[Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, I'm in the process of creating my first Fink package, but I seem to running into a minor problem with the CustomMirror field. I need to use a custom mirror because the package is unavailable at any of the standard Fink mirrors. So, I've specified the following in my .info file:

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Trevor Harmon wrote: | Hi, | | I'm in the process of creating my first Fink package, but I seem to | running into a minor problem with the CustomMirror field. I need to use | a custom mirror because the package is unavailable at any of the |

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: When Fink tries to install this package, it's supposed to download the file at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/aspectj-1.2.jar. At least, that's what I think it should do, based on the fields above. Instead, Fink for some reason

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 12:02 AM, D. Höhn wrote: This is a design choice. We have often thought on different ways to handle such situations. We do agree that manual interaction is the best choice in this case. Hmm... It still seems like a strange choice. I mean, why give up if there are still more

[Fink-devel] DocFiles directory tree

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, The DocFiles field in a .info file can take any number of files and wildcards. However, the doc files that I would like to include in my package consist of several hundred files several directories deep. There seems to be no way of telling DocFiles, Add this directory, and all of the files

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:05:37AM -0700, Trevor Harmon wrote: On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: When Fink tries to install this package, it's supposed to download the file at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/aspectj-1.2.jar. At least, that's what I think it

[Fink-devel] Re: Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Trevor Harmon wrote: | On Sep 21, 2004, at 12:02 AM, D. Höhn wrote: | | This is a design choice. We have often thought on different ways to | handle such situations. We do agree that manual interaction is the best | choice in this case. | | |

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Martin Costabel
On 21 sept. 2004, at 08:51, Trevor Harmon wrote: CustomMirror: nam-US: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/ Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.jar If you have only one URL for the source, it doesn't make sense to use the CustomMirror field (there is no *mirror*, after all, just the original

[Fink-devel] xearth-1.1-11

2004-09-21 Thread Robert Sloan
xearth would not build for me. I have Apple's X Windows on my machine. I get the complaints: Information about 2743 packages read in 2 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: xearth /bin/rm -rf xearth-1.1-11 /bin/mkdir -p /sw/src/xearth-1.1-11 gzip -dc

[Fink-devel] freeglut package

2004-09-21 Thread Jack Howarth
I have had my proposed freeglut packaging in tracker for awhile now and there has been no further comments even though it is still marked as undergoing evaluation. https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detailatid=414256aid=1017330group_id=17203 Is there any particular problems with this

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
Trevor Harmon wrote: But my questions still stand... If a .info specifies a custom mirror, that's a good indication that the file is not in a master mirror, correct? So why does Fink try to check the master in the first place? And if it doesn't succeed, why doesn't Fink automatically move on to

Re: [Fink-devel] xearth-1.1-11

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Sep 15, 2004, at 5:37 AM, Robert Sloan wrote: xearth would not build for me. I have Apple's X Windows on my machine. I get the complaints: Information about 2743 packages read in 2 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: xearth /bin/rm -rf xearth-1.1-11 /bin/mkdir -p

Re: [Fink-devel] freeglut package

2004-09-21 Thread Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 08:47:32AM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote: I have had my proposed freeglut packaging in tracker for awhile now and there has been no further comments even though it is still marked as undergoing evaluation.

Re: [Fink-devel] freeglut package

2004-09-21 Thread Jack Howarth
Michal, I have been told that the compatibility version is rather arbitrary and that is a non-issue. All the major Linux distros have adopted freeglut since it is trully open source and, more importantly, actively maintained. As for rbogl, I would suggest you file a bug report with the form

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: On 21 sept. 2004, at 08:51, Trevor Harmon wrote: CustomMirror: nam-US: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/ Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.jar If you have only one URL for the source, it doesn't make sense to use the CustomMirror field

Re: [Fink-devel] fink using apt-get

2004-09-21 Thread Christian Schaffner
Hi Rob On 08.09.2004, at 00:32, Rob Braun wrote: On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:31:33PM -0700, Rob Braun wrote: I've come up with a patch that does this. I've been testing the patch locally, but have not tested it extensively. I'll test it with larger dependency chains later, when I get access to

Re: [Fink-devel] freeglut package

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
Jack Howarth wrote: Michal, I have been told that the compatibility version is rather arbitrary and that is a non-issue. All the major Linux distros have adopted The compatibility version may be a non-issue on linux, but Mac OS X enforces compatibility version at the OS level, so if it's

[Fink-devel] cannot build mozilla in fink unstable

2004-09-21 Thread Christian Pagé
I have errors building mozilla: Package manager version: 0.22.2 Distribution version: 0.7.1.rsync mozilla-1.7.2-1 unstable tree XCode 1.5 Mac OS X 10.3.5 fink output snippet: --- make[4]: Leaving directory `/sw/src/mozilla-1.7.2-1/mozilla/gfx/src/shared' make[4]: Entering directory

[Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
Hi, I'm packaging an application that requires Java's jar utility at build time (but not runtime). So, I'd like to specify whatever BuildDepends flag that maps to the jar utility. This is where I'm stuck, because there are packages called system-java14 and system-java14-dev (as well the 13 and

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Trevor Harmon wrote: On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: On 21 sept. 2004, at 08:51, Trevor Harmon wrote: CustomMirror: nam-US: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/ Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.jar If you have only one URL for the source, it doesn't make sense to use the

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 11:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: The normal way for your *.info file would be to have just a Source line and no CustomMirror: Source: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/%n-%v.jar Ah... From reading the packaging manual, I got the impression that the

Re: [Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
Trevor Harmon wrote: Hi, I'm packaging an application that requires Java's jar utility at build time (but not runtime). So, I'd like to specify whatever BuildDepends flag that maps to the jar utility. This is where I'm stuck, because there are packages called system-java14 and system-java14-dev

Re: [Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Trevor Harmon wrote: I'm packaging an application that requires Java's jar utility at build time (but not runtime). So, I'd like to specify whatever BuildDepends flag that maps to the jar utility. This is where I'm stuck, because there are

Re: [Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
Trevor Harmon wrote: On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:06 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Trevor Harmon wrote: I'm packaging an application that requires Java's jar utility at build time (but not runtime). So, I'd like to specify whatever BuildDepends flag that maps to the jar utility. This is where I'm stuck,

Re: [Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Okay, that's what I expected; I just wanted to make sure. For future reference, how were you able to confirm this? I knew that they were virtual packages, but surely there must still be some way of knowing exactly what they provide, whether it

[Fink-devel] yacas and linking weirdness

2004-09-21 Thread Corey Halpin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm working on writing an .info file for yacas. At this point, it compiles, but won't run because of linker oddness. Somehow this happens: w-102112:~$ otool -L /sw/bin/yacas /sw/bin/yacas: /sw/lib/libgmpnumbers.0.dylib (compatibility

Re: [Fink-devel] Differences between system-java and system-java-dev

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
Trevor Harmon wrote: I looked at the code and I believe I found some problems. You specify a system-java15 package even though no Java 1.5 is yet available for Mac in any from (to my knowledge). By itself, this is not a problem, because I assume you were just trying to make VirtPackage.pm

Re: [Fink-devel] DocFiles directory tree

2004-09-21 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:13 AM, Trevor Harmon wrote: The DocFiles field in a .info file can take any number of files and wildcards. However, the doc files that I would like to include in my package consist of several hundred files several directories deep. As a workaround, include in your

Fwd: [Fink-devel] Fwd: pango1-xft2-1.4.0-27 error continuing...

2004-09-21 Thread Jonas Roel
Hi all and Martin, The below error is continuing after having reinstalled X11 SDK, rm -r /sw, and reinstalled fink 0.7.1. This is irritating cuz I'm trying to install ettercap -G (GTK), and other packages conisidered unstable. I've got xcode 1.5 installed running 10.3.5. please help...

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: pango1-xft2-1.4.0-27 error continuing...

2004-09-21 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You might try flushing out /usr/X11R6 and reinstalling X11User and X11SDK. On Sep 21, 2004, at 7:32 PM, Jonas Roel wrote: Hi all and Martin, The below error is continuing after having reinstalled X11 SDK, rm -r /sw, and reinstalled fink 0.7.1. This is irritating cuz I'm trying to install