Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

2002-11-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: I'm going to try to port fink to MkLinux so I don't have to use rpm anymore (of course it will have to always build from source and not use the binary packages). An easier (and more package-complete) alternative would be

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?

2002-11-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 PM, Ben Hines wrote: This probably also explains why i have no sections in dselect... Does anyone? I do, for some packages (both available and installed). On the Debian system, the section comes from the Packages and Packages.gz files which are

Re: [Fink-devel] Tuxracer 0.61 ready for distribution

2002-11-11 Thread Chia Hung
I just installed turxracer with the .info file created by Mr. Kiwi. It installed without any problem and the program ran well too. Just out of curiosity, are the issues raised by Mr. Hines serious problems for the .info file? Has my installation of tuxracer caused some catastrophic event to my

Re: [Fink-devel] Tuxracer 0.61 ready for distribution

2002-11-11 Thread David R. Morrison
The comments which Ben Hines made were things which need to be addressed before the package could be included in Fink. We try to make sure that all of the Fink packages work well together, both now and in the future, and that's the purpose of these standards. What normally happens when someone

[Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.216,1.217PkgVersion.pm,1.92,1.93

2002-11-11 Thread Max Horn
[for context: I just changed Engine.pm in CVS to use --info-dir instead of --infodir as argument to install-info, as I got repeatedly error reports by people which have /usr/bin before /sw/sbin in their PATH; thus for them the texinfo install-info was used, not the dpkg install-info we

[Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT

2002-11-11 Thread Max Horn
I have made a local package for pan 0.13.2 some time ago, but I keep getting the same error: % pan (Pan:23558): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library (Pan:23558): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. ** (pan-real:23558):

Re: [Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT

2002-11-11 Thread Alexander Strange
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 07:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: I have made a local package for pan 0.13.2 some time ago, but I keep getting the same error: % pan (Pan:23558): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library (Pan:23558): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library.

Re: [Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT

2002-11-11 Thread Max Horn
At 19:41 Uhr -0500 11.11.2002, Alexander Strange wrote: [...] What version of xfree86-base are you running? system-xfree86 4.2-1Placeholder package for manually installe... i xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-1XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... i xfree86-base-sh

Re: [Fink-devel] Tuxracer 0.61 ready for distribution

2002-11-11 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 10:09 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: What normally happens when someone writes a new package is that they submit it using the Package Submission tracker and then they get comments like that in response. The comments are still public, but in that case they won't

Re: [Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT

2002-11-11 Thread Max Horn
At 17:34 Uhr -0800 11.11.2002, Ben Hines wrote: On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 04:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: Note that this used to occur in the past, too, and that I have as a workaround GDK_USE_XFT set to 1. But for some reasons this is not working anymore... anybody got a hint for me what

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.216,1.217 PkgVersion.pm,1.92,1.93

2002-11-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Max Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [for context: I just changed Engine.pm in CVS to use --info-dir instead of --infodir as argument to install-info, as I got repeatedly error reports by people which have /usr/bin before /sw/sbin in their PATH; thus for them the texinfo install-info was

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?

2002-11-11 Thread Ben Hines
On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 PM, Ben Hines wrote: This probably also explains why i have no sections in dselect... Does anyone? I do, for some packages (both available and installed). On the Debian system,

[OT] Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

2002-11-11 Thread Carsten Klapp
Hi Anthony, Funny you should mention this I just managed to get Debian's Potato installed on my 6100/66 yesterday. Still not able to get the right video mode, mouse keyboard for Xwindows/Gnome but the new 2.4.4 kernel is faster than MkLinux and I'm much happier with the choice of packages.

Re: [OT] Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

2002-11-11 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:04, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hi Anthony, Funny you should mention this I just managed to get Debian's Potato installed on my 6100/66 yesterday. Ugh. Why potato? Woody is out now, and I think you'll find it much better. New XFree86, for example. And, oh yeah, twice as