-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/14/10 12:30 PM, zooloo wrote: > Thank you very much for your help. > > On Fri, 06 Aug 2010 14:17:47 +0200, Alexander Hansen > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 8/5/10 11:42 PM, zooloo wrote: >>> Fink isn't sure how to install the above packages safely. You may be >>> able to fix things by running: >>> >>> fink scanpackages >>> sudo apt-get update >>> sudo apt-get install curl=7.21.0-3 libcurl4=7.21.0-3 >>> libcurl4-shlibs=7.21.0-3 >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> Unfortunately, the suggested fix does not get me any further: >> >> It would if you say yes. It's not quite correct to say that the fix >> doesn't get you further if you don't actually try it. > > I was assuming that if it was safe to do so, fink could as well have done > it automatically.
This appears to be a case where apt's dependency handling is more effective than fink's. I have dark memories of such attempts ending up with me > spending days on fixing what got messed up thereby. > >>> Am I really supposed to remove those three packages? >> >> Yes. >> >>> I would perhaps not object replacing "libcurl3-unified" with "libcurl4", >>> but removing "curl-ssl" sounds to me like too essential a loss,so I >>> hesistate. >> >> libcurl3-unified and libcurl4 are development packages for building >> against curl. They don't do anything at runtime, anyway. More to the >> point, curl-ssl is obsolete and doesn't actually do anything. > [...] >> The new "curl" package has SSL support built in. Your current >> "curl-ssl" is just a dummy package, anyway. The real functionality is >> in "curl-unified" (check 'dpkg -S /sw/bin/curl') , and the update is >> just getting you back to the _name_ "curl". There should be no loss of >> functionality between your existing "curl-unified" and the newer "curl". > > Thanks to this assistance, I have been able to update all packages for now. > > However, I wonder, which is the recommended way to getting hold of such > information, so one could base decisions (without necessarily bothering > this list) on something more substantial than "fink suggests it - > let's give it a try"? > > > Zoo Loo > > -- > Package manager version: 0.29.13 > Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Fri Aug 6 05:35:46 2010, 10.4, i386 > Mac OS X version: 10.4.11 > Xcode version: 2.5 > gcc version: 4.0.1 (Apple Computer, Inc. build 5370) > make version: 3.80 > Feedback Courtesy of FinkCommander > "fink info packagename" If you look at "fink info curl-ssl" and "fink info curl-unified" you'll see that they're both marked as obsolete, and to be replaced by curl. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxnMSgACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ8B5QCZAfR5ImEIn8ap5yCioVZ62e+S /FkAniF2+mCxmc9ceCBh89O6L2JSBRzY =04i+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Make an app they can't live without Enter the BlackBerry Developer Challenge http://p.sf.net/sfu/RIM-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
