Running 'fink -m --build-as-nobody libfaad1-shlibs' gives this as part of the output:
... Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/appleotffonts.info... Package looks good! Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/applesystemfonts.info... ... (and 35 other .info files that validate correctly) So I cancel, and then manually try to install a few of the 71 needed packages: $ fink -m --build-as-nobody build xz appleotffonts applesystemfonts audiofile audiofile-bin audiofile-shlibs Information about 10693 packages read in 0 seconds. Running in Maintainer Mode Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/xz.info... Package looks good! Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/appleotffonts.info... Warning: Length of package description exceeds 45 characters. (appleotffonts.info) Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again! $ fink --version | head -n 2 Package manager version: 0.29.13 Distribution version: selfupdate-cvs Fri Aug 6 12:33:15 2010, 10.5, i386 Easy enough to fix the offending file, but the validator should be consistent. Hanspeter -- Hanspeter Niederstrasser hanspeter at snaggledworks.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel