Re: [Fink-devel] Fink Build Status; QA Proposal

2005-06-01 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Matthew Sachs wrote: snip This would let us validate submissions and automate the maintenance of the bindist (and even provide a bindist for unstable.) While I like that very much, there is a trust/security issue here which we have failed

[Fink-devel] dpkg/status auto correction facility?

2005-06-01 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 - From time to time I get Setting build lock... /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-openssl097-0.9.7g-2_2005.06.01-10.23.39_darwin-powerpc.deb dpkg: parse error, in file `/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 794 package

Re: [Fink-devel] glib2 on 10.4

2005-05-03 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Macks wrote: knghtbrd refers us to: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=302672 to fix broken poll() behavior in glib2. Seems like adding -D_POLL_EMUL_H_ to CPPFLAGS would suffice for our pkg...(/me not near Tiger to test

[Fink-devel] Stary find processes hanging around.

2005-05-02 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello. Was playing around with last weeks HEAD. Now I have (sometimes), something like this haging around 27042 std- U 0:00.02 /usr/bin/find /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/ ( -type f - -or -type l ) -and -name *.shlibs -newer /sw/var/l 27094 std- U

[Fink-devel] Re: zsh not compiling on Tiger

2005-05-02 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Matthew Sachs wrote: On May 2, 2005, at 03:30, D. Höhn wrote: (Moving from -seed to -devel.) zsh should be told to use select instead of poll by undefing HAVE_POLL_H and HAVE_POLL in config.h. Yes, that is my fix as well. However I do

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-03-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel E. Macks wrote: | David R. Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | |Here's my take on this licensing issue, for what it's worth. | |I think we should explicitly indicate that authors of .info files are |*contributing* those files to the fink

[Fink-devel] latest fink, convinience Bug?

2005-03-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 When you develop away and you alter an info file, check it into CVs and then do something like: fink list --maintainer=Darian Fink has detected that your package index cache is missing or out of date, but does not have privileges to modify it.

Re: [Fink-devel] Suggestions for a response?

2005-03-17 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Kurt Schwehr wrote: | Hey All, | Hello. | Any suggestions on what to respond with to with this? | I was hoping to get the USGS ISIS image processing | system into fink next year. I would like to respond | to this guy in a positive way that makes

[Fink-devel] Re: Licenses that don't fit

2005-01-12 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Henninger wrote: | Hi folk, | | I'm putting together an erlang package (with the intended goal of | packaging ejabberd as well). Erlang is governed by the Erlang Public | License, which is not one of the available licenses. So what do you

[Fink-devel] OT Re: How to force twolevel_namespace

2005-01-10 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Peter O'Gorman wrote: | Martin Costabel wrote: | | | Now here comes my questions for the experts: What is the recommended way | | to persuade freetype2 to build twolevel images? I did the following | | brute-force hack: The freetype2.info file has

Re: [Fink-devel] lifetime of static variables

2004-12-22 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dave Vasilevsky wrote: | On Dec 22, 2004, at 2:24 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: | | Is this different from using the -single-module linker flag? The | latter is often recommended for problems with static initializers. | | | According to Apple, it's

Re: [Fink-devel] Sylpheed and gpgme 1.0.1 Incompatibility

2004-12-16 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Emily Jackson wrote: | Sylpheed (one of whose dependencies is gpgme) and the new version of | gpgme are not compatible at all. If Sylpheed is already installed and | gpgme is upgraded to 1.0.1, Sylpheed crashes on launch because the file |

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

2004-11-03 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David R. Morrison wrote: | Dear Fink developers, | snip | Comments and discussion are welcome. | I think that this is the way to go. However, to handle this gracefully and to make sure that the users are notified of what is going on I would like

[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

[Fink-devel] Re: zsh

2004-10-22 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 William Scott wrote: |I am not really a hardcore zsh user yet | | | Would it help to have an OS X-friendly zsh set of configuration files? | | I've made some here: http://tinyurl.com/4k7a9 | | I could make this into a fink-compatable optional

[Fink-devel] In the name of Michèle Garoche - [TRANSLATION: uguide.en.xml], [COMMITS: uguide.en.xml] first chunk

2004-10-21 Thread D. Höhn
Since the commits mail fails, but not the commit itself, here are the changes (only a first chunk, another chunk will come later), sorry for the trouble: Index: uguide.en.xml === RCS file:

[Fink-devel] Dear Maintainers/Users. I need your help.

2004-10-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Greetings Community. First of all, thank you for using Fink and supporting us. I have thought a very long time about our process of support. I think Fink can help the community to streamline this process in a better way. I would like to propose a

[Fink-devel] In the name of Michèle Garoche - [TRANSLATION: uguide.en.xml], [COMMITS: uguide.en.xml] second and last chunk

2004-10-21 Thread D. Höhn
Since the commits mail fails, but not the commit itself, here are the changes (second and last chunk), sorry for the trouble: [QUOTE] Index: uguide.en.xml === RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/web/xml/users-guide/uguide.en.xml,v retrieving

[Fink-devel] Re: zsh.info

2004-10-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Cian Hughes wrote: snip | | ConfigureParams: --libexecdir=%p/libexec --mandir=%p/share/man | --infodir=%p/share/info --enable-zsh-secure-free --sysconfdir=%p/etc/zsh | --enable-etcdir=/etc/zsh --enable-fndir=%p/etc/zsh/%v/functions |

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci weka.info,NONE,1.1

2004-10-19 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel E. Macks wrote: | Kurt Schwehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: | |Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci | |--- NEW FILE: weka.info --- |Package: weka |DescPort: |Didn't compile from source since that is just available from

Re: [Fink-devel] Still care about GCC field?

2004-10-04 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Macks wrote: | I've seen some packages slip in lately that are C++, but do not | declare GCC:3.3 in the .info. Is this requirement still necessary? | yes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin)

[Fink-devel] Re: Build trouble with ncpfs

2004-09-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Tim Fulcher wrote: | OK OK, I know this hasn't been ported to mac OS X, at least not that I can find. | I've seen several attempts, but nothing that seems complete. So I wondered | what the problems were... trying to compile it with

Re: [Fink-devel] 'fink show-deps' and 'apt-get --allow-broken'

2004-09-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Christian Schaffner wrote: snip | | The new apt could go into fink anyway, no? Are there any risks in just | adding the new apt.info file to the unstable tree? | As I did not have any time to look at this yet. Is this a patch against the _latest_

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Trevor Harmon wrote: | Hi, | | I'm in the process of creating my first Fink package, but I seem to | running into a minor problem with the CustomMirror field. I need to use | a custom mirror because the package is unavailable at any of the |

[Fink-devel] Re: Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Trevor Harmon wrote: | On Sep 21, 2004, at 12:02 AM, D. Höhn wrote: | | This is a design choice. We have often thought on different ways to | handle such situations. We do agree that manual interaction is the best | choice in this case. | | | Hmm

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text texshop.info,NONE,1.1

2004-09-17 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: snip | finkprefix/Applications, and there is a symlink in | /Applications/Fink. Since you are altering the system outside of finkprefix, has this been discussed? I might have missed it, I was away for a bit - -d -BEGIN

[Fink-devel] Re: an automated way to monitor web pages for changes

2004-07-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 William Scott wrote: | Hi Folks: | | I've already discovered that maintaining several packages requires | constant vigilance with respect to software updates. Is there an | automated way to monitor a program's web site for version changes to |

Re: [Fink-devel] Patching rsync.info

2004-07-05 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Blair Zajac wrote: | Anybody mind if I patch rsync.info with this patch? snip Have you verified that rsync still computes the checksums correctly when using your patch ? If you arer 100% sure, go ahead and check in your patched version. - -d

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo socat-ssl.info,NONE,1.1

2004-06-28 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Christian Schaffner wrote: | Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo | In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv1343/crypto/finkinfo | | Added Files: | socat-ssl.info I think we should no longer do that. I

[Fink-devel] Re: Doc bug - Bad heredoc syntax

2004-06-01 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Langhoff (NZL) wrote: | The CustomMirror example shows an incorrect heredoc syntax. It opens | with and closes with . Should close with . | snip And just for the record, please report such issues in the future to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text cwtext.info,NONE,1.1

2004-04-19 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ben Hines wrote: | | On Apr 17, 2004, at 6:14 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: | | Maintainer: Univ. of Tokyo Educational Computing System Tutors | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | I do not like this at all. If the package was made by Asari Takashi, IMO | he should

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Problem updating fink

2004-04-13 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Macks wrote: snip | This is the latest of many such problem reports. It's easy enough to | have a hard-coded default for this mirror (as we do for other | mirrors). While I trust my mirror setup a lot (There are over 7 seperate DNS serving

Re: [Fink-devel] fink documentation needing updates ?

2004-04-01 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Pejvan BEIGUI wrote: | Hi all, | | It seems that that the fink documentation may need an overall update, | since there are some parts which have not been updated for a while. | | For example, on http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/index.php |

Re: [Fink-devel] no updates for two days?

2004-04-01 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: |Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | | | Martin On 1 avr. 2004, at 14:36, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: | |Did everyone go home? :) | | Benjamin it might be my rss feed is acting up... I've seen updates...

Re: [Fink-devel] no updates for two days?

2004-03-31 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: | I haven't seen any .info files updated at all for the past two days. | Did everyone go home? :) | Nope. we simply decided to stop Fink all in all :) (remember the date is 01.04.2004.. ) - -d -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Fink-devel] rxtx package sun's licensing

2004-03-22 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Matthias Ringwald wrote: snip | | so the main question is: how could we deal with sun's licensing ? | In this case I would honestly Call SUN, describe the situation and see if this is Restrictive/Distributable | thanks, | matthias ringwald | | |

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

2004-03-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 James Gibbs wrote: | | On Mar 21, 2004, at 6:39 PM, William Scott wrote: | | For those who had trouble with the ftp, would you be kind enough to | check this link to see if it works? : | |

Re: [Fink-devel] Zsh Broke init.sh Again

2004-03-13 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 James Devenish wrote: | Hi, | Hello Mister Devenish and thank you for your work. | In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] | on Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:11:58PM +0100, Max Horn wrote: | |I would greatly prefer if we do *not* add an init.zsh unless we

[Fink-devel] Re: adding libevent to the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree

2004-03-04 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 rayg wrote: | please add libevent to the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree. a user has successfully | built it and wishes to use it in that tree. | done -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird -

[Fink-devel] [Fwd: fink installation]

2004-02-19 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Is this correct? - Original Message Hi, read and followed your quick start to download and install fink. Got an errormessage /usr/sbin/nm not found! Maybe you should mention that in the quick start doc. - -first install

Re: [Fink-devel] Offer to help with Docs Design

2004-02-16 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Kyres wrote: | Hi there! | | I would like to offer my help in the Fink Documentation Project as well as | lend some assistance to the web design of the Fink site. | | I¹m not a programmer, but as an end-user I think I can offer some | suggestions

Re: [Fink-devel] non-core package submissions

2004-01-08 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Here's a heretical thought: | | I've never been 100 % convinced that most of the stuff I have submitted | even belongs in fink. | | Much of it is rather specialized, like programs for X-ray | crystallography and other

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

2004-01-08 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: | I am forwarding a message from today's fink-users list here, in the hope | that someone with better memory or better insight knows the source of | this problem. | | This has been coming come up very regularly, I find

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

2004-01-08 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: | D. Höhn wrote: | [] | | Xould you provide a Q/A pait ? I will check it into the FAQ as soon as I | have it and it has been verified here | | | As soon as someone has an idea what to put into the A part :-) | I haven't

Re: [Fink-devel] bin-dist made more regularely

2003-12-12 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: snip | | I, personally would like to see a faster turnover of packages that lots of | people use from unstable to stable. | The problem you describe uo there depends soley on user feedback. If I add package foo on the

Re: I am giving this 24 hours - (Re: [Fink-devel] Is it ok to remove phpmyadmin and pws from the web-module?)

2003-12-09 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 D. Höhn wrote: | Darian Lanx wrote: | | | Hello | | | | I am a bit on the cleaning trip. | | Is the subdirectory pws or phpmyadmin in the web module still in use? | | Thank you | | | | -d | | | | Just a follow up to my own mail. Since no one

Re: [Fink-devel] new fink commands

2003-12-08 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 TheSin wrote: | I just added these two commands to fink HEAD, dmalloc should be adding | them to the man pages for me tomorrow, please provide feedback. | | fink splits - returns a list of children of a pkg including it's parent | | fink find -

I am giving this 24 hours - (Re: [Fink-devel] Is it ok to remove phpmyadmin and pws from the web-module?)

2003-12-08 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Darian Lanx wrote: | Hello | | I am a bit on the cleaning trip. | Is the subdirectory pws or phpmyadmin in the web module still in use? | Thank you | | -d | Just a follow up to my own mail. Since no one screamed and shouted at me, I am giving

[Fink-devel] Re: Who did commit unstable/util/hflf on Sun Nov 23 17:53:36 2003 ?

2003-12-04 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Arnaud Launay wrote: snip | | Anyway, for the placement: in FreeBSD and OpenBSD, hlfl is | classified under security, it's under net-misc in Gentoo and | net in Debian. How do you call something which create firewall | rules, if not related to net

Re: [Fink-devel] Don't disable tests. Report the failure. (was Re: fink ChangeLog,1.181,1.182 Makefile,1.4,1.5)

2003-11-20 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 TheSin wrote: | David is the Project lead :) If he is asking then the fink-core doesn't | know :) | I am the project lead? Gee thank you Justin ;) g -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink module documentation, tests and all that icky stuff.

2003-10-30 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Michael G Schwern said the following on 10/30/03 2:36 AM: snip I'd like to keep going, but there's been no motion on any of the above. So... are you folks interested in testing and documenting Fink::*? Would you like me to continue? Hello Mister

[Fink-devel] Being Back, doing announcements, Improvements and so on...

2003-02-18 Thread D. Höhn
hallo Gang. No, I have not been temporarily killed and I have risen from the dead now and no, you did not manage to get rid of me. I was on bussiness in Switzerland and I simply happened to come back today. I would appreciate it, if we could wait until at least Friday for further annoucements

Re: [Fink-devel] GPG maintainer?

2002-12-26 Thread D. Höhn
Quoting Kristofer Widholm [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am wondering if anyone is maintaining the GPG package. GPG is up to version 1.2.1. The latest version in Fink (0.4.0) was GPG 1.0.7, and there is no version available for Fink (0.5.0 Jaguar). gpg 1.2.1 is still in the unstable Tree. It is being

Re: [Fink-devel] Can someone add fink validate docs somewhere I can find them?

2002-12-24 Thread D. Höhn
Quoting Hisashi T Fujinaka [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip So if you want people to validate their packages prior to submission, it should be more prominent on the web pages and maybe in fink --help somewhere. Otherwise you get guys like me with short memories spinning their wheels looking for it.