On Sep 26, 2008, at 5:21 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: > [] >> Your .cshrc appears to me to be harmless. Martin may contradict >> me, though. :-) > > I don't know. There is an awful lot of stuff in the PATH variable > that ends up *before* /sw/bin, for example the macports directories > and some user directories with unknown contents. But how this could > produce the result we have been seeing, I cannot imagine. But then I > can still not imagine *anything* to produce the effect we have seen, > namely an existing fink-0.28.5 package description apparently being > ignored by the installed fink-0.27.16. > > I still would have liked to see whether running "fink list fink" > while that ~/.cshrc was moved out of the way gives a different result. > > Also > > fink dumpinfo fink > > would perhaps reveal some useful informations. > > -- > Martin > >
Although: if the Trees: line in /sw/etc/fink.conf is misconfigured, then a selfupdate-cvs would download new package descriptions, but fink wouldn't see them. It would be worth looking at that, too. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
