Re: [Fink-devel] perl, python, ruby, etc.

2011-07-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "David" == David R Morrison writes: David> What about perl? Should we bring perl 5.8.8 forward, or leave it David> out? http://www.nntp.perl.org/group/perl.perl5.porters/2008/11/msg141328.html 5.8.x is EOLed already. 2.5 years ago. -- Randal L. S

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
"man X" -> The X Consortium requests that the following names be used when referring to this software: X X Window System X Version 11 X Window System,

Re: [Fink-devel] Who should Provide X11 ?

2003-01-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e without the server running. Although it is monday morning, so I may not be following this very well. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Te

[Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
the reason I'm bringing it here is that the Fink X11 FAQ needs to be updated with the answer, whatever it is. If I get an answer from the x11 list first, I'll forward it here. But if some smart person here has the answer, please speak. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Ser

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ng else. Pressing "delete" should back up. And how would you do that programmatically? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Jeremy" == Jeremy Erwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Jeremy> On Wednesday, January 8, 2003, at 02:04 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> Here's my first post: >> >> OK, as the first order of the day, how do I get my &

Re: [Fink-devel] my first post to the x11 mailing list, and update for Fink FAQ

2003-01-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
It's in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc No, that one starts twm, not quartz-wm, and also launches an xclock and two xterms. Where's the one that launches only quartz-wm and a single xterm? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

[Fink-devel] redux on getting "delete" key to work in Apple X11

2003-01-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
XEmacs, pressing delete deletes one character to the left. So, that's what needs to go into the Fink X11 FAQ: "How to have the delete key in Apple X11 work like Xdarwin". Can someone who has FAQ authority please copy this there? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting S

[Fink-devel] x11, another tale

2003-01-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
And now to through Yet Another Monkey Wrench In, we have... http://www.apple.com/macosx/x11/ so we need a dummy package that says "I have Apple's X11 Server installed". Unless that's already completely and accurately described by something else on the list. --

Re: [Fink-devel] Artificial dependencies in the binary distribution

2003-01-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
two packages, like "emacs" vs "emacs-nox". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See Per

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

2003-01-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
perl58, and that those David> will be called by name when the perl module is compiled. (So these David> packages may have "BuildDepends: perl56" or "BuildDepends: perl58".) Again, the convention for this is that /sw/bin/perl should link to the "active" perl.

[Fink-devel] wishlist for "fink remove foo"

2003-01-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
say "fink remove foo-and-anything-that-depends-on-it"? I can do it from dselect, but sometimes I don't like that interface. No, s/sometimes/nearly always/, s/don't like/hate/. It'd be nice to have "fink recursive-remove foo". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehe

Re: [Fink-devel] wishlist for "fink remove foo"

2003-01-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
endencies on foo (and thus is no different than dpkg -r foo, which I've also used). Is this some knowledge you bring from practical use or some secret document? Unfortunately, I don't have anything I want to recursively remove right now, or I would have just tried it. -- Randal L. Sch

[Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
-parser-pm maintainer to also provide a dummy system-html-parser-pm, so I'm hoping there's a more sane global solution to that. Maybe there could be one large "system-perl" that provides all the perl requirements for every package. Or maybe just an entry in the config

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
as naive compilers that simply want access to cool Unix binaries for OSX. What's the next step? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing,

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
h OSX. It is to *those* people whom I address the question - how can fink play nicely with a self-installed Perl installation? Something "system-MUMBLE"-ish should work, but will require the support of the fink developers. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. -

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
to also remember to update the "system-perl" module. I want the core "fink" tool to understand this relationship. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
eremy> this shouldn't be too difficult to implement :) Hmm. My earlier proposal to rewrite Fink from the ground up would certainly tackle this. Unfortunately, I'm recovering from a Q3 and Q4 loss, so every odd ounce of time I've got is spent doing marketing and sales right now so th

Re: [Fink-devel] for the wishlist: system-$perlmodule, or the moral equivalent

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
gex in this list, to you could put something like: Ben> IgnorePackages: "openssl.*", ".*-pm", "tetex.*" Oooh, that would work, as long as new packages follow the right pattern. It'd have to go into the "fink bible" about what pattern your package

[Fink-devel] redux on system-perlmodules

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
FILE <<"END"; Package: system-perlmodules Version: 1.0 Revision: @{[time]} Description: Placeholder for self-installed Perl Modules Maintainer: Randal L. Schwartz Provides: $PACKAGELIST Conflicts: $PACKAGELIST Replaces: $PACKAGELIST Type: bundle

Re: [Fink-devel] redux on system-perlmodules

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randal> Actually, on second thought, I should "conflicts: (everything)" but Randal> "provides: (only the modules I actually have installed)". Randal> Maybe for version 2. :

Re: [Fink-devel] redux on system-perlmodules

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randal> Actually, on second thought, I should "conflicts: (everything)" but Randal> "

Re: [Fink-devel] Regression caused by indexing changes

2003-01-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Max" == Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Max> One of the last changes to speed up re-index causes a regression. Now Max> if I enter e.g. "fink list -o" when my index is dirty, I get this: Max> fink list -o What's "

Re: [Fink-devel] Regression caused by indexing changes

2003-01-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Justin" == Justin Hallett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Justin> try fink list --help Ahh, another *undocumented* feature. Try finding *that* in either "man fink" or "fink --help". It's not there. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Sto

Re: [Fink-devel] Regression caused by indexing changes

2003-01-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ither "man fink" or Ben> "fink --help". It's not there.". Saying that on the mailing list Ben> helps noone, it won't get fixed. It's a response to you *in* the mailing list telling me about things that only a psychic could know. -- Randal L.

Re: [Fink-devel] install_name perl script

2003-01-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e. If you mean: my $newlibrary; my @liblist; my $libdir = "/usr/X11R6/lib"; then you'll have to say that. No simple addition of parens will help you. What you're saying now is the same as leaving the second and third "my" off, and "use strict&

Re: [Fink-devel] new teTeX

2003-02-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
mething and then (rightfully) gets conflicts when it finds they are already installed. So, please update or outdate bundle-tetex and system-tetex and tetex-macosx soon. For all of us. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-devel] new teTeX

2003-02-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randal> You didn't mention that "bundle-tetex" is now severely broken. It is. Randal> It wants to install things that aren't provided by tetex-base, except Randal> that th

[Fink-devel] libpng, libpng3 - bounce bounce bounce

2003-02-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
right? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment

[Fink-devel] dunno how this got broken, but...

2003-02-06 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
iled: Can't resolve dependency "openssl097-shlibs" for package "sitecopy-ssl-0.11.4-6" (no matching packages/versions found) Just recently, that is. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.sto

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: XFree86 4.2.99.901 (4.3.0 RC 1)

2003-02-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
borosx for a window manager *but* retain all the cool features of X11.app? Neat! I greatly prefer oroborosx to quartz-wm. Ugh. How do you uninstall X11.app? :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stone

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink distfiles mirror now up

2003-03-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ll expands the pattern, then hands each item to ls, which says "yup, that's a file already". Why did you use ls? :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Per

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

2003-06-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
it means. Nor would I even know where to go to find out the docs for it. Nor would I expect the docs to be there given the previous experience with other undocumented parts of fink. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:/

[Fink-devel] "master:master:master:master...", huh?

2003-06-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
files.opendarwin.org/konversation-0.12.tar.gz What's doing that? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.

Re: [Fink-devel] "master:master:master:master...", huh?

2003-06-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randal> I'm using the CVS tip of fink... lately, I've been getting failures to Randal> download that end up trying to download something with "master:" in Randal> the front.

Re: [Fink-devel] "master:master:master:master...", huh?

2003-06-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
the problem. everything works fine for Chris> me with this package like it is. Try removing the source from /sw/src, and then "fink fetch-missing". All hades breaks loose. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://

[Fink-devel] durep-0.8.1-1.info busted?

2003-06-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
1? I think the .info is messed up, but that still shouldn't cause an infinite loop. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical w

[Fink-devel] no updates to CVS in three or four days?

2003-06-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
right steps of a CVS sync. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-

[Fink-devel] unable to fink selfupdate-cvs in the past week

2003-06-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
rough that. I've tried at all times of day or night. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge

Re: [Fink-devel] unable to fink selfupdate-cvs in the past week

2003-06-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ng ;) about it. And so it's been broken for a week for everyone, and there's no end to the breakage in sight? How is anyone getting anything done? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/m

Re: [Fink-devel] unable to fink selfupdate-cvs in the past week

2003-06-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ILE; rename "$INFO_FILE.tmp", $INFO_FILE or die "Cannot rename $INFO_FILE.tmp to $INFO_FILE: $!"; print "Installing new version...\n"; system "fink", "install", "system-perlmodules"; This ensures that fink won't try to

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
bound, which means that the choice of language should be made based on cost of development, not raw speed. Even having said that, you can always optimize Perl, usually even staying within Perl, but sometimes by popping into C, which is easy with Inline::C. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Cons

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
han rewriting Max> everything from scratch, so I am still skeptic. You should look into DBD::SQLite then... a complete SQL engine with transactions, subselects, views, etc... but without the server running! The entire engine is included in the DBD::SQLite distro. It's really rather remarkab

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposal new Fink engine (Finch?)

2003-07-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Hisashi" == Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Hisashi> On Sun, 20 Jul 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> If there's any part of the Perl programming that is too slow, please >> demonstrate it with benchmarks. Hisashi> Re

Re: [Fink-devel] perl scripts

2003-08-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
in /sw/bin. If they aren't, put them in /sw/lib/$PACKAGENAME, and be sure to invoke them in a way that /sw works if replaced by something else. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl

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

2003-08-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
pends on X11 can be a royal pain. I can upgrade nearly anything else without using --force-depends though. Only X11 did I have to go "below the hood". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/m

Re: [Fink-devel] How to rebuild all fink packages installed in 10.2-gcc3.3 rsync?

2003-10-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
w Michael> my @installed = map { /^\s +i \s+ (\S+)/x; $1 } Danger danger danger. If that doesn't match, you get the previous $1. NEVER NEVER NEVER use $1 except when qualified as the condition of a match. Michael> grep /^\s+i /, `fink list -i`; -- Rand

[Fink-devel] 5000 packages down to 800?

2003-11-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Hmm. On the rsync update this morning, fink was updated, said something about switching to 10.3, and now my 5000 packages are down to 800. Did the latest update get rid of "unstable"? I can't remember where I enabled that. Or is the Right Thing Happening? -- Randal L. Schwar

Re: [Fink-devel] About perl modules (was: Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.405,1.406 PkgVersion.pm,1.169,1.170)

2003-11-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
er!". Ugh. Thus, be careful how you do the packaging for fink perl packages... it's not just version number here. It's versionnumber plus threads, and no upward compatibility at the binary level. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 &

Re: [Fink-devel] About perl modules (was: Re: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.405,1.406 PkgVersion.pm,1.169,1.170)

2003-11-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
on't know about threads vs non-threads but Michael> binary compatibility should be preserved in the 5.8.x series between Michael> similarly configured Perls. Otherwise something's really broken. Threads are not compatible with non-threads. And the word "should" is of

[Fink-devel] "WARNING: Unable to parse ..." after upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
xplanet-0.95-12.info". WARNING: Unable to parse the line "GCC 3.3" in "/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/games/grhino-0.7.0-11.info". Updating package index... done. Are these wanted, expected, known, fixable, hurting anything? -- Randal L. Schwa

Re: [Fink-devel] "WARNING: Unable to parse ..." after upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> None of the above: Already fixed, about a week ago. Define "already fixed". I just self-updated, and I'm still getting it. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting S

Re: [Fink-devel] "WARNING: Unable to parse ..." after upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> None of the above: Already fixed, about a week ago. &g

Re: [Fink-devel] "WARNING: Unable to parse ..." after upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
nown 386 Oct 21 08:11 /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/xplanet-0.95-12.patch -rw-r--r--1 merlyn unknown 1813 Nov 8 02:36 /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/xplanet.info -rw-r--r--1 merlyn unknown 410 Nov 8 02:36 /sw/fink/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/xp

Re: [Fink-devel] "WARNING: Unable to parse ..." after upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
artin> honor --delete-after? % which rsync /sw/bin/rsync % fink list rsync Information about 1977 packages read in 2 seconds. i rsync2.5.5-1 Synchronize filesystems between hosts -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PR

Re: [Fink-devel] "WARNING: Unable to parse ..." after upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ERY different. Deleted many things. No errors either, now. OK... that's the problem. The "rsync" package in fink is broken. Please make a note of that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.

Re: [Fink-devel] "WARNING: Unable to parse ..." after upgrade

2003-11-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Don" == Don McKenzie Paul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Don> [82-69-15-218:~] donpaul% which rsync Don> /sw/bin/rsync Yes, this does seem to be the culprit now. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMA

[Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
k/10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/system-xfree86.info /sw/fink/10.2-gcc3.3/stable/main/finkinfo/x11-system/system-xfree86.info Nothing in 10.3! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/>

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
r: XFree86 4.2.x and Apple X11 beta 3 i system-xfree86-43 4.3-3 Placeholder: XFree86 4.3.x and Apple X11 1.0 i system-xfree86-upgrade 1.0-1 (place-holder package for upgrading broken installs) How do I get the -dev ? I upgraded 10.2 to 10.3, installing in-place. Do I ne

Re: [Fink-devel] no system-xfree86-* in the 10.3 tree??

2003-11-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
etect the one you've got. Ahh, it doesn't show a -dev, like yours did, but "fink install gtk+2" seems happy. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consul

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

2003-11-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
mitted get tested to ensure the sources are available for at least part of the time? Or is this a rogue package wanting this source? Also, is there any easy way to see which package wants a particular source? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <

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

2003-11-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... your xfree86.info file is broken - mentioning xc-20031117.tar.bz2 which as far as I can tell never existed anywhere. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl

Re: [Fink-devel] another test failure

2003-11-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
s better. I'll switch it to that. The difference would be that $(PWD) will insert the PWD variable or PWD envar known to Make, while $$PWD will defer that to the shell as $PWD. You'd see the difference in: cd /etc; echo $(PWD) vs cd /etc; echo $$PWD Which one

Re: [Fink-devel] new symlink in fink?

2003-12-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
t without. Any scheme you come up with must have the arch tag in there somewhere. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc.

Re: [Fink-devel] new symlink in fink?

2003-12-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
one you have installed...) It's still dangerous to collapse those. Better to build the newer Perl that also looks at older directories, than to collapse the old and new directories. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:

[Fink-devel] "Trees" not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
n area, and since I have local first, it would shadow the ones defined later. Apparently that's not the case. Do I really have to blow away the unstable versions just so that it sees the stable versions? My next rsync update will then re-upgrade me. Ugh. Why isn't the order of Tre

Re: [Fink-devel] New GTK breaks Ethereal

2003-12-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ilt nearly the world, and still got the same problem. Also, "tethereal" works, so it's definitely something only in the display code. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/

Re: [Fink-devel] New GTK breaks Ethereal

2003-12-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e Sep 23 15:02:28 2003 /usr/lib/libz.1.dylib (compatibility version 1.0.0, current version 1.0.0) time stamp 1064385339 Tue Sep 23 23:35:39 2003 And it still crashes. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http:/

[Fink-devel] ensuring downloadability of Perl modules

2003-12-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
t need mirrors of it. Perhaps that should be one of the choices in "fink configure". -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
nk fetch fink-mirrors This doesn't work. I still get "no mirror site list found for mirror 'master'". Help! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/&g

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>>>> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> I am now trying to find a way out of this by Randal> Arggh. I just got bit by this too! Mar

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> I am now trying to find a way out of this by >>

[Fink-devel] can't self-update right now?

2004-01-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm line 633. Updating using rsync failed. Check the error messages above. And it's a different number after ".VERSION" every time. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, In

[Fink-devel] Re: can't self-update right now?

2004-01-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Randal" == Randal L Schwartz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Randal> And it's a different number after ".VERSION" every time. Ahh, the problem seemed to be that /sw/fink was owned by root, not merlyn. Not sure how it got that way, but what

[Fink-devel] problem with rsync - every file gets sucked every time

2004-02-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Did something change? Am I doing it wrong again? This started about a week ago, if I recall. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writin

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with rsync - every file gets sucked every time

2004-02-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Darian" == Darian Lanx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Darian> Even though I am a bit scared to say so (The name Randal L. Schwartz Darian> does call for respect ya' know?!). Darian> Unless you intend to have all of the tree around Darian>

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with rsync - every file gets sucked every time

2004-02-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
calhost:~] merlyn% Yes, I really do call my hostname "localhost". :) ... Now what? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, et

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with rsync - every file gets sucked every time

2004-02-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Rob" == Rob Braun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Rob> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 12:13:40PM -0800, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> >> During "fink selfupdate-cvs", I'm seeing a series of 10.3/unstable/... >> entries (scrolling

Re: [Fink-devel] Ethereal GTK still broken

2004-03-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
d seem to work. Yes. As a test, I just compiled "ethereal-ssl" (rather than the "ethereal" I had installed), and all worked fine. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Pe

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

2004-03-19 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e past day or two) tried it from my comcast.net address and an address in SAVVIS space. In both cases, the curl just starts, but will sit there for 3-5 minutes before I Ctrl-C it. And I can't ping that host from either of my two hosts, and a traceroute stops short beore I get there. Whatever

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

2004-03-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
rtin> flag. Oh whew! I thought it was just me for a moment! Thanks for the workaround... I'm fetching the file now with /usr/bin/curl. But this won't help the next guy. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http

[Fink-devel] no updates for two days?

2004-03-31 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
I haven't seen any .info files updated at all for the past two days. Did everyone go home? :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Co

Re: [Fink-devel] no updates for two days?

2004-04-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Benjamin> Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >> I haven't seen any .info files updated at all for the past two days. >> Did everyone go home? :) Benjamin> it might be my rss feed is actin

Re: [Fink-devel] no updates for two days?

2004-04-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Martin> On 1 avr. 2004, at 14:36, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: >>>> Did everyone go home? :) >> Benjamin> it might be my rss feed is acting up... I've seen updates...

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

2004-04-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
e it's visible to a LOT of people using 0.19.2. How fair is that? I'm going to get errors EVERY TIME I run fink (usually daily) until fink is updated to 0.20. How soon is that? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

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

2004-05-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Has that ever existed? Who needs to fix this? And how -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stoneheng

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

2004-05-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "Peter" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Yeah, it was the top news item on fink's home page for a while. It is Peter> still on the front page though. Thanks... you mean I have to read the news? :) :) Downloading now.

[Fink-devel] botched downloads

2004-06-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
this someone else's (urgent) problem? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite

Re: [Fink-devel] botched downloads

2004-06-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
>>>>> "David" == David R Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: David> An update: SourceForge has now responded, and is fixing the problem. David> -- Dave Yes, I now have new fink! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

[Fink-devel] ettercap?

2004-09-01 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
file or directory [ec_manuf.c:manuf_init:126] Cannot open etter.finger.mac That looks like some major missing install stuff. But is it just me? Should I retry building other stuff? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EM

[Fink-devel] Re: ettercap?

2004-09-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
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>

[Fink-devel] kde source trees

2004-10-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ources that are nowhere to be found on the net, or at least not at the places in the mirror list? Or am I just using bad mirror settings? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/securi

[Fink-devel] 403 forbidden errors

2005-04-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
d, or old ones used instead. ### execution of /sw/bin/apt-get failed, exit code 100 Did someone break something at sourceforge? Why the 403's? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulti

Re: [Fink-devel] 403 forbidden errors

2005-04-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
k package manager i fink-mirrors0.24.3.1-1 Mirror infrastructure i fink-prebinding 0.7.1-2 Tools for enabling prebinding in Fink How long before fink-mirrors goes to 24.4.1 ? (Note, I'm not using unstable.) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.

[Fink-devel] postgresql8?

2005-04-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Looks like some postgres things were rolled over, but now we're missing libgeos2. Is that in unstable, and if so, should it not already be promoted so that postgres8 can build? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/m

[Fink-devel] getting a bunch of 404's updating bindist.finkmirrors.net again

2005-05-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl train

[Fink-devel] where is perl581-core?

2005-05-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
for package "xml-parser-pm581-2.34-14", package "perl581-core" was not found. Failed: Can't resolve dependency "perl581-core" for package "xml-parser-pm581-2.34-14" (no matching packages/versions found) Information about 2181 packages read

Re: [Fink-devel] where is perl581-core?

2005-05-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
5.8.6-4 The Perl programming language, v. 5.8.6 perl586-core 5.8.6-4 Core files for perl, v. 5.8.6 pilot-link9-... 0.11.7-2 Palm libraries perl modules system-perl586[virtual package] -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 5

Re: [Fink-devel] where is perl581-core?

2005-05-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
ust for future reference. And why isn't it more automatic? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/> Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Ston

Re: [Fink-devel] where is perl581-core?

2005-05-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
install.pl Checking system... powerpc-apple-darwin8.1.0 This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made. Prerelease versions of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no guarantees. ln -s 10.3 /sw/fink/dists Is this output correct? Because "fink

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