Re: [fink-core] upgrade process for big sur/dpkg1.16

2020-08-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
et. al. in the dpkg1.16 branch and also apply the branch-specific changes - i.e. merge them in a logical sense if not in a Git sense. I hate to say it, but this might be a case for a new distro and clean reinstall rather than update in place. I know we just did that for Catalina, but my impre

Re: [fink-core] Criteria (both man and machine) for a replacement for the mirror volunteer? Re: [Fink-users] Is Fink alive? (fwd)

2019-03-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
person and the > necessary system(s) - for such a volunteer? I am tentatively interested. > > Thank You, > -- > Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt > Cornell University IT Security Office > > -- Forwarded message ------ > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 04:03:56 + > F

[fink-core] fink-0.44.1 tagged

2019-03-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
Hey, folks. I’ve tagged a bugfix fink-0.44.1, mainly because bzip2 is currently busted for bootstrap. I’m too tired to do a release tonight, but I should be able to swing it tomorrow sometime unless somebody beats me to it. —Alex ___ fink-core maili

[fink-core] mirrors

2019-03-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
Hey, folks. Our mirror issue is just that the finkmirrors.net domain needs to be fixed. Does anybody remember who owns it? —Akh ___ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Su

[fink-core] Backup website proposal

2019-02-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
Hi, folks. If for some reason we have any downtime in getting our existing website infrastructure deployed, I’d like to propose using the website functionality on GitHub to set up a reduced interim version. Honestly, if we didn’t need the PDB, I’d rather use that as our main website because it

Re: [fink-core] web (old) vs website (current) repo

2019-01-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jan 28, 2019, at 03:24, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > wrote: > > in Github, we currently have the 'website' repo that's the up to date version > of our website and docs. There's also a 'web' repo that's a "temporary and > incomplete" conversion of the old CVS web module. Is there any reaso

Re: [fink-core] Merge #166 ?

2018-12-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
have some Fink time due to unforeseen and unpleasant circumstances, so I can do a release and document the procedure I follow once we’re ready. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Hanspeter Niederstrasser Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 2:11 AM To: Alexander Hansen; fink-core Subject: Re

[fink-core] Merge #166 ?

2018-12-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
I was thinking that it might help us if we do the aforementioned merge to facilitate community testing, etc. -akh ___ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription manag

Re: [fink-core] CVS support at SourceForge and Nov. 30

2017-12-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 09:05, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > > >> On Dec 1, 2017, at 05:35, Max Horn wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> >> SF.net meant to disable CVS commits yesterday, but it seems they have not >> yet (at least I was just a

Re: [fink-core] CVS support at SourceForge and Nov. 30

2017-12-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Dec 1, 2017, at 05:35, Max Horn wrote: > > Dear all, > > > SF.net meant to disable CVS commits yesterday, but it seems they have not yet > (at least I was just able to commit something). > > > I have been badly out of the loop, but: is anybody working on a transition > plan? It seems

[fink-core] CVS commit freeze effective immediately

2017-12-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
Since SourceForge.net was supposed to disable writes to the CVS repository any day now. Based on this I’m declaring a soft freeze on CVS commits. Please wait to update any non-base packages until we get the git distribution fully up and running. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] homepage broken link

2017-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
e-mail: j...@inesc-id.pt > <mailto:j...@inesc-id.pt> Thanks for the reminder. We’ve got an issue open for this link: https://github.com/fink/website/issues/18 <https://github.com/fink/website/issues/18> The fink version in the binary distribution got updated and the ol

[fink-core] Fwd: Potential conversion of fink CVS repo to SVN

2017-10-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Wayne Davison > Subject: Potential conversion of fink CVS repo to SVN > Date: October 7, 2017 at 09:30:07 PDT > To: wdavi...@sourceforge.net > > FYI, I did a test conversion of your fink repo to SVN yesterday to see how > long it would take (FYI, it took a

[fink-core] Time to de-emphasize SourceForge

2017-09-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
able to associate them directly with the relevant .info and .patch files once we get the distribution up and running there. I’m still OK with using SourceForge to host our tarballs. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] cvs currently broken

2017-09-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 16:20, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > I can’t cvs update. The old stale lock problem: > cvs update: [23:12:34] waiting for thesin’s lock in > /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/net > It’s been going on for a while. Unfortunately, when I tried to use adminrepo

Re: [fink-core] dpkg build failure on 10.13

2017-09-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Sep 28, 2017, at 15:28, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > While updating to dpkg 1.10.21-1246 on 10.13 I get the following error: > > /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C "scripts" "all" > sed -e "s:^#![:space:]*/usr/bin/perl:#! /usr/bin/perl:; \ > > s:\$dpkgl

Re: [fink-core] Perl 5.30 compat

2017-08-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Aug 21, 2017, at 13:10, TheSin wrote: > > I’d like to recommend this change to the current code base for future perl, > and to fix the PDB, I’m just not sure if it works on all fink supported > version of OS X (macOS). > > diff --git a/perlmod/Fink/VirtPackage.pm b/perlmod/Fink/VirtPacka

Re: [fink-core] documentation correction for http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php

2017-03-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
ith betas or other nonstandard setups. I’ve gone ahead and replaced /path/to with /Applications, since it is indeed the most likely case, but left the “replace /Applications with the actual path”, since that still covers alternative install locations. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

[fink-core] Unresolved ccfits maintainer email address

2016-11-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
7.106.50] > Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 > ... User unknown' (delivery attempts: 0) > > From: Alexander Hansen > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] build of ccfits fails > Date: November 7, 2016 at 09:08:22 PST > To: Daniel Gruen > Cc: fink

Re: [fink-core] New openssl location

2016-09-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
ink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/base/cvs.info?view=log With that not actually the case, I don’t see a compelling reason to put the newer libversion there. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- ___

Re: [fink-core] New openssl location

2016-09-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Sep 26, 2016, at 04:44, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > There is a new OpenSSL libversion out, 1.1.0. I’ve made a new package but > want to check with everyone else where I should put it, base or crypto. It > does have a new BuildDepends, text-template-pm, so that would have to move to > base

[fink-core] Release for 10.12 GM

2016-09-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
of those courses of action? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- ___ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org

Re: [fink-core] Expat at Fink / Expat 2.2.0 has been released

2016-06-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
/expat1> The fink-core list is fine for both regular updates and security issues. I’ve put packaging up at https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4702/ <https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4702/> for evaluation. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] apt-get-lockwait update hangs every time

2016-05-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
CC’ing the proper chain of command. I don’t really feel like speaking for the entire project in private discussion. > On May 30, 2016, at 12:32, Ian Boardman wrote: > > Dear Alexander, > I have no network problem reaching fink project servers from my Mac via my > Comcast ISP. I have no pro

Re: [fink-core] apt-shlibs-0.5.4-1061

2016-05-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
ersion > gcc version: 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81) > make version: 3.81 > Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander > Debug information: essentially nonexistent. We can’t help you solve this without seeing some output from a build. Fink Commander’s feedback is pretty minimal—all we get is what yo

Re: [fink-core] bzip2-dev-1.0.6-1

2016-05-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
ersion > gcc version: 7.0.2 (clang-700.1.81) > make version: 3.81 > Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander Debug information: essentially nonexistent. We can’t help you solve this without seeing some output from a build. Fink Commander’s feedback is pretty minimal—all we get is what you see abo

[fink-core] Fwd: [fink/fink-mirrors] OK to decommission fink.macosforge.org? (#6)

2016-05-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Ryan Schmidt > Subject: Re: [fink/fink-mirrors] OK to decommission fink.macosforge.org? (#6) > Date: May 5, 2016 at 10:07:05 PDT > To: fink/fink-mirrors > Cc: Alexander Hansen , State change > > Reply-To: fink/fink-mirrors &g

[fink-core] Fwd: [fink/fink-mirrors] OK to decommission fink.macosforge.org? (#6)

2016-05-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Ryan Schmidt > Subject: Re: [fink/fink-mirrors] OK to decommission fink.macosforge.org? (#6) > Date: May 1, 2016 at 18:12:11 PDT > To: fink/fink-mirrors > Cc: Alexander Hansen , State change > > Reply-To: fink/fink-mirrors >

[fink-core] Any objections to a new fink release?

2016-02-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
We’re a couple of El Capitan teeny versions behind on “This distribution is supported and tested.” :-) We’ve also had a few other fixes. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get

Re: [fink-core] Fink-mirrors post from o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de requires approval

2016-02-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
CC’ing -core since you didn’t. All of the sources for all of the packages in the Fink distribution total only a few Gig (not counting older versions of source archives), and typical packages are a lot less, so I wouldn’t necessarily say that users “aren’t using” your mirror—Fink’s source distr

Re: [fink-core] Correct contact address?

2016-01-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jan 22, 2016, at 08:40, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > > You can send it to the sourceforge address but it just all ends up being > forwarded to ht...@twofifty.com anyway. :) While it’s on my mind, I’ve started adding you as a list admin. Message me on IRC about the passwords. -

Re: [fink-core] Updates regarding ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

2016-01-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
I don’t do much with the mirrors, but I do have a comment. Hopefully other folks will comment as appropriate. > On Jan 23, 2016, at 05:15, Carsten Otto > wrote: > > [pushes] > If possible, we'd like to be notified about updates to your repository, > instead of frequently checking via rsync

Re: [fink-core] Correct contact address?

2016-01-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
Sounds good. Send me the email address you’ll want to have filled with list SPAM. :-) > On Jan 21, 2016, at 20:43, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > > I'm willing to sign up for lists and moderate too. Let me know. > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2016, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >>

Re: [fink-core] Correct contact address?

2016-01-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jan 21, 2016, at 13:46, Carsten Otto > wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:43:20PM -0800, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> Nope. Since you’re not actually subscribed to the lists you’re at the >> mercy of the (unpaid) list moderator’s sched

Re: [fink-core] Correct contact address?

2016-01-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
e, though we really need to get a few more team members subscribed to (or at least to read—I’d forgotten it even existed) the former. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibili

Re: [fink-core] apt-get-lockout hangs in every case

2016-01-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
-i ” (that is, use the relative or absolute path to the file you just downloaded. The one drawback is that dependencies aren’t handled automatically. 2) If you also aren’t able to fetch package sources, you can download the sources using a brow

[fink-core] Website issue

2015-12-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
. According to http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/web/download/ the relevant files are present in CVS, so I’m wondering if they didn’t get transferred to the web server. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] Easy fix for binary system on 10.4

2015-12-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
proper URIs, thus the 10.4 and 10.5 binary distributions can’t use apt-get anymore. It’s worth pointing out that these packages were built in 2006, we didn’t stop supporting 10.4 until 2011 and there were still updates for some packages there into this year. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink

[fink-core] fink release

2015-10-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
? I’m kind of in favor of the first option, since that’ll cut down on the “I upgraded and hosed my fink” complaints. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- ___ fink-core

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-beginners] can not install any package.

2015-09-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Sep 29, 2015, at 06:37, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > >> >> On Sep 27, 2015, at 22:25, Oner Sufri > <mailto:oner.su...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I currently deleted oldest version of Fink and installed the latest ver

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-beginners] can not install any package.

2015-09-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
.32-3 ... >Failed: phase compiling: libidn-1.32-3 failed > > I have OS 10.9.5. I would like to get some help please. > > Thank you > > Oner Sufri > It looks like the new version of gettext-tools needs the xz package to be installed. Do a “fink insta

[fink-core] Fwd: fink-core post from willytra...@juno.com requires approval

2015-07-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the > GNU General Public License for more details. > > Willy Traver > I love my Macs. I love my Macs. I love my Macs > > We don’t support any OS X earlier than 10.7 anymore. Try editing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/10.4-EOL/base/l

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

2015-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 15, 2015, at 09:10, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > > > >>> Thinking further, it might be best not to get cute and just set up a >>> 10.9-libc++ distribution in CVS, and then do the git migration after we >>> club all of the packages

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

2015-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
It could be a bit much to make the new > dist AND switch VCS at the same time. Best to start with a known non-broken > state. :) > > Daniel I’ll go ahead and initialize this sometime later this week, if nobody objects. --

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

2015-06-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 15:33, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > > >> On Jun 10, 2015, at 15:25, Daniel Johnson wrote: >> >> >>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Alexander Hansen >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> On Jun 10,

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

2015-06-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 15:25, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > >> On Jun 10, 2015, at 5:44 PM, Alexander Hansen >> wrote: >> >>> >>> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:53, Alexander Hansen >>> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>>

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

2015-06-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:53, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > >> >> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:50, Daniel Macks wrote: >> >> On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:05 -0700, Alexander Hansen >> wrote: >> No surprise there. :-) >>> >>> I was going

Re: [fink-core] Update to dpkg-base-files to handle known cases of files that block app bundle installs:

2015-06-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 10:29, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > > I added the following to the end of the prerm script: > > … > # look for PkgInfo and other problematic app bundle files and remove them > for file in `dpkg -L $FINK_PACKAGE_NAME` ; do > if [[ "$fi

[fink-core] Update to dpkg-base-files to handle known cases of files that block app bundle installs:

2015-06-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
ahead and use it for all supported OS X? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- ___ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.o

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as arepository for distributions

2015-06-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:50, Daniel Macks wrote: > > On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:05 -0700, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > No surprise there. :-) >> >> I was going to initialize the 10.9-libc++ distribution, but then I >> got to thinking about whether it mig

[fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

2015-06-10 Thread Alexander Hansen
No surprise there. :-) I was going to initialize the 10.9-libc++ distribution, but then I got to thinking about whether it might not be a bad plan to use a cvs import of the 10.7 tree and then rename the directory, so that we can preserve the history. Thoughts? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink

Re: [fink-core] missing base filename in web/srcdist.en.php

2015-04-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
> -- > Charles Lepple > clepple@gmail > > Thanks! A fix should show up in a few minutes. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual

Re: [fink-core] udunits2-2.2.18-1 download fails

2015-02-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
ees: local/main stable/main > > fink --version > Package manager version: 0.38.3 > Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Thu Feb 5 19:05:54 2015, 10.10, x86_64 > Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto Nope, it was updated, but incorrectly. :-) It s

Re: [fink-core] Fink 0.38.3 backported to 10.4

2015-01-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
/bin/env perl" is that every Fink perl5XY package (not perl5XY-core) has a /sw/bin/perl , and so it might be possible to have a /sw/bin/perl version which isn't compatible with the current fink code (I don't recall what versions we have on 10.4, though). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fi

Re: [fink-core] Fink 0.38.3 backported to 10.4

2015-01-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
18.2 via a PatchScript. The install operation would then be: 1) Have people bootstrap with fink-0.30.2 on 10.4. 2) Have the first selfupdate bring in fink-0.38.3-31 I'll cc one of our developers who is interested in keeping up with 10.4/PPC development, since he has a test machine and w

Re: [fink-core] dpkg-deb -Z

2014-12-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
and I came to know that the dpkg-deb Option for compression is not > mention. Does it require other installation technique. > > I want to change compression form gzip to lzma. Would you please help me > out? > > Regards, > > Paarth I'm cc'ing the appropriate discus

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] system-java16-dev on OSX 10.10

2014-11-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 16, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Sean Lake wrote: > > >> On Nov 16, 2014, at 7:13, Alexander Hansen >> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On Nov 16, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Sean Lake wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 16, 2014, at 6:55

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] system-java16-dev on OSX 10.10

2014-11-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
> On Nov 16, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Sean Lake wrote: > > >> On Nov 16, 2014, at 6:55, Alexander Hansen >> wrote: >> >> >>> On Nov 15, 2014, at 6:53 PM, Sean Lake wrote: >>> >>> Ok, fixed it. Installed Oracle’s Java. >>

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] system-java16-dev on OSX 10.10

2014-11-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
OS versions, and 1) for packages which are always possible to satisfy. We might want to switch system-java-dev over to 1). Option 1) has fink go through an install procedure and then gives a more verbose error message, so it seems more appropriate here. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User L

Re: [fink-core] kde x11 variant

2014-11-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
sting KDE versions from 10.6 didn’t work on 10.7 and later, and the current version of Qt really doesn’t want to build for X11 on OS X. Thus, we now only build native (Aqua) KDE for 10.7+ . -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] Can't update website

2014-10-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/25/14, 7:25 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 10/25/2014 9:02 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On 10/25/14, 6:38 PM, TheSin wrote: >>> and oddly enough I can not get it to work with that now. which is >>> fine I don’t want to have to use that xml thing agai

Re: [fink-core] Can't update website

2014-10-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
. > --- > TS > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > I guess I'm done with documentation and web stuff then, since we don't have anything that can be edited in a workable fashion. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink

[fink-core] Can't update website

2014-10-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
/../faq/ usage: cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file target_file cp [-R [-H | -L | -P]] [-fi | -n] [-apvX] source_file ... target_directory make: *** [install] Error 64 I really don't want to have to have coreutils-default installed to work on the docs if it's not

Re: [fink-core] Servers down

2014-10-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
between the chaos! > Thanks for that! -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0

Re: [fink-core] Servers down

2014-10-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/12/14, 2:09 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 12/10/14 10:31, Martin Costabel wrote: >> is currentlyseems to be down > > (Crazy mailer, sigh..) > > snitch.finkproject.org is currently down, etc. > It's working for me currently. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink Us

Re: [fink-core] base-files-1.9.15-1

2014-09-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
5.1 (clang-503.0.40) (based on LLVM 3.4svn) > make version: 3.81 > Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander > Indeed it should. However, we can't legally provide Xcode for download, so it's up to _you_ to download and install the proper version before bootstrapping Fink. -- Ale

Re: [fink-core] circular depends for dpkg…

2014-08-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
ris zubrzycki > - -- > PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt > ID: 0xA2ABC070 > Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 > > Security Is A Series Of Well-Defined Steps... >

[fink-core] fink-0.37.1

2014-07-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
We haven't accumulated any bugfixes or enhancements in master since 0.37.0, but OS 10.9.4 was released. Should we wait a bit for a release or go ahead? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpres

[fink-core] EOL for 10.6 at the end of May 2014

2014-05-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
always, individual maintainers will be free to make package updates for 10.6 (and earlier OS X), but they will be responsible for cleaning up any messes they leave. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com

Re: [fink-core] apt-0.5.4-1061 build failure

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 4/22/14, 12:55 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 4/22/14, 12:40 PM, Max Horn wrote: >>> My thought for #1 was a bit simpler: just have the three >>> compiler-wrapper*.in files sitting around in the source and not >>> generate them dynamically at all. >> >&

Re: [fink-core] apt-0.5.4-1061 build failure

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
e original thought was to have the wrappers in the .deb, but then it was decided not to do that, but the initial concept of installing into the .deb never got removed. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ---

Re: [fink-core] apt-0.5.4-1061 build failure

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 4/22/14, 11:39 AM, Max Horn wrote: > Hi again, > > On 22.04.2014, at 20:19, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 4/22/14, 10:47 AM, Max Horn wrote: > > [...] > >> >> Ah, that explains it. I didn't appreciate that the logic in PkgVersion.pm >> on

Re: [fink-core] apt-0.5.4-1061 build failure

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
> and none of these are actually used, but relies on FinkVersion.pm to > install the wrappers that do get used. Oops. That's PkgVersion.pm -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wo

Re: [fink-core] apt-0.5.4-1061 build failure

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 4/22/14, 10:47 AM, Max Horn wrote: > > On 22.04.2014, at 17:19, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 4/22/14, 8:12 AM, Max Horn wrote: > > [...] > >> >> It can and does work for clang versions other than the one for Xcode 5.0 >> because I tested it aga

Re: [fink-core] apt-0.5.4-1061 build failure

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 4/22/14, 8:12 AM, Max Horn wrote: > > On 22.04.2014, at 16:58, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 4/22/14, 5:48 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: >>> On 22/04/14 14:05, Max Horn wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> trying to build apt-0.5.4-1061 fails

Re: [fink-core] apt-0.5.4-1061 build failure

2014-04-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
er than including it in the .deb, which meant that it could only be changed manually or by removing it before updating fink. fink-0.36.4 removes compiler_wrapper in postinstall so that Fink::PkgVersion::ensure_clang_prefix() c

Re: [fink-core] new gzip: 1.6

2014-01-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
t built fine and passed tests for me on 10.7. Only needed %v, MD5 >> and removed the BDepends: fink (0.24.12) > > Also looks fine on 10.8. Knocked revision back down to 1. > > dan > >-- > Daniel Macks > dma...@netspace.org > > And it works on 10.9 and 10.6/bot

Re: [fink-core] 10.6/i386 fixes

2013-12-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 12/30/13 8:53 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Mon, 30 Dec 2013 07:48:28 -0800, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > Those would be >> >> https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/104 >> >> or >> >> https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/103 >> >> but not both. &

[fink-core] 10.6/i386 fixes

2013-12-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
days. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear pict

Re: [fink-core] Finkproject.org email aliases not working

2013-12-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
il. The new finkproject.org machine doesn't have mail set up just yet. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Rapidly troubleshoot problems before t

[fink-core] Time for a new release?

2013-11-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
r the Xcode CLI version early on in the bootstrap, mainly to avoid having people use the 10.8 CL tools on 10.9. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- DreamFactory -

Re: [fink-core] webservices

2013-11-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
rab data from github instead. Once we've got those, it might be good to encourage all of our mirrors to get their rsync data that way, so that _we_ aren't the central point of failure. :-) distfiles is another matter, of course. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My pac

Re: [fink-core] base-files release for 10.9?

2013-11-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
2. Well, I just committed > a change for that to the base-files repository. > > Unless there are more things we need to change there, I guess making a > release of base-files would be in order. > > > Thanks. The only other change was to update the NEWS file. :-) I just put ou

Re: [fink-core] last =cut in perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate/CVS.pm causes fink selfupdate to fail with 0.35.2 and 0.36.0

2013-11-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 11/3/13 5:41 PM, Jason Byrne wrote: > On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Alexander Hansen > wrote: >> On 11/3/13 5:27 PM, Jason Byrne wrote: >>> >>> FYI, the full transcript (notice there's also a complaint about >>> setup.sh, line 48, but I didn'

Re: [fink-core] last =cut in perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate/CVS.pm causes fink selfupdate to fail with 0.35.2 and 0.36.0

2013-11-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
un "fink selfupdate" and try again. > Also try using "fink configure" to set your maximum build jobs to 1 and > attempt to build the package again. > If you continue to have issues, please check to see if the FAQ on

Re: [fink-core] last =cut in perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate/CVS.pm causes fink selfupdate to fail with 0.35.2 and 0.36.0

2013-11-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 11/3/13 4:53 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 11/3/13 4:44 PM, Jason Byrne wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I just joined this list to report this issue that causes fink >> selfupdate to fail when trying to update to fink 0.35.2 or fink >> 0.36.0. >> >> The erro

Re: [fink-core] last =cut in perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate/CVS.pm causes fink selfupdate to fail with 0.35.2 and 0.36.0

2013-11-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
on? I haven't seen this error when doing a selfupdate from 0.35.2 to 0.36.0 on 10.6 or 10.8. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Android is increasing in popula

Re: [fink-core] update-passwd.in has hardcoded /sw

2013-11-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
d-fink > Enter a value manually. > Enter a value for the UID: > > > Cheers, > Remi > > > I had fixed that in the master branch on passwd's github, but then got distracted by trying to get fink released. Sorry about the delay. Version 20131103 should sol

Re: [fink-core] [fink-core-private] Domainprivacygroup.com received a message concerning domain finkmirrors.net

2013-10-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
rather than having it be monitored. If someone is in the Amsterdam area, maybe they can go pick the machine up, take it home, and see why it got to be so unreliable of late--it's actually still up, and ping-able, but most of the useful services are unresponsive. -- Alexander Hansen,

Re: [fink-core] Finch and Fink service requirements.

2013-10-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
ut for now lets just get our domain, web services, pdb and mirrors back up > and stable. > --- > TS > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > The pdb stuff is still in CVS on sourceforge, so that's not a problem. I don't r

Re: [fink-core] Finch and Fink service requirements.

2013-10-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > > That'd be great! Apart from the human user accounts, the package database scripts ran as a "pdb" user--but I don't happen to know what other groups that user was a mem

[fink-core] I'm going to have spotty internet for a few days

2013-10-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
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Re: [fink-core] Time for a new release ?

2013-09-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
doing one of the changes related to Xcode 5 in a different way, but that appears not to have resulted in any code. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ --

Re: [fink-core] Fwd: [Fink-users] fink with Xcode 5

2013-09-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
f yet. > So far I've tried rebuilding tar and then dpkg. I have a bootstrap > running, but it hasn't finished yet. Bootstrap worked for me, too (having applied the changes noted in issue # 86)--I made sure to use a shell session where my regular fink was deactivated. -- Alexan

[fink-core] Fwd: [Fink-users] fink with Xcode 5

2013-09-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
(Sorry for the top-post). I tried this myself, but I haven't been reproduce the issue as of yet. So far I've tried rebuilding tar and then dpkg. I have a bootstrap running, but it hasn't finished yet. Original Message Subject:[Fink-users] fink with Xcode 5 Date: S

Re: [fink-core] fink dumpinfo crashes on patchfile2

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/19/13 3:24 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 9/19/2013 3:19 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On 9/19/13 11:54 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >>> On 9/19/2013 2:16 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: >>>> Package manager version: 0.35.1 >>>> Distribu

Re: [fink-core] fink doesn't build with new xcode 5

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
uces a change in behavior in that /usr/bin/gcc is no longer a symlink. I don't know how necessary this test actually is--it's a leftover from the period when folks needed to use "gcc_select" to switch the default compiler. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My pack

Re: [fink-core] fink dumpinfo crashes on patchfile2

2013-09-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
ing fink-git from > the dpkg branch. > > Hanspeter > > The following match in Engine.pm seems to be the culprit here: $_ =~ /^patch(|\d*file|\d*file-md5)$/ or $_ eq 'appbundles' or It looks like the \d got placed in the wrong locat

Re: [fink-core] SF.net tracker "milestones"

2013-09-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
ds of silly to duplicate the "status" field > value, though) > - "Closed: other reason" (might be best as it'll help in other border cases) > > The tracker item in question is here: >https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/3102/ > > > Che

Re: [fink-core] issues with the recent updates to gettext and friends

2013-08-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/25/13 9:06 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: > On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 8/25/13 3:08 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> 1) My bad, I didn't test using -m mode. There's a test failure for >>> folks with vala installed. In gettext-

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