Hi, all, let me first give my highest praise to all of you, who are working on Fink and all that great stuff for Darwin and Mac OS X, especially the KDE port! Thank you very much. I am a complete newbie to Mac OS 8, 9 or X and Darwin (though not so to Linux) -- and everything worked like a charm for me.
I got an iBook borrowed from Apple for 2 months (to be able to write about CUPS, the future printing subsystem in Jaguar, and to show it at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, Germany, this week, Thursday - Sunday). The box arrived on Saturday afternoon, with Mac OS X installed. Now, after spending all Sunday, I have most of Fink installed, plus the new KDE 3.0.1 ! This is just a brilliant job you've accomplished! ============================================================================ However, I had one difficulty: I am sitting behind a proxy/firewall. I wasn't able to find out, how to set everything up to pass the authentication to the proxy, if I am using the "fink" installation/compilation frontend. ============================================================================ * I tried an URL of http://username:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:8080/ (with http://10.12.12.13:8080/ being the normally working proxy setting for any application that passes the authentication request back to the UI). * I also tried to set up an alias of curl: alias curl 'curl --proxy-user username:password' * I edited the automatically created fink.conf differently to no avail. Any ideas o this one? If I solve this, I could stay more current with the Fink development and also compile everything or parts from CVS. At the present time I cross the proxy *when working from Linux* by using "transconnect". (See the project page on sourceforge). It allows me access to KDE and CUPS CVS. (See also recent article in German "LinuxMagzin", for those of you, who have access to it). "transconnect" uses the LD_PRELOAD environment variable to replace the CONNECT function calls of the libc with its own proxy-aware CONNECT. Unfortunately it didn't compile for me on Mac OS X -- maybe one of you guys has more luck and knowledge? "transconnect" is only 18 kB of size and would be a nice little utility for other Fink users too... In the end I downloaded everything manually, using IE on Mac OS X, and then installed with dpkg (with resolving every dependency manually, oh boy, now I have the complete Fink on disk....) ============================================================================ And I have one very urgent feature request: * Could you please compile kdelibs and kdebase against libcups, and offer it ASAP for download? ============================================================================ This would be extremely nice, as we could then show up KDE and CUPS on Mac OS X / Darwin at the Linuxprinting.org booth. Alternatively, could you provide me with a little HOWTO about the compilation of those packages on Mac OS X? (Where to take the sources from, what compile options to use, etc.). For documentation about KDEPrint (and its heavy dependency on CUPS) look at http://printing.kde.org/ I have CUPS already up and running on the iBook (compilation worked out of the box with the downloaded source file as modified and offered by Apple), but "kprinter" or the KDE Control Center (Printing Manager) don't give CUPS as a choice as the KDElibs aren't compiled against libcups... Cheers, Kurt -- +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | .--. CUPS + ESP PrintPro: | | |o_o | | | ~ |:_/ | Unix/Linux Printing made fun and easy | | � � // \ \ http://www.danka.de/printpro/faq.html | | /V\ (| | ) .~. Kurt Pfeifle, Danka Deutschland GmbH | | // \\ /'\_ _/`\ /V\ Tel.: +49-172-715.7017 | | /( )\ \___)=(___ )/( )\ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | ^`~'^ ^^~^^ | |Network Printing Services: Consulting+Training+Workshops+Troubleshooting| +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
