two cents from a beginner:
At 3:55 PM -0500 2/26/05, Dave Vasilevsky wrote:
Buildlocks solves several problems.
Fink's dep engine isn't always smart. [snip] 'fink install bundle-gnome' [is] very likely to run into this problem.
Good example! I've been installing a bunch of gnome thingies the last several hours and getting plenty of these:
dpkg: error processing fink-buildlock-gnome-apt-0.3.15-5 (--install): dependency problems - leaving unconfigured Errors were encountered while processing: fink-buildlock-gnome-apt-0.3.15-5 ### execution of dpkg failed, exit code 1 Can't set build lock for gnome-apt (0.3.15-5)
If any of the above dpkg error messages mention problems with dependencies, fink has probably gotten confused by trying to build many packages at once. Try building just this current package. When that has completed successfully, you could retry whatever you did that led to the present error.
Regardless of the cause of the lock failure, don't worry: you have not wasted compiling time! Packages that had been completely built before this error occurred will not have to be recompiled. dpkg -r fink-buildlock-gnome-apt-0.3.15-5 (Reading database ... 141051 files and directories currently installed.) Removing fink-buildlock-gnome-apt-0.3.15-5 ... Failed: buildlock failure
(for more details see: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~bentones/development/at-home/20050226a.txt
and search for "failed")
Most of these are packages wanting db3, at least one wants ncurses5, and then there are a couple of others..., but it's pretty easy to see where the problems are coming from now and mostly I just have to fink install whatever the problem package is, which will pick up the missing dependency, and then go up two levels in my bash command history and re-execute.
Now if we could just make the package manager do this for us, or never have any more mixed dependencies again, or ....
Anyway, I think the buildlock helps me to help myself. --robert
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