Re: [Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-01 Thread Martin Costabel
"David R. Morrison" wrote: > +2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all > +Fink users are urged to update the passwd package in their Fink > +installations as follows: > + Use "fink selfupdate-cvs", to update your fink files Dave, doesn't this leave the binary-only u

[Fink-devel] libungif won't replace giflib because of imlib-shlibs dependency

2002-05-01 Thread Incabulos
here's what I've found cheers, joe -- fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) giflib: GIF image format handling library, LZW-enabled version (2) libungif: GIF image format handling library, LZW-free version Pick one: [1] 2 The following

[Fink-devel] notice on web page about passwd problem?

2002-05-01 Thread David R. Morrison
In a discussion on #fink about the passwd problem, it was suggested that we put an announcement about the problem in the News section on Fink's homepage. Appended below is a diff file for the source of that page, which would contain the announcement. Any suggestions about the wording, or about w

[Fink-devel] fink releases

2002-05-01 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:35 PM +0200 5/1/02, Max Horn wrote: > >But I do realize that it's risky if we depend too much on me for >making releases. Not only is it a problem should I leave Fink (very >well possible), but it's also a problem now since it taxes me a lot. >Less so compared to when Chrisp left us, sinc

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-created user problem on macosxhints

2002-05-01 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:35 PM +0200 5/1/02, Max Horn wrote: >At 3:37 Uhr -0700 30.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >>At 10:25 AM +0200 4/30/02, Bernd Kuemmerlen wrote: >>> >>>As this has been discussed on this list last week, maybe someone with a >>>little bit more insight on this issue might comment on this on >>>macosxh

Re: [Fink-devel] -soname flag

2002-05-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Chris Zubrzycki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am working on a package which uses -soname as part of the cc > flag...but cc does not seem to know anything about it. is it a bug in > the package, or do i need to patch the makefile? I used google and found

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting stack traces?

2002-05-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 03:48 PM, Damian Steer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the problem. Nothing seems to think that it /is/ a crash. gdb > says 'no backtrace', and crash report is very quiet, too. Hmm. What must be happening is that Amaya sees the error, and so it just quietly

Re: [Fink-devel] 2 questions (DVD->divx, setxkbmap)

2002-05-01 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Wednesday, May 1, 2002, at 03:48 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 2. Usually for xfree I use the setxkbmap utilite to set up > a Ukrainian keyboard layout. Unfortunately when I installed > xfree on my mac I got: > > [localhost: ~] user123% setxkbmap "ua+group(toggle)" > Couldn't interpret

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-created user problem on macosxhints

2002-05-01 Thread Max Horn
At 3:37 Uhr -0700 30.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >At 10:25 AM +0200 4/30/02, Bernd Kuemmerlen wrote: >> >>As this has been discussed on this list last week, maybe someone with a >>little bit more insight on this issue might comment on this on >>macosxhints? >>Maybe a hint on how to update passwd bef

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting patches back "upstream"

2002-05-01 Thread Max Horn
[...] >The first thing I have noticed is that Fink uses its own ltconfig and >ltmain.sh. Note that these are for libtool 1.3.5, which is not anymore being developed. Others have replied to your request already, but nobody mentioned this detail :-) Max --

Re: [Fink-devel] 2 questions (DVD->divx, setxkbmap)

2002-05-01 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 1 May 2002, noname wrote: > 1. I was looking for some utilite to convert DVD in divx format > for osx and found nothing as yet. Instead I found that there was a > drip.sourceforge.net project. So my question is that how do you guys > assign a priority to port applications for fink and

[Fink-devel] 2 questions (DVD->divx, setxkbmap)

2002-05-01 Thread noname
Hello everyone, 1. I was looking for some utilite to convert DVD in divx format for osx and found nothing as yet. Instead I found that there was a drip.sourceforge.net project. So my question is that how do you guys assign a priority to port applications for fink and is a drip project goin

[Fink-devel] -soname flag

2002-05-01 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am working on a package which uses -soname as part of the cc flag...but cc does not seem to know anything about it. is it a bug in the package, or do i need to patch the makefile? I used google and found some info, but nothing had the -soname fla

Re: [Fink-devel] How do I fix my package (dumb question)?

2002-05-01 Thread David R. Morrison
It's not a dumb question at all. If you need to revise a package, and you are not a core fink developer, please post the revised version to the package submission tracker, just like you did with the original version. -- Dave

[Fink-devel] How do I fix my package (dumb question)?

2002-05-01 Thread Damian Steer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm the package maintainer for amaya (now in stable) but it has a missing dependency (as someone pointed out). Erm - how do get this fix into the distribution. I assume I have access to the package somewhere, but I can't find out where. I know, I'm p

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting stack traces?

2002-05-01 Thread Damian Steer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > >Which is where the problems begin. No strace (nuts), ktrace needs a > >kernel recompile (of a kernel Apple haven't released the source for, > >AIUI), and gdb says 'No stack.'. > > > >Ideas? > > One is to u