[Fink-devel] Documentation: Another fink.conf docu update.

2002-11-22 Thread David
Last version for today. If there are not any substantial concerns, this will most likely be the final version. Thank you to Finlay for various important changes and Hisashi T Fujinaka for supplying important information and ideas. -d finkconf.xml Description: Binary data PGP.sig Description

Re: [Fink-devel] wait for new fink?

2002-11-22 Thread Chris Dolan
Could someone summarize the bug, or post a link to the IRC logs for those of us who have no idea what you are talking about? :-) Thanks, Chris On 11/22/02 5:27 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 11:28 Uhr -0500 22.11.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: There was considerable discussion on #fink the other nigh

Re: [Fink-devel] Mirroring Fink

2002-11-22 Thread Max Horn
At 11:42 Uhr -0500 22.11.2002, Colin Davis wrote: Good Afternoon, I'm trying to assist the University of Massachusetts in adding to their libre software archive, and I think that Fink is a great package to add. As a recent OSX convert from debian, it find it a tremendously useful package of softw

Re: [Fink-devel] wait for new fink?

2002-11-22 Thread Max Horn
At 11:28 Uhr -0500 22.11.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: There was considerable discussion on #fink the other night of a bug in the package manager which causes some installs to fail. I'm just about finished building the 0.5.0 distro; should I wait for this to get fixed before I release? The pro

[Fink-devel] Documentation: fink.conf second Draft.

2002-11-22 Thread David
Here is the second draft. Changes: Cosmetic changes to wording and grammar (thanks Benjamin Reed) Uniform namespace for sectioning (thanks Benjamin Reed) Uniform naming of Fink as a package manager and fink as a command line application (thanks Benjamin Reed) Added Author and Version since the C

Re: [Fink-devel] stable/bootstrap set as default param?

2002-11-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Hansen wrote: My recollection (and I may well be wrong) is that when you first do a bootstrap, the info files for the base packages are indeeed in stable/bootstrap, and that stable/main is empty until the first selfupdate-cvs. The bootstrap procedure uses local/bootstrap, not stable/bo

[Fink-devel] Fink.conf docu update...

2002-11-22 Thread David
I am sorry about the non validating document I sent. This one should do a lot better -d finkconf.xml Description: Binary data PGP.sig Description: PGP signature

[Fink-devel] Fink.conf docu.. update.. now it..

2002-11-22 Thread David
validates and it is well formed.. sorry about the hassel -d finkconf.xml Description: Binary data PGP.sig Description: PGP signature

[Fink-devel] Attn: Please review the fink.conf documentation Draft.

2002-11-22 Thread David
Max, core developers and helpers, please review this draft. Let me know if it is a) Feature complete (has all options explained) b) Understandable (I am a unix user, Mac user might not understand my terminology) If you think, that my grammar is out of place or my wording is not acceptable, ple

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink should recommend term-readkey-pm?

2002-11-22 Thread Carsten Klapp
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 07:31 am, Max Horn wrote: Nah. Besides the fact that "Suggests" is more or less uselss, we have a patch (or soon will have :-) in Fink CVS that gives us this functionality back w/o term-readkey-pm (I say back because it worked in 10.1 already, but Apple horri

Re: [Fink-devel] xaw3d change

2002-11-22 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 05:56 AM, Jeff Whitaker wrote: I've updated xaw3d so that it no longer installs in /usr/X11R6. Unfortunately, this will break all apps linked with libXaw3d. So, I've taken the liberty of updating those packages (in 10.2 unstable) that depend on xaw3d to have a

[Fink-devel] Mirroring Fink

2002-11-22 Thread Colin Davis
Good Afternoon, I'm trying to assist the University of Massachusetts in adding to their libre software archive, and I think that Fink is a great package to add. As a recent OSX convert from debian, it find it a tremendously useful package of software, and I applaud the efforts of the team. We're

[Fink-devel] wait for new fink?

2002-11-22 Thread David R. Morrison
There was considerable discussion on #fink the other night of a bug in the package manager which causes some installs to fail. I'm just about finished building the 0.5.0 distro; should I wait for this to get fixed before I release? -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] stable/bootstrap set as default param?

2002-11-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
My recollection (and I may well be wrong) is that when you first do a bootstrap, the info files for the base packages are indeeed in stable/bootstrap, and that stable/main is empty until the first selfupdate-cvs. On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 16:32, David wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash

[Fink-devel] xaw3d change

2002-11-22 Thread Jeff Whitaker
I've updated xaw3d so that it no longer installs in /usr/X11R6. Unfortunately, this will break all apps linked with libXaw3d. So, I've taken the liberty of updating those packages (in 10.2 unstable) that depend on xaw3d to have a revisioned depends (>= 1.5-5). As part of this update, I've bumped

Re: [Fink-devel] postgresql problems (unstable)

2002-11-22 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 06:21 AM, Neil Tiffin wrote: trying to overwrite `/sw/share/doc/postgresql/html/plpython-install.html', which is also in package postgresql-ssl-python Ooop! This is a bug, I'll get it fixed today. --- Thi

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink should recommend term-readkey-pm?

2002-11-22 Thread Max Horn
At 0:17 Uhr -0500 22.11.2002, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hi, After all this time of using fink I only just discovered today how much nicer `fink list` looks with term-readkey-pm installed, by taking advantage of wider terminal windows! I wonder whether fink should recommend it instead of only suggest

Re: [Fink-devel] FAQ & packaging reference: Suggests vs Recommends vs Enhances?

2002-11-22 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Freitag, November 22, 2002, at 06:25 Uhr, Carsten Klapp wrote: It would be helpful for newcomers to have this link somewhere in the faq (or at http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/reference.php): http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-poli

[Fink-devel] postgresql problems (unstable)

2002-11-22 Thread Neil Tiffin
FYI, is this something I did or a problem with the new versions? Preparing to replace postgresql-ssl 7.2.2-2 (using .../postgresql-ssl_7.2.3-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement postgresql-ssl ... dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/postgresql-s

Re: [Fink-devel] building against libpng vs. libpng3?

2002-11-22 Thread David R. Morrison
Carsten, You need to pick a version. That's true of a number of libraries that have seen updates (neon is another example). I would pick the newer one. -- Dave --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://

[Fink-devel] Going on holidays

2002-11-22 Thread Jeremy Higgs
Hello everyone, Just thought I'd mention that I am going on holidays up the coast for the next week, so won't be able to respond to bug reports/requests/etc for the packages I maintain. If anyone has problems or positive feedback, etc, for my packages, please email me, but understand that I wo