[OS X TeX] the great heritage netpbm

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 15 janv. 07 à 10:13, Friedrich Vosberg a écrit :

> Am 11.01.2007 um 23.12 schrieb Bruno Voisin:
>
>> Le 11 janv. 07 à 22:46, Friedrich Vosberg a écrit :
>>
>>> Is the never disappearing reminder for update the NetPBM Tools  
>>> and Library the heritage of Gerben Wierda? I remember he said,  
>>> the updated packages would be available if time before 1st of  
>>> January would permit it. Obviously time didn't permit it. So we  
>>> must live until our last Karma with the NetPBM reminder, don't we?
>>
>> Gerben is aware of the problem and hasn't yet given up.
>
> Great! The good fellows are still working in the background. You  
> make my day!

Just a note that the netpbm package has indeed been fixed by Gerben  
and is available through i-Installer. Following is the announcement  
sent by Gerben to the Ii2-announce list on 26 February.

Bruno Voisin


> De : Gerben Wierda
> Date : 26 février 2007 09:07:01 HNEC
> À : ii2-announce
> Objet : [Ii2-announce] netpbm i-Package updated
>
> This was one problem on my todo list still. Netpbm does not install  
> as most public domain software packages do. Trying to update it to  
> a later version played havoc with my install scripts (which I  
> failed to notice) and the result was a very broken i-Package that  
> some have installed.
>
> This left the following in your /usr/local tree:
>
> On Oct 30, 2006, at 15:48 , Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 30 oct. 06 à 15:07, Bruno Voisin a écrit :
>>
>>> Unrelated: installing the netpbm i-Package leaves a few files  
>>> behind:
>>>
>>> theo8mc233:~ bvoisin$ ls -l /usr/local/netpbm*
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin    681 Sep 30 20:06 /usr/local/ 
>>> netpbm.iibless.plist
>>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin    533 Sep 30 22:02 /usr/local/ 
>>> netpbm.prepare
>>> -rwxr-xr-x   1 root  admin  14976 Sep 30 22:44 /usr/local/ 
>>> netpbm.remove
>>> -rw-r--r--   1 root  admin   3422 Sep 27 21:12 /usr/local/netpbm.rtf
>>
>> Other potential leftovers:
>>
>> /usr/local/installnetpbm
>> /usr/local/Makefile
>> /usr/local/Makefile.config.noX11
>> /usr/local/Makefile.config.X11
>> /usr/local/Makefile.config.X11.thisworks
>
> On install the updated netpbm i-Package (containing the latest  
> super stable netpbm release) will remove that garbage. It will do  
> that carefully. All the Makefiles will only be removed if they  
> contain netpbm stuff. So, this will not remove your own Makefile  
> from /usr/local if you happen to have one.
>
> G

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