Re: [fink-core] upgrade process for big sur/dpkg1.16

h and also apply the branch-specific changes - i.e. merge them in a logical sense if not in a Git sense. I hate to say it, but this might be a case for a new distro and clean reinstall rather than update in place. I know we just did that for Catalina, but my impression is that Big Sur is goin

Re: [fink-core] Criteria (both man and machine) for a replacement for the mirror volunteer? Re: [Fink-users] Is Fink alive? (fwd)

person and the > necessary system(s) - for such a volunteer? I am tentatively interested. > > Thank You, > -- > Glenn Forbes Fleming Larratt > Cornell University IT Security Office > > -- Forwarded message ------ > Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2019 04:03:56 + > F

[fink-core] fink-0.44.1 tagged

Hey, folks. I’ve tagged a bugfix fink-0.44.1, mainly because bzip2 is currently busted for bootstrap. I’m too tired to do a release tonight, but I should be able to swing it tomorrow sometime unless somebody beats me to it. —Alex ___ fink-core

[fink-core] Backup website proposal

Hi, folks. If for some reason we have any downtime in getting our existing website infrastructure deployed, I’d like to propose using the website functionality on GitHub to set up a reduced interim version. Honestly, if we didn’t need the PDB, I’d rather use that as our main website because

Re: [fink-core] web (old) vs website (current) repo

> On Jan 28, 2019, at 03:24, Hanspeter Niederstrasser > wrote: > > in Github, we currently have the 'website' repo that's the up to date version > of our website and docs. There's also a 'web' repo that's a "temporary and > incomplete" conversion of the old CVS web module. Is there any

Re: [fink-core] Merge #166 ?

to have some Fink time due to unforeseen and unpleasant circumstances, so I can do a release and document the procedure I follow once we’re ready. Sent from Mail for Windows 10 From: Hanspeter Niederstrasser Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 2:11 AM To: Alexander Hansen; fink-core Subject: Re

[fink-core] Merge #166 ?

I was thinking that it might help us if we do the aforementioned merge to facilitate community testing, etc. -akh ___ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription

Re: [fink-core] CVS support at SourceForge and Nov. 30

> On Dec 1, 2017, at 09:05, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Dec 1, 2017, at 05:35, Max Horn <m...@quendi.de> wrote: >> >> Dear all, >> >> >> SF.net meant to disable CVS commits yesterday,

[fink-core] CVS commit freeze effective immediately

Since SourceForge.net was supposed to disable writes to the CVS repository any day now. Based on this I’m declaring a soft freeze on CVS commits. Please wait to update any non-base packages until we get the git distribution fully up and running. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

[fink-core] Time to de-emphasize SourceForge

be able to associate them directly with the relevant .info and .patch files once we get the distribution up and running there. I’m still OK with using SourceForge to host our tarballs. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] cvs currently broken

> On Sep 28, 2017, at 16:20, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > I can’t cvs update. The old stale lock problem: > cvs update: [23:12:34] waiting for thesin’s lock in > /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/net > It’s been going on for a while. Unfortunately,

Re: [fink-core] dpkg build failure on 10.13

> On Sep 28, 2017, at 15:28, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > While updating to dpkg 1.10.21-1246 on 10.13 I get the following error: > > /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/make -C "scripts" "all" > sed -e "s:^#![:space:]*/usr/bin/perl:#! /usr/bin/perl:; \

[fink-core] Unresolved ccfits maintainer email address

; Action: failed > Status: 5.0.0 (permanent failure) > Remote-MTA: dns; [134.107.106.50] > Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 5.1.0 - Unknown address error 550-'5.1.1 > <t...@hll.mpg.de>... User unknown' (delivery attempts: 0) > > From: Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > Subj

Re: [fink-core] New openssl location

y didn’t. http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/dists/10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/base/cvs.info?view=log With that not actually the case, I don’t see a compelling reason to put the newer libversion there. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison --

Re: [fink-core] New openssl location

> On Sep 26, 2016, at 04:44, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > There is a new OpenSSL libversion out, 1.1.0. I’ve made a new package but > want to check with everyone else where I should put it, base or crypto. It > does have a new BuildDepends, text-template-pm, so that

Re: [fink-core] Expat at Fink / Expat 2.2.0 has been released

pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/expat1> The fink-core list is fine for both regular updates and security issues. I’ve put packaging up at https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/4702/ <https://sourcefor

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] apt-get-lockwait update hangs every time

CC’ing the proper chain of command. I don’t really feel like speaking for the entire project in private discussion. > On May 30, 2016, at 12:32, Ian Boardman wrote: > > Dear Alexander, > I have no network problem reaching fink project servers from my Mac via my > Comcast

Re: [fink-core] apt-shlibs-0.5.4-1061

etty minimal—all we get is what you see above. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the

Re: [fink-core] bzip2-dev-1.0.6-1

y minimal—all we get is what you see above. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Mobile security can be enabling, not merely restricting. Employees who bring their own devices (BYOD) to work are irked by the imposition

Re: [fink-core] Updates regarding ftp.halifax.rwth-aachen.de

c from our end. We periodically check for (asynchronous) updates in our SourceForge CVS repository and update our rsync repository accordingly, so a remote push operation as an addition seems like it would fit. <snip? -- Alexa

Re: [fink-core] Correct contact address?

her -mirrors or -core should be fine, though we really need to get a few more team members subscribed to (or at least to read—I’d forgotten it even existed) the former. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -- Site

Re: [fink-core] Correct contact address?

> On Jan 21, 2016, at 13:46, Carsten Otto <o...@informatik.rwth-aachen.de> > wrote: > > Hi Alexander, > > On Thu, Jan 21, 2016 at 01:43:20PM -0800, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> Nope. Since you’re not actually subscribed to the lists you’re at the >> me

Re: [fink-core] apt-get-lockout hangs in every case

an use “sudo dpkg -i ” (that is, use the relative or absolute path to the file you just downloaded. The one drawback is that dependencies aren’t handled automatically. 2) If you also aren’t able to fetch package sources, you can download the sources using a browser

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-beginners] can not install any package.

ving fink-buildlock-libidn-1.32-3 ... >Failed: phase compiling: libidn-1.32-3 failed > > I have OS 10.9.5. I would like to get some help please. > > Thank you > > Oner Sufri > It looks like the new version of gettext-tools needs the xz package to be installed. Do

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

the new dist AND switch VCS at the same time. Best to start with a known non-broken state. :) Daniel I’ll go ahead and initialize this sometime later this week, if nobody objects. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as arepository for distributions

On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:50, Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:05 -0700, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: No surprise there. :-) I was going to initialize the 10.9-libc++ distribution, but then I got to thinking about whether it might

[fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

No surprise there. :-) I was going to initialize the 10.9-libc++ distribution, but then I got to thinking about whether it might not be a bad plan to use a cvs import of the 10.7 tree and then rename the directory, so that we can preserve the history. Thoughts? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink

[fink-core] Update to dpkg-base-files to handle known cases of files that block app bundle installs:

This covers the cases that we know about. When the package isn’t currently installed the prerm script isn’t triggered, so this isn’t triggered. If we decide to go with this option, do we want only to apply it only for 10.10 and later, or go ahead and use it for all supported OS X? -- Alexander Hansen

Re: [fink-core] I just created fink/fink-distributions on github as a repository for distributions

On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:53, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 10, 2015, at 09:50, Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org wrote: On Wed, 10 Jun 2015 09:34:05 -0700, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: No surprise there. :-) I was going

Re: [fink-core] missing base filename in web/srcdist.en.php

in when the version number was changed to a PHP variable: http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/web/download/srcdist.en.php?r1=1.72r2=1.73 Also appears to be in srcdist.de.php. -- Charles Lepple clepple@gmail Thanks! A fix should show up in a few minutes. -- Alexander Hansen

Re: [fink-core] udunits2-2.2.18-1 download fails

manager version: 0.38.3 Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Thu Feb 5 19:05:54 2015, 10.10, x86_64 Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto Nope, it was updated, but incorrectly. :-) It should be fixed now in CVS. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] Fink 0.38.3 backported to 10.4

, though). -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- New Year. New Location. New Benefits. New Data Center in Ashburn, VA. GigeNET is offering a free month of service

Re: [fink-core] dpkg-deb -Z

that the dpkg-deb Option for compression is not mention. Does it require other installation technique. I want to change compression form gzip to lzma. Would you please help me out? Regards, Paarth I'm cc'ing the appropriate discussion channel. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] system-java16-dev on OSX 10.10

On Nov 16, 2014, at 7:21 AM, Sean Lake odysseus9...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 16, 2014, at 7:13, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 16, 2014, at 7:02 AM, Sean Lake odysseus9...@gmail.com wrote: On Nov 16, 2014, at 6:55, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han

Re: [fink-core] kde x11 variant

didn’t work on 10.7 and later, and the current version of Qt really doesn’t want to build for X11 on OS X. Thus, we now only build native (Aqua) KDE for 10.7+ . -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison

Re: [fink-core] Servers down

for that! -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out

Re: [fink-core] update-passwd.in has hardcoded /sw

: Cheers, Remi I had fixed that in the master branch on passwd's github, but then got distracted by trying to get fink released. Sorry about the delay. Version 20131103 should solve that. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com

Re: [fink-core] last =cut in perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate/CVS.pm causes fink selfupdate to fail with 0.35.2 and 0.36.0

? -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Android is increasing in popularity, but the open development platform that developers love is also attractive to malware creators

Re: [fink-core] last =cut in perlmod/Fink/SelfUpdate/CVS.pm causes fink selfupdate to fail with 0.35.2 and 0.36.0

On 11/3/13 5:41 PM, Jason Byrne wrote: On Sun, Nov 3, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/3/13 5:27 PM, Jason Byrne wrote: FYI, the full transcript (notice there's also a complaint about setup.sh, line 48, but I didn't try to figure out the problem

Re: [fink-core] fink dumpinfo crashes on patchfile2

'appbundles' or It looks like the \d got placed in the wrong location, since we're not using e.g. patch2file. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- LIMITED TIME SALE

Re: [fink-core] SF.net tracker milestones

as it'll help in other border cases) The tracker item in question is here: https://sourceforge.net/p/fink/package-submissions/3102/ Cheers, Max Closed: other sounds good to me. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com

Re: [fink-core] issues with the recent updates to gettext and friends

On 8/25/13 3:08 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: 1) My bad, I didn't test using -m mode. There's a test failure for folks with vala installed. In gettext-tools lang-vala.log: Compilation failed: 1 error(s), 0 warning(s) In file included from /sw/build.build/gettext-tools-0.18.3.1-1/gettext

[fink-core] website

official website be on some place where there is actual support, like sourceforge or github. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Get your SQL database under version

Re: [fink-core] What I'm thinking about in mainline fink right now

On 6/23/13 11:15 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: On Jun 23, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On 6/23/13 8:45 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 6/23/13 7:04 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 6/23/13 6:55 AM, Daniel Johnson wrote: On Jun 20, 2013, at 9:55 PM

Re: [fink-core] What I'm thinking about in mainline fink right now

On 6/19/13 8:03 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: 1) I've finally smoothed some tuits down enough to work on https://github.com/fink/fink/issues/42 . This is going use a similar methodology as the system-SDK packages, in that we're not going to have system-javaXY packages present at all

Re: [fink-core] finch mail

, apparently. At least _I_ can't connect. it looks like the RSS feeds and rsync updates went down slightly after midnight UTC+1 on the 29th. The website is still up, for what it's worth, though we won't be able to update it (other than the wiki) until we get other forms of connectivity. -- Alexander

Re: [fink-core] Fink uninstall?

On 5/8/13 6:31 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 5/8/13 4:51 AM, Peter Wang wrote: Hi There: It is very hard for me to find out how to uninstall fink and get it over again. When I type: fink selfupdate, I got a message: ERROR: y is not an absolute directory path. What was wrong with my fink

Re: [fink-core] [Fink-users] Fink hangs forever (on tar) after mountain lion update

On 3/31/13 2:33 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: On 31/03/13 05:30, Alexander Hansen wrote: [] After some internal discussion, we've got another option for folks to look at: https://github.com/fink/fink/tree/branch__CFPREFERENCES_AVOID_DAEMON cf. https://trac.macports.org/ticket/34221

Re: [fink-core] gettext update on tracker

that it can be committed. I also have the changes to dpkg and libiconv and can push them to the tracker for testing (gettext, dpkg and libiconv should all be updated at the same time). Hanspeter Yeah, it'd be nice to have the dpkg and libiconv updates attached on that tracker item. -- Alexander

Re: [fink-core] Website

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/15/13 7:38 PM, Sjors Gielen wrote: Op 15-03-13 20:40, Alexander Hansen schreef: Does anybody have major objections to having fink.sourceforge.net not redirect to the mostly-dead finkproject.org? By the way, on a related topic: I talked

Re: [fink-core] Web services

On 2/22/13 3:04 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 2/22/13 12:42 PM, David (dmalloc) wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: (phinch is still down) As mentioned before I have a machine I am willing to contribute. I just do not have time to administer it. Yeah, I'm not sure what my own availability

Re: [fink-core] Web services

On 3/4/13 3:50 PM, Gockel Andreas wrote: On 04.03.2013, at 16:20, Alexander Hansen alexanderk.han...@gmail.com wrote: On 2/22/13 3:04 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: On 2/22/13 12:42 PM, David (dmalloc) wrote: Alexander Hansen wrote: (phinch is still down) As mentioned before I have

Re: [fink-core] finkproject.org is down again

with migration tasks. :-) -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -- Free Next-Gen Firewall Hardware Offer Buy your Sophos next-gen firewall before the end March 2013

Re: [fink-core] finkproject.org is down again

On 2/13/13 7:49 AM, Sjors Gielen wrote: Op 13-02-13 15:43, Alexander Hansen schreef: On 2/10/13 10:54 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: The last log entry was at 15:40:01 CET, so it's been about 3 hours. It's now been about 99 hours. If nobody actually has the time to deal with these things