Jack, sorry for the slow reply. I haven't had time to look at the
patch in detail, but the changes you suggest seem fine, so feel free
to commit them.
Dustin
On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 4:24 PM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> Dustin,
> The recent giflib7 update created a circular dependency in the
> bui
he mists of time. Maybe it was true at one point?
>
> Dustin Cartwright, who did a lot of the work on the code for user
> addition/modification in fink, noted in a thread that this is indeed a
> problem, and that UIDs in the 250-299 range were indeed subject to use
> by Apple. That&#x
On Thu, Jul 26, 2012 at 11:20 AM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> But after careful checking, I think I've found the problem. It looks
> like the bootstrap script isn't doing things differently for 32-bit-only
> Intel machines on 10.5/10.6 like it should.
>
I came to the
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 6:46 AM, Alexander Hansen
wrote:
>
> Sorry, was in a bad mood.
I was just trying to convince you to do less work, but I can see that
I failed. :)
> Here's the thought process I was working under:
>
> "fink configure" is a natural place to do anything that has prompts for
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> My thought is to borrow from what you've done, but do like David and
> Merle suggested and store the following in fink.conf:
>
> AutoUid: boolean
>
> AutoUidBase: integer, default 600
>
> AutoUidMax: integer
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:35 PM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Success!
>
> What passwd-fink-bld does, and which wasn't being done by fink either in
> my branch or Dustin's, is to run
>
> dscl . -delete /Users/fink-bld AuthenticationAuthority
>
> when generating the fink
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 1:03 AM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> After injecting again, removing the fink-bld entries, and doing a
> selfupdate:
>
> $ id fink-bld
> uid=4294967294(fink-bld) gid=4294967294(nobody)
>
> groups=4294967294(nobody),402(com.apple.sharepoint.group
Alexander, can you try the latest branch of add-fink-bld again? Directory
Services seems to map uid, passwd, etc. to UniqueID, Password respectively,
but I thought it might be better just to use the latter directly. I also
added an invocation of "dsmemberutil flushcache". I know nothing about this
ri, May 11, 2012 at 1:23 AM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/10/12 3:06 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
> > On 5/10/12 11:04 AM, Dustin Cartwright wrote:
> >> On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Alexander Hansen
> >> mailto:alexanderk.han...@gmai
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 6:07 PM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It didn't do the right thing for me, apparently:
>
> Adding user and group fink-bld for building packages unprivileged
> No packages to install.
>
> The core packages have been updated. You should now update
On Thu, May 10, 2012 at 12:45 AM, Alexander Hansen <
alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote:
> We're approaching the May 16 planned deadline for a new Fink (0.33.0)
> release. The current plan is to incorporate:
>
> 2) moving creation of the fink-bld user from passwd-fink-bld into fink,
> as per ht
On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:34 AM, Alexander Hansen
wrote:
> I've just added code from Daniel Johnson which changes the default
> behavior of fink in git master.
>
> --build-as-nobody is now the default option. It can be overridden in a
> .info file by the use of a "BuildAsNobody: false" field. A
You might also want to look at their answer to the converse question.
"Why did Darwinports start from scratch..." at
http://www.opendarwin.org/projects/darwinports/en/faq.php
In short, he says that packaging systems are a new type of product, and
there will necessarily be experimentation until p
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