On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 12:15:38PM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote: > Mich?le Garoche wrote: > >Le 5 juil. 2004, ? 19:33, Daniel Macks a ?crit : > >> > >>1. When the files are not found, generate a package for system-foo > >> that has a CompileScript that gives a verbose message about where > >>to download whatever-is-needed and then fails. That way 'fink > >>insall bar' where "bar:BuildDepends:x11-dev" will give the usual > >>"do you want xfree86-dev or system-xfree86-dev" instead of assuming > >> (usually incorrectly) to use the fink package, and then when user > >>picks the system- one will get an error message about having to > >>install X11User.pkg. > > I've been changing VirtPackage.pm to show the 'status' field as "purge > ok not-installed" just like debian packages, for virtuals whose > dependencies aren't met. [...] > I'll keep tinkering on this, but I'm basically making it so they show up > in the package list, but as uninstalled, with a package DescDetail > saying how to download them.
Yup, that's the kind of thing I was envisioning. > I'm now having to go in and look at other guts > in Fink and fix them, because it turns out they were treating the > package query from VirtPackage.pm wrong, but it always worked out (by > pure chance) because things that are in VirtPackage.pm don't also exist > in the dpkg database. I had fixed that in the virt_always_exists branch of VirtPackage.pm in preparation for implementing it. Didn't carry through because then I figured I'd ask on -devel if this was a good approach:) dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by Black Hat Briefings & Training. Attend Black Hat Briefings & Training, Las Vegas July 24-29 - digital self defense, top technical experts, no vendor pitches, unmatched networking opportunities. Visit www.blackhat.com _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
