Re: [Fink-devel] Newbie: Package maintenance and bringing GNOME up to speed
On Wednesday, April 2, 2003, at 04:18 am, Tony Arnold wrote: Hi all, I've been a long time fink user, but only recently have my skills come up to a level where I would feel comfortable offering help. I have spent some time over the last few days bringing some of the core dependencies for GNOME 2.2.1 up to their relevant releases on my machine, and given the success and minimal patching required, I would like to push some of these forward. Hi Tony, Have you talked to Masanori? ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). He mantains GNOME for Fink and has Gnome 2.2.0 in his experimental tree in CVS. AFAIK the problem with Gnome 2.2.0 is that it requires Xft2, and no consensus have been reached on how to solve it since there are people running Apple X11 (no Xft2) and people running Xfree 4.3.0 (has Xft2) - personally I'd suggest XFree 4.3 having a 'Provide:' entry for xft2 and provide a separate xft2 with a lower version number that depends on system-xfree86. I have a bizarre problem when compiling Gnome so I'd have to reinstall OS X before I can dabble with Gnome packaging, but Masanori's packages are quite solid (some problems with dependencies not updated from the previous Gnome 2.0 packages, but that's about it). Regards, Michel --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
[Fink-devel] Newbie: Package maintenance and bringing GNOME up to speed
Hi all, I've been a long time fink user, but only recently have my skills come up to a level where I would feel comfortable offering help. I have spent some time over the last few days bringing some of the core dependencies for GNOME 2.2.1 up to their relevant releases on my machine, and given the success and minimal patching required, I would like to push some of these forward. I have a couple of questions: 1) Is there anything not covered in the FAQs/Porting/Packaging/SourceForge docs that I need to know/learn before I can help? 2) What are the current arrangements for the maintenance of the packages? I don't want to step on anyone's toes - if updates for GNOME are already in the pipeline, I'd rather contribute to that effort than start my own. Do I just submit them to the package submission tracker and wait? I'm probably in over my head here, so feel free to tell me if I'm way off base - but I'd really like to give a little back :) Part of my drive is that I would like to get Evolution 1.4 beta up and running on Mac OS X - if I'm going to port Evolution (and GNOME 2.2.1) anyway, I might as well do it properly so everyone can enjoy it :) BTW: Another package I would like to see is Redhat's Bluecurve/artwork packages - I have them ported on my local fink setup, and so long as the licence allows it, this would be one of a few "miscellaneous extras" packages that I would push forward. thanks, Tony [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.iinet.net.au/~tonyarnold/ --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: ValueWeb: Dedicated Hosting for just $79/mo with 500 GB of bandwidth! No other company gives more support or power for your dedicated server http://click.atdmt.com/AFF/go/sdnxxaff00300020aff/direct/01/ ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
