Re: [Fink-beginners] How to register a package in fink

[Frank E. <toa...@sy...>]

Martin,
Thanks for your input. I did a typo, I meant 2.0-11, not 2.1.  I 
modified the bison.info file on my hard disk's unstable directory to 
contain the newer version. I received an email today giving me a howto 
link on the fink home page. To solve the problem, I  just did a number 
change for the version number and I put the new MD5. It installed 
properly. Now, time to tame the other packages...
Cheers,
Frank


On 20-Nov-05, at 2:14 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Frank Eory wrote:
>> Hello,
>> I was hoping somebody would point me to a faq on the net. I have a 
>> package, bison, that needs to be installed because it's required by 
>> another bigger package on my Mac 10.3. The bigger package wants 
>> version 2.1 while the fink info and patch files for bison have 
>> version 1.35 in the /sw/fink/10.3/XXX/main/finkinfo/devel/ where XXX 
>> is stable and unstable.
>
> Small correction: 10.3/unstable has bison-2.0-11. Upgrading this to 
> 2.1 is probably not very difficult. Normally, if you succeed, you 
> would then try to persuade the maintainer to update the package. The 
> maintainer of this particular package has been difficult to join 
> recently, however.
>
> -- 
> Martin
>