On Fri, 2003-02-14 at 09:51, Stanton Sanderson wrote:
> Alexander-
>
> Thanks again for the response and suggestions.
>
> I have tried (many times) fink index. The last attempt was to use the
> instructions from Fink's FAQs for resetting the CVS directories:
>
> sudo find /sw/fink -type d -name 'CVS' -exec rm -rf {} \;
>
> followed by a fink selfupdate-cvs. gnome-core-2.0.3-3 now appears in my
> fink list. Curiously, Fink Commander reports my gnome-core is outdated,
> but the unstable version it reports is 1.4.1-3, not 2.03-3.
>
That's not surprising. I'd imagine that Fink Commander gets its
"stable" and "unstable" versions by checking those trees only, without
checking local.
> I had previously moved the copy of bundle-gnome-2.0.3-2 from the
> unstable tree to local. That was the only way it would show up in fink
> list.
>
This almost sounds like you don't have the unstable tree enabled.
Double-check /sw/etc/fink.conf -- it's possible that it got reset by
FinkCommander.
> I am concerned that these anomalies in the list indicate problems which
> would affect installation of Gnome 2 if attempted.
>
> On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 07:29 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>
> > Have you tried a "fink index"? That seems to do the trick fairly often
> > in these cases.
> >
> > On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 16:42, Stanton Sanderson wrote:
> >> O.k., I'm stuck. I've looked at the faqs, etc. and I'm still confused.
> >>
> >> Problem: bundle-gnome version 2 does not appear in my package
> >> database (fink list). I do have the unstable paths specified in my
> >> fink
> >> configuration. Moreover, if I do a find, bundle-gnome-2.0.3-2.info
> >> shows up where it's supposed to. If I move the
> >> /sw/fink/10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome folder out of the way, a
> >> new
> >> gnome folder with bundle-gnome-2.0.3-2.info is created when I
> >> selfupdate-cvs.
> >>
> >> Background: I did a selfupdate-cvs a couple of days ago, followed by
> >> update-all. I didn't realize gnome-bundle-2 had been added and my
> >> gnome
> >> installation became unusable. Because I depend on gnumeric, the quick
> >> and dirty solution was to replace my /sw directory with a
> >> three-day-old
> >> backup. Gnome (old gnome) runs fine, but the problem described above
> >> is
> >> troubling.
> >>
> >> I (to a fault) regularly do the selfupdate-cvs/update-all routine.
> >>
> >> I'd be grateful for any suggestions which would result in repairing
> >> the
> >> (apparently) damaged package database.
> >>
> >> Thanks-
> >>
> >> Stan Sanderson
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> >>
> >>
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