Hi Daniel
On 22.07.2008, at 13:08, Daniel Macks wrote: > (more info than you probably need ahead........) Thanks for the info. I was already wondering what the "*i*" should mean. man fink tells me that they are NEWER than the version of the fink package. I figured out that this means that the fink info versions must have been decreased, which didn't make any sense to me. Maybe fink could distinguish between "older then installed" and "no provided by fink (anymore)" in the fink list output. "older than installed" looks like a bug/error/ to me. very well, I'll get rid of "*i*"s now! Matthias > > > What is 'fink list perl581-core'? I expect it's flagged "*i*", which > means you do have it but it isn't presently available from fink. Some > packages are only designed for certain OS X versions, so if you > install such a package on OS X 10.x (which has a pkg) then upgrade to > 10.x+1 (which doesn't), you now have a package that is obsolete and/or > somehow broken on your machine. If you *didn't* have it installed, you > would not be able to install it (and it wouldn't appear in "fink list" > even as an uninstalled pkg). Fink doesn't have a clean way (either in > function or policy) to get rid of these in general, but you can 'fink > list -N' to see them and choose to install newer perl-versions of > them, remove them, or leave them and hope that they still work. OTOH, > sometimes mistakes are made in the .info files, so a few -pmXXX often > accidentally exist for OS X versions where they should not (and where > the perlXXX for them doesn't either). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
