Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-03 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 12:39 AM, Ben Hines wrote: autosync of sources: Need a machine running "fink selfupdate-cvs; fink fetch-all; rsync to server" every 10 minutes or something similar. Any ideas there? OpenDarwin is going to help with this. Only need one machine to do that, the other

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Rohan Lloyd
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:39 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Particularly never add a "-RC1" or something similar just "because you can use epoch to correct it later". It is better to not package that version, or if you must, fudge the version so it works with dpkg's system. If you see a strange v

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Ben Hines
On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 11:38 AM, Justin Hallett wrote: okay %e is great thanks...and I agree, but I think it will be used, I have a number of rc pkgs. It is almost good that it is not documented. It really should not be used except in grave circumstances. If you have to fudge version nu

[Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-03 Thread Ben Hines
I am currently testing my fink mirror patch. It adds a "fink" mirror that is intended to hold a mirror of every source tarball, so there will no longer be any breaking URLs. It uses a preference: 1) Check fink mirrors first 2) Check closest mirrors first (mixes fink and whatever mirror set, or

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Monday, March 3, 2003, at 02:38 PM, Justin Hallett wrote: okay %e is great thanks...and I agree, but I think it will be used, I have a number of rc pkgs. Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Yes there is: %e (see PkgVersion.pm, line 136). Cause I think it'd be nice to have if we start using

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2003-03-03 Thread Jeff Whitaker
On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Max Horn wrote: > Ah > > > I wasn't aware that we had resolved all the issues with this? And > that we agreed to release it to unstable... The discussion on this on > fink-devel must have slipped by me. For example, I completly missed > all the responses to Masanori's worr

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2003-03-03 Thread Max Horn
Ah I wasn't aware that we had resolved all the issues with this? And that we agreed to release it to unstable... The discussion on this on fink-devel must have slipped by me. For example, I completly missed all the responses to Masanori's worries regarding the GTK+ 2.0 <-> 2.2 + XFree86 4

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Justin Hallett
okay %e is great thanks...and I agree, but I think it will be used, I have a number of rc pkgs. Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Yes there is: %e (see PkgVersion.pm, line 136). > >>Cause I think it'd be nice to have if we start using Epoch more and more. > >Well, epochs should only be used as

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Max Horn
At 12:26 Uhr -0700 03.03.2003, Justin Hallett wrote: hehe np, I was just listing them for dmalloc to document or to have record of it for others... is there an Epoch version percent expantion var? Yes there is: %e (see PkgVersion.pm, line 136). Cause I think it'd be nice to have if we start using

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Justin Hallett
hehe np, I was just listing them for dmalloc to document or to have record of it for others... is there an Epoch version percent expantion var? Cause I think it'd be nice to have if we start using Epoch more and more. Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >Yup yup, it still needs to be properly do

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Max Horn
At 11:29 Uhr -0700 03.03.2003, Justin Hallett wrote: since I think i was the first to try and use the new Epoch in fink 0.12, I think the docs are very limited and completly unclear. First there should be an example secondly ppl must know to add it to the Splittoffs as well as the Main pkg dependin

[Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-03 Thread Justin Hallett
since I think i was the first to try and use the new Epoch in fink 0.12, I think the docs are very limited and completly unclear. First there should be an example secondly ppl must know to add it to the Splittoffs as well as the Main pkg depending on the shlibs should have Depends: %N-shlibs (= :%