On 9/9/05, Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Nope. It's a splitoff of the "applex11tools" package, so any information about it is in that .info file. Splitoff packages needn't carry the name of their .info file. In these cases "fink dumpinfo <packagename> can sometimes be more informative, particularly if you aren't sure if something's a splitoff or not.
Do you mean that it doesn't show up as an available package in your "fink list"?
I wouldn't worry about them.
Greetings, all.
I follow 10.4-transitional/stable through rsync, but I'm trying to
install a couple of packages from unstable (xorg and quartz-wm, after
having seen the recent post to macosxhints.com).
So I just did a fink selfupdate-cvs and tried to find the quartz-wm.info
file under 10.4-transitional/unstable, but it's not there.
I tried running fink selfupdate again, and I get a bunch of unknown file
messages from CVS; I've never seen these before in the context of a
"fink selfupdate":
? 10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/kterm-6.2.0-2.info
? 10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11/pcb.patch
? 10.4-transitional/unstable/main/finkinfo/x11-wm/metacity.patch
(for example; there are about 150 of these, at a rough estimate).
So, two questions:
1) Why can't I find quartz-wm, even though the package database says
it's available? Is it just a question of waiting for this to
propagate to all the mirrors?
Nope. It's a splitoff of the "applex11tools" package, so any information about it is in that .info file. Splitoff packages needn't carry the name of their .info file. In these cases "fink dumpinfo <packagename> can sometimes be more informative, particularly if you aren't sure if something's a splitoff or not.
Do you mean that it doesn't show up as an available package in your "fink list"?
2) Are the unknown file messages a problem?
I wouldn't worry about them.
Thanks,
Richard
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