Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Packages in the tracker to kickstart ...

2005-11-09 Thread Kevin Horton
On 8-Nov-05, at 22:20 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 11/8/05, Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/05, Kevin Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8-Nov-05, at 18:21 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker.

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Packages in the tracker to kickstart ...

2005-11-09 Thread Kevin Horton
On 9-Nov-05, at 07:09 , Kevin Horton wrote: On 8-Nov-05, at 22:20 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: On 11/8/05, Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 11/8/05, Kevin Horton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8-Nov-05, at 18:21 , Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try

Re: [Fink-devel] perlmodule example files

2005-11-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
Koen van der Drift wrote: Hi, What's a proper location to install example files that come with a perl module? The package bioperl-pm that I maintain stores a bunch of those files in /sw/bin. Which prompts the validator to give the following message: ... A possibility could be

[Fink-devel] ConfFiles and Python packages variants

2005-11-09 Thread Sébastien Maret
I've downloaded an update of the pyx-py from the trackers (#1306090). The package installs a conf file in /sw/etc / that is listed in the ConfFiles: field of the info file. However, when trying to two variant (-py23 and -py24), dpkg complains about overwriting the file: /sw/bin/dpkg: error

Re: [Fink-devel] ConfFiles and Python packages variants

2005-11-09 Thread Andrea Riciputi
Hi Sébastian, I've added the ConfFiles field to the pyx info file exactly with the idea that it would have been shared between different variants. Anyway re-reading the packaging manual I've noticed that (citing from the manual): When a package is removed, the configuration files will

[Fink-devel] How to determine required dependencies?

2005-11-09 Thread Kevin Horton
I have created a few fink packages, but I always find it a struggle to determine what to list as Depends, and BuildDepends. Sometimes I can glean a few hints from studying the output of the build process, and sometimes a failed build is a good clue. But I am never sure to have captured

Re: [Fink-devel] How to determine required dependencies?

2005-11-09 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Nov 9, 2005, at 6:01 PM, Kevin Horton wrote: I have created a few fink packages, but I always find it a struggle to determine what to list as Depends, and BuildDepends. Sometimes I can glean a few hints from studying the output of the build process, and sometimes a failed build is a

Re: [Fink-devel] How to determine required dependencies?

2005-11-09 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Nov 9, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Koen van der Drift wrote: I'm not an 'old pro', but what I usually do for a new package is to remove all non-essential packages (eg with FinkCommander). And then start from scratch to compile the package. Then one by one I start to add packages based on the

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink binary distributions

2005-11-09 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 11/8/05, Brendan Cully [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday, 08 November 2005 at 18:21, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Speaking for myself, I can now try to expedite some packages out of the tracker. Anybody reading this thread who's got a package sitting around, please email me (better yet,

Re: [Fink-devel] Implicit epoch for distributions

2005-11-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Chris Zubrzycki wrote: On Nov 8, 2005, at 9:33 PM, Blair Zajac wrote: Do we have an implicit epoch for distributions, so that a package built under 10.3 will be implicitly a lower version than the same package version and revision number under 10.4-t? [] Long ago I repeatedly proposed

Re: [Fink-devel] ConfFiles and Python packages variants

2005-11-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Andrea Riciputi wrote: [] AFAICU this is the reason why dpkg fails when you try to replace -py24 variant with the -py23 one. [] On Nov 9, 2005, at 17:35 , Sébastien Maret wrote: I've downloaded an update of the pyx-py from the trackers (#1306090). The package installs a conf file in /sw/etc