Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Summary of adding Apps/Frameworks to Fink

2004-01-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
Darian Lanx wrote: I can understand that. I think one of the major plus points would be, that your .app is automatically upgraded once the package maintainer packages a new version of that specific software. Especially with Open Source software that is going 'native' I'd see that as a plus

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: Summary of adding Apps/Frameworks to Fink

2004-01-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
Benjamin Reed wrote: I've been thinking about how some of this would work. It's also come up recently on the DarwinPorts list, and the suggestion was to use /Developer/Tools/SplitForks to be able to package up the apps, and then put them back together with /System/Library/CoreServices

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .app's in Fink

2004-02-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: I really don't think we should have packages install their stuff directly in /sw/Applications in their install phase; instead I think we I'm not sure if I understand you here. The finkcommander package builds in /sw/src/finkcommander-0.5.1-2/FinkCommander and installs

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2/stable/main/finkinfo/libs id3lib3.7-3.7.13-4.info,1.1,1.2

2004-02-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
Christian Schaffner wrote: There was already a GCC field in that info file, leading to WARNING: Field gcc occurs more than once in /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/id3lib4.info. Shall i remove it? yeah, i was a bit overzealous, I got an id3lib4 as well as 3.7 ;) Looks like it's

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] Re: Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-11 Thread Benjamin Reed
Daniel Macks wrote: It we want to go programming-language-style: Depends: %type_perl_version == 5.8.1 thing-pm Depends: %type_nox == -nox || x11 It we want to be a bit more linguistic/thought-process oriented: Depends: %type_perl_version = 5.8.1 ? thing-pm Actually, I think the part that

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: Something like this should probably go into the fink package or it could even be merged with the fink-virtual-pkgs script, maybe activated by fink-virtual-pkgs --debug-x11 or something similar. OK, I've checked in an analog to what your script does to the virtual

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: You guys are really fast. It helps, of course, if one knows perl, I guess :-) I don't, I have more or less been feeling my way around in the dark. This looks good. In VirtPackage.pm there are two 'print missing' where I would have put missing\n. Oop! Good catch, fixed

Re: Fwd: [Fink-devel] Validating fink packages

2004-02-16 Thread Benjamin Reed
Daniel Macks wrote: I'm about to add a note about using -x'*~' and .orig and .rej =) --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now!

Re: [Fink-devel] Library packaging policy

2004-03-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
) or is it better not to split libfoo-dev and keep its data into libfoo? Generally in this case, if it's primarily a library, you don't need the -dev splitoff, put that stuff in libfoo instead. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Now Playing: Torn

Re: [Fink-devel] Feature idea: alternate build location

2004-03-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
. =) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Now Playing: Vocal Mode (rs3 mix) by funkymuskrat --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President

Re: [Fink-devel] Xfree 4.4 linking

2004-03-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
that are newer than the versions in XFree86 4.3, so once you go forward, you can't go back. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial

Re: [Fink-devel] [RFC] Modification to commits procedure

2004-03-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
. Sounds reasonable to me. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Now Playing: Conquer Your World by Excessive Force --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented

Re: [Fink-devel] [RFC] Modification to commits procedure

2004-03-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
developers should read it. We get too much traffic to assume everyone reads every message and knows what to do about i18n. =) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Now Playing: Hizbollah by Ministry

Re: [Fink-devel] no updates for two days?

2004-03-31 Thread Benjamin Reed
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I haven't seen any .info files updated at all for the past two days. Did everyone go home? :) it might be my rss feed is acting up... I've seen updates... -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] help needed : making packages

2004-04-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
works. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with undefined symbols...

2004-04-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
__ZTVN10__cxxabiv117__class_type_infoE __ZTVN10__cxxabiv120__si_class_type_infoE This almost always means you've linked using gcc instead of g++. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with undefined symbols...

2004-04-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
assumed that wasn't it since they already worked on other platforms. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel

Re: [Fink-devel] Volunteer: guile and flex

2004-04-07 Thread Benjamin Reed
why the Fink flex-devel package exists now, for people that need the newer flex features. It stays out of the way of the original flex, and I suspect we'll have to leave the old one pretty much as it is for all of time. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposed policy change for -pm packages

2004-04-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
to affect bin and man files. Other solutions could be implemented by the package maintainers if they wish. Comments, as always, are very welcome. All of this sounds sane to me. I'll look at your exp tree if I get the chance. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation, revisited

2004-04-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
instead of having to say file-spec-pm | perl580-core | perl583-core. These perl* packages also have a large number of Replaces, to take care of duplicate files in /sw/bin and /sw/share/man. How will we handle such provides from system-perl done in the virtuals? -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick

[Fink-devel] Re: xfree86 destroys fontconfig

2004-04-13 Thread Benjamin Reed
package I made anyways. Thanks for the head's up... -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins

Re: [Fink-devel] Licence type for CFITSIO

2004-05-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
a GPL'd library. It's probably enough to use BSD even. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson

Re: [Fink-devel] Licence type for CFITSIO

2004-05-12 Thread Benjamin Reed
. For some reason I was thinking dynamic linking of the gzip stuff, but I guess it wouldn't be there at all then. =) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat

[Fink-devel] KDE 3.2.2 in unstable

2004-04-30 Thread Benjamin Reed
it was already broken, I figured that wasn't a blocker to release. Expect an updated arts once I get it working. =) If you have questions/comments/etc. please let me know. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

[Fink-devel] XCode 1.2 issue with tcltk?

2004-05-04 Thread Benjamin Reed
=-fconstant-cfstrings ...to the two make bits in tcltk.info, but that seems rather hackish. Any ideas on a proper way to handle this? -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-devel] XCode 1.2 issue with tcltk?

2004-05-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
a number of times (had the same thing happen with SDL a while back...) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils rzip.patch,NONE,1.1 rzip.info,1.1,1.2

2004-06-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Ben Hines wrote: Revert this erm, ok, I was out of town... why? -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit

[Fink-devel] Re: package hijacking

2004-06-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
did this without noticing you had one already; I must have been on crack. Sorry about that, I've reverted it. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly is a bad idea?

2004-06-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
AIDA Shinra wrote: If B did not directly refer any neon's symbols, gcc -o B B.o -lA -lneon Oh, this line is: gcc -o B B.o -lA Of course, not directly referring to these symbols is exceedingly rare, and most likely doesn't account for the most common case... -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
that's got headers for development in it should be BuildDependsOnly. As I understand it, there are some packages that use headers at runtime, but, IMHO, the headers should be duplicated in /sw/share as data in that particular case. - -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michèle Garoche wrote: | | Le 18 juin 2004, à 15:48, Benjamin Reed a écrit : | | I agree that anything that's got headers for development in it should be | BuildDependsOnly. As I understand it, there are some packages that use | headers at runtime

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
package) foo-dev (with headers only) or should I have: foo foo-shlibs foo-dev You can certainly have packages with headers that don't have shared libraries; it's reasonably rare but it happens. There's no point in making an empty -shlibs in that case... -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
. splitting off a -dev just like we currently unofficially do -- things with headers that have, say, only static libraries, or are just an interface like ladspa, where there's a header, but no library at all. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] 2nd draft: proposed policy on BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
David R. Morrison wrote: I've modified the proposed policy in response to today's feedback (and after a bit of coding for the forthcoming fink 0.20.5). Further discussion and feedback are most welcome. sounds great to me -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http

[Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread Benjamin Reed
that's Provided by perl581, you end up with a *real* perl581, but a *virtual* perl581-core, and get this error. The actual error is that /sw/bin/perl can't find /sw/lib/foo/libperl.dylib that it's linked against. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] Virtual package handling

2004-07-06 Thread Benjamin Reed
it so they show up in the package list, but as uninstalled, with a package DescDetail saying how to download them. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat

Re: [Fink-devel] whither local/bootstrap?

2004-07-07 Thread Benjamin Reed
drawbacks to this? Anything I've overlooked? Sounds fine to me. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings

[Fink-devel] Re: Removing and installing postgresql74-ssl

2004-07-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
. Is this normal or expected? yup, it's normal; it's trying to do update-alternatives on those files but they only exist if you have the -dev package installed. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

[Fink-devel] gabber-ssl/dia scrollkeeper conflict

2004-07-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
!)--- My suspicion is that neither of these should have that file, but I don't know enough about scrollkeeper to be certain. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-devel] resolving dependency system-java15

2004-07-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
-- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http

[Fink-devel] Re: Errors in percent expansions (Modified by jfm)

2004-07-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
jfm wrote: I see your log msg 'Restrict use of %a to PatchScript.' from this morning. So the msg below should have gone to you... (Is there a real need for this restriction?) Why restrict it, anyways? -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] resolving dependency system-java15

2004-07-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
to best do it? http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/ =) While I've got your ear, I'm also curious about why there is no tomcat package for Panther. I am working on it, that's why all the java stuff got updated. :) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Errors in percent expansions (Modified by jfm)

2004-07-20 Thread Benjamin Reed
of multiple source tarballs. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/database rrdtool.info,1.3,1.4

2004-07-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
to be required...) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/database rrdtool.info,1.4,1.5 rrdtool.patch,1.2,1.3

2004-07-23 Thread Benjamin Reed
/pod2man --release=1.0.48 --center=RRDtool rrdtool.pod rrdtool.1 /bin/sh: line 1: /sw/bin/perl5.8*: No such file or directory OK, I just checked in a fix... -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-23 Thread Benjamin Reed
instead of io-stringy-pm5XX. I've fixed the two I maintain, I'm cc'ing the maintainer of the other 2 packages that do so (rtf-tokenizer-pm and rtf-parser-pm). -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] Implied Perl dependency tree following or what am I missing?

2004-07-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
it. :) I was fixing all my perl module packages to use the new virt stuff, and accidentally made it a -pm5XX instead of just a -pm, I'll fix it as soon as I have the time. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [PATCH] compress-zlib-pm to use system zlib.dylib

2004-07-30 Thread Benjamin Reed
David H. wrote: I doubt you will be making many happy with that. There are many old schoolers like me that simply hate Info format :) But it makes things a hell of a lot easier to maintain; let people use what they want, man. :) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. RangerRick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http

Re: [Fink-devel] Flex

2004-08-03 Thread Benjamin Reed
to their includes instead. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Yeah, rpm is for people who can't keep track of hundreds of scraps of paper. -- John Beimler --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have

Re: [Fink-devel] FAQ 9.11

2004-08-04 Thread Benjamin Reed
like a reasonable (and pretty easy) solution to me... -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like them. If we didn't, we would have made something else be the default. So keep your cotton-pickin' hands off our

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/sound esound.info,1.5,1.6

2004-08-13 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Thu, 2004-08-12 at 16:37, Martin Costabel wrote: It is a pity that the symptom is doctored instead of telling the guy on #fink to fix his broken Stuffit Pro. There was never (well, apart from the short period while we tried to find the reason for the failure) any reason to deprecate

Re: [Fink-devel] WTF?

2004-08-16 Thread Benjamin Reed
checked with -devel, but the world isn't going to end. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29

[Fink-devel] libpng-1.2.6 is buggy

2004-08-27 Thread Benjamin Reed
It appears to screw up colors on some types of PNG images. Before (libpng-1.2.5-4): http://ranger.befunk.com/misc/libpng-1.2.5-4.jpg After (libpng-1.2.6-6): http://ranger.befunk.com/misc/libpng-1.2.6-6.jpg :P -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: libpng-1.2.6 is buggy

2004-08-27 Thread Benjamin Reed
some endianness twiddling that might have caused it. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ We put a lot of thought into our defaults. We like them. If we didn't, we would have made something else be the default. So keep your cotton-pickin' hands off our

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.298,1.299

2004-09-06 Thread Benjamin Reed
with all javas? -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ You can scoff, Lister, that's nothing new. They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Edison. They laughed at Columbo. Who's Columbo? The man with the dirty mac who discovered America. -- Rimmer

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.298,1.299

2004-09-06 Thread Benjamin Reed
and so on. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ You can scoff, Lister, that's nothing new. They laughed at Galileo. They laughed at Edison. They laughed at Columbo. Who's Columbo? The man with the dirty mac who discovered America. -- Rimmer, on _Red

[Fink-devel] XFree86 4.4.0 to stable

2004-09-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
Anyone have objections to me moving XFree86 4.4.0 to stable in 10.3? While I'm doing so, I'm going to up the revision, and change the Conflicts/Replaces to handle X.org. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ A computer scientist is someone who, when

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

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
on to the next mirror instead of prompting me? No. Once your package gets released to the fink tree, the mirrors will pick it up and the file *will* be there. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ You CAN'T clean the toilet, Neil, it'll lose all it's

Re: [Fink-devel] freeglut package

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
different, freeglut and glut's libraries will not be interchangeable. This would definitely preclude it's inclusion in Fink as something that would provide/replace glut. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ You CAN'T clean the toilet, Neil, it'll lose

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

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
if system-javaXX is there, jar is there. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ I've found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent. -- Paul Graham

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 Benjamin Reed
be documented. =) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Yeah, rpm is for people who can't keep track of hundreds of scraps of paper. -- John Beimler --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable commit RSS feed error?

2004-09-29 Thread Benjamin Reed
out some 6000+ lines about packages, finishing with the line -- FZ -- : removing invalid items for http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/fink-unstable.rdf; and showing no new commits (which is wrong). It's broken, and I'm working on it. =) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http

Re: [Fink-devel] Success! - Planner on Darwin/FreeBSD/OSX

2004-10-07 Thread Benjamin Reed
Apple's stuff be Apple;s. Yes. Instead patch autogen.sh to not look for libtool/libtoolize, and isntead use glibtool and glibtoolize. Then things should work as you expect. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ A computer scientist is someone who

Re: [Fink-devel] kde source trees

2004-10-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
files, only the original source files. So if you're set to go to distfiles, it will fail. If you mean a specific (non-fink-distfiles) mirror doesn't have stuff, please let us know and we'll removed it from the mirror choices. Last I did a spot-check, the mirrors had everything there. -- Benjamin

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 qt3.info,1.8,1.9 qt3.patch,1.3,1.4

2004-10-24 Thread Benjamin Reed
will have to see if they can stand on their own. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ You CAN'T clean the toilet, Neil, it'll lose all it's character! -- Vyvyan --- This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-devel] KDE package bug?

2004-10-25 Thread Benjamin Reed
package. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Boy is it cramped... whoooee! I tell ya, if I was dead, you most certainly could NOT swing me around in HERE. -- Cat --- This SF.net email is sponsored

Re: [Fink-devel] qt-x11 qt-mac

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
Pavel Volkovitskiy wrote: Hello Could any-body explain why fink use qt-x11 on mac? Is it possible to use qt-mac as replace for qt-x11? with recompile of qt-based software? yes and no, it's possible, but many linux/unix apps are not compatible with qt/mac without a lot of work. -- Benjamin Reed

Re: [Fink-devel] nice xml-based format for *.info

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
high barrier to new packager adoption, if I recall correctly. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Sybase ASE Linux Express Edition - download now for FREE

Re: [Fink-devel] Website News Section (Was: News-item changes)

2004-11-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
BABA Yoshihiko wrote: (B (B My idea is to modify finknews.dtd and finknews.i18n.xsl to be (B consistent with documentation. Any idea welcome. (B (BThis had confused me as well, in the past, I think that's a good idea... (B (B-- (BBenjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick (B[EMAIL PROTECTED] /

Re: [Fink-devel] Question about a licence classification

2004-11-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
this software without specific prior written permission. this sounds a lot like the BSD license to me -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ Is it considered bad form to quote one's self in a .sig? -- Me

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDepends qt3. Problems.

2004-12-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
in their configure script and see what they're trying to do... This smells like a broken configure test to me. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ You CAN'T clean the toilet, Neil, it'll lose all it's character! -- Vyvyan

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo kdebase3-ssl.info,1.19,1.20 kdebase3-ssl.patch,1.6,1.7 kdelibs3-ssl.info,1.17,1.18 kdelibs3-ssl.patch,1.9,1.10 kdenetwork3.info,1.13,1.14 kdenetwork3.patch,1.3,1.4

2004-12-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
, and I accidentally released the source ones, rather than the generated ones. Should be fixed now. =) -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only

Re: [Fink-devel] lifetime of static variables

2004-12-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
on ELF systems (which is most all systems). I'm sure googling for darwin and static initializers will come up with all kinds of fun threads on the subject. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ In theory, there is no difference between theory

[Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
/local/rangerrick/common/main/finkinfo/devel ranger$ fink remove fink-buildlock-distcc-2.18.3-1 Information about 4465 packages read in 7 seconds. Failed: no package specified for command 'remove'! -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with buildlock

2005-01-08 Thread Benjamin Reed
Benjamin Reed wrote: disco-volante:/sw/fink/dists/local/rangerrick/common/main/finkinfo/devel ranger$ fink remove fink-buildlock-distcc-2.18.3-1 Information about 4465 packages read in 7 seconds. Failed: no package specified for command 'remove'! On closer look, that package wasn't even installed

Re: [Fink-devel] How to force twolevel_namespace

2005-01-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
, won't it? So we still have no control over this issue as a whole. :( -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition

Re: [Fink-devel] lynx and distcc

2005-01-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
. -- Benjamin Reed, a.k.a. Ranger Rick [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://ranger.befunk.com/ --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by: Beat the post-holiday blues Get a FREE limited edition SourceForge.net t-shirt from ThinkGeek. It's fun and FREE -- well

[Fink-devel] freetype2 update

2005-02-26 Thread Benjamin Reed
I've got a version of freetype2/freetype2-hinting 2.1.9 in my experimental tree that, in theory, fixes issues of binary compatibility and building by older packages. It includes some patches from debian for backwards-compat as well as removing the error about including ft2build.h first. I would

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages mentioning /sw/ by name in unstable

2005-02-26 Thread Benjamin Reed
Alexander Strange wrote: There are currently four packages in unstable that mention /sw/ instead of %p where it might cause the build to error out: * Jeremy Higgs ettercap-ssl * Blair Zajac grass5.7 * Jeffrey Whitaker scilab-atlas scilab Besides that, there are many more packages

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype2-update

2005-02-27 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: My personal option for a solution would be to This all sounds good to me. Do you want to put the packages together, or should I get hacking on it? --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest

Re: [Fink-devel] strange terminal output after fink commands

2005-03-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Koen van der Drift wrote: Not sure what you mean. I only get the problem when mac-growl-pm581 is installed. Maybe there is a incompatibility between growl (0.6.1) and mac-growl-pm581 (0.6)? there is a bug in the Growl-Bindings-0.6.tar.gz or whatever it's called... $ fink apropos growl

Re: [Fink-devel] New freetype2 packages

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
Daniel Johnson wrote: On Feb 28, 2005, at 10:01 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: After some quick tests, I have now committed these packages for freetype versions 2.1.4 and 2.1.9 to CVS 10.3/unstable: freetype2, freetype2-dev, freetype2-shlibs freetype2-hinting, freetype2-hinting-dev,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/text docbook-dtd.info,NONE,1.1 docbook-dtd.patch,NONE,1.1

2005-03-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
Michèle Garoche wrote: I do not understand why, because the checksum is correct in the info file, so there is a problem on the distfiles server. Well, I know that the MD5 had changed from what was in the info file on the original site, so that's why things went bad, I think...

[Fink-devel] build errors with freetype2 -- how to fix

2005-03-07 Thread Benjamin Reed
There are 2 issues popping up on the list lately: 1) package foo builds against Apple's X11, but not x.org/xfree86 2) package foo builds against x.org/xfree86, but not Apple's X11 #1 *should* be fixed when I'm able to release new xfree86/x.org packages that contain the fixes that went into the

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-14 Thread Benjamin Reed
David R. Morrison wrote: My reading of the links you provided suggests that you are correct: we may not link GPL'd software against fink's openssl package unless the license explictly permits linking to openssl. (In many cases, there is an alternative -- link to the system's openssl --

Re: [Fink-devel] the gpl and openssl

2005-03-28 Thread Benjamin Reed
David H. wrote: no, I am not. That are exactly the words that they told me. The likelyhood that we will end up in court because we violate the GPL is about 0. Not to mention that we are not the active party in this case. The long version on this topic is about 2 hours and a dinner worth. As the PR

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: License for .info and .patch files

2005-04-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
Peter O'Gorman wrote: I'm kind of late into the fray here (had a short vacation), but would suggest that we notify submitters that we prefer .info and .patch files to be placed in the public domain, but that explicit licenses can be added to comments in the .info file, or the patch file, if

Re: [Fink-devel] Switch of prebinding

2005-04-10 Thread Benjamin Reed
Remi Mommsen wrote: Hi, I have a problem with dynamic unloading libraries and suspect that it involves the prebinding used by fink, as if I compile the package outside of fink, the problem does not show up. Anyway, which is the correct/best way to switch off the prebinding for a fink package?

Re: [Fink-devel] postgres 8x gives error also

2005-04-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
Neil Tiffin wrote: Setting up postgresql80-ssl-shlibs (8.0.2-12) ... cat: /sw/var/postgresql/binary.list: No such file or directory cat: /sw/var/postgresql/man1.list: No such file or directory cat: /sw/var/postgresql/man7.list: No such file or directory It appears I was too liberal in my

Re: [Fink-devel] gdal (and postGIS)

2005-04-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
BABA Yoshihiko wrote: One thing to note is that postgresql80 (=8.0.2-11) now includes PostGIS. The current info file depends only on 74, and should be modified to depend on 80. My suggestion is to have variants of gdal depending on postgresql version, as there are too many variants of of

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with -fabi-version=1

2005-04-18 Thread Benjamin Reed
Matthew Sachs wrote: Okay, the following works: Panther: g++ -c lib.cpp -fabi-version=1 -o lib.o g++ -dynamiclib -fabi-version=1 -o libbreak.dylib lib.o I'm confused... What good is this? Thousands upon thousands of fink users already have pre-existing binaries that were built without

Re: [Fink-devel] qt3, kde in 10.4-transitional/stable

2005-05-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: My question: What is planned for qt3 in 10.4/stable? In 10.3/stable, the argument against having qt3-3.3.x (needed by scribus-1.2.1) was that the kde version in stable needed the older qt3 version 3.2.2. Now kde has not yet been put into 10.4-transitional/stable, and I

Re: [Fink-devel] Tiger build report

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Reed
Michèle Garoche wrote: For doxygen, there had been a newer version in experimental/michga for 2 months now. People don't mess with other people's experimental, generally. If you've got a fix, feel free to release it (or pass it on to the maintainer, if it's not yours). :)

Re: [Fink-devel] Tiger build report

2005-05-03 Thread Benjamin Reed
Michèle Garoche wrote: People don't mess with other people's experimental, generally. ??? I was told that experimental was precisely here to do that. Provides a location where to put some attempt other people can test or change. So, now what is experimental for? experimental/yourname is for

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: Fink SDL error on 10.4

2005-05-05 Thread Benjamin Reed
Max Horn wrote: ld: warning multiple definitions of symbol ___eprintf /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/libgcc.a(_eprintf.o) private external definition of ___eprintf in section (__TEXT,__text) /usr/lib/gcc/powerpc-apple-darwin8/4.0.0/libstdc++.dylib(single module) definition of ___eprintf

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg/status auto correction facility?

2005-06-01 Thread Benjamin Reed
D. Hhn wrote: Deleting the entries in question fixes things, should we maybe have an auto check for this? Kind of difficult to have a check for filesystem corruption (this only happens if your disk is bad, or you control-C or kill off the process at a bad time). It happens extremely rarely

Re: [Fink-devel] Running your own Binary Distribution Server

2005-06-02 Thread Benjamin Reed
Robert M. Lefkowitz wrote: If this is in fact the current state of Fink, I would be willing to make an attempt to enhance fink to allow multiple source repositories. Is this something that would be viewed as helpful? Would anybody be interested in working with me on this? Even better,

Re: [Fink-devel] esound-0.2.29-1 doesn't like Logitech Headset

2005-06-17 Thread Benjamin Reed
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I have a Logitech Headset, but EsounD doesn't seem to like it. Do you think you could fix this? ... Before you ask here, have you checked around online to see if your headset works with esound on a different platform, e.g. Linux? If it doesn't work there, then

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