Lloyd Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > At Sunday 10/02/2008 19:13 +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>>I've just installed the Fink 0.28.7 source on Leopard, following the >>>instructions given on >>>http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install >>>Everything worked fine, up until the final test after install: >>>$ fink install xfree86-server gimp >>>Password: >>>Scanning package description files.......... >>>Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds. >>>Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm line >>>1579. >>>Failed: no package found for specification 'xfree86-server'! >>>$ fink install gimp >>>Information about 132 packages read in 0 seconds. >>>Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm line >>>1579. >>>Failed: no package found for specification 'gimp'! >>>While fink appears to be installed, and can selfupdate-cvs itself to .10, >>>(oddly >>>picking up a 10.4 tree rather than the 10.5 tree I'd expect...) apt-get >>>or install don't actually seem to do anything functional, complaining that >>>packages don't exist. >> >>What do you expect Fink to do when you ask it to install non-existing >>packages? Politely stating that it did not find packages with these names >>seems a pretty reasonable reaction to me. > > http://www.finkproject.org/doc/bundled/install-fast.php#install > explicitly said to try > $ fink install xfree86-server gimp > > Carefully following the given instructions seems a pretty reasonable reaction > to me. > > As for polite, isn't > Use of uninitialized value in string ne at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm line > 1579. > a bug requiring errorhandling?
Nobody has reported that one yet. What version of fink are you using? I don't see any string-nonequality test in that region of that file in fink-0.28.0. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
