Re: [Fink-devel] libjconv 403 with wget, but not curl

2002-04-18 Thread Olivier M.
On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 03:32:51PM +0200, Max Horn wrote: Funny: with curl it works! But it seems the server filters wget requests! I confirm. Very curious. Indeed. But don't draw the conclusion now that curl was better. i :-) recently had the exact opposite (sorry, forgot with

Re: [Fink-devel] libjconv 403 with wget, but not curl

2002-04-18 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002, Olivier M. wrote: what about patching fink to make it set the useragent on the fink and curl command line to something classical ? (Mozilla, IE, etc...). Would be a small thing, and would prevent further problems of his kind. I don't like that idea. Automated

[Fink-devel] NetInfo Trashing Machines

2002-04-18 Thread Gary Kerbaugh
Hi Guys, Forgive me if this is old news but searching the list didn't find a discussion of this. I may having simply searched for the wrong words. NetInfo apparently has a bug. (surprise, surprise) It has caused the following problem that I've heard about on lists lately. Fink creates

Re: [Fink-devel] NetInfo Trashing Machines

2002-04-18 Thread Max Horn
At 17:30 Uhr +0200 18.04.2002, Max Horn wrote: At 11:09 Uhr -0400 18.04.2002, Gary Kerbaugh wrote: [...] It is clear that the problem lies with NetInfo but the experience doubtless leaves these unfortunate victims with a bad feeling toward Fink. Indeed. Is it absolutely necessary to

[Fink-devel] stable unfreeze

2002-04-18 Thread Max Horn
Justin just told me I better announce this formally: stable freeze is over. You can modify it again now as you wish. BTW, I just noticed gtk-doc in stable depends on openjade which is not in stable currently. Max -- --- Max Horn Software

Re: [Fink-devel] NetInfo Trashing Machines

2002-04-18 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 04:09 PM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote: Some users have used NetInfo to delete these users and NetInfo replies with a dialog asking if the user would like to have ownership of the deleted user's files transferred to him. The user thinks, What harm could that do?

Re: [Fink-devel] NetInfo Trashing Machines

2002-04-18 Thread Gary Kerbaugh
on 4/18/02 11:43 AM, Max Horn wrote: ARGH! As it turns out, this was never fixed in stable, only in unstable! A very evil slip, grmbl. Not that evil. EVERY Fink user owes you a GREAT debt! You're doing an unbelievable job. Fink could have been dead in the water but the great ones step up

Re: [Fink-devel] NetInfo Trashing Machines

2002-04-18 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Thursday, April 18, 2002, at 11:57 PM, Gary Kerbaugh wrote: However, I feel that the greatest crime is the fact that NetInfo talks about changing ownership of files owned by the deleted extra user while, in fact, it changes ownership of EVERY file on the computer! NetInfo has