Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-13 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Saturday, April 6, 2002, at 12:43 PM, Max Horn wrote: > I don't think it's that silly. Think about it. There has been at least > one security hole in OS X (in NetInfo) in the past that could only be > exploited by local users to gain root. On my box, that's only me, so > almost no risk. On

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel wrote: > I have had positive user reports about the following packages which I > maintain and which are in unstable. I think they could be moved to > stable i nobody objects. > > - agqt-0.9.1-1 > - ispell-french-1.0-1 > - ispell-german-20011124-1 > (ispell-italian is broken ATM,

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-07 Thread Martin Costabel
"David R. Morrison" wrote: > > Martin Costabel wrote: [] > > - agqt-0.9.1-1 > > - ispell-french-1.0-1 > > - ispell-german-20011124-1 > > (ispell-italian is broken ATM, because the upstream maintainer is moving > > to a new URL and the source is no longer available on the net. I had > > positive r

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-06 Thread Chris Devers
On Sat, 6 Apr 2002, Martin Costabel wrote: > OTOH, I have no feedback (except that they compile) on the packages > > - siag (a complete, small, office suite) I've just opened up the spreadsheet. Seems to work ok, but then I'm not pushing it in any significant way. Ahh ok, the other components a

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: > 1) Stable-Move-Phase > We try to get as many package to stable. This way we can ensure a big > binary distro, plus stable users have more current stuff. Of course, > we still must be careful doing so, it's no use to have packages in > stable that don't work properly. So don't ru

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-06 Thread Max Horn
At 17:21 Uhr -0800 05.04.2002, Ben Hines wrote: >At 7:11 PM +0100 4/5/02, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >> >>For those of you who missed fully reading and comprehending Max's >>message, building the binary distribution on the OS X Compiler Farm >>is too much of a security risk, which is why I made my sug

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-05 Thread Ben Hines
At 7:11 PM +0100 4/5/02, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > >For those of you who missed fully reading and comprehending Max's >message, building the binary distribution on the OS X Compiler Farm >is too much of a security risk, which is why I made my suggestion. Yep. I reread the message and noticed that

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-05 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Friday, April 5, 2002, at 02:37 AM, Ben Hines wrote: > We do have a Fink buildserver, for those who missed Max's message - Max > is now the admin of Sourceforge OSX Compile Farm. Dual 800s. Rooted. For those of you who missed fully reading and comprehending Max's message, building the bina

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread Jeremy Higgs
On 4/4/02 10:32 PM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 13:34 Uhr +0200 03.04.2002, Max Horn wrote: > > [...] > >> I propose our next release be on Saturday, 13th April. (This gives >> us enough time to follow the procedure outlined below; also it means >> that in case of screw up, I hav

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread Ben Hines
At 6:15 PM -0600 4/4/02, Chris Devers wrote: >On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > >> I propose that we start a fund to buy a Fink buildserver. :-) > >Aren't you a little young to be making proposals like that? > >Legally I just don't think we can support this. We do have a Fink buildserv

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread John Clark
Am Donnerstag den, 4. April 2002, um 16:15, schrieb Chris Devers: > On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > >> I propose that we start a fund to buy a Fink buildserver. :-) > > Aren't you a little young to be making proposals like that? > > Legally I just don't think we can support this. Ob

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread Chris Devers
On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > I propose that we start a fund to buy a Fink buildserver. :-) Aren't you a little young to be making proposals like that? Legally I just don't think we can support this. ;) -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Apach

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 01:27 PM, Max Horn wrote: >> As I understand it, >> if we were able to use fakeroot, we could utilise the SF Compile Farms, >> correct? If we were, they could be used to build the packages for the >> binary >> distro, instead of laying it all upon you, Max (and ot

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread Alexander Strange
On Thursday, April 4, 2002, at 02:04 AM, Jeremy Higgs wrote: > Any news on getting fakeroot working on Darwin/MacOS X? As I understand > it, > if we were able to use fakeroot, we could utilise the SF Compile Farms, > correct? If we were, they could be used to build the packages for the > binar

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread Max Horn
At 13:34 Uhr +0200 03.04.2002, Max Horn wrote: [...] >I propose our next release be on Saturday, 13th April. (This gives >us enough time to follow the procedure outlined below; also it means >that in case of screw up, I have the sunday to fix up; feel free to >suggest other dates, but make su

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-04 Thread Max Horn
At 17:04 Uhr +1000 04.04.2002, Jeremy Higgs wrote: >On 3/4/02 9:34 PM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] >Any news on getting fakeroot working on Darwin/MacOS X? No. >As I understand it, >if we were able to use fakeroot, we could utilise the SF Compile Farms, >correct? If we were, th

Re: [Fink-devel] Plans for 0.4.0 and future releases

2002-04-03 Thread Jeremy Higgs
On 3/4/02 9:34 PM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [I planed to send this over one week ago, but many things got in my way, > sorry] > > > I think we should make a 0.4.0 distro release pretty soon. To prevent > problems like last time, I'd like to have the release process > formalized m