Re: [fink-core] Proposal: pull the selfupdate-git changes into fink master

2012-12-06 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
> Another option: add a "git-boostrap" or "git-minimal" package with > most dependencies removed: Only "curl" is really needed, for support > of "pull" via http(s). Everything else could be removed with a little > work. Though some could potentially also replaced by uses of the > system versions of

[fink-core] PDB updates frozen from about 2 days ago.

2012-12-13 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
from .auto-logs: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.auto-logs/247193 Another process is running. at ./create-finkdb.pl line 167. Hanspeter -- LogMeIn Rescue: Anywhere, Anytime Remote support for IT. Free Trial

[fink-core] PDB daemon not running

2013-01-27 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
auto-logs show this error since January 12: nice: ./create-finkdb.pl: Permission denied The RSS/master script is also blocked since about January 16 with this error: another process is already running at /home/fink/cvs/scripts/rss-newpackages.pl line 31. Hanspeter ---

Re: [fink-core] finkproject.org is down again

2013-02-13 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 2/13/2013 9:43 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 2/10/13 10:54 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> The last log entry was at 15:40:01 CET, so it's been about 3 hours. >> > > It's now been about 99 hours. > > If nobody actually has the time to deal with these things, then we > should consider moving ou

[fink-core] perl5124 installs files into /usr/local

2013-02-24 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
During configure: Where do you keep publicly executable scripts? (~name ok) [/usr/local/scripts] which then causes the scripts to be installed into /usr/local/scripts, and the validator doesn't like it: Validating .deb dir /sw/build.build/root-perl5124-5.12.4-2... Error: File installed outside of

Re: [fink-core] perl5124 installs files into /usr/local

2013-02-24 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 2/24/2013 6:21 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > During configure: > Where do you keep publicly executable scripts? (~name ok) > [/usr/local/scripts] > > which then causes the scripts to be installed into /usr/local/scripts, > and the validator doesn't like it: &g

Re: [fink-core] perl5124 installs files into /usr/local

2013-02-24 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 2/24/2013 6:27 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: On 2/24/2013 6:21 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: During configure: Where do you keep publicly executable scripts? (~name ok) [/usr/local/scripts] which then causes the scripts to be installed into /usr/local/scripts, and the validator

[fink-core] gettext update on tracker

2013-03-26 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Jack Howarth posted an update to gettext on the tracker a month ago. http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414256&aid=3605792&group_id=17203 This bumps us from 0.18.1.1 to 0.18.2 (I then did a bump to 0.18.2.1). The update is pretty clean and I've been using it on 10.7 for almost a m

Re: [fink-core] gettext update on tracker

2013-03-26 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 3/26/2013 5:03 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 3/26/13 10:53 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >> Jack Howarth posted an update to gettext on the tracker a month ago. >> >> http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=414256&aid=3605792&group_id=17203 >

Re: [fink-core] cvs is jammed up.

2013-07-16 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 7/16/2013 11:13 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 7/16/13 8:11 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: >> For the past half hour I've been getting >> cvs commit: [15:07:15] waiting for aida_s's lock in >> /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto >> when trying to commit to 10.7/stable/main/finkinf

[fink-core] update to gettext 0.18.3.1

2013-08-23 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Since not everyone tracks the SF tracker, I've put an update to libgettext8/dpkg/libiconv to update our gettext to the latest upstream 0.18.3.1 The changes are minimal, except that I also bumped libiconv to 1.14. https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4346/ Hanspeter

Re: [fink-core] update to gettext 0.18.3.1

2013-08-23 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 8/23/2013 10:26 AM, TheSin wrote: > with dpkg 1.16.x coming is it required to update dpkg or should I > just use your updates in my fork to get it all at once? I don't think it matters. dpkg links to libgettext8-shlibs, and 0.18.2.1 and 0.18.3.1 should behave the same as far as it is concerne

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

2013-08-26 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 8/25/2013 6:08 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-tools lang-vala.log: > > Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) > In file included from > /sw/build.build/gettext-tools-0.18.3.1-1/gett

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

2013-09-11 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 9/11/2013 10:01 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 9/11/13 1:59 AM, Max Horn wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> I just closed a fink submission tracker item because it was 5 years old and >> outdated... so I set the status to "closed-out-of-date". But then I noticed >> the Milestone was still set to "Und

[fink-core] tar tests require autom4te

2013-09-13 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Was updating tar on 10.7 to (B)Dep on libiconv-1.14 and ran into this problem when it got to TestScript: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -I../gnu -I../gnu -I../gnu -I../lib -DLOCALEDIR=\"/sw/share/locale\" -I/sw/include -g -O2 -c argcv.c CCLD genfile make check-local /bin/sh /sw/build.build/

Re: [fink-core] tar tests require autom4te

2013-09-14 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 9/14/2013 6:00 AM, Max Horn wrote: Hi there, On 13.09.2013, at 14:53, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: Was updating tar on 10.7 to (B)Dep on libiconv-1.14 and ran into this problem when it got to TestScript: [...] Although this has a happy ending, if we ever modify tar test macros again

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

2013-09-19 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 9/19/2013 2:16 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Package manager version: 0.35.1 > Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Thu Sep 19 01:58:59 2013, 10.8, x86_64 > > `fink dumpinfo flac` ends prematurely with > > [] > builddependsonly: true > source: mirror:sourceforge:flac/flac-1.2.1.tar.gz > source-md

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

2013-09-19 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
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 >>> Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Thu Sep 19 01:58:59 2013, 10.8, >>>

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

2013-10-25 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
> Subject: fink mirrors no longer reachable > From: costa...@wanadoo.fr > > Whoever is receiving this message: It would be nice if you showed a > sign of life on the fink-core mailing list. And even better, of > course, if you could fix the dns records so that the fink mirrors > network starts to w

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-devel] perl5162-core build/install problem on case-sensitiveFS

2013-11-19 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
> ARCHFLAGS="" /usr/bin/arch -x86_64 perl5.16 Makefile.PL PERL="/usr/bin/arch > -x86_64 perl5.16" PREFIX=/sw INSTALLPRIVLIB=/sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2 > INSTALLARCHLIB=/sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2/darwin-thread-multi-2level > INSTALLSITELIB=/sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2 > INSTALLSITEARCH=/sw/lib/perl5/5.16.2/darwin-t

Re: [fink-core] new gzip: 1.6

2014-01-02 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 12/31/2013 12:56 AM, Jesse Alama wrote: > Current version of gzip in Fink (on 10.9) is 1.4; latest upstream > version is 1.6. It built fine and passed tests for me on 10.7. Only needed %v, MD5 and removed the BDepends: fink (0.24.12) Hanspeter --

Re: [fink-core] new gzip: 1.6

2014-01-04 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 1/4/2014 1:15 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Fri, 03 Jan 2014 13:46:14 -0800, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > On 1/2/14 11:07 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: >>> On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 11:16:00 -0500, Hanspeter Niederstrasser >>> wrote: >>> On 12/31/2013 12:56 AM, Jesse A

[fink-core] Results of 2014 Fink buildworld run on 10.9

2014-08-17 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Dear Fink developers and users, I've just published the results of a buildworld run on a 10.9 system. The buildworld tries to build every package in the Fink tree from scratch on a clean environment and so will find packaging problems that may be hidden on a production system. The general repo

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

2014-10-25 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 10/25/2014 2:21 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > It looks like something got broken in the ongoing website changes: > > Fiona:faq hansen$ make LANGUAGES=en && make install LANGUAGES=en > make: Nothing to be done for `all'. > Installing PHP files > cp -aindex.en.php general.en.php relations.

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

2014-10-25 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
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 again anyhow, I just >> needed the lazy tags fixed so I could work on the pdb, sorry I broke

[fink-core] openssl100 migration

2015-06-18 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
How does the ongoing openssl100 migration deal with the whole GPL vs openssl license issue? We could get away with it before because 1) linking with system-openssl used a system provided library, and 2) we did not have a binary distribution. However, #2 is no longer valid, and #1 will also be

Re: [fink-core] gettext 1.19.5.1

2015-08-21 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 8/21/2015 5:46 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > I also have updated gettext packages in my experimental. Are these from the submissions tracker I filed? https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4556/ Note that dpkg needs to be updated to use the updated gettext because (among other thin

Re: [fink-core] gettext 1.19.5.1

2015-08-28 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 8/22/2015 10:31 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > Daniel > >> On Aug 21, 2015, at 9:39 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser >> wrote: >> >>> On 8/21/2015 5:46 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: >>> I also have updated gettext packages in my experimental. >>

[fink-core] RFC: new license type

2015-10-03 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Currently (since 2005), (L)GPL packages that link to Fink's OpenSSL must be marked as Restrictive because we can't distribute binaries. A note is usually left in DescPackaging to keep track of the original license. With system-openssl dying with 10.11, there's going to be a large increase in pa

Re: [fink-core] RFC: new license type

2015-10-13 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 10/3/2015 3:33 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Sat, 3 Oct 2015 15:18:42 -0500, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > wrote: > Currently (since 2005), (L)GPL packages that link to Fink's OpenSSL must >> be marked as Restrictive because we can't distribute binaries. A note >> i

[fink-core] update to gettext 0.19.7

2015-12-29 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
I've put updated base packages that use gettext on the tracker. These bump it to the latest version. There is no libN change to the library and should be harmless. They built fine for me and passed all tests on 10.11. https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4586/ Hanspeter -

Re: [fink-core] Status as Fink maintainer?

2017-02-11 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 2/8/17 10:28 AM, Max Horn wrote: > Hi Fang, (CC: fink-core) > > I contacted you last October and this January about updates for mpfr and gmp, > with new info files attached. > > No reply by you. Could you please clarify whether you are still active as > package maintainer? FWIW, I contacted h

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

2017-10-07 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Forwarded Message Subject: CVS support at SourceForge and Nov. 30 Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2017 16:21:13 + From: SourceForge Support To: f...@snaggledworks.com Greetings project admin, We have been planning to discontinue CVS support here at SourceForge for several years now, an

Re: [fink-core] Fink development work flow: pull requests? reviews?

2018-01-06 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 1/2/18 4:24 AM, Max Horn wrote: Hi there, so I recently had some time and motivation to work on a few small patches for fink. And since things are now on GitHub, I thought it might be best to submit them as pull requests, so that they can be reviewed and then merged (as opposed to just pushin

Re: [fink-core] Merge #166 ?

2018-12-12 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 12/11/18 11:14 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: I was thinking that it might help us if we do the aforementioned merge to facilitate community testing, etc. -akh I'm OK with that. TheSin said he'd added a couple local changes on top of jwhowarth's pull and been running OK with them. I *think*

Re: [fink-core] Merge #166 ?

2018-12-14 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 12/14/18 6:18 AM, Max Horn wrote: On 12. Dec 2018, at 12:14, Max Horn wrote: On 12. Dec 2018, at 11:11, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: On 12/11/18 11:14 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: I was thinking that it might help us if we do the aforementioned merge to facilitate community

Re: [fink-core] Merge #166 ?

2018-12-16 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 12/16/18 9:41 AM, Max Horn wrote: Hi all, thanks for the feedback, I have fixed the ARCHFLAGS now and made the code generally more robust, adding a new helper Fink::Services::get_sdkpath() which returns an empty string on Darwin < 18 and the SDK path as returned by `xcrun --sdk macosx --sh

Re: [fink-core] Snitch

2018-12-18 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 12/16/18 11:00 AM, Justin Hallett wrote: Hi Core Team, I have been waiting for dmacks to get back on IRC but that doesn’t seem to be happening ;) It’s with sadness that I have to inform everyone that we need to move Snitch in the next month. I’m not sure if the fink teams would like to ju

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

2019-01-28 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
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 reason to keep the old 'web' repo? https://github.com/fink/web <- old https://

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

2019-01-31 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 1/28/19 6:28 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: 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 "temp

[fink-core] fix perl5162 on 10.14/Xcode10

2019-02-02 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 10.14, perl5162 fails with the error "ld: library not found for -lgcc_s.10.4". There are multible threads on fink-users[eg 1]. The problem is that perl5162 hardcodes MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.3 and this finally caught up with us on 10.14 I've submitted a pull request with the fix using up

Re: [fink-core] Backup website proposal

2019-02-07 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 2/5/19 10:56 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: 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 r

[fink-core] mirror status

2019-03-07 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
What's the status of the mirrors? Last I heard they were being transferred to mischi. Is that still happening? Hanspeter ___ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscript

Re: [fink-core] mirrors

2019-03-15 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Maybe we can point it to ns1.finkproject.org and I setup the zone, and secondary it to he.net like finkproject.org is?? That sounds reasonable. Is there a specific reason to have finkmirrors.net and finkproject.org have different servers? Hanspeter _

Re: [fink-core] mirrors

2019-03-21 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 3/20/19 6:49 AM, Justin Hallett wrote: I’m guessing we are just going to let the mirrors die? Should I turn it off on snitch to save resources? --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! Who has control of the DNS settings? Hanspeter __

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-devel] mirror dns

2019-06-01 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 5/29/19 8:45 PM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: I was able to recover the dotster password for finkmirrors.net and setup as much of the dns as I could with TheSIn’s help. We are down to a single host. Does anyone know a place that would help mirror our files? Gecko is sadly gone, and with it our .e

[fink-core] 10.15 discussion thread

2019-06-06 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
According to Apple's 10.15beta release notes: * During upgrades to macOS 10.15, files and folders stored at the root-level of a volume are moved aside to /Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-UUID/QuarantineRoot/. (45378791) It has a radar#, so hopefully that'll be taken care of before t

Re: [fink-core] 10.15 discussion thread

2019-06-06 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 6/6/19 7:58 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: According to Apple's 10.15beta release notes: * During upgrades to macOS 10.15, files and folders stored at the root-level of a volume are moved aside to /Library/SystemMigration/History/Migration-UUID/QuarantineRoot/. (45378791) It

[fink-core] merging pkgs for 10.14.5/10.5

2019-07-13 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Now that Fink HEAD knows about dist 10.14.5 and 10.15, is there any reason to not merge the updates to fink-distributions so we can have necessary packages available there (such as perlXXX, texinfo, gccX, etc)? https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/pull/423 Hanspeter ___

[fink-core] review fink#200 (allow zsh as SHELL in pathsetup script)

2020-03-25 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Can I please get a review for fink PR #200: https://github.com/fink/fink/pull/200 This makes zsh a known shell inside the pathsetup script. 10.15 defaults to zsh, so we should make this work for new 10.15 users. Hanspeter ___ fink-core mailing list

[fink-core] status of Fink packages

2020-04-27 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Hi Daniel, Hope things are OK with you in our current situation. What's the status of your Fink packages? There are several issues and pull requests related to Fink's python packages that have not received any response. Should we proceed with these, especially those that are FTBFS? https://g

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

2020-08-28 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
What's the upgrade process for the dpkg1.16 branch and the dists tree? Several packages are now essential (e.g. time-date-pm and xz) and will have to be moved from their present subfolders in dists to 'base'. Also, some base packages have newer versions than what's in the dpkg1.16 branch sourc

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

2020-09-02 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
nch needs a new tree then it can be added. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On Aug 28, 2020, at 9:59 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On Aug 28, 2020, at 02:42, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: What's the upgrade p

[fink-core] changes needed to matching kernel version with macOS release

2020-12-19 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
BigSur11.1 broke the kernel version to macOS release mapping that existed through the entire 10.X series. Previously, the major kernel version tracked the minor macOS release (with a -4 offset). So macOS 10.13 is darwin17, 10.15 is darwin19, etc. The minor kernel version mostly tracked point u

[fink-core] status of Fink's xinitrc package

2021-05-10 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Hi AIDA, The recent update to Xquartz 2.8 broke the package xinitrc because it moved xinit from X11/lib/X11/xinit to X11/etc/X11/xinit [1]. I was hoping to submit a fix for this change but can't find where the repository might be living. Is it on github? Thanks, [1] https://github.com/XQuart

Re: [fink-core] status of Fink's xinitrc package

2021-05-15 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 5/12/21 9:07 AM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: I think the Xquartz maintainer is reducing his participation so it might be quicker to fix it on our end. On Mon, 10 May 2021, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: Hi AIDA, The recent update to Xquartz 2.8 broke the package xinitrc because it moved

[fink-core] merging dpkg1.16

2022-02-28 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
Are there any objections *against* merging the dpkg1.16 (now with dpkg-1.19) into fink-master? Any outstanding bugs with it might be better dealt with in the main tree rather than in a forked branch. Please reply with no-merge or merge. Hanspeter -- The appearance of the concept of good and

[fink-core] Fixes needed before next fink release

2023-09-14 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
macOS 14 (Sonoma) just went into release candidate, so the final will probably be released real soon now. AFAICT, we have support through 14.0RC in master, so in theory a release should be doable. The new release tracker is at https://github.com/fink/fink/issues/254 There are 3 action items th