Re: [Fink-devel] A request to all package porters..

2002-12-20 Thread Justin Hallett
as soon as the fink bug is fixed I'll be making one. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >We should also start talking about what is needed for fink to have an >unstable tree bindist. -=[JFH] Justin F. Hallett -=[JFH] Rendek Communications Inc. -=[JFH] [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Fink-devel] A request to all package porters..

2002-12-20 Thread Ben Hines
On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 03:36 PM, David wrote: What do I consider a popular package? Well, you decide. I have been using a lot of Software over the past 15 years and I think I know many packages which I would deem popular, yet there might be many I do not know about and thus, pleas

[Fink-devel] positive feedback for packages maintained by Masanori Sekino

2002-12-20 Thread Kow K
Sorry for broadcasting this message, but all my emails sent to Masanori Sekino ([EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]) have returned due to temporary over quota. The following unstable packages compiled successfully on my PowerBook G3 (Wallstreet), with 320MB RAM, 18GB IDE drive. List of packag

Re: [Fink-devel] A request to all package porters..

2002-12-20 Thread Benjamin Reed
> What do I consider a popular package? Well, you decide. I have been > using a lot of Software over the past 15 years and I think I know many > packages which I would deem popular, yet there might be many I do not > know about and thus, please keep the mails coming. On that note, I just put tomca

[Fink-devel] A request to all package porters..

2002-12-20 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dear Developers. I have a request I would like to pass on to everyone of you. In order to keep this project alive in the press I am planning on increasing the frequency of announcements. I am sure most of you hate empty words just as much as

Re: Just a note on this --> was(Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields)

2002-12-20 Thread David
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 I disagree. Of course locally made checksums are not as safe as are ones you get from the "vendors". but in the end, if their download packages can be hacked and replaced by wormed packages, so can their websites listing the MD5 checksums.

Re: [Fink-devel] gnome packages missing symlinks

2002-12-20 Thread David R. Morrison
The dylib files you found are in the package libgnomeui2-shlibs. The ones you are missing are in the package libgnomeui2-dev (that's where we keep both the headers and the symbolic links). When you make a Fink package depending on this library, you specify: Depends: libgnomeui2-shlibs BuildDepen