Could I suggest adding "fink check" and/or "fink validate" to the list of commands that one sees when running "fink --help"? (Or else to the man page... or both!) That will help us remember where to find this later.
Thanks, Dave Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, should have mentioned this in the last post. > > The validator can validate .info and .deb files (though .deb checking > isn't doing much currently). You have to specify a concret file. E.g. > > fink check myfoo-1.0-1.info > > or > fink validate /sw/fink/debs/myfoo-1.0-1_darwin-powerpc.deb > > > If you want to check all .info files in a given directory, you could use this: > > find -name "*.info" | xargs fink -q check > > The -q will activate quiet mode, which gives you a shorter output, > and also doesn't warn about description fields longer than 45 chars > (though it still will warn if the description takes more than 60 > chars). > > > Of course it is is not perfect, sometimes it generates invalid > warnings (e.g. it warned me because package "align" had the word > align in its desc, but in general is no way around that) > > _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
