Re: [Fink-devel] Fink for FreeBSD

2003-01-24 Thread Jason Deraleau
ere's Portage... but that's for Gentoo Linux. I imagine Fink might get a decent reception amongst the Debian folk. Alexander Lehmann -- Jason Deraleau --- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorl

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jason Deraleau
keep it fairly separate from the rest of the filesystem. The only modification to distribution files would be in /etc/xinetd.conf, which I don't expect Apple to modify directly (they would instead modify the individual service configuration files in /etc/xinetd.d). Thoughts

Re: [Fink-devel] Can I modify outside /sw?

2003-01-10 Thread Jason Deraleau
On my machine, inetd is running rather thatn xinetd. So are you sure that this would actually work? Because you have no services for it. It checks at boot time. (see your console.log) inetd is obsolete, xinetd comes with Jaguar and is preferred (though startup items are more preferred) The

Re: [Fink-devel] FAW Q1.5: Then why did you choose /sw? -- How about /usr/local/fink?

2003-01-09 Thread Jason Deraleau
My vote is for /opt/fink. Just to clarify this, there is nothing to vote on here. There are no serious reasons to abandon /sw, but many good reasons not to do it - one of them being backward compatibility, we don't want to force 99% of fink users to redo their complete fink installation. I r

Re: [Fink-devel] FAW Q1.5: Then why did you choose /sw? -- How about /usr/local/fink?

2003-01-09 Thread Jason Deraleau
me than /sw/fink. Also, since /opt is hidden by default, you don't run into the confusion/problems of having the /sw directory suddenly starting appearing when you are in the Finder (I personally use SetFile -a V to hide it, I like a ni

Re: [Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Jason Deraleau
JD> Jaguar is using gcc 3.1, does anyone know if that version of gcc supports JD> AltiVec specific optimizations? If so, are Fink packages built for these JD> G4-only extensions? The reason why I'm asking is because I've been playing JD> with Gentoo Linux (gentoo.org), which uses a system somewhat

[Fink-devel] Global gcc 3.x optimizations

2002-12-01 Thread Jason Deraleau
? If not, could it? I'd love to be able to build packages that are optimized for my system. Thanks! -- Jason Deraleau --- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. htt

[Fink-devel] Re: Off-topic Chimera

2002-11-27 Thread Jason Deraleau
> Seems to depend on what you do with it--I browse a lot of web sites and > Chimera seems to choke on some javascript, ASP, and other things and, > of even more consequence, it also has very nasty memory leaks as in: --snippy-- > > Note the above was just ONE DAY of use! I like Chimera a lot--I wis

Re: [Fink-devel] future of Fink

2002-11-27 Thread Jason Deraleau
> > > > Works fine for me in chimera. :) > > > > Matt > > > In between crashes ;-) Sorry...couldn't resist ;-) > I don't think I've had Chimera crash on me since .6 release. And I run nightlies -- JD --- This SF.net email is sponsored by:

Re: [Fink-devel] The domain Name..

2002-11-27 Thread Jason Deraleau
> Renaming and brand identity is a big subject. How far do you want this > to go? Do you envision moving fink into the mainstream Apple user base? > If so, a re-branding is very good idea. While I like fink the tool, I > work as a technical marketeer and brand strategy fundamentals recommend > that

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

2002-11-17 Thread Jason Deraleau
> 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 > som

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.5.0 timetable

2002-11-05 Thread Jason Deraleau
> None of these should be replaced. Not only are the versions in Fink > in most cases newer, but having them as seperate packages also allows > us to provide fixes etc. at all times. OTOH there is nothing to be > gained by providing place holders for these, with the possible > exception of the bind

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.5.0 timetable

2002-11-05 Thread Jason Deraleau
> On Tuesday, November 5, 2002, at 04:40 PM, Jason Deraleau wrote: > > bzip2Virtual package for the install of bzip2 included with > > Jaguar > > (/usr/bin/bzip2, v.1.0.2) > > Not sure about the others, but this one still exists because bzip2 on > the system i

Re: [Fink-devel] 0.5.0 timetable

2002-11-05 Thread Jason Deraleau
> >> I think we still need to deal with our 'cups' package. We should just > >> use > >> Apple's libraries and binaries, but provide the headers ourselves. (I > >> think > >> there is a package in experimental/rangerrick/). > > > > If no one has any objections, I can put the package in unstable. I

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink clean install on 10.2 issues? (was Re: Fink audiofile package)

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
> If you ran the bootstrap.sh found in the fink-0.11.0 tarball (as instructed > on the jag-bootstrap page) then everything should be fine. If it is not, > let's try to debug some more. > > -- Dave The problem here is that the original issue I had was with the audiofile package not being able to

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink clean install on 10.2 issues? (was Re: Fink audiofile package)

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
> Jason, > > You are following the instructions on the jag-bootstrap page, and yet one > of your earlier messages showed that you were in a fink-0.4.1-full directory? > Where did that come from? You shouldn't have fink-0.4.1 on your system > at all if you are following those instructions... > >

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink clean install on 10.2 issues? (was Re: Fink audiofile package)

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
he 10.2 > fink. Time is the keyword here. > > -- > Martin This has nothing to do with Mac OS X 10.1. I am installing Fink on Mac OS X 10.2 and Mac OS X Server 10.2 using the directions at: http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php Clean installs of the OS. No upgrades. Clean inst

[Fink-devel] Fink clean install on 10.2 issues? (was Re: Fink audiofile package)

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
instructions or the distribution that is suggested in the instructions. We have discovered this because of the problems I was having with the audiofile package, which the packager attributes to being that I was using the 10.1 repository instead of the 10.2 repository. Since I am doing this using cle

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: Fink audiofile package

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
Perhaps because of the change Justin just made? The only thing I can think of is that perhaps the directions on the webpage are screwing me up. I noticed that it tells me to have both the stable and unstable distributions listed. Is this correct? -- Jason Deraleau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MCSE/MCSA, CCNA,

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink audiofile package

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
re running the right tree. > I am following the instructions on this page: http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php Once that has completed, I issue fink update-all, and then fink install audiofile. I then get the missing file and directory path errors that I have been sending you.

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink audiofile package

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
x27;m just missing something here, but I really, really, really doubt it. Are you sure that you have the correct info file in both stable and unstable trees? Perhaps you are looking at just the stable tree and I am using the unstable tree (which is recommended for 10.2)? -- Jason Deraleau ([EMAIL PRO

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink audiofile package

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ MirrorContinent: nam MirrorCountry: nam-us ProxyPassiveFTP: true Verbose: 3 Please, tell me where I'm going wrong. Otherwise, something is wrong with your package. -- Jason Deraleau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MCSE/MCSA, CCNA, A+, Linux+, Network+ Homepage:

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink audiofile package

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
> you need to run fink selfupdate-cvs > Actually, I have a script that runs fink selfupdate-cvs and fink update-all every four hours. But, to humor you I did anyway and attached you'll find a file created with the script command showing what happens. -- Jason Deraleau ([EMAIL PROTE

[Fink-devel] Fink audiofile package

2002-11-04 Thread Jason Deraleau
Left Speed 100 324k 100 324k0 0 71921 0 0:00:04 0:00:04 0:00:00 107k I usually have to retry five or six times before I get anything. Just a heads up. -- Jason Deraleau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) MCSE/MCSA, CCNA, A+, Linux+, Network+ Homepage: http://www.lifehertz.com --

[Fink-devel] Mac OS X for Unix Geeks

2002-10-24 Thread Jason Deraleau
This new O'Reilly book has a section on Fink, it includes notes on how to create a Fink package (.info). Pretty nice stuff. -- JD --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Pro

[Fink-devel] Speeding up Fink on dual processor machines

2002-10-24 Thread Jason Deraleau
I just got a dual proc box (only G4/450s, not one of the 1.25GHz :( and I'm wondering if there's a way to have Fink make use of both processors while compiling. It seems that while Fink is compiling something, I still have about 50% of my CPUs idle, or, one processor. I'm wondering if anyone has

[Fink-devel] A strange question...

2002-06-13 Thread Jason Deraleau
I've installed Fink and several different packages, including mysqld, and I'm wondering if there is a standard method of getting the applications to launch in OS X. Are you guys just creating a framework in /Library/StartupItems/%packagename%? How does it get to System Starter? Perhaps using

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #541 - 5 msgs

2002-06-10 Thread Jason Deraleau
> Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 16:59:27 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Paul Gaborit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: [Fink-devel] How to delete old deb files ? > > > My disk is full !!! But... > > > cd /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/graphics/ > > ls -l gimp_*

[Fink-devel] Re: Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #531 - 11 msgs

2002-06-03 Thread Jason Deraleau
is a howto I've written, which is available here: http://www.opensource.apple.com/projects/documentation/howto/html/osxsmb.htm l And otherwise, hopefully that Samba .deb will get moved into stable soon. As well as the net-snmp package! :) Jason Deraleau ___