On Jan 2, 2009, at 3:07 PM, Richard Cobbe wrote:

> I'm getting some really weird results from the package search  
> function on
> http://www.finkproject.org/.
>
> I'm trying to see if there are any available updates to svn-client.   
> (I'm
> running fink 0.28.6 and tracking unstable source on MacOS 10.5,  
> intel.)  So
> I went to http://www.finkproject.org/, clicked on the "packages"  
> link in
> the left sidebar, entered "svn-client" in the box, hit Submit.
>
> The immediate result makes sense; it lists a bunch of packages,  
> including
> svn-client, whose latest version is 1.5.4-2 (which is what I'm  
> currently
> running).
>
> However, when I click on the package name to bring up the page with  
> details
> about that specific package, I get very strange results; screenshot
> attached.  I'm deeply suspicious about two things: first, why does the
> title of the page say "svn-client-0.33.1-1" and not "svn-client" or
> "svn-client-1.5.4-2"?  And second, why doesn't the chart list  
> 1.5.4-2 as
> being available in unstable?
>
> Am I misinterpreting these results?  Or is there something strange  
> with the
> program that produces them?  Or is it really the case that the  
> version of
> svn-client available for 10.4 is more recent than that for 10.5?
>
> Deeply confused,
>
> Richard
>

The package database isn't working properly right now.   If you'll  
look at the bottom, you'll see that the 0.33.1-1 is coming from the  
10.2-gcc3.3 distribution (there are several versions for that  
distribution, and why it defaults to that one is a mystery to me).

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