[Fink-users] Re: Upgrade ImageMagick Version?

2004-09-07 Thread Darian Lanx
Jonathan Levi MD wrote: Dear Fink Users, I'd really like to suggest upgrading our imagemagick pagkages from the 5.5.1-23 and 5.5.6-23 in our respective stable and unstable trees. ImageMagick itself is currently offering 6.0.6-2 Stable, 6.0.7 Beta at its web site. I've built 6.0.6-2 myself and

[Fink-users] Re: system-xfree86 doesn't provide x11

2004-08-31 Thread Darian Lanx
Kevin Horton wrote: snip This design certainly is confusing to the user though. I have been confused in the past by the fact that x11 didn't have an i beside it, but I didn't complain as everything seemed to be working correctly. Shouldn't it be possible to code a special case so that

[Fink-users] Re: Problem with selfupdate?

2004-08-19 Thread Darian Lanx
Dominique Dhumieres wrote: snip Dominique d'Humieres Laboratoire de Physique Statistique de l'ENS, 24, rue Lhomond, 75231 Paris cedex 05, FRANCE tel.33 1 44 32 38 01 fax.33 1 44 32 34 33 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Are you located in France? If so please use a _local_ mirror (like the one

[Fink-users] Re: Build failure: svn

2004-08-05 Thread Darian Lanx
Stefan Monnier wrote: I wanted to install the svn-client package, but `fink install svn-client' complained that it couldn't find `system-java14-dev' (I do have `system-java13-dev, tho). Please review the FAQ carefully. Thank you -d --- This

[Fink-users] CS Students and old time computer users, would you need these two applications? (or other science folks :) )

2004-07-29 Thread Darian Lanx
Hello. Since I have been faced with some MIPS and OS/390 simulations over the past couple of months I have successfully managed to install vmips (a MIPS cpu Machine simulator) and Hercules (a OS/360, O/390, zSeries Machine simulator) on my various Macintosh platforms. As those packages aren't

[Fink-users] Re: (no subject)

2004-07-20 Thread Darian Lanx
Alexander K. Hansen wrote: There was a thread on -beginners about a similar error and I get the same thing. The remedy which was suggested, running sudo /sw/var/lib/fink/prebound/update-package-prebinding.pl -f didn't do the trick for me. I'm cc'ing the fondu maintainer. snip Actually the

[Fink-users] Re: fink security

2004-07-07 Thread Darian Lanx
Claus Atzenbeck wrote: Hi folks, Hello. I am using fink for quite a long time now and I still think that it is one of the best things for Mac since Apple has introduced Mac OS X. We tahnk you for that. However, based on the increasing amount of worms and viruses which are out there (mainly for

[Fink-users] Re: Evolution does not die with camel-ERROR any more

2004-06-28 Thread Darian Lanx
Enrico Riboni wrote: snip What does it mean to you, if you installed evolution and have been frustrated by the camel: do in terminal: fink selfupdate-cvs Actually if you do not have very good reasons for doing so please do NOT USE CVS. See http://fink.sf.net/faq/mirrors.php for a detailed

[Fink-users] Re: Fink and anti virus software

2004-05-29 Thread Darian Lanx
yamo wrote: snip -If this is going to _be_ an issue, would clamav (or another OSS anti-virus) be a good alternative? Taking care of the mac side as well as the *nix? All of our servers at work that need to do some kind of viral scanning, be it either for mail, web, or file services use

[Fink-users] Re: Compiling sendmail

2004-05-28 Thread Darian Lanx
Randall Perry wrote: Is sendmail the black sheep of SMTP apps on the Mac or something? Why doesn't fink support it? There's virtually no mention of Mac OS on the sendmail list. I will add a sendmail package as soon as 8.13.0 is released. Sendmail will be a very complicated package with all the

[Fink-users] Re: Compiling sendmail

2004-05-28 Thread Darian Lanx
Sebastian Flothow wrote: Am 28. Mai 2004 um 04:25 Uhr schrieb Randall Perry: Is sendmail the black sheep of SMTP apps on the Mac or something? It's more like it's the black sheep of SMTP apps - other MTAs are generally considered to be more reliable, secure, and easier to maintain (I'm quite

[Fink-users] Re: A fink wiki -- has the time come?

2004-05-20 Thread Darian Lanx
Alexis Gallagher wrote: snip Do others think there would be value in this, or am I smoking crack? Personally, as one of the coordinators for the web-site's content, the PR and various other issues for the Fink Project, I would rather like to see more contributions to the official Documentation.

[Fink-users] Re: Can't Compile help2man

2004-05-07 Thread Darian Lanx
Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote: I get this: snip I did a fresh selfupdate, so it's not a problem of out-of-date headers, etc. You have a broken, old dlfcn.h in your /usr/local/include -d --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software

[Fink-users] Re: Selfupdate-rsync and Local/Main Packages

2004-05-02 Thread Darian Lanx
Martin Costabel wrote: snip at rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ or from the web cvs ^ or any other mirror listed at http://finkmirrors.net/status.html IN fact, getting them for another mirror would be good netizenship, since the Master mirror has to

[Fink-users] Re: fink selfupdate-cvs (Part 2)

2004-04-21 Thread Darian Lanx
Axel Gerster wrote: Hello, I have moved the directories as described by Martin yesterday (Thx BTW) but now I have only 576 pakages instead of the 1500? Any idea? greets Please do not use CVS as update method unless you absolutely have to. You can read why here: fink.sf.net/mirrors.php Mainly

[Fink-users] Fink Community Site Test run... come be a tester..

2004-04-09 Thread Darian Lanx
Hello Community. Way back I posted about my little pet project. I decided that going with WebGUI is simply too complicated to start out with. So I changed my mind and installed a system called Drupal. You are _all_ invited to go to http://testing.useme.net/ register a user and poke around the

[Fink-users] Re: Gnome 2.6?

2004-04-09 Thread Darian Lanx
Mark Moorcroft wrote: It looks like the Darwinports project is getting Gnome 2.6 going. Is there an equivalent effort going on with Fink? Yes, check kcongers experimental Tree. He is the GNOME Maintainer and has been working on it for a while now. -d

[Fink-users] Re: Oversubscribed dynamic bit lengths tree error

2004-04-06 Thread Darian Lanx
Michèle Garoche wrote: After running the new security update from Apple (not sure it is related), I've fink selfupdate'd (cvs update) on 10.3.3 fink 0.7.0/ 0.19.2 and got this error: cvs update: inflate: oversubscribed dynamic bit lengths tree cvs [update aborted]: reading from server:

[Fink-users] Re: distcc and fink

2004-03-31 Thread Darian Lanx
Andreas Dittrich wrote: Hi! Has anybody successfully tried to use distcc with fink? I wonder if it's possible to integrate this in the fink-build process so that whenever I build a package the work is shared between my horribly slow TiBook and two fast pentiums in my LAN. Andreas fink list

[Fink-users] Re: OpenSSL and Panther

2004-03-30 Thread Darian Lanx
Pablo Bendersky wrote: Hello, When trying to install any crypto package (lynx-ssl, svn-ssl, etc.), I see that they all depend on OpenSSL. OpenSSL is already installed on Panther, so I'm not sure why do I need to install it from fink too and end up with two OpenSSL installations. Is there any

[Fink-users] Re: Unable to update: fink-0.19.0.tar.gz seems to be missing...

2004-02-23 Thread Darian Lanx
Viktor Haag wrote: Anyone else have this problem? I tried to do a fink selfupdate this morning, as I do every Monday morning, and kacked because this file seems to be missing here, and at all the mirrors: http://distfiles.opendarwin.org/fink-0.19.0.tar.gz Just out of curiosity where is the URL

[Fink-users] Re: fink update error messages

2004-02-21 Thread Darian Lanx
Alexander Hansen wrote: snip AKHI believe the rsync mirrors get selected randomly. No, The rsync mirrors are selected by continent-country like the distfiles mirror. There simply is no rsync mirror for the UK yet. The mirror in Norway would be a good choice though :) -d

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-18 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 James Gibbs wrote: On Feb 17, 2004, at 8:31 AM, Darian Lanx wrote: Dear Community. Is a membership something the Fink community would consider accepting? Absolutely not. I think this is a ridiculous idea. The beauty of fink

[Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-17 Thread Darian Lanx
running out of it. A non-profit org to supply the money and resources needed to build and uphold such an infrastructure is the only reason why Chris and I have looked into this. PS: David Hhn aka Darian Lanx aka dmalloc _always_ refers to me! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-17 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David R. Morrison wrote: Here's what makes me very uncomfortable about memberships right now. In my view, one of the key components of Fink is broken. We've lost the ability to create and keep up-to-date a stable tree of packages which have

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-17 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David R. Morrison wrote: We have plenty of hardware for making bindists. That is not the problem. Ok, thatis new for me. I will take that into account then. The problem is ensuring the quality of the bindist. That's why we haven't had a

Re: [Fink-users] Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-17 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 David R. Morrison wrote: Darian Lanx [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] However, if you really need more help with this, then why don't you talk to me? There is always a way to put some massive marketing into this, asking for help while pulling

[Fink-users] Re: Fink Community, your opinion is needed your Input wanted.

2004-02-17 Thread Darian Lanx
Jan Dockx wrote: I don't agree. I will never be able to convince my CFO to become a Fink member, not even if we were contributing. Fink is fantastic, no doubt, but not important enough to go through the motions of bureaucracy Hello :) Well, as with many Open Source Projects, Fink is as

[Fink-users] Re: -Os

2004-02-10 Thread Darian Lanx
Tukaram wrote: Hello, I would like to update KDE. Since the KDE stuff will be compiled with -Os by default I will change the settings to -O2 snip As far as I recall KDE does not build properly on Mac OS X unless that flag is used. Sometimes you should trust the judgement of the maintainer

[Fink-users] Re: package request

2004-02-10 Thread Darian Lanx
Bart Silverstrim wrote: We've been working on some network evaluation/troubleshooting/auditing, and one utility we've run across for Linux that I haven't found for OS X is dsniff and arpspoof. Has anyone looked at porting dsniff to Fink/OS X? I just had a look at it and it fails to compile

[Fink-users] Call For help: CSS experts.. somewhere Help Us please.

2004-02-10 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Dear Community. As an effort to allow for a more personal and thus translated into your native tongue experience of the Fink Web-Site we are trying to convert those elements of the Web-Site which display text as an image into pure text. I am

[Fink-users] Re: pass arguments to fink build?

2004-02-04 Thread Darian Lanx
Joe Corneli wrote: Is there a good way to rebuild a fink package with a non-standard option (e.g. I want to build lynx with the --enable-persistent-cookies flag)? I didn't see this on the FAQ page, so I take it it isn't? That is correct. There is no way to do that. For a discussion why there is

[Fink-users] Concerning Scitech.

2004-01-27 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello Dear Community. First of all, since I am not subscribed to the list. Could someone give me the FROM of the message's origin? I would like to get in touch with the Author of that poll. Second, please read the excellent write up Benjmain

[Fink-users] GNOME 2.4 has been added to the unstable 10.3 Tree

2004-01-09 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Fink is proud to announce the availability of GNOME 2.4 in the unstable trees for Mac OS X 10.3 This major step brings a major update to the GNOME Desktop Suite and its associated programs. The GNOME 2.4 Desktop is the latest release of the

[Fink-users] Come together .. Fink communit and be part of an experiment.

2004-01-06 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello Fink Community. As I have stated numerous times before, I think that Fink has a great community. Unfortunately I would like to be much more involved into it, than I am right now. This is partly because I am curious, on the the other hand

[Fink-users] Re: vsftpd for Fink?

2003-12-14 Thread Darian Lanx
Shawn Protsman wrote: Do any of you use vsftpd on OS X (http://vsftpd.beasts.org/)? I haven't tried to compile it from source so I thought I'd ask. Has anyone considered adding it to Fink? I moved us off a IIS 5.0 (FTP) and on to Mandrake 9.1 with vsftpd at the office. I just looked at it.

[Fink-users] Re: vsftpd for Fink?

2003-12-14 Thread Darian Lanx
Darian Lanx wrote: I just looked at it. The build system looks like a mess and thus I notified the maintainer. Hopefully he is willing to work on the build system, if not I shall try to patch it up Actually, it just built. I fixed the build system up and it links properly against the needed

Re: [Fink-users] how to suppress build tree removal in fink

2003-10-21 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Message: 3 Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:46:47 -0400 (EDT) From: Jack Howarth [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Chris Zubrzycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fink-users] how to suppress build tree removal in fink Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris, Thanks for the

[Fink-users] [CROSSPOST] Thank you for your continued support Fink Community - DNS for finkmirrors.net

2003-10-16 Thread Darian Lanx
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Hello community. Thanks to the guys at xname.org (Xavier Beaudouin) and Joe Laffay from LAFFEY Computer Imaging in St Louis finkmirros.net has already 5 independent DNS Server to make this domain as fault tolerant as possible. I do not think,