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From: <ge...@ma...> - 2002-04-02 07:00:52
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i may ne on the wrong list, but i've been here before and i bet you all can answer this for me: XDarwin 4.2 (XFree86 for OSX) says it's "localized for English and Japanese" and other languages. i can't try it because i don't have languages installed on the machine i'm at now, but i sorta need to know for tomorrow(?) when i installed XDarwin i saw nothing about setting it to Japanese. does it change when i set the OS prefs to Japanese (like the OS and some other apps do)? thanks in advance -Ted |
From: sguellal <sgu...@ic...> - 2002-04-02 06:43:28
|
*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* Avram Dorfman wrote: >*This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* >Hey Everyone, > >Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through ghostscript to >actual printers? > >I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. > >I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I can't >seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a >ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX print >center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer. > >The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user mode, >and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts' lprsetup.sh >script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in NetInfo? > >And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get OSX to >spool ghostscript's output to such a printer? > >I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via >ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't find >anything). > >-Avram > > >_______________________________________________ >Fink-users mailing list >Fin...@li... >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > Hello, You can use LPRng http://www.lprng.com/ Said GUELLAL |
From: Basil J. G. <bjg...@ea...> - 2002-04-02 05:16:28
|
Running: 10.1.3, Dec01 Tools, latest Fink unstable, on G4 PowerBook I still have not been able to get Fink to properly install GNOME and run correctly. I am considering partitioning my HD and installing the real Debian (at least it works well on my X86 box). What is the difference between Debian/ppc and Fink? Why (in your opinion) is Fink a better choice than Debian? Obviously, the dual-boot set-up isn't as nice as using a rootless XonX is supposed to be if I could ever get it installed and running properly. John |
From: John G. <jg...@ma...> - 2002-04-02 05:04:50
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I am running 10.1.3 on a TiPowerBook G4 with the December01 tools. Following the instructions in the fink-0.3.2a-full package, I tried to install from source, but received the following failure report: make echo "#define DPKG_VERSION \"1.9.17\" /* This line modified by Makefile */" > version.h set -e ; target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; for d in include optlib lib intl dpkg-deb split scripts utils main utils po methods doc ; do make -C $d $target ; done; make: illegal option -- C usage: make [-Beiknqrstv] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f makefile] [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] [variable=value] [target ...] *** Error code 2 Stop in /sw/src/dpkg-bootstrap-1.9.17-2/dpkg-1.9.17. ### failed, exit code 1 compiling dpkg-bootstrap-1.9.17-2 failed One warning at the beginning of the process mentioned that the material being installed was older than the installed OS and Dev files, but should work anyway. Perhaps a bit too optimistic? John |
From: Chris Z. <be...@ma...> - 2002-04-02 03:52:02
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 this is a can of worms (IMHO) Is it a serial or usb printer? I had a rough time finding the info to get a serial laserwriter NTR working on os x, and that was already postscript. (hint: google is your friend. search for things like netinfo printer serial printcap nextstep and such to get basic info on netinfo/printcap) I also suggest you take a look at CUPS, ftp://ftp.easysw.com/pub/cups/1.1.14/cups-1.1.14-source.tar.bz2 but I have not used it yet. I was thinking of making a fink package for it, but they say it will be included with 10.2, and I have about 6 other packages that were requested that I was gonna try. Please post anything you can get working. On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 03:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through > ghostscript to > actual printers? > > I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. > - -chris zubrzycki - - -- PGP public key: http://homepage.mac.com/beren/publickey.txt ID: 0xA2ABC070 Fingerprint: 26B0 BA6B A409 FA83 42B3 1688 FBF9 8232 A2AB C070 ======================================================== I think you've been smoking Cocoa instead of coding with it.... -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (Darwin) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8qStw+/mCMqKrwHARAq6lAJ9KF9G5govXtF8hfTH/Km4umRw8mgCglNvi A1mt5X0shpwq5y/5S1Dl1gQ= =+ssA -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- |
From: Allen S. <la...@bi...> - 2002-04-02 00:22:23
|
Check out the following discussion thread on apple.com Discussions > Mac OS X > Mac OS X > Getting Started and General Use > Print Center & Preview > HOWTO: Print to Networked Inkjets It references the following (a kit to help solve the problem you are having): http://homepage.mac.com/balthisar/HPNetworkInkjet.sit It looks like they have come some way since I last looked into this. On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 03:23 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: > Actually, the printer is connected to the printer port on my SMC > Barricade > DSL/Cable gateway. It understands LPR, but it's not a platform I can > install > ghostscript on. > > My hope was to have ghostscript do the filtering locally and just push > it to > the print "server" on the gateway. I think it's worth figuring out how > to do > this because it also means anyone on OS X could print to any (gs > supported) > printer on a LAN with a built-in print server. > > I'd be happy to write up a How-To that would help the world with this, > but > first I have to know "how to" 8-) > > When you says "use a ppd" from <x>, do you mean feed that to my OSX > box? Or > configure the remote print server to use it? > > While we're at it, I don't actually understand how to tell ghostscript > to > print to a remote printer at all. Can it only do so through a local > lpd? Or > can it do so directly? > > Thanks, > Avram > > On 4/1/02 4:48 PM, "Allen Smith" <la...@bi...> wrote: > >> >> This comes up occasionally on various lists. It's fairly >> straightforward >> if the printer is connected to a remote unix/linux box. Just use the >> LPR >> support in the print center and a PPD from gimp-print or cupsys to get >> all the various options supported by the ghostscript driver running on >> the remote box. >> >> It could probably be done the same way to the local box (LPR to >> 127.0.0.1 and configure cupsys or some lpd server to run the right >> ghostscript stuff locally). I think you'd need to install some other >> lpd. >> >> The missing piece is a generic usb/lp driver like linux has (assuming >> you are using a USB printer). lpd or cupsys need a character device to >> send the data to the printer. In linux land there is a generic USB lp >> driver that will provide a /dev/lp0 (or 1 2 3, whatever). I haven't >> seen >> such a beast for darwin. >> >> Most people who want to do this seem to do what I've done which is >> print >> to a remote LPD server that does the ghostscript processing and spools >> to the actual printer. That way I can print from my mac, my >> freebsd/linux boxes and my windows game box. All using the same >> gimp-print drivers and ghostscript. >> >> >> On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: >> >>> Hey Everyone, >>> >>> Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through >>> ghostscript to >>> actual printers? >>> >>> I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. >>> >>> I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I >>> can't >>> seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a >>> ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX >>> print >>> center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer. >>> >>> The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user >>> mode, >>> and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts' >>> lprsetup.sh >>> script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in >>> NetInfo? >>> >>> And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get >>> OSX to >>> spool ghostscript's output to such a printer? >>> >>> I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via >>> ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't >>> find >>> anything). >>> >>> -Avram >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fink-users mailing list >>> Fin...@li... >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >>> >>> >> > > > |
From: Avram D. <do...@es...> - 2002-04-01 23:23:37
|
Actually, the printer is connected to the printer port on my SMC Barricade DSL/Cable gateway. It understands LPR, but it's not a platform I can install ghostscript on. My hope was to have ghostscript do the filtering locally and just push it to the print "server" on the gateway. I think it's worth figuring out how to do this because it also means anyone on OS X could print to any (gs supported) printer on a LAN with a built-in print server. I'd be happy to write up a How-To that would help the world with this, but first I have to know "how to" 8-) When you says "use a ppd" from <x>, do you mean feed that to my OSX box? Or configure the remote print server to use it? While we're at it, I don't actually understand how to tell ghostscript to print to a remote printer at all. Can it only do so through a local lpd? Or can it do so directly? Thanks, Avram On 4/1/02 4:48 PM, "Allen Smith" <la...@bi...> wrote: > > This comes up occasionally on various lists. It's fairly straightforward > if the printer is connected to a remote unix/linux box. Just use the LPR > support in the print center and a PPD from gimp-print or cupsys to get > all the various options supported by the ghostscript driver running on > the remote box. > > It could probably be done the same way to the local box (LPR to > 127.0.0.1 and configure cupsys or some lpd server to run the right > ghostscript stuff locally). I think you'd need to install some other lpd. > > The missing piece is a generic usb/lp driver like linux has (assuming > you are using a USB printer). lpd or cupsys need a character device to > send the data to the printer. In linux land there is a generic USB lp > driver that will provide a /dev/lp0 (or 1 2 3, whatever). I haven't seen > such a beast for darwin. > > Most people who want to do this seem to do what I've done which is print > to a remote LPD server that does the ghostscript processing and spools > to the actual printer. That way I can print from my mac, my > freebsd/linux boxes and my windows game box. All using the same > gimp-print drivers and ghostscript. > > > On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: > >> Hey Everyone, >> >> Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through >> ghostscript to >> actual printers? >> >> I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. >> >> I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I >> can't >> seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a >> ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX >> print >> center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer. >> >> The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user >> mode, >> and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts' >> lprsetup.sh >> script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in >> NetInfo? >> >> And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get >> OSX to >> spool ghostscript's output to such a printer? >> >> I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via >> ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't >> find >> anything). >> >> -Avram >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> Fin...@li... >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> >> > |
From: Allen S. <la...@bi...> - 2002-04-01 21:48:03
|
This comes up occasionally on various lists. It's fairly straightforward if the printer is connected to a remote unix/linux box. Just use the LPR support in the print center and a PPD from gimp-print or cupsys to get all the various options supported by the ghostscript driver running on the remote box. It could probably be done the same way to the local box (LPR to 127.0.0.1 and configure cupsys or some lpd server to run the right ghostscript stuff locally). I think you'd need to install some other lpd. The missing piece is a generic usb/lp driver like linux has (assuming you are using a USB printer). lpd or cupsys need a character device to send the data to the printer. In linux land there is a generic USB lp driver that will provide a /dev/lp0 (or 1 2 3, whatever). I haven't seen such a beast for darwin. Most people who want to do this seem to do what I've done which is print to a remote LPD server that does the ghostscript processing and spools to the actual printer. That way I can print from my mac, my freebsd/linux boxes and my windows game box. All using the same gimp-print drivers and ghostscript. On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 12:28 PM, Avram Dorfman wrote: > Hey Everyone, > > Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through > ghostscript to > actual printers? > > I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. > > I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I > can't > seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a > ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX > print > center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer. > > The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user > mode, > and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts' > lprsetup.sh > script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in > NetInfo? > > And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get > OSX to > spool ghostscript's output to such a printer? > > I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via > ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't > find > anything). > > -Avram > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > |
From: Avram D. <do...@es...> - 2002-04-01 20:28:15
|
Hey Everyone, Has anyone got OSX printing from actual applications through ghostscript to actual printers? I have a non-postcript printer which OSX doesn't support. I've been reading ghostscript documentation until my eyes bleed, but I can't seem to get the big picture. I found the section on "setting up a ghostscript lpr filter", but I don't see how to tie that into the OSX print center, to lpr, or to an actual remote network printer. The /etc/printcap file says that it is only consulted in single user mode, and NetInfo is used otherwise. But the output of ghostscripts' lprsetup.sh script is an insert for a printcap file. Can this info be put in NetInfo? And how do I get ghostscript to print to a remote lpr printer, or get OSX to spool ghostscript's output to such a printer? I figured this would be a faq - printing to an unsupported printer via ghostscript - but I did search (thus my earlier question, and didn't find anything). -Avram |
From: Derek H. <de...@ho...> - 2002-04-01 20:10:45
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On Monday, April 1, 2002, at 03:00 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: >> cvs server: dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-4.info is >> no longer in the repository > > These are not errors. The cvs server informs you about files that have > been removed from the cvs tree, usually because they are obsolete. > Normally cvs should then remove them also from your tree. > That's what I assumed, too, but I was puzzled by getting a ### su failed, exit code 1 Failed: Updating using CVS failed. Check the error messages above. after some 80 of these messages. On second inspection, though, it turned out there _was_ another problem: cvs server: conflict: dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages/wxpython-wxgtk-2.3.2.1-1.patch is modified but no longer in the repository cvs server: conflict: dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/languages/wxpython-wxgtk-2.3.2.1-2.info is modified but no longer in the repository which I had indeed changed myself to fix the include path. So it seems it' s just me who can only digest so many warning messages ;-) Derek |
From: Martin C. <cos...@wa...> - 2002-04-01 20:00:36
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Derek Homeier wrote: > Not exactly! The selfupdate problems here occurred on a machine that had > been running unstable from cvs for months, so there certainly wasn't > anything moved manually into stable. It also did not print out that > helpful advice to remove the .info and .patch files, just errors of the > kind > > cvs server: dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-4.info is > no longer in the repository These are not errors. The cvs server informs you about files that have been removed from the cvs tree, usually because they are obsolete. Normally cvs should then remove them also from your tree. The message cvs update: move away FILENAME; it is in the way" appears when you have a file that exists on the distant repository, but your local database (in CVS/Entries) thinks you don't have it, so cvs should try to create it, which doesn't work because you have it already. The usual reason for this is that you copied files manually that were later on also created in the cvs tree on the server. -- Martin |
From: Justin H. <ju...@ca...> - 2002-04-01 19:45:25
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I am about to upgrade nessus. The problem is that there will NOT be a smooth upgrade. I changed the name of some of the pkgs, and added the shared libraries. Anyone currently running nessus will need to do this before upgrading. fink remove nessus fink remove nessus-plugins fink remove nessus-core or nessus-core-nox depending on which you have installed fink remove libnasl fink remove nessus-libraries then fink install nessus Sorry for the inconvenience, all future releases will be fine and anyone newly installing nessus will not have an issue, and all config files from 1.0.9 will be preserved even with the above steps. ¸.·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., Justin F. Hallett - Systems Analyst Phone: (780)-408-3094 Fax: (780)-454-3200 E-Mail: ju...@ca... .·´^`·.,][JFH][`·.,¸¸.·´][JFH][¸.·´^`·., |
From: Derek H. <de...@ho...> - 2002-04-01 18:04:15
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On Sunday, March 31, 2002, at 05:04 PM, Chris Devers wrote: > Yes, it's a solved problem. If you're manually moving things around in > the file trees that Fink/CVS wants to update, then it's bound to happen > sooner or later, and fixing it is no big deal. As the error messages you > got indicate, the solution is to move (or just delete) the files that are > in the way of what CVS needs to update. > >> I noted that these were all packages, formerly in unstable, that I >> updated last >> week (when I update gnome). > > Very astute. This is indeed the usual way for this problem to crop up. > >> I am going to try moving them to the local branch and see what happens. > > Good solution in this case. It should fix the problem. > >> Perhaps this is what has happened to other people? > > Yep :) > Not exactly! The selfupdate problems here occurred on a machine that had been running unstable from cvs for months, so there certainly wasn't anything moved manually into stable. It also did not print out that helpful advice to remove the .info and .patch files, just errors of the kind cvs server: dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/gnome-libs-1.4.1.2-4.info is no longer in the repository The same seems to have happened for at least one other user. However, removing the files solved the problem nonetheless. It did happen after I had not updated for a relatively long time, so I believe the updating script (or cvs?) can only digest so many of these errors, or it somehow loses track of old versions after some time. I would still consider it a bug of some sort. Derek |
From: Kevin H. <kh...@cy...> - 2002-04-01 17:33:56
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At 5:52 PM +0200 1/4/02, Max Horn wrote: >I was only refering to >http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users. There seems >to be no way for me to specify another location for the list >archives in mail man, hence the mail headers will stay unchanged for >now. Unless you know more. > >Max There are also several pages on the Fink site with links to mailing list archives. See: http://fink.sourceforge.net/help/index.php http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/index.php http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/fink-users.php http://fink.sourceforge.net/lists/fink-beginners.php Are there any more? Kevin |
From: Hester, J. W. <jef...@rd...> - 2002-04-01 16:40:56
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Great. This was the problem. Thanks to this note and Martin's link to the FAQ the problem is now fixed. I just renamed the "make" in /usr/local/bin to "make_moved" and it worked fine. Thanks guys! Jeff > ---------- > From: Chris Devers > Sent: Monday, April 1, 2002 9:50 AM > To: Hester, Jeffrey W. > Cc: Fink-users > Subject: RE: [Fink-users] Fink Cannot Self Update > > On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > > > This is the end of it. I removed all of the "patching file...", > "checking > > for...", "creating...". If this is needed I can provide that as well. > > Thanks. - Jeff > > I think someone already asked this, but what version of 'make' are you > using? Is it in /usr/local/bin -- hence came from Gnu-Darwin -- or the > Apple DevTools copy that should be in /usr/bin? > > > do make -C $d $target > > done;make: illegal option -- C > > usage: make [etc etc etc] > > It's possible that an incompatible version of Make in /usr/local is > messing things up for you. One stopgap solution to this is to try moving > /usr/local to /usr/not_so_local (or whatever), then trying to rebuild the > Fink stuff again. Sometimes this gets past problems.... > > > > > -- > Chris Devers chd...@ma... > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc > > |
From: Hester, J. W. <jef...@rd...> - 2002-04-01 16:27:57
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I wasn't aware that this was coming from unstable. Should I go back to version 1.9.17-2? What's strange is that it says 1.9.20-1 is installed but I thought installing a later version would first attempt to remove this version. The version that is attempted to be installed is also the same version [pcwrplap:~] hester% fink list dpkg Reading package info... Information about 870 packages read in 9 seconds. (i) dpkg 1.9.20-1 The Debian package manager dpkg-bootstrap 1.9.17-2 The Debian package manager (bootstrap package) Thanks. Jeff > ---------- > From: Michael E. Zwick > Sent: Monday, April 1, 2002 9:52 AM > To: Hester, Jeffrey W. > Cc: fin...@li... > Subject: RE: [Fink-users] Fink Cannot Self Update > > Well I noticed that you appear to be building the unstable version of dpkg > (1.9.20). Is this your intention? > > The stable version is: Version 1.9.17-2 > > Mike > > > > Thanks. This has gotten me a lot further. Unfortunately, it's dying > now in > > trying to install dpkg as part of "fink selfupdate". If I do a "fink > > install dpkg" I get the same error. It's below. Any ideas? Thanks. > > > > This is the end of it. I removed all of the "patching file...", > "checking > > for...", "creating...". If this is needed I can provide that as well. > > Thanks. - Jeff > > > > make > > echo "#define DPKG_VERSION \"1.9.20\" /* This line modified by Makefile > */" > > > version.h > > set -e ; target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; for d in > include > > optlib lib intl dpkg-deb split scripts utils main utils dselect po > methods > > doc ; do make -C $d $target ; done; > > make: illegal option -- C > > usage: make [-Beiknqrstv] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f > > makefile] > > [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] > > [variable=value] [target ...] > > *** Error code 2 > > > > Stop in /sw/src/dpkg-1.9.20-1/dpkg-1.9.20. > > ### failed, exit code 1 > > Failed: compiling dpkg-1.9.20-1 > > failed > > > > Michael E. Zwick, Ph. D. > John Wasmuth Post-Doctoral Fellow > McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine > Jefferson Street Building, 2-110 > 600 N. Wolfe Street > Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine > Baltimore, MD 21287 > lab # (410) 502-7532 > fax # (410) 502-7544 > email: mz...@jh... > > |
From: Chris D. <cd...@ts...> - 2002-04-01 16:16:41
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On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Martin Costabel wrote: > Chris Devers wrote: > > > Greedy me thinks it would be better still in the message footers, > > but the headers are an excellent first start. Good job :) > > Click on the URL in the footer, and you get a page on which "Fink-users > Archives" is a link to the mail-archive site. Yes I realize that, I'm just saying that it would be nice if the messages had the archive URL inline, rather than having to refer to it from another page. This isn't a critical issue or anything; I'm just assuming it'll make the archives a bit easier for new users to find. But still, having the link on the list page[s] is a very good thing; I'm okay with that. :) Unfortunately I don't know enough about Mailman to be more helpful on this angle. I'd assume that wherever it's referring to the current archive URL it could just be changed to the new one, but I'm not sure how to go about setting this up... :/ -- Chris Devers chd...@ma... Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc |
From: Martin C. <cos...@wa...> - 2002-04-01 16:12:05
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Chris Devers wrote: > Greedy me thinks it would be better still in the message footers, but the > headers are an excellent first start. Good job :) Click on the URL in the footer, and you get a page on which "Fink-users Archives" is a link to the mail-archive site. -- Martin |
From: Martin C. <cos...@wa...> - 2002-04-01 16:05:38
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"Hester, Jeffrey W." wrote: > make: illegal option -- C This is a FAQ: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/comp-general.php#make -- Martin |
From: Max H. <ma...@qu...> - 2002-04-01 16:03:39
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I was only refering to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users. There seems to be no way for me to specify another location for the list archives in mail man, hence the mail headers will stay unchanged for now. Unless you know more. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:ma...@qu...> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 |
From: Chris D. <cd...@ts...> - 2002-04-01 15:55:11
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On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Hester, Jeffrey W. wrote: > This is the end of it. I removed all of the "patching file...", "checking > for...", "creating...". If this is needed I can provide that as well. > Thanks. - Jeff I think someone already asked this, but what version of 'make' are you using? Is it in /usr/local/bin -- hence came from Gnu-Darwin -- or the Apple DevTools copy that should be in /usr/bin? > do make -C $d $target > done;make: illegal option -- C > usage: make [etc etc etc] It's possible that an incompatible version of Make in /usr/local is messing things up for you. One stopgap solution to this is to try moving /usr/local to /usr/not_so_local (or whatever), then trying to rebuild the Fink stuff again. Sometimes this gets past problems.... -- Chris Devers chd...@ma... Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc |
From: Michael E. Z. <mz...@jh...> - 2002-04-01 15:52:17
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Well I noticed that you appear to be building the unstable version of dpkg (1.9.20). Is this your intention? The stable version is: Version 1.9.17-2 Mike > Thanks. This has gotten me a lot further. Unfortunately, it's dying now in > trying to install dpkg as part of "fink selfupdate". If I do a "fink > install dpkg" I get the same error. It's below. Any ideas? Thanks. > > This is the end of it. I removed all of the "patching file...", "checking > for...", "creating...". If this is needed I can provide that as well. > Thanks. - Jeff > > make > echo "#define DPKG_VERSION \"1.9.20\" /* This line modified by Makefile */" > > version.h > set -e ; target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; for d in include > optlib lib intl dpkg-deb split scripts utils main utils dselect po methods > doc ; do make -C $d $target ; done; > make: illegal option -- C > usage: make [-Beiknqrstv] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f > makefile] > [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] > [variable=value] [target ...] > *** Error code 2 > > Stop in /sw/src/dpkg-1.9.20-1/dpkg-1.9.20. > ### failed, exit code 1 > Failed: compiling dpkg-1.9.20-1 > failed > Michael E. Zwick, Ph. D. John Wasmuth Post-Doctoral Fellow McKusick-Nathans Institute of Genetic Medicine Jefferson Street Building, 2-110 600 N. Wolfe Street Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Baltimore, MD 21287 lab # (410) 502-7532 fax # (410) 502-7544 email: mz...@jh... |
From: Hester, J. W. <jef...@rd...> - 2002-04-01 15:43:46
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Thanks. This has gotten me a lot further. Unfortunately, it's dying now in trying to install dpkg as part of "fink selfupdate". If I do a "fink install dpkg" I get the same error. It's below. Any ideas? Thanks. This is the end of it. I removed all of the "patching file...", "checking for...", "creating...". If this is needed I can provide that as well. Thanks. - Jeff make echo "#define DPKG_VERSION \"1.9.20\" /* This line modified by Makefile */" > version.h set -e ; target=`echo all-recursive | sed s/-recursive//`; for d in include optlib lib intl dpkg-deb split scripts utils main utils dselect po methods doc ; do make -C $d $target ; done; make: illegal option -- C usage: make [-Beiknqrstv] [-D variable] [-d flags] [-E variable] [-f makefile] [-I directory] [-j max_jobs] [-m directory] [-V variable] [variable=value] [target ...] *** Error code 2 Stop in /sw/src/dpkg-1.9.20-1/dpkg-1.9.20. ### failed, exit code 1 Failed: compiling dpkg-1.9.20-1 failed > ---------- > From: Chris Devers > Sent: Sunday, March 31, 2002 4:04 PM > To: Michael E. Zwick > Cc: fin...@li... > Subject: Re: [Fink-users] Fink Cannot Self Update > > On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Michael E. Zwick wrote: > > > I noticed there was a thread a couple of days ago about fink selfupdate > > failure. It wasn't clear to me if it was solved - but I think I have an > > explanation, at least in my case. I have also had the same failure. > > Yes, it's a solved problem. If you're manually moving things around in > the file trees that Fink/CVS wants to update, then it's bound to happen > sooner or later, and fixing it is no big deal. As the error messages you > got indicate, the solution is to move (or just delete) the files that are > in the way of what CVS needs to update. > > > I noted that these were all packages, formerly in unstable, that I > updated last > > week (when I update gnome). > > Very astute. This is indeed the usual way for this problem to crop up. > > > I am going to try moving them to the local branch and see what happens. > > Good solution in this case. It should fix the problem. > > > Perhaps this is what has happened to other people? > > Yep :) > > > > -- > Chris Devers chd...@ma... > Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ > > "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fin...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > |
From: Chris D. <cd...@ts...> - 2002-04-01 15:28:52
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On Mon, 1 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote: > At 8:18 Uhr -0500 01.04.2002, Kevin Horton wrote: > >At 9:13 AM +0200 1/4/02, Martin Costabel wrote: > >>Avram Dorfman wrote: > >>> > >>> Hello, > >>> > >> > Is there any way to do a search on the archives of this list? > >> > >>2. Mailarchive. > >>http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/ > >> > > > >Great! It would probably save some traffic on the list if someone > >could replace the links to the archives in the message headers, and > >on the fink website with the above link. > > Done for fink-users and fink-beginners. Is the change in place yet? Your message and the ones that have come since then just have this header: List-Archive: <http://www.geocrawler.com/redir-sf.php3?list=fink-users> Is that supposed to be the 'official' archive site? It would be nice if the mail-archive.com url was mentioned, if only because you can actually do a search over there (instead of just manually browsing everything). Greedy me thinks it would be better still in the message footers, but the headers are an excellent first start. Good job :) -- Chris Devers chd...@ma... Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc |
From: Max H. <ma...@qu...> - 2002-04-01 14:03:38
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At 8:18 Uhr -0500 01.04.2002, Kevin Horton wrote: >At 9:13 AM +0200 1/4/02, Martin Costabel wrote: >>Avram Dorfman wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >> > Is there any way to do a search on the archives of this list? >> >>2. Mailarchive. >>http://www.mail-archive.com/fink-users%40lists.sourceforge.net/ >> > >Great! It would probably save some traffic on the list if someone >could replace the links to the archives in the message headers, and >on the fink website with the above link. Done for fink-users and fink-beginners. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:ma...@qu...> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 |