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

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. --

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. Saw that.

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

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

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

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