Re: [Fink-devel] system-emacs?

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 10:42 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: If you want to use the system emacs, don't make it depend on the emacsen-common, and make sure that emacs is called as /usr/bin/emacs. or just let it use either one, unless it depends on the features of a particular version. -

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 10:14 AM, Max Horn wrote: At 12:29 Uhr -0500 05.03.2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: Max Horn wrote: But my motivation to agree to this is most definitely not due to what the debian policy says. We are not debian! Sure we can look at how they do things, and if we like i

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages with bad URLs

2003-03-05 Thread David R. Morrison
> I'm skeptical of that.. How do you propose the fink code should figure > out "which tarballs were in the last release", query the PDB on each > download? :) Sorry, I was trying to address the issue of a short-term fix to the fact that some existing packages don't have tarballs which users can do

Re: [Fink-devel] packaging problem

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 01:39 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Any thoughts on how to make this conform to Fink policy, or else how to rephrase the policy to allow for this exception but not let in other things which we find objectionable? The policy does already allow for this exception, IM

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages with bad URLs

2003-03-05 Thread Ben Hines
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 04:27 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Using this, when available, is definitely easier than putting up another copy on fink's site. I'm skeptical of that.. How do you propose the fink code should figure out "which tarballs were in the last release", query the PDB on

[Fink-devel] USB printing with cups in an IBook

2003-03-05 Thread Ulises Mora Alvarez
Hi: I have a dual-USB IBook, I'm trying to add a HP Laser Jet 6L printer with Cups. I haven't been able to find the printer location (i.e. the USB mounting point) Does anybody knows where can I find info on the subject?, Does anybody know how to solve the problem? Thanks. -- Ulises M. Alva

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages with bad URLs

2003-03-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 5,2003 19:05:27 -0500, Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote : >Alexander Strange wrote: >> file download failed for qt-x11-2.3.2.tar.gz of package qt2-2.3.2-5 > >OK, I've updated qt to be on the fink mirror. If anyone needs me to put >tarballs up on fink's site for mirrors, let me kno

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages with bad URLs

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
Alexander Strange wrote: file download failed for qt-x11-2.3.2.tar.gz of package qt2-2.3.2-5 OK, I've updated qt to be on the fink mirror. If anyone needs me to put tarballs up on fink's site for mirrors, let me know. --- This SF.net email is

[Fink-devel] Packages with bad URLs

2003-03-05 Thread Alexander Strange
These packages are failing to download on my mirror setup (it has passive FTP off, which explains qt2) gimp-* is mine, and I will fix them: file download failed for python-pam_0.4.2-6.tar.gz of package python-pam-0.4.2-1 file download failed for pnet-0.4.8.tar.gz of package pnet-0.4.8-1 file do

Re: [Fink-devel] packaging problem

2003-03-05 Thread Justin Hallett
this is why we have the flag IMHO, else we'd make the buildonlydepends flag in fink, all -dev pkgs = buildonly depend :) we figured there would be rare cases where this wouldn't be so and left the feild to the maintainer's disgrestion :) That is my stand on it. "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECT

[Fink-devel] packaging problem

2003-03-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, I've run into a packaging problem on one of the submitted packages in the tracker. The package is a kind of development environment used by high-energy physicists. It consists of a bunch of libraries together with some executables which help you use those libraries in worki

[Fink-devel] autoconf2.54 package / arts-1.1.0-17 build fix

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
It turns out the arts build problem was related to it not being compatible with autoconf 2.57. The weird thing is, if you had upgraded from autoconf25 to autoconf2.5, somehow something was left around that made it continue to still work (which is why I hadn't been able to reproduce the problem

Re: [Fink-devel] system-emacs?

2003-03-05 Thread David R. Morrison
If you want to use the system emacs, don't make it depend on the emacsen-common, and make sure that emacs is called as /usr/bin/emacs. -- Dave --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code.

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-05 Thread Max Horn
At 12:29 Uhr -0500 05.03.2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: Max Horn wrote: But my motivation to agree to this is most definitely not due to what the debian policy says. We are not debian! Sure we can look at how they do things, and if we like it, do it the same way, but I feel in no way bound to this.

Re: [Fink-devel] system-emacs?

2003-03-05 Thread Jorge Acereda Maciá
On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 06:20 PM, Max Horn wrote: At 18:10 Uhr +0100 05.03.2003, Jorge Acereda Maciá wrote: Shouldn't there be a placeholder for the provided emacs installation? Why? I want to package zenirc. I think it should depend on emacsen-common, but emacsen-common forces me to ins

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
Max Horn wrote: But my motivation to agree to this is most definitely not due to what the debian policy says. We are not debian! Sure we can look at how they do things, and if we like it, do it the same way, but I feel in no way bound to this. In particular, they ask to avoid epochs as much as

Re: [Fink-devel] system-emacs?

2003-03-05 Thread Max Horn
At 18:10 Uhr +0100 05.03.2003, Jorge Acereda Maciá wrote: Shouldn't there be a placeholder for the provided emacs installation? Why? Max --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging

[Fink-devel] system-emacs?

2003-03-05 Thread Jorge Acereda Maciá
Shouldn't there be a placeholder for the provided emacs installation? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Etnus, makers of TotalView, The debugger for complex code. Debugging C/C++ programs can leave you feeling lost and disoriented. Total

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-05 Thread Max Horn
At 17:10 Uhr -0800 04.03.2003, Ben Hines wrote: 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 numbe

Re: [Fink-devel] Epoch

2003-03-05 Thread Max Horn
At 21:56 Uhr -0500 04.03.2003, Kyle Moffett wrote: [...] Exactly, I think that the 'epoch' system is very problematic. Once a package begins using an epoch, it must continue to use the epoch for the remainder of its life, which could be very long, even after many version changes. I doN't see

[Fink-devel] #a-new-way-out-for-the-new-years# bh

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