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Rohan Lloyd | 2 Jun 2003 02:55

Re: Validating fink packages


On Sunday, June 1, 2003, at 06:04  AM, Ben Hines wrote:

>
> On Saturday, May 31, 2003, at 09:16  AM, mathias meyer wrote:
>
>>  if there are some things to do (like checking md5sum fields a while 
>> ago) where you might apprechiate some help let me know, i'm happy to 
>> do that.
>>
>
> I you want to, I would appreciate help validating new fink packages 
> from the tracker... usually i check:
>
> - fink validate on the .deb file and the .info file
> - dpkg -c on the deb file just to make sure... make sure to do this 
> for each splitoff.
> - Check for hardcoded /sws in the info and patch (should be %p)
> - Check for them touching anything outside of %d or %b during build 
> and install. Not legal except in very special cases.
> - Make sure license and Homepage is in the package and is right
> - Make sure Maintainer is in the package and is the person who 
> submitted the package. If not make sure they have the maintainer's 
> permission.
> - Check dependencies, run something like this:  'dpkg -L wml | xargs 
> otool -L' will list all libraries linked to by everything in that 
> package. make sure it depends on each (didnt someone make a perl 
> script to do that?.. i think so), and make sure none are 
> BuildDependsOnly.
> - Try to check builddepends as much as possible (can be hard to get
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Rohan Lloyd | 2 Jun 2003 07:12

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David | 2 Jun 2003 12:21
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Master mirror message... Usability?

Hello.

I was wondering if  Retry using next mirror set "master" is such a user 
friendly message.

Maybe "Retry using the Fink Main Source repository"
or
"Retry using the Finks Master Source Server(s)"

might be a better choice?

RFC of course.

-d

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David | 2 Jun 2003 12:25
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Adding a user/group..or why I wont add INN just yet

Hello

As per request from the tracker I had a look at INN one of the probably 
best known and most deployed Usenet Servers. The package is basically 
complete, all works as it compiled fine and initial test seem to prove 
it stable, one nagging issue remains though.

INN requires a few special setups, running it as a certain user in a 
certain group. I know that we have something like a passwd package, yet 
I was wondering if there are better ideas out there to solve this issue?

My concern is, what happens if we try to add a user that already exists?
Could we add something like a passwd file to the base files, so that 
any change install the new passwd package by default (like in 
postinstall)

I thought about this for quite some time, but I did not really find a 
solution, so please do help my fried brain out. Thank you

-d

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David R. Morrison | 2 Jun 2003 17:09
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Re: Validating fink packages

> - python modules: must comply with fink python policy

Is anybody willing to write a brief statement of what this policy is?  I
would then add it to the documentation.  I'll also add the emacs policy,
which Rohan pointed out.

  -- Dave

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Randal L. Schwartz | 2 Jun 2003 18:26
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Re: Master mirror message... Usability?

>>>>> "David" == David  <dmalloc <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:

David> I was wondering if  Retry using next mirror set "master" is such a
David> user friendly message.

I consider myself of reasonable intelligence, and I haven't the
slightest clue yet what it means.  Nor would I even know where to go
to find out the docs for it.  Nor would I expect the docs to be there
given the previous experience with other undocumented parts of
fink. :(

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Benjamin Reed | 2 Jun 2003 21:33
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Re: [Fink-beginners] ** APPROVED. **


zjjimwlkeragfk <at> lycos.com wrote:

> Your home refinance loan is *approved*!
> 
> To get your approved amount go here <http://www.call-opzone.com/hhgb/>.

Awesome!  Guess we've got the money to have a Fink conference and send 
developers to WWDC now!

;)

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David | 2 Jun 2003 22:46
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Re: Master mirror message... Usability?


On Montag, Juni 2, 2003, at 06:26  Uhr, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "David" == David  <dmalloc <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
> David> I was wondering if  Retry using next mirror set "master" is 
> such a
> David> user friendly message.
>
> I consider myself of reasonable intelligence, and I haven't the
> slightest clue yet what it means.  Nor would I even know where to go
> to find out the docs for it.  Nor would I expect the docs to be there
> given the previous experience with other undocumented parts of
> fink. :(
>
Personally I do think that Fink is very well documented for an Open 
Source project where no one really likes to write documentation. Since 
this should be a feature of only unstable I do not expect it to be 
documented either. All a greater scheme? evil plot? Well no, just part 
of our effort to create a set of distfile mirrors.

I am sure it will be added to the docu asap.

- we may race and we may run, but we can not undo what has been done.
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Alexander K. Hansen | 2 Jun 2003 23:21
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RE: Master mirror message... Usability?

As one of the people likely to enter this into the docs, I'd like to say
that it's not 100% obvious to me, either.  I assume it means to switch over
to the list of "master mirrors", and pick the next one?

Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
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Cambridge, MA  02139-4213

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Subject: Re: [Fink-devel] Master mirror message... Usability?

On Montag, Juni 2, 2003, at 06:26  Uhr, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:

>>>>>> "David" == David  <dmalloc <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:
>
> David> I was wondering if  Retry using next mirror set "master" is 
> such a
> David> user friendly message.
>
> I consider myself of reasonable intelligence, and I haven't the
> slightest clue yet what it means.  Nor would I even know where to go
> to find out the docs for it.  Nor would I expect the docs to be there
> given the previous experience with other undocumented parts of
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David Alan Hjelle | 3 Jun 2003 05:14
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system-xfree86

Hello.

I was trying to install the placeholder package (system-xfree86) via 
Fink today and I seem to be having some problems. dselect seems to 
indicate that the file should be over a megabyte in size, but the 
downloaded file system-xfree86_4.2-1_darwing-powerpc.deb seems to be 
very small - only a few kilobytes.

I would not have been aware of this except that I received this error in 
trying to install the package from dselect:

dpkg: error processing /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-
xfree86_4.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb (--unpack):
  subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
  /sw/var/cache/apt/archives/system-xfree86_4.2-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
E: Sub-process /sw/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Thanks in advance for any help you can provide!

In Christ Alone,
David Alan Hjelle
1 Corinthians 2:2
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