On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 08:42:40PM -0400, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > On 9/9/05, Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > 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.
Oh, of course. I'd forgotten about that possibility. > Do you mean that it doesn't show up as an available package in your "fink > list"? No, it doesn't, and "fink dumpinfo quartz-wm" doesn't find anything either. But this makes sense, because even though I've done a "fink selfupdate-cvs", I haven't edited /sw/etc/fink.conf, so it only ever looks in the stable and local distributions. Now that I'm reminded of the possibility of one .info file describing multiple packages, I see some indications on <http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/quartz-wm> that indicate that this is the case here. I'll try to remember to keep my eye out for those in the future. > > > 2) Are the unknown file messages a problem? > > I wouldn't worry about them. Ok. Thanks very much for your help! Richard ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
