The Fink Wiki

From the Fink Wiki

Official Fink Developers Wiki (formerly hosted at opendarwin.org)

General Information

• About Fink
• Notification Plugin Details
• About buildlocks
• Bootstrapping Fink from Source
• Snow Leopard Readiness
• Fink Releases
• Fink Downloads

Fink Developer Network

• In Progress Work
• Next Steps
• About FDN
• Proposed FDN ByLaws
• Feedback
• PayPal Donation Compliance
• Ideas how to make money without donations
• Established Sponsors

Packaging Best Practices

• GCC field (C++ ABI)
• Sections and trees (crypto vs main, stable vs unstable)
• Shlibs Field
• The Validator
• Packaging Java Software
• Package Naming Conventions
• Dependencies on pkg-config
• Crypto/ssl policy
  • The system-openssl-dev package
  • Getting rid of -ssl variants by using system-openssl-dev

Packaging progress

• Preparing for 10.5
• KDE
• pango1/freetype219 pathname changes for GNOME2.24
• GIS
• The 10.4 tree
  • Versioned dependencies for the 10.4 tree
  • Packages in 10.4-transitional but not present, or newer than, in 10.4
• Fink on multiple architectures
  • Packages with "Architecture:powerpc" tags
• Migration to the FreeDesktop spec
• Latest Buildworld results
• The gettext mess
• Dependency and BDO errors
• Avoiding 'xmkmf' troubles

Package manager roadmap

• New features in released fink versions
• Documentation needs for new features
• Near Term Goals
• Medium Term Goals
• 1.0 goals

Major new feature plans

• XMLish Source and Patch
• InheritedBuildDepends
• Obsoletes -- done
• New Field designating non-automated packages
• Package test suite support -- done
• Patchfile Checksums -- done
• Overhauling SelfUpdate, which entails adjusting the bindist VERSION file
• Modernizing the Upgrade Process

Package Maintainership

NOTE: These are currently all just drafts

• How to become a Fink maintainer
• Mentoring new maintainers
• Packages that developers would like to hand off to new maintainers
• Updating packages that belong to someone else
• Staying Active
• Building packages in a clean environment to find missing dependencies

The structure of the Fink project

• Introduction to the structure of the Fink project
• Website
• Internationalization
• CVS Repository
• SelfUpdate: automatically providing the latest package information to users
• Distfiles: mirrors of opensource source files
• Package Database (pdb): a searchable database of fink packages
• File Database: a searchable database of fink package contents
• Archive Browser: binary packages and their build instructions, in browsable format
• Binary Distributions: how to create and maintain binary distributions
• Internet Domains
• Fink Mirrors system
• Resources located at SourceForge.net
• Resources located at opendarwin.org
• Resources located at finkproject.org
• Server Administration

Miscellaneous

• Setting MAKEFLAGS in Fink -- how to use multiple processors (or systems) to build Fink packages
• Shared Memory Regions on Darwin -- how to increase shared memory on Mac OS X and Darwin
• Documentation Jottings --put minor documentation-related notes here for inclusion in the docs.
• Package issues --package-specific issues that aren't quite FAQ-worthy, e.g. dependency problems in bindist packages, etc.
• Porting Notes --tips for compiling things on OS X
• Dependency Graph Generator--creates a graph of dependencies for any given set of Fink packages