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

2004-04-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Todd Heidesch wrote: Yes, a few line breaks. Also, it doesn't work with fink 0.19.2. OK, I fixed the linebreaks in CVS while Feanor is sleeping. Now if only someone would fix the gnome mirror list... -- Martin --- This SF.Net email is

Re: [Fink-devel] Something unclear in faq

2004-04-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Michèle Garoche wrote: This sentence in faq, answer to Q5.17, is very unclear to me: ... if you really need the other directory to be before /sw/sbin, then you'll want to temporarily rename the other install-info when you use Fink. What does other in the last part of the sentence refer to?

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

2004-04-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Strange wrote: Thanks; I'm not sure how they got mauled since I was always using the same editor. Falling asleep on the keyboard? :-) Now for something positive: gimp-2.0 seems to work. I haven't yet got it to print, though. -- Martin

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

2004-04-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote: [] Reading package info... Package description too new to be handled by this fink (21)! Skipping /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/gimp2.info Do I have to be running fink from cvs? Yes. BTW, printing is working OK now, too. For my airport printer hp-deskjet

Re: [Fink-devel] tetex and system-tetex. Anyone can help me?

2004-04-02 Thread Martin Costabel
On 2 avr. 2004, at 16:19, Andrea Riciputi wrote: [] Depends: python23|python23-nox, tetex-base|system-tetex, ghostscript | ghostscript-nox, ghostscript-fonts BuildDepends: tetex-dev|system-tetex I get the an 'error-node' error message, since system-tetex already provides tetex-base. How can I

[Fink-devel] gimp-app

2004-03-30 Thread Martin Costabel
Has anyone had a look at http://gimp-app.sourceforge.net/ ? Did this guy ask what the Fink team thinks about such rip-offs? To my untrained eye at least, this kind of binary-only distribution looks like a flagrant violation of the GPL. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] gimp-app

2004-03-30 Thread Martin Costabel
Kyle Moffett wrote: On Mar 30, 2004, at 20:56, Alexander Strange wrote: The Gimp 2.0 isn't a ripoff because I haven't finished the package yet. He does provide the original Gimp sources, but if the application bundle contains anything else it would need to be published as well (but it's not a

[Fink-devel] The GCC: field, lesstif

2004-03-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Only about one third of the packages in 10.3 have a GCC: field. According to the documentation, this field is required for packages that produce potentially binary incompatible C++ libraries. But it has a second function, namely to make sure that the package is compiled with a specific version

Re: [Fink-devel] bundle-gnome

2004-03-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Richard Rudolph wrote: Hi, I was wondering about the status of bundle-gnome in unstable. I want to install and test but can't seem to find 2.4 in unstable. I added unstable/main and un stable/crypto to my fink.conf file. Ran selfupdate and index. When I run Fink Commander, bundle-gnome v 2.4

Re: [Fink-devel] octave-forge-2004.02.12-2

2004-03-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Linc Davis wrote: With this package installed, I get the following error every time I run apt: You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: octave-forge: Depends: X11 but it is not installable. For Fink users, this

Re: [Fink-devel] Packages I'm willing to maintain

2004-03-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Henninger wrote: Hi, earlier I asked (well, I don't know if it made it to the list... I It did, after 10 hours. [] Anyway, let me know what I need to do to begin helping! I guess the standard procedure would be to start by submitting revised versions of these packages to the package

Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this NEW url?

2004-03-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Strange wrote: On Mar 21, 2004, at 10:46 PM, James Gibbs wrote: jgibbs% ping ftp.ysbl.york.ac.uk/ ping: unknown host ftp.ysbl.york.ac.uk/ I'm using just the default Comcast DNS. Maybe you should take the / out ;) Both ftp.ysbl.york.ac.uk (AKA typhoeus.chem.york.ac.uk (144.32.72.225))

Re: [Fink-devel] could someone help me check this url?

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: P.S. The URL doesn't work for me either... It seems this ftp server doesn't want to do passive ftp. This rules out downloading on my university account becasue of the firewall that blocks most ports for incoming connections. It also doesn't collaborate with all

[Fink-devel] bindist URLs dead

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
It seems the sourceforge clowns did it again: They changed the download directory names so that apt-get is running into 404 not found errors. Their timing is also perfect, synchronized with the appearance of the new Fink bindist, so that the new one has the same wrong URLs as all the old ones.

Re: [Fink-devel] bindist URLs dead

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: [] I will contact the SF.net staff now. Seems they listened to you already. Amazing. Both versions of the URLs are working now. -- Martin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink Commander address

2004-03-20 Thread Martin Costabel
yamo wrote: I just downloaded the update for Fink Commander (0.5.2) and am now getting Err http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Packages 404 Not Found [IP: 152.2.210.121 80] Ign http://us.dl.sourceforge.net 10.3/release/main Release etc... when I run BinaryUpdate

Re: [Fink-devel] New pathsetup.sh

2004-03-16 Thread Martin Costabel
On 16 mars 2004, at 16:21, David R. Morrison wrote: Hi Martin. How do you think we should include this with the bindist? Should we put your .app on the disk in place of the current .command file? How should the postinstall script of the bindist be set up? Should this shell script be

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/net bittorrent-nox.info,NONE,1.1 bittorrent-nox.patch,NONE,1.1 bittorrent.info,1.4,1.5

2004-03-15 Thread Martin Costabel
D. Höhn wrote: [] Does DescUsage not allow some thing like %p/share/doc/bittorrent ? There is no percent expansion in fink info or apt-cache show, if this is what you mean. For most readers, yourfinkdirectory is probably easier to understand than %p. I would even prefer /sw here, given that

Re: [Fink-devel] New pathsetup.sh

2004-03-15 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Macks wrote: [] If an admin is trying to enable fink for a new user, he'd want to run this. Given that having a GUI-ish interface means you're targetting folks who may not be comfortable with CLI, keeping a double-clickable thing (even if it's just an AppleScript applet or a thing.command

[Fink-devel] New pathsetup.sh

2004-03-13 Thread Martin Costabel
I have written a new pathsetup utility pathsetup.sh that is meant to replace the pathsetup.command script. It does the same things as the old version, but it has a new interface: Following hints by Bill Scott, I replaced the Terminal.app window by AppleScript-generated dialog windows. This

Re: [Fink-devel] Xfree 4.4 linking

2004-03-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Peter O'Gorman wrote: There are a number of libraries that are newer than the versions in XFree86 4.3, so once you go forward, you can't go back. Hmm, where is that shlibs branch? Just saying you can't go back is not really good enough, we should be putting in a versioned depends

Re: [Fink-devel] docbook-bundle-4.1.2-3

2004-03-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Michael Fourman wrote: The info page is out of date the HOWTO URL has moved to http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/DocBook-Install/index.html Fixed, thanks. -- Martin --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages tix.info,NONE,1.1

2004-02-28 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Macks wrote: I don't think continuation-lines in simple scripts (those that do not begin with #!/bin/bash or whatever) is supported until fink 0.19.0. OK, fixed (added #!/bin/sh). Thanks -- Martin --- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed

Re: [Fink-devel] pango and freetype question

2004-02-26 Thread Martin Costabel
James Gibbs wrote: Could someone look at the following snippet from the compilation of pango1-xft2 and tell me if it looks wrong to them, too. Specifically, in the last call to gcc, -L/sw/lib comes before -L/usr/X11R6/lib and there is also a -lfreetype. Wouldn't this make the libfreetype from

Re: [Fink-devel] System-tetex and error node.

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Andrea Riciputi wrote: [] Package: pyx-py23 Version: 0.5.1 Revision: 1 Depends: python23|python23-nox, tetex-base | system-tetex, ghostscript system-tetex already Provides tetex-base, so you don't need this alternative. I suspect this is where the problem comes from. | ghostscript-nox |

Re: [Fink-devel] System-tetex and error node.

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Martin, It is not an omission that system-tetex does not provide tetex-dev. One of the differences between Gerben Wierda's teTeX distribution and the fink one is that in fink, we build libkpathsea as a shared library, whereas it is only a static library in Wierda's

Re: [Fink-devel] System-tetex and error node.

2004-02-23 Thread Martin Costabel
, Martin Costabel wrote: Package: pyx-py23 Version: 0.5.1 Revision: 1 Depends: python23|python23-nox, tetex-base | system-tetex, ghostscript system-tetex already Provides tetex-base, so you don't need this alternative. I suspect this is where the problem comes from. Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] Maintained but not on website?

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Geoff Hutchison wrote: Well, I dunno. I was going from: http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/openbabel which says Justin's not the maintainer anymore? and http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/nomaintainer.php Which lists openbabel... I think we really need to do something about this. I

Re: [Fink-devel] Fink-devel digest, Vol 1 #1412 - 10 msgs

2004-02-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Pascal J.Bourguignon wrote: [] $ otool -L /sw/bin/wget /sw/bin/wget: /sw/lib/libintl.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.1.0) /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version

Re: [Fink-devel] bad dependency?

2004-02-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Pascal J.Bourguignon wrote: $ wget -h dyld: wget can't open library: /sw/lib/libssl.0.9.7.dylib (No such file or directory, errno = 2) Trace/BPT trap This is really wget, not wget-ssl? The wget from the wget package should not link to libssl at all. What does otool -L /sw/bin/wget give? So I

Re: [Fink-devel] bad dependency?

2004-02-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Pascal J.Bourguignon wrote: [] $ otool -L /sw/bin/wget /sw/bin/wget: /sw/lib/libintl.1.dylib (compatibility version 2.0.0, current version 2.1.0) /sw/lib/libiconv.2.dylib (compatibility version 5.0.0, current version 5.0.0) /usr/lib/libSystem.B.dylib (compatibility version

x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Hansen wrote: On Feb 13, 2004, at 4:46 PM, Ihar 'Philips' Filipau wrote: AKH system-xfree86 is now a virtual package, which is supposed to show up automatically if X11 is installed correctly. It appears that the installer sometimes leaves out files. There's a FAQ on this:

Re: x11 virtual package check (Was Re: [Fink-devel] freeciv/imlib/giflib/xfree)

2004-02-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: You would run fink-virtual-pkgs --debug, it puts the debug output to STDERR. You guys are really fast. It helps, of course, if one knows perl, I guess :-) I don't, I have more or less been feeling my way around in the dark. This looks good. In VirtPackage.pm there are two

[Fink-devel] Stuck mirror

2004-02-07 Thread Martin Costabel
Fink selfupdate wants to download gpdf-0.112.1.tar.bz2. Unfortunately the mirror ftp://fr.rpmfind.net/linux/gnome.org/sources/gpdf/0.112/ it tries to do so from does not answer. So curl just sits there and counts the seconds. There is no way out of this situation short of running fink

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feature request: finicky-install

2004-02-04 Thread Martin Costabel
Remi Mommsen wrote: [] on. You are asking for an interactive mode for creating package files... In addition it violates the fink policy that a deb file with a given name/version/revision should be identical regardless how and where it was built. It violates the even more important principle

Re: [Fink-devel] fink feedback?

2004-02-03 Thread Martin Costabel
On 3 févr. 2004, at 12:53, David R. Morrison wrote: Anybody have good or bad things to say about fink 0.18.0? I'd like to move it to stable, and release 0.19.0. There is also the affair of atk1 which is considered as buildonly: WARNING: The package zenity Depends on atk1, but atk1

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-beginners] Darwin unavailable?

2004-02-03 Thread Martin Costabel
to Mac OS 10.2.8 hoping that this would fix the problem. It didn't. fink-virtual-pkgs says: Package: darwin Status: install ok installed Version: 6.8-1 description: [virtual package representing the kernel] On Tue, 3 Feb 2004, Martin Costabel wrote: On 3 févr. 2004, at 15:20, Mike Barker wrote

Re: [Fink-devel] system-ghostscript8

2004-02-02 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: [] Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in get Operand stack: hrsyr.gsf0 This hrsyr.gsf is one of those Hershey fonts. If one removes the ghostscript-fonts part of the system-ghostscript8 package and installs the Fink ghostscript-fonts package, everything seems

Re: [Fink-devel] enlightenment-0.16.5-9

2004-01-31 Thread Martin Costabel
salvo wrote: Hi, enlightenment require these: (1) freetype-shlibs: TrueType font rendering library, version 1 (2) freetype-hinting-shlibs: TrueType font rendering library, version 1, hinting enabled but I've gnome 2 and freetype 2 installed: so how to install enlightment without change them?

Re: .app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: It would be better to make an Alias instead of a symlink. And put it on the Desktop instead of /Applications. This would be less intrusive. During package installation, people are used to things appearing on the desktop. I can imagine installing

[Fink-devel] Dependencies on dlcompat-shlibs in 10.3

2004-01-30 Thread Martin Costabel
While installing Fink on a new Panther system, I was surprised to see that it absolutely wanted to install dlcompat-shlibs. As I understand, there is no reason that any package in Panther should depend on dlcompat-shlibs. The package is only there to accomodate older binaries. A quick grep

Re: [Fink-devel] gnuplot history -- doesn't detect readline

2004-01-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Joe Corneli wrote: gnuplot history warning: history command requires some form of readline support fink list readline Information about 2434 packages read in 2 seconds. i readline 4.3-25 Comfortable terminal input library i readline-shlibs4.3-25

Re: .app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-26 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] My proposal is that we place .app's in /sw/Applications, and then in a postinstall script, set up a symlink from /Applications to the actual .app. It would be better to make an Alias instead of a symlink. And put it on the Desktop instead of /Applications. This would

Re: .app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-26 Thread Martin Costabel
D. Höhn wrote: [] I do not quite understand why. Please do not misunderstand me, I am not completely opposed, I just do not get why. We are good at something, which is packaging Unix based applications. There are enough This is a false opposition. There are more and more Unix based applications

Re: .app's in Fink (was Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages)

2004-01-26 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: Fine by me, as long as we stick to open source applications ONLY. The No one ever suggested anything else. objection about 'moving apps around' never did make sense to me, i think a more important objection is fink losing focus. I believe we have one or two command line apps

Re: [Fink-devel] CFD: Installing Frameworks from fink packages

2004-01-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Matthias Neeracher wrote: - Do y'all agree that frameworks are, in principle, fink packageable matter? - Where should frameworks be installed? /sw/lib/Frameworks ? /sw/lib/frameworks ? /sw/Frameworks? /sw/frameworks? /sw/lib/sw? My vote goes for a new directory /sw/Library and

Re: [Fink-devel] find . -ls gets zero sizes!

2004-01-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Michèle Garoche wrote: Le 23 janv. 2004, à 1:49, Pascal J.Bourguignon a écrit : find . -name mbox -ls 66892600 -rw--- 1 pascal staff 0 Jan 23 01:45 ./.mbox/mbox 66883790 -rw--- 1 pascal staff 0 Jan 14 10:36 ./Deleted\ Messages.mbox/mbox From

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 gimp-freefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1 gimp-sharefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1

2004-01-23 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Macks wrote: [] Testing, however, finds that fink does the Right Thing here. Objection withdrawn. So why do you *ever* do '-x xfontconfig' in your *Script? I think there is quite a bit of, let's say, legacy code (AKA old cruft) in these font packages. I can only speak for the msttcorefonts

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11 gimp-freefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1 gimp-sharefonts-0.10-2.info,NONE,1.1

2004-01-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander Strange wrote: On Jan 22, 2004, at 10:54 PM, Ben Hines wrote: On Jan 21, 2004, at 11:49 PM, Alexander Strange wrote: install -d -m 755 %d`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/freefont install -c -m 644 * %d`%p/bin/xfontpath basedir`/freefont I don't think this is legal.. it will make

[Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] system-ghostscript issue.

2004-01-20 Thread Martin Costabel
On 20 janv. 2004, at 16:55, Andrea Riciputi wrote: Some days ago I sent the following message to the list, but I've got no answer. I repost this hoping someone could help me. Cheers, Andrea. === Begin Original Message === Hi, I've installed Gerben Wierda teTeX distribution with gs 8.0,

Re: [Fink-devel] unstable and wrong links

2004-01-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Gottfried Szing wrote: hi alex I forgot all about dryrun. This sounds like a great thing for somebody to run every so often and post the bad connections to the maintainers. wow, just fyi. the situation is not that bad. i have run a dryrun and tested most of the urls and there are about 90

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-15 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: On Jan 14, 2004, at 10:55 PM, D. Höhn wrote: I doubt that this kind of rather unprofessional and almost personal course of action will spur some action. While I commend you for pointing out, that fink is not near perfect yet, I hope that it is It absolutely worked. And most of

Re: [Fink-devel] Lengthy Finding prebound objects during build phase

2004-01-15 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. I am building a fink package for Scilab (an open source scientific app similar to Matlab from INRIA guys in France). I hope you have seen that Fink already has a scilab package. In fact two, scilab and scilab-atlas, the latter using the atlas libraries. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-14 Thread Martin Costabel
On 14 janv. 2004, at 08:51, Ben Hines wrote: Martin: You are wrong. It is frankly NOT my responsibility to figure out why the problem occurred. As a user of the package, is only my responsibility to report failure, that is it. For your convenience, I even used FinkCommander, I did not say it

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: Remind me about the error message and the workaround and I'll add an entry--hopefully by this evening (GMT-5). I am dumping a collection of error messages on you without trying to formulate it as FAQ Q/A. The first one or two lines of each error message should be

Re: [Fink-devel] ld: warning -prebind has no effect with -bundle

2004-01-13 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: Still having a linker problem with a package I am working on (plplot). If I start building the package for the first time, compilation failes because of the error below. The dylibs libcsirocsa and libcsironn however are part of the package itself, so it is obvious it

[Fink-devel] Re: [gnome-core] librsvg2-2.4.0-3

2004-01-13 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: That may be, but these same problems will happen if/when it moves to stable. I agree with Ben, these are issues that can/should be worked around in the package, not in the user. Dear Ben and Ben, while you are right in principle and these problems should, of course, be

[Fink-devel] fink-gnome-core black hole

2004-01-12 Thread Martin Costabel
I think it was a bad idea to advise people to use the gnome-core mailing list as a write-only list. This would work only under the condition that Keith is sitting there and answering all messages (which he obviously can't, even supposing he knew all the answers ;-) ) Otherwise people are all

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-maintainer-gaim :: gaim = 0.71 please

2004-01-11 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: On Jan 8, 2004, at 7:24 PM, Max Horn wrote: We can't get anything into 0.6.2 - that's a fixed release :-). Not totally correct as you know, we do have an 'current' dir which we can throw packages into which point release stable users can access. For occasionally totally broken

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-maintainer-gaim :: gaim = 0.71 please

2004-01-11 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: Fink 0.6.2 was released on 17 November 2003, less than two months ago. You are right, my first message to fink-devel where I asked that qt3 in the bindist for 10.3 should be replaced by something that actually works on 10.3 dates from 6 November, not much more than 2

Re: [Fink-devel] Essential inheritance (was Re: fink remove all)

2004-01-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Daniel Macks wrote: After I run the script, and then do a fink update-all, fink wants to install apt, bzip2-dev, gettext-dev, libiconv-dev, ncurses-dev. I wonder if there's some leakage of the Essential property? I know this has been discussed here before, but IIRC splitoffs do not inherit

Re: [Fink-devel] a bundle-gnome install report

2004-01-10 Thread Martin Costabel
Morgan Hough wrote: I was very excited to see a new bundle-gnome so I had to try and install it straight away. Just a few quick questions: 1) I keep getting these messages for different bundle-gnome packages: WARNING: The package gnome-desktop Depends on atk1, but atk1 only allows

Re: [Fink-devel] building The GIMP 2.0pre1

2004-01-09 Thread Martin Costabel
On 9 janv. 2004, at 18:10, Todd Heidesch wrote: I'm trying to get GIMP 2.0pre1 to build but it wants libfreetype.la, which does not exist in either /sw/lib or in /usr/X11R6/lib. Is this supposed to be in Apple's X11? The freetype2 description says: The freetype2 package now exists only for

Re: [Fink-devel] Conflict between sodipodi and scite

2004-01-09 Thread Martin Costabel
On 8 janv. 2004, at 11:45, Michèle Garoche wrote: dpkg : error /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/editors/scite_1.57 -12_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install) : try to replace directory /sw/share/pixmaps in package sodipodi with an element of different type Useful additional

[Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
I am forwarding a message from today's fink-users list here, in the hope that someone with better memory or better insight knows the source of this problem. This has been coming come up very regularly, I find about a dozen complaints like this in the past two months, and it should certainly be

Re: [Fink-devel] dpkg-deb failed, exit code 10 or 11

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
D. Höhn wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Martin Costabel wrote: | D. Höhn wrote: | [] | | Xould you provide a Q/A pait ? I will check it into the FAQ as soon as I | have it and it has been verified here | | | As soon as someone has an idea what to put into the A part

Re: [Fink-devel] Hey there, folks, it's tracker time again

2004-01-08 Thread Martin Costabel
Kevin Horton wrote: Yeah, I suspected the functionality of the package tracker was a good part of the problem. It really needs some sort of way to differentiate items that are waiting for the submitter to respond from items that are waiting for an official fink person to tend to. But, I

Re: [Fink-devel] plplot and fortran

2004-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Koen van der Drift wrote: While working on the plplot package, I am running an error when I use the flag --enable-f77 (using fink's g77). When the flag --disable-f77 is used, compilation goes without a problem. The following snippets are what I think that is related: g77 -dynamiclib

Re: [Fink-devel] fink 0.18.0

2004-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Here is another regression: Alternative BuildDependencies do not seem to be recognized any more. Case 1: ttfmkfontdir has a BuildDepends on freetype | freetype-hinting When I fink rebuild ttfmkfontdir (it is already installed), it says a) under fink-0.17.4-1: fink needs help picking an alternative

Re: [Fink-devel] fink 0.18.0

2004-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Correction: Martin Costabel wrote: [] Case 2: freetype has a BuildDepends on %N-shlibs (= %v-%r) | freetype-hinting-shlibs (= %v-%r) This is Depends, not BuildDepends. -- Martin --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials. Become

Re: [Fink-devel] fink 0.18.0

2004-01-06 Thread Martin Costabel
Max Horn wrote: [] Case 1: ttfmkfontdir has a BuildDepends on freetype | freetype-hinting When I fink rebuild ttfmkfontdir (it is already installed), it says [...] Can't reproduce this problem with latest fink CVS (i.e. it *does* offer me the choice between the two packages), maybe my two fixes

[Fink-devel] The case of the missing linc

2004-01-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Since the upgrading of orbit2 to version 2.8.2-3 some 3 weeks ago, several packages that depend on linc1 do not compile any more. Ther was one problem with a missing symbol (too lazy to look up what it was) that Ben Hines fixed by including linc.h somewhere, and there is the problem with

Re: [Fink-devel] The case of the missing linc

2004-01-03 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: ld: Undefined symbols: _LINC_MUTEX_LOCK _LINC_MUTEX_UNLOCK [] Does anyone have a solution that does not involve applying band-aids to every package that depends on linc1 indirectly via orbit2? In the meantime I committed a band-aid for libbonobo2 in 10.3/unstable which

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dependencies

2003-12-31 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: [] I am dreaming of a mechanism that would remove a BuilDependsOnly package immediately after it is used. This would not only solve this problem, but also come in handy in other situations (it would help with the freetype2

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors

2003-12-29 Thread Martin Costabel
TheSin wrote: is the fink-mirrors package going to ask me the same questions everytime? is so could it get it's own config file or read fink.s it's very annoying. The strange thing is it doesn't behave the same everywhere. I have been doing this update on 3 machines, and on two of them it only

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate (FAQ)

2003-12-29 Thread Martin Costabel
Chris Pepper wrote: [] Alas, it's not completely fixed. I have the current fink package, but it still fails on fink-mirrors. I tried downloading the fink-mirrors tarball directly and dropping it into /sw/src, but that doesn't help either. OK, so you have fink-0.17.3-1 installed, and I

Re: [Fink-devel] fink CVS does not install/selfupdate as well.

2003-12-28 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] I'll look into the the @INC problem you had. It seems that PostInstScripts are executed in whatever environment the shell had from which fink install was started. So if you don't have PERL5LIB set correctly, this particular script will crash. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate (FAQ)

2003-12-26 Thread Martin Costabel
pH1nk wrote: Ok. I took the mirror folder out of the tempdir folder i created with the instructions on the web page, copied that to /sw/lib/fink/ and all it working Woo-hoo Well, good for you. There is still the question why you and others keep seeing this problem. There was a window of less

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dpendencies

2003-12-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: by this problem (and this is hard to detect and concerns potentially many packages) would need a BuildDepends on both gettext-dev and libiconv-dev. Yes, that is the answer. Any packages which don't should be fixed. Feel free

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dpendencies

2003-12-25 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 22, 2003, at 4:50 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: Solutions: Either one allows gettext-dev to Depend on libiconv-dev (but this not only violates policy but may also break bootstrapping, because gettext-dev might be needed before libiconv is built), or all packages

[Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Fink selfupdate installs the new fink-0.17.2-1 and then crashees when trying to install the new fink-mirrors package: Re-executing fink to use the new version... Information about 2203 packages read in 3 seconds. The following package will be installed or updated: fink-mirrors Failed: No mirror

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: THanks, Martin. I switched fink-mirrors to use CustomMirror, which should hopefully cure the problem. Merry Christmas to you as well! Hmm, it still breaks with Failed: No mirror site list file found for mirror 'master'. Not sure where this comes from. Perhaps because

Re: [Fink-devel] fink-mirrors breaks selfupdate

2003-12-24 Thread Martin Costabel
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Martin == Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Martin I am now trying to find a way out of this by Arggh. I just got bit by this too! Martin 1. reinstalling the old version of fink-0.17.1-1 I did that with ./inject.pl /sw Did this really install the old

Re: [Fink-devel] Source and Custom mirror fields

2003-12-23 Thread Martin Costabel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All, I'm working on info files for Coin (OpenInventor replacement) and having a bit of trouble with the Source field. It seems that fink always tries to go to distfiles.opendarwin.org for the files first. So then I tried a CustomMirror with the same results, but

[Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dpendencies

2003-12-22 Thread Martin Costabel
Several packages do not compile when only gettext-dev is installed but not libiconv-dev. They compile OK when either both of them are installed or none of them. One example I have seen is irssi, another one is libiconv, and I am pretty sure there are others. Standard configure scripts check

Re: [Fink-devel] gettext-dev and libiconv-dev dpendencies

2003-12-22 Thread Martin Costabel
TheSin wrote: all packages that need them should have Depends: libiconv, gettext BuildDepends: libiconv-dev, gettext-dev I do it all the time in my pkgs. Sure. The problem are packages like irssi that don't need them, but still break when gettext-dev is there and libiconv-dev isn't. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] Update to bluefish?

2003-12-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Michèle Garoche wrote: Would it be possible to pass through the patches submitted on 3rd December for bluefish unstable system 10.3 (number 853801 and 853802? Same for patch 854488 submitted on 4th December for bluefish unstable tree 10.2-gcc3.3. The package has greatly improved and was not

Re: [Fink-devel] Update to bluefish?

2003-12-20 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: Michèle Garoche wrote: Would it be possible to pass through the patches submitted on 3rd December for bluefish unstable system 10.3 (number 853801 and 853802? Same for patch 854488 submitted on 4th December for bluefish unstable tree 10.2-gcc3.3. Done I thought

Re: [Fink-devel] Identically named packages

2003-12-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Ben Hines wrote: On Dec 15, 2003, at 6:24 AM, Peter O'Gorman wrote: Things should not be depending on python, they ought to depend on the specific version of python that they require, if the package is indeed So what then is the 'python' splitoff for? It basically contains /sw/bin/python which

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Following the advice of several people, I made new freetype2 and freetype2-hinting packages that - have a dummy %N package and a %N-shlibs splitoff that contain exactly the same things as the current versions - have a new %N-dev splitoff containing all the things that are currently thrown

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-15 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: I used to be all in favor of eliminating freetype2 from the 10.3 tree, because it seemed we finally had a decent freetype2 in X11. Unfortunately it now appears that the freetype2 in Apple's X11 just doesn't cut it. After some further investigations and discussions

Re: [Fink-devel] lftp and lftp-ssl need security-related upgrade

2003-12-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Marc Bejarano wrote: ps: is there a working bug-tracking system for fink that people use? the search at http://bugs.finkproject.org/ isn't working for me. This is experimental stuff. The official bugtracker is the one on sourceforge, linked to from the fink home page

Re: [Fink-devel] applesystemfonts anyone?

2003-12-14 Thread Martin Costabel
Hi Jeff, Jeff Whitaker wrote: Martin: Applesystemfonts installs fine for me on a fresh 10.3 install. Perhaps it is choking on one of the fonts in /Users/*/Library/Fonts? What happens if you remove that out from the list in the .info file? No, the bad ones are Apple Symbols.ttf in /Library/Fonts

[Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
I used to be all in favor of eliminating freetype2 from the 10.3 tree, because it seemed we finally had a decent freetype2 in X11. Unfortunately it now appears that the freetype2 in Apple's X11 just doesn't cut it. Here is the story: The scribus package (both in its stable version 1.0.1 and in

[Fink-devel] applesystemfonts anyone?

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
It would be nice to have the applesystemfont package on Panther. The version 1.0-4 from 10.2-gcc3.3 almost works: It creates /sw/lib/X11/fonts/applettf and populates it with a decent collection of symlinks and ttf fonts and a fonts.dir file. It also does some redundant but innocent stuff

Re: [Fink-devel] Re: dists/10.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/text scribus-1.0.1-22.info,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.info~,NONE,1.1 scribus-1.0.1-22.patch,NONE,1.1 scribus.info,1.7,1.8

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
David R. Morrison wrote: [] Hi Martin. I think that this can only be regarded as a short-term fix. Of course. Did you see my message Bad news from the freetype2 front to fink-devel? We're intending to rely on the X11-supplied libfreetype in the 10.3 tree, in the long run. Do you know why that

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: That seems weird... Why would freetype have anything to do with postscript fonts? And I thought you would explain this to me. Oh well :-( I cannot believe that scribus is the only application that uses freetype to load all sorts of fonts, including type1. How is gnome

Re: [Fink-devel] Bad news from the freetype2 front

2003-12-13 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin Costabel wrote: [] I would try out display from imagemagick, but I first have to compile the new version that hopefully will not crash like the present one does. NoSuchLuck. Display still crashes as soon as I click on the splash screen to get a menu, or all by itself when I call

Re: [Fink-devel] bundle-gnome-1.4-13

2003-12-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Hasani Huey wrote: [] ld: table of contents for archive: /sw/lib/libintl.a is out of date; rerun ranlib(1) (can't load from it) Just do it as it says :-) FAQ#5.10 http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#toc-out-of-date -- Martin ---

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Why isn't the order of Trees important? This has annoyed me, too. I seem to remember someone saying that it is now, since one of the recent shakeups, the *reverse* order of the Trees line that is used. If true, I would consider this a serious bug. -- Martin

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