That sounds pretty intentional. The action of "update-all" is "check what's already installed, make sure it's the latest available", so it would have no reason so look at .info for packages that are not installed at all.
dan On Sun, 1 Jun 2014 08:28:52 -0400, Jack Howarth <howarth.at.f...@gmail.com> wrote: Alexander, I see the difference now. It appears that 'fink -m update-all' only checks individual info files for validation errors if one of packages generated by the info file is already installed. Is that the intended behavior or a glitch? > Jack > > On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 8:24 AM, Jack Howarth > <howarth.at.f...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Brendan, Can you fix ghc-zlib.info so that it passes validation? > > Alexander, > Have you ever noticed that 'fink -m update-all' seems > non-deterministic? On some machines, the error in ghc-zlib.info is > detected but on other machines it is silently ignored. If this > issue were fixed in fink, it would be nice to have a cron job set up > do run 'fink -d -m update-all' weekly and automatically email the > maintainers on validation errors in their info files. > Jack > > ------------------------- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. > www.restlet.com/download > http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet ------------------------- > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Time is money. Stop wasting it! Get your web API in 5 minutes. www.restlet.com/download http://p.sf.net/sfu/restlet _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
