On 6-Jan-08, at 12:22 , Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote: > Kevin Horton wrote: >> On 6-Jan-08, at 11:55 , Daniel Macks wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 11:43:12AM -0500, Kevin Horton wrote: >>>> I note that fink's textutils package depends on coreutils- >>>> default. I >>>> am not convinced that this is a good thing, as it seems that some >>>> of >>>> the programs in the coreutils package may cause problems if they >>>> replace the basic programs installed with OS X. But, I need >>>> sha1sum, >>>> which is part of the textutils package. It would be nice if I >>>> could >>>> install textutils without also installing coreutils-default. >>>> >>>> Thanks for your fink packages. >>> The "coreutils" package installs all the coreutils commands but with >>> slightly different names precisely for this reason (I think they are >>> all prefixed with a 'g'). The only thing that "coreutils-default" >>> does >>> is make the coreutils programs the *default* ones in your shell. >> >> >> But, if install coreutils, that does not provide sha1sum. If I want >> sha1sum, I need to install textutils, and that depends on the >> coreutils-default package. > > About a year and a half ago, the old gnu utils all got merged into > coreutils, including sha1sum. Textutils is now an empty splitoff of > coreutils, so you really want to install just coreutils. This is > probably a bug in the Depends: of {shell,text,file}utils splitoffs > that > they Depends: on coreutils-default, though I guess it's there for > backwards compatability for people with the old utils packages that > expect them to be in certain paths.
The light bulb just went on here, helped by a study of a coreutils build log. Coreutils does provide gsha1sum. I was looking for sha1sum, but that symlink is only in coreutils-default. I'll create my own symlink in ~/bin, which should satisfy the program looking for sha1sum, without requiring coreutils-default. Thanks for your patience. -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel