Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-27 Thread Benjamin Reed
Kyle Moffett wrote: On a side note, does anyone know if porting aptitude (from Debian) has been attempted? I was considering trying such a port and was wondering if anybody has made the attempt before and run into difficult or unsolvable problems. I ported it a little while back, it's in

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-27 Thread Benjamin Reed
Kyle Moffett wrote: You delete the line const char *_nl_expand_alias () without deleting the extern and the #ifdef __cplusplus above it, which possibly makes the gettext test fail. Hm, yeah, I honestly don't understand how the crazy gettext checking they're doing works, and what

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-27 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 27 Jul 2005, at 22:50, Benjamin Reed wrote: Hm, yeah, I honestly don't understand how the crazy gettext checking they're doing works, and what _nl_expand_alias is supposed to do, but it's not in our gettext. # nm -m /sw/lib/libintl.3.4.1.dylib|grep nl_expand_alias (undefined

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-27 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 27, 2005, at 16:50:15, Benjamin Reed wrote: Kyle Moffett wrote: Secondly, the configuration text redirection error comes from this part of the patch: - user_config-Dump(out); + user_config-Dump(); I can't see any reason for this change. You don't even change the argument list

Aptitude (was: Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed)

2005-07-27 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Jul 27, 2005, at 9:49 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: I ported it a little while back, it's in unstable. I'd be happy to move it to stable if I get a few positive reports. (hint, hint) :) Aptitude won't build for me on 10.4: ... make[4]: Nothing to be done for `all'. rm -fr output-html/

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-26 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 25, 2005, at 19:22:06, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: * 'fink rescan' is deprecated because nobody knows what it's for. If you know, tell us! I think I remember that it used to create/update apt-get package lists for local filesystem repositories, so that when running dselect you

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote:On Jul 25, 2005, at 19:22:06, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:      * 'fink rescan' is deprecated because nobody knows what it's for. If    you know, tell us! I think I remember that it used to create/update apt-get package lists forlocal filesystem

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-26 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 26, 2005, at 19:52:44, Alexander Hansen wrote: On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: I think I remember that it used to create/update apt-get package lists for local filesystem repositories, so that when running dselect you can see what deb files are on the local

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-26 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 26, 2005, at 7:47 PM, Kyle Moffett wrote: I think I remember that it used to create/update apt-get package lists for local filesystem repositories, so that when running dselect you can see what deb files are on the local filesystem, even if they aren't installed at the moment. As

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-26 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Jul 26, 2005, at 23:04:04, Dave Vasilevsky wrote: Personally I much prefer aptitude to deselect, even when not using it to just install packages, because it allows one to mark packages as installed only due to dependency and it will automatically remove them when the depending package

[Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Hey folks, We're about to release fink 0.24.8. This is a bit of a bigger point- release than usual, because a bunch of features from the future 0.25 have been backported, so we'd like to get a few days of testing on - devel before release. To try it out, you can access the branch

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Dave == Dave Vasilevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave * 'fink rescan' is deprecated because nobody knows what it's Dave for. If Dave you know, tell us! I've used it as a ritual turn east and pray action when I've gone in and hacked my local .info and .patch files. Is it no longer

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-25 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Jul 25, 2005, at 7:33 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Dave * 'fink rescan' is deprecated because nobody knows what it's Dave for. If Dave you know, tell us! I've used it as a ritual turn east and pray action when I've gone in and hacked my local .info and .patch files. Is it no

Re: [Fink-devel] New fink release, testing needed

2005-07-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Dave == Dave Vasilevsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dave Usually fink should detect and update your index automagically. If Dave for some reason it doesn't, the way to fix it is 'fink index'. As far Dave as I can tell from the current code, 'fink rescan' will NOT fix this Dave problem. I might be