Robert T Wyatt wrote: > Martin Costabel wrote: >> Robert T Wyatt wrote: >> [] >>> $ fink rebuild bash >>> Information about 4067 packages read in 1 seconds. >>> Can't resolve dependency "fink (>= 0.28.0)" for package >>> "gettext-tools-0.14.5-4" >>> >>> Turns out that bash-2.05b-1013 depends on an un-versioned >>> gettext-tools and apparently the one in stable depends on a fink >>> which is not in stable! (Maybe there's a good reason for that but it >>> seems odd at first glance.) >> >> But fink-0.28.5 *is* in stable. The as yet unexplained episode is >> that for some people, the fink-0.28.5 package description, although >> it is available on their machine, is not seen by fink-0.27.16, until >> "fink index -f" is run. >> >> I don't know if this was your case, too, but it seems that the index >> database can get into an obstinate state where a simple "index" does >> not suffice to wake it up to the existence of new package descriptions. >> > > Thanks Martin, that helps clear things up a little and it explains the > comment that I saw on one of the lists about index -f as I was going > catching up on my reading last night. This was immediately after a > (successful) fink self-update: > i fink 0.27.16-41 > > So clearly I was experiencing the problem. Oddly, the same self-update > brought me this: > (i) readline-shlibs 4.3-1029 > > So I guess it is just the fink package whose .info wasn't happily > indexed. I guess it also seems odd to me that 0.27.16-41 isn't the one > that came in the binary distribution; I mean it must have already been > updated from 0.27.13-41. 0.27.13-41 is tagged as the 0.9.0 binary release version in CVS, and 0.27.16-41 is tagged as the 0.9.0.1 binary release version; meaning that's what you get if you update via the binary tools. > > I can check the lists to see which version others were stuck on if you > think that would be useful. Also, I still have me output if that > helps, but I don't see anything useful in it.
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