[Cooker] XEmacs W3 bug

2001-07-31 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Built xemacs-21.4.3-5mdk on my slightly-upgraded 8.0 system. Run xemacs-gtk-gnome, go to Tools->Internet-Browse the Web. Some messages flash past in the minibuffer, then it displays the error: Wrong type argument: arrayp, nil The W3 buffer does no

Re: [Cooker] Global setting of units

2001-07-31 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I think that preferred units could be chosen at the same time as language. So there's the big list of languages, and underneath are a couple of radio buttons Units of measurement ( ) Metric / ISO( ) US You could probably guess this based

Re: [Cooker] ImageMagick: combine

2001-07-30 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 30 Jul 2001, Michael Reinsch wrote: >- updated to release 5.3.2. >- added Magick++-config, cgimagick, iptcutil to %files list and > removed combine. > >Why was combine removed? I need it... It got renamed to 'composite' by the ImageMagick p

Re: [Cooker] Usability Suggestions for LM

2001-07-21 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Jul 2001, Scott Swaim wrote: [usability] >(3) Programs of a like nature should be grouped together, rather than >divided into different groups. For instance, Gnapster and Gnome-napster Wouldn't it be better to just pick a *single* Napster cl

Re: [Cooker] RPM update dependencies

2001-07-16 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FWIW, the utility 'unarc', which is included in Cooker's contribs, will extract RPMs as well as tar.gz and other archives. Modesty forbids me to mention the name of its author 8-}. - -- Ed Avis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Finger for PGP key -BEGIN PGP

Re: [Cooker] Re: [CHRPM] gnumeric-0.67-1mdk

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 How about saying: "This is from the Gnumeric website: >We have tried to clone all the features of Excel and we hope to have >fixed all the bugs." That way it is clear who said what and who 'we' are. (if you can understand the two-level quoting :-)

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Guillaume Rousse wrote: [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >You can subscribe by going there http://sourceforge.net/projects/jpackage, I've subscribed. Future messages on this subject will go only to that list. For real this time :-). >as w

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Guillaume Rousse wrote: >>>(http://jpackage.sourceforge.net/packages.php) >> >>I can't download anything from there via anonymous FTP, is it not public >>yet? > >I just tried jpackage.sourceforge.net/pub/jpackage, everything seems

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Guillaume Rousse wrote: >There are already several existing java packaging project. See RPMS for java >development (http://freshmeat.net/projects/rpms4java/), They seem to store .jar files straight in /usr/share/java/. Each RPM

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Frank Meurer wrote: >>Maybe say that we should add: >> >>- - /usr/share/java/*.jar >>- - /usr/share/java/classes/* >> >>to the CLASSPATH. > >Yes, that looks fine! Should first check what other distributions do. >Maybe a switched

RE: [Cooker] Perl (libperl.so) and xchat

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 9 Jul 2001, Andrej Borsenkow wrote: >visudo was compiled for perl 5.6.0. Most programs that use libperl are >compiled with hard-coded library location (LD_RUN_PATH=... or like). This is >done exactly because library location is non-standard,

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Axalon wrote: [Java] >Precedence set by Kaffe pkg, which is atleast in theory compliant with the >standard. /usr/java should be broke apart into /usr/lib, /usr/bin, and >/usr/share/"name". I agree, but try telling Sun that :-P.

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-09 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, David Walluck wrote: >>I propose that Java libraries be installed under >>/usr/share/java/, either as .jar files or as subdirectories full of >>.class files. And /etc/profile.d/java should do something like: >> >>for i in /usr/sh

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, michael wrote: >>What is the convention for RPMs of compiled Java libraries? >Would this solve the problem with Konqueror and Java issues? Probably not. We're discussing adding new libraries of Java code to the system, and wher

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Frank Meurer wrote: [Java] >>A library from one vendor will have classes called >> >>com.snakeoil.palisade.Whatever >> >>and another vendor will use >> >>com.gerbil-gratings.simphoni.Whatever >> > so they can't clash. >Actually

Re: [Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Frank Meurer wrote: [installing Java library .jar files] >>Sun sometimes recommend that you install new .jar files in >>/usr/java/jre/lib/ or /usr/java/jre/lib/ext/. Then they get picked up >>automatically without needing to be

[Cooker] Packaging Java class libraries

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What is the convention for RPMs of compiled Java libraries? Some packages put the code into a .jar file and install this under /usr/share/java. Then I think it is up to the user to make sure that the file is included in CLASSPATH, eg: % export CLAS

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Frank Meurer wrote: >>Nope, we want to change autoconf, to get an option telling it: >> >>%configure --ac-msg-warn-means--ac-msg-error >(er... didn't follow this thread exactly but...) >In some auto-conf'ed packages I find an opt

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8 Jul 2001, Juan Quintela wrote: >Nope, we want to change autoconf, to get an option telling it: > >%configure --ac-msg-warn-means--ac-msg-error Yes, that's what I meant! >If I find a free moment, will try to implement that thing, problems >are:

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: >I've just uploaded my script & install instructions to the list, perhaps >you can modify the script to include the automatic dependancy resolving >feature. It's a bash script (I'm a no-no with perl), s

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: [i586/ vs i686/ etc...] >>Ideally the installer would look around for the most appropriate >>directory to use. > >How much of a performance boost does compiling for a specific platform >give anyway? Probab

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7 Jul 2001, Juan Quintela wrote: [I proposed a way of checking dependencies by brute force, with a kind of binary search of randomly installing and uninstalling packages.] >Instead of that, it is easier, to convince the script to search >through

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, David Walluck wrote: [finding BuildRequires lines for source packages] >One thing that would help, as I've detailed earlier, is to normalize the >BuildRequires. Even still, sometimes I search on romfind.net when a >package compla

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Alexander Skwar wrote: >>If I have libfoo1 on my system, and now libfoo2 is needed in say Mandrake >>8.1, I no longer need libfoo1. I am wishing for a script that would go >>through and remove packages which no longer have depende

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, David Walluck wrote: >>>This is really a flaw in the GNU configure mechanism. It would be nice >>>if autoconf's configure scripts allowed you to say: >>> >>>% ./configure --definitely-use-libtiff >First of all, it is not a probl

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, David Walluck wrote: >>But, the main problem is that the BuildRequires aren't accurate at the >>moment in cooker. Without the correct BuilRequires you're going to >>encounter many compile problems. >I am worried because I have do

RE: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, David Walluck wrote: >>The Mandrake Install program... I mean could you recompile the SRPMS, >>but them in a directory on a separate HD, boot with the mandrake HD >>bootfloppy image, and use them to install Mandrake? >Certainly i

Re: [Cooker] Perl (libperl.so) and xchat

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Sergio Korlowsky wrote: >but doing a rpm -q libperl.so, this is what I got: >'package libperl.so is not installed' rpm -q will check for a package of that name installed. The package foo might contain the file libfoo.so. So yo

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-08 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: >>And how about a package 'essential-devel' which depends on gcc, make and >>all the other devel stuff included in a Mandrake default install. This >>package wouldn't contain any files, it would just ac

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-07 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Edward Avis wrote: [what BuildRequires dependencies should source packages include? Surely packages like bash should be considered 'essential' and don't need to be listed.] >How about this as a baseline: the

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-07 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: >>[compiling Cooker from scratch, installing only the BuildRequires >>packages as needed] >>>How are you detecting problems caused by 'non-fatal' missing >>>BuildRequires? As an example: the recent mis

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-07 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: What I'd love to have is the most minimal set of packages installed, the install would then download and compile the SRPMS according to your specified arch and optflags. >>>I'm actually

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-07 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Michael Brown wrote: [compiling Cooker from scratch, installing only the BuildRequires packages as needed] >>But, the main problem is that the BuildRequires aren't accurate at the >>moment in cooker. Without the correct BuilRequi

Re: [Cooker] Cooker Compile

2001-07-07 Thread Edward Avis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 7 Jul 2001, Stefan van der Eijk wrote: >>What I'd love to have is the most minimal >>set of packages installed, the install would then download and compile >>the SRPMS according to your specified arch and optflags. > >I'm actually working on