Re: [Fink-users] rc.d, init.d? how are daemons started

2005-03-27 Thread Dave Vasilevsky
Fink uses a homegrown solution called 'daemonic'. You can enable the daemons with 'daemonic enable foo', disabling them is pretty much the same. To start them manually...well, you just use the terminal and type the command. :-) You can also write your own daemonic XML files, put them in Daemo

Re: [Fink-users] kdesdk3 Failure (3.4)

2005-03-27 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: I am at the exact same position as you concerning kde-3.4, 297 packages updated, 17 to go. I don't think we are both doing something wrong, the kdesdk3 package is still buggy, despite several fixes in the last few days. Yes, I was out of town, and had no way/time to actuall

Re: [Fink-users] Re: gd-pm580-2.06-7 failed (10.2-gcc3.3)

2005-03-27 Thread Koen van der Drift
On Mar 27, 2005, at 7:03 PM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: ... and how does one properly ping a maintainer in this situation? google is your friend ;-) http://www.google.com/search?q=michael+baudis - Koen. --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Gu

[Fink-users] Re: kdesdk3 Failure (3.4)

2005-03-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
I'm stuck with 18 to go: bundle-kde-ssl The following 18 additional packages will be installed: cervisia kapptemplate kbabel kbugbuster kcachegrind kcal-bugzilla kdeaccounts-plugin kdesdk3 kdesdk3-base kdesdk3-extra-ioslaves kdesdk3-extra-kfile-plugins kdesdk3-scripts kompare kspy kuiviewer pox

[Fink-users] Re: gd-pm580-2.06-7 failed (10.2-gcc3.3)

2005-03-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
... and how does one properly ping a maintainer in this situation? stanford.edu>: 171.67.12.80 does not like recipient. Remote host said: 550 5.1.1 stanford.edu>... User unknown; please visit the Stanford Directory at http://stanfordwho.stanford.edu/ to find the correct address Giving up on 171.6

Re: [Fink-users] freetype errors preventing mozilla install

2005-03-27 Thread veera venkataramani
--- Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > veera venkataramani wrote: > [] > > I tried to install mozilla-mailnews but had errors > > with freetype libs. > > > > prompt> fink install mozilla-mailnews > > > > fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy > a > > virtual dependency. The

Re: [Fink-users] kdesdk3 Failure (3.4)

2005-03-27 Thread Martin Costabel
lj Palmer wrote: MacOSX: 10.3.8 Question: Has anyone completed the upgrade to KDE-3.4? I realize major upgrades have risks. I'm just trying to figure out if there is a path/method that I'm missing. I am at the exact same position as you concerning kde-3.4, 297 packages updated, 17 to go. I don't

[Fink-users] gd-pm580-2.06-7 failed (10.2-gcc3.3)

2005-03-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Hi, has anyone seen this error with gd-pm580 on 10.2-gcc3.3? I've had to move a few .info/.patch files over from the 10.3 in an effort to get bioperl-pm580 updated, so let me know if you need further details. Thanks, Robert Manifying blib/man3/GD.3perl make test PERL_DL_NONLAZY=1 /sw/bin/perl5.

[Fink-users] kdesdk3 Failure (3.4)

2005-03-27 Thread lj Palmer
MacOSX: 10.3.8 Question: Has anyone completed the upgrade to KDE-3.4? I realize major upgrades have risks. I'm just trying to figure out if there is a path/method that I'm missing. ..lj g5dp:~ grey$ fink -V Package manager version: 0.24.2 Distribution version: 0.7.1.rsync g5dp:~ grey$ fink list -

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Aaron Davies
On Mar 27, 2005, at 11:27 AM, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Clemence Magnien wrote: So if you run : $ nohup some_command > output_file & this will run 'some_command', store its standard and error output in 'output_file', and it runs in the background, so you can do whatever you like with your term, like d

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Kevin Horton
At 9:28 -0600 27/3/05, Robert T Wyatt wrote: This is neat-hadn't heard of it before. The man page is huge and I'd like to get more familiar with setting screen to run fink compilations routing the log to a file (I understand this saves overhead on the display or buffer). There have been oblique

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Clemence Magnien
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 10:27:58AM -0600, Robert T Wyatt wrote: > Clemence Magnien wrote: > >So if you run : > >$ nohup some_command > output_file & > >this will run 'some_command', store its standard and error output > >in 'output_file', and it runs in the background, so you can > >do whatever yo

Re: [Fink-users] Re: gnome-python2-py23

2005-03-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Don McKenzie Paul wrote: [] Are you sure you have the new version? Run fink dumpinfo gnome-python2-py23 | grep gobject and see if it returns anything. -- Martin The above returns nothing. Is that good or bad? It is bad. The good versions reply (export CPPFLAGS='-I/sw/include'; export LDFLAGS=

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Matthew Sachs
On Mar 27, 2005, at 11:30, Robert T Wyatt wrote: So this will also survive a loss of the (parent) SSH connection. Sounds too good to be true! It will survive. (At first I was afraid, I was petrified / I thought that I could never live without a PTY...)

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Matthew Sachs wrote: On Mar 27, 2005, at 10:28, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Anyhow, do y'all know of a Web site or discussion list or a primer somewhere? (I did not find one in the man page, only the e-mail address of the developer.) Basic usage is to run 'screen' to get a new shell inside a screen

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
Clemence Magnien wrote: So if you run : $ nohup some_command > output_file & this will run 'some_command', store its standard and error output in 'output_file', and it runs in the background, so you can do whatever you like with your term, like doing something else, closing it. You can also shut X

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
On Mar 27, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Matthew Sachs wrote: On Mar 27, 2005, at 10:28, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Anyhow, do y'all know of a Web site or discussion list or a primer somewhere? (I did not find one in the man page, only the e-mail address of the developer.) Basic usage is to run 'screen' to g

Re: [Fink-users] Re: gnome-python2-py23

2005-03-27 Thread Don McKenzie Paul
On 27 Mar 2005, at 13:22, Martin Costabel wrote: Don McKenzie Paul wrote: [] Has this been solved. I thought I saw a message from Martin saying it had, but I still have the same problem after a recent update. Are you sure you have the new version? Run fink dumpinfo gnome-python2-py23 | grep go

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Matthew Sachs
On Mar 27, 2005, at 10:28, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Anyhow, do y'all know of a Web site or discussion list or a primer somewhere? (I did not find one in the man page, only the e-mail address of the developer.) Basic usage is to run 'screen' to get a new shell inside a screen session. Inside the

Re: [Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Clemence Magnien
On Sun, Mar 27, 2005 at 09:28:59AM -0600, Robert T Wyatt wrote: > This is neat-hadn't heard of it before. The man page is huge and I'd > like to get more familiar with setting screen to run fink compilations > routing the log to a file (I understand this saves overhead on the > display or buffer

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
This is neat-hadn't heard of it before. The man page is huge and I'd like to get more familiar with setting screen to run fink compilations routing the log to a file (I understand this saves overhead on the display or buffer). There have been oblique references to detaching the session from Ter

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Robert T Wyatt
... and also 'renice' for changing the niceness of running processes. Robert T Wyatt wrote: Still, there is nice (note the second sentence, from 'man nice'): --- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hund

[Fink-users] KDE 3.4.0 feedback.

2005-03-27 Thread Dominique Dhumieres
I have almost finished to update to KDE 3.4.0, the only part remaining to update being kdesdk3-3.4.0-11 which fails with: Makefile:222: *** missing separator. Stop. as reported before in the list. I have had a glitch while building kdevelop-3.2.0-11: ld: table of contents for archive: /sw/lib/

[Fink-users] Re: Quickest way to execute Fink commands?

2005-03-27 Thread Kevin Horton
At 22:15 -0600 26/3/05, Robert T Wyatt wrote: Understood everything but this (and thanks for the comments): Chris Zubrzycki wrote: Use screen I use screen quite a bit, as it puts the fink install stuff in the background, rather than having it continually update a Terminal window. I can also lo

Re: [Fink-users] Re: gnome-python2-py23

2005-03-27 Thread Martin Costabel
Don McKenzie Paul wrote: [] Has this been solved. I thought I saw a message from Martin saying it had, but I still have the same problem after a recent update. Are you sure you have the new version? Run fink dumpinfo gnome-python2-py23 | grep gobject and see if it returns anything. -- Martin -

Re: [Fink-users] Re: gnome-python2-py23

2005-03-27 Thread Don McKenzie Paul
On 25 Mar 2005, at 06:42, Flatman wrote: Same thing here, even with gnome-python2-py23-2.0.0-16 On Tue, 15 Mar 2005 09:28:36 +0100, Nicholas Cole wrote: I'm having a problem installing pybliographic, which only exists in the unstable tree, as far as I can see. So I've added the unstable tree to my