Martin,
It sounds like you are talking about the upgrade procedure for normal
packages when new version come out?
Ghostscript seems to be different in that there are actually two different
packages. One is called "ghostscript" and the other is called
"ghostscript6":
<irrelevant output removed>
[localhost:unstable/main/finkinfo] dorfman% fink list ghostscript
Reading package info...
Information about 409 packages read in 5 seconds.
ghostscript 7.02-2 Interpreter for the PostScript language
i ghostscript6 6.01-1 Interpreter for the PostScript language
My problem is that these two packages provide the same functionality,
"ghostscript," but fink views them as different packages, rather than one as
an upgrade of the other. So, I need to switch which package is satisfying
the dependency, but without simply removing one - or I have to remove
everything that depends on it.
I tried "fink install ghostscript" previously, and it said "ghoscript
conflicts with ghostcript6".
I tried it just now so I could show list the output of doing so, but
something else has broken since my latest selfupdate - I get parse errors in
the "dpkg/available" file.
-Avram
On 4/8/02 8:46 AM, "Martin Costabel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Avram Dorfman wrote:
>>
>> That's cool.
>>
>> Can I simply "fink build ghostscript" for dselect to be able to get to it?
>
> Yes and no. Yes, you can do "fink build ghostscript", or better "fink
> install ghostscript", but no, this will not run dselect. Dselect is
> there for downloading and installing precompiled binaries, and since
> there is no precompiled binary for ghostscript-7, it cannot be obtained
> with dselect. "fink install ghostscript" will download the source
> tarball and compile and install it, and it will take the latest
> ghostscript it finds a package description for (on your harddisk), so if
> you did a "fink selfupdate-cvs" after the installation of the 3.2a fink
> distribution, it will get ghostscript-7. Just look what version of
> ghostscript-*.info you have in your dist, in
> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/text/ (or .../unstable/... if you
> have unstable enabled in you fink.config)
>
>> Or is it more involved?
>>
>> Part of the problem I have is that replacing the old with the new seems to
>> need to happen "all at once" - otherwise, I'll have to remove a truckload of
>> packages before I can get the older ghostscript out of there.
>>
>> But I cant tell if there's a way to get the fink command line to do a
>> simultaneous remove & install to replace one package with another, while
>> realizing that the dependencies broken by the remove will be fixed by the
>> install.
>
> "fink install" will do this.
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