[Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-03 Thread Max Horn
[I planed to send this over one week ago, but many things got in my way, sorry] I think we should make a 0.4.0 distro release pretty soon. To prevent problems like last time, I'd like to have the release process formalized more than it is (which is not at all). I believe this will benefit us

[Fink-devel] libraries....fun.

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am working on porting giFT, the Open Fast Track protocol, and in the info file, if I use --prefix=%p, everything is installed to the proper place without being put into the deb. If I use %i

[Fink-devel] Re: so much m4

2002-04-03 Thread Yves de Champlain
Sorry, this is not related to configure, it is caused by a autogen.sh Hi I get this message while running a configure script : Please add the files codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4 progtest.m4 from the /sw/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf

[Fink-devel] Feedback on some unstable packages?

2002-04-03 Thread Christian Schaffner
I am the maintainer of the following packages and would like to get some feedback so we could decide to move them to stable (or not ;-) ): template-pm 2.06f-1 Fast extensible template processing system. appconfig-pm1.52-1 Perl modules for reading config files etc.

Re: [Fink-devel] Ethereal

2002-04-03 Thread Olivier M.
On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:48:10PM -0500, Gary Kerbaugh wrote: Well, I doggedly updated to Ethereal 9.3 when you posted it to CVS. Voila!! (Sorry about the French, but I don't know the German word) It works perfectly! In fact, it's bulletproof!! I tried everything I could to crash it and

[Fink-devel] tamperproof debs

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Is there any way of signing the deb files in the bin dist to make sure they were make by an authorized developer? Is this in the plan for the future? I remember reading that debian maintainers signs thier packages. just a thought. - -chris

Re: [Fink-devel] Ethereal

2002-04-03 Thread Max Horn
At 14:45 Uhr +0200 03.04.2002, Olivier M. wrote: On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 06:48:10PM -0500, Gary Kerbaugh wrote: Well, I doggedly updated to Ethereal 9.3 when you posted it to CVS. Voila!! (Sorry about the French, but I don't know the German word) It works perfectly! In fact, it's

Re: [Fink-devel] Feedback on some unstable packages?

2002-04-03 Thread Max Horn
If you want feedback on packages, it's a bad idea to jsut send this to fink-devel. Send it to fink-users or even also to fink-beginners. There are only a few people on fink-devel, and those are mostly busy developing stuff for Fink, and not having that much time to test tons of other

Re: [Fink-devel] fink index feedback

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 09:11 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: I'm happy to report that the new caching code in fink (in the CVS version only, for those who don't know) is working great for me. I know it's in CVS, but I am confused. I run

Re: [Fink-devel] fink index feedback

2002-04-03 Thread David R. Morrison
When fink itself is being worked on, the way to test it is this: 1) checkout the fink module using cvs 2) within that fink module, run ./inject.pl That will install the bleeding-edge fink package manager. -- Dave ___ Fink-devel mailing list

Re: [Fink-devel] fink index feedback

2002-04-03 Thread Peter O'Gorman
You forgot to check out the fink module from cvs :-) Fink will only update itself for point releases, in between times you have to cvs update the fink module and run ./inject.pl On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 11:42 PM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: I know it's in CVS, but I am confused. I run

Re: [Fink-devel] fink index feedback

2002-04-03 Thread Ben Hines
At 5:53 PM +0200 4/3/02, Max Horn wrote: You must install storable-pm to get any caching. Will this be added as an essential package? Or will only folks who are in the know get to have caching? :) -Ben -- http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/ ___

Re: [Fink-devel] Package nessus and gtk+ friends

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Thomas Kotzian wrote: The unstable package nessus-1.0.10-1.info (and friends) need package gtk+-shlibs but can't find it. I think you geenerally get $foo-shlibs whenever you install $foo (at least, that's the idea how). In this case I'm pretty sure that if you install

[Fink-devel] Lost my ability to X...

2002-04-03 Thread Benjamin Reed
I was doing a clean install on my laptop, and have been getting my stuff all up to date. My xfree86-rootless seems to be missing some stuff for the Finder side of things: /Applications /Applications/XDarwin.app /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents /Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/MacOS

Re: [Fink-devel] Lost my ability to X...

2002-04-03 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 09:02 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: /Applications/XDarwin.app This has happened to me before. I do not know why this happens, but for future reference, do dpkg -S /Applications/XDarwin.app, and it will tell you

Re: [Fink-devel] Package nessus and gtk+ friends

2002-04-03 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:06 PM -0700 4/3/02, Justin Hallett wrote: gtk+ is a splitoff package which means it has the info for shlibs in the main info file which should be in the gnome dir. If your not running full unstable you'll need to copy over the gtk+ pkg from unstable gnome dir to local. No, the new gtk+