Well, it was something simple - see below...

On Sat, 28 Dec 2002, Miles Fidelman wrote:

> I expect I'm missing something simple, but...
>
> I just installed Fink 0.5.0a under OS 10.2.3, and it seems to be working.
>
> But....
>
> - I'm looking for a specific package (freeciv) that's listed in the
> database as in both current-unstable and current-stable, but not in the
> point release
>
> - I ran "fink selfupdate-cvs" and it seemed to pull down all the info, and
> my terminal scrollback shows the line:
> U fink/10.2/stable/main/finkinfo/games/freeciv-1.13.0-2.info
>
> - but when I enter the commands:
>
> fink list freeciv
> fink list "freeciv*"
> fink list |grep freeciv
>
> none of them shows the package
>
> So... is there something I need to configure to get the most recent
> packages to show up?
>

apparantly, I needed to enter "fink index" after "fink selfupdate-cvs" to
rebuild the package info cache

though, the documentation indicates that this should have happened
automatically

Miles



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