Re: [Fink-beginners] Mac OS X 10.2 Fink upgrade debianutils problem

[Martin C. <cos...@wa...>]

Michael Caine wrote:
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>>According to cvs log:
>>revision 1.3
>>date: 2002/12/07 18:27:15;  author: cswinehart;  state: Exp;  lines: +1 -1
>>Changed source url
> 
>>From what to what?  It sounds like selfupdate-cvs is supposed to, at least
> in part, update files such as debianutils_1.23.tar.gz.  Is there any way I
> can ensure that such an update occurred?  Are there any args to
> selfupdate-cvs that can force any of the update?

No, selfupdate-cvs only updates the *.info and *.patch files, the 
"package descriptions". What it does is essentially just to run "cvs 
update" in your /sw/fink directory. You can use cvs also directly from 
the command line.

In your case, it would be interesting to see what cvs has to say about 
your file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/base/debianutils-1.23-1.info

cd /sw/fink/dists
cvs status unstable/main/finkinfo/base/debianutils-1.23-1.info
cvs log unstable/main/finkinfo/base/debianutils-1.23-1.info

> Hard for me to say - my debianutils-1.23-1.info contains neither the 'old'
> source line, as you report it, nor an alleged new one, assuming that the
> new one should not contain 1.23-1.  Using %n_%v, however, implies that the
> filename should be changed, if the source is to ftp.debian.org.  Will
> selfupdate-cvs correctly represent something like this?

No, it seems I was not clear: The new revision on CVS only changed the 
download URL, not the version of the debianutils tarball. The latter 
would require that the package maintainer would produce a new package 
description, which in general, and in particular for essential packages 
such as debianutils, is a non-trivial and time-consuming task.

>>Maybe you need to say "fink index" or something.
> 
> Did this, got:
> 	sudo /sw/bin/fink  index
> 	Password:
> 	Reading package info...
> Followed this with another selfupdate-cvs, which failed in the same way.

Fink index would help if you had the newest package description, which 
you don't seem to have, and fink nevertheless tried to build an older 
revision which can sometimes remain in the database that is refreshed by 
a fink index command.

-- 
Martin