Re: [Fink-devel] date-manip-pm error

2004-02-11 Thread Martin Costabel
TheSin wrote: this seems to be a 10.2 or 10.2-gcc3.3 file as all my 10.3 pms have pm581s Then maybe you forgot to commit your version in 10.3/stable? -- Martin --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 08:20:28PM +1300, Nigel Stanger wrote: > Darian Lanx at [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus: > > > On a second note I think (%type[nox] "") is not such a hot syntax, > > It just confuses me. Is that supposed to be an "equals" constraint? If so, > why not just say so and make it

Re: [Fink-devel] Folding long lines in scripts

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 06:14:10PM +1100, Rohan Lloyd wrote: > On 12 Feb 2004, at 4:33 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:53:09AM +1100, Rohan Lloyd wrote: > >> > >>I discovered that fink did not like this. If I add a "#!/bin/sh" to > >>the > >>first line, it saves the script t

Re: [Fink-devel] Folding long lines in scripts

2004-02-11 Thread Rohan Lloyd
On 12 Feb 2004, at 4:33 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:53:09AM +1100, Rohan Lloyd wrote: In writing the InstallScript for a new package I wanted to be able to fold long lines, to make it more readable. ie. have: /usr/bin/install -m 755 common/fink/emacsen-install \

Re: [Fink-devel] date-manip-pm error

2004-02-11 Thread TheSin
this seems to be a 10.2 or 10.2-gcc3.3 file as all my 10.3 pms have pm581s, and I no longer support 10.2 or 10.2-gcc3.3 as the maintainer field indicates. So if someone wants to fix it or backport my versions for 10.3 feel free. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, tr

[Fink-devel] date-manip-pm error

2004-02-11 Thread Matt Broughton
It was suggested at [EMAIL PROTECTED] that I contact the package maintainer for date-manip-pm in regards to the following make error: /bin/mkdir -p /sw/src/date-manip-pm-5.40-2 gzip -dc /sw/src/DateManip-5.40.tar.gz | /sw/bin/tar -xf - /usr/bin/perl Makefile.PL PERL=/usr/bin/perl PREFIX=/sw INS

[Fink-devel] Folding long lines in scripts

2004-02-11 Thread Rohan Lloyd
In writing the InstallScript for a new package I wanted to be able to fold long lines, to make it more readable. ie. have: /usr/bin/install -m 755 -d %i/lib/emacsen-common/packages/install /usr/bin/install -m 755 common/fink/emacsen-install \ %i/lib/emacsen-common/packa

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Darian Lanx
Daniel Macks wrote: Package: foo%type[nox] Type: nox (-nox "") # one variant has "-nox", the other "" Depends: (%type[nox] "") x11 CompileScript: << if [ %type[nox] == "-nox" ]; then ./configure %c --without-x11 else ./configure %c --with-x11 fi make << I

Re: [Fink-devel] bug in 0.18.1 (virtual provides)

2004-02-11 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Feb 10, 2004, at 7:57 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Having looked at this some more, it looks like there is no bug except perhaps in "fink list", apt decided that installing perl560-core and all the -pm560's was a reasonable way to solve the 'Depends: libwww-pm' in gnucash :( apt is right, looking

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 09:35:42PM +0100, David H. wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: > > > Ok I will play the advocate of "easiness" now. Bring it on. > >Early in the -devel variants discussions, it was decided that we > >should overload the Type: field. So we just need a way to get at that > >info.

Re: [Fink-devel] bug in 0.18.1 (virtual provides)

2004-02-11 Thread David R. Morrison
"Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > > > Does the same bug show up in 0.18.2? in CVS HEAD? > > > > Having looked at this some more, it looks like there is no bug except > perhaps in "fink list", apt decided that installing perl560-core and all the > -pm560'

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
Daniel Macks wrote: It we want to go programming-language-style: Depends: %type_perl_version == 5.8.1 && thing-pm Depends: %type_nox == -nox || x11 It we want to be a bit more linguistic/thought-process oriented: Depends: %type_perl_version = 5.8.1 ? thing-pm Actually, I think the part tha

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:11:19PM -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: > > >It we want to go programming-language-style: > > > > Depends: %type_perl_version == 5.8.1 && thing-pm > > Depends: %type_nox == -nox || x11 > > > >It we want to be a bit more linguistic/thought-process orie

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 03:47:57PM +0100, Darian Lanx wrote: > Peter O'Gorman wrote: > >Daniel Macks wrote: > >> > > > > > Yes, I vote for a solution in Perl as well, yet I still think that the > syntax is simply bad. Bad as in too complicated for the common or novice > packager to understand. Ma

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:27:52AM -0500, Benjamin Reed wrote: > > Wouldn't it make more sense to maybe do something as a preprocessor > stage or something like that rather than adding even more new and > unusual syntax? > > Since you can have carriage returns in depends and stuff now (at least

Re: [Fink-devel] python23-socket-ssl & db42

2004-02-11 Thread Blair Zajac
Christian Schaffner wrote: > > On 11.02.2004, at 06:19, Blair Zajac wrote: > > > Thank you for updating python23-socket-ssl. > > > > However, it also only depends upon db42 and not db42 | db42-ssl. > > Revision -23 (in fink unstable now) BuildDepends on db42-ssl only now. > Which seems correct t

[Fink-devel] Installation blues

2004-02-11 Thread Martin Costabel
After having worked with a colleague yesterday for two hours to make his newly installed Fink do anything reasonable and having had to give ugly advice to him and to newbies on the lists of the type "sudo touch /usr/X11R6/include/X11/Xlib.h", "sudo rm /sw/lib/libintl.la" or "sudo ln -s /usr/loc

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Darian Lanx
Peter O'Gorman wrote: Benjamin Reed wrote: Daniel Macks wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:05:54PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote: The simpler version of the idea is just a simple string equality test: Depends: (%type_perl_version 5.8.1) thing-pm Since you can have carriage returns in depends and

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Benjamin Reed wrote: Daniel Macks wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:05:54PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote: The simpler version of the idea is just a simple string equality test: Depends: (%type_perl_version 5.8.1) thing-pm Since you can have carriage returns in depends and stuff now (at least I t

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread TheSin
o I like this one RangerRick. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 11-Feb-04, at 5:27 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Daniel Macks wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:05:54PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote: The simpler version of the idea is just a s

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
Daniel Macks wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:05:54PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote: The simpler version of the idea is just a simple string equality test: Depends: (%type_perl_version 5.8.1) thing-pm Depends: (X%type_nox X) x11 Either [the two strings in parens] are the same (so the package is k

Re: [Fink-devel] python23-socket-ssl & db42

2004-02-11 Thread Christian Schaffner
On 11.02.2004, at 06:19, Blair Zajac wrote: Thank you for updating python23-socket-ssl. However, it also only depends upon db42 and not db42 | db42-ssl. Revision -23 (in fink unstable now) BuildDepends on db42-ssl only now. Which seems correct to me. Please report back to Jeffrey Whitaker if yo

[Fink-devel] 5 packages still depending on db4 | db41

2004-02-11 Thread Christian Schaffner
Dear Fink Developers Most of the package maintainers now have upgraded the dependencies on berkeley db from db4 or db41 to db42 in the fink 10.3 unstable tree. Thanks a lot! I think it would be great if the last 5 remaining packages could be updated as well. They are: bind9, Matthew Flanagan <

[Fink-devel] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:05:54PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote: > > The simpler version of the idea is just a simple string equality test: > > Depends: (%type_perl_version 5.8.1) thing-pm > Depends: (X%type_nox X) x11 > > Either [the two strings in parens] are the same (so the package is > kep