Benjamin Reed wrote:
Then I need you! =)
I just posted instructions to my blog on how to do some panther testing
with Fink. If you're interested in helping out, please follow the
instructions here:
http://ranger.befunk.com/blog/archives/000246.html
Oh, and make sure you don't use apt-get!
I have been trying to install enlightenment and I continue to get an
error message with freetype and freetype-hinting...
ftdump.c:172:29: pasting . and glyph_object does not give a valid
preprocessing token
ftdump.c:182:31: pasting . and first_instance does not give a valid
preprocessing token
Are you using gcc-3.3 to do this, as the sig says? I believe you have
to build this with gcc-3.1.
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 12:11 PM, LINDSAY!!! wrote:
I have been trying to install enlightenment and I continue to get an
error message with freetype and freetype-hinting...
Chris Schaffner suggested that I post to this list my experience today
updatiing my fink installation with fink 0.14 and rsync.
The .info files for the server version of subversion, which I wanted to try
installing, are missing from my /sw/fink/dists/unstable tree (I'd updated a
week or two ago).
I installed the make package. I typed whereis and it came up with
/usr/bin/make. It turns out that sysctl user.cs_path doesn't search
/sw/bin and /sw/sbin. I'd change it but I can't figure out how to do it
(according to the man pages user.cs_path isn't writable by sysctl).
What's the fix?
I've noticed that there are a few patches out there that disable fink's
need to be root, but they all have drawbacks, like dpkg needs to be
root. I've noticed that many of the developers have repeatedly
dismissed it and have not even looked into if it would be easy to do. I
went through the
Do you have unstable/crypto and unstable/main in the Trees line in
/sw/etc/fink.conf ? The new rsync method only updates the trees which are
mentioned in your conf file.
-- Dave
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John Davidorff Pell wrote:
I've noticed that there are a few patches out there that disable fink's
need to be root, but they all have drawbacks, like dpkg needs to be
root. I've noticed that many of the developers have repeatedly dismissed
it and have not even looked into if it would be easy
TM Lutas wrote:
What's the fix?
Simple: Don't use whereis. Use where (with tcsh) or type -a (with bash).
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Martin
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On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 3:48 pm, David R. Morrison wrote:
Sure, here's some feedback.
First, let's examine where root is actually needed in fink. We
certainly
don't need to be root to run make on a package. Since fink directs
make install to a temporary installation directory, we
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 06:48 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Since fink directs
make install to a temporary installation directory, we don't need
to be root to run that either.
Except when a package wants to chown a file.
The tricky thing, though, is the last
thing fink does when compiling
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 3:54 pm, Benjamin Reed wrote:
John Davidorff Pell wrote:
I've noticed that there are a few patches out there that disable
fink's need to be root, but they all have drawbacks, like dpkg needs
to be root. I've noticed that many of the developers have repeatedly
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:48:13PM -0400, David R. Morrison wrote:
OK, but let's assume we solve that problem. Then we'd be able to run
the command fink build foo without being root. That's probably a good
thing, for a number of reasons. What about fink install foo though?
Here we get
On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 06:54:28PM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote:
There are packages that make suid files, there are packages that
initialize things on installation, I'm sure there are other things that
happen that we don't know about. There's no framework for gracefully
handling those
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 4:10 pm, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 06:48 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Since fink directs
make install to a temporary installation directory, we don't need
to be root to run that either.
Except when a package wants to chown a file.
The
I have to disagree about the timing of when root is supposed to be invoked.
I issue a command to build a package which will take an hour... I come back
two hours later, only to find that it's been waiting for the past hour for
me to enter my password? Not a good user experience.
That's why Fink
Suppose fink packages optionally use fields 'BuildRequiresRoot' or
'InstallRequiresRoot'? Then fink could choose to require running as
root, and inform the user at the start when building / installing a
package requires root privs. (Depend checks would determine whether any
depends require root
NetBSD, for example, becomes root at the install phase, requesting a
password at that time, and can be rigged to use su or sudo. So this is
not unheard-of in package managers (and can be very convenient).
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I've got fink 100% working with the 'fink' user, UID 240, created
manually, except one minor part...
dpkg -i
/test/fink/dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/
fink_0.14.0.cvs-20031010.2353_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: requested operation requires superuser privilege
### execution of dpkg
Thanks guys, I managed to comment out the lines previously mentioned,
and it compiled OK. I just have to figure out what files to install
now! (No install script... :( )
On 07/10/2003, at 9:22 PM, kinako wrote:
Hi,
On 2003.10.7, at 20:12 Asia/Tokyo, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Do you have Qt/Mac
I suppose 'fink install emacs21-nox' failed during functional test...?
A log of the install attempt is posted at http://www.stochastic.net/~kaben/for_fink/
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On Oct 10, 2003, at 6:48 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Sure, here's some feedback.
First, let's examine where root is actually needed in fink. We
certainly
don't need to be root to run make on a package. Since fink directs
make install to a temporary installation directory, we don't need
to be
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