On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 09:28, Brandon Potter wrote: > Okay, > I ran fink selfupdate-cvs, then ran fink update-all. When I first > installed fink, I used dselect, but a few months ago I started using the > fink system more & more because it seemed easier to get to the programs > I wanted (which weren't available at that time as binaries). So for > around 2 or 3 months now I've been using fink install pkg to put > everything on my system. I mentioned how I end up with old copies of > stuff in /sw/fink/dists/ and here's the output I'm getting: > [localhost:~] brandonp% fink scanpackages > sudo /sw/bin/fink scanpackages > Password: > Information about 1385 packages read in 16 seconds. > > dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | gzip > >dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz > dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | > gzip >dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz > Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file. > Wrote 155 entries to output Packages file. > dpkg-scanpackages dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc override | > gzip >dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz > dpkg-scanpackages dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc override | > gzip dists/local/bootstrap/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz > Wrote 6 entries to output Packages file. > dpkg-scanpackages dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc override | > gzip dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz > Wrote 0 entries to output Packages file. > ! Package xfree86-base (filename > dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc//x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.0-6_darwin-powerpc.deb) is repeat; > ignored that one and using data from > dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc//x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.0-11_darwin-powerpc.deb ! > dpkg-scanpackages dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc override | > gzip dists/unstable/crypto/binary-darwin-powerpc/Packages.gz > Wrote 178 entries to output Packages file. > Wrote 7 entries to output Packages file. > > > This one section I've pulled from the above section means I've got an > older file that wasn't removed if I understood what someone told me > previously. They also said that the older .deb version can be removed > without a problem (which I've been doing with no probs noted yet). > > ! Package xfree86-base (filename > dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc//x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.0-6_darwin-powerpc.deb) is repeat; > ignored that one and using data from > dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin- > powerpc//x11-system/xfree86-base_4.2.0-11_darwin-powerpc.deb ! > > Last time I ran fink scanpackages after update-all I had 8 of these > occurences and the time before that a whopping 32! Now, I'll admit I > only discovered the scanpackages command from an email someone sent > (sorry, don't remember who right now) that was part of a solution/idea > to troubleshoot a question about removing unneeded items to free up > space.
You've probably updated some packages since then. > Now, I know there are times when we intend to have two versions of > something, but this doesn't mean that I actually have 2 versions, right? > I say that because the xfree stuff actually lives outside /sw in > /usr/X11R6. Right. It just means that you have two different debs lying around. They are just archives for the packages, so you can have arbitrarily many versions of a package in deb format, but only one installed (or not installed). By having extra debs around, it's less time-consuming to downgrade a package version, if need be. > > So, maybe my question should be: What does this output really tell me? I guess it tells you that you have some unused debs around, if nothing else. I tried it and I had a bunch of versioning messages, too. After that > > Thanks, > Brandon Potter > > On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 10:53 PM, Ben Hines wrote: > > > > > On Monday, August 12, 2002, at 08:07 PM, Brandon Potter wrote: > > > >> I'm running an update-all as I write this (14 hours and counting). Not > >> something I can do everyday on this old slow system. :) I'll run scan > >> pkg's in the morn (hopefully) and copy the results to you and the > > >> list. > > > > scanpackages only has to do with the binary distribution. if you are > > running update-all you are using the source distribution and never have > > to worry about "scanpackages" or apt-get. > > > > -Ben > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board > for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! > http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Dice - The leading online job board for high-tech professionals. Search and apply for tech jobs today! http://seeker.dice.com/seeker.epl?rel_code=31 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
