[Fink-devel] Re: an automated way to monitor web pages for changes

2004-07-20 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 William Scott wrote: | Hi Folks: | | I've already discovered that maintaining several packages requires | constant vigilance with respect to software updates. Is there an | automated way to monitor a program's web site for version changes to | sof

Re: [Fink-devel] an automated way to monitor web pages for changes

2004-07-20 Thread TheSin
I sign up for freshmeat.net updates. Not all projects are there but it helps allot. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 20-Jul-04, at 9:09 PM, William Scott wrote: Hi Folks: I've already discovered that maintaining several packages requir

[Fink-devel] an automated way to monitor web pages for changes

2004-07-20 Thread William Scott
Hi Folks: I've already discovered that maintaining several packages requires constant vigilance with respect to software updates. Is there an automated way to monitor a program's web site for version changes to software that might then email me and awaken me from my seemingly ever-increasing s

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Errors in percent expansions (Modified by jfm)

2004-07-20 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 09:02:49PM +0200, David H. wrote: > Benjamin Reed wrote: > | David H. wrote: > |> jfm wrote: > |> | > |> | There are probably 2 different issues: one is that in some > |> | cases it may be clearer or more convenient to use several > |> | different 'patchfiles', with very di

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Errors in percent expansions (Modified by jfm)

2004-07-20 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Benjamin Reed wrote: | David H. wrote: | |> jfm wrote: |> |> | |> | There are probably 2 different issues: one is that in some cases it may |> | be clearer or more convenient to use several different 'patchfiles' |> , with |> | very distinct roles

[Fink-devel] Re: Perl 5.8.5 is out

2004-07-20 Thread Darian Lanx
Blair Zajac wrote: Would it be a good idea to switch over to use Perl 5.8.5 instead of 5.8.4 in Fink before too much work is invested in 5.8.4? What do you mean? The question is, which Version of Perl will Apple ship? Conservative as they seem, I guess it will be 5.8.4 So fink itself needs to be

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Errors in percent expansions (Modified by jfm)

2004-07-20 Thread Benjamin Reed
David H. wrote: jfm wrote: | | There are probably 2 different issues: one is that in some cases it may | be clearer or more convenient to use several different 'patchfiles' , with | very distinct roles _ so a 'PatchFile' field might have to be plural _ ; | the Actually this is one thing I would

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Errors in percent expansions (Modified by jfm)

2004-07-20 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 jfm wrote: Actually this is one thing I would veto strongly. There is no valid technical reason for more than one (unified) patch file. - -d -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.3.6 (Darwin) iD8DBQFA/WWhPMoaMn4kKR4RA7H1AJ9tG+V8paaZJeSbF

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Errors in percent expansions (Modified by jfm)

2004-07-20 Thread jfm
Thanks a lot for %a working again ! On Jul 19, 2004, at 8:20 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: An idea that has been kicked around on #fink and is a Features tracker request is MD5 for patchfiles. This is for end-user convenience (avoid getting .info and .patch out-of-sync if pulling random CVS revisions) an

[Fink-devel] Perl 5.8.5 is out

2004-07-20 Thread Blair Zajac
Would it be a good idea to switch over to use Perl 5.8.5 instead of 5.8.4 in Fink before too much work is invested in 5.8.4? Here's what's new in 5.8.5: http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.5/pod/perl585delta.pod Blair --- This SF.Net email

[Fink-devel] conflict/replaces problem with dependencies

2004-07-20 Thread Hanspeter Niederstrasser
I have an SSL dependent package (dcqui-qt-ssl) that I've set to conflict with the non-ssl variant and I have problems having them replace each other. Dcgui-qt(-ssl) is dependent on dclib0(-ssl) which has an shlibs splitoff. For dcgui-qt and dclib0(-shlibs), the SSL variant conflicts/replaces