Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this url?

2004-03-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> It also doesn't collaborate with all versions of curl, in particular Martin> not with Fink's curl. I can download only with /usr/bin/curl and the Martin> "-P -" Martin> flag. Oh whew! I thought it was just me for a moment! Th

Re: [Fink-devel] bindist URLs dead

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: [] I will contact the SF.net staff now. Seems they listened to you already. Amazing. Both versions of the URLs are working now. -- Martin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
> Don't forget to cope with user changes to the sources.list I guess I was planning to prompt the user for whatever additions he/she wants, during the "fink configure" dialog. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorial

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread Max Horn
Am 20.03.2004 um 17:08 schrieb Peter O'Gorman: David R. Morrison wrote: My idea was that fink should actually write (or modify) the sources.list file. If you update the mirror choices, fink would write the correct entry into sources.list. In order to allow users to include unofficial binary d

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Peter. The thrust of my idea, actually, was that sources.list would no longer be edited by users directly (just like fink.conf is not edited by users directly). Fink should provide a way to put anything in sources.list which needs to be there, including additional entries specified by the user

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread Peter O'Gorman
David R. Morrison wrote: My idea was that fink should actually write (or modify) the sources.list file. If you update the mirror choices, fink would write the correct entry into sources.list. In order to allow users to include unofficial binary depositories, there should also be a prompt during

[Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
I've discussed with a few people in the past the idea that we should modify our setup so that a list of mirror sites for use by apt-get is under fink's control, just as other kinds of mirror sites are under fink's control It seems like this may be the moment we need to implement this (on an emerge

[Fink-devel] Changed Direct Download URLs for Fink - HELP!

2004-03-20 Thread Max Horn
Dear SF.net staff, it just came to our attention that the direct download URLs for project Fink (hosted at SF.net) have been changed. They used to be of the form: http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download but now an extra "sourceforge" is inserted: http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/sourcef

Re: [Fink-devel] bindist URLs dead

2004-03-20 Thread Max Horn
Am 20.03.2004 um 11:09 schrieb Martin Costabel: It seems the sourceforge clowns did it again: They changed the download directory names so that apt-get is running into "404 not found" errors. Their timing is also perfect, synchronized with the appearance of the new Fink bindist, so that the new

[Fink-devel] using freetype / location of ft2build.h

2004-03-20 Thread Koen van der Drift
Hi, For the package plplot that I maintain I have to add the path to freetype so the package can use it. So far, I was using this in the ConfigureParams field: FREETYPELIBDIR=/usr/X11R6/lib FREETYPEINCDIR=/usr/X11R6/include/freetype2 This works with Apple's X11, but not with xfree86 (4.4), be

Re: [Fink-devel] move to stable

2004-03-20 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Mar 17, 2004, at 9:04 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, I have had several positive responses for the plplot package, so it can be moved to stable. All packages it depends on are in stable, except qhull, so that needs to be moved to. Please do not move to stable. I just found that plplot

[Fink-devel] libxml2-python (fwd)

2004-03-20 Thread rayg
never got a response for this. should a new package that copies libxml2 be created that sets --with-python? anybody on this list have other ideas? -- Forwarded message -- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 1 Mar 2004 19:58:12 -0800 (PST) Subject: libxml2-pyt

[Fink-devel] bindist URLs dead

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
It seems the sourceforge clowns did it again: They changed the download directory names so that apt-get is running into "404 not found" errors. Their timing is also perfect, synchronized with the appearance of the new Fink bindist, so that the new one has the same wrong URLs as all the old ones

Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this url?

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: P.S. The URL doesn't work for me either... It seems this ftp server doesn't want to do passive ftp. This rules out downloading on my university account becasue of the firewall that blocks most ports for incoming connections. It also doesn't collaborate with all versions

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink Commander address

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
yamo wrote: I just downloaded the update for Fink Commander (0.5.2) and am now getting Err http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 152.2.210.121 80] Ign http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Release etc... when I run "Binary>Update" descript