Re: [Fink-devel] package db? (SQL)

2003-01-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 03:41 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 16:54 Uhr -0800 04.01.2003, Ben Hines wrote: On Saturday, January 4, 2003, at 11:49 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: It says "Found 21 packages:" and shows only these. You probably hit the PDB while the "flag"

Re: [Fink-devel] I've gone RSS CRAZY!

2003-01-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: They're listed by order of date, most recent to oldest. I'm also gonna work on making the script generate some useful HTML info too. This is worth a news item on the Fink site.. Perhaps once you get the HTML generation going.

Re: [Fink-devel] I've gone RSS CRAZY!

2003-01-05 Thread Ben Hines
listed in the info file. I keep getting 404 errors (or their equivalent). I'm going to purl.org. This isn't some 4-months-early prank is it? On Sun, 5 Jan 2003, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 5, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: They're listed by order of date, mos

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 05:13 PM, Torrey Lyons wrote: I haven't been lurking on fink-devel long enough to have insight into what the earlier debates on this were, but I have always found it strange that fink still separates the server from rest of XFree86. Sure you can think of scena

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 10:56 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: I argue for leaving it as is. We indeed have had this discussion before, and the conclusion was that since there are lots of ways to use X11 apps without having xfree86-rootless installed, we should not move "Provides: I think

Re: [Fink-devel] /usr/local/fink

2003-01-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:02 PM, Brian Kendig wrote: '/usr/local' is the well-established place to put software that's not part of the system distribution. The FAQ says this, too. But what the FAQ doesn't acknowledge is that not every piece of local software has to fit into '/usr/

Re: [Fink-devel] /usr/local/fink

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 6, 2003, at 11:53 PM, David wrote: On Dienstag, Jänner 7, 2003, at 08:40 Uhr, Brian Kendig wrote: Installing from the Fink 0.5.0a disk image doesn't prompt me for a location; it automatically uses '/sw'. I'll go back and reinstall from the .tar.gz file. (But installi

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 05:12 AM, jeff whitaker wrote: Ben: Look at the archives - I wasn't just agreeing with myself. Jeez, I never thought I'd get so much grief for expressing an opinion. Anyway, since I'm clearly in the minority here's what I propose to do. Nevermind me, i just l

Re: [Fink-devel] MD5 fields now semi-required

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 06:33 PM, Patrick Naef wrote: I would like to announce that I am almost done with my work. Basically I just need to make a couple of final checks and then I would be ready to deliver the modified .info files to the package submission tracker. So, before anybo

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple's X11

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 12:26 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Another relevant link, which may indicate which way the wind is blowing, long-term: http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/en/x11.php I somehow doubt that. .pkg files are a huge step backwards, even the darwinports

[Fink-devel] Odd number of elements in hash assignment warnings

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hines
I'm getting this warning too, now, with fink 0.11.1-10 installed. It may have been caused by the new X11, but that seems strange. ... ccache-2.1/unify.c Odd number of elements in hash assignment at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 1748. Use of uninitialized value in list assignment at /sw/l

Re: [Fink-devel] Odd number of elements in hash assignment warnings

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hines
Figured it out. This is caused by the ccp4 pacakge. It sets something bad in its profile.d scripts. Not sure what, exactly, it would be good if the maintainer could figure out what variable breaks fink. -Ben On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 06:41 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I'm getting this wa

Re: [Fink-devel] Documentation quibble on Apple X11 instructions

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 09:15 AM, Jim White wrote: When I followed the Apple X11 instructions, it says to do 'fink selfupdate-cvs'. But since I had not yet installed the Developer Tools, there was no cvs installed. So I think the docs should have some comment pointing out that yo

[Fink-devel] system-xfree lack of errors (bash?)

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
The PostInstScript of system-xfree86 used to nicely display error messages on failure. Now, it just returns an error code, all those "echo" lines in the script are not printed. I think this may be a jaguar "bash as sh" problem. Any shell script gurus care to look at it? /sw/fink/10.2/unstabl

Re: [Fink-devel] DrScheme appropriate as fink package?

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 10:44 AM, John Clements wrote: I'm considering building a fink package for DrScheme , but before doing so, I wanted to ask about its appropriateness. In particular, DrScheme is currently an aqua app. What's the current relatio

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree lack of errors (bash?)

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 11:14 AM, Max Horn wrote: Hm, are you sure the echo's are not exectured? Last time I looked (i.e. rev 1 and 2 of it), it failed to print anything because it errored out in a place where it didn't check for any error (wrongly of course). More precisely, this

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple X11 - easy...

2003-01-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 03:14 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: copy info file for system-xfree86 from unstable to local info files have nothing to do with "apt-get" so there was no reason to do that. Besides, its in "stable" now anyway. -Ben --

[Fink-devel] Re: CVS: dists/10.2/stable/main/finkinfo/base [...]

2003-01-09 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 06:46 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 6:38 Uhr -0800 09.01.2003, Ben Hines wrote: I think we didn't have those source-MD5s on the base packages becaue they broke the bootstrap. (no md5sum command yet) Hm, they did? I thought we only left them out in the fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 06:59 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: On my machine, inetd is running rather thatn xinetd. So are you sure that this would actually work? Because you have no services for it. It checks at boot time. (see your console.log) inetd is obsolete, xinetd comes with

Re: [Fink-devel] Package DB broken?

2003-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
This was just asked last week, and i answered. If one more person asks i'm adding it to the faq. -Ben On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 06:53 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/index.php currently shows The database was last updated at 08:37 GMT on Friday, January

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 01:01 PM, Jason Deraleau wrote: Now, if we could just figure out why Apple didn't remove the inetd line from /System/Library/IPServices/IPServices... Because, as i said, inetd is OBSOLETE. xinetd is its replacement. -Ben --

Re: [Fink-devel] PHP maintainer

2003-01-10 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 10, 2003, at 02:28 PM, Gen Kiyooka wrote: Hi, I'm interested in possibly maintaining PHP for fink. I need to know what's expected of the maintainer. Or is it just a best-efforts kind of thang. Someone on IRC keeps saying they will update our php package, but they sti

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple's X11

2003-01-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 11:34 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ Just thought y'all should know :-) -- Finlay The user install download link at http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/download/ is broken currently. The SDK posted there won't help anyone, its just l

Re: [Fink-devel] new distribution

2003-01-11 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 05:36 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote: A new distribution sounds great! Especially since we have quite a lot of packages moved to stable. Still not enough, but it's a start... We should probably focus on getting the rest of these: http://fink.sourceforge.ne

Re: [Fink-devel] linking problem

2003-01-11 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Vadim Zaliva wrote: On Saturday, January 11, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Dustin Sias wrote: Have you installed Developer Tools Dec 2002? I'm having similar linking problems with sablotron. I just updated to Dec 2002 version and in fact it made things wor

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 04:49 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 20:14 Uhr -0500 11.01.2003, Bill Bumgarner wrote: 3) More and more Unix related tools have native Aqua ports available. tk and wx immediately come to mind. Film-gimp on the applications front. With PyObjC, CamelBones, and othe

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 07:38 AM, Ben Hines wrote: Ok, i just had another idea... to fully support movable .apps in /sw/Applications, we could create a carbon ALIAS file in /Applications to our installed .app. The user could move that app alias wherever they wanted. RangerRick

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Jared wrote: Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Besides, at this point, anyone using Fink isn't going to be stopped by having the item in a hidden directory. (Right-click > Show Original e

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:29 AM, Bill Bumgarner wrote: On Sunday, Jan 12, 2003, at 11:22 US/Eastern, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 08:03 AM, Jared wrote: Using aliases is not Mac-like. Giving users the illusion of moving their apps isn't good enough. Beside

Re: [Fink-devel] Artificial dependencies in the binary distribution

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:06 AM, Michel Schinz wrote: Now I'm preparing a new package for "scsh" for which I added "dlcompat" in the dependencies. But this does not solve the problem in general. The only way to solve it that I can think of, is that when you build a package for the bina

[Fink-devel] Re: .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 09:54 AM, Per Persson wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 04:39 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: darwinports allows ports to create .apps, and trusts the user not to move them. I'm starting to agree. We even have 2 apps in fink that ALREADY use this principle,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Artificial dependencies in the binary distribution

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:02 AM, Michel Schinz wrote: Scsh does *not* depend on dlcompat, it works perfectly well without it. However, if dlcompat is installed, and if it can be found by configure when scsh is built, then it's used. It does "depend" on dlcompat, because of our poli

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Artificial dependencies in the binary distribution

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:17 AM, Ben Hines wrote: On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:02 AM, Michel Schinz wrote: Scsh does *not* depend on dlcompat, it works perfectly well without it. However, if dlcompat is installed, and if it can be found by configure when scsh is built, then

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Artificial dependencies in the binary distribution

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 10:59 AM, Michel Schinz wrote: think I should correct and re-submit the current package, I will do so. Or maybe someone with CVS access can add the dependency on dlcompat for me and increment the revision. I'll add it for you. -Ben -

Re: [Fink-devel] .apps in fink

2003-01-12 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 12, 2003, at 05:01 PM, mathias meyer wrote: situation: you have an app (hidden directory) and a visible symlink to that. We were discussing carbon aliases. Aliases are completely different semantics than symlinks. Do not confuse the two or use the words interchangably.

Re: [Fink-devel] GIMP's shared memory broken

2003-01-13 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 03:03 AM, Jakub Steiner wrote: Hello there, I noticed fink's GIMP package uses --no-shm --no-xshm because it's broken. This is a call for help if anyone's interested/has some idle cycles. I don't think your shm will ever work well on OS X. I assume you are us

Re: [Fink-devel] Documentation and Submitting packages

2003-01-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 13, 2003, at 04:18 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Hi folks, I tried to figure out how to do the proper thing for submitting a package this morning (libwcs, previously posted to this list...) Visit http://fink.sf.net/ and click "Package Submission Tracker" on the right

Re: [Fink-devel] mysql-3.23.52-4

2003-01-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 01:00 PM, Jonathan Guthrie wrote: Subject: [Fink-devel] mysql-3.23.52-4 3.23.52-4 is an old version of mysql. When cvs returns, run fink selfupdate-cvs (its currently down) -Ben --- This SF.NET email is

Re: [Fink-devel] ZAnnot - non-compiling package

2003-01-14 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 06:45 PM, Charles McCathieNevile wrote: Hi folks, I have packaged the ZAnnot module for the zope server. It doesn't actually need to compile, just unpack into the appropriate directory. So I put a dummy compile script there. I am not sure if this is something

Re: [Fink-devel] Relink fails in evoultion 1.2.1

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 06:32 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 11:02 PM, Max Horn wrote: Maybe one of you can tell me how to fix this properly: I am working on evolution 1.2.1, and it gets to the build phase just fine (which does a "make install DEST

[Fink-devel] X11 install_name fixer script

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Hines
This script changes apple's dylib install names to be libNAME.major.dylib rather than libNAME.major.minor.dylib. This script enabled me to build QT and KDE once again! We might want to consider adding it to fink's system-xfree86 package. #!/usr/bin/perl use File::Find; my $newlibrary, @liblis

Re: [Fink-devel] New revision of 3.23.54a

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Hines
Dont you use ssh to checkout? (most developers do) -Ben On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:08 PM, Justin Hallett wrote: I'll test it as soon as anon cvs works again :) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Revision 2 is in unstable since yesterday. Would be great to get some feedback on this one sinc

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: X11 install_name fixer script

2003-01-15 Thread Ben Hines
ou install the X11 for Mac OS X SDK; the SDK is listed as a requirement in Fink's FAQ. See: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/x11/inst-xfree86.php#apple-binary Regards, Dave Schroeder University of Wisconsin - Madison On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 07:53 PM, Ben Hines wrote: This script

Re: [Fink-devel] ccp4.

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
I am currently updating the ccp4 package, a revised version will be available when cvs returns. -Ben On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 08:24 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I had ccp4 installed, until recently, on my machine. In tracking down why man pages would not display, I discovered the fo

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink here Document Delimiter

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
It is relatively rare that such scripts are needed. Can you show an example where it would be useful? btw, i noticed that you use ranlib in the uw-imapd-c PostInstScript. I dont think that will work, since the PostInstScript is ran by users who install from binary who may not have the developer

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink here Document Delimiter

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 11:58 AM, Dustin Sias wrote: Here is an example. this change would make it easy to change user, group, startup scripts, etc.. I like the /Library/StartupItems method. I would also like the package to create, update, delete user, group information. This is m

Re: [Fink-devel] mailing list archives

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 10:41 AM, Finlay Dobbie wrote: Just wondering why the mailing list archives on http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/index.php point to www.mail-archive.com rather than SourceForge's mailing list archive? Because sf's mailing list archives suck? Though they re

Re: [Fink-devel] new field in .info files

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Max Horn wrote: Hrm, right as well. So why not split the Restrictive license class into two: Restrictive RestrictiveButDistributable (well, obviously with better names). That would seem more logical to me than a seperate field. Sounds good to me

[Fink-devel] gnome2

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
msek has vanished, anyone want to take the partial gnome2 packages in his experimental directory? We continue to get requests for them. People are even bashing fink because it doesn't have gnome 2. I agree, it is kinda silly. For that matter, anyone want to take over all of msek's packages? Do

Re: [Fink-devel] gnome2

2003-01-16 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 07:34 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 19:13 Uhr -0800 16.01.2003, Ben Hines wrote: msek has vanished, anyone want to take the partial gnome2 packages in his experimental directory? We continue to get requests for them. People are even bashing fink because it doesn&#

Re: [Fink-devel] (Still) Problems with net-snmp and netinet headers in 10.2.3

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 10:00 PM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: /usr/include/netinet/tcpip.h:66: field `ti_i' has incomplete type mibII/tcp.c:278: warning: `struct tcpstat' declared inside parameter list Just add #include before the #include So obviously there's a problem with the tcpip

Re: [Fink-devel] Apple's FFT(w), BLAS and LAPACK

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 10:21 AM, William Scott wrote: Howdie: Someone pointed out to me that Apple in 10.2 and higher supplies its own FFT, BLAS and LAPACK libraries. For the FFT library it claims that some of the routines are 5x faster than FFTW. http://developer.apple.com/hardw

[Fink-devel] pkg installer

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Hines
I want to update the pkg installer to accept /sw if it is an empty symlink (no files in it). I think that would solve the problem for users who want to put it somewhere else. We would have to figure out how to specify the "dont clobber symlinks" option to pkgmaker. (I know its a user default,

Re: [Fink-devel] pkg installer

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I want to update the pkg installer to accept /sw if it is an empty symlink (no files in it). I think that would solve the problem for users who want to put it somewhere else. We would have to figure out how to specify the "

Re: [Fink-devel] autoconf2.5

2003-01-17 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 11:55 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: - Provides: autoconf25-2.54 doesn't look right. Shouldn't this be just autoconf25. Or is there now a versioning mechanism for virtual packages? In any case, I am unable to remove the dummy autoconf25-2.54-2, because then nothin

Re: [Fink-devel] xv needs maintainer?

2003-01-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 12:13 PM, Eric Lee wrote: Anyways, I have been thinking of contributing to the Fink project for a while now, but before I commit to adopting this package I wondering what is involved in becoming a maintainer? Well, hopefully you would: - Respond to emails i

Re: [Fink-devel] Bug in info file validation

2003-01-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 03:51 PM, Joe Block wrote: dpkg-deb -b root-confighost-0.3.9-10 /sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc dpkg-deb: parse error, in file `root-confighost-0.3.9-10/DEBIAN/control' near line 14: field name `' must be followed by colon ### execution of dp

Re: [Fink-devel] (Still) Problems with net-snmp and netinet headers in 10.2.3

2003-01-18 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, January 18, 2003, at 10:10 PM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: So obviously tcp_var.h isn't included in 10.2.3... Is it in the JMH package, or a newer version of 10.2.x? Yes, it is. Install the december 2002 tools. -Ben --- This SF.N

Re: [Fink-devel] identifying the presence of December 2002 tools

2003-01-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 06:19 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Folks, We clearly need a way for Fink to check whether the December 2002 have been installed, triggered by some indication in the .info file. As a few recent exchanges have indicated, there are some header files which are on

[Fink-devel] Sylvain

2003-01-19 Thread Ben Hines
Anyone have a working email for sylvain cuaz, his email just bounces. Clearly he is alive and working on fink, he just checked in some stuff. -Ben --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: FREE SSL Guide from Thawte are you planning your Web Se

Re: [Fink-devel] wishlist for "fink remove foo"

2003-01-19 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 06:40 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "David" == David R Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> Under many circumstances, "sudo apt-get remove foo" will do David> what you want. It's not clear to me from reading the manpage that this will also remove recurs

[Fink-devel] 0.5.1

2003-01-19 Thread Ben Hines
I updated the PDB for 0.5.1. If anyone ever makes a news item for 0.5.1, you can link to: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/compare.php?tree1=0.5.1- stable&cmp=0&tree2=0.5.0a-stable That is a list of all the new stable, binary packages since the last release. -Ben --

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.5.1

2003-01-19 Thread Ben Hines
Heh, i did that last time didn't I. :) I can remove them from the sql. -Ben On Sunday, January 19, 2003, at 06:01 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Hmmm... darwin-6.4-1... and macosx-10.2.4-1... whoops! --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by:

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-21 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 11:57 AM, Xavier HUMBERT wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hisashi T Fujinaka) wrote : it puts things places I don't want (overwriting /usr/bin/head, for example) Dan't blame CPAN, but Apple with their crappy HFS+, for that... I expericenced, the same problem, of c

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-21 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 20, 2003, at 04:45 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Any thoughts on how to do this without breaking everything open? With the current fink, the way to make a system-* package would be: filename: system-perlmodules.info Package: system-perlmodules Version: 1.0 Provides: gd-p

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-21 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 01:46 PM, Ben Hines wrote: erlmodules.info Package: system-perlmodules Version: 1.0 Provides: gd-pm, algorithm-diff-pm, http-dav-pm (parse the package names from the output of "fink list --section=perlmods -w=200" and put them all here) Type

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch support

2003-01-22 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 07:09 AM, Max Horn wrote: In case anybody is interested in working on epoch support in Fink: Sylvain started work on this (see https://sourceforge.net/tracker/ index.php?func=detail&aid=607742&group_id=17203&atid=317203), but there were some issues, and

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-announce] Fink Security Advisory [#2301200301]: Critical bug in cvs <=1.11.4

2003-01-23 Thread Ben Hines
This CVS bug DOES NOT affect Mac OS X. Please IGNORE this "Advisory". Mac OS X is NOT vulnerable to "double free" bugs, just like the zlib bug. This is has been confirmed by apple as not vulnerable: http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/650937 -Ben On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 01:33 AM, David w

[Fink-devel] debian translation project

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
Check it out: http://ddtp.debian.org/news.en.html Perhaps we could use their site as a model for the fink translation project. I don't know if we would want to have every translation in every .info file though. Might want to have separate distributions for each language, with the translated f

Re: [Fink-devel] Who installed what...

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 05:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there way to tell which .deb (and/or package) is responsible for installing a particular file in /sw? Yes, "dpkg -S README" for example. But dpkg -S is slow. So, i ported the package "dlocate" to fink. dlocate uses GNU l

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 01:14 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: One possibility is to have a simple package "system-perlmodules" which would simply "Provide" all of the perlmodules on the system (and "Conflict" with I believe i explained how to do this earlier in the thread. -Ben ---

Re: [Fink-devel] What would you do?

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 07:34 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been working off and on on a package for fink. The problem is that the install script hardlinks the directory it is installed in inside a bunch of scripts critical for the performance of the program. So, where /sw/bin sh

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 03:05 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Ben" == Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> I believe i explained how to do this earlier in the thread. While your way will work in a way that doesn't change code, it's not maintainable.

Re: [Fink-devel] redux on system-perlmodules

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:49 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: And that scheme *still* doesn't work. Once I have system-perlmods installed, it *still* wants to try to install something like compress-zlib-pm, but then fails because my package conflicts with it. If you have the Provides:

Re: [Fink-devel] redux on system-perlmodules

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:55 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 08:49 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: And that scheme *still* doesn't work. Once I have system-perlmods installed, it *still* wants to try to install something like compress-zlib-pm, but then

Re: [Fink-devel] redux on system-perlmodules

2003-01-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, January 24, 2003, at 10:17 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Researching this a bit more, it appears that this is a dpkg limitation. So, this will be hard to fix on the dpkg side, again unless we "force" everything. dpkg on debian linux also cannot handle Provides: when another pac

[Fink-devel] FinkCommander

2003-01-26 Thread Ben Hines
Does anyone object to including FinkCommander on the next Fink .dmg? It is pretty mature these days. I am thinking it would be separate from the .pkg, perhaps in a "FinkCommander" folder with its own readme files and such. -Ben --- This SF.

Re: [Fink-devel] FinkCommander

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 05:23 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Ben Hines and I have been working on improving the release process, at least from the technical point of view (creating the binary installer and so on). These improvements include a script Ben wrote to automate I just found

[Fink-devel] install_name perl script

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 01:22 PM, Jeremy Erwin wrote: Parentheses missing around "my" list at ./fixlib line 4. Useless use of a variable in void context at ./fixlib line 4. Is perl 5.8 stricter about this or something? I have: my $newlibrary, @liblist, $libdir = "/usr/X11R6/lib"; -B

Re: [Fink-devel] Regression caused by indexing changes

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 02:30 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Justin" == Justin Hallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Justin> try fink list --help Ahh, another *undocumented* feature. Try finding *that* in either "man fink" or "fink --help". It's not there. http://sourceforge.net/

Re: [Fink-devel] Regression caused by indexing changes

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 04:20 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 15:53 Uhr -0800 27.01.2003, Ben Hines wrote: On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 02:30 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Justin" == Justin Hallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Justin> try fink list --help Ahh, an

Re: [Fink-devel] Regression caused by indexing changes

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 06:36 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Ben" == Ben Hines <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Ben> The comments discuss the issue of it not being documented, i think. Ben> In any case, it was a pointer at the tracker, which is the proper Ben> p

Re: [Fink-devel] install_name perl script

2003-01-27 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, January 27, 2003, at 06:41 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: my $newlibrary; my @liblist; my $libdir = "/usr/X11R6/lib"; then you'll have to say that. No simple addition of parens will help you. What you're saying now is the same as leaving the second and third "my" off, a

Re: [Fink-devel] packages w/gtkhtml dependency

2003-01-30 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:04 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: There actually weren't that many, as it turns out. I'll list them by maintainer (note that some of these have dependencies on gtkhtml-dev and gtkhtml-shlibs): If it depends on dev/shlibs, there is no problem. So leave me ou

[Fink-devel] node exists problems, again..

2003-01-30 Thread Ben Hines
I'm getting: % fink update-all sudo /sw/bin/fink update-all Information about 2246 packages read in 8 seconds. Failed: Internal error: node for libungif already exists I am running current fink head. I think we squashed this error before, so perhaps it has something to do with the recent modi

[Fink-devel] Fink script tip

2003-01-31 Thread Ben Hines
Run your in-line fink scripts with -ex: CompileScript: << #!/bin/sh -ex export CCACHE_DISABLE=1 rm LIBLINK/* make all PREFIX=%p LDFLAGS=-L%p/lib MOTIF_LIBPATH=%p/lib/libXm.3.dylib LIBDIR=%p/lib LIBPATH="-LLIBLINK -L%p/lib" XINCLUDES="-I/usr/X11R6/include -I%p/include/" CFLAGS=-DNDEBUG <<

Re: [Fink-devel] Scigraphica and Xchemdraw

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 01:56 AM, Thorsten Bartels-Rausch wrote: Hi, I don't know how to make fink packages, but could really need Scigraphica, http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net. It used to be included in fink, does anyone of you has time to make a package? scigraphica was removed

Re: [Fink-devel] Scigraphica and Xchemdraw

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 04:55 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 07:45 PM, Ben Hines wrote: I don't know how to make fink packages, but could really need Scigraphica, http://scigraphica.sourceforge.net. Is this the same python dlopening

Re: [Fink-devel] OT: CPATH & C_INCLUDE_PATH don't work for me?

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Jeremy Erwin wrote: On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 03:29 PM, John Clements wrote: This is off-topic, but I'm hoping that someone can point out what an idiot I am. Problem: I can't get gcc to recognize either the CPATH or C_INCLUDE_PATH env

Re: [Fink-devel] OS/X Libtool && -bundle

2003-02-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, February 5, 2003, at 10:46 PM, Robert Boehne wrote: In an older version of Libtool, a library built with -module is linked with: cc -flat_namespace -undefined suppress -o .libs/libdb_tcl-4.2.so *.lo -lc -dynamiclib -install_name /Users/rboehne/testdb/lib/libdb_tcl-4.2.so That is

Re: [Fink-devel] libpng, libpng3 - bounce bounce bounce

2003-02-06 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, February 6, 2003, at 10:06 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: About half of the packages I install replace libpng3 with libpng. And the other half replace libpng back with libpng3. I wish they'd make up their mind. Which is it? And why are these two packages so easily replaced with

Re: [Fink-devel] xfree86 4.3 pre-release package

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 10:06 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: versions of the xfree86 4.2.1.1 packages which have no "Conflicts". So, you'll have to compile xfree86 twice to get the upgrade. Sorry, but there was no other way. Hopefully we can move these to stable quickly and provide binar

Re: [Fink-devel] Prebinding

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 10:36 AM, David wrote: Furthermore it is not as simple as simply adding --prebind. Many pieces of software are not yet fixed to fully support prebinding, much less proper relocation nor 'reentrancy'. This is wrong. -Ben -

Re: [Fink-devel] xfree86 4.3 pre-release package

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 06:56 PM, jeff whitaker wrote: On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Ben Hines wrote: Provides/Conflicts/Replaces should work fine.. the only thing that needs to be done is to change ALL versioned dependencies in other packages on xfree* to add "| xfree86". Then

Re: [Fink-devel] xfree86 4.3 pre-release package

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 04:02 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: On Fri, 7 Feb 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: Why exactly does it depend on xfree86 4.2.1.1? Is it only for the purposes of upgrading? Yes - to avoid having to tell people to dpkg -r --force-depends. Also, what about installing

Re: [Fink-devel] xfree86 4.3 pre-release package

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 08:13 PM, jeff whitaker wrote: Especially if there are binary packages available. The --force-depends is necessary - we've had that discussion in the past when the -threaded package was introduced. Ben Reed has reported a problem with apt - that can be fixed

Re: [Fink-devel] init.(c)sh

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 11:28 PM, John Davidorff Pell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was just thinking, is it possible to make /sw/bin/init.csh check whether /sw/bin and /sw/sbin are already in the path, and if so not add them again? I ask this for several r

[Fink-devel] Virex ships/overwrites fink libraries

2003-02-07 Thread Ben Hines
This is very bad. Fink users, don't install this. Virex 7.2, free to all .mac members installs: /Volumes/Virex 7.2.dmg/Virex 7.2.pkg 328 % lsbom Contents/Resources/Virex\ 7.2.bom | grep sw ./sw40775 0/80 ./sw/lib40775 0/80 ./sw/lib/libcrypto.0.9.6.dylib 100644 0/80945416 31

Re: [Fink-devel] the new openssl.

2003-02-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 08:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How long can I expect the older version to be around? Forever. Calm down. You can go back to the old one. I'll fix your package. However, the old openssl-dev needs to be updated to Conflict/Replace openssl097-dev, so it w

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Virex ships/overwrites fink libraries

2003-02-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, February 8, 2003, at 07:18 AM, Kyle Moffett wrote: feature in Virex. The engineers used several existing pieces of open-source software to make their job easier, but they forgot/didn't know how/whatever to move the libraries to /Library/Application Support. Probably not good to

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