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Jack Howarth wrote:
>   One minor nit that I have with 'fink selfupdate' is that is
> doesn't give sensible output if you have edited info files in
> your fink directories. It would be nice if fink could recognize
> the diff format that is produced in such cases and give the user
> a sensible warning instead of just....

Generally, users should not be editing the info files in-place, and
instead should copy the file to their "local" tree.  (Packagers should
already know such things, and when we tell users about working around a
temporary issue, we usually remember to recommend they copy it to local
and edit it there.)

> Scanning package description files....WARNING: Unresolved CVS conflicts in 
> "/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/ccp4.info".
> WARNING: Repeated occurrence of field "depends" at line 61 of 
> "/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/ccp4.info".
> WARNING: Repeated occurrence of field "builddepends" at line 62 of 
> "/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/ccp4.info".
> WARNING: Repeated occurrence of field "buildconflicts" at line 63 of 
> "/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/ccp4.info".
> 
> It should clearly state these are unresolved merges in the info
> file and request the user to solve them or delete the file and
> pull it down again.

That said, it's probably better to make this an ERROR instead of a
WARNING and dump right out, so people don't think this is something they
can ignore, or lose in the middle of the output somewhere.

- --
Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick
Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development

Blog: http://www.raccoonfink.com/
Music: http://music.raccoonfink.com/

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