-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/25/10 4:17 AM, Jean-Michel Pouré - GOOZE wrote: > Dear friends, > > First, thanks for working on Fink. I am a Debian fan and I appreciate > the port of apt-get system to Mac OS X. > > Presently, I contribute to OpenSC smartcard project and we may be > interested to use Fink to release packages. > > Here are some newbee question as regards Fink development. > > 1) OpenSSL 1.0 > We would like to release a Fink OpenSSL 1.0 package, as it brings > enhancement in crypto. Are there guidelines? Are you prepared to accept > an OpenSSL 1.0 package in unstable?
Check out the packaging manual. http://www.finkproject.org/doc/packaging/index.php And it would have to pass validation. > > 2) Binary packages for Mac OS X 10.5 PPC > I tried Fink, but there was no suitable repository for Mac OS X 10.5 > PPC. Is this normal? > There's an official binary distribution for 10.5/PPC. I'm not sure why your setup didn't find it. > 3) Binary installer > Is it possible to create self-installing package for Mac OS X out of > Fink packages? Just for my personal knowledge. I guess the answer is no. > It might be possible, with a bit of hacking. It depends on the package. For standard Unix stuff (no app bundles) one can generate a Fink tree and make a tarball that contains everything a package needs. We'd prefer that people _not_ use the /sw directory (our default) since that tends to break people's Fink setups. As for OS X app bundles, we don't generate fully self-contained apps. That isn't to say that with suitable local modifications somebody couldn't use fink as a build system to generate those. > 4) OpenSSH packages for Fink are outdated. Latest OpenSSH 5.5p1 offers > smartcard support. We would like to use it under Mac OS X. Would you > accept an OpenSSH 5.5p1 package in unstable? > Again, after validation, sure. It's unmaintainted right now, so nobody's doing updates. > Just one last remark. For me Debian user for more than 10 years, I had > difficulties to understand the notion of Fink as regards apt-get. Still > I don't understand why there are two configurations files: fink.conf > and /sw/etc/apt/sources.list and apt.conf. But I may catch-up in the > future... > > Kind regards, > Jean-Michel Pouré > The fink tool existed (using stow) before the Fink distribution started using the Debian tools for packages. fink handles builds from source, as well as installations of locally built .deb files (via dpkg), while apt-get handles tasks related to binary distributions. We don't implement any of the Debian build structure, so our apt-get doesn't handle sources. So fink.conf handles (mostly) parameters related to building packages from source, while the apt configuration files handle parameters related to binaries. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwkm6kACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ84VwCeP3Uq0hLJtmmoOZ9TJXUmHklK KjoAn2v2bUIfVXf/7MI5wizXuj3mB2RK =tUxg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
