Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Charles Lepple
On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Max Horn wrote: > (e.g. I imagine that 10.4/stable, 10.5/unstable, etc. could be a > separate branch each, and we'd have multiple "checkouts" for each > inside /sw/fink/dists) I forgot to mention, multiple branches are handy when you want to move a revision of a

Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Charles Lepple
On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Max Horn wrote: > * Even better, non-devs can also make forks, but instead of directly > merging their changes, they can file a "pull request", i.e. they can > ask the Fink team to integrate their new package or package updates. > Consider this as an advanced alt

Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Benjamin Reed
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/7/11 11:16 AM, Max Horn wrote: > But by using git + github.com, we could combine the advantages of both > Subversion and git: +100 I think this is a great idea! - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick a.k.a. Raccoon Fink Fink, KDE,

Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Feb 7, 2011, at 11:16 AM, Max Horn wrote: > Hi there, > > I would like to emphasize something which Charles Lepple already hinted at: > > Why not use git (hosted at github.com, ideally) for devs, and subversion for > end users? > > Let me explain where I see the advantage: > > Git is more

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread Julius Canute
I have made changes at places were you have pointed me to correct. -- Package: minimal-context Version: 6.2.1 Revision: 1 Provides: context,pdftex,luatex,mpost NoSourceDi

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread David R. Morrison
conTeXt is already present in both fink's tetex and texlive packages. The dependency issues with tetex and texlive are very complex, and I do not believe we should accept a separate conTeXt package into fink. -- Dave On Feb 7, 2011, at 8:57 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/7/11 10:05 AM, Julius Canute wrote: > here is the output of "dpkg -L context" > http://pastebin.com/2wXtYTZb The layout isn't acceptable (though the validator isn't yet programmed to catch the problem). Did you read the section of the packaging

Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Max Horn
Hi there, I would like to emphasize something which Charles Lepple already hinted at: Why not use git (hosted at github.com, ideally) for devs, and subversion for end users? Let me explain where I see the advantage: Git is more modern and advanced than Subversion, and has features that I pers

Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Max Horn
Am 07.02.2011 um 09:32 schrieb Martin Costabel: > On 6/02/11 21:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: > [] > >> Not all users _can_ use rsync, however, due to firewalls. We need to >> have a selfupdate method that works over unblocked http ports (and since >> CVS proxy support hasn't worked in a while it

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/7/11 9:12 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: Additional comments: > > mkdir fonts > mv afm fonts Don't "mv" source directories, for the same reasons that you're not supposed to "rm" them. "cp -r" them, instead. > mv enc fonts > mv lm fonts > mv map

Re: [Fink-devel] [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread Julius Canute
here is the output of "dpkg -L context" http://pastebin.com/2wXtYTZb On Feb 7, 2011, at 8:18 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/7/11 9:12 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> Moving this to -devel since it's a packaging issue. >> >> Original

Re: [Fink-devel] Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2/7/11 9:12 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Moving this to -devel since it's a packaging issue. > > Original Message > Subject: [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:36:19 +0530 > From: Julius Canut

[Fink-devel] Fwd: [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file

2011-02-07 Thread Alexander Hansen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Moving this to -devel since it's a packaging issue. - Original Message Subject: [Fink-beginners] Regarding context.info file Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2011 19:36:19 +0530 From: Julius Canute To: fink-beginn...@lists.sourceforge.net >> fink b

Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Daniel Johnson
On Feb 7, 2011, at 3:32 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 6/02/11 21:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: > [] > >> Not all users _can_ use rsync, however, due to firewalls. We need to >> have a selfupdate method that works over unblocked http ports (and since >> CVS proxy support hasn't worked in a while

Re: [Fink-devel] Version control migration?

2011-02-07 Thread Martin Costabel
On 6/02/11 21:17, Alexander Hansen wrote: [] > Not all users _can_ use rsync, however, due to firewalls. We need to > have a selfupdate method that works over unblocked http ports (and since > CVS proxy support hasn't worked in a while it would be a nice change). Even then, although svn runs ove