[Fink-devel] Re: zsh

2004-11-01 Thread William Scott
Dear David H. et al: It turns out there is nothing wrong with zsh-4.2.1-13 per se. The $fpath problem was an artifact of spawining subshells from within Apple's supplied /bin/zsh. If the user makes /sw/bin/zsh the login shell, or spawns /sw/bin/zsh from a tcsh or bash login shell, the problem

Re: [Fink-devel] QT/Aqua instead of QT/X11

2004-11-01 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
On Sun, Oct 31, 2004 at 01:35:16PM +0100, Matthias Ringwald wrote: hi I'd like to point out, why I would be happy to have a QT/Mac package although its not binary compatible and the other fink apps will not run on top of it. I tried to build a QT Application both with QT/X11 and

[Fink-devel] Proposed new policy on essential dependencies

2004-11-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, In the course of working to update several of fink's essential packages, some of us have come to realize that we need a policy change: we need packages to explicitly declare their dependencies on essential packages. The contrary policy -- that packages should *not*

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposed new policy on essential dependencies

2004-11-01 Thread Daniel Macks
On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 12:07:06PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote: Dear Fink developers, In the course of working to update several of fink's essential packages, some of us have come to realize that we need a policy change: we need packages to explicitly declare their dependencies on

[Fink-devel] improvement suggestion

2004-11-01 Thread Pejvan BEIGUI
Hi all, I've got a simple request regarding the way fink handles unsuccessful downloads. I like to launch the $fink update-all before going to sleep or going out so that everything's done when I'm not actually using the computer. But what often happens is that some mirrors are not up to date and

Re: [Fink-devel] improvement suggestion

2004-11-01 Thread Pejvan BEIGUI
Todd Heidesch wrote: There is a 'yes' switch, implemented as such: fink -y update-all Great, thanks ! which will try to answer any prompts. (I don't like using it for new installs because I don't always like the choices it makes, and sometimes the mirrors can still halt the install if

[Fink-devel] hooray! I built my first package

2004-11-01 Thread Mark Brethen
I successfully built a fink package for xfrotz: Package: xfrotz Version: 2.32.1 Revision: 1 Description: Interpreter for all Infocom-type games License: GPL Maintainer: Mark Brethen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Source: http://www.ifarchive.org/if-archive/infocom/interpreters/frotz/%n-%v.ta$ Source-MD5:

Re: [Fink-devel] hooray! I built my first package

2004-11-01 Thread Alexander Strange
On Nov 1, 2004, at 9:41 PM, Mark Brethen wrote: Should I include a script to do that? I'd suggest looking at some other packages that use xfontpath. --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE

[Fink-devel] Re: zsh

2004-11-01 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 William Scott wrote: | Dear David H. et al: | Goof morning. snip | | Please accept my apologies for wasting your time with this. | Please do not worry about it. You did not waste my time, I had a chance to look more closely at the package. This is

Re: [Fink-devel] hooray! I built my first package

2004-11-01 Thread Martin Costabel
Mark Brethen wrote: [] 1) make install will add fonts to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc. Is this okay? I would say no. They should go into a subdirectory of %i/lib/X11/fonts. (Just to make Alexander's advice more precise). -- Martin --- This