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

2002-05-02 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: +p2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all +Fink users are urged to update the ipasswd/i package in their Fink +installations as follows:/p +ulli Use fink selfupdate-cvs, to update your fink files/li Dave, doesn't this leave the

Re: [Fink-devel] Getting patches back upstream

2002-05-02 Thread Karin Kosina
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ### Sylvain Cuaz [Thu, May 02, 2002 at 11:38:45AM +0200] No, there at least 3 problems, see (as Dave already told you ;-) http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/libtool.php Oh, I'm sorry. I thought the website only talked about the 1.3.x

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

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Can you check to see if you have the file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/libungif-4.1.0b1-3.info on your system? If you do, please remove it and try again. -- Dave ___ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking

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

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
On second thought, it might actually be possible for users without DevTools to follow the fink rebuild passwd instructions. cc and make aren't run in this case: the only commands invoked by the CompileScript and InstallScript are sed, mkdir, and install. Shouldn't those already be present, even

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

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 21:19 Uhr -0400 01.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: 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

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

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 15:43 Uhr -0700 01.05.2002, Ben Hines wrote: 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

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

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 6:55 Uhr -0400 02.05.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David R. Morrison wrote: +p2002-05-01: To avoid inadvertantly erasing files from their disks, all +Fink users are urged to update the ipasswd/i package in their Fink +installations as

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

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Hines
At 1:22 PM +0200 5/2/02, Max Horn wrote: At least a file release or news item of ONLY passwd. (you don't have to release an entire fink update!) But nothing was posted. No news. No Warning to fink users. Yes, there probably should have been some warnings. A pity nobody thought of it, or

[Fink-devel] link problems

2002-05-02 Thread Justin Hallett
how can a build link the same two libs in two different link cmds and one fail but the other doesn't?? cc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I.. -I.. -I../build -I../lib -I../rpmdb -I../rpmio -I../popt -I../misc -I/sw/include -I../misc -I/sw/include -no-cpp-precomp -D_GNU_SOURCE -D_REENTRANT -Wall

[Fink-devel] Provides

2002-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
A few days ago I put splitoff versions of several packages into unstable, including some packages which conflict with each other: giflib vs. libungif, freetype vs. freetype-hinting, and imagemagick vs. imagemagick-nox. A few users reported trouble to me, from which I learned a few things: 1)

Re: [Fink-devel] link problems

2002-05-02 Thread Max Horn
At 9:45 Uhr -0600 02.05.2002, Justin Hallett wrote: how can a build link the same two libs in two different link cmds and one fail but the other doesn't?? Because different options are used. E.g. the second command uses -multiply_defined suppress but the first doesn't. Cheers, Max --

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

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:44 PM +0200 5/2/02, Max Horn wrote: So what about this now? Should we post it like I suggested, or should yet another text be used? Or will we not post anything again? Looks good to me, post away. -Ben -- http://homepage.mac.com/bhines/

Re: [Fink-devel] prdownloads.sourceforge.net tounc.dl.sourceforge.net

2002-05-02 Thread Ben Hines
At 11:41 PM -0400 5/2/02, Chris Devers wrote: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xinvaders3d/xinvaders3d-1.3.6.src.tar.gz So, *maybe* the download url can add /\?use_mirror=(unc|telia|belnet)/ [or something to that effect] as needed, based on whatever the user may set for a geographic