On 9/30/05, Steven Stromer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin Costabel wrote: > > > This package is indeed severely broken. It doesn't build on recent fink > > versions because of a weird InstallScript that should never have been > > there in the first place > > I know this is more of a 'beginners' question, but what is the safest > way to remove the trail of a failed fink install, like this one, from a > system? Do I just remove every instance of a file or folder with the > term 'httrack' in the name from the /sw directory? Or is there a proper > command line method that keeps my fink database 'accurate'? >
The nature of the failure that you had shouldn't require anything--the .deb binary archive file was never generated nor unpacked into /sw (which is one reason why fink goes through the trouble of generating the intermediate binary file rather than installing directly). All you've got is a stale build directory under /sw/fink.build The only time you may have a problem is if the package fails during the "unpack" (as opposed to "install") phase--in this case stuff is actually being written to /sw. You can still flush it out via "sudo dpkg --remove <packagename>" (possibly requiring additional flags--c.f. "man dpkg") > Also, I noticed in my news reader (Thunderbird) that the fink mail lists > appear to have been shortened recently. Do older messages get archived > on some sort of recurring schedule, or is it that I've inadvertently set > something in my news reader to 'filter' out these older messages? > Possibly the latter. > Thanks, as always, for your superb support! > > Steven Stromer > > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Power Architecture Resource Center: Free content, downloads, discussions, and more. http://solutions.newsforge.com/ibmarch.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
