On 19 Jun 2005, at 12:17, Martin Costabel wrote:
Kevin Horton wrote:
I noted an inconsistency between fink and apt-get when working
with a new package I created. I mistakenly had a Depends on X11
in the info file. Fink accepted that, but when I tried to use
the deb to install on another computer, it complained that it
couldn't find X11. I changed the spelling to the correct x11 and
everything is fine. But, I wonder if fink really should accept x11.
Fink package names are always lowercase, so x11 is correct. fink
the package manager converts package names to lowercase anyhow, so
its dependency checking mechanism is happy with X11, too. When you
install the deb, it is dpkg not fink who is checking the package
names, and dpkg seems to be case-sensitive.
Thanks for the explanation. Maybe fink validate should check for
upper case package names, to ensure that packages will be useable in
the binary distribution.
Kevin Horton
Ottawa, Canada
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