Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: I'm going to try to port fink to MkLinux so I don't have to use rpm anymore (of course it will have to always build from source and not use the binary packages). An easier (and more package-complete) alternative would be Debian's PPC port, if you can run it. May even be able to run it on Mach. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?
On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 PM, Ben Hines wrote: This probably also explains why i have no sections in dselect... Does anyone? I do, for some packages (both available and installed). On the Debian system, the section comes from the Packages and Packages.gz files which are maintained by the ftp masters. scanpackages *should* generate these files in Fink; after that, sudo deselect update or sudo apt-get update may be required to make dselect see them. Now, no guarantee it isn't broken. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] Tuxracer 0.61 ready for distribution
I just installed turxracer with the .info file created by Mr. Kiwi. It installed without any problem and the program ran well too. Just out of curiosity, are the issues raised by Mr. Hines serious problems for the .info file? Has my installation of tuxracer caused some catastrophic event to my Fink installation such that I have messed up my Fink install? Or are those issues more of a standard convention for Fink packages? Thanks for educating me. Chia On 11/9/02 8:26 PM, Ben Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 10:39 AM, Mr. Kiwi wrote: 11-9-02 from Mr. Kiwi I have extensively tested my new Tuxracer 0.61 package on 10.2, 10.2.1, xfree86-base, Xfree86-base-threaded, sdl, and glut. As it stands, the game runs without an X window system, but since glut depends on X, xfree86-something has to be installed. The .info file for package tuxracer can be found at: http://homepage.mac.com/mkiwi/tuxracer.info Make sure to run fink validate on your info file to check it for errors. - tuxracer.info is not a valid name and the description is far too long. :) - You must start with revision 1 - You must depend on the shlibs version of packages. You cannot depend on sdl sdl-mixer, etc, rather you need sdl-shlibs, sdl-mixer-shlibs (same with several others). - You need to depend on x11 not xfree86* - Use mirror:sourceforge:%n/%n-%v.tar.gz for your sources, and add Source-MD5: fields. - prefix=%p does not need to be added by you, thats default. - don't use host=powerpc-unknown... use UpdateConfigGuess: true -Ben --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] Tuxracer 0.61 ready for distribution
The comments which Ben Hines made were things which need to be addressed before the package could be included in Fink. We try to make sure that all of the Fink packages work well together, both now and in the future, and that's the purpose of these standards. What normally happens when someone writes a new package is that they submit it using the Package Submission tracker and then they get comments like that in response. The comments are still public, but in that case they won't get emailed to a large number of people automatically. -- Dave Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] Tuxracer 0.61 ready for distribution From: Chia Hung [EMAIL PROTECTED] Just out of curiosity, are the issues raised by Mr. Hines serious problems for the .info file? Has my installation of tuxracer caused some catastrophic event to my Fink installation such that I have messed up my Fink install? Or are those issues more of a standard convention for Fink packages? --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
[Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.216,1.217PkgVersion.pm,1.92,1.93
[for context: I just changed Engine.pm in CVS to use --info-dir instead of --infodir as argument to install-info, as I got repeatedly error reports by people which have /usr/bin before /sw/sbin in their PATH; thus for them the texinfo install-info was used, not the dpkg install-info we normally use. Problem is, the texinfo one doesn't support --infodir] At 16:45 Uhr -0500 11.11.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: Max, haven't you substituted one problem for another with this change? For a long time, we've used the dpkg version of install-info not the texinfo one. Will it accept the other syntax? If not, you're creating a situation where people will make debs that other people can't install... I guess you will know more about texinfo than I do (which is not much :-). see above for my motivation to make the change. Are the inputs/outputs of the two install-info's actually incompatible? If so, then a better fix would be to hardcode %p/sbin/install-info in the pre/postinstscripts. No problem to change this. Cheers, Max -- --- Max Horn Software Developer email: mailto:max;quendi.de phone: (+49) 6151-494890 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
[Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT
I have made a local package for pan 0.13.2 some time ago, but I keep getting the same error: % pan (Pan:23558): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library (Pan:23558): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. ** (pan-real:23558): WARNING **: Couldn't load font Sans 10 falling back to Sans 10 ** (pan-real:23558): WARNING **: Couldn't load font Sans 10 falling back to Sans 10 ** (pan-real:23558): WARNING **: All font failbacks failed Note that this used to occur in the past, too, and that I have as a workaround GDK_USE_XFT set to 1. But for some reasons this is not working anymore... anybody got a hint for me what is wrong exactly, and how to work around it? Max -- --- Max Horn Software Developer email: mailto:max;quendi.de phone: (+49) 6151-494890 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 07:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: I have made a local package for pan 0.13.2 some time ago, but I keep getting the same error: % pan (Pan:23558): Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library (Pan:23558): Gtk-WARNING **: Locale not supported by C library. Using the fallback 'C' locale. ** (pan-real:23558): WARNING **: Couldn't load font Sans 10 falling back to Sans 10 ** (pan-real:23558): WARNING **: Couldn't load font Sans 10 falling back to Sans 10 ** (pan-real:23558): WARNING **: All font failbacks failed Note that this used to occur in the past, too, and that I have as a workaround GDK_USE_XFT set to 1. But for some reasons this is not working anymore... anybody got a hint for me what is wrong exactly, and how to work around it? What version of xfree86-base are you running? -- Alexander Strange ...we might want to remember that the majority of America believes they can talk to an invisible man every Sunday. -- A poster to slashdot.org --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT
At 19:41 Uhr -0500 11.11.2002, Alexander Strange wrote: [...] What version of xfree86-base are you running? system-xfree86 4.2-1Placeholder package for manually installe... i xfree86-base 4.2.1.1-1XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... i xfree86-base-sh 4.2.1.1-1XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... xfree86-base-th 4.2.99.2-0. XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... xfree86-base-th 4.2.1.1-1XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... i xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-1XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... i xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-1XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... xfree86-rootles 4.2.99.2-0. XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... xfree86-rootles 4.2.1.1-1XFree86 libraries, utilities, clients and... Max -- --- Max Horn Software Developer email: mailto:max;quendi.de phone: (+49) 6151-494890 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] Tuxracer 0.61 ready for distribution
On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 10:09 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: What normally happens when someone writes a new package is that they submit it using the Package Submission tracker and then they get comments like that in response. The comments are still public, but in that case they won't get emailed to a large number of people automatically. Since the info file was sent to the list i figured i should send the problems too.. You may indeed have problems with that package in the future, the dependencies on non-shlibs packages could prevent updates to newer versions of some of the dependent packages. If that made any sense to you. :) Anyway, should be fixed soon. -Ben --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] pan / pango / GDK_USE_XFT
At 17:34 Uhr -0800 11.11.2002, Ben Hines wrote: On Monday, November 11, 2002, at 04:32 PM, Max Horn wrote: Note that this used to occur in the past, too, and that I have as a workaround GDK_USE_XFT set to 1. But for some reasons this is not working anymore... anybody got a hint for me what is wrong exactly, and how to work around it? The new version of gtk+2 sets GDK_USE_XFT for in the runtimevars, so you don't need to set it. Well, it doesn't help anyway... Max -- --- Max Horn Software Developer email: mailto:max;quendi.de phone: (+49) 6151-494890 --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink/perlmod/Fink ChangeLog,1.216,1.217 PkgVersion.pm,1.92,1.93
Max Horn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [for context: I just changed Engine.pm in CVS to use --info-dir instead of --infodir as argument to install-info, as I got repeatedly error reports by people which have /usr/bin before /sw/sbin in their PATH; thus for them the texinfo install-info was used, not the dpkg install-info we normally use. Problem is, the texinfo one doesn't support --infodir] At 16:45 Uhr -0500 11.11.2002, David R. Morrison wrote: Max, haven't you substituted one problem for another with this change? For a long time, we've used the dpkg version of install-info not the texinfo one. Will it accept the other syntax? If not, you're creating a situation where people will make debs that other people can't install... I guess you will know more about texinfo than I do (which is not much :-). see above for my motivation to make the change. Are the inputs/outputs of the two install-info's actually incompatible? If so, then a better fix would be to hardcode %p/sbin/install-info in the pre/postinstscripts. No problem to change this. It looks like the inputs/outputs are not compatible. I tested with the gzip package, and /usr/bin/install-info wants to use a file /sw/share/info/dir to index stuff but we don't have that file. On the other hand, /sw/sbin/install-info doesn't need that indexing file. So I think this should be changed to hardode %p/sbin/install-info in the two scripts, as you suggested. -- Dave --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?
On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 04:01 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 PM, Ben Hines wrote: This probably also explains why i have no sections in dselect... Does anyone? I do, for some packages (both available and installed). On the Debian system, the section comes from the Packages and Packages.gz files which are maintained by the ftp masters. scanpackages *should* generate these files in Fink; after that, sudo deselect update or sudo apt-get update may be required to make dselect see them. It does generate the files, and the sections do show up in the Packages files. But that doesn't help. The sections have to be in the available file. % sudo dselect update Err file: local/main Packages File not found Ign file: local/main Release Err file: stable/main Packages File not found Ign file: stable/main Release Err file: stable/crypto Packages File not found Ign file: stable/crypto Release Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net release/main Packages ... snip... Hit http://us.dl.sourceforge.net current/crypto Release Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/old/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/old/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found Failed to fetch file:/sw/fink/old/dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages File not found Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. update available list script returned error exit status 1. Press enter to continue. So it looks like this at least, is a problem with my sources.list: # Allow APT to find pre-10.2 deb files deb file:/sw/fink/old local main deb file:/sw/fink/old stable main crypto #deb file:/sw/fink/old unstable main crypto Removing those old entries, lets me update available: Merging Available information Replacing available packages info, using /sw/var/cache/apt/available. Information about 708 package(s) was updated. However, still not everything has a Section listed in the available file. Here's the REAL problem: in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list: #deb file:/sw/fink unstable main crypto Need to uncomment that. Now sudo dselect update scans all the packages, and.. they have sections! % grep Section available | wc -l 1196 Basically, like the comment in sources.list the file says, sources.list needs to be kept in sync with fink.conf. Any user who followed the 10.2 update instructions will likely have them out of sync because we didn't say to do that in the steps. Though it should work fine for stable packages, and that is probably all that really matters since there is no unstable binary distro yet. And it still might be useful to have fink add the section to the control file so they are added automatically without having to dselect update. -Ben --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
[OT] Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month
Hi Anthony, Funny you should mention this I just managed to get Debian's Potato installed on my 6100/66 yesterday. Still not able to get the right video mode, mouse keyboard for Xwindows/Gnome but the new 2.4.4 kernel is faster than MkLinux and I'm much happier with the choice of packages. =) I'm still thinking about porting some of fink over, it might be nice to be able to build a couple packages from source (that aren't too heavily patched for OS X) using fink info files, and do things like fink list etc which are not available in apt. Of course I don't know all the details about apt-get and dselect, maybe there is some way to do these already. Cheers, Carsten On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 07:06 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: I'm going to try to port fink to MkLinux so I don't have to use rpm anymore (of course it will have to always build from source and not use the binary packages). An easier (and more package-complete) alternative would be Debian's PPC port, if you can run it. May even be able to run it on Mach. --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
Re: [OT] Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:04, Carsten Klapp wrote: Hi Anthony, Funny you should mention this I just managed to get Debian's Potato installed on my 6100/66 yesterday. Ugh. Why potato? Woody is out now, and I think you'll find it much better. New XFree86, for example. And, oh yeah, twice as many packages. Of course I don't know all the details about apt-get and dselect, maybe there is some way to do these already. assuming you have deb-src lines in your /etc/apt/sources.list, you can do: apt-get source package_name apt-get source --compile package_name Also, dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot is your friend. (if these want root, look at the fakeroot package) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
