Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 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] fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Dienstag, März 4, 2003, at 06:39 Uhr, Ben Hines wrote: snip If any download fails, the user can go to the next set of mirrors, for example if they are on preference 3, they will get Retry using direct fink mirrors as a choice, if they are on

Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Alexander Strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm currently doing a 'fetch-all' on a Fink install hacked onto a FreeBSD server. I'll upload it to OpenDarwin tomorrow afternoon (it's 4am right now) when I get back from school. I expect it'll be waiting for me to tell it to retry a package

[Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink bootstrap.pl,1.28,1.29

2003-03-04 Thread Max Horn
At 23:29 Uhr -0800 03.03.2003, Alexander Strange wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv13084 Modified Files: bootstrap.pl Log Message: Fixing bootstrap on darwin/x86 for bbraun co Index: bootstrap.pl

Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Max Horn
At 4:49 Uhr -0500 04.03.2003, Alexander Strange wrote: 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

Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
This new system is great, but it raises again the issue of how we are to treat packages which we don't have the right to redistribute. We recently introduced a new category Restrictive/Distributable which covers cases of a non-free license which still permits us to redistribute in both source and

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Max Horn
At 22:39 Uhr -0800 03.03.2003, Ben Hines wrote: 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

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Sylvain Cuaz
Le mardi, 4 mars 2003, à 15:34 Europe/Paris, Max Horn a écrit : At 9:01 Uhr -0500 04.03.2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: Max Horn wrote: E.g. take the example of 5.0-RC1 followed by 5.0. What do you propse should be done here to make it debian version compliant? 4.9 and 5.0 ? or 5.0 and 5.0a ? Or

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 09:01 US/Eastern, Benjamin Reed wrote: Max Horn wrote: E.g. take the example of 5.0-RC1 followed by 5.0. What do you propse should be done here to make it debian version compliant? 4.9 and 5.0 ? or 5.0 and 5.0a ? Or what? None of them seems appealing to me. Both

[Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Matthias Neeracher
Ben Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Sounds like a great idea in general. However, there probably should be mechanisms to

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: Ben Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Sounds like a great idea

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Max Horn
At 19:23 Uhr -0500 04.03.2003, Alexander Strange wrote: [...] - Are we sure we have the right to mirror the source to any fink package, or could some of them be licensed under licenses that forbid mirroring? Restrictive packages will be removed from the mirror as soon as we have code in

Re: [Fink-devel] fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 02:20 AM, David wrote: On Dienstag, März 4, 2003, at 06:39 Uhr, Ben Hines wrote: snip If any download fails, the user can go to the next set of mirrors, for example if they are on preference 3, they will get Retry using direct fink mirrors as a choice, if they

[Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Matthias Neeracher
Alexander Strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: - Some packages are just too large and obscure. For instance, if I were to do a 5 piece endgame tablebase package for crafty (which I haven't done yet), we're talking 6G of disk space,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 04:39 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 19:23 Uhr -0500 04.03.2003, Alexander Strange wrote: [...] - Are we sure we have the right to mirror the source to any fink package, or could some of them be licensed under licenses that forbid mirroring? Restrictive packages will

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: Ben Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. Sounds like a great

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Justin Hallett
I'm about to release proftpd 1.2.8 final and RC2 is in unstable ATM and this is what I'm gonna do, unless someone objects in the next hmm 30 minutes :) Current: 1.2.8RC2-1 New: 1.2.8-Final-1 Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here is something I have seen done with Debian. It makes less

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Max Horn
At 17:38 Uhr -0500 04.03.2003, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 09:01 US/Eastern, Benjamin Reed wrote: Max Horn wrote: E.g. take the example of 5.0-RC1 followed by 5.0. What do you propse should be done here to make it debian version compliant? 4.9 and 5.0 ? or 5.0 and 5.0a ?

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Justin Hallett
nope, it does work causes - is higher then R Kyle Moffett [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't think that will work, as 8RC2 8 from dpkg's point of view. This should have originally been done as %v=1.2.7. %r=1.2.8rc2-1 or %v=1.2.8 %r=0-1.2.8rc2-1 -=[JFH] Justin F.

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 17:56 US/Eastern, Max Horn wrote: Uh this is exactly the abusive notation I mentioned above. It would mean using a completly different version than upstream. With Ben's suggestion at least it looks identical if you don't look to closely... So users will know what it

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:39 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:51 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: - Some packages are just too large and obscure. For instance, if I were to do a 5 piece endgame tablebase

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink mirror patch

2003-03-04 Thread Matthias Neeracher
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:51 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 06:39 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:51 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 03:48 PM, Matthias Neeracher wrote: - Some packages are just too large and obscure.

[Fink-devel] xfree86 upgrade

2003-03-04 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
there is a fairly clean solution, that could be hard coded in fink for now, is: fink build xfree86 fink scanpackages sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install xfree86 apt is able to install xfree 4.3 over the 4.2 packages because it is smart enough to know to override dpkg because the new

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:21 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 22:39 Uhr -0800 03.03.2003, Ben Hines wrote: 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

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Ben Hines
On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 05:21 AM, Max Horn wrote: Quite apparently we have different stances on this. So, please explain, how exactly do you think this version fudging should work, w/o confusing users by using completly different versions than the rest of the world for a given package?

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-04 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 19:37 US/Eastern, Max Horn wrote: At 17:58 Uhr -0500 04.03.2003, Kyle Moffett wrote: On Tuesday, Mar 4, 2003, at 17:35 US/Eastern, Justin Hallett wrote: I'm about to release proftpd 1.2.8 final and RC2 is in unstable ATM and this is what I'm gonna do, unless someone