[Fink-devel] Removing myself as maintainer

2015-12-31 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, Unfortunately I am no longer able to act as maintainer for any Fink packages, so I would like to remove myself from all .info files. I have attached a patch to do so. Could one of the core devs please apply it? (Use -p0.) Thank you, Trevor remove-trevor.patch Description: Binary data

[Fink-devel] Removing myself as maintainer

2015-02-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, I am currently listed as the maintainer of 45 packages (only 4 still officially supported): http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/browse.php?maintainer=Trevor+Harmondist_name=any Recently someone contacted me about updating one of my packages, but I had to explain that I no longer have the time

[Fink-devel] How to build for Qt 4

2014-09-09 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, I’m trying to update an old package (xxdiff) for the latest Fink on OS X 10.9. The upstream code now requires Qt 4 instead of Qt 3, but it seems the Qt 4 packages in Fink are much different. Also I’m very rusty at writing .infos, so I’m having difficulty understanding how to specify the Qt

Re: [Fink-devel] updating Fink's ode1 to 0.11.1

2012-10-02 Thread Trevor Harmon
Submitted to the tracker as ID 3573980. Trevor On Oct 2, 2012, at 12:54 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser f...@snaggledworks.com wrote: Trevor, Can your package ode1 be updated to 0.11.1? This would be the last version of the ode1 series (ode 0.12 exists in Fink as ode3 due to the library

[Fink-devel] Where do you guys find the time?

2012-04-25 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi all, My contributions to Fink can take a significant amount of time. It's not unusual to have to spend the better part of a day trying to get some tricky package to build correctly, especially one that needs patching. Yet I see more than a few contributors here who maintain far more

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink's jgraph build fails if gnujaxp is present

2012-03-19 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 19, 2012, at 2:26 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: Thankfully, only batik currently depends on gnujaxp, and _that_ fails with other issues, so it might be time to pull batik and gnujaxp if they're not fixable. Yeah, that sounds like the best solution for now. Trevor

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink's jgraph build fails if gnujaxp is present

2012-03-16 Thread Trevor Harmon
I'm able to reproduce the issue on Lion, but I'm not sure how to fix it. The JGraph package has changed a lot and is now hosted at a different site under a different name: http://www.jgraph.com/ I wasn't planning to update these packages for Lion. I guess the simple workaround for now is to

[Fink-devel] Maven 2.2.1

2010-08-09 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, The maven.info package is still using Maven 2.0.10, which was released a year and a half ago. The package also has a bug that causes some Maven plugins to fail because they can't find the mvn executable. I've created a new plugin that bumps the upstream version to the latest stable

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc45-4.5.0-1000 release packaging

2010-05-16 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:06 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 07:17:03PM -0700, Trevor Harmon wrote: On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Why hasn't classpath been upgraded to gcc44 yet? I've not had a reason to do so, and nobody requested it. Trevor Trevor

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc45-4.5.0-1000 release packaging

2010-04-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:35 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: One other question, do the packages that require gclasspath currently work fine on i386 and x86_64 fink? I believe the only package that requires gclasspath is jamvm, but I've not tested it on x86_64. Trevor

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc45-4.5.0-1000 release packaging

2010-04-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 20, 2010, at 11:06 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Why hasn't classpath been upgraded to gcc44 yet? I've not had a reason to do so, and nobody requested it. Trevor -- ___

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc45-4.5.0-1000 release packaging

2010-04-20 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 20, 2010, at 6:01 AM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: For gclasspath, from reading its DescPackaging, the dep is not needed. So it might be best to switch that dep to a Recommends.. _ Trevor ? gclasspath is dependent on gcc43 because both packages provide some of the same files (e.g.

Re: [Fink-devel] Confusion with rapidsvn linked libs

2009-07-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jul 7, 2009, at 12:27 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: This should be all right. Okay, so how do I map these version numbers (2 and 3.0.0) into the .info file? For example, here are the old portions of the .info that need updating: ... Package: svncpp0-dev Depends: svncpp0-shlibs (=

Re: [Fink-devel] Confusion with rapidsvn linked libs

2009-07-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jul 7, 2009, at 2:40 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: The Files: will have the file names, of course: Files: lib/libsvncpp.2.0.0.dylib lib/libsvncpp.2.dylib It seems only the libsvncpp.2.dylib is generated. Do I need to add an InstallScript in the splitoff to softlink the 2 to a

Re: [Fink-devel] Confusion with rapidsvn linked libs

2009-07-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jul 7, 2009, at 10:44 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: You can leave it out. Thanks for your help! I've uploaded the package to the tracker: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailaid=2818340group_id=17203atid=414256 Trevor

[Fink-devel] Shlibs validation failures with new ode package

2009-01-24 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, I'm the maintainer of the ode package, which has had a history of problems related to shlibs [1]. Luckily, ode now uses libtool, and it also fixes a problem that was preventing successful builds on Leopard, so I thought I'd hit two birds with one stone and upgrade Fink's package for

Re: [Fink-devel] Shlibs validation failures with new ode package

2009-01-24 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 24, 2009, at 5:33 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: The validator messages and otool-L are all self-consistent: the problem (and it *is* a problem) is that the lib is coded as if it exists in /opt/ode instead of in %p. Actually, the reason why otool reports /opt/ode is most likely because I

Re: [Fink-devel] Shlibs validation failures with new ode package

2009-01-24 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 24, 2009, at 5:54 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: There are a couple of problems here. You have too many packages. There only needs to be a -dev and a -shlibs package. The unnecessary ode package only contains 2 files: libode.1.0.0.dylib, which needs to be in ode-shlibs and libode.la,

Re: [Fink-devel] Shlibs validation failures with new ode package

2009-01-24 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 24, 2009, at 10:15 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: libode.dylib needs to go in the dev package, not shlibs. It appears that nothing currently depends on ode, yes? If so, I'd suggest removing the ode-dev splitoff entirely, leaving all the dev files in the main ode package. Make it

[Fink-devel] Overhauling gclasspath

2008-11-29 Thread Trevor Harmon
I maintain the gclasspath package (formerly classpath), and I recently learned that it has file conflicts with gcc43. For some reason, gcc43 installs classpath along with it, and it does strange things to the files. For instance, it installs the classpath binaries to %p/lib/ gcc4.3/bin, and

Re: [Fink-devel] Can't figure out proper shlibs for JOGL

2008-10-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Oct 22, 2008, at 10:57 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: For jnilibs, the best way to handle them is to build them as bundles, since they're dynamically loaded into the JVM. It looks like changing the build.xml to use plugin instead of shared for the cc task will Do The Right Thing. Of

Re: [Fink-devel] Can't figure out proper shlibs for JOGL

2008-10-22 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Oct 22, 2008, at 7:41 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: 2) You want the name of the package containing the library (%n is OK here) Shlibs: %p/lib/lib%N.1.dylib 0.0.0 %n (= 1.1.1-2) 32 Thanks for the tip. I'm still doing something wrong, though, because I get validation errors on the

[Fink-devel] Fink not understanding private Shlib declaration

2008-04-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
I'm testing a new version of the lpsolve-java package, but it's not validating because it includes a private library without a Shlibs declaration. Obviously, the fix is to add the Shlib declaration, but for some reason it's not working. What I've added looks like this: Shlibs:

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink not understanding private Shlib declaration

2008-04-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 7, 2008, at 4:27 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Try variations.. I remember that originally at least this was extremely sensitive to spacing.. (conceivably removing the space after the colon, or replacing the thing by Shlibs: !%p/lib/liblpsolve55j.jnilib with no space at

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink not understanding private Shlib declaration

2008-04-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 7, 2008, at 4:56 PM, David Reiser wrote: Was there any other warning in the build log just prior to the complaint about the private shlib? I don't see any warnings at all. The only error is this: Validating .deb dir /sw/src/fink.build/root-lpsolve-java-5.5.0.11-1... Error: package

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink not understanding private Shlib declaration

2008-04-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:15 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: It is indeed a bug, which I've previously reported. The problem is that the validator is checking the library's install_name but telling you to use the actual pathname in the error message. These are not necessarily the same thing. So

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink not understanding private Shlib declaration

2008-04-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 7, 2008, at 5:29 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: out of curiosity, what does otool -hv /sw/lib/liblpsolve55j.jnilib print? $ otool -L /sw/lib/liblpsolve55j.jnilib /sw/lib/liblpsolve55j.jnilib: liblpsolve55j.jnilib (compatibility version 5.5.0, current version 5.5.0)

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc43's gjc and ecj1

2008-03-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 23, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Matthias Ringwald wrote: The build process is supposed to use ecj.jar if a pre-existing ecj package isn't installed... we don't have an ecj package, do we? We do: http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/ecj Trevor

Re: [Fink-devel] Recent Fink update breaks classpath package

2008-03-18 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 18, 2008, at 8:22 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: FWIW, I didn't test this submission...was a minor-version update to an existing package with minimal interaction with other packages, assumed that if it worked for submitter when submitted, it was good to go. I'm sorry about this. I certainly

Re: [Fink-devel] Recent Fink update breaks classpath package

2008-03-16 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 16, 2008, at 7:11 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: OSX 10.5.2 update, perhaps? No, that was released on February 11. The package was working fine with it. I'm pretty sure it was a change in Fink that's causing this problem. Trevor

[Fink-devel] Recent Fink update breaks classpath package

2008-03-15 Thread Trevor Harmon
The classpath-0.97 package was accepted into the unstable tree on March 2. Today I did a fink self-update and discovered it no longer builds successfully. It gives me this error: ../java/util/EnumSet.java:252: inconvertible types found : java.util.Collectioncapture of ? extends T required:

[Fink-devel] New maintainer of AspectJ package

2007-08-02 Thread Trevor Harmon
John Ridgway and I have agreed that he will take over maintenance of the aspectj package. Trevor - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log

[Fink-devel] Change of maintainer for Wine

2007-06-12 Thread Trevor Harmon
Robert Cusick and I have agreed to transfer maintenance of the wine package to him. Trevor - This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your

[Fink-devel] lpsolve looking for new maintainer

2007-02-06 Thread Trevor Harmon
I'm the official maintainer of the lpsolve and lpsolve-java packages, but unfortunately I no longer have the time nor the desire to continue in this role. Would anyone like to take over maintainership? Thanks, Trevor

[Fink-devel] Takeover of gnujaxp

2006-12-03 Thread Trevor Harmon
On the recommendation of Christian Schaffner, I am taking over maintenance of the gnujaxp package. See: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? func=detailaid=1406369group_id=17203atid=414256 Trevor - Take Surveys.

[Fink-devel] Shlibs field for ode package

2006-09-24 Thread Trevor Harmon
Are there any experts out there on the Shlibs field? I'm trying to submit a .info for a package called ODE, but I'm not sure how to get the Shlibs field just right. Any assistance would be appreciated. The tracker item is here: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?

Re: [Fink-devel] Wine package

2006-09-22 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 22, 2006, at 12:49 PM, Jim White wrote: Excellent! I've been planning to try building Wine myself http://darwine.sf.net/ and was thinking that Fink would be the best way to go. I will probably start with CodeWeavers version http://www.codeweavers.com/products/source/ and let you know

[Fink-devel] Wine package

2006-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
I recently bought a MacBook Pro and happen to have a couple Windows programs I need to run. I figured I'd simply install Wine through Fink, but it seems no Wine package has ever been written. Surprising, given that Wine compiles and runs just fine on 10.4 with an Intel chip. So, I created

Re: [Fink-devel] Mysterious uni2ascii package

2006-08-11 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Aug 10, 2006, at 9:49 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: WorksForMe(tm), but I have a single-processor machine so I have fewer problems like that. Some packages have trouble with multithreading, resulting in trying to link against a compiled object before that object gets compiled. Mine is

Re: [Fink-devel] Mysterious uni2ascii package

2006-08-11 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Aug 11, 2006, at 12:59 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Trevor Harmon wrote: [] Yes, that's what I'm seeing, too! (Mostly.) I get: gcc -DLOCALEDIR=\/usr/local/share/locale\ -g -O2 -L/sw/lib -o uni2ascii Get_UTF32_From_UTF8.o uni2ascii.o enttbl.o endian.o /usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols

Re: [Fink-devel] Mysterious uni2ascii package

2006-08-11 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Aug 11, 2006, at 12:57 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: The original idea was to use make install DESTDIR=%d as InstallScript. But yours is working, too. Okay, I've submitted it to the tracker as ID 1538949. Trevor smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[Fink-devel] Mysterious uni2ascii package

2006-08-10 Thread Trevor Harmon
I'm working on a package for uni2ascii, but I got stuck and was hoping someone could help me. I'm totally baffled because I can't reproduce the linker error that occurs when Fink tries to build the package, even when I enter the same commands that Fink executes. It seems that a certain

Re: [Fink-devel] Maintainers (was: FYI: SDL change)

2006-03-20 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 19, 2006, at 6:26 PM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: However, I must disagree about how wonderful collaborative packaging could be. Once upon a time, somebody had the great idea that rather than individual maintainers for each of the Gnome packages, Fink should have a Gnome Team which

Re: [Fink-devel] Maintainership issues

2006-03-20 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 20, 2006, at 9:50 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I've started drafting up some documents on the wiki that pertain to package maintainership. Please look at them, expand on them, rip the text up... Looks good; that's exactly the kind of clarification I was hoping we could add. A

Re: [Fink-devel] Maintainership issues

2006-03-20 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 20, 2006, at 12:22 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: 1. Could we put citations to this page in the packaging tutorial and manual? Sure. It's on the wiki, so anybody can make add any edits they want. :-) I mean the reverse. I'd like the packaging tutorial and manual to reference

Re: [Fink-devel] Package submission.

2006-01-31 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 31, 2006, at 5:50 AM, Brian Durant wrote: I have the following packages that I would like to submit to the Fink project. I hope these will be included as soon as possible in the list of packages. These have to be submitted to the tracker. There's a tutorial on how to do that here:

Re: [Fink-devel] New Build Report

2006-01-31 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 31, 2006, at 1:56 PM, Matthew Sachs wrote: My latest build report, using package definitions from 2006-01-17, is at: http://fink.opendarwin.org/build/2006-01-17/ppc/out/report.html http://fink.opendarwin.org/build/2006-01-17/i386/out/report.html It looks like a number

[Fink-devel] Nested functions

2006-01-17 Thread Trevor Harmon
As a follow-up to the discussions about nested functions, I thought some of you would find this interesting: http://developer.apple.com/technotes/tn2006/tn2161.html The document mentions Fink specifically. Trevor smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[Fink-devel] New Saxon packages

2006-01-15 Thread Trevor Harmon
In light of the upcoming CVS freeze, I was hoping someone could take a look at my packages for Saxon-B. I have a few others that depend on Saxon-B, so I'd like to get the Saxon-B ones reviewed and finalized before I work on the dependents. They're in the tracker as IDs 1359250 and 1358819.

Re: [Fink-devel] Doc changes for upcoming 10.4 release

2006-01-12 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 12, 2006, at 1:18 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Before we release a new bindist, I'd like to update the documentation. I subscribe to an unrelated list in which an individual described Fink as a load of crap. He's a recent Linux-to-Mac convert and, while trying to install LaTeX,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Use of explicit interpretters in packaging scripts

2006-01-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 5, 2006, at 7:07 PM, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: I am against this. If policy says the -e is needed, and a package doesn't, it's a bug. But there is no policy on this; at least, I couldn't find any in the packaging documentation. And even if there were, wouldn't it be easier to enforce

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Use of explicit interpretters in packaging scripts

2006-01-05 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 4, 2006, at 12:37 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Careful though not to automatically add -e to a patchscript beginning eg with #!/usr/bin/perl Should fink know about all possible interpreters ? I think it should, yes. There are only a few possible shells, so hardcoding them

Re: [Fink-devel] Use of explicit interpretters in packaging scripts

2006-01-04 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 4, 2006, at 2:22 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: If you specify an explicit interpretter in a PatchScript, CompileScript, or InstallScript (i.e, the first line of the field begins with #!), please always pass the -e flag to that shell. How about making this the default behavior? When

[Fink-devel] GCC 4 video

2005-12-14 Thread Trevor Harmon
In light of the recent discussions about GCC 4 problems, I thought some might find this interesting: http://developer.apple.com/click/video_gcc4.html It presents some common errors and warnings and how to fix them. Trevor smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

Re: [Fink-devel] Dependence on a compiler

2005-12-13 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Dec 13, 2005, at 6:35 AM, Benjamin Place wrote: Is there a way to handle a package's dependence on a compiler besides using a virtual package? I have a program, written in Ada, that depends on the macada.org port of GNAT to OSX. Is there a way I could express that dependence in a

[Fink-devel] Fink dependency graph generator

2005-12-09 Thread Trevor Harmon
Something for the weekend... A utility for generating graphs of Fink package dependencies: http://vocaro.com/trevor/software/fink/dep-graph/ Trevor smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature

[Fink-devel] Depends operators

2005-12-05 Thread Trevor Harmon
I'm curious about the Depends operators: , =, =, !=, , =. They all make sense except for and . I was always taught that means strictly less than and means much less than, a subjective definition that depends on the context. In Fink, however, is taken to mean strictly less than,

Re: [Fink-devel] Depends operators

2005-12-05 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Dec 5, 2005, at 2:07 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: From http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html The relations allowed are , =, =, = and for strictly earlier, earlier or equal, exactly equal, later or equal and strictly later, respectively. Also: The deprecated forms

Re: [Fink-devel] How to determine required dependencies?

2005-11-09 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 9, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: I'm not an 'old pro', but what I usually do for a new package is to remove all non-essential packages (eg with FinkCommander). And then start from scratch to compile the package. Then one by one I start to add packages based on the

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: Let me be honest: I have an axe to grind, since I've got a number of my own packages languishing in the submission queue for months. I'm grateful for the feedback I've gotten, and eg dmacks has definitely improved the quality of my packages. But

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:53 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: It's a nice idea, but maybe it just recapitulates the submission queue problem in miniature? I signed up on that page two days after it was posted. Apparently senior developers are a scarce resource... I agree; a mentoring system seems much

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: The primary question isn't Do you know how to commit to CVS? (though that's definitely an asset!), but rather Do you know enough about Fink and how it works so that the packages you commit will generally be reliable? Agreed. But how do I

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 8, 2005, at 3:21 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel) the tracker ID number. If the package looks OK to me

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-05 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 5, 2005, at 2:55 AM, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: Aside from hacking on buildfink, the best way to help is testing packages. Maybe we should have a 'Test Week', when we ask all developers to NOT write new packages, and instead test various packages out and move them into stable? I vote

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Maximum redirects followed

2005-10-07 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Oct 4, 2005, at 3:10 AM, Max Horn wrote: An alternate approach would be to just tell curl to follow redirects. From the curl manpage: -L/--location snip However, there is a reason why this is off by default, and that is security. So it should be well considered before we just add

[Fink-devel] Broken link on Fink home page

2005-10-06 Thread Trevor Harmon
The link on Fink's homepage to browse CVS is broken. I believe it should be http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/ instead. Trevor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads,

Re: [Fink-devel] Broken link on Fink home page

2005-10-06 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Oct 6, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 10/6/05, Trevor Harmon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The link on Fink's homepage to browse CVS is broken. I believe it should be http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/ instead. It's not broken here. Yes, it's back up now. I also

[Fink-devel] Maximum redirects followed

2005-10-03 Thread Trevor Harmon
I am developing a package description for JOGL: https://jogl.dev.java.net/ The source is available here: https://jogl.dev.java.net/files/documents/27/17108/jogl-src.zip When I try to download the above link using my web browser, it works fine. However, when Fink tries to download it using

[Fink-devel] Maximum redirects followed

2005-10-03 Thread Trevor Harmon
I'm writing a .info for JOGL: https://jogl.dev.java.net The source zip is here: https://www.dev.java.net/files/documents/27/17108/jogl-src.zip I can retrieve the above link just fine using my browser. However, when Fink tries to grab it using curl, I get an error: curl: (47) Maximum (50)

Re: [Fink-devel] Maximum redirects followed

2005-10-03 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Oct 3, 2005, at 5:49 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Curl has been known not to get along with some source URLs. In such a case I believe the recommendation is to have Fink host it at SourceForge--which requires somebody with appropriate access to upload it.. Sounds good. Is there a

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Maximum redirects followed

2005-10-03 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Oct 3, 2005, at 9:12 PM, Daniel E. Macks wrote: Last I checked (10.3) Apple's curl was configured without crypto support. That would mean https: URLs won't work if 'curl' is /usr/bin/curl and the redirects go to other https: URLs. Does installing fink's curl (package is curl-unified or

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Maximum redirects followed

2005-10-03 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Oct 3, 2005, at 9:53 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: What license covers that file? It's BSD. Trevor --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more.

Re: [Fink-devel] Tiger build report

2005-05-02 Thread Trevor Harmon
On May 2, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: What about sorting by maintainer? Sorting by package name would be nice, too. Thanks to an unnamed bookseller, my Tiger hasn't been shipped yet, but I could take a look at my packages. Why the confidentiality? I don't see any reason to

Re: [Fink-devel] Tomcat confusion

2005-04-19 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Apr 19, 2005, at 2:53 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: 5? I show 4.1.31-1 (the tomcat4 package). Yeah, that's what's confusing me. I see the tomcat4 / 4.1.31-1 package in Fink Commander, but it also shows a tomcat / 5.0-11 virtual package. I have no idea where that's coming from. It's not

[Fink-devel] Tomcat confusion

2005-04-18 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, Fink has a package for Tomcat, but it's at version 5.0, and I'd like to use the newer 5.5 release. I was going to work on updating the .info for 5.5, but then I noticed that the package shows up in Fink Commander as a virtual package (tomcat-5.0-11, uninstalled). And I can't seem to find

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

2005-03-30 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 30, 2005, at 10:19 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: But once you filter out the idea (also not copyrightable, see Title 17, Sec. 102(b)), I suspect you'll find that the expression of that idea is quite limited by the technical and policy requirements of the info file. True, but that is not

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

2005-03-29 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 29, 2005, at 5:27 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: As far as retroactively doing this, it seems pretty clear to me (after this discussion) that we cannot do so. So, if there is general agreement about how to proceed, we'll declare that all .info and .patch files submitted after a certain date

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

2005-03-28 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 28, 2005, at 2:23 AM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: Most of a finkinfo file is just a statement of facts, and is nearly entirely determined by technical requirements. Those parts are most likely not copyrightable at all. No worries there, then. What about an almanac? A news broadcast? An

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-27 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 27, 2005, at 6:22 AM, David H. wrote: Yes, ignoring this bullshit licensing issue all together. Four highly paid, very well known and rather well respected lawyers have told me, seperately, that we should exactly do that. I assume you're joking about the lawyer bit, but if I understand

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

2005-03-17 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Mar 17, 2005, at 10:58 PM, D. Höhn wrote: That is indeed a problem and it would have to go or have a very clear license before we could allow it to be distributed through Fink. True, but ISIS does not necessarily need to be distributed with the official Fink binaries. If I were a user of both

Re: [Fink-devel] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-22 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Feb 22, 2005, at 1:36 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: FinkCommander's handling of provided virtual packages is completely broken. Among other things, it doesn't clear the variable that holds the version when a provided package is processed, which causes it to list the version of the last real

Re: [Fink-devel] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-22 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Feb 20, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Having them all Provide a common placeholder package only works if they really are drop-in replacements for each other, for example, identical headers, and .dylib links to identically-named and binary-compatible runtime .dylib files. Is that the

Re: [Fink-devel] wxWidgets vs. wxMac

2005-02-19 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Feb 19, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Alexander Strange wrote: wxWidgets is just a generic name; implementations of it for other stuff are named wxWindows, wxGTK, wxMac, etc. Right, I understand that now, but people who have never heard of wxWidgets (like me one week ago) won't know that. After all,

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 23, 2005, at 8:17 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: The graph-pm package which I maintain is currently at version graph-pm-0.20105. A new upstream version has been released, graph-pm-0.55. If I type fink info graph-pm, it will still show the info for the older version (the newer version is

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 23, 2005, at 12:20 PM, Charles Lepple wrote: do you mean the bug is in the version comparison, or in showing the info for the older version? Version comparison. dpkg --compare-versions 0.20105 gt 0.55 returns true, because version numbers are generally not compared as though they were true

Re: [Fink-devel] version numbering question

2005-01-23 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Jan 23, 2005, at 2:11 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Jan 23, 2005, at 4:46 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: I suppose this is not a Fink bug but rather a clash in version conventions. Perhaps the graph-pm package should have been versioned as 0.2.1.5 and 0.5.5? I am using the version numbers

[Fink-devel] AspectJ package going stale

2005-01-17 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, A package I submitted way back in September (aspectj) still has not been accepted into Fink. It has no comments, no changes, and I'm unable to approve it myself. Could someone please approve it for me? http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?

[Fink-devel] FinkMirrors.net domain registration expired

2004-10-15 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi all, While trying to install a package, Fink failed to download from every single mirror it tried. I then tried downloading it myself and noticed something surprising: FinkMirrors.net has expired! Try going to http://finkmirrors.net and you'll see what I mean. A quick whois lookup shows

[Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
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 standard Fink mirrors. So, I've specified the following in my .info file:

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

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: When Fink tries to install this package, it's supposed to download the file at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/aspectj-1.2.jar. At least, that's what I think it should do, based on the fields above. Instead, Fink for some reason

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

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
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... It still seems like a strange choice. I mean, why give up if there are still more

[Fink-devel] DocFiles directory tree

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, The DocFiles field in a .info file can take any number of files and wildcards. However, the doc files that I would like to include in my package consist of several hundred files several directories deep. There seems to be no way of telling DocFiles, Add this directory, and all of the files

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

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: On 21 sept. 2004, at 08:51, Trevor Harmon wrote: CustomMirror: nam-US: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/ Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.jar If you have only one URL for the source, it doesn't make sense to use the CustomMirror field

[Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, I'm packaging an application that requires Java's jar utility at build time (but not runtime). So, I'd like to specify whatever BuildDepends flag that maps to the jar utility. This is where I'm stuck, because there are packages called system-java14 and system-java14-dev (as well the 13 and

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

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 11:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: The normal way for your *.info file would be to have just a Source line and no CustomMirror: Source: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/%n-%v.jar Ah... From reading the packaging manual, I got the impression that the

Re: [Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Trevor Harmon wrote: I'm packaging an application that requires Java's jar utility at build time (but not runtime). So, I'd like to specify whatever BuildDepends flag that maps to the jar utility. This is where I'm stuck, because

Re: [Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Okay, that's what I expected; I just wanted to make sure. For future reference, how were you able to confirm this? I knew that they were virtual packages, but surely there must still be some way of knowing exactly what they provide, whether it