[Fink-devel] mysql via fink; and phpmyadmin/webmin

2002-01-18 Thread Max Horn
Hi Andrei, fellow finkers. Andrei, you made a page at http://homepage.mac.com/macgurutemple/mysql_on_macosx.html where you explain how to build run the latest MySQL version. Now, why not integrate these changes into fink, so that even more people can benefit from your work, and so that it's

Re: [Fink-devel] CPAN mirror

2002-01-18 Thread Paul Gaborit
Shouldn't we have a CPAN mirror? One could write a small script that takes http://www.cpan.org/MIRRORED.BY and generates a fink mirror file from that, I'd think. Ok. -- #!/usr//bin/perl -w use strict; # configuration my $mirror_dir = /sw/lib/fink/mirror; my

Re: [Fink-devel] info file format

2002-01-18 Thread Max Horn
At 10:24 Uhr -0800 18.01.2002, El JoPe Magnifico wrote: On 18 Jan 2002, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: (*) As a perl devotee, I understand your revulsion to forced use of indentation, Randall. I'm of the same mind... but only with respect to soruce code. This is not source code though, but

[Fink-devel] Re: plan and other package systems

2002-01-18 Thread Mat Caughron
Max et al: May I suggest that included in the plan is some sort of effort to establish a policy for other package systems to follow to avoid interference? Maybe this is more an issue for the other package systems out there, but some publicly-documented guidance wouldn't hurt, I think. I wrote

Re: [Fink-devel] How to represent package variants

2002-01-18 Thread Max Horn
At 15:06 Uhr -0500 18.01.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: On the question of variants, there is one thing that is very important to keep in mind: fink is a front-end to dpkg. This means that whatever scheme we adopt, there will need to be a translation to dpkg names. If we are feeding dependency

Re: [Fink-devel] How to represent package variants

2002-01-18 Thread Kyle Moffett
On Friday, January 18, 2002, at 06:04 , Max Horn wrote: At 17:08 Uhr -0500 18.01.2002, Kyle Moffett wrote: I was originally looking at something like this and I have thought a lot about it, one of the main reasons to use xml for a new format was the necessary complexity. On Friday, January 18,

Re: [Fink-devel] Processing *.texi files

2002-01-18 Thread Martin Costabel
Ken Williams wrote: I tried listing the .texi files (and later, the .info files) in the InfoDocs field, but when I issue 'fink install' I get a no such file or directory error. Clearly I'm misunderstanding the process. There are *.info targets in the makefile, so I added a couple

Re: [Fink-devel] How to represent package variants

2002-01-18 Thread Jeremy Higgs
On 19/1/02 6:48 AM, Max Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Package: foo Version: 1.0 Revision: 1 ConfigureParams: --with-gargle-blaster Depends: bar DefaultOption: x11 Option: ssl Depends: openssl NotOption: ssl ConfigureParams: --without-ssl Option: x11 Depends: x11