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)
> 
> 

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