[Fink-devel] /sw/lib/libiberty.a

2003-12-24 Thread Kyle Moffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was trying to make a cross-compiling tool-chain (powerpc-apple-darwin7.2.0 = powerpc-unknown-linux-gnu) and I discovered that binutils, gcc, and ddd (Max Horn's package) all attempt to install /sw/lib/libiberty.a. What is the best way to handle

[Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Fink selfupdate installs the new fink-0.17.2-1 and then crashees when trying to install the new fink-mirrors package: Re-executing fink to use the new version... Information about 2203 packages read in 3 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: fink-mirrors Failed: No mirror

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread David R. Morrison
THanks, Martin. I switched fink-mirrors to use CustomMirror, which should hopefully cure the problem. Merry Christmas to you as well! -- Dave --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: THanks, Martin. I switched fink-mirrors to use CustomMirror, which should hopefully cure the problem. Merry Christmas to you as well! Hmm, it still breaks with Failed: No mirror site list file found for mirror 'master'. Not sure where this comes from. Perhaps because

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin I am now trying to find a way out of this by Arggh. I just got bit by this too! Martin 1. reinstalling the old version of fink-0.17.1-1 I did that with ./inject.pl /sw Martin 2. fink fetch fink-mirrors This doesn't work. I still

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Randal == Randal L Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin I am now trying to find a way out of this by Randal Arggh. I just got bit by this too! Martin 1. reinstalling the old version of fink-0.17.1-1 Randal I did that with ./inject.pl

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread David R. Morrison
fink 0.17.3 will fix this... should be out within 30 minutes... -- Dave --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become an expert in LINUX or just sharpen your skills. Sign up for IBM's Free Linux Tutorials. Learn

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin I am now trying to find a way out of this by Arggh. I just got bit by this too! Martin 1. reinstalling the old version of fink-0.17.1-1 I did that with ./inject.pl /sw Did this really install the old

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin I am now trying to find a way out of this by Arggh. I just got bit by this too! Martin 1. reinstalling the old version of fink-0.17.1-1 I did that

[Fink-devel] hdf5 1.6.1-1 not building

2003-12-24 Thread Blair Zajac
Hello, I'm getting this error when attempting to build hdf 1.6.1-1 with 10.3: $ fink install hdf5 hdf5-bin hdf5-shlibs /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install hdf5 hdf5-bin hdf5-shlibs Information about 2195 packages read in 2 seconds. The following 3 packages will be installed or updated: hdf5

Re: [Fink-devel] hdf5 1.6.1-1 not building

2003-12-24 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Blair: Fixed now. -Jeff On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Blair Zajac wrote: Hello, I'm getting this error when attempting to build hdf 1.6.1-1 with 10.3: $ fink install hdf5 hdf5-bin hdf5-shlibs /usr/bin/sudo /sw/bin/fink install hdf5 hdf5-bin hdf5-shlibs Information about 2195 packages read in 2

[Fink-devel] Stuffit ARV 8.0.2 fixes 'mv' bug

2003-12-24 Thread James Gibbs
If anyone is interested, the latest version of Stuffit Deluxe (8.0.2) released a couple of days ago contains a version of Stuffit AVR (ArchiveViaRename) that works properly with fink. Specifically, it allows for proper functioning of the mv command.

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base fink-0.17.3-1.info,NONE,1.1 fink-mirrors-0.0.2-2.info,NONE,1.1 fink-0.17.2-1.info,1.1,NONE fink-mirrors-0.0.2-1.info,1.2,NONE

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Why not use the new info file name format? it sure helps to track changes. -Ben On Dec 24, 2003, at 12:38 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base In directory sc8-pr-cvs1:/tmp/cvs-serv2951 Added Files: fink-0.17.3-1.info

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dpendencies

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Solutions: Either one allows gettext-dev to Depend on libiconv-dev (but this not only violates policy but may also break bootstrapping, because gettext-dev might be needed before libiconv is built), or all packages that are susceptible to be

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 11, 2003, at 5:38 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: The obvious solution to this problem would be to use versioned Provides statements. That is, if you installed perl581 (or the virtual system-perl581), you would get You seem to misunderstand my issue. We already have versioned provides.

[Fink-devel] Manual pages in /sw/man (code2html, shntool, gaim-ssl, jove, trackballs, snownews, shorten)

2003-12-24 Thread Kyle Moffett
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To the maintainers of code2html, shntool, gaim-ssl, jove, trackballs, snownews, and shorten. Does fink validate check this? If not, could that be added? Also, if it is not already, running fink validate should be required for all packages before

Re: [Fink-devel] Manual pages in /sw/man (code2html, shntool, gaim-ssl, jove, trackballs, snownews, shorten)

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Yes, it does check that on the deb file, but most folks probably don't realize that deb files can be validated. Its also easy to miss changes when updating packages. btw: main/finkinfo/libs 166 % fink validate libfinch0.info Validating package file libfinch0.info... Warning: Field files of

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base fink-0.17.3-1.info,NONE,1.1 fink-mirrors-0.0.2-2.info,NONE,1.1 fink-0.17.2-1.info,1.1,NONE fink-mirrors-0.0.2-1.info,1.2,NONE

2003-12-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Ben Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why not use the new info file name format? it sure helps to track changes. -Ben On Dec 24, 2003, at 12:38 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/base In directory

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation

2003-12-24 Thread David R. Morrison
Ben Hines [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Dec 11, 2003, at 5:38 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: The obvious solution to this problem would be to use versioned Provides statements. That is, if you installed perl581 (or the virtual system-perl581), you would get You seem to

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
On Dec 24, 2003, at 9:37 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: My belief is that the Provides line is not enough to satisfy dpkg. Certainly that was true in the early days of fink. It's possible that it has changed, and that I haven't kept up with dpkg's capabilities. I'm not talking about adding

[Fink-devel] inject.pl broken

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Looks like its not clearing out the index again. % ./inject.pl sudo ./inject.pl /sw Password: Creating fink tarball... tar -cf /sw/src/fink-0.17.2.cvs.tar COPYING INSTALL INSTALL.html README README.html USAGE USAGE.html Makefile ChangeLog VERSION fink.in fink.8.in fink.conf.5.in install.sh

Re: [Fink-devel] inject.pl broken

2003-12-24 Thread Ben Hines
Ah, nevermind, looks like the fink VERSION file simply wasn't updated to .3 in CVS. -Ben On Dec 24, 2003, at 10:38 PM, Ben Hines wrote: Looks like its not clearing out the index again. % ./inject.pl sudo ./inject.pl /sw Password: Creating fink tarball... tar -cf /sw/src/fink-0.17.2.cvs.tar