Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-17 Thread Martin Costabel
Ed Clark wrote: yup, seems the non-standard format of the 'Version' attribute in the /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xmms2-*.pc files was indeed what was cause the problem, [] i removed the files associated with xmms2-0.2drdolittle-macosx-ppc.pkg [] and now apt-get/dpkg are working nominally so it is

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-17 Thread Daniel Macks
On Thu, Sep 17, 2009 at 09:26:14AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: Ed Clark wrote: yup, seems the non-standard format of the 'Version' attribute in the /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xmms2-*.pc files was indeed what was cause the problem, [] i removed the files associated with

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-17 Thread Ed Clark
Daniel Macks dmacks at netspace.org writes: Looks like whitespace and parens are not disallowed in pkg-config's somewhat free-format .pc file fields. I have no idea how fink should translate them (or the gimpprint value) into the more restrictive format of debian version strings (only allow

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-16 Thread Martin Costabel
Ed Clark wrote: [] - the 'system-pkgconfig-*' records appear potentially odd, would you say there is a chance these records could be screwing up the apt-get/dpkg parser and leading leading to broken dependency dependency resolution ? There are indeed weird ones: - scanning pkgconfig file

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-16 Thread Ed Clark
yup, seems the non-standard format of the 'Version' attribute in the /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xmms2-*.pc files was indeed what was cause the problem, --- unknown-00-19-e3-d6-69-f5:/ root# grep Version /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xmms2* /usr/lib/pkgconfig/xmms2-client-cpp.pc:Version: 0.2 DrDolittle (git commit:

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-15 Thread Ed Clark
I couldn't reproduce your issue on 10.4. The best thing I can think of to try is to look at the output of fink-virtual-pkg --debug and see if there's anything that looks suspicious from that in the section concerning checks for X11-related stuff. thanks for response, at

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-15 Thread Daniel E. Macks
Ed Clark eclar...@hotmail.com said: two observations about 'fink-virtual-pkgs' output from my system : - the 'system-pkgconfig-*' records appear potentially odd, would you say there is a chance these records could be screwing up the apt-get/dpkg parser and leading leading to broken

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-13 Thread Ed Clark
hi, hoping to get a response by rephrasing the question 1) on OS X 10.4 with apple x11 installed from media (see earlier posting for exact revisions and illustration of error messages), source and binary pkgs with dependencies on x11, x11-shlibs, libgl, x11-dev, etc are failing to install

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
Ed Clark wrote: hi, hoping to get a response by rephrasing the question 1) on OS X 10.4 with apple x11 installed from media (see earlier posting for exact revisions and illustration of error messages), source and binary pkgs with dependencies on x11, x11-shlibs, libgl, x11-dev, etc are

Re: [Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-13 Thread Alexander Hansen
Ed Clark wrote: hi, hoping to get a response by rephrasing the question 1) on OS X 10.4 with apple x11 installed from media (see earlier posting for exact revisions and illustration of error messages), source and binary pkgs with dependencies on x11, x11-shlibs, libgl, x11-dev, etc are

[Fink-users] pkgs don't install despite virtual requirements

2009-09-07 Thread Ed Clark
hi, target system : OS X 10.4.11 with apple x11 (X11 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0) installed from 10.4.11 media problem : install of pkg glut-shlibs (either as binary pkg [apt-get] or from source [fink]) is failing citing missing dependency on libgl (+ x11-dev in the case of source install),