As I expected, quite simple and staring me in the face. Thank you Alexander for your quick reply. I placed the info file from the web page in the fink path and this solved the problem.
best, Daniel On Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:15:41 -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2/9/12 5:36 AM, Daniel Drennan wrote: >> I've been working the past few days trying to get a PowerBook G4 up >> to speed to work locally on some Perl stuff. I'm not a stranger to >> UNIX or apt-get or packages, but I'm also no great expert, and I've >> come up against something in Fink that I haven't been able to fix, >> though I'm sensing that the answer is quite simple and/or staring >> me in the face, so my apologies in advance if this is the case. >> >> When I try to update-all, I get the following error message: >> >> WARNING: While resolving dependency "cpan-meta-yaml-pm (>= >> 0.003-1)" for package "extutils-makemaker-pm586-6.62-1", package >> "cpan-meta-yaml-pm" was not found. Reading build dependency for >> extutils-makemaker-pm586-6.62-1... WARNING: While resolving >> dependency "cpan-meta-yaml-pm >= 0.003-1" for package >> "extutils-makemaker-pm586-6.62-1", package "cpan-meta-yaml-pm" was >> not found. Can't resolve dependency "cpan-meta-yaml-pm (>= >> 0.003-1)" for package "extutils-makemaker-pm586-6.62-1" (no >> matching packages/versions found) Exiting with failure. >> >> I found in the online documentation a note that says that >> cpan-meta-yaml-pm is not included in the 10.4 distribution, with >> additional links to the updated file (which seems to be at .005). >> > > A URL would be helpful. If you're referring to > > http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/cpan-meta-yaml-pm > > note that OS 10.4 is not supported any more by the project at all. > _No_ packages have a 10.4 entry. I'm assuming that you're on 10.4 > based on the "586"s. > >> I've downloaded and installed this file, but Fink still complains. >> I'm not sure what needs to be done to make Fink aware of the >> files.... > > If you downloaded cpan-meta-yaml-pm.info from the above page, that has > to be placed somewhere in your Fink tree for Fink to see it. > /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo is normally a good place. > >> >> Here's this list: ibnzayd$ sudo find / -iname YAML.pm -print >> /Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN/Meta/YAML.pm >> /Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/auto/CPAN/Meta/YAML/YAML.pm >> >> > /Library/Perl/5.8.6/Module/Build/YAML.pm >> /Library/Perl/5.8.6/Test/YAML.pm /Library/Perl/5.8.6/YAML.pm >> /sw/lib/perl5/Test/YAML.pm /sw/lib/perl5/YAML.pm >> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/CPAN/Meta/YAML.pm >> /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/TAP/Parser/Result/YAML.pm >> >> a kdump reveals: 2353 perl NAMI >> "/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/YAML/Tag.pmc" 2353 >> perl NAMI >> "/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level/YAML/Tag.pm" 2353 >> perl NAMI "/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.6/YAML/Tag.pmc" 2353 perl >> NAMI "/sw/lib/perl5/5.8.6/YAML/Tag.pm" 2353 perl NAMI >> "/sw/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level/YAML/Tag.pmc" 2353 perl >> NAMI "/sw/lib/perl5/darwin-thread-multi-2level/YAML/Tag.pm" 2353 >> perl NAMI "/sw/lib/perl5/YAML/Tag.pmc" 2353 perl NAMI >> "/sw/lib/perl5/YAML/Tag.pm" >> >> On a side note, attempting a clean install from cpan gives this: >> >> cpan[1]> clean YAML >> Reading '/Users/ibnzayd/.cpan/Metadata' Database was generated on >> Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:12:14 GMT Running clean for module 'YAML' >> Running make clean Distribution seems to have never been >> unzipped/untarred, nothing done >> >> >> Any help is greatly appreciated. >> >> Daniel >> > > (It's Meta::YAML) > > Your problem is due to the fact that the EOL'ed 10.4 distribution has > been receiving updates, but this one got missed. cc'ing the keeper of > 10.4-EOL. > > - -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) > Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ > > iEYEARECAAYFAk8zuO0ACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9mpwCfXB7FDr3EfJBbZwjr+G+fzCKq > 4GIAnRcdVxhEVgev7fHQPCe47QSMbHRd > =8UTK > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
