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Guillaume Yziquel | 1 Apr 10:53
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Re: libusb, lsusb and version problem.

Alexander Hansen a écrit :

> On 3/26/07, Yziquel Guillaume <guillaume.yziquel <at> free.fr> wrote:
>
>> Alexander Hansen a écrit :
>>
>>> The developers tend to add packages that they use (since they have a
>>> lot to keep up with), and we welcome submissions from our users.  On
>>> the other hand, be warned that some Linux packages don't work at all
>>> on OS X, due to differences in how devices are handled.
>>
>> Well I do not really know that much about how devices are handled in
>> MacOS X, but I'd be glad to create a package if I could. But, does it
>> take a lot of pain to create such a package?
> 
> It depends on the individual package.  Some work automatically, some
> require specific configure flags to work properly, some require
> varying degrees of patching, and some wind up not working at all.
> Usually people just start out by just trying to build the package by
> hand and see if it works.

So, I've tried to make a package of usbutils. Can't claim to have met
big success. I got the following message:

> ibook-g4-de-guillaume:/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo fsfe-yziquel$ fink
--build-as-nobody reb
> uild usbutils
> Password:
> WARNING: --build-as-nobody may produce non-usable binary packages. This safe-mode should only be
> used for package testing and development, not for production builds.
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Martin Costabel | 1 Apr 12:26
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Re: libusb, lsusb and version problem.

Guillaume Yziquel wrote:
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> 
> So, I've tried to make a package of usbutils. Can't claim to have met
> big success. I got the following message:
[]
>> Param'etrage de fink-buildlock-usbutils-0.72-1 (2007.04.01-10.36.16) ...
>> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 
>> 496.

What version of fink are you running, some 0.24.xx version? In 0.27.1 I 
don't see anything at that line 496 that could give an error message. If 
you try to build packages, you should first update to the latest fink 
version. Unless you are on MacOSX 10.2 or (*gasp*) still using the 
obsolete 10.4-transitional tree, your fink should be at least version 
0.26.4.

>> sudo -u nobody env PERL5LIB= sh -c/var/tmp/tmp.1.3lAn2y
>> Can't locate Fink/Services.pm in @INC 

This might be caused by your too old fink version, too. I don't know 
why, but when your execution hits this line, your PERL5LIB environment 
variable is empty. The code in question reads in the original

sudo -u nobody env PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB sh -c <name of the temp script>

This "env PERL5LIB=$PERL5LIB" is a trick to work around a new feature of 
recent versions of the sudo command. It doesn't work in your case, and I 
suspect it never worked at that point, which is the reason why it was 
replaced by some other variant in more recent versions of fink.
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Mojca Miklavec | 2 Apr 09:55
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teTeX moved to "obsolete tree" on CTAN

Hello,

just to let you know that teTeX has been moved to obsolete on CTAN:
    http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/
(in case that influences fink users and/or download links)

Mojca

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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:24:08 +0100
From: Robin Fairbairns <Robin.Fairbairns <at> cl.cam.ac.uk>
Subject: CTAN package downgrade: teTeX obsolete
To: ctan-ann <at> dante.de

Thomas Esser announced that he had stopped supporting teTeX some time
back.

Now that a new release of TeX-live has appeared, which has the potential
to be used in all applications where teTeX was previously preferred, I
have (with Thomas' agreement) moved teTeX to the obsolete tree on CTAN.
It will stay there for a while, as reference material.

Thanks are due to Thomas for all his work on his excellent distribution,
over the years.

Robin Fairbairns

For the CTAN team
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Martin Costabel | 2 Apr 19:10
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Re: teTeX moved to "obsolete tree" on CTAN

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> just to let you know that teTeX has been moved to obsolete on CTAN:
>     http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/
> (in case that influences fink users and/or download links)

I don't think it matters immediately. The old URL is still working, it 
is now simply a symlink to the "obsolete" directory.

In any case, this decision is just a bit ridiculous: If you look at the 
other things that are contained in 
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/systems/unix/, you see that everything 
else is much more obsolete and unmaintained than tetex, without being 
marked as "obsolete" (texmacs-1.0.4.3 from 3 years ago is the most 
recent, most of the other stuff is from last century). I feel a certain 
unpleasant and slightly hysterical pressure behind this move from tetex 
to texlive which Fink doesn't need to comply with, IMHO.

--

-- 
Martin

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William Scott | 3 Apr 00:15
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obscure problem on intel iMac

Hi Folks:

One of my colleagues just got a new intel iMac and it appears that  
the system occasionally freezes.  I've been helping her install  
software, and using fink within a screen session, that detaches.   
I've done this for years on other machines with no problem, but for  
some reason on this one it seems to induce the freezes, and this  
seems to be happening when the debian package is being assembled.

Has anyone encountered anything like this?  Is there a way to get  
some sort of crash report for this so I can try to figure out what is  
going wrong and how to correct it?

Many thanks in advance.

Bill Scott

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Alexander Hansen | 3 Apr 21:40
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Re: obscure problem on intel iMac

On 4/2/07, William Scott <wgscott <at> chemistry.ucsc.edu> wrote:
> Hi Folks:
>
> One of my colleagues just got a new intel iMac and it appears that
> the system occasionally freezes.  I've been helping her install
> software, and using fink within a screen session, that detaches.
> I've done this for years on other machines with no problem, but for
> some reason on this one it seems to induce the freezes, and this
> seems to be happening when the debian package is being assembled.
>
> Has anyone encountered anything like this?  Is there a way to get
> some sort of crash report for this so I can try to figure out what is
> going wrong and how to correct it?
>
> Many thanks in advance.
>
> Bill Scott
>
>
>
>
>

I had a vaguely similar problem at one point on a PowerPC.  If I
recall correctly, I solved it by reseating the RAM modules that I had
added to the machine.

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Guillaume Yziquel | 3 Apr 22:05
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Re: *gasp* 10.4-transitional tree.

Martin Costabel a écrit :
> Guillaume Yziquel wrote:
> []
>>
>> So, I've tried to make a package of usbutils. Can't claim to have met
>> big success. I got the following message:
> []
>>> Param'etrage de fink-buildlock-usbutils-0.72-1 (2007.04.01-10.36.16) ...
>>> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
>>> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 496.
> 
> What version of fink are you running, some 0.24.xx version? In 0.27.1 I
> don't see anything at that line 496 that could give an error message. If
> you try to build packages, you should first update to the latest fink
> version. Unless you are on MacOSX 10.2 or (*gasp*) still using the
> obsolete 10.4-transitional tree, your fink should be at least version
> 0.26.4.

Indeed. Still using the 10.4 transitional tree.

And in order to update, I have two option:

1) rm -R /sw/* and installing Fink from a disk image...

2) the script which gives me

ibook-g4-de-guillaume:~/src/scripts-10.4-update-0.4 Yziquel$ ./update.pl
Password:
Can't locate Fink/Bootstrap.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
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Alexander Hansen | 3 Apr 22:09
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Re: *gasp* 10.4-transitional tree.

On 4/3/07, Guillaume Yziquel <guillaume.yziquel <at> free.fr> wrote:
> Martin Costabel a écrit :
> > Guillaume Yziquel wrote:
> > []
> >>
> >> So, I've tried to make a package of usbutils. Can't claim to have met
> >> big success. I got the following message:
> > []
> >>> Param'etrage de fink-buildlock-usbutils-0.72-1 (2007.04.01-10.36.16) ...
> >>> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at
> >>> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 496.
> >
> > What version of fink are you running, some 0.24.xx version? In 0.27.1 I
> > don't see anything at that line 496 that could give an error message. If
> > you try to build packages, you should first update to the latest fink
> > version. Unless you are on MacOSX 10.2 or (*gasp*) still using the
> > obsolete 10.4-transitional tree, your fink should be at least version
> > 0.26.4.
>
> Indeed. Still using the 10.4 transitional tree.
>
> And in order to update, I have two option:
>
> 1) rm -R /sw/* and installing Fink from a disk image...
>
> 2) the script which gives me
>
> ibook-g4-de-guillaume:~/src/scripts-10.4-update-0.4 Yziquel$ ./update.pl
> Password:
> Can't locate Fink/Bootstrap.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
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Prachi Shah | 3 Apr 23:21
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Problem installing xml-sax-pm586 package: Can't locate XML/SAX.pm in @INC

Hi all,

I have a problem when trying to install xml-sax-pm586 package using
fink on Mac OSX. I read through the email thread at the archives at
http://www.archivesat.com/Fink_users_discussion_and_support_/thread1213832.htm
that discusses the same exact error. The solution in the email archive
is to make sure init.sh is sourced correctly. I have a line in my
.profile which says '. /sw/bin/init.sh' and there is no .bash_profile
file, so it should be sourced correctly. I also manually sourced
init.sh and tried to install, but still gives me the same error.  Any
other ideas?

Below is my command and the exact error message. I am running Mac OSX
10.4.9 and fink version 0.24.22

Thanks for all your help,
Prachi

P.S. I am not subscribed to the mailing list so please make sure my
email address is in To or CC on your replies.

prachi$  sudo apt-get install xml-sax-pm586
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Sorry, xml-sax-pm586 is already the newest version.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12  not upgraded.
4 packages not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Setting up xml-sax-pm586 (0.13-2) ...
Can't locate XML/SAX.pm in @INC (@INC contains:
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Alexander Hansen | 4 Apr 15:00
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Re: Problem installing xml-sax-pm586 package: Can't locate XML/SAX.pm in @INC

On 4/3/07, Prachi Shah <prachi.shah <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have a problem when trying to install xml-sax-pm586 package using
> fink on Mac OSX. I read through the email thread at the archives at
> http://www.archivesat.com/Fink_users_discussion_and_support_/thread1213832.htm
> that discusses the same exact error. The solution in the email archive
> is to make sure init.sh is sourced correctly. I have a line in my
> .profile which says '. /sw/bin/init.sh' and there is no .bash_profile
> file, so it should be sourced correctly. I also manually sourced
> init.sh and tried to install, but still gives me the same error.  Any
> other ideas?
>
> Below is my command and the exact error message. I am running Mac OSX
> 10.4.9 and fink version 0.24.22
>
> Thanks for all your help,
> Prachi
>
> P.S. I am not subscribed to the mailing list so please make sure my
> email address is in To or CC on your replies.
>
>
> prachi$  sudo apt-get install xml-sax-pm586
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Sorry, xml-sax-pm586 is already the newest version.
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 12  not upgraded.
> 4 packages not fully installed or removed.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
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