On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:18:32PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote:
> On 13 Sep 2005, at 18:49, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> >On 9/13/05, Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote:
> >>>On 13 Sep 2005, at 18:19, Robert Jacobson wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>I'd like to check out the package "khexedit". I see it on the Fink
> >>>>web page, but I don't seem to have an info file for it.
> >>>>
> >
> >Other methods if you're offline include
> >
> >"fink dumpinfo -fparent <packagename>" --returns the parent package
> >for a splitoff, and nothing for the parent package (or any other
> >package that has no splifoffs)
> >
> >"fink dumpinfo -ffamily <packagename>? --returns all of the packages
> >in the .info file for <packagename>. The first one in this list is the
> >parent package, which should usually be what the .info file is named
> >for.
>
> As you say -fparent implies that one knows already that the package
> in question is not directly available (until it has been compiled,
> that is). So what about "fink find <package>", which scans the
> families and the children? I'd code it up if someone gave me a
> pointer where I should add this code...
What's the real goal of the excercise here--I'm confused by your
"directly available" comment. One doesn't need to know the parent in
order to compile or install a package, nor does the parent even always
need to be installed to install one of its children. But anyway, Alex
is right: dumpinfo is the general way to find the internal details of
a package ('fink dumpinfo -h' for help): -finfofile will tell you the
.info filename and -ffamily always lists the parent first (whereas
-fparent is blank if you ask about a parent package).
dan
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