Martin Costabel wrote: > > The script (6kB) is in my exp directory on cvs, and it is also available > here: http://perso.wanadoo.fr/costabel/fink-x11-debug > > To use it, save it anywhere and > - either make it executable and run it as "./fink-x11-debug" > - or run it as "perl fink-x11-debug" > > Something like this should probably go into the fink package or it could > even be merged with the fink-virtual-pkgs script, maybe activated by > "fink-virtual-pkgs --debug-x11" or something similar.
Hi Martin,
Something like this would be good to get into the main fink distribution. There are a couple of 'gotchas' if you are going to edit the VirtPackage.pm file in fink though, the main one is it *must* not print anything on stdout. Stdout is read by dpkg and assumed to be a tab separated list of packages that are available on the system. Please be very careful when editing the `fink-virtual-pkgs` script too, it is executed by apt and dpkg every time they are run, a mistake could potentially put the user in an unrecoverable situation. However, neither apt not dpkg call fink-virtual-pkgs with the --debug flag, so if this flag is specified you can do whatever you want (well, within reason, no naked ascii art girls please :-) ).
Thanks to both you and Alexander for answering all the questions related to the auto-detection stuff that was meant to make support easier but hasn't.
Peter -- Peter O'Gorman - http://www.pogma.com
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