On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:57:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Oct 24 11:41, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:31:05PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >> >On Oct 24 11:22, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>upset: *** warning package libguile12 refers to non-existent >> >>external-source: guile >> > >> >Huh? guile exists in the directoy level above. Even the curr: version >> >number exists. >> >> I've explained this a few times. external-source isn't as flexible >> as people may want it to be. >> >> The source package isn't picked up because the top level uses an >> explicit curr: which makes any other files at that level invisible. It >> doesn't seem like there's any reason to have an external-source for this >> package at all since there is an unreferenced guile-1.6.7-4.tar.bz2 at >> the top level of the directory alongside a guile-1.6.7-4-src.tar.bz2. >> >> I've moved the guile-1.6.7-4-src.tar.bz2 into libguile12 and renamed it. >> >> I've also removed the "curr:" from guile's setup.hint file. > >I don't quite understand this. In how far was guile-1.6.7-4.tar.bz2 >unreferenced? It was the former curr:, now the prev: version. By >removing this package you removed the guile.exe which links against >libguile12.
There was only one curr: in the top-level setup.hint. There was no prev:. If current and previous tar files were desired then there shouldn't have been a curr: in the setup.hint. cgf
