Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > > > Martin, please try imagemagick-5.5.1-23 (now in 10.3/stable). I've hacked > > around the "poll" problem, and "display" seems to work OK. > > Yes, it works, thanks. Now one just needs to do this for version 5.5.7 :-) >

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation

2003-12-13 Thread Patrick Näf
Am Donnerstag, 11.12.03, um 14:38 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb David R. Morrison: Ben Hines has again raised the issue of how we handle perl modules which are provided by newer versions of perl, but were not provided by older versions of perl. This has been brought up before by JF Mertens. I'm

[Fink-devel] lftp and lftp-ssl need security-related upgrade

2003-12-13 Thread Marc Bejarano
i'm not subscribed to this list, so please cc: me on any replies the lftp and lftp-ssl packages need to be upgraded to 2.6.10 to fix a serious security hole. from SSA:2003-346-01 available at http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2003&m=slackware-security.364571 ==

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1299 - 8 msgs

2003-12-13 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Perhaps in the DescPort section, or a similar non-user section? Shouldn't be too hard... Also, judging from the number of packages that are submitted and approved via/from the package submission tracker, i don't think that it is reasonable to say that most packages that have SUID bit binaries a

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1299 - 8 msgs

2003-12-13 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 John Davidorff Pell wrote: > On the topic of security, would you like to find out one day that you > have several SUID binaries on your system that you did not know about? I > recently searched for them and found that fink had installed one from >

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1299 - 8 msgs

2003-12-13 Thread John Davidorff Pell
I totally understand the issue, but I think that it is not as big as many would suggest. I'm not advocating using the SF compile farm at this time, I realize that its not the *best* ides, in fact its almost always better to have our own, if we (fink) can afford it. On the topic of security, wou

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1299 - 8 msgs

2003-12-13 Thread John Davidorff Pell
Are you saying that *ANY* binary build on the sourceforge servers is potentially tampered with? Are you saying that fink has more binary distro users than people who use sorceforge binaries already? Wow, I never new that we had *that* many users! And in the binary distro alone! JP On Dec 13,

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: [] poll.c:282: failed assertion `pArray != (struct pollfd *) NULL' Abort This might be something in the code though. Poll is not implemented in the Kernel on Mac os X, it is an emulation layer on top

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: [] I would try out display from imagemagick, but I first have to compile the new version that hopefully will not crash like the present one does. NoSuchLuck™. Display still crashes as soon as I click on the splash screen to get a menu, or all by itself when I call it with

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink Engine.pm,1.138,1.139

2003-12-13 Thread TheSin
yes, and that was/is my intent. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 13-Dec-03, at 7:22 AM, Benjamin Reed wrote: Max Horn wrote: - # Incase no packages meet the requirements above. + # In case no packages meet the requirements a

[Fink-devel] mime-tools-pm question

2003-12-13 Thread Koen van der Drift
Hi, During the install of mime-tools-pm (5.411a-3), I noticed that the man files (MIME::foo.pm) are installed into %p/share/man/, instead of %i/share/man. Is this intentional for perl modules? Installation went fine otherwise. - Koen. ---

[Fink-devel] Attn: Jeremy Higgs concerning libnet...

2003-12-13 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 patch -p1 sh: line 1: /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/net/libnet1.1-1.1.0-3.patch: No such file or directory ### execution of patch failed, exit code 1 Failed: patching libnet1.1-1.1.0-3 failed looks like the patch invocation has not been

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: That seems weird... Why would freetype have anything to do with postscript fonts? And I thought you would explain this to me. Oh well :-( I cannot believe that scribus is the only application that uses freetype to load all sorts of fonts, including type1. How is gnome doin

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text scribus-1.0.1-22.info,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.info~,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.patch,NONE,1.1 scribus.info,1.7,1.8

2003-12-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry, I read fink-commits before fink-devel this morning... -- Dave --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: My questions: Are there any other freetype2-using packages out there that might have had similar problems? The problems are with postscript fonts like those in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1; most TrueType fonts don't show the problems. Or does anyone have an explanation

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink Engine.pm,1.138,1.139

2003-12-13 Thread Benjamin Reed
Max Horn wrote: - # Incase no packages meet the requirements above. + # In case no packages meet the requirements above. + # FIXME: This will print "Nothing remove" and "Nothing purge" + # the way it is currently used. Which isn't proper english... if ($#packages <

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text scribus-1.0.1-22.info,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.info~,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.patch,NONE,1.1 scribus.info,1.7,1.8

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] Hi Martin. I think that this can only be regarded as a short-term fix. Of course. Did you see my message "Bad news from the freetype2 front" to fink-devel? We're intending to rely on the X11-supplied libfreetype in the 10.3 tree, in the long run. Do you know why that

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text scribus-1.0.1-22.info,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.info~,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.patch,NONE,1.1 scribus.info,1.7,1.8

2003-12-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text > In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv3792 > > Modified Files: > scribus.info > Added Files: > scribus-1.0.1-22.info scribus-1.0.1-22.info~ > scribus-1.0.1-22.patch >

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1299 - 8 msgs

2003-12-13 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 John Davidorff Pell wrote: Which is a huge problem to begin with, how about we fix that?! First of all, I have to concur with all the "PROBLEMS" mentioned by Max. There is no single reason why we would _want_ to use a public compile farm. As th

[Fink-devel] applesystemfonts anyone?

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
It would be nice to have the applesystemfont package on Panther. The version 1.0-4 from 10.2-gcc3.3 almost works: It creates /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf and populates it with a decent collection of symlinks and ttf fonts and a fonts.dir file. It also does some redundant but innocent stuff relate

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1299 - 8 msgs

2003-12-13 Thread Max Horn
Am Samstag, 13.12.03 um 06:10 Uhr schrieb John Davidorff Pell: Which is a huge problem to begin with, how about we fix that?! Even if "we" (I assume you mean you volunteer?) "fix" that, we shouldn't use the compile farm, for simple security reasons. Hundred thousands of people have local access

[Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
I used to be all in favor of eliminating freetype2 from the 10.3 tree, because it seemed we finally had a decent freetype2 in X11. Unfortunately it now appears that the freetype2 in Apple's X11 just doesn't cut it. Here is the story: The scribus package (both in its stable version 1.0.1 and in