Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Brian Bechtel
On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 02:26 PM, Max Horn wrote: > At 14:24 Uhr -0700 24.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >> At 8:59 AM -0600 4/24/02, Justin Hallett wrote: >>> I think the only real reason there to release >0.4 is the bootstrap >>> fail. >>> It's the only issue that could potentially rende

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Max Horn
At 14:24 Uhr -0700 24.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >At 8:59 AM -0600 4/24/02, Justin Hallett wrote: >>I think the only real reason there to release >0.4 is the bootstrap fail. >>It's the only issue that could potentially render fink unusable for some >>new users. Don't get me wrong I think the other

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Ben Hines
At 8:59 AM -0600 4/24/02, Justin Hallett wrote: >I think the only real reason there to release >0.4 is the bootstrap fail. >It's the only issue that could potentially render fink unusable for some >new users. Don't get me wrong I think the other problems should be fixed As opposed to the passwd

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Max Horn
At 19:21 Uhr +0200 24.04.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: >On mercredi, avril 24, 2002, at 03:28 , Max Horn wrote: > >>There were some issues that made us consider getting out quickly a >>0.4.0a release. Like for example: >> >>* dangerous problem in passwd >>* broken libmpeg >>* broken r-base >>* sou

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Max Horn
At 11:39 Uhr -0400 24.04.2002, Chris Devers wrote: >On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: > >> * gdk-pixbuf doesn't build correctl the first time it's built > >FYI, I was one of the people having problems with this. I went and >upgraded some other packages, then came back & it worked fine with >th

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Martin Costabel
On mercredi, avril 24, 2002, at 03:28 , Max Horn wrote: > There were some issues that made us consider getting out quickly a > 0.4.0a release. Like for example: > > * dangerous problem in passwd > * broken libmpeg > * broken r-base > * source bootstraping seems not possible w/o trick (trick bein

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Chris Devers
On Wed, 24 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: > * gdk-pixbuf doesn't build correctl the first time it's built FYI, I was one of the people having problems with this. I went and upgraded some other packages, then came back & it worked fine with the 0.16.0-5 version. Not sure how it ended up resolving itse

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Peter O'Gorman
On Wednesday, April 24, 2002, at 10:28 PM, Max Horn wrote: > > * dangerous problem in passwd > * broken libmpeg > * broken r-base > * source bootstraping seems not possible w/o trick (trick being > that you download the debianutil source manually, and during > bootstrap tell Fink in which dire

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Justin Hallett
I think the only real reason there to release >0.4 is the bootstrap fail. It's the only issue that could potentially render fink unusable for some new users. Don't get me wrong I think the other problems should be fixed but how does it make us look if your cmd line installer doesn't even work an

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread David R. Morrison
I agree with your strategy Max: let's fix the problems and then release 0.4.1 relatively soon. On the libmpeg problem, it looks to me like the version in unstable is OK but the version in stable is the bad one. Has anybody tested this? We should move the good version to stable as soon as we can

[Fink-devel] 0.4.0a vs. 0.4.1

2002-04-24 Thread Max Horn
There were some issues that made us consider getting out quickly a 0.4.0a release. Like for example: * dangerous problem in passwd * broken libmpeg * broken r-base * source bootstraping seems not possible w/o trick (trick being that you download the debianutil source manually, and during bootst