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  1. Add link to this wiki in Resources section. done--Alexkhansen 23:52, 2 Sep 2005 (GMT)
  2. Browse CVS link. Trevor's right...probably best to use whatever link SF puts on the auto-generated project summary page. Maybe they changed it, or we're using some old alias mechanism? done --Alexkhansen 02:51, 28 February 2006 (GMT)

FAQ

  1. Bad permissions on .profile--

There has been a bug report on this for a long time (#1020637 fixed in fink-0.24.11). The problem is that the pathsetup script, when run automatically by the installer, sometimes suffers from a split personality syndrome: In the middle of its execution, it seems to forget that it runs as $USER and starts thinking it is root. Therefore it creates ~/.profile with root as owner (but in the correct home directory of $USER) and worse, when it tests whether the new setting works, itdoes the test as root and concludes that it doesn't work.The only thing usually necessary to repair this is to run sudo chown $USER ~/.profile

  1. dmacks: akh: Thinking of obsolete FAQs, the XML::Parser one is obsolete as of intltool-0.34.1-2 unless user has changed his /usr/bin/perl version.--updated --Alexkhansen 01:13, 20 April 2006 (GMT)
  2. buildlock error--discuss what buildlocks are, and the typical errors
    1. stale lockfile
    2. borked status
    3. working properly
  3. Bad fonts in QT apps--chown ~/.qt
  4. Needs GCC 4.0.0 but you have GCC 4.0.1 selected--update fink
  5. Link to wiki "transient packages page" http://wiki.opendarwin.org/index.php?title=Fink:Package_issues done
  6. Potentially solvable via apt-get update: 
W: Couldn't stat source package list file: unstable/crypto Packages
(/sw/var/lib/apt/lists/_sw_fink_dists_unstable_crypto_binary-darwin-powerpc_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)
W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems
  1. install yelp to avoid gnome-doc errors--done Alexkhansen 01:37, 6 Sep 2005 (GMT)
  2. Command-line option to detect misbuilt .la files: find /sw/lib -name \*.la | xargs grep -l bad path | xargs dpkg -S

User's Guide

  1. update source installation page
  2. New features (check if a feature is already in a released fink version first)
  3. update --keep-*-dir descs on web (both fink.8 and fink.conf.5) done --Alexkhansen 03:29, 2 March 2006 (GMT)

Other/Misc

Multilingualization

Need to document how to set Japanese properly with Fink packages in X11, terminal and Aqua environments.

Translation (Spanish)

Hi, I have seen a wrong translation in the spanish version of the Fink home page. You say:

"hacemos un puerto"

but the spanish translation for: ("port" it) should be

(lo "portamos")

In Spanish, a "puerto" means "harbour", whereas "portar" means to move, to translate into another software system.

The Type Field

Please see Fink:Documentation_Jottings:TypeField

Packaging Manual

bcully: people often get tripped up creating prerelease packages, because the version of the prerelease supersedes the actual release. I'd like to see some notes on this in the packaging manual. They could recommend dpkg --compare-versions to check whether this would happen. I think it'd be good to suggest a format for prerelease package names too. My preference is the form 1.0.9~rc2-1.


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