Benjamin Reed wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-07-08 at 14:03, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
>>Which package DB? Is there one I am not aware of that says whether a 
>>package is available in the bindist or not?
> 
> 
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/php

Sorry, I don't understand: Where does this talk about the *bindist*?
It says "In 0.4.0-stable:..." and "In current-stable:...", which is one 
and the same and concerns the package descriptions. If one of these is 
meant to mean the *bindist*, then there is a bug, indeed, but it is not 
restricted to php, it affects all packages that were in stable at the 
time of the 0.4.0 release but are not in the bindist.

Actually, I see a real bug in another one of the numerous package 
databases, and this is in the program apt-cache: "apt-cache dump" 
mentions all packages that are available as binary packages, but also 
all packages that have ever been available to your system as binary 
packages at some moment after the Big Bang.

The result is that FinkCommander, who uses "apt-cache dump", shows a lot 
of packages available as binary packages which in reality aren't (It 
should use "apt-cache dumpavail" instead.)

Just try "apt-cache dump | grep Package: -A1" and look at those packages 
that have no "Version:" line after the "Package:" line.

I still don't see, though, how php got into the apt-cache. Has it been 
available as a binary at some time in the past? I certainly didn't 
compile it, but I see it in apt-cache dump, although not in apt-cache 
dumpavail.

-- 
Martin







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