Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 10:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: The PDB is stored in a MySQL database. And old entries are normally left in the DB unless explicitly overwritten, so when a package is removed, it may not be removed from the PDB. Somebody would have to go over the DB and clean o

[Fink-devel] phpmyadmin

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Hines
Ok, that took about 5 minutes to set up. Password protected with our database user/password (found in ~/db.inc.php, only readable to fink developers). I also passworded the webstats area. http://fink.sourceforge.net/phpmyadmin/ Now we can easily find/remove the stray packages. For example we m

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 02:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: I don't know MySQL, but couldn't the SQL request check to make sure that the package is listed in one of the current groups, before including it in the output? (Or would the overhead be too great?) Yes this should be possible

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 10:55 Uhr +0100 08.12.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: > >In the package database on the fink web site, there are still > >package descriptions for xfree86-rootless and xfree86-server, > >although these packages are marked as "Not present" in all > >distribu

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: pdb hosed again..

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Ben Hines wrote: BTW, there is also an HOWTO on how to update the PDB in the scripts CVS module. Yes i am seeing if I can do it now. There are a few issues like I don't have execute access to the finksql script, but I know what it does anyway so i

[Fink-devel] Re: pdb hosed again..

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 12:22 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 12:11 Uhr -0800 08.12.2002, Ben Hines wrote: Very strange, the PDB is now only showing packages that are NOT in the 10.2 tree - ie, the same packages that are on my "not yet moved" list like yorick, r-recommended, gnupg-egd. It is not

Re: [Fink-devel] Need help with Scribus

2002-12-08 Thread Max Horn
At 14:59 Uhr +0100 08.12.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: I'd like to appeal to you clever guys, in particular the kde wizards, to help me with the Scribus package. I have spent quite some time on this package, but it is now clear it is too big a fish for my modest knowledge of c++, libtool, qt, da

[Fink-devel] Re: pdb hosed again..

2002-12-08 Thread Max Horn
At 12:11 Uhr -0800 08.12.2002, Ben Hines wrote: Very strange, the PDB is now only showing packages that are NOT in the 10.2 tree - ie, the same packages that are on my "not yet moved" list like yorick, r-recommended, gnupg-egd. It is not showing any package that is in both trees. Max will you

Re: [Fink-devel] PDB listings

2002-12-08 Thread Max Horn
At 15:54 Uhr +0100 08.12.2002, Christian Schaffner wrote: I propose that, for the next six months or so, we add a fourth listing to the PDB, so that the output says: In 0.4.1-stable (for 10.1): In 0.5.0a-stable: In current-stable: In current-unstable: Only a minor thing: I would change

Re: [Fink-devel] GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-12-08 Thread Max Horn
At 15:00 Uhr -0500 28.11.2002, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hi David, I like the idea of signature verification. Better safe now than sorry later. I have a few concerns: - Scripts on the server which automatically sign committed info and patch files wouldn't stop a hacker, no? In fact automatic signi

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Max Horn
At 10:55 Uhr +0100 08.12.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: In the package database on the fink web site, there are still package descriptions for xfree86-rootless and xfree86-server, although these packages are marked as "Not present" in all distributions. I don't know if there exist other descript

Re: [Fink-devel] Parallel builds

2002-12-08 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Saturday, Dec 7, 2002, at 15:27 US/Eastern, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Instead of trying to pass the compiler make flag into make itself -- something that just about every planet on the package has a note in the README of 'you can try parallel make if you want, but if it breaks, turn it off'--

[Fink-devel] pdb hosed again..

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Hines
Very strange, the PDB is now only showing packages that are NOT in the 10.2 tree - ie, the same packages that are on my "not yet moved" list like yorick, r-recommended, gnupg-egd. It is not showing any package that is in both trees. Max will you have time to update the PDB for 0.5.0a? -Ben

Re: [Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Ben Hines
On Sunday, December 8, 2002, at 01:55 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: In the package database on the fink web site, there are still package descriptions for xfree86-rootless and xfree86-server, although these packages are marked as "Not present" in all distributions. I don't know if there exist othe

Re: [Fink-devel] PDB listings

2002-12-08 Thread Christian Schaffner
I propose that, for the next six months or so, we add a fourth listing to the PDB, so that the output says: In 0.4.1-stable (for 10.1): In 0.5.0a-stable: In current-stable: In current-unstable: Only a minor thing: I would change the second line to: In 0.5.0a-stable (for 10.2): But other

[Fink-devel] PDB listings

2002-12-08 Thread David R. Morrison
I propose that, for the next six months or so, we add a fourth listing to the PDB, so that the output says: In 0.4.1-stable (for 10.1): In 0.5.0a-stable: In current-stable: In current-unstable: (and of course the 0.5.0a line will change from time to time as new releases are made). I did

[Fink-devel] Need help with Scribus

2002-12-08 Thread Martin Costabel
I'd like to appeal to you clever guys, in particular the kde wizards, to help me with the Scribus package. I have spent quite some time on this package, but it is now clear it is too big a fish for my modest knowledge of c++, libtool, qt, darwin bundles and all that. Scribus is a page layout pr

[Fink-devel] Old packages in pdb

2002-12-08 Thread Martin Costabel
In the package database on the fink web site, there are still package descriptions for xfree86-rootless and xfree86-server, although these packages are marked as "Not present" in all distributions. I don't know if there exist other descriptions of "not present" packages, but these two are confu