On 6/2/13 9:10 AM, Bill Waggoner wrote: > I noticed today that on two different, but otherwise running the same > OS, systems I see > > Scanning package description files.......... > Information about 7404 packages read in 2 seconds. > > on one, and > > Scanning package description files.......... > Information about 7408 packages read in 1 seconds. > > on the other. > > I went poking around and I find that I have some files in > /sw/fink/10.8/local/injected/finkinfo/update-packages > > in particular: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5717 Aug 17 2012 perl586-10.5.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1146 Aug 17 2012 rman-10.5.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 564 Aug 17 2012 rman-10.5.patch > > I don't think I have rman installed, fink list rman doesn't think so > anyway and I don't know what perl586 is at all. Although there is a > /sw/lib/fink/update-packages/perl586-10.5.info file. A diff shows > minor changes between the two. > > And that's only two .info files, the difference is four as far as I can tell. > > Should I just remove the three files under local/...? Why are there > 10.5 files hanging around? Both of these systems were fresh installs > although several months apart ... > > Something to ponder on a warm Sunday afternoon ... > > Thanks! > > Bill W >
The package count reflects files rather than installable packages. Those -10.5 packages aren't visible on 10.8. You can remove them if you want. As to why the difference, I would expect that it's due to your having installed a pre-release fink on one machine at one point, and having stuck to release versions on the other. Those files don't actually get packed into the .deb archive. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get 100% visibility into Java/.NET code with AppDynamics Lite It's a free troubleshooting tool designed for production Get down to code-level detail for bottlenecks, with <2% overhead. Download for free and get started troubleshooting in minutes. http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_ap2 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
