Wonder if the older CVS revision of the file is cached in fink's databases internalls? 'fink index -f' would clear out that mess.
dan On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 10:52:27AM +0200, Martin Costabel wrote: > I am bouncing this to fink-devel in the hope that someone here has an > idea. There is a long thread on fink-beginners, but we have all run out > of ideas. The problem in short: > > Guillaume has fink-0.27.16-41 installed and is unable to upgrade it to > 0.28.5-41. He has run all the necessary steps, fink index, > selfupdate-cvs etc, and he has actually the 0.28.5-41 package > description in /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/. So the > download part of the selfupdate-cvs worked correctly. > > All utilities agree that he has the latest version installed, but they > disagree about the version number: cvs and visual inspection say that > this fink-10.5.info file is 0.28.5-41, but fink dumpinfo, fink list, and > all other fink functions claim that it is 0.27.16-41, and they see no > need to update. > > Does anyone have an idea how it can be possible that fink sees a file > that is actually not there? Note that fink dumpinfo talks specifically > about this file, not about some other file with the same name, or about > something in the cache. > > Running inject.pl from the unpacked 0.28.5 source tarball will perhaps > solve the problem, but at this point this is a mystery I would prefer to > see solved, not worked around. > > Some output excerpts are here, and in the beginners thread you can find > the complete dumpinfo and a lot of other informations about the system. > > Martin > > Guillaume Blanc wrote: > > Le 26 sept. 08 ? 20:18, Martin Costabel a ?crit : > > > >> The contradiction remains entire, unexplainable: > >> > >> Guillaume Blanc wrote: > >> > >>> [apcmc147:~] blanc% fink dumpinfo fink > >>> Scanning package description files.......... > >>> Information about 4069 packages read in 0 seconds. > >>> infofile: /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink-10.5.info > >>> debfile: > >>> /sw/fink/10.5/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/base/fink_0.27.16-41_darwin-i386.deb > >>> > >>> package: fink > >>> epoch: 0 > >>> version: 0.27.16 > >>> revision: 41 > >> > >> whereas you earlier showed > >> > >>> [apcmc147:main/finkinfo/base] blanc% cvs stat fink-10.5.info > >>> =================================================================== > >>> File: fink-10.5.info Status: Up-to-date > >>> Working revision: 1.9 > >>> Repository revision: 1.9 > >>> /cvsroot/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/ finkinfo/base/fink-10.5.info,v > >> > >> > >> CVS revision 1.9 is fink version 0.28.5-41. Fink version 0.27.16-41 > >> corresponds to cvs version 1.8. > >> > >> So it looks like fink dumpinfo is seeing a different file content than > >> cvs, for the same file. > >> > >> It would, of course, be interesting to see what Version/Revision is > >> really inside the file > >> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink-10.5.info (assuming > >> there is still a "reality" there, and you haven't inadvertently > >> switched to large scale quantum computing or created an interference > >> between two parallel universes ;-) ). > > > > This is probably because of LHC... But if my new Mac could work a bit > > better... > > > > I attached the /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/base/fink-10.5.info > > file. > > > > Guillaume > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel > -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel
