[Fink-devel] Slashdot and or other Editors where are you (or do you know their private email?)

2002-11-28 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello dear Slashdot editors. Since I am going to look after the Fink public relations and documentation a bit from now on, I would like to know an email where I can contact you without going through the usual channels. I would be delighted if

[Fink-devel] fink check on a non existant package spews error messages

2002-11-28 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 look here: sudo fink check cdrtools Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 229, line 2. Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 241, line 2. Using a hash a

Re: [Fink-devel] fink check on a non existant package spews error messages

2002-11-28 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 On Donnerstag, November 28, 2002, at 12:35 Uhr, David wrote: well I meant none existant file -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (Darwin) iD8DBQE95gGjiW/Ta/pxHPQRA0GIAKCExpGhtDbKynEkfN4Q91XulbfpCwCfUpRN Cy7QB4FJC/1yYY+F5P2kxPs

[Fink-devel] Documentation: Help request, how to explain the xfree-rootless package..

2002-11-28 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello The installition guide has: "* xfree86-base: This package is the real thing. It will fetch the XFree86 source, compile it and install it into /usr/X11R6. For maximum flexibility, this package does not contain the actual XDarwin

[Fink-devel] GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-28 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hullo folks. While sitting around waiting for a meeting to start I tinkered a bit with gpg and what it might give to us. When looking at the recent problems with Trojans in sources i started to think, that people might start altering "Mak

Re: [Fink-devel] fink check on a non existant package spews error messages

2002-11-28 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, nov 28, 2002, at 12:35 Europe/Paris, David wrote: sudo fink check cdrtools Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 229, line 2. Strange, I get % sudo fink check cdrtools Failed: File "cdrtools" does not exist! as it should be. Do you have a

Re: [Fink-devel] fink check on a non existant package spews errormessages

2002-11-28 Thread Paul Gaborit
At 12:35 +0100 28/11/02, David wrote: look here: sudo fink check cdrtools Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 229, line 2. Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 241, line 2. Using a hash as a reference

Re: [Fink-devel] Documentation: Help request, how to explain the xfree-rootless package..

2002-11-28 Thread Martin Costabel
On jeudi, nov 28, 2002, at 12:45 Europe/Paris, David wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello The installition guide has: [a lot of old obsolete stuff] I wish to add cfree-rootless as a choice as well. While I read the info on XonX AND XFREE ROOTLESS I AM NTO QUITE SU

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Slashdot and or other Editors where are you (or doyou know their private email?)

2002-11-28 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, David wrote: > Hello dear Slashdot editors. > > Since I am going to look after the Fink public relations and > documentation a bit from now on, I would like to know an email > where I can contact you without going through the usual channels. > I would be delighted if you, or s

Re: [Fink-devel] graphvis missing something?

2002-11-28 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 07:39 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Trying to install graphvis 1.8.5-3 I get: gcc -g -O2 -fno-common -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -DNDEBUG "-DDATE=\"Wed Nov 27 19:37:11 EST 2002\"" -o dot dot.o -L/sw/lib dotgen/.libs/libdot.a common/.libs/libdotneato.a ../pathpl

Re: [Fink-devel] fink check on a non existant package spews error messages

2002-11-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
> "Paul" == Paul Gaborit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Paul> At 12:35 +0100 28/11/02, David wrote: >> look here: >> >> sudo fink check cdrtools >> Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at >> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 229, line 2. >> Using a hash as a reference is deprecated at

Re: [Fink-devel] GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-28 Thread Carsten Klapp
Hi David, I like the idea of signature verification. Better safe now than sorry later. I have a few concerns: - Scripts on the server which automatically sign committed info and patch files wouldn't stop a hacker, no? - I edit a LOT of my info files, IMHO there are too many packages with lud

Re: [Fink-devel] GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 12:00 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: - I edit a LOT of my info files, IMHO there are too many packages with ludicrous dependencies. How will signature verification affect people who do this? There's no way I'm building (or even installing from binary) texinfo jus

Re: [Fink-devel] GPG Signing the info file and patches..

2002-11-28 Thread Daniel Lord
On Thursday, Nov 28, 2002, at 12:14 US/Pacific, Ben Hines wrote: The idea of fink is that everyone gets the same deb. There is no variants scheme yet. And I hope it stays that way except for exceptions for SIGs that are handle as such. OS X is a very powerful Unix desktop BECAUSE Apple enf

[Fink-devel] why does evolution depends on Mozilla

2002-11-28 Thread Pejvan BEIGUI
Hi Max, I'm installing Evolution via Fink, and I was wondering why it was depending on Mozilla. Thanks for your help, Pejvan --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Get the new Palm Tungsten T handheld. Power & Color in a compact size! htt

Re: [Fink-devel] fink check on a non existant package spews error messages

2002-11-28 Thread Ben Hines
On Thursday, November 28, 2002, at 07:08 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Validation.pm:229: if (not %allowed_license_values->{$value}) { Validation.pm:241: if ($value and not %allowed_type_values->{$value}) { Validation.pm:251:if (%obsolete_fields->{$field}) { Validation.pm:258:if