Re: [Fink-devel] Spam on this list...

2003-06-09 Thread Neil Tiffin
I agree with Chris. I use the beta Eudora with Bayesian filering and it works great. 20 to 40 junk mails per day correctly identified with only 3 to 5 per week that get missed and none (so far) incorrectly identified as junk. I have not seen one junk mail actually in the fink list. Neil [EMAI

[Fink-devel] kdesdk3 stills does not compile

2005-03-27 Thread Neil Tiffin
Still can not compile kdesdk3 /sw/lib/libqt-mt.dylib(single module) definition of _qt_qclipboard_bailout_hack /sw/lib/libkdecore.dylib(single module) definition of _qt_qclipboard_bailout_hack creating kded_ksvnd.la (cd .libs && rm -f kded_ksvnd.la && ln -s ../kded_ksvnd.la kded_ksvnd.la) /bin/sh .

[Fink-devel] kdesdk3 stills does not compile

2005-03-27 Thread Neil Tiffin
Still can not compile kdesdk3 /sw/lib/libqt-mt.dylib(single module) definition of _qt_qclipboard_bailout_hack /sw/lib/libkdecore.dylib(single module) definition of _qt_qclipboard_bailout_hack creating kded_ksvnd.la (cd .libs && rm -f kded_ksvnd.la && ln -s ../kded_ksvnd.la kded_ksvnd.la) /bin/sh .

[Fink-devel] update unstable postgresql problem

2005-04-17 Thread Neil Tiffin
When I updated postgresql74-ssl i get the following and no binaries are installed in /sw/bin Setting up postgresql74-ssl-shlibs (7.4.7-12) ... 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.l

[Fink-devel] postgres 8x gives error also

2005-04-17 Thread Neil Tiffin
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 Setting up postgresql80-ssl (8.0.2-12) ... cat: /sw/var/postgres

[Fink-devel] update unstable postgresql problem

2005-04-17 Thread Neil Tiffin
When I updated postgresql74-ssl i get the following and no binaries are installed in /sw/bin Setting up postgresql74-ssl-shlibs (7.4.7-12) ... 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.l

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

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Tiffin
7.4 works great, thanks for the quick reply. Neil At 8:04 PM -0400 4/17/05, Benjamin Reed wrote: 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

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

2005-04-18 Thread Neil Tiffin
7.4 works great, thanks for the quick reply. Neil At 8:04 PM -0400 4/17/05, Benjamin Reed wrote: 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

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Tuesday, 08 November 2005 at 14:46, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps we need to review the process of how people are granted > commit access. On the other hand, is there even a process? I'm not > sure what criteria a developer must m

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
At 11:19 AM -0800 11/8/05, Trevor Harmon wrote: On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:59 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: Let me be honest: I have an axe to grind, since I've got a number of my own packages languishing in the submission queue for months. I'm grateful for the feedback I've gotten, and eg dmacks has defi

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
le?" -- Agreed, but as a professional software developer I also know what I know and when to ask for help. Another questions should be does this person have enough experience and maturity to know to ONLY commit changes he/she knows to be correct and ask questions the rest of the time

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
At 6:21 PM -0500 11/8/05, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel) the tracker ID number. If the package looks OK to me I'l

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-08 Thread Neil Tiffin
At 6:21 PM -0500 11/8/05, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet, fink-devel) the tracker ID number. If the package looks OK to me I'l

Re: [Fink-devel] Package test suites

2006-08-28 Thread Neil Tiffin
As a package maintainer I would like to see it invoked with option "- T" like "fink -KkT rebuild ." Once I figure out how to run the tests and put the instructions in the .info file, I can then easily run them every time the package is upgraded. This would be a lot simpler than having to go

[Fink-devel] phase compiling: gnome-libs-1.4.2-53 failed

2006-01-21 Thread Neil Tiffin
Has anyone else experienced this failure? It has persisted for at least a week and probably more. In file included from plc.c:166: XmHTMLP.h:278: error: redefinition of `Byte' /sw/include/zconf.h:261: error: `Byte' previously declared here make[2]: *** [plc.lo] Error 1 make[1]: *** [all-recurs

Re: [Fink-devel] phase compiling: gnome-libs-1.4.2-53 failed

2006-01-21 Thread Neil Tiffin
Mac OS X 10.4.4 and xCode 2.2 Component versions Xcode IDE: 655.0 Xcode Core: 658.0 ToolSupport: 651.0 On Jan 21, 2006, at 3:17 PM, Neil Tiffin wrote: Has anyone else experienced this failure? It has persisted for at least a week and probably more. In file included from plc.c:166

[Fink-devel] postgresql80-unified.patch

2006-01-26 Thread Neil Tiffin
I would like to see this changed to this + if [ -f /etc/sysctl.conf ]; then + echo " You already have an /etc/sysctl.conf so I'm assuming you know what you're" + echo " doing. Please update your shared memory settings to something higher and" + echo "

Re: [Fink-devel] postgresql80-unified.patch

2006-01-28 Thread Neil Tiffin
should write a message stating this. Neil On Jan 27, 2006, at 1:49 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Neil Tiffin wrote: I would like to see this changed to this As you noticed, on Tiger (and on recent Panthers) this won't work. No matter what values for kern.sysv.shm* you write into

Re: [Fink-devel] postgresql80-unified.patch

2006-02-02 Thread Neil Tiffin
This is directly from my /etc/rc file if [ -f /etc/sysctl.conf ]; then awk '{ if (!index($1, "#") && index($1, "=")) print $1 }' < /etc/ sysctl.conf | while read do sysctl -w ${REPLY} done fi #sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=4194304 kern.sysv.shmmin=1 kern.sysv.sh

Re: [Fink-devel] postgresql80-unified.patch

2006-02-02 Thread Neil Tiffin
Yes, I just tried it again and it worked as you stated. Only retains the first value set. I spent considerable time trying to figure this out and the only solution that worked was to edit /etc/rc and reboot. I even saw it change the settings the second time on the boot screen. That is ho

[Fink-devel] Re: openssl patch fails -- 10.4 "untransitional"; FYI

2006-03-10 Thread Neil Tiffin
William, I don't have a 10.4 (untransitional) to test with. But, thanks. Neil On Mar 10, 2006, at 9:53 AM, William Scott wrote: Hi: I just got this after a selfupdate: openssl-0.9.7i/VMS/VMSify-conf.pl patch -p1 patch: malformed patch at line 50: diff -ru openssl-0.9.7i/ Configure op

Re: [Fink-devel] *sigh* the submissions tracker

2006-09-20 Thread Neil Tiffin
What about items packages that have been setting in the tracker for many months? On Sep 20, 2006, at 6:20 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > We got the trackers as part of the sf.net project space, so they > didn't require much effort to set up. Unfortunately, as you all know, > they're also nontri

[Fink-devel] File Location changes when updated

2006-09-28 Thread Neil Tiffin
How do I handle the situation where the new release source file is placed at a url (say "url a"), and the current release file is moved from "url a" the to "url b"? "url b" does not include the newest release, and the directory at "url a" not longer includes the old release, so between the

Re: [Fink-devel] File Location changes when updated

2006-09-29 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Sep 29, 2006, at 2:19 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Neil Tiffin wrote: >> How do I handle the situation where the new release source file is >> placed at a url (say "url a"), and the current release file is moved >> from "url a" the to "url b&quo

[Fink-devel] Security Update OpenSSL

2006-10-03 Thread Neil Tiffin
There is another openssl security update. I have built and lightly tested on PPC, 10.4.8. Update version to: Version: 0.9.7l Update md5 to: Source-MD5: b21d6e10817ddeccf5fbe1379987333e Thank you. Neil from @risk (3) HIGH: OpenSSL ASN.1 Remote Buffer Overflow Affected: OpenSSL version 0.9.8c

Re: [Fink-devel] fink vs. the alternatives

2006-11-10 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Nov 10, 2006, at 4:18 AM, Paul Mitchum wrote: > > On Nov 10, 2006, at 1:27 AM, "Lars Rosengreen" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> How about making the unstable tree enabled by default on new >> installs? >> > > > Or, perhaps *move packages into the stable tree on occassion.* > +1

Re: [Fink-devel] SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives (long)

2006-11-11 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Nov 11, 2006, at 12:23 PM, William Scott wrote: > 1. Is there in fact significant dissatisfaction? (Lots of people > use alternatives like MacPorts, but that doesn't mean that they have > all rejected fink. If someone uses an alternative, or does stuff > manually, as a matter of taste, I pe

Re: [Fink-devel] SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives (long)

2006-11-12 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Nov 11, 2006, at 5:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Moreover the big reason to have the -shlibs and -dev splitoffs is > ideally to keep from breaking a metric ton of packages if you update a > shared library which happens to be binary incompatible with the prior > version. You can generate -s

Re: [Fink-devel] SUMMARY: fink vs. alternatives (long) (thanks Neil)

2006-11-13 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Nov 12, 2006, at 4:06 PM, David H wrote: > This is also based on the fact that I rarely get feedback. If I knew > that my package is widely used I have a commitment to that small users > base that my package has. As a diligent person I would be more obliged > to actually update those packages

Re: [Fink-devel] What feature would you like to see in fink/Fink?

2006-11-24 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Nov 23, 2006, at 1:28 PM, Rainer Kupke wrote: > David H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Reading the Wiki we have some very technical ideas on how to improve >> fink. This thread is meant for you and the quirks you have >> noticed. For >> the developers as well as the users. > > Fink should r

Re: [Fink-devel] pythons slow on startup

2006-12-19 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Dec 19, 2006, at 8:06 AM, Kurt Schwehr wrote: > Hi All, > > I have two mac boxes... on my G5 machine, all pythons > are slow to start: > > time python2.4 -c "pass" > > real0m2.726s > > time /usr/bin/python -c "pass" > > real0m2.909s > user0m0.023s > sys 0m2.719s > > But on my

[Fink-devel] Feedback PostgreSQL 8.2

2006-12-20 Thread Neil Tiffin
Have postgresql 8.1 installed, built 8.2 and then attempted to install. Did this using two fink commands; fink build postgresql82, fink install postgresql82. Received the following warning. Unpacking postgresql82 (from .../postgresql82_8.2.0-1021_darwin- powerpc.deb) ... Selecting previou

[Fink-devel] tcpflow needs updating

2007-02-12 Thread Neil Tiffin
Version 0.20 is no longer at the source address: http://www.circlemud.org/pub/jelson/tcpflow/ version 21 was posted 7 Aug 2003. I guess no one uses this package except me. Is there a replacement that everyone is using? Neil --

[Fink-devel] help postgresql dependencies

2007-02-13 Thread Neil Tiffin
I am trying to update psycopg2. There are now no limit to the number of postgresql packages that psycopg2 will work with. Including postgresql74 7.4.16-1021 upgrade package for postgresql74 postgresql74-dev 7.4.16-1021

Re: [Fink-devel] help postgresql dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread Neil Tiffin
On Feb 13, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Benjamin Reed wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Neil Tiffin wrote: > >> Now my question. psycopg2 does not care about which postgresql >> package is installed (to the best of my knowledge). But it needs a - >

[Fink-devel] unstable ksudoku will not build

2007-06-16 Thread Neil Tiffin
For the past couple of weeks package ksudoku will not build. Each attempt was after a "fink selfupdate" and "fink update-all" MiniMediaCenter:~$ fink install ksudoku Information about 6357 packages read in 1 seconds. The package 'ksudoku' will be built and installed. Reading dependency for ksud

Re: [Fink-devel] cdrtools on fink ?

2007-11-28 Thread Neil Tiffin
Compiles for me intel 10.4.11 using unstable. Neil On Nov 27, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > DJamé Seddah wrote: >> Hi list, I can't get fink to download and install cdrtools on os X >> (intel, 10.4.7, latest version of fink) ev

[Fink-devel] postgresql problems (unstable)

2002-11-22 Thread Neil Tiffin
FYI, is this something I did or a problem with the new versions? Preparing to replace postgresql-ssl 7.2.2-2 (using .../postgresql-ssl_7.2.3-1_darwin-powerpc.deb) ... Unpacking replacement postgresql-ssl ... dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/postgresql-s