Re: [Fink-devel] fink is ignoring my already downloaded tarball

2012-12-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
bld user can not > read. > > ls -ld ~/Downloads > > should show at least "drwxr-xr-x" (mode 755) for that directory to work. > 705 will probably work too. Just drwx-- will fail. > > Hanspeter > > Please let us

Re: [Fink-devel] fink is ignoring my already downloaded tarball

2012-12-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
use the tar ball i already have, right? This is a freshly self > updated fink on 10.7.5. > > sent from Lion > > Jayne: "Let's go be bad guys!" Try the full path. We use direct filesystem access in Perl

Re: [Fink-devel] xmakemol for 10.8

2012-12-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
the maintainer freely if they don't require any modifications--a note is nice, though. 3) For maintained packages that need a newer version or significant modifications in the .info/.patch to work on 10.7 or 10.8, it's best to get permission from the maintainer--and add it if you don

Re: [Fink-devel] Framework and shlibs (qgis18-py)

2012-12-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
ihiko > > The libraries inside frameworks are still shared libraries, so I'd say divide the frameworks up between the -shlibs and the -dev appropriately. For example, the real libraries and any versioned symlinks would go in the -shlibs, and unversioned symlinks would go in the -dev wit

[Fink-devel] Since the question has come up...

2012-11-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
;d install the same gcc4N version "for real" under package management and tweak linkages with install_name_tool as required to point to that. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package up

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem building against qt4*-4.7.3

2012-10-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/29/12 8:22 PM, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Op 30-10-12 03:47, Alexander Hansen schreef: >> I've got a Qt-related question. Gnuplot-4.6.0 added Qt support >> (not turned on by default) and I wanted to enable this as an >> option. However, this doesn't work (o

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem building against qt4*-4.7.3

2012-10-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/29/12 7:47 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > I've got a Qt-related question. Gnuplot-4.6.0 added Qt support (not > turned on by default) and I wanted to enable this as an option. > However, this doesn't work (on 10.8/Xcode CLI 4.5, anyway): > > c++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.

[Fink-devel] Problem building against qt4*-4.7.3

2012-10-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
fter top level declarator class Q_CORE_EXPORT QInternal { ^ ; Line 54 of qnamespace.h (with some context) has: #ifndef Q_MOC_RUN namespace #else class Q_CORE_EXPORT #endif Qt { ... and I'm assuming the other errors are due to the failure of this to re

Re: [Fink-devel] Python dependency question….

2012-10-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
on scripts. If there is any linkage to a libpython then one can't swap in a different version. Use of the system's Python would require the entire dependency chain of Python modules also to be built against the system's Python. If a package doesn

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel fortran-utils.info, 1.1, 1.2

2012-10-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 10/16/12 1:51 AM, K.-M. Schindler wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv10142/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel > > Modified Files: > fortran-utils.info > Log Message: > fortran-utils: bugfix for intrinsic function g

Re: [Fink-devel] bootstrap installation of fink 0.34.x in a non standard location fails

2012-10-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
ength which is causing the difficulty: I could bootstrap into "/tmp/Applications/MyApp.app", but "/tmp/Applications/MyApp.app/Contents/Resources/Fink" didn't work. I'm not sure if the issue is in dpkg or if this is also a problem for t

[Fink-devel] Replace the 'xcode' virtual package?

2012-10-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
ertaining to a need for Xcode.app--or to use xcodebuild. Also, the idea of comparing the "xcode" (or replacement) and "xcode.app" versions--at least the first two digits since those seem to be meaningful, and marking the lesser of the two as outdated. That will warrant a litt

Re: [Fink-devel] Web Site

2012-10-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
sent from Lion > > Homer: Volunteering is for suckers. Did you know that so called volunteers > don't even get paid? It's known, and we've contacted the hosting provider. The machine seems to be out of commission so there's really not too much more we can do remot

[Fink-devel] bootstrap installation of fink 0.34.x in a non standard location fails

2012-10-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
ing to note: your app will _not_ be relocatable without additional modification, because Fink uses absolute paths for linked libraries. I.e. it will _only_ work if installed in /Applications. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [Fink-devel] fink regression

2012-09-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
10fb7b3bb0b4437c2c/perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm > > We really don't want to be compiling against the llvm-gcc compilers from > Xcode 4.2 on 10.6. > Can we please fix this? > Jack > Nothing was lost. It was decided _to_ use llvm-gcc from Xcode 4.2 on 10.6 because that w

Re: [Fink-devel] I could really use some help

2012-09-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/24/12 7:08 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 9/24/12 6:57 PM, Kurt Rahner wrote: >> Doctor Hansen >> >> Thank you for the quick response. The fix you performed did help. >> However I am getting an error now in w3m. I performed the fink self >> update and trie

Re: [Fink-devel] I could really use some help

2012-09-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
tools: 4.4.0.0.1.1249367152 > Max. Fink build jobs: 1 > > > > > > That's not my package, so I have no particular insight as to what's wrong with it. As a quick workaround I'd recommend trying to install Octave again and selecting something other than w3

[Fink-devel] Potential simplification for audacious2

2012-09-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
was wondering whether audacious2 could use RuntimeDepends: audacious2-plugins. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive

Re: [Fink-devel] octave-atlas-3.4.3-206 problems with szlib-2.1

2012-09-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/21/12 10:36 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 22/09/12 04:08, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On 9/21/12 5:13 PM, María Curet-Arana wrote: > [] > >>> The checksum of the file is incorrect. The most likely cause for this >>> is a >>> cor

Re: [Fink-devel] octave-atlas-3.4.3-206 problems with szlib-2.1

2012-09-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
.master.finkmirrors.net/szip-2.1.tar.gz % Total% Received % Xferd Average Speed TimeTime Time Current Dload Upload Total SpentLeft Speed 100 374k 100 374k0 0 308k 0 0:00:01

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/sci ccp4.info, 1.18, 1.19 ccp4.patch, 1.5, 1.6

2012-09-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/20/12 6:08 PM, William Scott wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/sci > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv27691 > > Modified Files: > ccp4.info ccp4.patch > Log Message: > sync with 10.7 branch, moves files to /sw/opt to conform to fink policy after >

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/utils qemu.info, 1.5, 1.6

2012-09-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/16/12 10:11 AM, K.-M. Schindler wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/utils > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv21841/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/utils > > Modified Files: > qemu.info > Log Message: > qemu: fix configure bug on 10.7 > > Index: qemu.info >

Re: [Fink-devel] Is it permissible to use hfsCompression in a post-install script?

2012-09-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/13/12 2:40 PM, William G. Scott wrote: > > On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:36 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > wrote: > >> On 9/13/2012 5:31 PM, William G. Scott wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>> On Sep 13, 2012, at 2:00 PM, Alexander Hansen >>

Re: [Fink-devel] Is it permissible to use hfsCompression in a post-install script?

2012-09-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
to decompress it to read it? Or at least there will be some user instructions? As long as -hfsCompress is supported by ditto on all platforms you're planning to update I can't think of a good reason why not to do that. -- Alexander Hans

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci dcmtk.info, NONE, 1.1 dcmtk.patch, NONE, 1.1

2012-09-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/9/12 5:39 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 9/9/12 5:34 PM, Sjors Gielen wrote: >> Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci >> In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv7478 >> >> Added Files: >> dcmtk.info dcmtk.patch >> Log Mess

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci dcmtk.info, NONE, 1.1 dcmtk.patch, NONE, 1.1

2012-09-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/9/12 5:34 PM, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv7478 > > Added Files: > dcmtk.info dcmtk.patch > Log Message: > Add Dicom Toolkit version 3.6.0 > > > --- NEW FILE: dcmtk.info --- > Package: dcmtk

Re: [Fink-devel] install_name issues on 10.8

2012-09-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
> There's not a standard way to do it within Fink. One normally works with whatever the upstream build system wants, or patches Makefiles, or otherwise edits the install_name manually in the InstallScript. However, the --prefix='%i' option in your

Re: [Fink-devel] avoiding linking system's python

2012-09-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
quot;-Wl,-dylib_file,%p/lib/python2.7/config/libpython2.7.dylib" > > but I still get the binary linking to the framework python. > > Any advice? > > Thanks. > > Bill > > It looks like coot has a --with-python option for its configure script: --with-python=PF

Re: [Fink-devel] Gimp upate

2012-09-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/2/12 7:47 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 10:38 PM, Alexander Hansen > wrote: >> On 9/2/12 7:25 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: >>> On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser >>> wrote: >>>> On 9/2/2012 8:47 PM, Alexander H

Re: [Fink-devel] Gimp upate

2012-09-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/2/12 7:25 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: > On Sun, Sep 2, 2012 at 9:01 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > wrote: >> On 9/2/2012 8:47 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> >>> On 9/2/12 4:01 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: >>>> >>>> On Sun, Sep 2,

Re: [Fink-devel] Gimp upate

2012-09-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
s stuck at 2.6. >> >> Hanspeter >> >> babl/gegl maintainer cc'd >> > > Would it be productive for me to take a look into glib2? > > Bill W > My understanding of the situation with glib2 is that: 1) Upstream has made changes in the code that b

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-tools madness

2012-09-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
eter > > Hanspeter. >Did you see the same failure with clang from Xcode 4.2 with the previous > gettext-tools release? If not, the newer gettext-tools is just showing yet > more codegen bugs in the older clang and is yet another reason to use a > BuildDepends: xcode (>=4.2). If

Re: [Fink-devel] [fink-core] gettext-tools madness

2012-09-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/1/12 1:41 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2012, at 1:38 PM, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > >> On 9/1/12 1:07 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >>> On 9/1/2012 10:32 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>>> On 8/31/12 5:36 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:

Re: [Fink-devel] [fink-core] gettext-tools madness

2012-09-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 9/1/12 1:07 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 9/1/2012 10:32 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On 8/31/12 5:36 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: >>> Why exactly are we building the entirety of gettext-tools at -O0 >>> in 10.7 branch when only a single source file, xge

Re: [Fink-devel] [fink-core] gettext-tools madness

2012-09-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
'; fi` > > xgettext-x-c.o: x-c.c > $(AM_V_CC) @AM_BACKSLASH@ > > Building everything at -O0 seems like massive overkill. > Jack > > > Don't cc stuff over multiple lists. There's no reason to do that and it

Re: [Fink-devel] is there a way to get fink's xemacs to display utf-8 ?

2012-08-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/27/12 1:35 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 8/27/12 11:57 AM, DJamé Seddah wrote: >> Hi everyone, >> I've tried everything I could find to get xemacs to display utf8 and so far >> I failed. I'll be really glad if someone could provide some help or a binary &

Re: [Fink-devel] is there a way to get fink's xemacs to display utf-8 ?

2012-08-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
ably not the right place to issue a bug report. > > > > Best, > Djamé > > Did "everything" include making a local copy of the package description, along the lines of: http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/07/24/creating-local-packages/ then editing the ConfigureParams

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/text pdfposter.info, NONE, 1.1

2012-08-21 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/21/12 11:27 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/text > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv7791/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/text > > Added Files: > pdfposter.info > Log Message: > New package (pdfposter). >

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs gdal.info, 1.7, 1.8

2012-08-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/20/12 4:09 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 8/20/12 4:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> On 8/20/12 12:32 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote: >>> Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs >>> In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv19652 >>> >>&g

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs gdal.info, 1.7, 1.8

2012-08-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/20/12 4:07 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 8/20/12 12:32 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote: >> Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs >> In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv19652 >> >> Modified Files: >> gdal.info >> Log Messa

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs gdal.info, 1.7, 1.8

2012-08-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/20/12 12:32 PM, Kurt Schwehr wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv19652 > > Modified Files: > gdal.info > Log Message: > switch to libdap11 to get around libdap9 not building on 10.8 > > I'd recommend migratin

[Fink-devel] Can the gcc46 dependency in pdftk move to gcc47?

2012-08-20 Thread Alexander Hansen
(and actually we can replace "gcc46" with "gcc47-compiler") It appears to build and do PDF operations, and otherwise it won't work on Mountain Lion because there's no gcc46 there. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/utils qemu.info, 1.4, 1.5 qemu.patch, 1.2, NONE

2012-08-17 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/14/12 3:16 PM, K.-M. Schindler wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/utils > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv16120 > > Modified Files: > qemu.info > Removed Files: > qemu.patch > Log Message: > Qemu: update to new upstream version. couple of bug

Re: [Fink-devel] gcc47 bug

2012-08-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
back onto the > trees that you're in trouble" Lucy van Pelt (C. Schulz) > > So, just so that we're all clear: You renamed /usr/local before reinstalling Fink, correct? How were you relinking /sw/bin/gfortran for gcc46? Are you just using "fink install gcc46"

Re: [Fink-devel] libcurl multiple choice

2012-08-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
ackage is an indicator that a system comes with a libcurl.pc , but we don't normally want to build against the system's libraries if there's an appropriate Fink package. That, and it doesn't get triggered (at least here) on Mountain Lion. -- Alexander

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with package logrotate-3.7.1-1

2012-08-09 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/8/12 5:55 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 8/8/12 4:43 PM, Philip Lamb wrote: >> On 9/08/2012, at 11:26 AM, Alexander Hansen >> wrote: >>> I can't think of a compelling reason for users to set MasterLast or >>> MasterNever, other than having to

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with package logrotate-3.7.1-1

2012-08-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/8/12 4:43 PM, Philip Lamb wrote: > On 9/08/2012, at 11:26 AM, Alexander Hansen > wrote: >> I can't think of a compelling reason for users to set MasterLast or >> MasterNever, other than having to select the original source URL for new >> packages. >> >

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with package logrotate-3.7.1-1

2012-08-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/8/12 4:20 PM, Philip Lamb wrote: > > On 9/08/2012, at 11:04 AM, Alexander Hansen > wrote: > >> On 8/8/12 3:40 PM, Philip Lamb wrote: >>> >>> Package apache2 depends on logrotate, but logrotate won't build, as its >>> source tarball appea

Re: [Fink-devel] Problem with package logrotate-3.7.1-1

2012-08-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
rent Dload Upload Total SpentLeft Speed 100 36176 100 361760 0 42250 0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 100k -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/net tinc.info, 1.1, 1.2

2012-08-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/7/12 4:11 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/net > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv7319/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/net > > Modified Files: > tinc.info > Log Message: > Update and add to 10.7/ > >

Re: [Fink-devel] gobby updated?

2012-08-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
ibinfinity. If you do a "fink selfupdate", You should be able just to use "fink update gobby" to get the new version. If that doesn't do anything, wait for a bit and try again, because that means that the new gobby package description hasn't been mirrored yet. -- Al

Re: [Fink-devel] cpp error with gcc47

2012-08-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/6/12 4:33 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: > On 2012-08-04, at 21:50 , Alexander Hansen > wrote: > >> On 8/4/12 6:40 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: >>> On 2012-08-04, at 21:32 , Alexander Hansen >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 8/4/12 6:28 PM, Kevin Horto

Re: [Fink-devel] system-java-dev problem on Mountain Lion

2012-08-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/2/12 3:59 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 2/08/12 02:24, Alexander Hansen wrote: > [] >> This appears to be related to https://github.com/fink/fink/issues/42 . >> >> We also had one of our maintainers mention that he does _not_ have this >> issue, but he may well

Re: [Fink-devel] zsh update?

2012-08-05 Thread Alexander Hansen
s, zsh ( >= 5.0.0-1) > Also, BuildDepends: fink ( >= 0.32 ) to use RuntimeDepends. > to help users who do have that alternate package installed easily and > automatically migrate to the now fully-featured main one. > > dan &

Re: [Fink-devel] cpp error with gcc47

2012-08-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/4/12 6:40 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: > On 2012-08-04, at 21:32 , Alexander Hansen > wrote: > >> On 8/4/12 6:28 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: >>> I'm trying to get the latest cadabra to build on 10.8, and these efforts >>> have run afoul of a configure failure

Re: [Fink-devel] cpp error with gcc47

2012-08-04 Thread Alexander Hansen
or directory > > > === > I don't have a /lib/cpp. I've got /usr/bin/cpp. Why is configure looking > for /lib/cpp? > > Any advice is appreciated. > > Thanks, > > -- > Kev

Re: [Fink-devel] shlib validator problem

2012-08-03 Thread Alexander Hansen
about an extra "/" in the > path "/sw//lib/libmodglue.1.dylib". I do see an extra "/" in the output of > otool. Is that the source of the issue? If so, how do I fix that? Do I > need to perform some libtool or install_name_tool voodoo? > > Tha

Re: [Fink-devel] system-java-dev problem on Mountain Lion

2012-08-02 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 8/2/12 3:59 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 2/08/12 02:24, Alexander Hansen wrote: > [] >> This appears to be related to https://github.com/fink/fink/issues/42 . >> >> We also had one of our maintainers mention that he does _not_ have this >> issue, but he may well

Re: [Fink-devel] system-java-dev problem on Mountain Lion

2012-08-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
led * javadeveloper_for_os_x_**2012004 *which is even newer than > that update. > > So I think it might be a bug from apple's java pack. ( I'm not sure...) > Thanks for the information! That does indeed seem strange. Perhaps the *004 update doesn't contain everythin

Re: [Fink-devel] system-java-dev problem on Mountain Lion

2012-08-01 Thread Alexander Hansen
sort this issue out, my best recommendation would be to edit /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/ppl9.info (as a super user) and remove the system-java-dev entry in the BuildDepends block. (and the "," after m4 in that block, too). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liai

Re: [Fink-devel] passwd-core update for 10.7/10.8

2012-07-28 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/28/12 5:22 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 7/27/2012 6:57 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> +echo "I am not overwriting this." >> +echo "You will need to edit $PREFIX/etc/passwd-fink manually" >> +echo "and set the UID entry fo

[Fink-devel] passwd-core update for 10.7/10.8

2012-07-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
use the numeric UIDs and GIDs. If the UID and/or GID is in use, update-passwd gives a message which says so and tells the user to edit passwd-fink and/or group-fink appropriately. 2) I've removed the "dovecot" user, since Apple provides one for 10.6 and later. -- Alexander Hans

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Mountain Lion upgrade notes

2012-07-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/27/12 12:43 PM, Dustin Cartwright wrote: > On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 9:28 AM, Alexander Hansen > mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 7/27/12 4:55 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > > What is the information on which Fink bases this "UIDs above

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: minor change to passwd behavior on 10.7

2012-07-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/26/12 1:49 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 7/14/12 12:18 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >> On 7/13/2012 4:11 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: >>> >>> On Jul 13, 2012, at 1:46 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Currentl

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Mountain Lion upgrade notes

2012-07-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
Switching to -devel On 7/27/12 6:09 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 7/27/12 2:02 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> On 27/07/12 00:33, Daniel Johnson wrote: >>> I just wanted to document some things I noticed during my Mountain Lion >>> upgrade. >>> >>> F

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Mountain Lion upgrade notes

2012-07-27 Thread Alexander Hansen
point? Dustin Cartwright, who did a lot of the work on the code for user addition/modification in fink, noted in a thread that this is indeed a problem, and that UIDs in the 250-299 range were indeed subject to use by Apple. That's why fink-bld now defaults to the 600-699 rang

Re: [Fink-devel] Seeking help porting Macro SPITBOL to OS X

2012-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
dave > > > > > > Hi. Sorry for the delayed reply--I've been busy with Fink issues related to the release of OS 10.8. The Fink distribution provides a number of different hacks that have been needed to deal with the idiosyncrasies

Re: [Fink-devel] RFC: minor change to passwd behavior on 10.7

2012-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
lt; > PostInstScript: << > %p/sbin/update-passwd postinst %n > << > > The new version for Depends: passwd-core is for a local revision that > will carry a README (current-in-Fink doesn't) and that passwd-* packages > will copy into their deb. > > I

Re: [Fink-devel] Are We Sure About Those Extra Bits?

2012-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/26/12 8:27 AM, Dustin Cartwright wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Alexander Hansen > mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > But after careful checking, I think I've found the problem. It looks > like the bootstrap script isn't doin

Re: [Fink-devel] Are We Sure About Those Extra Bits?

2012-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/26/12 8:01 AM, David Lowe wrote: > On Jul 26, 2012, at 7:18 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> The current test rules that a machine is 64-bit capable if one of those >> is set. > > I get these results on 10.6.8: > > Darlene-Lowes-Mac-mini:~ (22

Re: [Fink-devel] copying Source2 to dir

2012-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/26/12 7:31 AM, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Op 26-07-12 16:06, Alexander Hansen schreef: >> On 7/26/12 6:50 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: >>> Is there a way to copy the tarball from Source2 into a specific dir >>> inside the expanded Source1 tree *without* expanding

Re: [Fink-devel] Are We Sure About Those Extra Bits?

2012-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
_ reports for the machine. :-) You can check this yourself by running: sysctl hw.optional.x86_64 sysctl hw.optional.64bitops sysctl hw.cpu64bit_capable The current test rules that a machine is 64-bit capable if one of those is set. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink

Re: [Fink-devel] copying Source2 to dir

2012-07-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
-tar" the expanded Source2 in %b/external/src, since one can't really count on a source being in e.g. %b/../../.. . I face this same problem with the Octave Forge packages, which insist on being installed from tarballs for current Octave versions. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink

Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-16 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/6/12 4:33 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > How "fairly soon" would you like it? I can go ahead and start branch_0_34. > > -- Alex > > On 7/6/12 7:16 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: >> > Yes, I've been intending to do something like that. >> >

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto gnutls28.info, 1.6, 1.7

2012-07-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
sually a very fragile setup, as the current issue > shows once more... > > Btw, there have been several gnutls releases in the meantime. > > > Cheers, > Max > -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink Us

Re: [Fink-devel] [cvs] dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto gnutls28.info, 1.6, 1.7

2012-07-14 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/14/12 12:35 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/crypto > In directory vz-cvs-3.sog:/tmp/cvs-serv13963 > > Modified Files: > gnutls28.info > Log Message: > Appears to need an initial autoreconf call to b

[Fink-devel] I added man2html to the 10.7 tree

2012-07-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
I just copied man2html.info from 10.4 to 10.7 with no changes and it appeared to work fine. Hopefully that's OK. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ --

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: problem with sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

2012-07-08 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 7/8/2012 11:10 AM, William G. Scott wrote: > Hi folks: > > I've been serving some compiled fink packages from a 10.7 machine at work, > mainly for my lab and colleagues who do similar work. > > I just got an email from someone in Scotland who is having trouble with the > new sensible-utils. >

Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
> I could try out some postinstall.pl upgrade ideas with a fink-10.8.info file > in place in the distribution. > > -- Dave > > On Jul 6, 2012, at 8:04 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> And we'd probably want to have some way in the fink scripts to notify >> use

Re: [Fink-devel] system-perl Provides of "extra" (noncore) modules

2012-07-06 Thread Alexander Hansen
And we'd probably want to have some way in the fink scripts to notify users to install the bundle if they've upgrading their OS version. E.g. maybe we could have postinstall.pl send a message when the current Distribution value doesn't correspond to the current OS version. On 7/6/12 6:59 AM, Davi

Re: [Fink-devel] install-info replacement

2012-06-30 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/30/12 9:24 AM, Sjors Gielen wrote: > Op 29-06-12 17:43, Sjors Gielen schreef: >> Op 29-06-12 17:38, Alexander Hansen schreef: >>> On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote: >>>> I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said >>>&g

Re: [Fink-devel] install-info replacement

2012-06-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/29/12 8:38 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > On 6/29/12 6:14 AM, TheSin wrote: >> I agree that it does not need to be essential at all, but that being said >> new versions of dpkg in the future will require tex for install-info since >> its being deprecated for ginstall-i

[Fink-devel] install-info replacement

2012-06-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
that's going to be really painful for our purposes. _They_ can do that since they're fundamentally a provider of prebuilt binaries, and aren't forcing all of _their_ users to install TeX. I wonder if there's a lighter-weight option we can use here... -- Alexander Hansen, Ph

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-users] Massive update tonight failed ...

2012-06-29 Thread Alexander Hansen
the pre-compiled pages into the .deb. 3) Get a bindist. (not a near-term option). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Live Security Virtual Conference

Re: [Fink-devel] new debianutils and mktemp/readlink

2012-06-26 Thread Alexander Hansen
; Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! > > As an addendum: Apple provides mktemp as far back as Leopard, so people do have the option not to drag in coreutils. lapack341 just switched over to

Re: [Fink-devel] New(er) upstream suitesparse on the tracker

2012-06-25 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/22/12 9:55 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > I'm planning some updates to Octave, and I figured it would be a good > time to apply a new upstream SuiteSparse. I've put a .info and .patch > for version 3.7.1 on the submissions tracker: > > https://sourceforge.net/trac

[Fink-devel] gettext-0.18 issues

2012-06-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
Can you remind me (well, us) what the issues with gettext-0.18 were? Folks are getting a build error with clang and gettext-tools 0.17-19 on , but it seems not to occur with gettext-tools-0.18.1.1. Thanks. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http

Re: [Fink-devel] github?

2012-06-24 Thread Alexander Hansen
s to make applying patches and viewing changes less of a chore. 3) Or, a maintainer can do individual .info and .patch files, as we've been handling all along. Another advantage is for power users who like to roll their own options. As David L. mentioned, they can keep their

Re: [Fink-devel] github?

2012-06-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/22/12 3:23 PM, Max Horn wrote: > > Am 23.06.2012 um 00:07 schrieb David R. Morrison: > >> >> On Jun 22, 2012, at 10:59 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> >>> Any thoughts about moving dists/ over to github? >>> >>> Even though sourceforge

Re: [Fink-devel] github?

2012-06-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/22/12 2:35 PM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > On 6/22/2012 1:59 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> Any thoughts about moving dists/ over to github? >> >> Even though sourceforge isn't going to close down CVS access, it'd be >> nice to move to a more m

Re: [Fink-devel] github?

2012-06-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/22/12 11:45 AM, Brendan Cully wrote: > On 12-06-22 10:59 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> Any thoughts about moving dists/ over to github? >> >> Even though sourceforge isn't going to close down CVS access, it'd be >> nice to move to a more modern syst

[Fink-devel] github?

2012-06-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
h proxy support for CVS, but sometimes that's still blocked. And for big updates, like a new OS version, I believe it's easier to handle a branch to do changes in git than in CVS (I'm not sure about that, though). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates

[Fink-devel] New(er) upstream suitesparse on the tracker

2012-06-22 Thread Alexander Hansen
4256 This the last in the 3.x series. It appears that SuiteSparse-4.x makes some significant changes from our current version. The suitesparse dependents, octave* and scipy-py*, appear to be fine with the 3.7.1 package. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http:/

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/15/12 9:06 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: > > On Jun 15, 2012, at 8:53 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> On 6/15/12 6:08 AM, Sébastien Maret wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> I spent most of this morning trying to install Fink on one of my colleague >>

Re: [Fink-devel] How to make Fink more user friendly?

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
mething you just updated there, and you go on holiday, then what do I need to do to be able to update _my_ package in the binary distribution? Do I sign for _your_ package and upload it? Do I have to wait for you to return? And there's the issue of the "somewhere". In principle w

Re: [Fink-devel] future os merge

2012-06-15 Thread Alexander Hansen
Package.pm >> @@ -663,6 +663,11 @@ as part of the Xcode tools. MacOSX10.6.sdk >> MacOSX10.7.sdk >> ); >> + } elsif ($osxversion == 12) { >> + @SDKDIRS=qw( >> + MacOSX10.7.sdk >> + MacOSX10.8.sdk >> + ); >> } >> # Portable SDK pat

[Fink-devel] qgis-plugin-installer can't be installed.

2012-06-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
(10.4 tree right after a selfupdate) Can't resolve dependency "sip-py27-bin (=4.12.3-1)" for package "qgis-plugin-installer-1.2.1-5" (no matching packages/versions found) $ fink list sip-py27-bin Information about 11527 packages read in 1 seconds. sip-py27-bin 4.13.2-1

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-announce] fink-0.33.0 released

2012-06-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
On 6/12/12 12:36 AM, Juan Courcoul wrote: > > On Jun 11, 2012, at 10:45 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > >> fink-0.33.0 was released on 6 June, 2012. This release introduces some >> new features: > > Will it be safe with the new Xcode 4.3.3 released in today's spate

Re: [Fink-devel] Rogue "not found" in fink 0.33.0-61

2012-06-12 Thread Alexander Hansen
command. Change line 754 of /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackages.pm from print STDERR "not found.\n"; to print STDERR "not found.\n" if ($options{debug}); -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ---

[Fink-devel] Want to blog about Fink?

2012-06-11 Thread Alexander Hansen
I'd be happy to add authors to the semi-official blog at http://finkers.wordpress.com/ since right now it's just me making updates there. Pretty much anything which is topical is fair game. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wor

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