Re: [Fink-devel] -release to -version-info conversion

2003-11-18 Thread TheSin
but it'll link libfoo.1.2.1.dylib so the filename has the right version, I'm not sure about the compat versions, but it should work as it'll never go backwards. I never heard of --version-number...I'll research it, but my little (x+y):z:y works better then -release for now, all of gnome 2.4, gn

Re: [Fink-devel] -release to -version-info conversion

2003-11-18 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Benjamin Reed wrote: My mistake, I talked to Peter; -release *is* bad. However, my point stands, you're supposed to switch it to "-version-number" (number, as opposed to info) instead, if possible; it depends on what version of libtool you have whether it's available or not. -version-number wa

Re: [Fink-devel] Status of 10.2 tree

2003-11-18 Thread Ben Hines
FinkCommander works fine with both the 3.3 tree and panther, so that is not a reason at all. -Ben On Nov 18, 2003, at 12:40 AM, Louis Granboulan wrote: Hello, there is also FinkCommander that many fink users (including me) have as their main interface to fink, and that apparently is not bein

Re: [Fink-devel] SSL pkg description consistency

2003-11-18 Thread Ben Hines
Sounds good to me -Ben On Nov 5, 2003, at 1:55 AM, Max Horn wrote: So, my question is, which one to pick. Personally, I prefer to put the "optional" stuff into parentheses. Also brevity is a boon. So I suggest the suffix "(with SSL)". Opinions? Comments?

Re: [Fink-devel] pgplot-perl581

2003-11-18 Thread Massimo Marengo
Martin, Sorry for having been so brief, I didn't want to clutter the mailing list. I am referring to the Perl module PGPLOT (pgplot-perl581), which is a Perl wrapper around the Fortran/C graphic library pgplot (which is of course a prerequisite). The compile script in the info file consists

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net (fink unstable bindist available)

2003-11-18 Thread Ben Hines
There is now an 'unofficial' fink unstable binary distribution run by bbraun at opendarwin.org. If anyone wants to try it, see http://fink.opendarwin.org/ for instructions. -Ben On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:12 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: OK, I'm awake now: Under Fink, you have to build unstable

Re: [Fink-devel] -release to -version-info conversion

2003-11-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
TheSin wrote: just cause i want to doc it someplace I've found that in almost everycase this is how you can convert -release to -version-info in other words ugly (libfoo-0.0.0.dylib, libfoo-0.0.0.0.dylib and libfoo-0.0.0.0.0.0.dylib) to nice (libfoo.dylib, libfoo.0.dylib and libfoo.0.0.0.dylib)

Re: [Fink-devel] PDB fix needed

2003-11-18 Thread TheSin
man do i look like a slacker now :P Really I'm working hard :) -TS On 18-Nov-03, at 7:03 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Any PHP / mysql fans care to help with the Package database? A specific enhancement needed currently: The PDB is currently showing no maintainer for all of thesin's packages, beca

[Fink-devel] PDB fix needed

2003-11-18 Thread Ben Hines
Any PHP / mysql fans care to help with the Package database? A specific enhancement needed currently: The PDB is currently showing no maintainer for all of thesin's packages, because it pulls the maintainer list from only one tree i think (10.2-gcc3.3?)... Anyone feel like enhancing it so it wi

Re: [Fink-devel] -release to -version-info conversion

2003-11-18 Thread TheSin
-release is bad news on OSX, IIRC it's very old on all systems and should be phased out. There should be any libs on darwin with libfoo-0.0.0 they should always be libfoo.0.0.0 which means replacing -release with -version-info. The problem is always getting the value for version-info as it ca

Re: [Fink-devel] How do I submit a new port?

2003-11-18 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi George, Welcome to the club of package maintainers. You can submit your package at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=414256&group_id=17203 . You'll have to register with sourceforge (for free of course). It will then be reviewed by the developers. Cheers, Remi On Tuesday

Re: [Fink-devel] -release to -version-info conversion

2003-11-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
TheSin wrote: just cause i want to doc it someplace I've found that in almost everycase this is how you can convert -release to -version-info in other words ugly (libfoo-0.0.0.dylib, libfoo-0.0.0.0.dylib and libfoo-0.0.0.0.0.0.dylib) to nice (libfoo.dylib, libfoo.0.dylib and libfoo.0.0.0.dylib)

[Fink-devel] How do I submit a new port?

2003-11-18 Thread George V. Neville-Neil
Howdy, I have gotten MagicPoint (a really nice, simple, slide presentation system that's under BSD License) all set up in Fink on 10.3 (it also worked under 10.2). How do I submit this new package? Thanks, George PS MagicPoint info is at http://www.mew.org/mgp/

Re: [Fink-devel] Split fink-commits?

2003-11-18 Thread Carsten Klapp
On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:32 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: I have a request. The amount of mail on fink-commits generated by .info and .patch file changes is rather daunting. Could the fink-commits list be split into seperate lists for seperate projects? At the very least could th

[Fink-devel] -release to -version-info conversion

2003-11-18 Thread TheSin
just cause i want to doc it someplace I've found that in almost everycase this is how you can convert -release to -version-info in other words ugly (libfoo-0.0.0.dylib, libfoo-0.0.0.0.dylib and libfoo-0.0.0.0.0.0.dylib) to nice (libfoo.dylib, libfoo.0.dylib and libfoo.0.0.0.dylib) if you see -r

[Fink-devel] Re: fink svn 0.33.0 on 10.3 doesn't compile

2003-11-18 Thread Blair Zajac
Christian Schaffner wrote: > > Hi Blair, hi Ben > > This problem seems to come from a bug in fink 0.17.0. Judging from > the commit log messages it is now fixed in cvs. But, as far as i > know, no bug fix is released yet. I will inform you as soon as i get > more news. Sorry about that... > > Ch

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad press ([Fwd: Fink Issue: Fink may temporarily break postfix])

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
TheSin wrote: my new uidgid branch will fix this, since it won't add users/groups that already exist. Once the Shlibs branch is complete I'll work on getting uidgid into fink head ASAP. Yes, please. I have been waiting for this for 2 years :-) Honestly, I can show you a message on fink-devel f

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad press ([Fwd: Fink Issue: Fink may temporarily break postfix])

2003-11-18 Thread TheSin
my new uidgid branch will fix this, since it won't add users/groups that already exist. Once the Shlibs branch is complete I'll work on getting uidgid into fink head ASAP. -TS On 18-Nov-03, at 1:10 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: The default Apple UID and GID for postfix is 27, the new UID and G

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: emacs21-xaw3d problem. (Nicholas Robbins)

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You should also contact the maintainer directly, in case they haven't been following this thread. On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 02:48 PM, Nicholas Robbins wrote: As someone who a) isn't the maintainer of emacs21-xaw3d and b) isn't remotely able to fix what is going on. What should I do? I j

[Fink-devel] Bad press ([Fwd: Fink Issue: Fink may temporarily break postfix])

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Found this message on the macox-admin list. The message is rather friendly, considering. Why is this version of passwd with postfix uid=255 still in 10.3/stable? -- Martin Original Message Subject: Fink Issue: Fink may temporarily break postfix Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:00:34 -

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem updating fileutils to 4.1-4

2003-11-18 Thread Max Horn
Am Montag, 17.11.03 um 15:48 Uhr schrieb Olivier Dhez: Everything goes well during the compilation but I got the following error at the end dpkg-deb -b root-fileutils-4.1-4 /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/utils dpkg-deb: building package `fileutils' in `/sw/fink/dists/uns

Re: [Fink-devel] pgplot-perl581

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Massimo Marengo wrote: [] Phase 3 was already there in the "Fink unstable" info file for 10.3, but it didn't work for Panther. The problem was that the cc command was using the command line option -framework which is apparently no more recognized by dyld (if I have understood correctly, the o

[Fink-devel] Re: emacs21-xaw3d problem. (Nicholas Robbins)

2003-11-18 Thread Nicholas Robbins
As someone who a) isn't the maintainer of emacs21-xaw3d and b) isn't remotely able to fix what is going on. What should I do? I just wanted to let the developers know that this package wasn't working properly. I've installed emacs21 without xaw3d, and that will do for now, I just wanted to bring t

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable/crypto tree not updating with rsync

2003-11-18 Thread Rob Braun
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 07:44:24AM +0100, Christian Schaffner wrote: > Dear Fink Main Developers > > Um 20:05 Uhr -0800 am 17.11.2003, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: > >From: Rob Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Subject: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.417,1.418 SelfUpdate.pm,1.55,1.56 > >Date: Mon, 17 N

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Ahh, it doesn't show a -dev, like yours did, but "fink install gtk+2" seems happy. -dev is in the upcoming 0.17.1 release (and will take a rework of xfree86 packages to be taken advantage of) so this is normal. -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick -- http://ranger.befunk

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Peter" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> That's right, it is autodetected in /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm Peter> and added to your list if a valid x11 install is found. Peter> fink list -t system-xfree86 Peter> Information about 1709 packages rea

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread David R. Morrison
The -dev will show up once fink-0.17.1 is released, RSN. -- Dave --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it

Re: [Fink-devel] Status of 10.2 tree

2003-11-18 Thread David R. Morrison
There are still some packages, maybe 100-200, which haven't yet made it from the 10.2 tree to the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree. As soon as they are moved, we'll stop officially supporting the old 10.2 tree, and we'll explicitly announce this to users. However, for all practical purposes, that support is over

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Peter" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> No, but you do need to force remove the packages you have already Peter> installed, they are not added if there is already an installed Peter> system-xfree86 or real xfree86 package. Peter> So : Peter> sudo dpkg -r --force-all sys

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: | [localhost:~] merlyn% fink list -t system-xfree86 | Information about 1981 packages read in 6 seconds. | i system-xfree86 1:1.0-2 Placeholder: XFree86 | i system-xfree86-42 4.2-3 Placeholder: XFree86 4.2.

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Peter" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> That's right, it is autodetected in /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm Peter> and added to your list if a valid x11 install is found. Peter> fink list -t system-xfree86 Peter> Information about 1709 packages read in 2 seconds. Pete

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: | How am I supposed to indicate that I'm using Apple's X11 now? | | [localhost:/sw/fink/10.3] merlyn% find /sw/fink -name 'system-xfre*' - -print | /sw/fink/10.1/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/system-xfree86-4.2-1.info | /sw/

[Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
How am I supposed to indicate that I'm using Apple's X11 now? [localhost:/sw/fink/10.3] merlyn% find /sw/fink -name 'system-xfre*' -print /sw/fink/10.1/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/system-xfree86-4.2-1.info /sw/fink/10.1/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/system-xfree86-4.2-1.info /sw/fink/10.2

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem updating fileutils to 4.1-4

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Olivier Dhez wrote: [] install-info(fileutils.info): couldn't backup /sw/share/info/dir in /var/backups/infodir.bak: Invalid argument There may be something wrong with your "cp" command. Do you have the fink fileutils installed? If yes, you could try to move /sw/bin/cp temporarily out of the wa

Re: [Fink-devel] pgplot-perl581

2003-11-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Massimo Marengo wrote: [] - eliminated a dyld option (-framework) which is no more available (now the framework should be specified with its full path) and added -lcc_dynamic: /System/Library/Frameworks/Foundation.framework/Versions/Current/ Foundation /System/Library/Frameworks/AppKit.

Re: [Fink-devel] Status of 10.2 tree

2003-11-18 Thread Louis Granboulan
Hello, there is also FinkCommander that many fink users (including me) have as their main interface to fink, and that apparently is not being upgraded to gcc3.3 and neither to Panther. This is another reason to support the 10.2 tree. Louis -