Re: [Fink-devel] updates for packages that I don't maintain

[David R. M. <dr...@ma...>]

William Scott <wg...@ch...> wrote:

> Hi Citizens:
> 
> The version of pymol (another molecular graphics program) in 10.3, both 
> stable and unstable, is v. 0.86 and it is broken.  It is also rather 
> out of date.  I haven't succeeded in getting ahold of the maintainer.  
> A colleague, Jack Howarth, has succeeded in getting the most current 
> version for which source code is available, v. 0.93, to work on 10.3.  
> He has made new info and patch files.  Is there a non-sociopathological 
> way that these can be updated?
> 
> I put the copies I used to install this here:
> 
> http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/xtalfink/pymol.info
> http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/xtalfink/pymol.patch
> 

I think a good way to handle this is to add a line to the .info file:

  DescPackaging: Version 0.93-1 by Jack Howarth <ho...@ni...>


> 
> It also requires a newer version of python megawidgets than is 
> currently in fink.  The maintainer's email addy didn't work.  The 
> changes are trivial (version number and md5sum):
> 
> http://www.chemistry.ucsc.edu/~wgscott/xtal/xtalfink/pmw-py23.info
> 

It looks like pmw-py23 has now been updated by its maintainer.

Unfortunately, there is still a problem with pymol: I built this new
version, but for me, at least, it crashed on launch.  I'll send the crash
log to you privately.

  -- Dave