Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install

2004-02-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Remi Mommsen wrote: [] on. You are asking for an interactive mode for creating package files... In addition it violates the fink policy that a deb file with a given name/version/revision should be identical regardless how and where it was built. It violates the even more important principle that

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feedback?

2004-02-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Sure, we can wait. If there are bugs in 0.18.0 which need to be addressed, then we should fix them both in CVS HEAD, and in branch_0_18, and plan to release 0.18.1 which addresses them. Then, after 0.18.1 has been tested for a while, we can move it to stable and only then release 0.19.0. -- Da

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feedback?

2004-02-04 Thread Christian Schaffner
On 03.02.2004, at 14:24, David R. Morrison wrote: If there are bugs in 0.18.0 which need to be addressed, then we should fix them both in CVS HEAD, and in branch_0_18, and plan to release 0.18.1 which addresses them. Then, after 0.18.1 has been tested for a while, we can move it to stable and on

Re: [Fink-devel] Translating man page?

2004-02-04 Thread Bertrand Lupart
> >Just install a more recent man (fink's one for example) and it will > >display localised man pages, following your environment settings. > > > >Worked for me with fink's man 1.5k. > > I've found no fink's man, sorry, just manconf which is for Jaguar > update and manedit, a graphical editor. Sa

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: ERR: web website : Sections: Packages : 141

2004-02-04 Thread Max Horn
Am 04.02.2004 um 02:53 schrieb Ben Hines: [...] I believe this is not our fault. SF's SQL server is simply hosed today. This has happened in the past, nothing unusual. Indeed, all other projects are affected, too. SF.net staff is looking into it - seems some project is doing something improper

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feedback?

2004-02-04 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm happy to release 0.18.1 with this bugfix. Any other bugs that we need to squash in the same release? -- Dave --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the bread

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Darwin unavailable?

2004-02-04 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What version of dpkg? I forgot to make dselect understand the virtual packages until a slightly later revision of dpkg. I believe this user will find that both apt-get and dpkg work fine, only dselect is broken. Peter Martin Costabel wrote: | I have n

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Darwin unavailable?

2004-02-04 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Barker wrote: |>From /sw/bin/dpkg-name, there is a line that says version="1.10.9" | Sorry, 'dpkg -l dpkg' should tell you the installed version-revision, the revision is the important field in this case. I should ahve said that in my last message

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install

2004-02-04 Thread Joe Corneli
I'm really talking about two things, one of which is no problem. 1. being able to change compile time options No problem, its already possible. Everyone agrees that you better know roughly what you're doing, or the package won't work. 2. being able to dynamically find & satisfy dependencies

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install

2004-02-04 Thread Benjamin Reed
Joe Corneli wrote: I'm really talking about two things, one of which is no problem. 1. being able to change compile time options No problem, its already possible. Everyone agrees that you better know roughly what you're doing, or the package won't work. 2. being able to dynamically find & sat

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install

2004-02-04 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Actually I've been meaning to do up a document on this, for the benefit of users who want to muck around with their compile-time options. The day job keeps interfering, though. -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Feb 4, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Joe Corneli wr

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install

2004-02-04 Thread Joe Corneli
Fair enough. I'm happy that it is so easy to change compile time options. But I'm still interested in a more "intelligent" software managing system for sometime down the road. One would have to do a lot of prep work, however, it seems quite conceivable that one would be able to leverage the softw

[Fink-devel] html-parser-pm560-3.27-2

2004-02-04 Thread Michael Kluskens
Does the following mean anything to you? (I was trying to install 560 versions of perl libs because of a problem updating the 581 libs) Test returned status 2 (wstat 512, 0x200) DIED. FAILED tests 1-4 Failed 4/4 tests, 0.00% okay t/magic.ok t/marked-sect...ok t/o

Re: [Fink-devel] Translating man page?

2004-02-04 Thread Michèle Garoche
Le 4 févr. 2004, à 11:19, Bertrand Lupart a écrit : Worked for me with fink's man 1.5k. According to http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/man, the man package is on 0.4.1 and 10.1 only. But i got this on 10.2/unstable on my machine. It is not in the 10.2-gcc3.3 unstable tree, so I'll guess

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Darwin unavailable?

2004-02-04 Thread Mike Barker
'dpkg -l dpkg' displays this: Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold | Status=Not/Installed/Config-files/Unpacked/Failed-config/Half-installed |/ Err?=(none)/Hold/Reinst-required/X=both-problems (Status,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ Name VersionDescription +++-==-===

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Darwin unavailable?

2004-02-04 Thread Mike Barker
>From /sw/bin/dpkg-name, there is a line that says version="1.10.9" On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Peter O'Gorman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > What version of dpkg? I forgot to make dselect understand the virtual > packages until a slightly later revision of dpkg. I believe t