[Fink-devel] fink vs apt-get

2002-01-15 Thread Evan Martin
I'm a longtime (maybe four years, now!) Debian user who bought a Mac laptop because of Fink, so excuse me if I go about this the wrong way, but: Why do we even have this "fink" program? What about the Debian system didn't work? If you look at the fink-beginners mailing list, they're literally

[Fink-devel] Initial 0.3.2a complete

2002-01-15 Thread Max Horn
The base part of 0.3.2a is complete. I have uploaded packages-0.3.2a.tar.gz, fink-0.3.2a-full.tar.gz and fink-0.3.2a-installer.dmg.gz to SourceForge. The download & package database web pages have already been updated. I also added a 0.3.2a branch to the bindist. I will have to start building

Re: [Fink-devel] I've made some packages...

2002-01-15 Thread Sylvain Cuaz
Le mardi 15 janvier 2002, à 11:59 PM, Matthew S. Harris a écrit : > Hi all, > > I've packaged a few of the programs that I've gotten to work under OS > X, and according to the fink-devel description, this is the place to > post the package descriptions to get them added to Fink. You're

[Fink-devel] I've made some packages...

2002-01-15 Thread Matthew S. Harris
Hi all, I've packaged a few of the programs that I've gotten to work under OS X, and according to the fink-devel description, this is the place to post the package descriptions to get them added to Fink. I've been pretty careful to make sure they are well-behaved, so I don't expect any problems

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Max Horn
At 22:20 Uhr + 15.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 10:17 pm, Max Horn wrote: > >>At 22:03 Uhr + 15.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >> >>>Ummm http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/index.php >> >>"full detail porting guide" -> no. > >Kinda "developer FAQ"

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Justin Hallett
if it's not I agree [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Kinda "developer FAQ"-ish, though. And is common. I think >it should be added :-) ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., Justin F. Hallett CAISnet Inc. 2nd Floor, 11635 - 160 Stree

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 10:17 pm, Max Horn wrote: > At 22:03 Uhr + 15.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: > >> Ummm http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/porting/index.php > > "full detail porting guide" -> no. Kinda "developer FAQ"-ish, though. And is common. I think it should be added

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Max Horn
At 22:03 Uhr + 15.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:35 pm, Max Horn wrote: > >>Plus there is no "developer FAQ" currently. I am not sure if it is >>exactly part of our goal to write a full detail porting guide, >>anyway. At least I don't see where the resour

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:35 pm, Max Horn wrote: > Plus there is no "developer FAQ" currently. I am not sure if it is > exactly part of our goal to write a full detail porting guide, anyway. > At least I don't see where the resources for such a thing should come, > but if anybody i

[Fink-devel] 0.3.2a work beginning now

2002-01-15 Thread Max Horn
I will now tag the package CVS for 0.3.2a, and begin testing / building the release. If you have any concerns or want to have some changes absolutly in, contact me directly, and do it *now*. In emergencies, you can reach me in our IRC channel (#fink on irc.openprojects.net, just say something

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Mike Barnes
On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 05:35, Max Horn wrote: > This violates POSIX, is easy to fix, the fix has basically no bad > side effects, it was changed in FreeBSD a long time ago AFAIK, but > well, on Darwin it's there anyway :) OK - I have a clue now. :) Must have been dealt with on NetBSD as well, si

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Max Horn
At 15:15 Uhr +1100 15.01.2002, Mike Barnes wrote: [...] >Oh, small request: could someone put the "include sys/types.h before >dirent.h" problem into an FAQ somewhere. Well it's sort of a standard BSD problem, that's why it's not mentioned a - unix programmer should know it :). Plus there is no

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.3.2a

2002-01-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:30 pm, Max Horn wrote: > At 18:20 Uhr + 15.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >> On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 10:41 pm, Max Horn wrote: >> >>> Also, is it a good idea to use 0.3.2a (originally I thought this was >>> good to indicate only small things chan

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.3.2a

2002-01-15 Thread Max Horn
At 18:20 Uhr + 15.01.2002, Finlay Dobbie wrote: >On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 10:41 pm, Max Horn wrote: > >>Also, is it a good idea to use 0.3.2a (originally I thought this >>was good to indicate only small things changed), or should we >>rather use 0.3.3? I am still tending more to 0.3.

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.3.2a

2002-01-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Monday, January 14, 2002, at 10:41 pm, Max Horn wrote: > Also, is it a good idea to use 0.3.2a (originally I thought this was > good to indicate only small things changed), or should we rather use > 0.3.3? I am still tending more to 0.3.2a, but I am certainly open on > suggestions :) 'a'

Re: [Fink-devel] Common problems?

2002-01-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 04:15 am, Mike Barnes wrote: > Oh, small request: could someone put the "include sys/types.h before > dirent.h" problem into an FAQ somewhere. I manged to get Google to pull > it out of the list archives, but it wasn't easy. Spent about half an > hour on that on

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: TkCVS - Use of directory mann?

2002-01-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 02:28 am, Dorothy Robinson wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how is it that "man" on MacOS X doesn't look in > mann? What do you mean, "how is it"? It's quite easy, you just don't specify it in the configuration file for man... -- Finlay __

Re: [Fink-devel] apache & php

2002-01-15 Thread Finlay Dobbie
On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 01:35 am, Nicholas Orr wrote: > On 15/1/02 11:57 AM, "Matt Stephenson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Finlay has already taken over apache and update the package I think >> yesterday. > > The 1.3.22 in unstable compiles and runs just fine on my powerbook. No >

Re: [Fink-devel] splitting up packages

2002-01-15 Thread David R. Morrison
> Do the doc and bin packages need DocFiles? Every package needs DocFiles (or a less-automated installation of something into %p/share/doc/%n). -- Dave ___ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-d

[Fink-devel] splitting up packages

2002-01-15 Thread Peter O'Gorman
Hi, I am about to sumbit new versions of db3 and db4 to the tracker. First though, I have split them into: db3 db3-bin db3-doc db4 db4-bin db4-doc The docs are about 6Mb each on my HFS+ disks, and most users don't need them, so... Question: Do the doc and bin packages need DocFiles? Also note

Re: [Fink-devel] man/mann

2002-01-15 Thread Sylvain Cuaz
Le lundi 14 janvier 2002, à 10:36 PM, Max Horn a écrit : > At 16:05 Uhr -0700 13.01.2002, Jeff Whitaker wrote: >> Max: >> >> I think the best solution for now is to create fink man package and >> have >> packages like tcltk that put stuff in sections not supported by the >> apple >> man, depen