Re: [Fink-beginners] libgettext3-dev-0.14.5-2 inconsidtencies

[Charles L. <cl...@gm...>]

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On Jun 13, 2010, at 3:14 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

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> On 6/13/10 12:40 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
>> Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.hansen <at> gmail.com> writes:
>>> On 5/11/10 3:48 PM, Martin Costabel wrote:
>>>> Syd Bauman wrote:
>> [...]
>>>>> , and got a conflict between libgettext8-dev and libgettext3-dev:
>>>>>
>>>>> | While trying to install:
>>>>> |   libgettext3-dev-0.14.5-2
>>>>
>>>> The real question is: How is it possible that you have this old  
>>>> version
>>>> of libgettext3-dev? The current one is 0.14.5-4. Did you never  
>>>> run "fink
>>>> selfupdate" after installing Fink ?
>>>>
>>>
>>> Did you try "fink index -f"
>>
>> I think I just ran into this myself (10.6/x86-32/stable).
>>
>> I bootstrapped from 0.29.10 (the latest listed at
>> <http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php>),
>
> That needs editing; I'll have time at some point to do that.

Cool, thanks.

>> and ran "fink selfupdate"
>> with the rsync option.
>>
>> After getting into the libgettext3/libgettext8 install cycle, I  
>> tried to
>> bootstrap again with 0.29.12. Same issue, after an rsync selfupdate.
>>
>> The rsync process is resetting the date on
>> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/libgettext3-shlibs.info  
>> (0.14.5-4),
>> which has a date of 2010-01-10, and that apparently is telling  
>> 'fink index' that
>> nothing has changed.
>
>> Let's see I force that to update via a trivial change.
>> If I touch that file and run 'fink update-all' (without an
>> intervening rsync update), it gets rebuilt, and 0.14.5-2 gets  
>> replaced.
>
> "fink index -f" does the same thing.

Understood. Since "fink index -f" is hiding the exact source of the  
index inconsistency, I figured I'd just poke at it and post the results.

>> Also, the 0.14.5-2 version seems to be coming from the 10.4  
>> directory in the
>> fink tarball (including 0.29.12).
>
> That's the common distribution for all currently supported OS version,
> so that's completely expected.


I was referring to the origin of the outdated -2 revision, rather than  
the "10.4 is for 10.5 and 10.6, too" aspect.

Would it be possible to include the latest revision of the libgettext3  
info file included in the next fink tarball?

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Charles Lepple
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