On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:11:12PM +1300, Nigel Stanger wrote:
> 
[expect depends on tcltk]
> nuevorico> fink fetch expect
[snip the output]
> Fink attempted to download the tarball for tcl (as I suppose you would
> expect it to, although I didn't actually realise that fink automatically
> fetches dependencies as well). The interesting thing, however, is that it
> stops at this point without trying to retrieve the tk tarball, which I would
> have expected to happen, given what's specified in the .info file:
> 
>     Source: mirror:sourceforge:tcl/tcl%v-src.tar.gz
>     Source2: mirror:sourceforge:tcl/tk%v-src.tar.gz
> 
> I'm not sure what the intended behaviour is when doing a fink fetch on a
> package that depends on others. If the intended behaviour is to fetch the
> Depends: packages, then it's obviously not handling the case where there are
> multiple source tarballs in a Depends: package.
> 
> If fetching the Depends: packages is _not_ the intended behaviour, then it's
> broken in a completely different way :)

It is not the intended behavior, but nor is that what is happening.
The tcl tarball (but not the tk tarball) is part of expect itself.
>From expect.info:
    Source: http://expect.nist.gov/src/%n-%v.tar.gz
    Source2: mirror:sourceforge:tcl/tcl8.4.1-src.tar.gz

dan

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