Birkhofer wrote: Hi Sorry if the answer to the following question is trivial/obvious. I didn't find anything in the documentation on it. I have a tiny package (pwgen) in 10.2-gcc3.3. I had no problems building and running it on 10.3. Will the package be moved

[Fink-devel] packages for missing developers

2004-01-16 Thread James Gibbs
I have made packages for lablgtk and mldonkey that I would like to put in 10.3 unstable. They are maintained by Sylvain Cuaz and Matt Stephenson. I emailed both about a month ago, Sylvain again about a week ago, and Matt again just now, asking whether I could put these in cvs with them still

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-07 Thread James Gibbs
On Jan 7, 2004, at 5:34 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: I have been a bit puzzled over where the package tracker fits in the big scheme of things. There are obviously a lot of resources devoted to improving the fink program itself, when from the average users point of view it seems to work very

[Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-06 Thread James Gibbs
I've had some packages in the tracker since Thanksgiving (that's November for you non-Americans). I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could take the time to pop them into cvs. In particular, AdvanceMAME and AdvanceMenu are two awesome programs that are much better on a Mac than xMAME, since

[Fink-devel] Stuffit ARV 8.0.2 fixes 'mv' bug

2003-12-24 Thread James Gibbs
If anyone is interested, the latest version of Stuffit Deluxe (8.0.2) released a couple of days ago contains a version of Stuffit AVR (ArchiveViaRename) that works properly with fink. Specifically, it allows for proper functioning of the mv command.

[Fink-devel] sdl-mixer-1.2.5-11 build fails

2003-11-19 Thread James Gibbs
I posted this in fink-users two days ago and got no replies, so I'm trying here. Anyone have any clues? Can anyone compile this in 10.3? Can someone explain this to me? I'm running 10.3 with fink 0.17.0, 0.6.2.cvs with unstable enabled. gcc -dynamiclib -undefined dynamic_lookup -o

[Fink-devel] mv trailing slashes bug solved

2003-11-16 Thread James Gibbs
Martin Costabel suggested to me that a kext may be to blame for the mv trailing slashes bug. In my system preferences, the only haxie I have is Stuffit Archive Via Rename aka Stuffit AVR. It is part of Stuffit Deluxe 8.0. It allows one to stuff a file by adding .sit, .tar, .zip, etc. or

Re: [Fink-devel] trailing slashes

2003-11-14 Thread James Gibbs
On Nov 14, 2003, at 3:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: James Gibbs wrote: [] jgibbs% mkdir /dir1 jgibbs% mkdir /dir2 jgibbs% /bin/mv /dir1/ /dir2/ mv: rename /dir1/ to /dir2/dir1/: No such file or directory jgibbs% which mv /bin/mv There is a theory now that this comes from the Fink fileutils

[Fink-devel] Package movement requested

2003-11-07 Thread James Gibbs
Hi, the version of xplanet in 10.3 unstable is broken. The revision does not match the names of the package and patch. It must have happened while someone was updating the package with a script or something. I have put an updated version of xplanet in the package tracker that should be good

[Fink-devel] Fwd: [Fink-users] Clean Panther Installation, db4 fails to compile

2003-11-02 Thread James Gibbs
diofile-0.2.4-1/sw/bin/ to /sw/src/root-audiofile-bin-0.2.4-1/sw/bin/: No such file or directory ### execution of mv failed, exit code 1 Failed: installing audiofile-bin-0.2.4-1 failed Also, my bin file has stuff in it. [james-gibbs-computer:~] jgibbs% ls -al /sw/src/root-audiofile-0.2.4-1/sw/bin/

[Fink-devel] Re: clean panther install, db4 fails

2003-11-02 Thread James Gibbs
OK, I figured out the problem. It was that the .info file had trailing slashes after the files list(directories, really) in the bin splitoff. Changing Files: bin/ share/aclocal/ to Files: bin share/aclocal in the .info seems to fix everything.

[Fink-devel] Paper describing Mac OS X security exploits published

2003-09-02 Thread James Gibbs
From Macfixit.com: SecuriTeam.com has published a paper that outlines PowerPC architecture fundamentals, and methods of deriving working shellcodes for the exploitation of vulnerabilities discovered on the OSX and Darwin Operating Systems. The paper covers the principles used to develop

[Fink-devel] submitted packages

2003-07-26 Thread James Gibbs
Hi, anyone care to check my three Advance packages, AdvanceMame, AdvanceMenu, and AdvanceScan. They have been in the tracker since June 14. They should be totally fine. Many packages submitted after my packages have already been accepted into cvs.

Re: [Fink-devel] unable to fink selfupdate-cvs in the past week

2003-06-26 Thread James Gibbs
On Tuesday, June 24, 2003, at 06:32 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: And so it's been broken for a week for everyone, and there's no end to the breakage in sight? How is anyone getting anything done? There is new hardware scheduled for installation at sf.net in August. This should take care of the

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Live Webinar: Surrender is Not an Option!

2003-04-04 Thread James Gibbs
How is it that this company can hit us with 4 spam emails in the last month and still has posting rights? Don't these guy get sacked immediately? On Friday, April 4, 2003, at 12:48 PM, Bodacion Technologies wrote: image.tiff> image.tiff> image.tiff> Powered by List Builder Click here to change

[Fink-devel] Package submission tracker backlog

2003-03-11 Thread James Gibbs
Hi. I've had three packages in the submission tracker for over thirty days now. One person took a quick look at one a couple of weeks ago after I emailed him. Then nothing. If one of the core developers could check these out, I would be *very* grateful. They are: angband and angband-nox,

Re: [Fink-devel] fixing libpng in stable

2003-03-01 Thread James Gibbs
Dave, I'm gonna nominate you for the Nobel Fink prize. But what about aterm? On Saturday, March 1, 2003, at 10:50 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Here's the list: --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven.

[Fink-devel] unneeded requirements

2003-01-31 Thread James Gibbs
If I am creating a package and the program adds features if compiled with library N, should I automatically make it a build dependency? Or should I leave it for the user to decide how it should be compiled? For example, if my software can read png, jpeg, and tiff if compiled with their libs,

[Fink-devel] Gnome, imlib and window managers

2003-01-29 Thread James Gibbs
The latest round of updates to gnome components seems to have restored icons and images to gnome. But some window managers -- I've tried Sawfish and Enlightenment, twm is ok -- still seem to be having problems, at least in gnome. Their title bars, resize icons, checkboxes and other parts don't