Joel Lachter wrote:
> At 12:10 PM +0200 8/10/02, Martin Costabel wrote:
[]
>> I thought you had updated your package descriptions? This is an old URL.
> 
> 
> I think so. If I type "fink selfupdate" I get the follow message (after 
> a bunch of other stuff):
> You already have the package descriptions from the latest Fink point 
> release.

Yes, that's what I mean by 'old' :-) It's been almost 4 months since 
0.4.0 was released.

You want to use selfupdate-cvs or get the package description from cvsweb.
[]
>>> Downloading the file "tar-1.13.19.tar.gz" failed.
>>>
>>> It appears that that file is missing although there is a
>>> alpha.gnu.org/gnu/tar/tar-1.13.tar.gz

Ah, I hadn't seen that this is not the same file name. Fink will not 
accept this, of course.
[]
> Well, it is a 1 Mb tar.gz file. If I unzip it I get a folder with 34 
> items in it including the usual makefiles, README file, src, and lib 
> folders. Looks like the right thing although it may be out of date (it 
> appears to be from 1999).

Wrong version, in any case.

You can download the right file from
http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fink/tar-1.13.19.tar.gz

-- 
Martin



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