Re: [Fink-devel] fink using apt-get

2004-09-06 Thread Rob Braun
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 06:31:48PM -0600, TheSin wrote: > > so the description is true but the implementation isn't that difficult. > and using the download only option in apt-get will fix the problem in > your 2nd step/requirement. As you can see in the patch, that is what it does. Uses the

[Fink-devel] Re: Using the built-in openssl

2004-09-06 Thread Blair Zajac
David R. Morrison wrote: Dear Fink developers, A few of us were discussing the possibility of switching a number of fink packages from the fink-provided openssl to the built-in openssl. This would allow us to include ssl functionality even in the non-crypto tree, and could cut down on potential

Re: [Fink-devel] fink using apt-get

2004-09-06 Thread TheSin
well this isn't 100% true. I made fink do this in the past. This is what I did 1) use fink to get the list of depends including version and revision. 2) in the fink engine before the fetch, do an apt-get install on a versioned version, if an error then continue, else set to installed and continu

[Fink-devel] fink using apt-get

2004-09-06 Thread Rob Braun
Something I have been toying with for a while now is fink being able to use apt-get-able packages. Sometimes when building something large, many of the dependency packages are already in a bindist somewhere, and I'd rather not build each and every one, just the packages newer than what is in the b

[Fink-devel] Re: Package database webpage layout

2004-09-06 Thread Daniel E. Macks
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > The first option uses the screen real estate better. The column headers > that are somewhat too heavy could be made lighter by replacing the > two-liners "stableversion" and "unstableversion" by just > "stable" and "unstable". It is clear at this po

Re: [Fink-devel] Using the built-in openssl

2004-09-06 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] Our ability to do this relies on the BuildConflicts functionality which is now present in fink. By using "BuildConflicts: openssl-dev, openssl097-dev", we prevent the packages from linking to the fink versions, and they are forced to link to the system's version. One

[Fink-devel] Using the built-in openssl

2004-09-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, A few of us were discussing the possibility of switching a number of fink packages from the fink-provided openssl to the built-in openssl. This would allow us to include ssl functionality even in the non-crypto tree, and could cut down on potential errors from mixing and m

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: openssl097-dev conflicts with system man pages

2004-09-06 Thread Daniel Macks
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 03:41:14PM -0400, Daniel Johnson wrote: > On Sep 5, 2004, at 3:05 PM, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > > >I just noticed that openssl097-dev installs /sw/share/man/man3/err.3 > >(describing OpenSSL error codes) which conflicts with > >/usr/share/man/man3/err.3 (describing the BSD

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.298,1.299

2004-09-06 Thread Benjamin Reed
David H. wrote: I, as a dummy Java user, would assume that Fink picks the latest JAVA that Apple installed on my machine. Now if I happen to have 1.3., 1.4, 1.5 it would pick 1.5 I dunno if that is fatal ? (I guess I have installed 1.5 so it would be my fault). Just fooling around, I know little a

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.298,1.299

2004-09-06 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Benjamin Reed wrote: | Darian Lanx wrote: | |> More of a philosophical question. Should the code not try to pick the |> _latest_ JVM that is present,. Thus most likely the one with the most |> features and the one a common user would be using? | |

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.298,1.299

2004-09-06 Thread Benjamin Reed
Darian Lanx wrote: More of a philosophical question. Should the code not try to pick the _latest_ JVM that is present,. Thus most likely the one with the most features and the one a common user would be using? If they didn't ask for a specific JVM, wouldn't you want to make bytecode that works w

[Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink PkgVersion.pm,1.298,1.299

2004-09-06 Thread Darian Lanx
Benjamin Reed wrote: Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv4954/perlmod/Fink Modified Files: PkgVersion.pm Log Message: make sure we pick the lowest JVM found if the user doesn't specify they wanted a specific version More of a philosoph