(cc'ing the maintainer)
I'm trying to build the new gnome-vfs-ssl and it appears to be
missing a dependency on pkgconfig:
---(snip!)---
checking for pkg-config... no
*** The pkg-config script could not be found. Make sure it is
*** in your path, or set the PKG_CONFIG environment variable
*** to
Max Horn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
Perhaps this should be kept in mind when working on the new package format;
if you go to a variants system, maybe it's a good idea to be able to build
multiple sub-packages from a single info file to keep from building X 4
times for one set of packages
I got my new G4 so I'm rebuilding fink from scratch. I'm attempting
to build bundle-gnome, and I get the following from bonobo:
checking for gdk-pixbuf-config... no
checking for GDK_PIXBUF - version = 0.6.0... no
*** The gdk-pixbuf-config script installed by GDK_PIXBUF could not be found
I'm trying to make a package for squid, and it's got one small configure
error. I swear I've seen something about this before but I can't for
the life of me find any reference to it in the list archives.
When I run configure, I end up with a bunch of lines like:
creating Makefile
sed: file
Benjamin Reed [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
s%@ACLOCAL@%${SHELL} /tmp/squid-2.5.PRE4/cfgaux
/tmp/squid-2.5.PRE4/cfgaux/missing --run aclocal%g
...which are supposed to be on one line.
I fixed this by redirecting the output of the 'cd' command to
/dev/null. =)
On to the next annoying
; KDE uses a hacked-up version of the MLB libtool mentioned in
the fink porting docs, and it appears to not recognize shared libraries
in osx properly.
Is there a version of the MLB libtool that's hacked up for darwin shared
libraries to work properly?
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possible to get kde3 on OSX. When I can, I'll put the patches up that
it took to get to where I am. The main issue is a small libtool hack,
and then having to set a buttload of explicit libraries because of
apple's anal linker and indirect dylib access.
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of it if this gets fixed. (Except for some
quirks, I've successfully run kwin, konsole, konqueror, and a couple of
other smaller things.)
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On Wednesday 13 March 2002 07:33 am, Benjamin Reed wrote:
With the new libdl
I'm working on the arts package for the kde3 stuff, and I have
a small question about whether I'm doing this right for the
splitoff.
As I understand it, the 'arts' package is essentially the package
that there can only be one of; it contains the headers and
development-type stuff.
I have a
David R. Morrison [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
I would appreciate any feedback (positive or negative) from those who run
this script, as I would like to be able to move it to stable as soon as I
can, to make it more widely available to fink users.
Works fine here (although I've never had
Justin Hallett [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
please paste the error. I've almost got qt 3.0.2 done and 3.0.3 will be
release sortly or so i'm told. But there error is important.
Yeah, it's actually on ftp.trolltech.com but is not world-readable yet.
They're taunting us. =)
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. If you want to be more permanent about it, make a
.cvsignore file with only the line:
build
...in it, in the top-level directory, and check that in. CVS will ignore
that directory from then on, if it exists locally.
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-by-line. It seems to be working just fine on the test packages
I've run it on, but I would appreciate feedback as to whether this looks
OK and is the right way to go in the future.
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An ice cream has its unique
Perhaps it would be useful to attach the patch. =)
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Index: perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm
works great, as root, but there's no way I'm gonna leave tomcat
as a root user...
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Or not? -- Alex Chiu, Immortality Inventor
need to forcibly uninstall your current QT and *then* rebuild.
If you still have problems, please contact me, because then it is definitely
a bug; otherwise it's a known issue and apparently there is no way around it
if you have one of the broken intermediate packages.
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shared libraries, and it's trying
to dynamically load a shared library, I would say that's a bug on
their end. =)
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Now you must be saying, Alex Chiu, this Chinaman, you're crazy!
-- Alex Chiu
/Applications/XDarwin.app/Contents/MacOS/XDarwin
...and that's the only thing that shows up in XDarwin.app... Any idea what
happened?
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I took a fish head out to see a movie. Didn't have to pay to get
mailtools-pm-1.44-1.info
io-stringy-pm-2.108-1.info
mp3-info-pm-1.01-1.info
mime-tools-pm-5.411-1.info
...and I also updated XML::DOM (to 1.37), which just needed a version increment
since the old version currently in cvs (1.35) is no longer on the ftp site.
Are these cool to check in?
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are very handy tools for this.
Yeah, they all pass validate, I'm just being paranoid. =)
I'll bump the version on xml-dom-pm too, the only thing that changes
build-wise is the version number. I'm sure Justin won't mind.
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On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 11:37, Ujwal S. Sathyam wrote:
Hello,
I have looking at porting balsa, a gnome email client to MacOS X. If
someone already has balsa running, please let me know, and I shall
cease and desist :-). I started effort after searching the package
database and mailing
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 13:13, Justin Hallett wrote:
shlibs prolly depends on %N (= %v-%r) I'd remove rrdtool. rrdtool-shlibs
then try to instal version specific.
I have no current version of rrdtool installed, and had none installed
when I got that output...
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On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 15:57, Max Horn wrote:
What happens if you do:
fink install rrdtool-1.0.33-6
?
Same thing... starts building 1.0.35.
:(
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...if humanoids eat chicken, then
?
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means, they are not real things. -- Alex Chiu, Immortality Inventor
*** application is linked with the -dlopen flag.
---(snip!)---
...this is because (at least on my system), the library is libdes524.dylib,
instead of libdes.
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So if you wear my Immortality Device, your cells will densen
... it fails building *if* I have the openldap package installed.
I removed it and the build continued.
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A preposition is something one should never end a sentence with.
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On Saturday, May 4, 2002, at 11:11 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Here are my thoughts (on the original message and Max's followup):
How hard would it be to modify things so that everything was installed
into
libs/kde-2.0/
rather than libs/ ? (I chose a random version number, of course
I'm getting this error with the new autoconf:
/sw/bin/autoconf: command not found: autom4te --language=autoconf
--output=configure [198]
I tried a rehash so it's not just missing from my path... =)
If I run that command manually, it works.
Any ideas?
On Sunday, May 5, 2002, at 08:09 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
I'm getting this error with the new autoconf:
/sw/bin/autoconf: command not found: autom4te --language=autoconf
--output=configure [198]
I tried a rehash so it's not just missing from my path... =)
If I run that command manually
Just a note, I've just committed a new version of the QT info file that
updates it to 3.0.4, and also fixes some bugs. The most important one
it fixes is the compatibility_version, which was being set to 0.0.0,
even though the filenames were named correctly.
Unfortunately, anything built
On Monday, May 6, 2002, at 09:48 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Just a note, I've just committed a new version of the QT info file that
updates it to 3.0.4, and also fixes some bugs. The most important one
it fixes is the compatibility_version, which was being set to 0.0.0,
even though
On Fri, 2002-05-10 at 09:58, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
sorry to reply to myelf, but I forgot to say something. I have done
this before, and have had no apparent side affects with 10.1.3. I
removed /bin/sh, and copied bash to /bin/sh. everything still worked,
AFAIK.
That's quite
On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 06:39 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
I'll put qt2 next on my list of packages to make a splitoff version of.
(We need one so that qt2 and qt3 can coexist.)
I'm already working on one. It finished building last night, I just
need to make sure I've got things all
On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 08:47 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
OK, still replying to myself. I think I understand this now, but I would
say this whole business is not a brilliant demonstration of the
usefulness of the shlibs-splitoff story. In this special case, it was
less than useful.
There are new QT packages in unstable: qt2 and qt3. If you've been
having dependency problems I ask that you please give these a shot and
see if this fixes things.
What we've ended up doing is getting rid of qt altogether. qt2 and
qt3 both conflict with each other, but their -shlibs
On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 11:51 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
In the release notes, the apr-2002 devel tools say that the C++ is
incompatible with the dec-2001 devel tools. Libs from one will not
link against objects from another.
How many things does installing apr-2002 actually
On Saturday, May 11, 2002, at 02:45 PM, Justin Hallett wrote:
the problem is that qt was made to live in seperate directories, Not
that
I want to say it but I think we should see how debian handled this to
avoid more problems. The problem with this I think will be with the bin
portion.
I'm trying to start XDarwin in pure Darwin, and it seems to just freeze
up on me. (I've tried startx and startx -- -fullscreen, and just
starting /usr/X11R6/bin/XDarwin by hand...)
The last thing I see is Display mode: IOKit and then it's just locked.
Has anyone run XDarwin 4.2 on pure Darwin
As I'm not really a coder, just familiar enough to do porting,
now that KDE is mostly working we need more help from people
familiar with debugging heavily threaded C++ code who's willing
to take a look at some bits of KDE that aren't working...
So far I've been working with Justin, David, and
Bill Bumgarner [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_ldap_pvt_sasl_install
_ldap_pvt_sasl_mutex_dispose
...
Failed: compiling openldap-ssl-2.0.23-3 failed
Do you have the non-ssl openldap (2.0.19 I think?) package
installed? I think we had someone else who had said
Bill Bumgarner [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
That would be the case. And brings up another issue. Should openldap-ssl
conflict/replace openldap?
Actually it does. Unfortunately, there is not yet a BuildConflicts in
fink, so it doesn't know to remove it *before* you start building. =)
mathias meyer [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
not that i want to annoy you all with another post about kde but i ran
into trouble compiling kdebase.
d'oh!
/usr/bin/ld: Undefined symbols:
_X509_LOOKUP_ctrl__13KOpenSSLProxyP14x509_lookup_stiPCclPPc
_X509_LOOKUP_file__13KOpenSSLProxy
Here is what I plan to send out for the KDE announcement (an abbreviated
version of the announce page):
The Fink team is happy to announce preliminary support for KDE on MacOS
X.
To find out more about the K Desktop Environment, see What is KDE? at
the KDE web site.
Work has been progressing
of Xinerama and Xv...
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Otherwise they'd just be picking on the chickens. -- Kryten
On Thu, 2002-06-06 at 14:00, Benjamin Reed wrote:
I had heard someone mention this in passing, but never heard a good
explanation as to what happened. Considering qt-copy is 3.0.4 with some
modifications, I haven't heard before about the kde team recommending
3.0.3.
OK, the guys on #gentoo
?
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August 25-28 in Las Vegas
happened), and the
system-libgl bit is even more sticky.
Max Horn and David Morrison seem to have the most experience with package
dependency stuff like this... either of you guys have any input?
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A preposition
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 09:04, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote:
Hello,
For my own porting and development needs I'd love to see qt3 with high
priority. :-) Maybe it already has high priority. I'm just anxiously
awaiting this for gcc3.1 (April Dev Tools) before I can finish my port.
Thanks to
?
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As your girlfriend's best friend, I am to you a bit like Australia.
Australia? Very distant, largely uninhabitable, and with areas of
great danger. Oh, I thought you meant having a lot of convicts
, please review the files you
have there and move them over to experimental when it's possible (and remove
them from rangerfink).
Thanks!
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What's the difference between Roy Rogers and Will Rogers?
Yeah, that's what I
Just an FYI, I can't build gnomemm on an otherwise up-to-date system
(trying to build gabber-ssl).
Here's the error:
procbar.cc: In method `Gnome::ProcBar::ProcBar(const Gtk::Label , const
vectorGdk_Color *,allocatorGdk_Color * , gint (*)())':
procbar.cc:23: passing `gint (*)()' as argument 5
) (displacement too large)
I've found a number of references to it in darwin and fink archives, but
*no* reference to what the actual workaround/fix is. Anyone have any ideas
how I can debug this? Qt on gcc3 seems so *close*...
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. And since kdebindings is in
crypto, I had it depend on the kdelibs and kdebase in crypto now. I suppose it
doesn't *have* to, since it doesn't depend on it library-wise, but that would
be why it's trying to install the ssl versions of kdelibs/kdebase on a
dist-upgrade.
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, if removing the un-needed openssl dependency
prevents this from happening I think it needs to be done.
Yeah, makes sense. Should it still stay in crypto? It's unable to install if
it's in main and you don't have crypto in your list, but it doesn't directly
use crypto itself.
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What versions of software do you have? X11, fink, MacOSX, etc. Are you
doing X11 forwarding when you ssh in? Does it work if you ssh with -x to
disable it?
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For goodness sake, Kryten, don't you know how rude
On Thu, 2002-07-18 at 10:18, Sylvain Cuaz wrote:
This is not working for me, have you found a solution ?
I saw that you submitted a 3.0.5 and 3.0.4-9 version, are they gcc3
compatible ?
I was mistaken, there were build problems further down that I hadn't
gotten to yet. :(
gcc3
Max Horn [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
At 15:07 Uhr -0400 23.07.2002, Benjamin Reed wrote:
Urgh... guess there won't be KDE on Jaguar right away, unless
we can find a workaround... :(
Does that mean you tested with that compiler version already?
Not yet, so maybe it'll work, but I tested
On Thu, 2002-09-26 at 11:17, Carsten Klapp wrote:
I will concede to this point too that packages should compile the same
on everybody's system, or else it causes a nightmare for the user to
select and for maintainers to maintain all these separate minimal
packages, as I found out when
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 11:11, Boehne, Robert wrote:
A similar case is the use of $ORIGIN/ in a hardcoded
library path. Not many OS's support it, and anyone
who depends on it would limit the possible supported
platform list down to only those that do.
Ahh, I see what you're saying. No,
On Thu, 2002-10-10 at 15:45, David R. Morrison wrote:
I'm working on the next phase of the shlibs project, and I'd like to get the
opinion of other Fink developers on one aspect of this.
The system will automatically examine the libraries which have been linked
to by a particular binary,
On Sunday, October 20, 2002, at 08:53 PM, David R. Morrison wrote:
The time has come to decide the fate of the fink package for openssl
in 10.2.
It would be good to get this settled before too many things move to the
stable tree.
My vote is to remove the package, and to eliminate many other
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 08:09, Jose' Cruanyes wrote:
Hi
I,ve installed the postgresql package from the 1.2/unstable tree, but
unfortunately the configuration choose by the package maintainer
doesn't match my needs
I need Java, and I don't want a bunch of other options there included
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 04:40 PM, Jason Deraleau wrote:
bzip2Virtual package for the install of bzip2 included with
Jaguar
(/usr/bin/bzip2, v.1.0.2)
Not sure about the others, but this one still exists because bzip2 on
the system is static-only.
On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 04:45 PM, Max Horn wrote:
As I stated on IRC. It's fine by me to put in such a package, however,
the name system-cups is IMO not appropriate. Rather it should be
called cups-headers or cups-dev.
Figures, I see this e-mail *after* I commit system-cups. =)
I
On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 06:55 PM, Max Horn wrote:
As an maybe interesting sidenote, on my system that is cleanly
bootstrapped with the modified fink from CVS, I do not get any
prebinding-warning messages anymore... can anybody confirm/deny this?
Not sure about that, but...
Also I
Thanks, I've updated to the newest version of the package, but now I
get this:
gcc -g -O2 -Ddarwin6 -I../../include -I../../include -I. -I../.. -I.
-I./../.. -I./../../snmplib -I./.. -I.. -no-cpp-precomp -I/sw/include
-c mibII/icmp.c -fno-common -DPIC -o mibII/.libs/icmp.lo
mibII/icmp.c:224:
On Sunday, November 10, 2002, at 11:46 AM, David R. Morrison wrote:
Max, should we be trying to get CVS fink released and tested prior to a
binary distro? This sounds like an excellent feature...
We've already discussed it on the channel quite a bit this weekend, and
it doesn't really seem
On Saturday, November 16, 2002, at 10:53 PM, Alexander Strange wrote:
No. XFree86 still provides Xft. We just provides its dependencies.
Xft2 is part of fontconfig.
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On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 06:25 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote:
Fair enough not to commit this to CVS right now, it potentially
effects many packages. Anyway I understand a code freeze was declared
to get the new version out so no reason why this cannot wait until the
proper time can be
We could add a SafeReentrantMake field, and then add -j2 if that field
says it's safe.
If it's going to be manual for every package, why not hand-add it to
CompileScript then?
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On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 06:21 AM, Neil Tiffin wrote:
trying to overwrite
`/sw/share/doc/postgresql/html/plpython-install.html', which is also
in package postgresql-ssl-python
Ooop! This is a bug, I'll get it fixed today.
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in both the regular and threaded versions, xfree86-rootless-shlibs is
the one that provides libgl. Qt BuildDepends on libgl so that it can
build it's opengl plugin. On my system, I happened to have
xfree86-rootless-shlibs installed, but no xfree86-rootless because of
the way fink asks for
One of the problems we're running into getting KDE working on Darwin is
libtool's concept of a module, and how it's mapped onto Darwin's
linker behavior.
On Darwin, unlike most other unixen (as far as I'm aware), loadable
modules and dynamic shared libraries are 2 distinctly different
On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 04:54 PM, Guido Draheim wrote:
The only hint that I can give has the form of a question: Did you try
kbackgammon_LDADD = -static kbackgammon.la $(LIB_KDEGAMES)
$(LIB_KSYCOCA)
kbackgammon_SOURCES = dummy.cpp
$ ./libtool --help --mode=link | grep static
On Sunday, November 24, 2002, at 05:44 PM, Guido Draheim wrote:
You mean they are listed as .la on the link-line?
To stick with the example, there is a
LIB_KDEGAMES = libkdegames.la
in your makefiles? aargh, kde maniacs at work
No, it would be, libfoo_la_LIBADD =
That's great news. I cannot, however, promise to have these available
anytime
soon. I would appreciate help. Anyone?
I can certainly help out with this. While waiting for more input on
this thread, I actually ended up coming up with the same solution last
night. I woke up this morning to
After talking with the folks on #kde-devel, this is the e-mail that I
sent to the kde core list.
-Forwarded Message-
From: Benjamin Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: kde binary building is not portable :(
Date: 25 Nov 2002 10:10:27 -0500
After a discussion
Trying to install graphvis 1.8.5-3 I get:
gcc -g -O2 -fno-common -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -DNDEBUG
-DDATE=\Wed Nov 27 19:37:11 EST 2002\ -o dot dot.o -L/sw/lib
dotgen/.libs/libdot.a common/.libs/libdotneato.a
../pathplan/.libs/libpathplan.a ../graph/.libs/libgraph.a
../cdt/.libs/libcdt.a
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 07:39 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote:
gcc -g -O2 -fno-common -Wall -Wno-unknown-pragmas -DNDEBUG
-DDATE=\Wed Nov 27 19:37:11 EST 2002\ -o dot dot.o -L/sw/lib
dotgen/.libs/libdot.a common/.libs/libdotneato.a
../pathplan/.libs/libpathplan.a ../graph/.libs/libgraph.a
On Saturday, November 30, 2002, at 06:36 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
1) is anyone already planning this?
Not that I'm aware of...
2) does anyone else share my pain?
Oh dear god yes!
3) if I take this on, who of you might want to help me?
I'd be interested in helpping. I don't know
On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 11:14 AM, Jason Deraleau wrote:
Is it possible to have at least Fink use it? Perhaps something similar
with
an /sw/etc/make.conf file that contains the user's preferred gcc flags?
Even if optimizations get added, a make.conf will not happen, since
one of fink's
id3lib3.7-dev is installing popt.h, which is part of the popt package.
It should get deleted, or even better, id3lib should probably be made to
build against the popt fink package instead...
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On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 16:44, Max Horn wrote:
Finally, we should not relay on the December tools before late
January, I'd say, and even then I am not happy about this. In the
very least, packages relaying on that version of the dev tools should
check for them and error out. I don't expect
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 17:37, Ben Hines wrote:
I disagree with this, and think that fink should set it to 10.2 for all
packages. Have you replicated this theoretical library breaking
scenario? Show me.
I think that's the wrong way to look at it. Have you confirmed that
setting it works
On Mon, 2002-12-16 at 16:54, Patrick Näf wrote:
I dare to ask the question: is this really necessary?
I find a 30-50 questions survey repulsive! In my eyes it makes fink
begin to look like, well, a commercial product. Maybe I have always
looked the other way when I encountered one, but
Max and I spoke very carefully about this and he seems to feel, that
it is a good idea to query users.
Personally I do not wish to be some anonymous provider of a packaging
system. I wish to know who I am doing this for and I wish to be able
to keep it that way.
And this is why I haven't
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 08:56, David R. Morrison wrote:
OK, I'll take a crack at it this time.
First off, it seems that the survey is trying to do two separate things:
(1) gauge how much use of Fink there actually is, and (2) probe Fink users
for information about what parts of Fink are most
On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 12:19, Martin Costabel wrote:
Benjamin Reed wrote:
[]
Oh, and as to the issue of CDs, I'd be willing to take on putting
together a Fink CD, and the necessary tools/scripts/etc. to automate CD
generation as much as possible.
Just a small remark: There has been
What do I consider a popular package? Well, you decide. I have been
using a lot of Software over the past 15 years and I think I know many
packages which I would deem popular, yet there might be many I do not
know about and thus, please keep the mails coming.
On that note, I just put tomcat
On Monday, December 23, 2002, at 06:49 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
Well, unlikely.. current cvs also has some rather severe splitoff bugs
(they don't work), i am pretty sure caused by RangerRick's recent
patch. I was going to suggest releasing current fink (with isystem)
once those are fixed. But
On Thursday, January 2, 2003, at 11:04 PM, Kow K wrote:
No, not. I don't think the solution needs to be so general. Isn't it
sufficient to just add a conditional prompt invoked by qt3
installation as a *temporary* work around?
The error you saw was the earliest the qt3 package has a chance
I've put together an experimental stylesheet for generating a fink RSS
news feed, so that whenever news shows up on the main site, it'll also
be available there. It looks OK, but I'd like some people to give it a
shot, just to make sure it's kosher. If you have an rdf/rss-compatible
app or
=)
I've now got a script that generates an RSS feed that gives you the new
packages in the last 7 days, in both stable and unstable.
You can get these feeds at:
http://fink.sf.net/news/fink-stable.rdf
http://fink.sf.net/news/fink-unstable.rdf
They're listed by order of date, most recent to
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 02:42 AM, Ben Hines wrote:
The current situation causes a LOT of confusion for newbies. And for
what - to save 4 megs of hard drive space. Thats silly.
I agree, saving 4 megs out of 45 isn't really worth the amount of
questions we get on the subject.
No
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 08:30 PM, Jeff Whitaker wrote:
Apple's X11 will work with fink xfree86-4.2.1.1 on 10.2.3. I tested
this
by installing xfree86-base, xfree86-rootless (and shlibs), then copying
over /Applications/X11.app, /usr/X11R6/bin/Xquartz,
/usr/X11R6/bin/quartz-wm and
On Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 08:38 PM, Pejvan BEIGUI wrote:
Failed: can't batch-install packages:
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/kdelibs3-
ssl_3.1-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/kdelibs3-ssl-
dev_3.1-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 04:48 AM, Daniel Parks wrote:
*Ahem* It helps to install the SDK.
Somebody should do some sort of announcement about this, or add
something to the FAQ, so that people don't overwrite their Fink
installed XFree86 packages and make a mess. Or fail to install the
On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 12:20 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
Is this thing alive? I subscribed this morning and sent them a long
list of bugs :-) but nothing arrived yet, and my message was rejected
as not coming from the right address (although I tried hard to pretend
that it was the
On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 08:19 PM, Kow K wrote:
A humble opinion from a list observer -- Really need to remove the
FAQ? Just some modification isn't enough? I guess the whole problem is
that the explanation given made readers that the issue is *still
open*, but actually it's not.
So the subject of perl 5.8 came up again on #fink, and I started taking
a look at what we had. Chris Dolan put together a great package for
perl 5.8, but it has one problem -- it still puts everything in
/sw/lib/perl5 just like our 5.6 packages. The problem is perl 5.6
modules are not
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