Re: [Fink-devel] Validating fink packages

2003-06-03 Thread David R. Morrison
- python modules: must comply with fink python policy Is anybody willing to write a brief statement of what this policy is? I would then add it to the documentation. I'll also add the emacs policy, which Rohan pointed out. -- Dave ---

Re: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability?

2003-06-03 Thread David
On Montag, Juni 2, 2003, at 06:26 Uhr, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: David == David [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David I was wondering if Retry using next mirror set master is such a David user friendly message. I consider myself of reasonable intelligence, and I haven't the slightest clue yet what

RE: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability?

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
As one of the people likely to enter this into the docs, I'd like to say that it's not 100% obvious to me, either. I assume it means to switch over to the list of master mirrors, and pick the next one? Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-06-03 Thread Martin Costabel
David Alan Hjelle wrote: Hello. I was trying to install the placeholder package (system-xfree86) via Fink today and I seem to be having some problems. dselect seems to indicate that the file should be over a megabyte in size, but the downloaded file system-xfree86_4.2-1_darwing-powerpc.deb

Re: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability?

2003-06-03 Thread Ben Hines
I requested feedback on these messages - repeatedly. I said I didn't think they were perfect - repeatedly. There was basically no response. Max gave a couple notes. Thus, no complaints or 'I consider myself of reasonable intelligence' snarkiness allowed. The manpages were definitely updated

Re: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability?

2003-06-03 Thread Ben Hines
The location is in 'man fink.conf', by the way - since mirroring is a configure setting. There is nowhere for it to fit in man fink. Additionally, i even pasted that manpage text to the mailing list. Apparently 'reasonable intelligence' according to Randal doesn't include searching list

Re: [Fink-devel] Validating fink packages

2003-06-03 Thread Rohan Lloyd
On Tuesday, June 3, 2003, at 01:09 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: - python modules: must comply with fink python policy Is anybody willing to write a brief statement of what this policy is? I would then add it to the documentation. I'll also add the emacs policy, which Rohan pointed out. On

Re: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86

2003-06-03 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Alan Hjelle wrote: Hello. I was trying to install the placeholder package (system-xfree86) via Fink today and I seem to be having some problems. dselect seems to indicate that the file should be over a megabyte in size, but the downloaded