Re: [Fink-devel] fink run *not* as root

2003-10-11 Thread John Davidorff Pell
There is a --force-not-root option to dpkg; I'm not sure about dpkg-deb. All I know is that I've used the user patch that's already on our patch tracker successfully on lamancha.opendarwin.org until a selfupdate wiped it out. I've just added this to my dpkg lines in PkgVersion.pm and its working

Re: [Fink-devel] Dpkg...

2003-10-11 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Ok, so I've added the non-root force option to the dpkg line, but now dpkg fails when changing the user from 'fink' to 'fink'? iThink that part of it might be the group, its trying to assign 'wheel'... Well, I'll keep y'all posted. If you wanna help, here's my patch so far: finkUser.patch De

Re: [Fink-devel] rsync updating and server subversion (svn) package

2003-10-11 Thread Leonard Muellner
Dave, I definitely did not have unstable/crypto in the trees: line of the fink.conf file. That must be the problem, so many thanks. Lenny On 10/10/03 6:38 PM, "David R. Morrison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you have unstable/crypto and unstable/main in the Trees line in > /sw/etc/fink.conf ?

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1188 - 12 msgs

2003-10-11 Thread Greg Novak
> IMHO there should be *no* package that makes *anything* SUID root that > I (the user) don't know about, thus those packages that require > something like that should be modified on a per-package basis (for > these packages something like 'sudo make...' would work fine). True in principle, an

[Fink-devel] fink 0.14.0 bug - mkdir 10.2/unstable/main

2003-10-11 Thread mlist-fink
I installed fink fresh from the 0.14.0 tarball. When I add the unstable trees and use the rsync method for update it fails. The reason is that fink says: mkdir 10.2/unstable/main however, 10.2/unstable does not exist and therefore the "main" directory can not be made inside of it. The quickf

Re: [Fink-devel] fink 0.14.0 bug - mkdir 10.2/unstable/main

2003-10-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed fink fresh from the 0.14.0 tarball. When I add the unstable trees and use the rsync method for update it fails. The reason is that fink says: mkdir 10.2/unstable/main however, 10.2/unstable does not exist and therefore the "main" directory can not be made

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1188 - 12 msgs

2003-10-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
Greg Novak wrote: At this point I think it would be useful to consider _why_ user-mode fink is important and _what_ it's supposed to accomplish. Actually *at this point*, the most important consideration in getting user-mode fink adopted is to do it later. =) Max has been too busy to do much w

[Fink-devel] dpkg-1.10.9-14 problem (10.2-gcc3.3)

2003-10-11 Thread Martin Costabel
I started a fresh installation of fink for 10.2-gcc3.3 by installing the fink-5.3 installer, making the symlink dists->10.2-gcc3.3, selfupdate-cvs to the latest descriptions, installing fink-0.14.0, and fink update-all. The updating of dpkg failed, because the header file libintl.h was not fou

[Fink-devel] Re: dpkg-1.10.9-14 problem (10.2-gcc3.3)

2003-10-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, If I uncomment that line, fink gives a circular dependency error. As is often the case with those errors, I've been unable to track down why. Bootstrapping from 0.14.0 should work OK. -- Dave --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dpkg-1.10.9-14 problem (10.2-gcc3.3)

2003-10-11 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Martin, If I uncomment that line, fink gives a circular dependency error. As is often the case with those errors, I've been unable to track down why. Bootstrapping from 0.14.0 should work OK. The whole line is not needed, just gettext-dev. After installing gettext-dev (

[Fink-devel] Policy regarding 10.2, 10.2-gcc3.3, and 10.3 trees

2003-10-11 Thread Remi Mommsen
Dear developers, I'm updating some of my fink packages (first of all sci/root3). It is not clear to me how I should handle the package updates and submissions for the different trees. Is it mandatory to have the same package versions in both 10.2 and 10.2-gcc3.3 tree? If I would like to move a

Re: [Fink-devel] Policy regarding 10.2, 10.2-gcc3.3, and 10.3 trees

2003-10-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
Remi Mommsen wrote: Dear developers, I'm updating some of my fink packages (first of all sci/root3). It is not clear to me how I should handle the package updates and submissions for the different trees. Is it mandatory to have the same package versions in both 10.2 and 10.2-gcc3.3 tree? If I

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1188 - 12 msgs

2003-10-11 Thread Kaben Nanlohy
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Benjamin Reed wrote: > User-mode fink is useful to a very small part of the fink population, Not so. At work I lack root on many of the *nix boxes I use, so I regularly build and install the stuff I need in ~/local. A package manager like fink would be a godsend for this pu