RE: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability?

2003-06-03 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
As one of the people likely to enter this into the docs, I'd like to say that it's not 100% obvious to me, either. I assume it means to switch over to the list of master mirrors, and pick the next one? Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma

RE: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability?

2003-06-04 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
for features that are still just for the cvs version. -Original Message- From: Ben Hines [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 2:01 AM To: Alexander K. Hansen; Randal Schwartz; 'David'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability

RE: [Fink-devel] vnc-3.3.7-1 migrating to stable

2003-06-04 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
. Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steven

RE: [Fink-devel] bundle-gnome-1.4-13

2003-06-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Umm: is this good feedback or bad? Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto

RE: [Fink-devel] bundle-gnome-1.4-13

2003-06-15 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
This is entirely the wrong package to send such feedback on: it doesn't even install any files. Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213

[Fink-devel] problem with tex-guy-1.2.4-2.info

2003-06-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Since beren's email seems to be bouncing, I'll put this one here, too. The problem (tex-guy-1.2.4-2.info) is that some of the Files: fields in the splitoffs (actually most of the splitoffs) have commas between the paths, which is not the proper syntax: the build winds up trying to move a

RE: [Fink-devel] fink update-all failed

2003-06-24 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
In the FAQ it says to remove the package (by force if necessary) and reinstall it--just do the latter at some point. Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219

RE: [Fink-devel] doc folks please read

2003-06-29 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
OK. Is this the correct operational sequence: 1) Make changes to the XML files 2) Commit the XML (cvs commit xml) 3) Generate the PHP, HTML, etc. (make ; make install) 4) Commit the other stuff (cvs commit xml again) ? Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http

Re: [Fink-devel] mailing list archives unavailable

2003-07-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
proof Web apps, automate testing more. Download eval WebKing and get a free book. www.parasoft.com/bulletproofapps ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole

RE: [Fink-devel] spam

2003-07-12 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
The lists only do take postings from subscribers, as far as I can tell (I've been burned before by replying using the wrong account). Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Fink-devel] FAQ changes.

2003-07-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Sorry about the multiple messages: IMAP was being contrary.

Re: [Fink-devel] packages that are part of the system

2003-07-15 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
However, keep in mind that sometimes the system versions lack important pieces (e.g. python on Jag, which was missing the headers, so you couldn't build anything against it). On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 05:26 AM, John Davidorff Pell wrote: I've noticed that a number of packages that are

Re: [Fink-devel] some problems after fink selfupdate

2003-07-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Claudio Allocchio wrote: Hallo, after a couple of fink selfupdate commands (note: I'm using the unstable version) I detected the following problems: fink update-all cc: unrecognized option `-single_module' snip

Re: [Fink-devel] some problems after fink selfupdate

2003-07-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Thursday, July 17, 2003, at 09:53 AM, Claudio Allocchio wrote: snip BTW, I also tried to update gnomemeeting, and that had compilation errors (v0.98 unstable). snip What were the errors? -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

Re: [Fink-devel] pwlib-1.5.0-1 - gnomemeeting compile error

2003-07-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
from fink list -i -s sound (i.e. check what sound packages you have installed)? It built for me, so there may be a missing dependency. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This SF.net email

Re: [Fink-devel] pwlib-1.5.0-1 - gnomemeeting compile error

2003-07-21 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You'll need to register (free) at connect.apple.com to get the updated Dev Tools. By the way, install just the December 2002 Tools, but not the update to them. I'm not sure about the CoreAudio update. On Monday, July 21, 2003, at 08:51 AM, Claudio Allocchio wrote: Hmm ... that does not

[Fink-devel] RE: [Fink-users] font/text rendering problem with Xfree86 4.3 with gtk

2003-07-21 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
version isn't available) Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Incabulos Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 5:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fink-users] font/text

[Fink-devel] Storable

2003-07-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
For the documentation, I need a straight answer. If people install an update to Perl manually, does installing the system-perlxxx package mitigate the issues with Storable that we had been seeing? -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

RE: [Fink-devel] splitoff essential package feedback?

2003-07-28 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
There was an update? Just kidding--I didn't notice any problems. Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David R. Morrison Sent: Monday, July 28, 2003 4:15 PM

RE: [Fink-devel] creating a package to link against gnome 1.x (vs 2.x)

2003-07-28 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
-shlibs (= 1.4.1.4-2). gnumeric depends on gnome-libs-shlibs. gdk-pixbuf-shlibs depends on gnome-libs-shlibs. frontline depends on gnome-libs-shlibs. rep-gtk depends on gnome-libs-shlibs. gnucash depends on gnome-libs-shlibs. HTH Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http

Re: [Fink-devel] splitoff essential package feedback?

2003-07-29 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Hmm...I used my evil powers (username CVS access) to grab the 0.10.40-6.info file from the unstable tree before you pulled it, and had absolutely no problems. That was the only essential package that required updating. On Tuesday, July 29, 2003, at 09:04 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Well,

RE: [Fink-devel] perl scripts

2003-08-11 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
in the description file to modify their PATH setting to include /sw/foo/bin ; geomview is an example of a current Fink package that takes this approach. Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: [Fink-devel] guile-1.4-6

2003-08-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Well, we need a bit more information to be able to help you; specifically, what was the error message you received? Also, I recommend that the thread be moved over to fink-beginners or fink-users. Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original

RE: [Fink-devel] system-xfree86_4.3 ?

2003-08-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Not as of yet (I believe it's in the works). Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Yarden Livnat Sent: Saturday, August 16, 2003 9:27 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject

RE: [Fink-devel] mod-perl-pm581

2003-08-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
It could well be that nobody tried to install it. I couldn't install it because I have the Fink Perl 5.8.0 package installed, and need it to remain functional. Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

[Fink-devel] RE: [Fink-beginners] Gnome-games

2003-08-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
to be anything in his setup--it just flat doesn't seem to work out of the box. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jeremy Conlin Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 12:47 AM

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] failed fink update system-xfree86

2003-08-24 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
A quick workaround might be to have an upgrade-system-xfree86 package that installs a shell script to do the uninstallation--similarly to how that for XFree86-4.2 - XFree86-4.3 was done. I've put up a FAQ entry, but didn't want to overstep my bounds by editing the news. -- Alexander K. Hansen

RE: [Fink-devel] X11 update failure with system-xfree-42 ? Was I on holiday too long, is this resolved ?

2003-08-29 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
It's already in the FAQ, and a new package is in experimental. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Sent: Friday, August 29, 2003 2:41 AM To: [EMAIL

Re: [Fink-devel] unmaintained packages?

2003-09-05 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I believe that zlib was discontinued as a Fink package (for 10.2) because the version that comes with the operating system works fine. According to my system, webalizer-2.01-10 is available in Fink via the unstable tree, and is indeed mainitained. On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 09:41 AM,

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fatback-1.3-1 and cernlib-2002-2 conflict

2003-09-05 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
for Geomview, because both it and ImageMagick contain an executable called animate. Check out the geomview .info file. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Friday, September 5, 2003, at 02:27 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: Hi, That's the quick and dirty

RE: [Fink-devel] bad KDE header paths in configure

2003-09-13 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Try setting it with setenv KDEDIR /sw -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alexey Iliyn Sent: Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:59 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Fink-devel] Willing to Write Docs

2003-09-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
that could be moved over to a Tips and Tricks chapter of the Users Guide: they deal with special topics that don't come up all that often. I've got to go to a seminar, but I can email you the information when I get home. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

Re: [Fink-devel] fort77 can't be compiled.

2003-09-29 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Did you install the gcc3.3 update to the Developer Tools? That causes a lot of havoc with Fortran. On Monday, September 29, 2003, at 02:05 AM, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: fort77 can't be compiled. Is there a way to know what package needs it? bash-2.05a$ fink --version Package manager

Re: [Fink-devel] /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status damaged?

2003-10-01 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
This happens occasionally--I've never heard a good explanation for it, though. You may be able to fix this if /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old is available, and not also damaged: sudo cp /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status-old /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 11:42, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: Now

Re: [Fink-devel] Circular dependencies with xfree86?

2003-10-02 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Pascal Bourguignon wrote: snip So, xfree86-base cannot replace system-xfree86 because it lacks libgl, but xfree86-rootless would provide libgl. Here we go: su-2.05a# fink install xfree86-base xfree86-rootless Information about 1314 packages read in

Re: [Fink-devel] fort77 can't be compiled.

2003-10-02 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing

Re: [Fink-devel] Creating the .deb package fails

2003-10-07 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
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Re: [Fink-devel] Creating the .deb package fails

2003-10-07 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Oh. If lgeneral-data isn't mandatory, then it could still be a splitoff, but not a dependency--it would get built into its own .deb file, but not installed. On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 09:02 AM, Olivier Bonnet wrote: Le mardi, 7 oct 2003, à 14:37 Europe/Paris, Alexander K. Hansen a écrit

Re: [Fink-devel] Grisbi for Fink

2003-10-07 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
to fink, I don't know if this is the right technique. Louis grisbi-0.4.1-1.infogrisbi-0.4.1-1.patch -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213

RE: [Fink-devel] fink and CVS?

2003-10-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
No, that's just the server--it's having problems again. Keep trying. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Novak Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 3:04 AM

Re: [Fink-devel] reports on 0.14.0 ?

2003-10-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
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RE: [Fink-devel] Broken link in Fink's packaging manual

2003-10-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Looks reasonable to me--it's changed now. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michel Schinz Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2003 2:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype-1.3.1-6

2003-10-10 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Are you using gcc-3.3 to do this, as the sig says? I believe you have to build this with gcc-3.1. On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 12:11 PM, LINDSAY!!! wrote: I have been trying to install enlightenment and I continue to get an error message with freetype and freetype-hinting...

Re: [Fink-devel] paths with spaces?

2003-10-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
; in the Server Room http://www.enterpriselinuxforum.com ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel -- Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [Fink-devel] fortune-mod 9708-3 checksum mismatch in 10.2-gcc3.3

2003-10-23 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
It sounds like the upstream site changed something in the tarball. You should contact the package maintainer. On Thursday, October 23, 2003, at 01:21 AM, Neal Parikh wrote: The actual checksum doesn't seem to match the expected checksum: The checksum of the file fortune-mod-9708.tar.gz of

RE: [Fink-devel] using *-shlibs? *-dev? When? Where?

2003-11-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
A lot of this is covered in the Packaging Manual: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stefan Langerman

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Fingerprint : E753 DCE2 C645 BCC2 E1D2 BF9E 1760 3FF1 5679 AFA9 PGP.sig -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This SF.Net email sponsored by: ApacheCon 2003, 16-19 November in Las Vegas. Learn

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
://www.telefonica.de Databases Huelshorstweg 30, 33415 Verl [EMAIL PROTECTED]voice: +49 5246 80 - 1774 fax: -2774 GPG Fingerprint : E753 DCE2 C645 BCC2 E1D2 BF9E 1760 3FF1 5679 AFA9 PGP.sig -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 and Panther

2003-11-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Reed wrote: Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I'm planning on updating the Running X11 document to include Panther/Apple X11 material. One additional issue came to my mind: Is XFree86 still broken for Panther? Yes. I've been talking with torrey trying to get it worked out, but so far I haven't gotten

Re: [Fink-devel] XFree86 and Apple's X11

2003-11-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
to dispel such myths. Thanks for your help! -- Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: emacs21-xaw3d problem. (Nicholas Robbins)

2003-11-18 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You should also contact the maintainer directly, in case they haven't been following this thread. On Tuesday, November 18, 2003, at 02:48 PM, Nicholas Robbins wrote: As someone who a) isn't the maintainer of emacs21-xaw3d and b) isn't remotely able to fix what is going on. What should I do? I

Re: [Fink-devel] Phasing out references to Mac OS X 10.1 (Doc Maintainers?)

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I see postings on the lists every so often for people who are still on 10.1.x, but I'm not against this. In any case we need to update the docs for 10.3-specific issues, particularly the Running X11 document. On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Darian Lanx wrote: -BEGIN PGP

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] libmikmod 3.1.10-2: Bad Download URL in .info File

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
This happens: fink-devel is the place to send messages about unmaintained packages -- I've cc'ed them. On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 01:45 PM, Emily Jackson wrote: The download URL for this package (http://www.mikmod.org/files/ libmikmod/libmikmod-3.1.10.tar.gz) leads to a file with the

Re: [Fink-devel] Phasing out references to Mac OS X 10.1 (Doc Maintainers?)

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
One place where we shouldn't touch the existing reference is the package database page: 10.1 users should have available exactly what versions of packages exist for them. Unless we want just to have a separate 10.1-specific document which includes that information. That would involve a fair

Re: [Fink-devel] sources for xc-20031117.tar.bz2

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
This can happen if the upstream site (and mirrors) removes the tarball before it gets mirrored onto the master (opendarwin) site. I got bitten this way by pkg-order, which has apparently been purged by Debian. I believe that testing has historically relied on users reporting bad links or

Re: [Fink-devel] selfupdate-cvs broken?

2003-11-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
This is in the FAQ: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#cvs-busy I'd bet the problem isn't in x11-wm On Thursday, November 20, 2003, at 03:57 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: U 10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/fvwm2-2.4.15-11.patch U

Re: [Fink-devel] db41-ssl and db42-ssl on 10.2-gcc missing system-java14-dev

2003-11-26 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
-17, package system-java14-dev was not found. Failed: Can't resolve dependency system-java14-dev for package db41-ssl-4.1.25-17 (no matching packages/versions found) Best, Blair -- Blair Zajac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/ -- Alexander K

Re: [Fink-devel] 10.3 gtk+2 2.2.4-2 not building

2003-12-04 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
or freetype2 install a freetype-config file. Best, Blair -- Blair Zajac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Plots of your system's performance - http://www.orcaware.com/orca/ -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This SF.net

RE: [Fink-devel] bin-dist made more regularely

2003-12-11 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Remi Mommsen Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 8:25 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fink-devel] bin-dist made more regularely

Re: [Fink-devel] bin-dist made more regularely

2003-12-12 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: snip | | I, personally would like to see a faster turnover of packages that lots of | people use from unstable to stable. | The problem you describe uo there depends soley on user feedback. If I add package foo on the 13. and I get 30 good reports

Re: [Fink-devel] Point release: CURRENT-FINK

2003-12-22 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
There was an earlier thread about this--there was a Fink version at one point that had problems with selfupdates. See if following the instructions in http://fink.sourceforge.net/download/fix-upgrade.php solves your problem. -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment

[Fink-devel] Can't activate my commits

2004-01-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I just committed a couple of changes to the FAQ in CVS but I can't log in to shell.sourceforge.net to activate them. Did something change while I was gone for the holidays? -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

Re: [Fink-devel] find

2004-01-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I'd completely forgotten that /dists doesn't show up under a find or locate--I always use the explicit tree names, myself. -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 9, 2004, at 10:02 AM, Lloyd Budd wrote: Hi Alexander, thank you for the response. Thank

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink-0.18.0 doesn't compile

2004-01-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
No, it's expected that Fink will try to update itself when you run fink selfupdate. What's your error message? -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 9, 2004, at 9:58 AM, Matthias Ringwald wrote: hi in order to try an unstable package, I entered

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-13 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
This isn't restricted to unstable--the stable tree has similar issues. The upstream sites who produce the sources change things around when new versions come out. What has been done is that Fink has Master mirrors set up, on which every source file is supposed to be available. This is in

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Remind me about the error message and the workaround and I'll add an entry--hopefully by this evening (GMT-5). -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 14, 2004, at 5:01 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: snip Another case: The freetype/freetype.h thing: The

Re: [Fink-devel] howto for test-building packages?

2004-01-14 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
There is a fink build command, which builds the source into a .deb archive, but doesn't install the package. Check out the Fink Packaging Guide: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/index.php ? For a local build, do you mean installing the files somewhere outside your main Fink tree? If

RE: [Fink-devel] circular dependencies

2004-01-15 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
You said your package depends on its -shlibs splitoff. Does the splitoff depend in turn on the main package? -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX   -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Koen van der

Re: [Fink-devel] Again problems with ghostscript.

2004-01-22 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
The usual fix for the node exists error is to remove the package and have it be reinstalled by a dependency: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#node-exists -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Jan 22, 2004, at 4:47 PM, Andrea Riciputi

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install

2004-02-04 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Actually I've been meaning to do up a document on this, for the benefit of users who want to muck around with their compile-time options. The day job keeps interfering, though. -- Alexander Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX On Feb 4, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Joe Corneli

Re: [Fink-devel] Let Fink website speak your language

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
, at 10:07 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: | One question occurs: how do we synchronize changes made in the various | languages? Do we continue to regard the (English) faq.xml, for example, | as the base-level FAQ document

Re: [Fink-devel] Let Fink website speak your language

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 17, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I like the idea of a new mailing list for a couple of reasons: 1) Coordinating the translation efforts. 2) Users can check the archives to see what changes have been made in the docs recently, if people are diligent about posting

Re: [Fink-devel] Let Fink website speak your language

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 17, 2004, at 1:24 PM, Michèle Garoche wrote: Le 17 févr. 2004, à 16:53, Darian Lanx a écrit : -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On Feb 17, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: I like the idea of a new mailing list for a couple

Re: [Fink-devel] Let Fink website speak your language

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 17, 2004, at 1:47 PM, Darian Lanx wrote: I would, but I can't :) Alexander, do you think we could mail back and forth a bit, so that we can agree on some sort of policy ? then present that on the new mailing list ? - -d No problem. I'd suggest restricting posts to subscribers, to

Re: [Fink-devel] Let Fink website speak your language

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 17, 2004, at 2:22 PM, Darian Lanx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: snip No problem. I'd suggest restricting posts to subscribers, to avoid spam. Yes, not only that. I would suggest that we actually approve translators. I really would

Re: [Fink-devel] Let Fink website speak your language

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Feb 17, 2004, at 3:18 PM, Darian Lanx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: snip Do you mean more than what's put out on fink-commits when an xml file is commited? Well I am not sure, does it already do a diff -Nru3 -rlast_revision -rhead

Re: [Fink-devel] Let Fink website speak your language

2004-02-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I've got the entire thread from -devel on my laptop right now, so if you'd like, I can start on it (a one-hour train trip has to be good for something. after all). On Feb 17, 2004, at 3:48 PM, Darian Lanx wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote

[Fink-devel] ANN: request for documentation freeze

2004-02-27 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Baba Yoshihiko has made progress on the internationalization of the Fink documentation and believes that the multilingual pages for the FAQ and Documentation sections can be brought online in March, with others to follow. I am therefore requesting a freeze on ALL changes to these sections

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] findutils needs testing

2004-02-27 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
findutils /unstable or who has had problems with it please tell me; I'd like to be able to put it into /stable. Dave -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA

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

2004-03-15 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
Sounds fine to me. On a slightly related note, and since it's the first time that we've had a scheduled go-live time (21:30 US/Eastern), I assume Daniel (cc'ed) is going to commit and activate all of the PHP files, since he was the last one to make a modification on the packaging manual. On

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

2004-03-15 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
the .php files? Peter -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213

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

2004-03-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
I thought it took a couple of days or so, but I may be off. On Mar 19, 2004, at 3:37 PM, William Scott wrote: My apologies -- it is there now. How long does it take to mirror the tarballs? On Mar 19, 2004, at 11:49 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: It works fine from here (mit.edu). Was it just

[Fink-devel] Clarification on commit policy.

2004-03-24 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
I've added a section to the Internationalization HOWTO that elucidates what the policy for committing changes to the existing docs should be (until it gets overridden): http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/multilingual/procedure.php? phpLang=en#summary -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian

[Fink-devel] New document

2004-03-31 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
I added the beginnings of a mailing list netiquette document to the documentation section. I encourage any additions/changes etc. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

Re: [Fink-devel] tetex and system-tetex. Anyone can help me?

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Apr 2, 2004, at 9:19 AM, Andrea Riciputi wrote: Hi, some weeks ago I posted a message asking for help. Nobody answered, so I re-try hoping to be luckier. I'm trying to build a package for PyX (http://pyx.sourceforge.net/). It is a Python module that allows the user to create high-quality

Re: [Fink-devel] tetex and system-tetex. Anyone can help me?

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Apr 2, 2004, at 10:22 AM, Andrea Riciputi wrote: I've already thought about something like this, but the variants become 4 since the already double -py22 and -py23. Maintaing them could be impratical... Any comment? Andrea. On 2 Apr 2004, at 16:56, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: You could

Re: [Fink-devel] New package: pgp4pine

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Apr 2, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Hoss Firooznia wrote: Hello Fink developers, First, a big thank you for all your hard work. As a longtime BSD person who's recently started working on an OS X box, Fink has been a tremendous help. I've included a shell archive of a proposed Fink package of pgp4pine, a

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

2004-04-02 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Apr 2, 2004, at 1:46 PM, gilles pujol wrote: I'm new to fink and I want to port some software in it (first one : bamg, a meshtool generator). I'm still reading the documentation, but if someone could give me some information that would make my work faster... Some questions : What is the

[Fink-devel] Re: web/xml/faq faq.en.xml,1.9,1.10

2004-04-05 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
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Re: [Fink-devel] Re: web/xml/faq faq.en.xml,1.9,1.10

2004-04-05 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Just trying not to discriminate based on gender! On Apr 5, 2004, at 10:36 AM, Michèle Garoche wrote: Le 5 avr. 2004, à 14:30, Alexander K. Hansen a écrit : Actually, this wasn't a misspelling: In this case They is an appropriate gender-neutral pronoun. Oh, sorry, good to know (English grammar

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

2004-04-05 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
There are Fink packages that make you use 2.95, as it's available as an optional install from the XCode Developer Tools. Why not just do 2.95? On Apr 5, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Jules wrote: Hey, I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions. We have successfully compiled the source codes for

Re: [Fink-devel] trouble running suid perl script with fink perl module

2004-04-22 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
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[Fink-devel] 0.7.0 dependency hole

2004-04-22 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
The 0.7.0 bindist has a major hole: gnome-python2-py23 depends on nautilus-shlibs, which isn't even in stable source, much less in the bindist. (this presumably also affects the stable source tree). -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype-1.3.1-6

2004-04-29 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Maybe it's a missing dependency on freetype-shlibs: that's where the libraries should be. On Apr 29, 2004, at 8:56 AM, Peter op reis wrote: Does this package suppose to install a library too ? When installing it and afterwards compiling other software, e.g. grass5.0.2, configure complains

Re: [Fink-devel] docbook 4.3.0 Package

2004-05-03 Thread Alexander K . Hansen
in advance /l -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g

Re: [Fink-devel] Packaging amanda software for backups

2004-05-10 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On May 10, 2004, at 8:16 AM, Jose Calhariz wrote: I use amanda software on Debian to backups servers and my personals computers. Now that I have to take care of Macintosh computers with OS X, I would like to package amanda. As I am running sucesfuly the client part on OS X. I have read the

Re: [Fink-devel] svn wants system-java14-dev

2004-05-15 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training! http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php?phpLang=en#system-java -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

Re: [Fink-devel] octave-forge-2004.02.12-3

2004-05-19 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Fax: +39-06-85300849 - What version of the Developer Tools are you using? -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documentarian Day Job: Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX

Re: [Fink-devel] botched downloads

2004-06-16 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Sounds like one of SourceForge's mirrors is broken. Setting a different mirror option (e.g. using a Master Mirror) should do the trick. On Jun 16, 2004, at 11:56 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: When I tried a fink rsync update this morning, for the file /sw/src/fink-0.20.4.tar.gz, I got a big

Re: [Fink-devel] xfree86 and system-xfree86

2004-06-17 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On Jun 17, 2004, at 11:57 AM, Claudio Allocchio wrote: Hallo, until now I just had system-xfree86 and system-xfree86-shlibs installed, as I have an old xfree86 manually installed. after trying to update GIMP, I got: [Mac-ALLOCCHIO3:~] claudio% fink update gimp /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink update

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