Just checked in on this thread. 1) I may have used the .info file in the past, but it was a while back (I'm using the current version now).
2) I sent the files using Evolution. On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 04:27, Max Horn wrote: > At 23:45 Uhr -0600 28.10.2002, Chia Hung wrote: > >On 10/28/02 6:14 PM, "Max Horn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> (snip) > >> What happens if you do > >> > >> fink check /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/libxml2-2.4.23-5.info > > > >Ah, that might have been the problem. This is what I got: > > > >> [SH-Calvin:~] chia% fink check > >> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/libxml2-2.4.23-5.info > >> Validating package file > >> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/libxml2-2.4.23-5.info... > >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at > >> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 192. > >> Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) at > >> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Validation.pm line 192. > >> Error: Required field "Version" missing. (libxml2-2.4.23-5.info) > >> Error: Required field "Revision" missing. (libxml2-2.4.23-5.info) > >> Error: Required field "Maintainer" missing. (libxml2-2.4.23-5.info) > >> Error: Package name may only contain lowercase letters, numbers,'.', '+' and > >> '-' (libxml2-2.4.23-5.info) > >> [SH-Calvin:~] chia% > > > >It looks like something is not quite right? But Alexander Hansen had no > >problem with this .info file. I will try version 2.4.23-5 maybe? > > > The problem is that files on Unix, Mac, and Windows all have > different ways to mark the end of a line. Fink requires the .info > files to use Unix file endings. Now, some email/FTP/Web programs > automatically convert line endings when you receive text files via > them to MacOS file endings. Thus, if somebody just emails you a .info > file, it might get converted, which essentially destroys it. > > If you have a nice text editor like BBEdit, you can open the file, > change it to Unix file endings, and resave it. There is also a > command line tool to do that but I have no time right now to figure > it out (some perl/sed/awk could certainly do it, too). Finally, you > could try to use another means to get the files, e.g. let somebody > send them to you compressed - this way they are "protected" from auto > conversion. > > > Cheers, > > Max > -- > ----------------------------------------------- > Max Horn > Software Developer > > email: <mailto:max@;quendi.de> > phone: (+49) 6151-494890 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
