On Sunday 10 February 2008 01:43:35 pm Lloyd Wood wrote: > At Sunday 10/02/2008 19:13 +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>I've just installed the Fink 0.28.7 source on Leopard, following the > >>instructions given on > >>http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install > >>Everything worked fine, up until the final test after install: > >>$ fink install xfree86-server gimp > >>Password: > >>Scanning package description files.......... > >>Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds. > >>Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm > >> line 1579. Failed: no package found for specification 'xfree86-server'! > >>$ fink install gimp > >>Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds. > >>Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm > >> line 1579. Failed: no package found for specification 'gimp'! > >>While fink appears to be installed, and can selfupdate-cvs itself to .10, > >> (oddly picking up a 10.4 tree rather than the 10.5 tree I'd expect...) > >> apt-get or install don't actually seem to do anything functional, > >> complaining that packages don't exist. > > > >What do you expect Fink to do when you ask it to install non-existing > > packages? Politely stating that it did not find packages with these names > > seems a pretty reasonable reaction to me. > > http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install > explicitly said to try > $ fink install xfree86-server gimp > > Carefully following the given instructions seems a pretty reasonable > reaction to me. > > As for polite, isn't > Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm > line 1579. a bug requiring errorhandling? > > thanks. > > >You can try "fink list xfree86 gimp" to see a list of available packages > > with similar names. Another way to find out which packages you will be > > able to install with Fink can be found on the web at > > <http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/index.php> > > > >And, by the way, it is very unlikely that you really want to install an > > xfree86 package from Fink on Leopard. > > > >-- > >Martin >
I hadn't noticed that. Now that I remember it, we had an xfree86-server package back in 2001 or so. That needs to be updated. As for the error message: no, that's not a bug. That just reflects fink a situation for which human-readable warnings hadn't been enabled. Those instructions are incomplete, because they don't mention the need to download package descriptions after a bootstrap before you try to install anything. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
