Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Massive update tonight failed ...

2012-06-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/29/12 7:13 AM, TheSin wrote: po4a has been removed, since I only speak en this doesn't affect me at all, po4a = po 4 all, aka it's an i18n man/locale translator, so now both debianutils and sensible-utils will install international man pages but I believe they won't be translated. Not

[Fink-devel] install-info replacement

2012-06-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote: I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said new versions of dpkg in the future will require tex for install-info since its being deprecated for ginstall-info upstream so maybe we need to look at debs of debs? I'll re-work

Re: [Fink-devel] install-info replacement

2012-06-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/29/12 8:38 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote: I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said new versions of dpkg in the future will require tex for install-info since its being deprecated for ginstall-info upstream so maybe we need

Re: [Fink-devel] install-info replacement

2012-06-29 Thread Sjors Gielen
Op 29-06-12 17:38, Alexander Hansen schreef: On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote: I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said new versions of dpkg in the future will require tex for install-info since its being deprecated for ginstall-info upstream so maybe we need

Re: [Fink-devel] install-info replacement

2012-06-29 Thread TheSin
this is a good option to explore I think. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2012-06-29, at 9:38 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote: I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Massive update tonight failed ...

2012-06-29 Thread TheSin
I already thought of these options, the problem would be the same problem I see with gettext-tools, the desync in revisions with double pkgs is very misleading and double the work. I've pretty much been working 8+ hours a day some days 24hours a day working on debian tools for fink for the

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Massive update tonight failed ...

2012-06-29 Thread David R. Morrison
Is there any possibility that we can just disable the need for Tex by telling some package with a configure option that it should build it's Tex docs? -- Dave On Jun 29, 2012, at 9:50 AM, TheSin the...@southofheaven.org wrote: I already thought of these options, the problem would be the

Re: [Fink-devel] -pm5123

2012-06-29 Thread Jack Howarth
Dear Fink developers, At the time of the upgrade to 10.7, many fink -pm5123 packages were limited to Distribution: 10.7 only. Since we will make perl 5.1.23 available in 10.8, that restriction is no longer necessary or appropriate. On behalf of the fink-core team, I plan to alter such

Re: [Fink-devel] -pm5123

2012-06-29 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Dear Fink developers, At the time of the upgrade to 10.7, many fink -pm5123 packages were limited to Distribution: 10.7 only. Since we will make perl 5.1.23 available in 10.8, that restriction is no longer necessary or appropriate. On

Re: [Fink-devel] -pm5123

2012-06-29 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
On 6/29/2012 1:13 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Dear Fink developers, At the time of the upgrade to 10.7, many fink -pm5123 packages were limited to Distribution: 10.7 only. Since we will make perl 5.1.23 available in 10.8, that restriction

Re: [Fink-devel] -pm5123

2012-06-29 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jun 29, 2012, at 12:40 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: On 6/29/2012 1:13 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Jun 29, 2012, at 10:56 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Dear Fink developers, At the time of the upgrade to 10.7, many fink -pm5123 packages were limited to Distribution: 10.7 only.

[Fink-devel] New dpkg and fink-virtual-pkgs

2012-06-29 Thread TheSin
So I'm not sure how but the old dpkg seemed to not check version of fink-virtuals, the patch I'm using is pretty much identical and it should have checked, but somehow it allowed things to install that I can't get in my new dpkg. when trying to install test-simple-pm5123 for example, dpkg is

Re: [Fink-devel] New dpkg and fink-virtual-pkgs

2012-06-29 Thread David R. Morrison
My recollection is that we hacked the dpkg code to allow unversioned virtuals at the time we introduced virtual pkgs. -- Dave On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:01 PM, TheSin wrote: So I'm not sure how but the old dpkg seemed to not check version of fink-virtuals, the patch I'm using is pretty much

Re: [Fink-devel] New dpkg and fink-virtual-pkgs

2012-06-29 Thread TheSin
okay, I'll reuse the same code if we are okay with that, thanks drm no one in irc knew and I want to fix my version of dpkg, I'll comment the patch so the next version we'll remember. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! On 2012-06-29, at