Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink/perlmod/Fink SelfUpdate.pm,1.67.4.6,1.67.4.7

2004-07-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Darian Lanx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > any specific reason why this is all upper case ? No. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic

Re: [Fink-devel] Updates to Fink di

2004-07-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Blair, Chris Zubrzycki, a.k.a. beren12, is not available online these days. (He will hopefully return after some months.) Please feel free to update his packages. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. A

Re: [Fink-devel] epiphany dependencie problem - xml-parser-pm doens't exist

2004-07-11 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Kevin Horton wrote: | I'm communicating with a fink user on the MaxOSXHints forum: | | http://forums.macosxhints.com/showthread.php?p=133778 | | He can't install epiphany. It seems that epiphany depends on | xml-parser-pm, yet that pm was removed

[Fink-devel] plans for a 10.4 tree

2004-07-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, Peter O'Gorman and I attended WWDC, and have experimented with Fink on the WWDC preview distributed there. Although we cannot comment on any specifics, it appears that the impact of the transition to 10.4 on Fink will be less severe than the previous transitions. It is, how

Re: [Fink-devel] epiphany dependencie problem - xml-parser-pm doens't exist

2004-07-09 Thread David R. Morrison
> I have just added xml-parser-pm581 | xml-parser-pm580 | xml-parser-pm560 No, that's wrong. You have to choose one and stick with it. For the 10.3 tree, it should be xml-parser-pm581 (and in the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree, use xml-parser-pm560). The other option is to create variants: epiphany-perl560,

[Fink-devel] Re: epiphany dependencie problem - xml-parser-pm doens't exist

2004-07-09 Thread David R. Morrison
That is correct, xml-parser-pm was removed, along with all the other "placeholder" packages. They were a nice idea, but they were causing more problems with dependencies than they solved (basically, from people satisfying the dependency by a -pm560 when they only had perl 5.8.1 installed, and the

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo gnutls.info, 1.6, 1.7 libgcrypt.info, 1.3, 1.4 libgpg-error.info, 1.3, 1.4 libtasn1.info, 1.2, 1.3 opencdk.info, 1.4, 1.5

2004-07-09 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Corey Halpin wrote: | | | There seem to be only three packages (aside from mine) that depend on | any of these things (msmtp, xmlsec, and gsasl). I'll contact their | maintainers to notify them of this change. | All three are my packages :) How

Re: [Fink-devel] whither local/bootstrap?

2004-07-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Upon further reflection, I think Dan's objection is very well taken. I'm going to rename local/bootstrap to local/injected, since this is the tree where info files will be put that are created by ./inject.pl scripts. Most users will never see this tree, but it will be created when it is needed.

Re: [Fink-devel] whither local/bootstrap?

2004-07-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Here's what I had in mind: The files in question are going to be fink.info, fink-mirrors.info, and the like. If foo.info is already present, but foo.info.bak is absent, then foo.info will be moved to foo.info.bak and a new foo.info will be created. The user will be told that this has happened.

[Fink-devel] whither local/bootstrap?

2004-07-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi folks. I'm contemplating doing away with the local/bootstrap tree. Currently, it is used during bootstrap, and it is also used if you run the ./inject.pl script for one of the fink-managed packages (fink, base-files, fink-mirrors, fink-prebinding). I've concluded, though, that it is not neces

Re: [Fink-devel] How should fink remove & purge handle editor recover files

2004-07-06 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Blair Zajac wrote: | I have the jove.info package which is a tiny version of Emacs, which I | like because it starts up fast. | | It has a global directory /var/tmp/jove where it dumps recover and | temporary files, unlike vi's .swp files which are

Re: [Fink-devel] fatback in fink

2004-07-06 Thread David R. Morrison
Remi, The case as you state it seems clear to me. I'm removing the package. (As you have undoubtedly discovered yourself, the maintainer's email does not function.) -- Dave --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training.

Re: [Fink-devel] fatback in fink

2004-07-06 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Remi Mommsen wrote: | Hi, | | Long time ago (9/5/03) I notified the maintainer (cc'd) that I believe | that this package cannot be distributed by fink (at least not under | GPL). Seeing the cvs commit message, I'm surprised that it is still | there

Re: [Fink-devel] rsync mirrors out of sync

2004-06-29 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: | Has anyone else noticed that the master rsync mirror doesn't respond any | more and that - apart from two Japanese URLs - the other rsync mirrors | don't seem to synchronize currently? | | I ran a little check over the rsyn

Re: [Fink-devel] fink and iInstaller

2004-06-28 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Min Xu wrote: | Hi, | | I recently found my newly installed fink was crashing because I have installed | some old version of libfreetype in /usr/local by iInstaller. This | makes me wondering | should fink restrict it is search path? /usr/local is

Re: [Fink-devel] Changed MD5 handling: solved broken SF mirror problem?

2004-06-28 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Daniel Macks wrote: | I just patched fink in CVS HEAD to check MD5 checksum as each source | tarball is downloaded and treat a mismatch as a download failure. For | the end-user, that means if the download process succeeds but gets the | incorrect

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/crypto/finkinfo socat-ssl.info,NONE,1.1

2004-06-28 Thread David R. Morrison
The -ssl variants are something of a problem at the moment. I agree that it would be extremely sensible to have the -ssl treated the same as other variants. But at present, we isolate cryptographic-enabled packages from the others by putting them in their own tree, so that folks who are respectin

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [fink-commits] dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils rpm.info,NONE,1.1 rpm.patch,NONE,1.1

2004-06-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Hmmm... On second thought, maybe it wouldn't be so hard to modify what happens when we check something in, so that the commit message is mailed directly to the maintainer as well as to fink-commits (automatically). Would that help? -- Dave ---

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [fink-commits] dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils rpm.info,NONE,1.1 rpm.patch,NONE,1.1

2004-06-25 Thread David R. Morrison
Dave, I have alternate suggestions for both situations you mention. First, there is a big project by some of us to rescue the remaining 300-400 packages which never moved from 10.2 to 10.3. Ben Hines set up this nice comparison chart at http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/compare.php which all fin

[Fink-devel] package removal?

2004-06-24 Thread David R. Morrison
The package "hx" in section "net" is Restrictive, the source URL no longer functions, and the homepage URL no longer exists. Moreover the maintainer says (on fink-beginners) that he is no longer maintaining it. Should we remove it from fink altogether? -- Dave ---

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread David Brown
On Thu, Jun 24, 2004 at 12:18:51AM +0200, jfm wrote: > More accurately probably, > #! `which perl` #! /usr/bin/env perl which will actually work. There are a lot of strange restrictions on that line. Dave Brown --- This SF.Net email sponsor

[Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry, I meant "add or remove a perl package" not "add or remove a fink package"... --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top techn

[Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
> you end up with a > *real* perl581, but a *virtual* perl581-core, and get this error. Well, that can't be the right explanation, because there isn't a "real" perl581 package at all. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Brie

[Fink-devel] Re: /sw/bin/perl

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
Jean-Francois, I'm not sure if it's the same error you are seeing, but one bug I am aware of is this: there is a place in the fink code where fink tests to see which is the current version of perl installed on the system... unfortnately, fink seems to cache this value in the database. So if you

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Application launchers for Fink programs

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
s looking at, so this sort of brings things full > circle. Martin has been very helpful to me over the past year in > troubleshooting various Fink install issues, especially Scribus (which > I'm now using in a production setting in my day job as a book publisher). > > I'

Re: [Fink-devel] Adding a new package for the first time

2004-06-23 Thread David R. Morrison
I appreciate the feedback. I wonder whether you had a chance to look at one other resource linked from the Documentation page: the slides from a talk I gave "Using Fink: A Developer's How-To" at the 2002 O'Reilly OS X conference. During the talk itself, I took people through the creation of a si

Re: [Fink-devel] Looking for Masanori Sekino (Package Submission [ 923644 ] xmms 1.2.10)

2004-06-22 Thread David R. Morrison
Chris, We don't really have a policy about how to handle this issue. We generally ask that if people are going to stop maintaining things, they go through and mark their packages as "Maintainer: None". This has happened a few times, and it was greatly appreciated. But there are a number of oth

Re: [Fink-devel] 2nd draft: proposed policy on BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
Koen van der Drift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jun 21, 2004, at 4:35 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > > > There are some packages containing header files for which it's not > > appropriate to declare BuildDependsOnly to be true. In that case, &

Re: [Fink-devel] 2nd draft: proposed policy on BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It does seem like we need a tri-state thing here. It feels funny to > overload a boolean to accomplish that, but I can't think of a cleaner > way, and this allows us to easily find these special-case packages and > do .deb validation. > > The .info could

[Fink-devel] 2nd draft: proposed policy on BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
I've modified the proposed policy in response to today's feedback (and after a bit of coding for the forthcoming fink 0.20.5). Further discussion and feedback are most welcome. -- Dave Second draft: The BuildDependsOnly field When libraries are being upgraded over time, it is often necessar

[Fink-devel] proposed policy on BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-21 Thread David R. Morrison
To summarize and implement the discussion of last week, I propose adding the following policy statement to fink's packaging documentation (to be added to the Shared Library Policy section). Discussion and feedback are most welcome. -- Dave The BuildDependsOnly field When libraries are being

Re: [Fink-devel] cvs-1.11.17-1 woes

2004-06-20 Thread David R. Morrison
> none issue, but I have no upload rights to our SF files section. That step is easily solved: you just need to ask one of us to put the file there. But it does not really address the issue: why is the cvs project releasing a security fix which doesn't pass this kind of security test? And if so,

Re: [Fink-devel] cvs-1.11.17-1 woes

2004-06-20 Thread David H.
a) Contact the CVS guys and tell them to fix this Already done. CURL does not accept self signed SSL certs as it seems. I contacted them a long time ago. b) In the meantime, if you have a copy of the source which you definitely know is safe, post that somewhere safe and change the source URL of

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread David R. Morrison
One of my goals here is to have an automated way to verify that packages are complying with the BuildDependsOnly policy. So I'm trying to find ways of characterizing this which won't get into a lot of exceptions. Right now (using CVS HEAD or CVS branch_0_20 of fink), the package fails validation

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread David R. Morrison
Yes, g77 is in fact one of the ones I've tagged. Something like g77 can be used in two ways, as I see it: it might be used "under the hood" by Fink, in order to compile something else. Or it might be used by a working scientist who is writing his own code and wants to compile it. Now, in the la

[Fink-devel] Re: BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-18 Thread David R. Morrison
As announced on Tuesday, I've started to enforce the new validation check related to BuildDependsOnly. I've gotten some complaints about it, so perhaps we need to discuss the situation. As Dan Macks has pointed out to me, our shared libraries policy does not explicitly require BuildDependsOnly fo

Re: [Fink-devel] botched downloads

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
An update: SourceForge has now responded, and is fixing the problem. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at JavaOne(SM), Sun's Worldwide Java Developer Conference, June 28 - Jul

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods html-parser-pm581.info,1.3,1.4

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
P.S. A complete list of the packages which have been removed from fink as part of my revision is at /experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods/perl.obsolete --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by The 2004 JavaOne(SM) Conference Learn from the experts at Ja

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods html-parser-pm581.info,1.3,1.4

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Modified Files: > html-parser-pm581.info > Log Message: > Fixed Depends to a perl-versioned lib instead of placeholder. > > > Index: html-parser-pm581.info > === > RCS file: > /cvsro

Re: [Fink-devel] botched downloads

2004-06-16 Thread David R. Morrison
The Master Mirror is not an option for a brand new file like the new fink release. We had this same trouble last week when fink 0.20.3 was released. It was reported to SourceForge. There has been no response to the report. Once the Master Mirror picks the file up, it should be easy for users to

[Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-15 Thread David R. Morrison
I'd like to update everyone on the BuildDependsOnly issue. In fink 0.20.3, we implemented the writing of the BuildDependsOnly field into the .deb file, and a new validation check which tests for the presence of /sw/include in a .deb file, and expects to find BuildDependsOnly to be true whenever /s

[Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-15 Thread David R. Morrison
I'd like to update everyone on the BuildDependsOnly issue. In fink 0.20.3, we implemented the writing of the BuildDependsOnly field into the .deb file, and a new validation check which tests for the presence of /sw/include in a .deb file, and expects to find BuildDependsOnly to be true whenever /s

Re: [Fink-devel] libtoolize and missing symbols in shared libraries

2004-06-14 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi. I had a look at this, and the underlying cause is the line AM_LDFLAGS = -no-undefined -version-info 0:0:0 -export-dynamic which appears in modules/Makefile.in (and also modules/Makefile.am). I kind of understand what the developers are trying to do with this, but they are going about it t

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods locale-gettext-pm.info,1.1,1.2

2004-06-11 Thread David R. Morrison
I guess another way to support that would be to supply a fink perl581 package which a user could install if they had replaced their perl installation... -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the new InstallShield X. >From Windows to L

[Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods locale-gettext-pm.info,1.1,1.2

2004-06-11 Thread David R. Morrison
Ben: In most cases, I believe, a 5.8.4 variant for perl modules should not be necessary. This is because perl 5.8.4 will actually see -pm581's as being available. The cases in which we would need a 5.8.4 variant are cases which depend on a -pm which is virtually provided by perl584-core. In tha

[Fink-devel] new bindist

2004-06-08 Thread David R. Morrison
This is an early notification that I hope to start creating the binary distribution 0.7.1 around two weeks from now. If there are packages of yours which need to be moved to stable, or to have their stable versions updated, please try to do that within the next two weeks. Thanks, Dave P.S. I

[Fink-devel] new developers?

2004-06-08 Thread David R. Morrison
I've noticed that several of the fink committers have been helping recently with the package submission tracker, and I think that's great. (We've been behind on processing submissions for a long time.) I'd like to ask everyone to keep in mind the following: if there are people who are putting thi

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn dpkg-bootstrap.info,NONE,1.1

2004-06-03 Thread David R. Morrison
"Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Which brings me to a question. I had assumed that bootstrap packages first > get put in unstable/base, then when they are moved to stable they get added > to bootstrap. Should bootstrap packages be added to bootstrap at the same > time as unstable,

[Fink-devel] Re: experimental/ogorman/finkinfo dpkg.info,1.3,1.4 dpkg.patch,1.8,1.9

2004-06-02 Thread David R. Morrison
"Peter O'Gorman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Modified Files: dpkg.info dpkg.patch Log Message: Dave, these seem to work a little better [snip] Thanks, Peter, this one does the trick. My only suggestion is, that you should add "suppress warning about BuildDependsOnly control field" to th

Re: [Fink-devel] validating BuildDependsOnly

2004-06-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Debian Packaging Manual 5.7 "User-defined fields" (though as I read it > is self-contradictory), suggests we could maybe pass the BDO flag in > the control file? If so, that would certainly be a cleaner solution than: > > > For each package, at build time

Re: [Fink-devel] Dependency problem with pcrs0

2004-06-01 Thread David R. Morrison
It worked perfectly for me, adding the line which Daniel Macks suggested. (You only want "Replaces", you do *not* want "Conflicts".) Just to be clear, here is how the dependency section looked after I made the change: ## Dependencies ## BuildDepends: autoconf | autoconf2.5, pcre (>= 3.0-1), fink

Re: [Fink-devel] Patch and PatchScript ignored

2004-06-01 Thread David R. Morrison
Your fink selfupdate is set to take things from "point releases", which are made every few months. If you want to change to a more rapidly updating fink, run the command "fink selfupdate-rsync". > You already have the package descriptions from the latest Fink point > release. > (installed:0.7.0

Re: [Fink-devel] Policy and apache 1.3.x modules

2004-05-31 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Langhoff (NZL) wrote: Is this within fink policy? What alternatives do I have in making this module compliant? No. You are not allowed to install _anything_ outside of /sw- There is one exception which is some special case when handling A

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly is a bad idea?

2004-05-31 Thread David R. Morrison
AIDA Shinra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let A a library depending on neon. If A-shlibs and A-dev has been built > with neon23, A-dev and neon24 should not be installed at the same > time. If both were installed, binary inconsistency happens: > > gcc -o B B.o -lA -lneon > > If B did not directly

Re: [Fink-devel] validating BuildDependsOnly

2004-05-30 Thread David R. Morrison
> It would also make it straightforward > to be able to rebuild a .deb later even if the original .info file has > gone missing. Well, almost. The problem is, you also need the correct version of the .patch file to rebuild the .deb. And .patch files can get very large, so I'm pretty sure we *don

Re: [Fink-devel] BuildDependsOnly is a bad idea?

2004-05-30 Thread David R. Morrison
The reason for the BuildDependsOnly flag is to make it possible to upgrade a library in the future, if the upgrade is not binary-backwards-compatible. An example is the "neon" package. Currently we are using neon24, but in the recent past we used neon23 (and many earlier ones). If you have neon2

[Fink-devel] validating BuildDependsOnly

2004-05-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink developers, For some time, I've wanted to have a way to validate that packages are using the BuildDependsOnly field correctly. The test I want to employ is this: if the package installs anything into /sw/include, it should be declaring BuildDependsOnly to be true. (This doesn't guarant

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Upgrading to 10.3.4 and emacs21

2004-05-28 Thread David R. Morrison
> > but this principle has always been > > more a pious wish than reality. > Could you explain in more detail what you mean? I think it's a pretty accurate comment. It has been stated goal of fink to make sure that fink packages always compile the same everywhere, but we've never had adequate QA

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Upgrading to 10.3.4 and emacs21

2004-05-28 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: but this principle has always been more a pious wish than reality. Could you explain in more detail what you mean? Thank you. - -d -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) iD8DBQFAtz1RPMoaMn4kKR4RAxHSAJ9

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] fix-fink error

2004-05-27 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, I'm aware of this bug in fix-fink, and in fact it's on the bug tracker. The reason I haven't fixed it is that there is no reason for anyone to be running fix-find right now, and I'm afraid if I fix it and release a new version that would cause lots of folks to try to run it. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] svn wants system-java14-dev

2004-05-16 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Randal L. Schwartz wrote: "Peter" == Peter O'Gorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Peter> Yeah, it was the top news item on fink's home page for a while. It is Peter> still on the front page though. Thanks... you mean I have to read the news? :) :)

Re: [Fink-devel] Licence type for CFITSIO

2004-05-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sébastien Maret wrote: > > I've written a fink package for the CFITSIO library, but I don't know > > which licence type is appropriate (OSI-Approved ?) . From the licence file: > > OSI-Approved should be fine, the majority of it (the first part) is > e

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2004-05-08 Thread David R. Morrison
My apologies, I misinterpreted your message, Ben. You were suggesting that the new variant style should be used for these packages. That's an excellent idea, but my goal right now is to get all packages to conform to policy. I'll leave it to maintainers (or later work by me) to move to the varian

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods c-scan-pm.info,NONE,1.1 data-flow-pm.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 dbix-searchbuilder-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 glib-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.patch,NONE,1.1 gtk-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtk2-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.patch,NONE,1.1 html-tree-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 interpolation-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 libsablot.info,NONE,1.1 libwww-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 libxml-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 mime-base64-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 rmagic.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 term-progressbar-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 uri-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-altavista-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm581.info! ,NONE,1.1 xml-libxml-! pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-simple-pm5

2004-05-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Actually, there was a discussion, in which I proposed that we adopt a new policy in which we explicitly choose to have variants whenever there is a difference among the variants. We had the discussion twice: the first time, when Dan Macks was just starting to implement the code which will allow th

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods c-scan-pm.info,NONE,1.1 data-flow-pm.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 dbi-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 dbix-searchbuilder-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 glib-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.info,NONE,1.1 gnome-panel.patch,NONE,1.1 gtk-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtk2-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.info,NONE,1.1 gtkhtml3.patch,NONE,1.1 html-tree-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 interpolation-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 libsablot.info,NONE,1.1 libwww-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 libxml-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 mime-base64-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 rmagic.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-notex-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 template-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 term-progressbar-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 uri-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-altavista-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 www-search-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm560.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm580.info,NONE,1.1 xml-dom-pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-libxml-! pm581.info,NONE,1.1 xml-simple-pm5

2004-05-08 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Ben Hines wrote: >The old style is extremely deprecated. ^^^ When did we decide on that? Since I was not reading the mailing lists for a bit last wekk (was very busy), I might have overlooked the discussion, but I

[Fink-devel] Re: fink fink.8.in,1.18,1.18.16.1 fink.conf.5.in,1.12,1.12.2.1 ChangeLog,1.223.2.2,1.223.2.3

2004-05-08 Thread David R. Morrison
Dan, You called this a "backport" but I cannot find this in HEAD... only in the branch... -- Dave From: Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: fink fink.8.in,1.18,1.18.16.1 fink.conf.5.in,1.12,1.12.2.1 ChangeLog,1.223.2.2,1.223.2.3 Date: Tue, 04 May 2004 04:50:43 +0

Re: [Fink-devel] Type: NoSource bug (Re: [Fink-beginners] installing KDE-Again!-)

2004-05-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin, This was fixed in CVS a few weeks ago but hasn't yet made it to a release. (See bug # 937066). Another possible workaround is touch /sw/src/automake-1.6.3.tar.gz (because then fink sees the file and doesn't try to fetch it... things proceed normally after that). -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/shells scsh-install-lib.info,NONE,1.1

2004-05-06 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Christian Schaffner wrote: I do nto think that anything but true _shells_ should be in that category. I couldn't find any discussion about that (nor docu) but i might have missed something. I am not sure what to do in this case. Please advi

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Re: transfig 3.2.4-3

2004-05-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Darian Lanx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Nielsen wrote: > > > Hi.. > > > > I just tried installing the package mentioned in subj. It failed with a > > gcc3 command not found. > > I manually edited the .info file and changed the references from gcc3 to > > gcc. > > This seems like a pa

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [ fink-Package Submissions-928157 ] ca-roots, list of SSL CA root certificates

2004-05-04 Thread David R. Morrison
> Is it acceptable to delete "License:" field simply? No. Every fink package must have a license field. See: http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/packaging/policy.php?phpLang=en#licenses -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracl

Re: [Fink-devel] Package database lying about bindist

2004-05-02 Thread David R. Morrison
> As a consequence, it appears that someone pulled the gnome-python2-py23 > and gramps packages from the bindist, but apparently without telling the > pdb about it. How does the pdb get its information about the bindist > anyway? I thought it was live? The pdb data is based on the CVS tag relea

Re: [Fink-devel] w3m 1.5

2004-05-02 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 ASARI Takashi wrote: We made w3m 1.5.1 's info files, and sent it to the original maintainer. A month has passed, but we get no reply from him. Can we take him over? w3m 1.5 has i18n support, so we really need it. I guess that is fine. Unless t

Re: [Fink-devel] freetype-1.3.1-6

2004-04-29 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Maybe it's a missing dependency on freetype-shlibs: that's where the libraries should be. Actually, if he is looking for a _static_ library there should be a -dev splittoff including the headers AND the static librar

Re: [Fink-devel] trouble running suid perl script with fink perl module

2004-04-22 Thread David R. Morrison
If you use bash rather than csh, you need to update your base-files package to version 1.9.1-1 (currently in the unstable tree), which should address this problem. -- Dave Kurt Steinkraus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to run (and maybe eventually package) clusterssh. This

Re: [Fink-devel] Tell Apple about Fink 0.7.0

2004-04-19 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: On the Apple opensource software web page http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ which every Mac owner can find only two clicks away from their Apple menu, there is a link to Fink, but only to version 0.6

Re: [Fink-devel] Still >500 packages not moved from 10.2 tree, need help

2004-04-19 Thread David R. Morrison
All of the packages on that list which have me as the maintainer were deliberately not moved, and should not be moved. I will be happy to supply reasons if required. We need a mechanism to mark packages as "should not be moved to 10.3", especially if there is going to be a general call to actio

Re: [Fink-devel] Website

2004-04-19 Thread David R. Morrison
We edit the xml files by hand, and then process them using the makefiles on the site. There is no "higher-level" tool. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, Presid

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread David R. Morrison
I agree with Martin that we should accept this as the new policy, but for now confine these packages to the unstable tree to give some time to make sure we don't need to modify the policy further. Martin: I was probably the one who suggested in the earlier discussion that the symlink for the .app

Re: [Fink-devel] apps in Fink - a final decision?

2004-04-18 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeff Whitaker wrote: All: I'm working on a new r-base package which will include R built as a framework and R.app (in addition to the command line X11 version of R). I went back and re-read the thread on .apps in Fink, but it didn't seem like th

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Problem updating fink

2004-04-13 Thread David R. Morrison
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22D=2E_H=F6hn=22?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Daniel Macks wrote: > | But it seems like there's an underlying problem with > | "Essential: yes" of fink-mirrors not being respected? > | > Well, what I noticed is, that fink-mirrors is installed _after_ the new > fink is executed.

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation, revisited

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
> How will we handle such provides from system-perl done in the virtuals? Excellent question! Can we easily get fink to think that the virtual system-perl has provided certain things? If so, I can create a list of the appropriate Provides... -- Dave -

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation, revisited

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
P.S. I forgot to say: a couple of the packages which Patrick identified have not been moved forward from 10.2 to 10.3. Since my focus at the moment is to get things working in 10.3, I ignored those packages (for now). Most likely, they are not too crucial for 10.3 since we have lived without the

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposed policy change for -pm packages

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
P.S. In my new policy statement where we eliminate "placeholder" packages, I forgot to mention one exception: We will need to keep storable-pm as a placeholder package because of the role that it plays in bootstrapping. (Maybe some day, when we completely stop supporting 10.2, we can change this,

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation, revisited

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Whoops, typo: "except perl580" should have been "except perl560" in the previous message... it's the perl560 package which doesn't need to "Provide" other things... -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linu

Re: [Fink-devel] The perl modules situation, revisited

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Patrick Näf was kind enough to compile lots of information about perl module conflicts in late February, and I am now acting on this. (His message is reproduced below.) In my experimental/dmrrsn/perlmods directory, I have placed experimental new versions of perl560, perl580, and perl583. All of

Re: [Fink-devel] Proposed policy change for -pm packages

2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
On February 29, I sent a message proposing a policy change for -pm packages. I'll reproduce it below, and then give some important updates. There was no objection earlier; if anybody has objections to this policy change, this is the time to state them! > Dear fink developers, > > Last spring, w

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2004-04-12 Thread David R. Morrison
Sorry, Justin, I didn't have time to write my explanation last night and I won't get to it until later today. Watch this space! -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbin

Re: [Fink-devel] init.sh update?

2004-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks for pointing this out. The update will be part of base-files-0.9.1, which should be out in 24-36 hours (after mirrors sync, etc). -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Dani

Re: [Fink-devel] gimp2 errors

2004-04-10 Thread David R. Morrison
Koen, Go into your build directory and examine config.log. The problem you've encountered is often caused by a missing BuildDepends on gettext-dev and/or libiconv-dev, and you'll see -lintl or -liconv on the link line that is failing. Or if not those, some other missing library. -- Dave Cc

Re: [Fink-devel] libmng2

2004-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Justin, Fink 0.20.0 was released about 1 week ago. Does your package work with 0.20.0? I hope so, because very few users understand how to update fink from CVS. If we need to make a bugfix release of 0.20.1 to address some particular problem, please let me know. -- Dave To: Fink devel <[E

Re: [Fink-devel] Volunteer: guile and flex

2004-04-09 Thread David R. Morrison
> I grok the reason to keep around the different flex versions. But why > the older guile? When a package supplies shared libraries, and the version of the shared libraries changes in an update to the package, we keep the old package around so that the old shared libraries are still available for

Re: [Fink-devel] How to test the two variants of a package?

2004-04-07 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: Did you test wether this is really faster? I doubt that it's true. The parsing of variants and the creation of the virtual multiple packages is probably slower than the parsing of multiple but simpler info files. Yes I d

Re: [Fink-devel] How to test the two variants of a package?

2004-04-07 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: I always thought this is a bad idea that invites to produce a lot of non-tested packages. Why not just make two clean info files? Because it is a matter of scalability. When you have a piece of software that supports ma

Re: [Fink-devel] How to test the two variants of a package?

2004-04-07 Thread David R. Morrison
Just to clarify: my understand of Michele's problem is that when she tries to build the two variants contained in this .info file, only one of them can be built. So either it's a problem with the way she has constructed the file, or a problem with the variant code in fink. -- Dave --

Re: [Fink-devel] problem with undefined symbols...

2004-04-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Benjamin Reed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jules wrote: > > > dyld: /usr/local/bin/TTOPOLOGY Undefined symbols: > > __ZSt3cin > > __ZSt4cout > > __ZSt4endlIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_ES6_ > > __ZSt4endsIcSt11char_traitsIcEERSt13basic_ostreamIT_T0_ES6_ > > __ZTTSt14basic_ifstreamI

Re: [Fink-devel] Which fink with gimp2?

2004-04-04 Thread David R. Morrison
> I'll be updating the gimp mirror list soon as that's horribly out of > date. Let me know when this is done, so that we can make a release of the "fink-mirrors" package and provide the new list to users. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is spo

[Fink-devel] package manager release soon

2004-04-03 Thread David R. Morrison
I'm planning to release fink-0.20.0 fairly soon. Is anyone aware of problems in CVS HEAD which should be fixed before the release? -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Rob

Re: [Fink-devel] New package: pgp4pine

2004-04-02 Thread David R. Morrison
Hoss, If you sign up for a sourceforge account and are logged in to sourceforge when you access that page, it will look different: there will be a button which allows you to submit something new. I agree that our instructions need improvement. -- Dave

Re: [Fink-devel] New package: pgp4pine

2004-04-02 Thread David R. Morrison
"David H." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > > > The homepage link titled "Submit a new Fink package" simply > >> leads to the SourceForge package request tracker -- which doesn't seem > >> to provi

Re: [Fink-devel] New package: pgp4pine

2004-04-02 Thread David H.
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Alexander K. Hansen wrote: The homepage link titled "Submit a new Fink package" simply leads to the SourceForge package request tracker -- which doesn't seem to provide any obvious method for actually *submitting* a new package. Thanks again, -

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