On Jan 21, 2008 6:41 PM, Florian Fahr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 22.01.2008, at 00:36, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Jan 21, 2008, at 5:20 PM, Florian Fahr wrote: > > > >> Hello. > >> > >> I just found the following problem which prevents packages like > >> flac to build properly when running in Maintainer Mode (related to > >> the problem which I flooded the IRC channel with a few hours ago). > >> Anyway, I get the following error: > >> > >> Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/ > >> texinfo.info... > >> Warning: Field "sourcedirectory" contains package version. Use %v > >> instead. (texinfo.info) > >> Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again! > >> > >> > >> When building the package itself directly, I get this: > >> > >> Validating package file /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/ > >> texinfo.info... > >> Warning: Description contains package name. (texinfo.info) > >> Failed: Please correct the above problems and try again! > >> > >> Is there any way to fix that? > > > > Yes; don't use maintainer mode. :) Maintainer mode is for > > maintainers, not users. These warnings are minor packaging errors > > that won't affect building, but feel free to email the maintainer of > > texinfo about it. > > > > Now, there is nothing wrong with using maintainer mode regularly if > > you want to help notify maintainers of validation warnings, but in > > general don't use it. There are, unfortunately, quite a few packages > > that will fail validation; often they're packages with no active > > maintainer. > > > > Daniel > > > > But I would like to use Maintainer Mode, because I try to create a > Fink package for Mednafen (That's why I posted here ;)). Unfortunately > I can't test the build properly, because Mednafen depends on > libsndfile1 which depends on Flac which somehow depends on texinfo. > > Is there any other way to ensure that the package gets built > correctly? I could notify the maintainer, of course, but in the > meantime until he/she fixes the package, there must be a less strict > method to check if my package will build correctly. > >
Notify the maintainers of any packages that complain, but in the meantime, feel free to build any dependent packages that are already in Fink without using maintainer mode. -- Alexander K. Hansen akh AT finkproject DOT org Fink User Liaison and Documenter ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
