[Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #2183 - 4 msgs

2006-01-20 Thread Murali Vadivelu
Dear Dan, This is what I did: I searched in google for 'Fink Package submission' and it Fink's sf.net projects home page (sf.net/projects/fink/) was the sublink of the first hit in the search. You don't go to fink.sf.net. Click on 'package submission' link in the middle of the second line

[Fink-devel] aptitude in fink

2006-01-20 Thread Murali Vadivelu
Does aptitude and fink share the same database and can it be used interchangeably? Why not make fink aptitude like? I like aptitude's automatic removal of dependencies when removing the package with which it was installed in the first place, if it is not depended by something else that is

Re: [Fink-devel] aptitude in fink

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 1/20/06, Murali Vadivelu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does aptitude and fink share the same database Not directly. aptitude only knows about binary packages (either on your system or on a binary distribution server) while fink also knows about the source distribution. and can it be used

Re: [Fink-devel] aptitude in fink

2006-01-20 Thread Murali Vadivelu
fink remove --recursive packagename does the same thing. It doesn't! I tried removing aptitude which I just installed with the following dependencies: apt-dev html2text libgettext3-dev libsigc++2 libsigc++2-shlibs sed The dependencies are still there! fink remove --recursive aptitude

[Fink-devel] following stable, got cvs dependency failure

2006-01-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Failed: Can't resolve dependency gettext-shlibs for package cvs-1.12.13-1 (no matching packages/versions found) Started showing up about two days ago. Known? Fixable? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com

[Fink-devel] CVS chill

2006-01-20 Thread David R. Morrison
I am imposing a chill on CVS, for the 10.4-transitional tree (both stable and unstable). During the chill, I ask that people only make urgent commits, and that they try to avoid changing packages which have a GCC tag. (Of course, bug fixes are always welcome, particularly if they involve

Re: [Fink-devel] aptitude in fink

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 1/20/06, Murali Vadivelu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: fink remove --recursive packagename does the same thing. It doesn't! I tried removing aptitude which I just installed with the following dependencies: apt-dev html2text libgettext3-dev libsigc++2 libsigc++2-shlibs sed The dependencies are

Re: [Fink-devel] following stable, got cvs dependency failure

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 20 Jan 2006 06:17:29 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com wrote: Failed: Can't resolve dependency gettext-shlibs for package cvs-1.12.13-1 (no matching packages/versions found) Started showing up about two days ago. Known? Fixable? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: [Fink-devel] following stable, got cvs dependency failure

2006-01-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Alexander == Alexander K Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Ummm...why are you bothering fink-devel for a maintained package? Because I don't know if the problem is the cvs package, the gettext package, or fink itself. I figure that all three responsible people are listening to *this*

Re: [Fink-devel] following stable, got cvs dependency failure

2006-01-20 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
On 20 Jan 2006 11:37:19 -0800, Randal L. Schwartz merlyn@stonehenge.com wrote: Alexander == Alexander K Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Alexander Ummm...why are you bothering fink-devel for a maintained package? Because I don't know if the problem is the cvs package, the gettext package,

[Fink-devel] New AUCTeX version

2006-01-20 Thread Andrea Riciputi
Hi all, after some hard work and many trials and errors, I've managed to have a (hopefully) working updated AUCTeX package for Fink. You can find (and test!!) the new .info and .patch files on the submission tracker: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?