RE: [ITP] graphviz/libgraphviz4/libgraphviz-devel/graphviz-doc/graphviz-contrib: An open source graph visualization software

2008-05-05 Thread Dave Korn
Dave Korn wrote on 02 May 2008 10:56: > Dr. Volker Zell wrote on 02 May 2008 09:20: > >> Hi >> >> I would like to contribute and maintain the >> 'graphviz/libgraphviz4/libgraphviz-devel/graphviz-doc/graphviz-contrib' >> packages. > > Your sense of timing is perfect. I just spent an evening t

Re: [ITP] graphviz/libgraphviz4/libgraphviz-devel/graphviz-doc/graphviz-contrib: An open source graph visualization software

2008-05-05 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Dave Korn writes: > Well, the packaging looks ok, and the binaries appear to work after a bit of > crude smoke-testing, but I can't successfully rebuild from source. I've tried > on two different systems now (both fairly up-to-date), and they've both hung > up at this

setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Thrall, Bryan
I've built setup.exe from source (updated today), and the ChangeLog says Brian Dessent fixed the "Invalid or unsupported tar format" problem with empty tar.bz2 files, but I am still seeing the error popup. I have an empty meta-package to pull in other packages copied from one of the _obsolete pac

Re: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Brian Dessent
"Thrall, Bryan" wrote: > I've built setup.exe from source (updated today), and the ChangeLog says > Brian Dessent fixed the "Invalid or unsupported tar format" problem with > empty tar.bz2 files, but I am still seeing the error popup. > > I have an empty meta-package to pull in other packages cop

RE: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Thrall, Bryan
Brian Dessent wrote on Monday, May 05, 2008 4:12 PM: > And again, to recap: the reason for generating an error instead of > silently moving on in this situation was to diagnose the case where > the maintainer used a strange tar implementation to create a package > -- without the error the package

Re: setup.exe: Invalid or unsupported tar format

2008-05-05 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Brian Dessent on 5/5/2008 3:11 PM: |> I have an empty meta-package to pull in other packages copied from one |> of the _obsolete packages. I understand these are created via 'tar -T |> /dev/null -cjf foo.tar.bz2' (see |> http://cygwin.com