Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread Koen van der Drift
So gcc finally finished, and I got the same error. Here's the output as requested: dpkg-deb -b root-gcc4-4.1.-20060617 /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/ binary-darwin-powerpc/languages dpkg-deb: building package `gcc4' in `/sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/

[Fink-devel] License question

2007-03-04 Thread Tristan Thiede
I'd like to package the appscript-py python mod, but it comes with the following license: -- Copyright (C) 2006 HAS Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the Software), to deal in the Software without

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread David Fang
Because mysql takes not so much time to build compared to gcc4, I tried that one first with the new tar. On my system it build and installed without an error. Right now I am building gcc4. Once that is done in a couple of hours, I will let you know how it went. Hi all, Even though I

[Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
My interpretation of the early test results reported here is that tar is indeed detecting a change in ctime and nothing more serious. There are two possible solutions to this: patch tar, or patch dpkg. I'm going to advocate that we patch dpkg. My reasoning goes like this: the decision to

[Fink-devel] patch: handle tbz files

2007-03-04 Thread Jesse Alama
Currently fink doesn't recognize tbz files. From what I can tell, the only change to get Fink to recognize this is in PkgVersion.pm; the diff is: Index: PkgVersion.pm === RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/fink/perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm,v

Re: [Fink-devel] Help with debugging mysterious tar error

2007-03-04 Thread David Fang
Let me know if you still need more data points. Using your diagnostic 'tar', gcc42 died during packaging [1] (Core Duo, 10.4.8): Writing control file... Writing package script postinst... Writing package script prerm... dpkg-deb -b root-gcc42-4.1.-20070221

Re: [Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread Jean-François Mertens
On 05 Mar 2007, at 02:30, David R. Morrison wrote: My interpretation of the early test results reported here is that tar is indeed detecting a change in ctime and nothing more serious. There are two possible solutions to this: patch tar, or patch dpkg. I'm going to advocate that we patch

Re: [Fink-devel] tar and dpkg

2007-03-04 Thread David R. Morrison
On Mar 4, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Jean-François Mertens wrote: Except that in the thread mentioned by dmacks, it is mentioned that a new version of tar was due yesterday (sorry _ had no time to check, really have for personal reasons no time for at least a week except for the most urgent things),