Re: [Fink-beginners] Re: xcdroast

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

roncross wrote:

> Ok, after all the frustration, I finally got xcdroast installed.  A lot 
> of work if I do say so myself.  What I finally did was just to go to the 
> main website at
> 
> http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html for the image file
> 
> I then copied all the files from the xcdroast volume to the
> 
> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo directory.
> 
> I am running version xcdroast-0.98alpha15.dm for Panther, Fink considers 
> this package unstable.
> 
> I tried the fink install xcdroast  command, but receive the following 
> message that read, "Failed: no package found for specification 'xcdroast'!"
> 
> So I simply launched the package from the finkinfo directory.  
> Everything installed and I was able to start xcdroast without any problems.
> 
> However, this package is still not showing in FinkCommander so I am 
> wondering if Fink is handling this package or not even though it is in 
> the finkinfo directory.

As you can see on the page 
http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/xcdroast, the xcdroast 
package exists only in the 10.2-gcc3.3/unstable distribution. You are 
probably using the 10.3 distribution and the package does not exist there.

I don't know what files you put into your directory 
/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo. If you had put the xcdroast.info and 
xcdroast.patch files from the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree there, fink and 
FinkCommander would have seen the package and would have allowed you to 
install it from source. Any other files except *.info files and their 
accompanying *.patch files in that directory are not seen by fink.

Whether this procedure would have succeeded, I don't know, you can still 
try. As to why the package does not exist in 10.3, maybe the maintainer 
just had no time to test it, or maybe it doesn't work, I don't know either.

On March 16, there was a thread "Xcdroast in 10.3 tree" on the 
fink-users group which might be of interest to you.

If you give positive (or negative) feedback about compiling the xcdroast 
package from 10.2-gcc3.3 on 10.3, this might help moving the package 
over to 10.3.

-- 
Martin