[Fink-devel] Depends ignored during build phase

2003-12-15 Thread Daniel Macks
Both of these should fail during the build phase (notice "dlcompa" typo, giving a -dev or -shlibs package that does not exist). Package: foo Depends: dlcompat-shlibs BuildDepends: dlcompa-dev Package: bar Depends: dlcompa-shlibs BuildDepends: dlcompat-dev Using fink from CVS (HEAD, t

Re: [Fink-devel] Identically named packages

2003-12-15 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 15, 2003, at 6:24 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Things should not be depending on python, they ought to depend on the specific version of python that they require, if the package is indeed So what then is the 'python' splitoff for? -Ben --

Re: [Fink-devel] bin-dist made more regularely

2003-12-15 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi Dave, On Dec 12, 2003, at 2:16 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Hi Remi. As Ben Reed pointed out, our biggest problem in setting up more frequent bindists is getting the system fully automated. In fact, as of now, only three people have ever made full bindists, and its only a partially autom

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

2003-12-15 Thread Benjamin Reed
David R. Morrison wrote: Ah, I had another idea. We could create a freetype213 package which would do all its installs in a non-standard location. You'd have to mess with the link lines to make sure that scribus finds freetype213 and its headers, rather than the one in /usr/X11R6, but that should

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

2003-12-15 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David R. Morrison wrote: | Martin, | | Have you tried statically linking freetype2 into scribus? | Well, I am tending to agree with Martin here, a real freetype2-dev package may be required. It could be called a different name, freetype2-real-dev and f

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

2003-12-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Ah, I had another idea. We could create a freetype213 package which would do all its installs in a non-standard location. You'd have to mess with the link lines to make sure that scribus finds freetype213 and its headers, rather than the one in /usr/X11R6, but that should be possible. -- Dave

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

2003-12-15 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, Have you tried statically linking freetype2 into scribus? -- 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

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

2003-12-15 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: 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. After some further investigations and discussions with t

Re: [Fink-devel] Old style package name with epoch > 0

2003-12-15 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi Peter, On Dec 15, 2003, at 5:36 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Remi Mommsen wrote: | | | Well, I don't really use the information from the package name, | otherwise I would have problems with the new convention anyway. I just | have a kind of lazy pars

[Fink-devel] openssl in 10.3/stable/main/finkinfo

2003-12-15 Thread Remi Mommsen
Hi, I noticed that the info and patch file for openssl is found in 10.3/stable/main/finkinfo which are identical to 10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo, but differ from the 10.3/stable/crypto version. I guess this is a mistake that openssl for 10.3/stable is in the main branch and not in crypto. Ch

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation

2003-12-15 Thread jfm
On Dec 15, 2003, at 8:39 AM, Patrick Näf wrote: jfm said: Typically perl580 (eg) will install the same man pages, at the same place. So in order for the user not to have to force-overwrites , yes, you need such a Replaces (and perl580 too) _ if this is the case with your package. Ah, I see, the w

Re: [Fink-devel] Identically named packages

2003-12-15 Thread Peter O'Gorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ben Hines wrote: | On Dec 9, 2003, at 2:44 PM, Max Horn wrote: | |> |> Why was this done? Why not "netpbm10-bin", which then "Provides: |> netpbm-bin" ? | | | I agree, and was complaining about this the other day. Identically named | packages should be

Re: [Fink-devel] new fink commands

2003-12-15 Thread jfm
Opinions seems to me to go a bit too much in one single direction on this _ so let me try to play the devil's advocate.. On Dec 9, 2003, at 11:44 PM, Max Horn wrote: Am Dienstag, 09.12.03 um 21:56 Uhr schrieb TheSin: netpbm10 has 2 children: -> netpbm10-shlibs -> netpbm-bin so net

Re: [Fink-devel] A few interesting facts about the Fink Webv-Site.

2003-12-15 Thread Rohan Lloyd
On 15 Dec 2003, at 7:24 PM, D. Höhn wrote: While this attempt at tracking was and is in no way complete it does show us where we could invest some more time. Most of our referrers seem to come from google , some are pouring in from apple.com now and a lot are coming from the guy who owns the fink

[Fink-devel] A few interesting facts about the Fink Webv-Site.

2003-12-15 Thread "D. Höhn"
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Good morning Community. Over the last two weeks I run a little remote tracking tool on their Fink web-site. The tool has brought up some new, quite interesting results and it leaves room for educated guesses. I have been tracking only a few pages,