What a pain in the ...!! Then we ask why linux has no wider adoption. Just as a case in point, I have decided to switch all my relatives (some 7 people in all) all to Mac machines, away from linux - it was too much of a pain for me to be everybody's system manager, compile this, download that... (I spent a couple of hours on Sunday building nvidia packages in Debian because the executables cannot be had via apt-get. I've had enough of this bullshit; I have better things to do in life that recompile endlessly the same stuff.
Why can't you wait to get a cease-and-desist letter from openssl before breaking things? Peter >Peter Lampione wrote: > > Dear All, > > > > I have fink version 0.8.1, and it seems that the package svn-client-ssl is > > missing. However, svn-client does not let me use svn over https. > > What gives? > > What am I to do? > > > > I thank you for any help! Here is the output: > > > > > >> sudo apt-get install svn-client-ssl > >> > > Reading Package Lists... Done > > Building Dependency Tree... Done > > Package svn-client-ssl has no available version, but exists in the > > database. > > This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and > > never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents > > of sources.list > > However the following packages replace it: > > svn > > E: Package svn-client-ssl has no installation candidate > > > > > >> fink -V > >> > > Package manager version: 0.25.3 > > Distribution version: 0.8.1.rsync powerpc > > > > > What gives is that version of svn-client-ssl was removed from the binary > distribution, due to our interpretation of the OpenSSL license. > Unfortunately, it's a pain to edit the package database on the website, > so it is still listed there. > > You'll have to install it from source (and you'll get a later version, > too). > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Fink User Liason/Documenter > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
