On another note, I tried downloading 10.2-gcc3.3, but it did not installed and the only files that showed up were the ones that I mentioned earlier in the prior email below:
/sw/fink/10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/xcdroast.info /sw/fink/10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/xcdroast.patch /sw/fink/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/xcdroast.info /sw/fink/10.2-gcc3.3/unstable/main/finkinfo/utils/xcdroast.patch
That is when I went directly to the website of the author and downloaded 10.3.
after going back and looking for xcdroast-0.98alpha15 application, I found it in a location where I did not put it. The application now resides in
/sw/fink.old/10.3/local/main/finkinfo; the other files in the directory are as follows:
ReadMe.rtf Start X-CD-Roast.app xcdroast-manual.pdf Start X-CD-Roast (German).app xcdroast-0.98alpha15.pkg
They may have move to fink.old when I used the fink update all command. The only thing in my
/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo directory now is the xcdroast.info and xcdroast.patch that I just put their today based on Hanspeter's suggestion.
I will try and work with the maintainer to get this issue resolved. thx RLC
On Apr 25, 2004, at 5:32 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
roncross wrote:
Ok, after all the frustration, I finally got xcdroast installed. A lot of work if I do say so myself. What I finally did was just to go to the main website at
http://www.xcdroast.org/xcdr098/xcdrosX.html for the image file
I then copied all the files from the xcdroast volume to the
/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo directory.
I am running version xcdroast-0.98alpha15.dm for Panther, Fink considers this package unstable.
I tried the fink install xcdroast command, but receive the following message that read, "Failed: no package found for specification 'xcdroast'!"
So I simply launched the package from the finkinfo directory. Everything installed and I was able to start xcdroast without any problems.
However, this package is still not showing in FinkCommander so I am wondering if Fink is handling this package or not even though it is in the finkinfo directory.
As you can see on the page http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/xcdroast, the xcdroast package exists only in the 10.2-gcc3.3/unstable distribution. You are probably using the 10.3 distribution and the package does not exist there.
I don't know what files you put into your directory /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo. If you had put the xcdroast.info and xcdroast.patch files from the 10.2-gcc3.3 tree there, fink and FinkCommander would have seen the package and would have allowed you to install it from source. Any other files except *.info files and their accompanying *.patch files in that directory are not seen by fink.
Whether this procedure would have succeeded, I don't know, you can still try. As to why the package does not exist in 10.3, maybe the maintainer just had no time to test it, or maybe it doesn't work, I don't know either.
On March 16, there was a thread "Xcdroast in 10.3 tree" on the fink-users group which might be of interest to you.
If you give positive (or negative) feedback about compiling the xcdroast package from 10.2-gcc3.3 on 10.3, this might help moving the package over to 10.3.
-- Martin
thanks Ronald Cross
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