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

Re: [Fink-devel] botched downloads

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
The Master Mirror is not an option for a brand new file like the new fink release. We had this same trouble last week when fink 0.20.3 was released. It was reported to SourceForge. There has been no response to the report. Once the Master Mirror picks the file up, it should be easy for users

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods html-parser-pm581.info,1.3,1.4

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Modified Files: html-parser-pm581.info Log Message: Fixed Depends to a perl-versioned lib instead of placeholder. Index: html-parser-pm581.info === RCS file:

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods html-parser-pm581.info,1.3,1.4

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
P.S. A complete list of the packages which have been removed from fink as part of my revision is at /experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods/perl.obsolete --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at

Re: [Fink-devel] botched downloads

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
An update: SourceForge has now responded, and is fixing the problem. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 -

[Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread David R. Morrison
As announced on Tuesday, I've started to enforce the new validation check related to BuildDependsOnly. I've gotten some complaints about it, so perhaps we need to discuss the situation. As Dan Macks has pointed out to me, our shared libraries policy does not explicitly require BuildDependsOnly

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes, g77 is in fact one of the ones I've tagged. Something like g77 can be used in two ways, as I see it: it might be used under the hood by Fink, in order to compile something else. Or it might be used by a working scientist who is writing his own code and wants to compile it. Now, in the

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread David R. Morrison
One of my goals here is to have an automated way to verify that packages are complying with the BuildDependsOnly policy. So I'm trying to find ways of characterizing this which won't get into a lot of exceptions. Right now (using CVS HEAD or CVS branch_0_20 of fink), the package fails validation

Re: [Fink-devel] cvs-1.11.17-1 woes

2004-06-20 Thread David R. Morrison
none issue, but I have no upload rights to our SF files section. That step is easily solved: you just need to ask one of us to put the file there. But it does not really address the issue: why is the cvs project releasing a security fix which doesn't pass this kind of security test? And if so,

[Fink-devel] proposed policy on BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
To summarize and implement the discussion of last week, I propose adding the following policy statement to fink's packaging documentation (to be added to the Shared Library Policy section). Discussion and feedback are most welcome. -- Dave The BuildDependsOnly field When libraries are

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

2004-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
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. -- Dave Second draft: The BuildDependsOnly field When libraries are being upgraded over time, it is often

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

2004-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It does seem like we need a tri-state thing here. It feels funny to overload a boolean to accomplish that, but I can't think of a cleaner way, and this allows us to easily find these special-case packages and do .deb validation. The .info could use

Re: [Fink-devel] Adding a new package for the first time

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
I appreciate the feedback. I wonder whether you had a chance to look at one other resource linked from the Documentation page: the slides from a talk I gave Using Fink: A Developer's How-To at the 2002 O'Reilly OS X conference. During the talk itself, I took people through the creation of a

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Application launchers for Fink programs

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
various Fink install issues, especially Scribus (which I'm now using in a production setting in my day job as a book publisher). I'm working on another launcher for Inkscape, and will have that ready for release soon as well. Thanks, Kevin David R. Morrison wrote: | Kevin

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

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Jean-Francois, I'm not sure if it's the same error you are seeing, but one bug I am aware of is this: there is a place in the fink code where fink tests to see which is the current version of perl installed on the system... unfortnately, fink seems to cache this value in the database. So if you

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

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
you end up with a *real* perl581, but a *virtual* perl581-core, and get this error. Well, that can't be the right explanation, because there isn't a real perl581 package at all. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat

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

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry, I meant add or remove a perl package not add or remove a fink package... --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical

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

2004-06-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Dave, I have alternate suggestions for both situations you mention. First, there is a big project by some of us to rescue the remaining 300-400 packages which never moved from 10.2 to 10.3. Ben Hines set up this nice comparison chart at http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/compare.php which all

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

2004-06-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Hmmm... On second thought, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to modify what happens when we check something in, so that the commit message is mailed directly to the maintainer as well as to fink-commits (automatically). Would that help? -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo socat-ssl.info,NONE,1.1

2004-06-28 Thread David R. Morrison
The -ssl variants are something of a problem at the moment. I agree that it would be extremely sensible to have the -ssl treated the same as other variants. But at present, we isolate cryptographic-enabled packages from the others by putting them in their own tree, so that folks who are

[Fink-devel] whither local/bootstrap?

2004-07-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi folks. I'm contemplating doing away with the local/bootstrap tree. Currently, it is used during bootstrap, and it is also used if you run the ./inject.pl script for one of the fink-managed packages (fink, base-files, fink-mirrors, fink-prebinding). I've concluded, though, that it is not

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

2004-07-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Here's what I had in mind: The files in question are going to be fink.info, fink-mirrors.info, and the like. If foo.info is already present, but foo.info.bak is absent, then foo.info will be moved to foo.info.bak and a new foo.info will be created. The user will be told that this has happened.

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

2004-07-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Upon further reflection, I think Dan's objection is very well taken. I'm going to rename local/bootstrap to local/injected, since this is the tree where info files will be put that are created by ./inject.pl scripts. Most users will never see this tree, but it will be created when it is needed.

[Fink-devel] Re: epiphany dependencie problem - xml-parser-pm doens't exist

2004-07-09 Thread David R. Morrison
That is correct, xml-parser-pm was removed, along with all the other placeholder packages. They were a nice idea, but they were causing more problems with dependencies than they solved (basically, from people satisfying the dependency by a -pm560 when they only had perl 5.8.1 installed, and the

Re: [Fink-devel] epiphany dependencie problem - xml-parser-pm doens't exist

2004-07-09 Thread David R. Morrison
I have just added xml-parser-pm581 | xml-parser-pm580 | xml-parser-pm560 No, that's wrong. You have to choose one and stick with it. For the 10.3 tree, it should be xml-parser-pm581 (and in the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree, use xml-parser-pm560). The other option is to create variants: epiphany-perl560,

[Fink-devel] plans for a 10.4 tree

2004-07-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, Peter O'Gorman and I attended WWDC, and have experimented with Fink on the WWDC preview distributed there. Although we cannot comment on any specifics, it appears that the impact of the transition to 10.4 on Fink will be less severe than the previous transitions. It is,

Re: [Fink-devel] Updates to Fink di

2004-07-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Blair, Chris Zubrzycki, a.k.a. beren12, is not available online these days. (He will hopefully return after some months.) Please feel free to update his packages. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings Training.

[Fink-devel] Please help test

2004-07-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, As many of you know, I've been working on a revision in the way that fink interacts with various external things (like our website, our cvs repository, and our apt-get repository), trying to make sure that it will be easy to change the location of those things when that

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.287,1.288 ChangeLog,1.670,1.671

2004-07-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 20, 2004, at 1:07 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv28793 Modified Files: PkgVersion.pm ChangeLog Log Message: Remove restriction on use of %a...causes too much disruption at this point. Dan, Maybe we

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/net liferea.info,1.1,1.2

2004-07-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 19, 2004, at 7:20 PM, rayg wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/net In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv15114 Modified Files: liferea.info Log Message: updated dependencies (added orbit2, libgtkhtml2) When you change the Depends line,

[Fink-devel] system-tetex

2004-07-22 Thread David R. Morrison
There have been a number of problems reported on the lists recently with system-tetex, having to do with a missing libkpathsea.a file. Apparently, some parts of teTeX in Gerben Weirda's distribution (including this file) have been moved into a separate developer extras installation in his

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

2004-07-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Hisashi T Fujinaka [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Benjamin Reed wrote: David H. wrote: fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1) io-stringy-pm560: Perl module for advanced I/O with filehandles Since I wish to

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

2004-07-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 24, 2004, at 1:19 PM, jfm wrote: On Jul 24, 2004, at 7:04 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Please consult the packaging manual. It is no longer permitted to have a placeholder -pm package which depends on versioned packages. The only exception is storable-pm, because of the historical way

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

2004-07-30 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 29, 2004, at 8:24 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: [snip] Some questions to base this work off of: 1) I'm looking at dbi-pm*.info and wondering why there's a dbi-pm.info (with Info2 format) and the dbi-pm5??.info files. Isn't just one needed? 2) Why does this module have these lines, particularly

Re: [Fink-devel] pathsetup script

2004-08-01 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 1, 2004, at 8:51 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: OK, no news is good news, I guess :-) Martin Costabel wrote: [] Such a CLI version of pathsetup.sh is now in my exp directory. Please test. Dave has now put this version into the latest fink from cvs, so I hope it will get some testing

Re: [Fink-devel] naming of shlibs

2004-08-01 Thread David R. Morrison
On Jul 31, 2004, at 3:01 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, I am confused about the naming of shlibs. The docs say to use oTool -L to make sure the numbering is up-to-date. I checked some base packages shlibs to see where the numbers go, and this is the output: koen$ oTool -L

[Fink-devel] Re: web/xml postprocess.pl,1.8,1.9 finkdoc-website.i18n.xsl,1.16,1.17

2004-08-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Baba, This change has broken compilation in the news directory. (I had to fix index.php by hand to add back the header and footer lines.) I don't understand well enough what you were doing, to see how I should modify news.xml to cope with this change. -- Dave On Jul 10, 2004, at 8:34 AM, BABA

[Fink-devel] Re: web/xml postprocess.pl,1.8,1.9 finkdoc-website.i18n.xsl,1.16,1.17

2004-08-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry, I should have edited that better. The problem is caused by the changes to postprocess.pl, not to finkdoc-website.i18n.xsl. -- Dave On Aug 2, 2004, at 10:34 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Baba, This change has broken compilation in the news directory. (I had to fix index.php by hand

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: web/xml postprocess.pl,1.8,1.9 finkdoc-website.i18n.xsl,1.16,1.17

2004-08-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks a lot! -- Dave On Aug 4, 2004, at 6:56 AM, BABA Yoshihiko wrote: The simplest (yet ugly) solution is probably like this: #for docs and faq $text =~ s|/head.*body(¥n)*(!--¥?)|¥';¥n¥n|s; $text =~ s|/body.*/html(¥n)*(!--¥?)|¥';¥n¥n|s; $text =~ s|!--¥?|?|g; $text =~ s|¥?--|?|g; $text =~

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base fink.info,1.10,1.11

2004-08-07 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 7, 2004, at 10:13 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: David R. Morrison wrote: [snip] CustomMirror: - Primary: http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ +Primary: http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/ David, Is this the wrong URL? I was able to download the new Fink release from http

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/sci ccp4.info,NONE,1.1 ccp4.patch,NONE,1.1

2004-08-07 Thread David R. Morrison
This fails validation: Validating package file ccp4.info... Warning: Field patchscript appears to contain %p/src. (ccp4.info) Warning: Field installscript appears to contain %p/src. (ccp4.info) Warning: Patch file appears to contain a hardcoded /sw. (ccp4.patch) On Aug 7, 2004, at 10:39 PM,

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext in bootstrap from cvs

2004-08-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks, John. I have reproduced the bug and am trying to figure out which change in Fink's code is responsible for it. In the meantime, if you want an up-to-the-minute fink installation, you can download and unpack any recent fink tarball, run ./bootstrap.sh from within in, and after the

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.289,1.290 Engine.pm,1.189,1.190 ChangeLog,1.685,1.686

2004-08-08 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 9, 2004, at 12:14 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv16066 Modified Files: PkgVersion.pm Engine.pm ChangeLog Log Message: Recompute %c value every time get_*script() is called. Rename

[Fink-devel] bindist plans

2004-08-09 Thread David R. Morrison
I plan to start building the 0.7.1 bindist in about one week. If you have packages which should be moved to stable before the bindist, please move them this week. Thanks, Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by OSTG. Have you noticed

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.289,1.290 Engine.pm,1.189,1.190 ChangeLog,1.685,1.686

2004-08-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 9, 2004, at 12:15 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: [snip] So we could either have enable_bootstrap() and disable_bootstrap() clear the cache, or have get_env() only cache if the _bootstrap flag is not set. Either one sounds good to me: why don't you do it in the way you think would be easiest to

[Fink-devel] Re: base-files ChangeLog,1.28,1.29 init.csh.in,1.11,1.12 init.sh.in,1.12,1.13

2004-08-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:30 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/base-files In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv26056 Modified Files: ChangeLog init.csh.in init.sh.in Log Message: Include . (default when unset) when explicitly setting CLASSPATH (Bugs #1005793) Should I

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.687,1.688 PkgVersion.pm,1.290,1.291

2004-08-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 9, 2004, at 2:45 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv29963 Modified Files: ChangeLog PkgVersion.pm Log Message: Disable caching for get_env if in bootstrapping mode. With this change, bootstrapping

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/sci roofitcore.info,1.3,1.4 roofitcore.patch,1.1,1.2 roofitmodels.info,1.3,1.4 roofitmodels.patch,1.1,1.2

2004-08-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 13, 2004, at 1:36 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/sci In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv9005 Modified Files: roofitcore.info roofitcore.patch roofitmodels.info roofitmodels.patch Log Message: Promote to

Re: [Fink-devel] gperf to 10.3/stable?

2004-08-15 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 14, 2004, at 10:39 AM, Charles Lepple wrote: Does anyone have any objections to moving gperf to 10.3/stable? I have been using version 2.7.2-12 for a while to build iverilog packages, and it doesn't have any dependencies that would prevent it from building in a stable-only setup. Moved to

Re: [Fink-devel] Rsync not being updated

2004-08-19 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 19, 2004, at 8:12 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: Daniel Macks wrote: On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:55:02AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: Yes, I think it is a bug in the new fink. In SelfUpdate.pm, the line next unless ($tree =~ /stable/); was changed to next unless ($tree eq stable or $tree eq

[Fink-devel] Error in fink-0.22.0

2004-08-21 Thread David R. Morrison
The fink-0.22.0 package manager, which was available briefly in the unstable tree this past week, had a bug which prevents further updating via rsync. If you installed this version of fink, you can recover by running the command fink install fink-0.21.2-1 which will downgrade fink to the

[Fink-devel] Re: Error in fink-0.22.0

2004-08-21 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 21, 2004, at 12:15 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: and then from within the fink-0.22.1 directory, run the command ./inject.pl/code Sorry, typo, this should just be ./inject.pl --- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDepends question

2004-08-21 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 21, 2004, at 12:16 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Aug 21, 2004, at 10:48 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, The plplot package that I maintain depends on g77 and tcltk-dev, because it uses those header files to generate plots. However, those packages are marked

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Unstable Octave compile fails

2004-08-21 Thread David R. Morrison
(B (BOn Aug 21, 2004, at 7:08 PM, jfm wrote: (B (B (B(B (BOn Aug 21, 2004, at 9:35 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: (B (B (BMartin Costabel wrote: (B (B (B$B%]!%k(b$B%U%)%s%9(B (Bwrote: (B (B[] (B (Bld: Undefined symbols: (B (BArraydouble>::transpose() const (B (B[] (B

Re: [Fink-devel] openssl | openssl097

2004-08-23 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 23, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: I see several packages have constructs like: Depends: openssl-shlibs | openssl097-shlibs BuildDepends: openssl-dev | openssl097-dev This is not correct--if, for example, one has openssl097-dev installed at build-time, then one *must* have

Re: [Fink-devel] openssl | openssl097

2004-08-23 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 23, 2004, at 6:21 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Aug 23, 2004, at 11:58 AM, Daniel Macks wrote: I see several packages have constructs like: Depends: openssl-shlibs | openssl097-shlibs BuildDepends: openssl-dev | openssl097-dev I apologize; I completely misread this message the first

Re: [Fink-devel] fink and conditional provides

2004-08-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 24, 2004, at 10:14 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: Daniel, You might want to take a look at how fink currently handles Provides. As I mentioned before, I had to create a new revision of fftw (2.1.5-6) because the addition of Provides: fftw to both the fftw and fftw-mpi as well as Provides:

[Fink-devel] fink gcc?

2004-08-25 Thread David R. Morrison
The troubles with g++ under XCode 1.5 and the lack of any quick response from Apple, combined with earlier incidents of an analogous nature, lead me to ask: would we be better off with a fink gcc package in place of the Developer Tools? As I understand it, the Apple compiler team has been

Re: [Fink-devel] fink gcc?

2004-08-26 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 26, 2004, at 4:20 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: [snip] This is not a discussion about philosophy or policy, but about how to deal with buggy software. Absolutely correct. Thanks for the detailed response. 3. The recent versions of gcc seem to be sufficiently binary compatible so that you

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

2004-08-27 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 27, 2004, at 1:30 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: 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 Can I get you to report this directly

Re: [Fink-devel] Safari crashes on fink secure login?

2004-08-29 Thread David R. Morrison
On Aug 29, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: I wanted to check that I'm not the only one seeing this. Under MacOS X 10.3.5, I find that Safari crashes whenever I try to login to the secure web pages. For example if I click on the hyperlink for Request a feature that's not in fink (the

Re: [Fink-devel] Safari crashes on fink secure login?

2004-09-02 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 2, 2004, at 4:05 PM, Max Horn wrote: Am 30.08.2004 um 20:04 schrieb David R. Morrison: On Aug 29, 2004, at 12:59 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: On Aug 29, 2004, at 9:03 AM, Jack Howarth wrote: I wanted to check that I'm not the only one seeing this. Under MacOS X 10.3.5, I find that Safari

[Fink-devel] Using the built-in openssl

2004-09-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, A few of us were discussing the possibility of switching a number of fink packages from the fink-provided openssl to the built-in openssl. This would allow us to include ssl functionality even in the non-crypto tree, and could cut down on potential errors from mixing and

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: ettercap?

2004-09-08 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 7, 2004, at 3:49 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I didn't see any reply on this... no comment? Randal == Randal L Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Randal The most recent ettercap seems to be broken. Is it just me? Randal Trying even the first example of the manpage: Randal localhost:~

Re: [Fink-devel] Abandoned cyrus-sasl2?

2004-09-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 9, 2004, at 6:18 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: It appears that the cyrus-sasl2 maintainer has been missing for some time. Yes, indeed. I want an updated version because I'm building a Postfix package that uses it, and was wondering if it would be OK to take it over. I have an updated package

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods test-simple-pm.info,NONE,1.1

2004-09-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 9, 2004, at 8:48 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv26193 Added Files: test-simple-pm.info Log Message: thesin said it was OK ;) --- NEW FILE: test-simple-pm.info ---

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text texshop.info,NONE,1.1

2004-09-19 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 19, 2004, at 5:57 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Lars Rosengreen wrote: Maybe I'm missing the obvious, but shouldn't this depend on tetex-base or something similar? I don't think so. Neither for building nor for running does it need any TeX package. It should probably have Recommends or

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods uri-pm.info,1.5,1.6 uri-pm560.info,1.1,NONE uri-pm580.info,1.1,NONE uri-pm581.info,1.5,NONE

2004-09-19 Thread David R. Morrison
Please be sure to validate before you commit. This one gives an ERROR, due to missing Info2 declaration. (I'll fix it.) -- Dave On Sep 18, 2004, at 5:43 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods In directory

Re: [Fink-devel] A question about variants

2004-09-22 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 22, 2004, at 9:00 AM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: Hi everyone, I'm trying to update some of my packages to use variants, and one of these is pygtk. As it exists now, there is a -py22 version and a -py23 version, for the respective versions of Python. There's also a placeholder pygtk package that

Re: [Fink-devel] License question

2004-09-24 Thread David R. Morrison
On Sep 24, 2004, at 2:46 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: Hi, I'm packing a small utility for checking symlinks. The only information concerning copyright is '(c) Mark Lord, freely distributable'. I'm not sure on which license type this maps best. I think I would put OSI approved (which really means:

[Fink-devel] Re: Failure to include 'hostlogo.inc' on fink website

2004-10-13 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 13, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Christian Schaffner wrote: Hi Since a couple of days i often get the following warning on http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/index.php?phpLang=en : Warning: Failed opening 'hostlogo.inc' for inclusion (include_path='') in /home/groups/f/fi/fink/htdocs/header.inc on

[Fink-devel] warning users about broken g++-3.3

2004-10-04 Thread David R. Morrison
As we all know, g++-3.3 in XCode 1.5 is broken. I had expected a fix by now, but since it hasn't shown up, I believe we should warn users about this while they are running fink itself. I propose adding a check for the bad build, checking only the file /usr/libexec/gcc/darwin/ppc/3.3/cc1plus

Re: [Fink-devel] fink update failed dependency

2004-10-18 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 18, 2004, at 6:38 PM, Richard Rudolph wrote: fink info gcc3.1 fails with an error message stating it can't find the package for the specification gcc3.1 I'm on the current version of OS X. I thought this version of OS X upgraded GCC to a newer version. To resolve this dependency, do I

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome gnucash-1.8.9-14.info,NONE,1.1 gnucash-1.8.9-14.patch,NONE,1.1 gnucash.info,1.12,1.13

2004-10-20 Thread David R. Morrison
On Oct 20, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv28500/unstable/main/finkinfo/ gnome Modified Files: gnucash.info Added Files: gnucash-1.8.9-14.info

[Fink-devel] Proposed new policy on essential dependencies

2004-11-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, In the course of working to update several of fink's essential packages, some of us have come to realize that we need a policy change: we need packages to explicitly declare their dependencies on essential packages. The contrary policy -- that packages should *not*

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Proposed new policy on essential dependencies

2004-11-03 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 3, 2004, at 5:58 AM, D. Höhn wrote: I think that this is the way to go. However, to handle this gracefully and to make sure that the users are notified of what is going on I would like to porpose the following steps. a) Notify the common user base that we are planning to make significant

[Fink-devel] Re: startperl with perl584

2004-11-09 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 9, 2004, at 3:18 AM, Ben Hines wrote: perl5.8.4-core does not install /sw/bin/perl, but its Config.pm has: startperl='#!/sw/bin/perl'. This messes up my help2man package. I tell it PERL is /sw/bin/perl5.8.4 but then it asks for $Config{startperl} and perl says /sw/bin/perl. So it no

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink removed /etc

2004-11-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Nov 16, 2004, at 1:15 PM, Andrea Riciputi wrote: Uhm... I see, so I'm supposed to have been very very lucky... Anyway, could you explain this a little further? You say according to its database, but which database? Do you mean the .deb file or dpkg keeps track of all the files it has

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

2004-11-22 Thread David R. Morrison
BSD. On Nov 22, 2004, at 10:08 PM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: OK, thanks for the clarification. What do you suggest I list it as in the package description? Thanks! On 23 Nov 2004, at 13:35, David R. Morrison wrote: BSD-type licenses generally don't identify themselves as BSD. The MIT X-license also

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

2004-11-22 Thread David R. Morrison
BSD-type licenses generally don't identify themselves as BSD. The MIT X-license also counts as a BSD-type license, for example. -- Dave On Nov 21, 2004, at 8:57 PM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: On 22 Nov 2004, at 2:03, Benjamin Reed wrote: Jeremy Higgs wrote: Redistribution and use in source and binary

dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics libpng3.info,1.7,1.8

2004-12-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv24744 Modified Files: libpng3.info Log Message: new upstream version Index: libpng3.info ===

dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics libpng3.info,1.10,1.11

2004-12-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv24830 Modified Files: libpng3.info Log Message: new upstream version Index: libpng3.info === RCS

dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics gd209.info,1.1,NONE gd209.patch,1.1,NONE

2004-12-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv27584 Removed Files: gd209.info gd209.patch Log Message: retiring this package, with thanks for a job well-done --- gd209.patch DELETED --- --- gd209.info DELETED

dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/graphics gd209-2.0.9-13.info,1.2,NONE gd209-2.0.9-13.patch,1.1,NONE

2004-12-03 Thread David R. Morrison
Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/stable/main/finkinfo/graphics In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv27728 Removed Files: gd209-2.0.9-13.info gd209-2.0.9-13.patch Log Message: retiring this package, with thanks for a job well-done --- gd209-2.0.9-13.patch DELETED ---

Re: [Fink-devel] A Variants Question

2004-12-05 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 4, 2004, at 11:46 PM, Corey Halpin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Using the variants system, is there a succinct way to say This package conflicts with all other variants of this package? I'd like to be able to say that, but I can't find in the packaging manual how

Re: [Fink-devel] (potentially stupid) Policy Question

2004-12-07 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 6, 2004, at 5:25 PM, Corey Halpin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I'm about to package monotone-viz, a tool that draws ancestry graphs of a monotone repository. (http://oandrieu.nerim.net/monotone-viz/ ) monotone-viz itself contains no crypto code. however, it

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.771,1.772 Config.pm,1.36,1.37

2004-12-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Actually, it would be better to change the manpage. Verbosity=1 is a much better default for users other than package maintainers (which is why this change was made a while back). -- Dave On Dec 7, 2004, at 10:20 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink In directory

[Fink-devel] GCC field

2004-12-09 Thread David R. Morrison
We introduced that GCC field into fink some time back due to the ABI incompatibilities between different versions of gcc, when the code in question was C++ code. The GCC field provided a mechanism for fink developers to track which packages had compiled code which was restricted to a

[Fink-devel] Two issues about UseBinaryDist

2004-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
1. I've made a modification to the new UseBinaryDist stuff, introducing a flag --compile-from-source in addition to the flag --use-binary-dist. My new flag will disable the use of the binary distribution for that run only. There have been some objections about the name of my new flag. Some

Re: [Fink-devel] Mac OS X Server, Fink, and maybe perl.

2004-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Josh, To the best of my knowledge, none of the core fink developers are running OS X Server. We need your advice about changes or modifications that might be needed to help fink work better in that environment. -- Dave On Dec 16, 2004, at 9:10 AM, Josh wrote: I'm sending this to both the

Re: [Fink-devel] octave question

2004-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
On Dec 15, 2004, at 6:30 AM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Dec 15, 2004, at 12:47 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, The current version of octave installs a bunch of files in directories that are called powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0 This makes it OS X version dependent, and

Re: [Fink-devel] Two issues about UseBinaryDist

2004-12-16 Thread David R. Morrison
- --source-run or --binary-off , just because I HATE typing long command line switches. Well, I'm hoping for a one-letter shortcut, whatever we choose. -- Dave --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink Bootstrap.pm,1.70,1.71 PkgVersion.pm,1.331,1.332 Services.pm,1.129,1.130

2004-12-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks for catching this, Martin. Fixed now. -- Dave --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start

[Fink-devel] hx package

2004-12-31 Thread David R. Morrison
We have a package called hx. It is a restrictive package, so we don't store the source at distfiles. It no longer has a maintainer, the URL for the source does not resolve, and the URL for the homepage does not resolve. Unless someone has an idea for resurrecting this package, I plan to remove

Re: [Fink-devel] hx package

2004-12-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Well, it shouldn't be! (Unless the label of Restrictive is incorrect...) -- Dave On Dec 31, 2004, at 12:17 PM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: David R. Morrison wrote: We have a package called hx. It is a restrictive package, so we don't store the source at distfiles. It no longer has a maintainer

Re: [Fink-devel] hx package

2004-12-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks, Koen, well-spotted. I believe that the package was Restrictive because of some patent issue or something... we'll have to check it out. -- Dave On Dec 31, 2004, at 2:11 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: On Dec 31, 2004, at 2:02 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Well, it shouldn't be! (Unless

Re: [Fink-devel] Specifying a version-specific folder name in .info files

2005-01-04 Thread David R. Morrison
Presumably you are trying to build postgis using the postgresql74 source tree as well as the postgis tree. Unfortunately, after postgresql74 was built, its source tree was erased (unless the user took special action to prevent this). So what you'll need to do is to have Version: 0.9.1 Source:

[Fink-devel] Recent changes to packages (involving gcc 3.3)

2005-01-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, Several of you have noticed the recent changes which I've made to a number of packages. Most of these changes ensure that the package in question compiles using the gcc 3.3 compiler. (The changes involve adding gcc3.3 to BuildDepends, and then either modifying the

Re: [Fink-devel] Recent changes to packages (involving gcc 3.3)

2005-01-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Michele, I can't explain why certain packages aren't compiling with a post gcc-3.3 compiler and other ones are. I'm only adding the flags when my beta testing reveals a problem. However, unlike the situation between gcc 3.1 and gcc 3.3, there is NO binary compatibility issue between gcc

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