Re: [Fink-devel] Heureka! (Was: Fink-0.18.0 doesn't compile)

2004-01-10 Thread David R. Morrison
We need our testing guru to come back and help us out here... Matthias Neeracher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Matthias Neeracher [EMAIL PROTECTED] I was also having problems with one of my machines yesterday (I didn't report them yet because I wanted to do some investigation myself).

Re: [Fink-devel] Unable to parse lines

2004-01-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Benjamin Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michèle Garoche wrote: grhino-0.7.0-11 WARNING: Unable to parse the line GCC 3.3 in /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/games/grhino-0.7.0-11.info. Seems to me that GCC: 3.3 (notice : is missing in the original info file) would be more

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-maintainer-gaim :: gaim = 0.71 please

2004-01-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] I have been trying for ages to suggest to use 'current' for replacing packages which are known to be broken. There are several packages in 0.6.2 that are known not to work on 10.3 and IMHO it absolutely stinks that after almost 3 months

Re: [Fink-devel] mixing pure and versioned perl modules

2004-01-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] A possible solution would be to declare that any package that depends on a versioned module must be versioned. Period. It would therefore be installed in the versioned part of lib/perl5 and would have its dependencies on versioned packages. No

Re: [Fink-devel] mixing pure and versioned perl modules

2004-01-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 08:39:20PM -0500, David R. Morrison wrote: [snip] This would work pretty well, I think. However, there is another aspect to the problem. Some pm packages install binaries in /sw/bin and/or man pages in /sw/share/man. If you

Re: [Fink-devel] qt2-g++2 and automatic build

2004-01-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Remi. I think the real solution here is to get lyx-qt working with qt3. There is no restriction like that on installing qt3, and we'd be able to build lyx-qt automatically. Any qt3 gurus care to look at this? RangerRick? -- Dave ---

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-17 Thread David R. Morrison
I wanted to make just one remark: All the gnome packages have the problem that the gnome mirrors are notoriously and inherently unreliable. Quite frequently, the first couple of mirrors give you a selection of error messages, but the third or fifth or tenth mirror is working. This

[Fink-devel] GPL interpretation

2004-01-17 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear fink developers, I'd like to get some other opinions on the following question. As I understand the GPL, if we distribute binaries of GPL'd software over the web, we must also make the corresponding source available by the web (unless we are willing to respond to requests sent to us by

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.523,1.524 Package.pm,1.58,1.59 PkgVersion.pm,1.213,1.214

2004-01-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] For those playing along at home: previously and since the dawn of splitoffs, :SplitOff:Package: was being evaluated in the scope of the parent (so %n was that of the parent) while the rest of SplitOff: was evaluated in its own scope. That means %n

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] system-ghostscript issue.

2004-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
There used to exist the opinion that it is not very cumbersome to have two ghostscripts installed, but I think this should be rethought. Let me offer another point of view on this. Last summer, we introduced virtual packages in Fink which replaced the former system-xfree86 and system-perl

Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages

2004-01-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Matthias Neeracher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] However, the package installs a framework, for which I think we don't currently have a precedent. So my questions are: - Do y'all agree that frameworks are, in principle, fink packageable matter? - Where should frameworks be installed?

.app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we will have to restart the old discussion of /sw/Applications, too. And I mean a real discussion, not the hasty erection of religious taboos as we had in the past. I would really love to see things like Tcl/Tk-aqua and rangerrick's

.app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-25 Thread David R. Morrison
From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Jan 25 04:24:05 2004 From: Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthias Neeracher [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:

Re: .app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-26 Thread David R. Morrison
In my view, the main reason for doing this is that there already exists software out there which on the one hand depends on UNIX libraries which are (or should be) part of Fink, but on the other hand is packaged in OS X form, as an .app bundle which uses a Cocoa interface. Either all of the Unix

Re: [Fink-devel] Incompatible .info files

2004-01-26 Thread David R. Morrison
So you would migrate from .info files to .vinfo files, over time? That's quite a hack! Seriously, if this were going to be done, then goal #1 of the hack would be to set up a new, extensible, % system so that this would never need to be done again in the future. I don't know what form that

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods tk-pm.info,1.1,1.2 tk-pm581.info,1.2,1.3

2004-01-28 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes, underscores are a real problem, because all of the Debian tools assume that the underscores in the name in a .deb are going to separate the parts of that name. We actually glom together the version and revision fields into a single unit, preceded and followed by those underscores, so we

[Fink-devel] Re: disabling /usr/local/include

2004-01-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Here's a patch file which implements my idea, should anyone want to test it out: --- PkgVersion.pm Sat Jan 31 17:29:35 2004 +++ PkgVersion.pm.patched Sat Jan 31 16:10:07 2004 @@ -2200,8 +2200,9 @@ my $self = shift; my ($varname, $s, $expand); my %defaults = ( -

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: disabling /usr/local/include

2004-01-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also have some qualms about the -DLOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR=\%p/include , for no particular reason I'd rather see -ULOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR and leave -I%p/include Unfortunately, this doesn't work. I guess LOCAL_INCLUDE_DIR is undefined by default, and only if it is

[Fink-devel] fink feedback?

2004-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Anybody have good or bad things to say about fink 0.18.0? I'd like to move it to stable, and release 0.19.0. -- Dave --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feedback?

2004-02-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: More precisely: In the file atk1.info in 10.3/unstable, which is version 1.4.1-3 and which I have installed, there is no such field. In 10.3/stable in version 1.4.1-2, there is such a field. The fact that this is taken

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] 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

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

2004-02-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Keith Conger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/devel In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv23841/devel Modified Files: intltool.info Log Message: GNOME 2.4.2 Index: intltool.info

Re: [Fink-devel] system-ghostscript8

2004-02-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] If one leaves the fonts directory as it is and doesn't run type1inst at all, the problem goes away, too. The files fonts.scale and fonts.dir are already there, and I don't know if the additional file Fontmap is needed by anything. The

Re: [Fink-devel] bug in 0.18.1 (virtual provides)

2004-02-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Does the same bug show up in 0.18.2? in CVS HEAD? -- Dave --- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA.

[Fink-devel] Please Help Improve the Stability of Fink

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink folks, As many of you know, the stable tree in 10.3 was created from the corresponding tree in 10.2. Everything which was moved to 10.3 builds OK on 10.3, but there are a number of cases where the software provided by the package no longer works, or doesn't work as expected. We need

Re: [Fink-devel] Conditional Depends Syntax

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm jumping into this thread a bit late, since I was out of town for a few days. I hope that everyone is bearing in mind a crucial fact of life: whatever we do in terms of dependencies has to be translated (at the end of the day) into dependencies that the Debian tools (dpkg and apt-get) can

Re: [Fink-devel] date-manip-pm error

2004-02-14 Thread David R. Morrison
TheSin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't commited anything to stable... talk to Dave about that. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 12-Feb-04, at 12:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: TheSin wrote: this seems to be a 10.2 or

Re: [Fink-devel] Please Help Improve the Stability of Fink

2004-02-15 Thread David R. Morrison
To help get things started, I've added verified by entries for all of the commits to 10.3/stable from the past month where the CVS log suggested this was appropriate. However, there is still a lot of work to do along these lines, and I encourage everyone to roll up their sleeves and help out. It

Re: [Fink-devel] submitting large patches

2004-02-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Ben. There's a tradeoff here between, on the one hand, encouraging packagers to keep patches small and thereby keeping the fink info/patch database at a reasonable size, and on the other hand, making sure that we don't add unnecessary barriers to packaging things up. If we have to find a way

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC-822 vs. here-doc multilining

2004-02-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Dan. This sounds good to me. But do we have any idea how many .info files are still using this deprecated style? One of the problems in recent months has been with maintainers who are no longer with us... A change like this will eventually require a cleanup by some person or group who goes

Re: [Fink-devel] System-tetex and error node.

2004-02-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, It is not an omission that system-tetex does not provide tetex-dev. One of the differences between Gerben Wierda's teTeX distribution and the fink one is that in fink, we build libkpathsea as a shared library, whereas it is only a static library in Wierda's distribution. (This may

Re: [Fink-devel] System-tetex and error node.

2004-02-23 Thread David R. Morrison
If your link line has -lkpathsea, then a user who has tetex-dev installed will get a link to libkpathsea.dylib, whereas a user with system-tetex installed will get a link to libkpathsea.a . (The darwin linker prefers the shared version whenever it can find it.) -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] Please fix postgresql post-install script.

2004-02-27 Thread David R. Morrison
The maintainer for postgresql is on vacation this week, so it may be a while before he responds. But let me suggest, since you seem to have analyzed the problem very nicely, that you might try to figure out how the fink package should be modified and provided a proposed new info file and/or new

[Fink-devel] binary release plans

2004-02-27 Thread David R. Morrison
I plan to start creating a binary release for 10.3 in about a week. If you are aware of any of your packages in the 10.3/stable tree which are *not* suitable for binary release, please either fix them or remove them from that tree. Thanks, Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] binary release plans

2004-02-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Remi. Sure, removing the dlcompat dependencies is one of the things which needs to be done. In some cases, this has already been done in the unstable tree, but not the stable tree. So it's a bit unclear whether one should create a new stable version, or move the current unstable version to

Re: [Fink-devel] binary release plans

2004-02-27 Thread David R. Morrison
. On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:47 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: I plan to start creating a binary release for 10.3 in about a week. If you are aware of any of your packages in the 10.3/stable tree which are *not* suitable for binary release, please either fix them or remove them from

Re: [Fink-devel] Maintainer newbie with questions

2004-03-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Sebastien, Thanks very much for your contribution to fink. You only need to use the tag GCC: 3.3 if your package compiles any C++ code. (Typically, in this case, you would notice a line during the configure step about checking for c++ or g++.) The reason we have to tag that is that the gcc

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: binary release plans

2004-03-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Koen, Is bioperl-pm581 ready to go to stable? (i.e., are all the dependencies already in stable?) Under my proposed new policy, we wouldn't want the package called bioperl-pm in the long run, anyway, and virtually all 10.3 users are going to be using perl 5.8.1. So moving bioperl-pm581 to

LAME licensing (was Re: [Fink-devel] Re: binary release plans)

2004-03-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Alexander Strange [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LAME should not be included in the binary distribution, unless you feel like buying Fink an unlimited MP3 license (distribution of decoders is OK, or at least not actively acted upon, but distributing encoders is not allowed; see

Re: [Fink-devel] Variant support is here

2004-03-03 Thread David R. Morrison
The more I think about it, the more I think that %n should be used for the truncated name. That currently shows up in lots of places; not only the patch file, but often in the Source: line and so on. I think we need a %versioned_name type of percent field for the fully expanded name. On the

Re: [Fink-devel] Interaction with other package installers

2004-03-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Let me explain in more detail. Fink installs all of its software in a directory that it manages. (The default choice is /sw, but some people use different directories.) One of the key features of fink is that it is good at tracking dependencies, and so on. However, for this to work, only fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Variant support is here

2004-03-03 Thread David R. Morrison
(I didn't literally mean %versioned_name... that was a placeholder for whatever we decide to use...) -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci eden.info,1.4,1.5

2004-03-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] committed: Log Message: eden update of patch script to deal with trivial change in makefile === RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/eden.info,v

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

2004-03-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Do we need to notify the i18n folks in some way when we make a documentation change? Or is the i18n committee monitoring fink-commits for this purpose? (probably the best idea, since people may forget to do the notification...) -- Dave ---

[Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly warnings

2004-03-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Following a suggestion on the fink-users list, the CVS version of fink will now only display the warnings about BuildDependsOnly if you set the verbosity level of fink to be higher than the default. All fink developers should do this, to avoid accidentally using a BuildDepends on an inappropriate

Re: [Fink-devel] New document

2004-03-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Alexander. This looks great. One thing the document is not too clear about is the message that is to be sent to the i18n list when a change is made to the docs (by me, for example). Are you going to handle sending those messages? Or can we perhaps modify the cvs commit mail script so that

Re: [Fink-devel] New document

2004-03-13 Thread David R. Morrison
welcome it, if you _could_ send changes to the fink-i18n list _prior_ We need to set this up so that the people who are working on fink itself are given motivation to document things they are doing. If adding to the documentation is going to mean having a discussion about it on the fink-i18n

[Fink-devel] Re: web/xml/packaging packaging.en.xml,1.3,1.4

2004-03-15 Thread David R. Morrison
By the way, I found it a bit confusing that the file packaging.xml is still in CVS, as well as packaging.en.xml . Perhaps we should delete all of the original .xml files which have been replaced by .en.xml files? -- Dave --- This SF.Net

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: web/xml/packaging packaging.en.xml,1.3,1.4

2004-03-15 Thread David R. Morrison
The last modified by is taken from the last person to change the xml file. -- Dave --- 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] New pathsetup.sh

2004-03-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Martin. How do you think we should include this with the bindist? Should we put your .app on the disk in place of the current .command file? How should the postinstall script of the bindist be set up? Should this shell script be included with fink itself, in case someone wants to run it

Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this url?

2004-03-19 Thread David R. Morrison
Mirrors are not going to help in this case. This is a restrictive package, so we don't put it on the mirrors (since we aren't allowed to redistribute it). -- Dave P.S. The URL doesn't work for me either... --- This SF.Net email is

[Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
I've discussed with a few people in the past the idea that we should modify our setup so that a list of mirror sites for use by apt-get is under fink's control, just as other kinds of mirror sites are under fink's control It seems like this may be the moment we need to implement this (on an

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Peter. The thrust of my idea, actually, was that sources.list would no longer be edited by users directly (just like fink.conf is not edited by users directly). Fink should provide a way to put anything in sources.list which needs to be there, including additional entries specified by the

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Don't forget to cope with user changes to the sources.list I guess I was planning to prompt the user for whatever additions he/she wants, during the fink configure dialog. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials

[Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn header.inc,NONE,1.1

2004-03-24 Thread David R. Morrison
I've got a proposed revision of the header.inc file for the web directory in my experimental directory. This adds language-specific tags to the navigation at the left of the page. Comments welcomed. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is

[Fink-devel] new installers

2004-03-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Release candidates for the new installers are up at: http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/Fink-0.6.3-Installer.dmg http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/Fink-0.7.0-Installer.dmg Many thanks to Martin Costabel, who tested earlier release candidates and found problems (fixed in the new ones). If anyone

Re: [Fink-devel] New package: pgp4pine

2004-04-02 Thread David R. Morrison
David H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander K. Hansen wrote: snip The homepage link titled Submit a new Fink package simply leads to the SourceForge package request tracker -- which doesn't seem to provide any obvious method for actually *submitting* a new package. Thanks again, -

Re: [Fink-devel] New package: pgp4pine

2004-04-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Hoss, If you sign up for a sourceforge account and are logged in to sourceforge when you access that page, it will look different: there will be a button which allows you to submit something new. I agree that our instructions need improvement. -- Dave

[Fink-devel] package manager release soon

2004-04-03 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm planning to release fink-0.20.0 fairly soon. Is anyone aware of problems in CVS HEAD which should be fixed before the release? -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel

Re: [Fink-devel] Which fink with gimp2?

2004-04-04 Thread David R. Morrison
I'll be updating the gimp mirror list soon as that's horribly out of date. Let me know when this is done, so that we can make a release of the fink-mirrors package and provide the new list to users. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is

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

2004-04-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Benjamin Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jules wrote: dyld: /usr/local/bin/TTOPOLOGY Undefined symbols: __ZSt3cin __ZSt4cout __ZSt4endlIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_ES6_ __ZSt4endsIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_ES6_

Re: [Fink-devel] How to test the two variants of a package?

2004-04-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Just to clarify: my understand of Michele's problem is that when she tries to build the two variants contained in this .info file, only one of them can be built. So either it's a problem with the way she has constructed the file, or a problem with the variant code in fink. -- Dave

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

2004-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
I grok the reason to keep around the different flex versions. But why the older guile? When a package supplies shared libraries, and the version of the shared libraries changes in an update to the package, we keep the old package around so that the old shared libraries are still available for

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Justin, Fink 0.20.0 was released about 1 week ago. Does your package work with 0.20.0? I hope so, because very few users understand how to update fink from CVS. If we need to make a bugfix release of 0.20.1 to address some particular problem, please let me know. -- Dave To: Fink devel

Re: [Fink-devel] gimp2 errors

2004-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Koen, Go into your build directory and examine config.log. The problem you've encountered is often caused by a missing BuildDepends on gettext-dev and/or libiconv-dev, and you'll see -lintl or -liconv on the link line that is failing. Or if not those, some other missing library. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] init.sh update?

2004-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks for pointing this out. The update will be part of base-files-0.9.1, which should be out in 24-36 hours (after mirrors sync, etc). -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods bioperl-pm.patch,NONE,1.1 bioperl-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 bioperl-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 bioperl-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 class-container-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 devel-autoprofiler-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 devel-smallprof-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 file-spec-pm.info,NONE,1.1 file-temp-pm.info,NONE,1.1 getopt-long-pm.info,NONE,1.1 html-fromtext-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 libnet-pm.info,NONE,1.1 mail-folder-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 mail-folder-pm581.patch,NONE,1.1 memoize-pm.info,NONE,1.1 mime-base64-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 mime-base64-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 mime-tools-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 perl.obsolete,NONE,1.1 perl560.info,NONE,1.1 perl560.patch,NONE,1.1 perl580.info,NONE,1.1 perl583.info,NONE,1.1 podparser-pm.info,NONE,1.1 scalar-list-utils-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 scalar-list-utils-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 soap-lite-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 test-harness-pm.info,NONE,1.1 test-simple-pm.info,NONE,1.1 time-hires-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 time-hires-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 unicode-string-pm! 581.info,NONE,1.1 uri- pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-twig-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 xml-twig-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 xml-twig-pm581.info,NONE,1.1

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry, Justin, I didn't have time to write my explanation last night and I won't get to it until later today. Watch this space! -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel

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

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
On February 29, I sent a message proposing a policy change for -pm packages. I'll reproduce it below, and then give some important updates. There was no objection earlier; if anybody has objections to this policy change, this is the time to state them! Dear fink developers, Last spring,

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

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Patrick Näf was kind enough to compile lots of information about perl module conflicts in late February, and I am now acting on this. (His message is reproduced below.) In my experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods directory, I have placed experimental new versions of perl560, perl580, and perl583. All of

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

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Whoops, typo: except perl580 should have been except perl560 in the previous message... it's the perl560 package which doesn't need to Provide other things... -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux

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

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
P.S. In my new policy statement where we eliminate placeholder packages, I forgot to mention one exception: We will need to keep storable-pm as a placeholder package because of the role that it plays in bootstrapping. (Maybe some day, when we completely stop supporting 10.2, we can change this,

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

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
P.S. I forgot to say: a couple of the packages which Patrick identified have not been moved forward from 10.2 to 10.3. Since my focus at the moment is to get things working in 10.3, I ignored those packages (for now). Most likely, they are not too crucial for 10.3 since we have lived without

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

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
How will we handle such provides from system-perl done in the virtuals? Excellent question! Can we easily get fink to think that the virtual system-perl has provided certain things? If so, I can create a list of the appropriate Provides... -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Problem updating fink

2004-04-13 Thread David R. Morrison
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22D=2E_H=F6hn=22?= [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Macks wrote: snip | But it seems like there's an underlying problem with | Essential: yes of fink-mirrors not being respected? | Well, what I noticed is, that fink-mirrors is installed _after_ the new fink is executed. I

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread David R. Morrison
I agree with Martin that we should accept this as the new policy, but for now confine these packages to the unstable tree to give some time to make sure we don't need to modify the policy further. Martin: I was probably the one who suggested in the earlier discussion that the symlink for the .app

Re: [Fink-devel] Website

2004-04-19 Thread David R. Morrison
We edit the xml files by hand, and then process them using the makefiles on the site. There is no higher-level tool. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins,

Re: [Fink-devel] Still 500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-19 Thread David R. Morrison
All of the packages on that list which have me as the maintainer were deliberately not moved, and should not be moved. I will be happy to supply reasons if required. We need a mechanism to mark packages as should not be moved to 10.3, especially if there is going to be a general call to action

Re: [Fink-devel] Licence type for CFITSIO

2004-05-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Benjamin Reed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sébastien Maret wrote: I've written a fink package for the CFITSIO library, but I don't know which licence type is appropriate (OSI-Approved ?) . From the licence file: OSI-Approved should be fine, the majority of it (the first part) is

Re: [Fink-devel] Package database lying about bindist

2004-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
As a consequence, it appears that someone pulled the gnome-python2-py23 and gramps packages from the bindist, but apparently without telling the pdb about it. How does the pdb get its information about the bindist anyway? I thought it was live? The pdb data is based on the CVS tag

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [ fink-Package Submissions-928157 ] ca-roots, list of SSL CA root certificates

2004-05-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Is it acceptable to delete License: field simply? No. Every fink package must have a license field. See: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php?phpLang=en#licenses -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Re: transfig 3.2.4-3

2004-05-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Darian Lanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Nielsen wrote: Hi.. I just tried installing the package mentioned in subj. It failed with a gcc3 command not found. I manually edited the .info file and changed the references from gcc3 to gcc. This seems like a packaging bug.

Re: [Fink-devel] Type: NoSource bug (Re: [Fink-beginners] installing KDE-Again!-)

2004-05-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, This was fixed in CVS a few weeks ago but hasn't yet made it to a release. (See bug # 937066). Another possible workaround is touch /sw/src/automake-1.6.3.tar.gz (because then fink sees the file and doesn't try to fetch it... things proceed normally after that). -- Dave

[Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods c-scan-pm.info,NONE,1.1 data-flow-pm.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 dbix-searchbuilder-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 glib-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.patch,NONE,1.1 gtk-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtk2-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.patch,NONE,1.1 html-tree-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 interpolation-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 libsablot.info,NONE,1.1 libwww-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 libxml-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 mime-base64-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 rmagic.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 term-progressbar-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 uri-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-altavista-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-lib! xml-! pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-simple-pm5

2004-05-08 Thread David R. Morrison
My apologies, I misinterpreted your message, Ben. You were suggesting that the new variant style should be used for these packages. That's an excellent idea, but my goal right now is to get all packages to conform to policy. I'll leave it to maintainers (or later work by me) to move to the

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] fix-fink error

2004-05-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, I'm aware of this bug in fix-fink, and in fact it's on the bug tracker. The reason I haven't fixed it is that there is no reason for anyone to be running fix-find right now, and I'm afraid if I fix it and release a new version that would cause lots of folks to try to run it. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Upgrading to 10.3.4 and emacs21

2004-05-28 Thread David R. Morrison
but this principle has always been more a pious wish than reality. Could you explain in more detail what you mean? I think it's a pretty accurate comment. It has been stated goal of fink to make sure that fink packages always compile the same everywhere, but we've never had adequate QA

[Fink-devel] validating BuildDependsOnly

2004-05-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, For some time, I've wanted to have a way to validate that packages are using the BuildDependsOnly field correctly. The test I want to employ is this: if the package installs anything into /sw/include, it should be declaring BuildDependsOnly to be true. (This doesn't

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

2004-05-30 Thread David R. Morrison
The reason for the BuildDependsOnly flag is to make it possible to upgrade a library in the future, if the upgrade is not binary-backwards-compatible. An example is the neon package. Currently we are using neon24, but in the recent past we used neon23 (and many earlier ones). If you have neon24

Re: [Fink-devel] validating BuildDependsOnly

2004-05-30 Thread David R. Morrison
It would also make it straightforward to be able to rebuild a .deb later even if the original .info file has gone missing. Well, almost. The problem is, you also need the correct version of the .patch file to rebuild the .deb. And .patch files can get very large, so I'm pretty sure we

Re: [Fink-devel] Patch and PatchScript ignored

2004-06-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Your fink selfupdate is set to take things from point releases, which are made every few months. If you want to change to a more rapidly updating fink, run the command fink selfupdate-rsync. You already have the package descriptions from the latest Fink point release. (installed:0.7.0

Re: [Fink-devel] Dependency problem with pcrs0

2004-06-01 Thread David R. Morrison
It worked perfectly for me, adding the line which Daniel Macks suggested. (You only want Replaces, you do *not* want Conflicts.) Just to be clear, here is how the dependency section looked after I made the change: ## Dependencies ## BuildDepends: autoconf | autoconf2.5, pcre (= 3.0-1), fink (=

Re: [Fink-devel] validating BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian Packaging Manual 5.7 User-defined fields (though as I read it is self-contradictory), suggests we could maybe pass the BDO flag in the control file? If so, that would certainly be a cleaner solution than: For each package, at build time I'll

[Fink-devel] Re: experimental/ogorman/finkinfo dpkg.info,1.3,1.4 dpkg.patch,1.8,1.9

2004-06-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified Files: dpkg.info dpkg.patch Log Message: Dave, these seem to work a little better [snip] Thanks, Peter, this one does the trick. My only suggestion is, that you should add suppress warning about BuildDependsOnly control field to the

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn dpkg-bootstrap.info,NONE,1.1

2004-06-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Peter O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which brings me to a question. I had assumed that bootstrap packages first get put in unstable/base, then when they are moved to stable they get added to bootstrap. Should bootstrap packages be added to bootstrap at the same time as unstable, or

[Fink-devel] new bindist

2004-06-08 Thread David R. Morrison
This is an early notification that I hope to start creating the binary distribution 0.7.1 around two weeks from now. If there are packages of yours which need to be moved to stable, or to have their stable versions updated, please try to do that within the next two weeks. Thanks, Dave P.S.

[Fink-devel] new developers?

2004-06-08 Thread David R. Morrison
I've noticed that several of the fink committers have been helping recently with the package submission tracker, and I think that's great. (We've been behind on processing submissions for a long time.) I'd like to ask everyone to keep in mind the following: if there are people who are putting

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods locale-gettext-pm.info,1.1,1.2

2004-06-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Ben: In most cases, I believe, a 5.8.4 variant for perl modules should not be necessary. This is because perl 5.8.4 will actually see -pm581's as being available. The cases in which we would need a 5.8.4 variant are cases which depend on a -pm which is virtually provided by perl584-core. In

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods locale-gettext-pm.info,1.1,1.2

2004-06-11 Thread David R. Morrison
I guess another way to support that would be to supply a fink perl581 package which a user could install if they had replaced their perl installation... -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. From Windows to

Re: [Fink-devel] libtoolize and missing symbols in shared libraries

2004-06-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi. I had a look at this, and the underlying cause is the line AM_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -version-info 0:0:0 -export-dynamic which appears in modules/Makefile.in (and also modules/Makefile.am). I kind of understand what the developers are trying to do with this, but they are going about it

[Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-15 Thread David R. Morrison
I'd like to update everyone on the BuildDependsOnly issue. In fink 0.20.3, we implemented the writing of the BuildDependsOnly field into the .deb file, and a new validation check which tests for the presence of /sw/include in a .deb file, and expects to find BuildDependsOnly to be true whenever

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