[Fink-devel] new package

2003-12-10 Thread Koen Vervloesem
Hi, I'm a long-time Fink user, but I don't know how I have to commit a new package. I have made an info and a patch file for the network tool hping and I have included them here. What's the next thing I have to do? I'm interested in committing more Fink packages. Regards, Koen Vervloesem -- "

[Fink-devel] new package

2003-12-10 Thread Koen Vervloesem
Koen Vervloesem -- "Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?" hping.info Description: Binary data hping.patch Description: Binary data

Re: [Fink-devel] new package

2003-12-10 Thread Hisashi T Fujinaka
On Wed, 10 Dec 2003, Koen Vervloesem wrote: > Hi, > > I'm a long-time Fink user, but I don't know how I have to commit a new > package. I have made an info and a patch file for the network tool > hping and I have included them here. What's the next thing I have to > do? I'm interested in committin

[Fink-devel] Package building : what if new version conflicts with old one ?

2003-12-10 Thread Olivier Bonnet
I'm writing a package for libxml++, and it has the strange particularity that the package won't compile if there is an older version of libxml++ present on the system. This is due to the building of tests with both link flags : -L/sw/lib -L../../libxml++/.libs This has a bad consequence because it

Re: [Fink-devel] Package building : what if new version conflicts with old one ?

2003-12-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
Olivier Bonnet wrote: I'm writing a package for libxml++, and it has the strange particularity that the package won't compile if there is an older version of libxml++ present on the system. This is due to the building of tests with both link flags : -L/sw/lib -L../../libxml++/.libs This has a bad

Re: [Fink-devel] Package building : what if new version conflicts with old one ?

2003-12-10 Thread Olivier Bonnet
Le 10 déc. 2003, à 18:15, Benjamin Reed a écrit : generally you get things like this with the default LDFLAGS from fink packages. You could try: NoSetLDFLAGS: true SetLIBS: -L%p/lib ...that might make it so the /sw/lib ends up after the other. Otherwise, you might have to hack the Makefile (we

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:36:45PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote: > Folks, we need a few updates in the packaging manual. %% isn't documented in Section 2.2 (hello, thesin?). > Also, I detected some amiguities between Validation.pm and what the manual > says, concerning the fields in a SplitOff.

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread TheSin
I haven't looked at the code or tested, but Type: perl in a split is useless as type is for the buildprocess, splits aren't used till install phase. on the other hand updatePOD should be avail to splits but updatePOD now uses type perl for the version. sorta chicken and the egg. so really Ty

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread TheSin
there are a few discrepancies with this, in some functions it's inherited like in the dep engine, but in others like remove it's not. The reason for this is unknown to me, though I do believe it shouldn't be inherited at all. It maybe have been this way for bootstrapping? when i re wrote the

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread Thomas Peters II
Depending on the approach when programming, documentation can easily come before a feature exists. Generically, some methods involve first writing a short description of what is to be done. Then a flowchart is made by referencing the description, and sometimes the flowchart is much more detaile

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread Daniel Macks
Perhaps in a splitoff Type should be inheirited and a new _is_splitoff key should be added (and decisions that used to be based on whether _type=>splitoff would now look for _is_splitoff instead). I'm currently hacking the Type processing code that does magical things with 'perl' (branch type_langv

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread Daniel Macks
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:09:56PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:36:45PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote: > > Folks, we need a few updates in the packaging manual. > > %% isn't documented in Section 2.2 (hello, thesin?). Okay, I just did this in CVS (including a note that

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread TheSin
if the next release is 0.18.0 :) --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 10-Dec-03, at 8:30 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 02:09:56PM -0500, Daniel Macks wrote: On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 06:36:45PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote:

Re: [Fink-devel] documentation updates

2003-12-10 Thread TheSin
well pkgs with updatepod in a splitoff wouldn't be a pm, it's be something like net-snmp or a pkg with a perlmodule, now I'd rather split this into two info files, not everyone has taken that approach. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On