On Oct 18, 2008, at 8:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > David Reiser wrote: >> How does fink 'know' what packages are provided? >> >> fink list html-tree gives (10.5.5 ppc): >> >> Information about 7253 packages read in 2 seconds. >> html-tree-pm586 3.23-1 Handling information >> from HTML syntax trees >> p html-tree-pm588 [virtual package] > > This looks like a bug in Fink's virtual perl package: It "provides" > html-tree-pm588, but as you report, Apple's perl-5.8.8 in Leopard does > not really provide the corresponding contents (version 5.8.6 in > Tiger did). > > There is, however, also a "real" html-tree-pm588 package. Run > > fink install html-tree-pm588 > > and see if this helps.
That at least solves the building problem. Is there a workaround to force users to install it despite the claim it is provided? Dave -- David Reiser [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
