[Fink-devel] Please help bring my packages up-to-date (or take over some) :)

outdated package. I do plan to continue working on fink packages but for the moment I am overwhelmed with other commitments. Thank you, Carsten Klapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> With all the changes; since prior to rsync updates added, many new perl mod versions, 10.2-gcc-3.3 tree, 10.2 tree, AND 10.3

Re: [Fink-devel] Split fink-commits?

On Wednesday, November 12, 2003, at 10:32 pm, Michael G Schwern wrote: I have a request. The amount of mail on fink-commits generated by .info and .patch file changes is rather daunting. Could the fink-commits list be split into seperate lists for seperate projects? At the very least could th

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .info

On Friday, June 13, 2003, at 08:37 pm, David R. Morrison wrote: Hi Carsten. Please wait until the next release of the fink package manager before using %n.info in the unstable tree, and wait until that version of fink has moved to the stable tree before using %n.info in the stable tree. -- D

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: .info

On Thursday, May 22, 2003, at 10:14 pm, Benjamin Reed wrote: Ben Hines wrote: Stop putting these '.info' files in cvs! Fink validate warns on them. Please wait till that is fixed and released to unstable. Oop! You're right. I'll hold off. Hi All, IIRC, last week we were waiting for any feedba

Re: [Fink-devel] Wanna be hung like a horse? [Off-topic]

F... uhh, yeah; okay: Please *do* mail me one crate of "Enlargement Pills", but only because you claim to have "Fast Distribution Worldwide". Note that all other times I ordered similar pills from across the globe, they did not arrive fast enough at all! I sincerely hope these truly will arriv

Re: [Fink-devel] crypto tree; legal issues

On Saturday, March 22, 2003, at 03:33 pm, Max Horn wrote: I'd be interested to know: does Apple ship this with all version of Mac OS X in the whole world (I seriously don' know, this not a flame bait). Neither you nor me probably know this, since we both are in countries which are not affected

[Fink-devel] Proposal: move all info-docs into splitoffs

Hi All, I would like to propose that all packages which provide "info" documentation files move these info files into a splitoff, perhaps "x-infodoc". Personally I never use the info-doc system as I'm more accustomed to man files, plain text and html. Now I am not a long-time unix user, only

[Fink-devel] CPAN mirroring temporarily offline

BTW: Thank you VM to whomever set up that perl-module mailing-list for fink-developers, I do appreciate the notification when updated perl modules for my packages are available on CPAN. :) Carsten CPAN paused --- posted by hfb on 2003.02.16 9:11 jhi writes "Last weekend (the 7th/8th)

[Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink/perlmod/Fink Services.pm,1.37,1.38

Nice patch! My informal tests show that md5 is about two times faster than md5sum on my g4 Dual-450. Carsten Only 4 pairs of tests with a 700 Megabyte file. Times are underlined below, about 35s for md5 versus 1min 18s for md5sum. [localhost:~] carsten% time md5 r-divx.avi ; time md5sum r-di

Re: [Fink-devel] index behaviour change (post 0.11.x)

I can confirm this, the same thing happened to me once within the last two or three days--due to a patch file which was no longer present/pertinent. No insight to offer towards a solution, sorry :( 'sudo fink index' bypassed the problem. On Saturday, February 15, 2003, at 10:03 pm, Ben Hines w

Re: [Fink-devel] On dependency engines

On Thursday, January 30, 2003, at 07:01 pm, Max Horn wrote: So, for now, instead of charging ahead and trying to write a new dependency engine from scratch or trying to retrofit an existing one, I went to try to write down what our needs are. Then based on this, I started to develop ideas on

[Fink-devel] /sw not in path with Apple's X11

Hi, I am a total newbie with X11. Is there a way to permanently tell Apple's X11 to append Fink's /sw in its PATH? I didn't see any info yet on the fink web site how to do this. This is required for example to run xboard together with gnuchess. One can launch xboard easily enough by adding "/s

Re: [Fink-devel] A New Guy, asking about porting and maintaining simple packages

Hi John, Personally I'd like to see DadaDodo in Fink. (You may remember me from such silly Fink packages as funny-manpages and wtf. ;) ). My take on this issue is people use Fink because they don't want to (or don't know how to) compile/install/remove unix-ish software on their own, so even

[Fink-devel] Developers committing to stable? What about binaries?

Hi All, I received positive feedback for a few of my packages. Since I have CVS access, should I just commit them to the stable tree myself? (As opposed to non-developers who would submit a "please move my package to stable" request on the SF tracker.) Then, should I explicitly notify someone

Re: [Fink-devel] seg_addr_table

Using the new Shlibs field to do this would be perfect, sounds like an excellent idea Ben. :) On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 06:17 pm, Ben Hines wrote: On Tuesday, February 11, 2003, at 02:35 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: redo_prebinding -seg_addr_table %p/fink/dists/experimental

Re: [Fink-devel] Prebinding: Got Slid? revisited

Hehe, well at least with redo_prebinding the entire disk isn't scanned like update_prebinding does. (BTW I think in 10.2 the installer's rebinding is a little quicker, maybe it only calls redo_prebinding now.) Anyway... A little more investigation reveals: % strings /usr/bin/redo_prebinding |

[Fink-devel] Prebinding: Got Slid? revisited

I finally tracked down some useful information which seems related to that "got slid" prebinding warning message. Apparently in 10.2, redo_prebinding can *slide* the seg1addr of a dynamiclib to another location. A master lookup file is required which would contain a list of all the library n

[Fink-devel] Stale lock in (was Re: Problems with CVS commit)

Same problem at my end Christian, I agree it is a stale lock file on the CVS server. (I wonder why anonymous could even write into that directory, but anyway...) With other SF projects this happened to me occasionally. - Go to the Alexandria project tracker

Re: [Fink-devel] Prebinding

No it doesn't break anything when prebinding fails for some reason, just outputs a compiler warning and continues building. I patched my personal copy of fink a few months ago to include these flags by default and have had no problems due to it at all. -Carsten On Friday, February 7, 2003, at 0

Re: [Fink-devel] Prebinding

Hi, There's a lot of work involved to build all of fink's dylib libraries as prebound, it probably won't happen any time soon. However, any program which depends only on Apple-supplied dylibs can easily be built prebound using the -prebind flag in CFLAGS and LDFLAGS. Some packages already do bu

Re: [Fink-devel] redistributability

Yes this is a complicated case for those of us like me who are not lawyers. ;) The license wording seems to speak specifically more to end-users than packagers like fink. Debian linux does distribute tomcat in their' contrib tree. Hmm... How about sending the authors an e-mail directly, ask the

[Fink-devel] Re: CVS: fink/perlmod/Fink Package.pm,1.31,1.32

Hi Ben, Oops. My intention for that part of the speedup patch was to avoid scanning the directories if not root ( if ($> == 0) { ), I didn't consider the case where Storable isn't available, I see bootstrap falls into this category too, DOH! Now that I think about this more, it also results

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems compiling tcptraceroute 1.2/1.4

Hi Jeremy, Nevermind my previous answer... I just noticed /sw/include/libnet/libnet-headers.h declares specifically LIBNET_IPV4_H and LIBNET_ICMPV4_H instead of LIBNET_IP_H and LIBNET_ICMP_H. Try patching in this at some point in the code after the "#include " line: #define LIBNET_IP_H LIBNET_I

Re: [Fink-devel] Problems compiling tcptraceroute 1.2/1.4

Hi, My guess is the file it is looking for would be /sw/lib/include/libnet/ip.h, this follows the pattern I've seen in other programs which define constants with underscores in the middle. So you might have to play with CFLAGS a bit: SetCFLAGS: -I/%p/lib/libnet (Is this an autoconf/automake prog

[Fink-devel] Re: [ fink-Bugs-675815 ] indexing problem

ing: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/ ?func=detail&atid=117203&aid=675815&group_id=17203 Category: package manager Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 7 Submitted By: Ben Hines (benh57) Assigned to: Carsten Klapp (carstenklapp) Summary: indexing problem Initial Comment: Pretty

wtf-acronyms (was Re: [Fink-devel] downloading source via CVS)

Hi, The separate wtf-acronyms file for the wtf package was still downloading via CVSWEB but I checked in a new version. It now downloads the tarball and just mentions the cvsweb url in DescUsage for people who really want the bleeding-edge acronyms list. ;) Carsten On Monday, January 27, 2003,

Re: [Fink-devel] profiler run

On Thursday, January 23, 2003, at 09:07 am, Max Horn wrote: Wow - seems we spend a *lot* of time in expand_percent! If we can optimize that function and/or reduce the places in which it is used, that might indeed pay off well. Disclaimer: this has to be taken with a grain of salt: by the natur

[OT] Re: [Fink-devel] HELLO

Oh no, "UNCLE" FINK DIED!?!!!?!?!?!! Why didn't anyone tell me... ;-) ck On Tuesday, January 21, 2003, at 06:56 pm, ismaila shidaku wrote: Hello, I am Barrister Ismaila Shidaku an attorney to late MARK FINK an Immigrant, who was a business man/contractor in Nigeria with the NIGERIAN NATI

Re: [Fink-devel] GNU getopt: use Fink's or package's own?

Hi Dan, I'll send it to you directly. I searched Google for getopt_long and found a few people complained that autogen doesn't properly check for getopt_long but found no solution. There may not be an answer, as I understand it the standard GNU C library has getopt_long() built in, so autogen m

Re: [Fink-devel] GNU getopt: use Fink's or package's own?

Sorry I have no answer, I am wondering the same thing. I recently run in this situation with a new package I am testing and found that ./configure does not see the getopt_long function of libgnugetopt even though it is installed, even with various -I cflags and -L ldflags no success. For now

Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

Definitely stick with UTF-8. It supports all the languages of UTF-16 but it is newer and smarter about byte storage. When more than one byte is needed to store a character such as a Japanese word mixed with English it "expands" and "contracts" byte sizes dynamically. Carsten On Monday, January

Re: [Fink-devel] Localization of fink

Hi, Very informative article, perl Maketext sure sounds powerful! I've done a lot of gettext work in PHP and C and often find I am frustrated by it's limitations, never-mind the extra time to educate English-speakers how to write _("translation-friendly") English strings in our project's c

Re: [Fink-devel] perl 5.8 thoughts and testing

Hi All, Aside from these directory name issues I have a start on some perl 5.8 info files based on a perl 5.8 info file from the submission tracker. The modules I found so far which need to be recompiled simply have a new info file identical to the old one but with a build/depends on the new

Re: [Fink-devel] selfupdate-cvs; small patch

Sounds good, I agree with Bill. In my own copy of fink I have been using cvs -q too without any problems. To see a verbose cvs output one could always just manually update (cd /sw/fink/dists;cvs up). ck On Saturday, December 28, 2002, at 11:26 am, Bill Bumgarner wrote: I don't see the point

[Fink-devel] Ok to use gcc for packages now?

Hi, Are packages being added from the 10.2 tree into the 10.1 tree or are the 10.1 fink packages frozen now? What I'm getting at is, for new package submissions and updates is it ok to build with gcc or should we still be compiling explicitly with cc? Thanks, Carsten ---

Re: [Fink-devel] A request to all package porters..

One development I'm looking forward to eventually seeing in fink is when all shared libraries can be built "prebound", I read briefly here that some work is in progress to this end. Definately make note of "prebound shared libraries" on your milestones list, IMHO this will be a huge accomplish

Re: [Fink-devel] Source-MD5 and Homepage fields

The "fink checksums" is a good tip, I didn't know about this. Until someone adds "fink validate-all" etc. try my little finkutil script: /sw/fink/dists/experimental/carstenklapp/finkutil :) Carsten On Thursday, December 19, 2002, at 10:08 am, Max Horn wrote: The next step would be run modi

Re: [Fink-devel] The very first, general Fink Survey, PLEASE help!

Gender: -> Do not wish to say I assume the whole survey will be voluntary, no? And no silly javascript-popup-survey either please! ;-P So even if one does not wish to fill it out, one may still use fink Also some of the comments and responses generated in this thread could also be used as

Re: [Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package where source keeps disappearing?

rote: On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 06:12 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: Here Google reveals that Debian is mirroring whois, http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/whois_4.6.0.tar.gz so it could be added as an alternate CustomMirror: Er, no. :) mirror:debian w

Re: [Fink-devel] Suggestions for a package where source keeps disappearing?

Hi Brian, Try a search on Google for the archive filename and another for the md5sum itself to see whether anyone else is mirroring it too. Here Google reveals that Debian is mirroring whois, http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/w/whois/whois_4.6.0.tar.gz so it could be added as an altern

[Fink-devel] problem installing gzip with latest bootstrap

Hi, I tried bootstrapping fink today in order to test my patch for PkgVersion.pm: --- fink/perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm-originalThu Dec 12 16:09:31 2002 +++ fink/perlmod/Fink/PkgVersion.pm Thu Dec 12 16:11:07 2002 @@ -1725,4 +1725,7 @@ my %defaults = ( "CPPFLAGS" => "-isystem \%p/inclu

[Fink-devel] Announce: finkutil 1.3

Check out my tiny fink-utility in the experimental tree. Send me suggestions/love-mail/hate-mail, etc. BTW, would someone explain to me what the "/sw/fink/debs" is for? Is it just a convenient place to refer to all the debs, or is it really used by fink? (Mine is continually mixed up because

Re: [Fink-devel] -j[2..] in package builds

Hi Chris, For those packages on the list you made, do they use multiple jobs within their own Makefiles too, or was this just added in the fink builds? I agree that make shouldn't be using multiple jobs by default, it should be up to the end-user how many jobs they want. So I'm in agreement w

[Fink-devel] New fink-0.11.1-1 && apt-0.5.4-7 build ok

The new fink and apt both build without any errors, and everything seems okay! Mac OS X 10.2.2 Carsten p.s. Sorry for starting a new thread, I already deleted the previous messages :/ --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to

Re: [Fink-devel] cvs-proxy

Hi, I double-checked my libmd package, it does install into %i and not %p, so there must be another package installing it too. If I change libmd to install into libmd/md5.h, does that mean source code which uses it will have to be patched? (I don't think there are any in fink yet, but I am t

Re: [Fink-devel] New dpkg package in exp

Your experimental dpkg-1.10.9 info file is working for me so far on 10.2.2, no build problems and dselect is working fine so far. (I just had to download the tarball from http://debian.teleglobe.net, I guess it's not on the sf servers yet.) I would like to see paths within the man files for dp

Re: [Fink-devel] GPG Signing the info file and patches..

Hi David, I like the idea of signature verification. Better safe now than sorry later. I have a few concerns: - Scripts on the server which automatically sign committed info and patch files wouldn't stop a hacker, no? - I edit a LOT of my info files, IMHO there are too many packages with lud

[Fink-devel] OT: Download filename problems

Hi Ben, Ok Thanks, Sorry, I'll remember that for next time. BTW Mozilla downloads attachments fine from SourceForge's trackers. That's just Mozilla's intelligence at work, there is still a problem with SF: % curl -I "https://sourceforge.net/tracker/ download.php?group_id=17203&atid=414256

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink should recommend term-readkey-pm?

On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 07:31 am, Max Horn wrote: Nah. Besides the fact that "Suggests" is more or less uselss, we have a patch (or soon will have :-) in Fink CVS that gives us this functionality back w/o term-readkey-pm (I say back because it worked in 10.1 already, but Apple horri

Re: [Fink-devel] FAQ & packaging reference: Suggests vs Recommends vs Enhances?

I found some information on the Debian web site about package relationships which answered most of my questions. I'm still not clear on how (and if?) "Enhances" actually works in dselect but I'll play with it some more. It would be helpful for newcomers to have this link somewhere in the faq (

[Fink-devel] Fink should recommend term-readkey-pm?

Hi, After all this time of using fink I only just discovered today how much nicer `fink list` looks with term-readkey-pm installed, by taking advantage of wider terminal windows! I wonder whether fink should recommend it instead of only suggests, then it might reach a wider audience? from fink

[Fink-devel] building against libpng vs. libpng3?

ust pick the newer library? Thanks, Carsten Klapp -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GE d-@+ s+:- a C+++@(---) UB+++ P+>++ L+>++ E>++ W-(++) N-(+) o? K? !w O M+(++) V? PS+ PE-(--) Y+ PGP+(++) t+@ 5 X+@ R tv+(-) b+ DI++ D- G

Re: [Fink-devel] sed and patchscripts?

IR@ and @PREFIX@), but am unsure how to coerce sed to do this. -- Carsten Klapp -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GE d-@+ s+:- a C+++@(---) UB+++ P+>++ L+>++ E>++ W-(++) N-(+) o? K? !w O M+(++) V? PS+ PE-(--) Y+ PGP+(++) t+@ 5 X+@ R tv+(-) b+ DI++ D- G e(+) h(---

jobflags was Re: [Fink-devel] Packages which can be prebound right now

I'm sorry, I didn't intend to start up a 'make' jobs discussion again. :/ A SafeReentrantMake flag in the info file would let the user configure his/her own maximum jobs appropriate for the speed of the machine. Carsten On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 07:51 pm, Benjamin Reed wrote: We co

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages which can be prebound right now

On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 06:08 pm, Max Horn wrote: The problem with this is that could cause a *lot* of regressions. Feel free to modify your local version of Fink and try, or even better, bootstrap a clean new install using it (verifying that still works with your change). I am not

[Fink-devel] Packages which can be prebound right now

Hi all, I realized today that there are many fink programs which could be prebound right now but aren't, even though the fink dylib automatic prebinding isn't quite ready yet. Using 'otool -L' I made of list of binaries which link ONLY to Apple-supplied dylibs, there are probably more as this

Re: [Fink-devel] How to get stable/binaries started?

On Sunday, November 17, 2002, at 11:42 am, Martin Costabel wrote: qtplay also does something illegal: SourceRename: %n-%v.c SourceDirectory: . CompileScript: << cp %p/src/%n-%v.c . The last line is not only superfluous, because SourceRename does precisely this, but it will also not work i

[Fink-devel] How to get stable/binaries started?

I received positive reports for a few of my unstable packages. How many positive reports are generally needed before making a binary is considered? Then what is the next step, who should I report these confirmations to in order to get binary packages started? Or do I email my debs somewhere...

[Fink-devel] FAQ & packaging reference: Suggests vs Recommends vs Enhances?

Hi All, Here are some more questions and answers I'd like to see added to Fink FAQ and Packaging Reference. Q1: As a package maintainer the purpose of the "Depends" field is fairly obvious to me, but what are the distinctions between the "Recommends", "Suggests" and "Enhances" fields? (Please

[Fink-devel] p0f requires Depends: daemonic, automatic daemonic depends?

Hi, I received a report that my packages 'p0f' and 'p0f-mysql' are missing "daemonic" in the depends. Should I submit updated info files to the sf web site or would someone else here with CVS write-access do a quick fix for me? Also I'd like to suggest it would be nice if fink automatically as

[OT] Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

urse I don't know all the details about apt-get and dselect, maybe there is some way to do these already. Cheers, Carsten On Saturday, November 9, 2002, at 07:06 PM, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 06:41 PM, Carsten Klapp wrote: I'm going to try to "

Re: [Fink-devel] ****Business Proposal****

Since I really do have no questionable character, Jmusa4 will be "gotten" a complaint filed with the IFCC ... The Internet Fraud Complaint Center (IFCC) is a partnership between the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the National White Collar Crime Center (NW3

Re: [Fink-devel] ncurses

Too bad about the symbol changes in 5.3 I can't use it yet, anyway both built for me without any problems on 10.2.1. (Nice that 5.3 no longer requires a patch! (:) On Monday, November 4, 2002, at 09:16 am, Chris Zubrzycki wrote: hey guys. I have a new revision of ncurses 5.2, which should als

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg 'available' file - sections?

I have no solution, but this sounds like the same problem in Webmin's Software module, all the dpkgs are sorted alphabetically instead of by section. Carsten On Saturday, November 2, 2002, at 10:43 pm, Ben Hines wrote: How do i get the "Section:" to show up in dpkg's /sw/var/lib/dpkg/availa

Re: [Fink-devel] Sourceforge project of the month

Definately write them and let them know how much you/we like fink. It's nice that Apple does mention fink quite a few times on the web site, and a reference to fink is even included in a user story: (fourth link below) fink http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/fink.

[Fink-devel] Fink Info-Editor program: alpha code available

Hi, I've been working on a program to edit Fink Info files. It's nowhere near complete but it's stable enough if anyone wants to look at the code and contribute to or take over the development. It has taken me a long time to get this far, although I have some experience working in C I have non

[Fink-devel] Got slid?

. Schwartz wrote: "Carsten" == Carsten Klapp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Carsten> Also otool says for example that ls depends on Carsten> libintl.1.dylib. Obviously I'm missing something as I don't understand Carsten> why the program can't be prebound

Re: [Fink-devel] any cure yet for the 100's of "cannot fix prebinding" errors?

Hi, I had just assumed this was an Apple problem and didn't even make the connection that only fink-installed programs were causing these prebinding warnings in my logs. My logs filling up with clutter doesn't bother me so much as wondering how much cpu time is wasted every time "ls" is execut

Re: [Fink-devel] ranlib [OT]

This is a super tip, thanks Ben! Indeed grep is powerful, it sure beats Sherlock's find-by-content for searching fink info files. I added this one to my .cshrc (note the \ before the !s) alias show 'grep \!:1 -rI \!:2 | less' .bashrc would probably need: alias show='grep \!:1 -rI \!:2

Re: [Fink-devel] Program to create info files?

Trivial you say... muhahahhaa :) :) ! This would be my first C / Cocoa project. (My other project, upclient 5 was already written, I just tweaked it a little.) I hadn't considered an NSOutline view, that might be good approach to take too. Well I've just whipped up a document window with some

[Fink-devel] Program to create info files?

Is anyone making on a program to help generate and edit fink info files? I'm thinking of writing some shell scripts, possibly even something in C. To start with it would provide a template with the minimum required fields, and automatically wrap long descriptions and enclose them in <<. Any t

Re: [Fink-devel] PAM support for unix applications in Jaguar Server

Hi Antoine, Are you trying to build my uw-imapd package? The uw-imapd works for me in 10.2 without any code modification. It should recognize usernames from the system automatically (indeed there is nothing to configure in uw-imapd). By design uw-imapd also does not allow root to login for se

[Fink-devel] Package overlap in libmd & openssl-dev

Hi, I created a package for libmd (from FreeBSD's md5 library) because another program I want to port requires it, and there is a small problem. One file overlaps with OpenSSL-dev, a man file: /sw/share/man/man3/md5.3 The openssl with Mac OS X provides a version of this man file too, but

[Fink-devel] Extra processes remain after building a perl module

Any perl gurus out there to help figure this out? Jean-Francois and I both noticed that building my package "net-ssleay-pm" leaves 2 sleeping processes after the end of the build (with no trace of it in the log) : 0 21767 1 0 31 0 1828508 - S p10:00.01 sh -c

[Fink-devel] FinkWiki is online

The FinkWiki is online. http://finkdev.dnsalias.net/finkwiki There is no content yet but it's up an running, go ahead and add some info or questions if you have any. Carsten --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek

[Fink-devel] Is there a already wiki for fink-dev? Want one?

If there is not already a FinkWiki somewhere I will host one on my machine, not in any way a replacement for this mailing-list but to supplement it. I will begin the Wiki off by adding some packaging tricks and problems I have run into myself, might be nice to get feedback from others and ad

Re: [Fink-devel] Dependency/provides question

Hi Bill, Conflicts (and I suppose Provides) does need to be added to the other packages as well. After that you must rebuild and reinstall the other packages so fink will properly recognize all the related conflicts. Regarding your comment about python, I too would like to have the option of

Re: [Fink-devel] Darwin/MacOSX packages, why so many ways ?

I can see how a web page (perhaps driven by a database) would be useful to show a list of all packages ported to Darwin, with columns showing version availability in different package systems. For example (this is undoubtedly incomplete): - -

Re: [Fink-devel] Darwin/MacOSX packages, why so many ways ?

Xavier, Did you mean there is a group specializing in porting NetBSD packages to Darwin? If so, where can it found? I would like to see how they are doing it. To reply to the rest of the thread I agree with the other responses. One might also wonder why FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD etc. have not

Re: [Fink-devel] need help with ConfFiles field

Thanks Ben, Ok, this helps a bit, and I have another question. It turns out fink wasn't installing the conffile because I had manually removed it myself, and I guess it was still expecting it to be present. Once I purged (the manually rm'd file) using "sudo dpkg --purge antiword" fink is now

[Fink-devel] need help with ConfFiles field

Hi, I'm updating the antiword package to include a configuration file (along with another change): ConfFiles: %p/share/%n/fontnames The problem is the 'fontnames' file is not installed anymore with this new ConfFiles field added to the info file. The 'fontnames' file is actually archived ins

Re: [Fink-devel] Dependencies: how many is too many?

I will concede to this point too that packages should compile the same on everybody's system, or else it causes a nightmare for the user to select and for maintainers to maintain all these separate minimal packages, as I found out when trying to make placeholder packages for OpenSSL. The "wi