At 13:59 Uhr -0800 13.01.2002, Michael Blakeley wrote: >At 23:09 +0000 2002-01-12, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >>On Saturday, January 12, 2002, at 11:02 pm, Michael Blakeley wrote: >> >>>(Apologies if this is addressed in the list archives: I can't figure >>>out how to do searches against >>><http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=fink-users>). >> >>You can't, it's broken. Bitch at sourceforge. :-) > >I'm going to try to set up archiving at http://www.mail-archive.com/ >instead. That won't take care of past messages, but at least the new >ones will be off sf. I wish Google would get into the mailing list >arena.... > >On a related note, I saw the message about the fink binary archive >getting nuked. Since we all have debs in /sw/fink/debs and >/sw/fink/dists, couldn't we quickly repopulate it from the user base?
There is no need for that, the new bindist is mostly up. >I have a sourceforge login and a reasonably fast pipe, so I could >upload my working debs to an agreed location, if it'd be useful. >There's an obvious security risk in taking binary submissions from >the user community, of course. > >In the long run I'd like fink to be more like debian - with debian I >never have to compile from source for any supported package. This will never happen with fink directly I guess. We are only providing files in the bindist which a) comply to the fink policy regarding licenses and b) do not have other pending legal issues. E.g. there will never be a bindist version of giflib unless Unisys changes its policy on the LZW compression algorithm. > Maybe this could be improved by using the sf build machines (didn't >they add an OS X machine last year?). We can't use them. Debian tools need root access, and there is no port of fakeroot for OS X (and making on is a hard task). Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
