Re: [Fink-users] Fink won't update

2002-11-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Ian L. wrote: I'm trying to update my xfree86-base package, but Fink doesn't seem to recognize that there's a new version available, let alone a new version of Fink. What follows is the output of four fink commands. Any ideas? From the output it is clear that you are (or at least fink thinks

[Fink-users] CVS Access broken?

2002-11-19 Thread James Turnbull
It would seem that I have (somehow) managed to brake my cvs access. The first thing I noticed was that 'fink selfupdate' followed by 'fink update-all' reports No packages to install. even though a lot of the packages I have installed are out of date (going by fink's packages list) I have fink

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Problems with Nedit5.3-5

2002-11-19 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Brooks: I can confirm this. However, I have no idea to fix it. Does it happen with other lesstif apps? I'll try nedit with openmotif3 and see if that works. -Jeff On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, M. Brooks Clark wrote: A couple of weeks ago, I posted a question about a problem I'm having with Nedit.

[Fink-users] lesson learned

2002-11-19 Thread Andrew Hartung
I deleted the 'fr' directory from '/sw/share/man/', thinking I wouldn't need it as I don't speak french. while trying to update tornado the compile failed as it couldn't find this directory to put files in. I recreated it and compiled it with no problems, so everything is fine now. Is this

Re: [Fink-users] lesson learned

2002-11-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
I'd say that it is not uncommon. On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 10:13, Andrew Hartung wrote: I deleted the 'fr' directory from '/sw/share/man/', thinking I wouldn't need it as I don't speak french. while trying to update tornado the compile failed as it couldn't find this directory to put files in. I

Re: [Fink-users] [OT]: the real meaning of Fink :)

2002-11-19 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Koen van der Drift wrote: I just realized that the word 'fink' can be an acronym just like GNU (GNU's not Unix). So for instance: Fink Is No Kidding Fink Is Not KDE? Fink Is No Kernel? -- Chris Devers[EMAIL PROTECTED] Computer games don't affect kids. I mean,

Re: [Fink-users] dillorc

2002-11-19 Thread Max Horn
At 23:19 Uhr -0500 18.11.2002, Jason J. Park wrote: I have noticed that dillo-0.6.6-1.info in the 10.2 stable branch is still writing a dillorc file in /etc. Shouldn't this package be taken out of the stable branch before 0.5.0 is prepared? Argh, guys, why don't you use our bug tracker to

[Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Niclas Davidsson
Hello I'm wondering if it would be possible to see the release of a *xchat* version that doesn't require gnome (as suggested by Fink's information for xchat)? If would be great to see a version that doesn't require 50 or so gnomish packages when I actually have no intention of ever running

[Fink-users] kdegames3 seems broken.

2002-11-19 Thread adam hixson
I did a selfupdate-cvs last night, and on the subsequent update-all, I got the following unceremonious reply: creating libkbattleshipdialogs_la.all_cpp.cpp ... /bin/sh ../../../libtool --silent --mode=compile --tag=CXX g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I. -I../../.. -I/sw/include -I/usr/X11R6/include

[Fink-users] UTF-8 xterm

2002-11-19 Thread Paul Lieberman
Are there any special fink packages that need to be installed in order to have an xterm display UTF-8 encoded characters? I have the standard xfree86-base, xfree86-rootless and xfonts installed (and up to date).Thanks, Paul --- This sf.net

Re: [Fink-users] kdegames3 seems broken.

2002-11-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
I'm seeing the same problem (OS 10.2.2, latest fink as of this morning, October Dev Tools, kdegames3-3.0.7-3) On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 12:55, adam hixson wrote: I did a selfupdate-cvs last night, and on the subsequent update-all, I got the following unceremonious reply: creating

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Problems with Nedit5.3-5

2002-11-19 Thread Jeff Whitaker
Peter: I've confirmed that this happens if nedit is compiled with openmotif3 as well. Ditto for the cvs version of nedit. A workaround is to first open a new window with File -- New, the open a file to edit in that new window. -Jeff On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Peter Lichtner wrote: I have the same

Re: [Fink-users] CVS Access broken?

2002-11-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
A couple of things to check, operationally, is whether /sw/fink/10.2 is present on your system, and whether /sw/fink/dists is a symbolic link to /sw/fink/10.2 . If not, then you might be able to solve the problem by going into the directory where you decompressed the fink source tarball to

Re: [Fink-users] kdegames3 seems broken--addendum

2002-11-19 Thread Alexander Hansen
make that kdegames3-3.0.7-4 On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 13:49, Alexander Hansen wrote: I'm seeing the same problem (OS 10.2.2, latest fink as of this morning, October Dev Tools, kdegames3-3.0.7-3) --- This sf.net email is sponsored by: To learn

Re: [Fink-users] CVS Access broken?

2002-11-19 Thread Daniel Lord
Alexander, Thanks for the tip...but...that's not the problem, I'll try running postinstall.pl anyway and cross my fingers... [anduril:/sw/fink] daniello% ls -l total 56 drwxr-xr-x7 daniello admin 238 Nov 9 20:52 10.2 drwxr-xr-x5 daniello admin 170 Nov 9 20:54 CVS -rw-r--r--1

Re: [Fink-users] kdegames3 seems broken.

2002-11-19 Thread Benjamin Reed
On Tue, 2002-11-19 at 12:55, adam hixson wrote: I did a selfupdate-cvs last night, and on the subsequent update-all, I got the following unceremonious reply: After some discussion on #fink, I think we've figured out what's happening. Justin's doing a test build for me to confirm (he saw the

Re: [Fink-users] [OT]: the real meaning of Fink :)

2002-11-19 Thread Jim Nettles
Max Horn wrote: At 11:35 Uhr -0500 19.11.2002, Chris Devers wrote: On Tue, 19 Nov 2002, Koen van der Drift wrote: I just realized that the word 'fink' can be an acronym just like GNU (GNU's not Unix). So for instance: Fink Is No Kidding Fink Is Not KDE? Fink Is No Kernel? Fink

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Niclas Davidsson wrote: [] Next question, *nmap* exists in two versions, one with a X-front-end enabled, according to the Fink info. Where is the front-endand how If you look at the nmap package file list (dpkg -L nmap), you see a binary /sw/bin/xnmap. There is also a man page. man xnmap

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Martin von Weissenberg
Hello Niclas, Apparently, the nmap package contains files that isn't in the nmap-nox package? I suspect so, but I don't know since I've got nmap-nox installed myself with no intentions of installing the X11 version. (One would think that nmap would contain only the tty version, while the

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Martin von Weissenberg wrote: [] In my opinion, *-nox is a bad way to name packages: a better way would be to have three packages nmap-common, nmap and nmap-gnome, the latter two being front-ends that both depend on nmap-common but conflict with each other. Then you can install one or the

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Niclas Davidsson
On Tuesday, Nov 19, 2002, at 23:12 Europe/Stockholm, Martin Costabel wrote: Niclas Davidsson wrote: Hrmm, ok, that sounded very straightforward until I tried at it myselftake a look at this: % dpkg -L nmap /. /sw /sw/bin /sw/bin/nmap I have in addition /sw/bin/nmapfe

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Niclas Davidsson
I know what was wrong, take a look at this extract: % cat nmap-3.00-3.info Package: nmap Version: 3.00 Revision: 3 Maintainer: Jeremy Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] BuildDepends: glib, libpcap, dlcompat-dev Depends: libpcap-shlibs, gtk+-shlibs Conflicts: nmap-nox ( = %v-%r ) Replaces: nmap-nox ( = %v-%r

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Martin Costabel
Niclas Davidsson wrote: I know what was wrong, take a look at this extract: % cat nmap-3.00-3.info Package: nmap Version: 3.00 Revision: 3 Maintainer: Jeremy Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] BuildDepends: glib, libpcap, dlcompat-dev Depends: libpcap-shlibs, gtk+-shlibs Conflicts: nmap-nox ( = %v-%r )

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread Niclas Davidsson
On Wednesday, Nov 20, 2002, at 00:47 Europe/Stockholm, Martin Costabel wrote: Niclas Davidsson wrote: I know what was wrong, take a look at this extract: % cat nmap-3.00-3.info Package: nmap Version: 3.00 Revision: 3 Maintainer: Jeremy Higgs [EMAIL PROTECTED] BuildDepends: glib, libpcap,

Re: [Fink-users] xchat and nmap (separate issues)

2002-11-19 Thread D. Kevin McGrath
If you read further though, you see that nmap itself does NOT depends on gtk+, but only the front end, and if no gtk+, nmap is still built, and, I assume, works in the command line. D --On Wednesday, November 20, 2002 0:47 +0100 Martin Costabel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Niclas Davidsson

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Problems with Nedit5.3-5

2002-11-19 Thread M. Brooks Clark
Thanks for the feedback, everyone. I tracked down a note in the Nedit archives that suggests the problem is with Lesstif-0.93.36 and suggests using Lesstif-0.93.0. I gave this a try but ran into a number of errors when trying to recompile Nedit. I've also tried compiling with OpenMotif3. With

[Fink-users] [OT] Darwin's Finks under threat

2002-11-19 Thread Dylan Foley
Hi all, I know it's off topic but I thought some of Fink's users and developers might be interested in this story. Some of the world's most iconic birds are facing a new and grave threat to their existence. Many of the so-called Darwin finch species on the Galapagos Islands are being attacked

[Fink-users] ispell process hanging

2002-11-19 Thread D. Kevin McGrath
Is anyone else have an issue with ispell not exiting cleanly when invoked from within emacs (with auc-tex loaded as well)? System 10.2.2 ispell 3.2.06-3 emacs 21.2-11 auctex 10.0g-3 It appears to cleanly exit, but if you try and invoke ispell again, it hangs, and takes emacs with it. I always