On Mon, 15 Apr 2002, Josh Kuperman wrote:
> Having given up on the hard stuff I decided to become a total goof-off
> (just play chess and go) with the aid of Fink. I tried to download
> cgoban which even though I did update everything over the weekend is
> version 1.9.11 in fink but 1.9.12 on the web site.
>
> Should I notify the package maintainer?
Yes. Get info about the package so you can do this:
% fink info cgoban
Information about 946 packages read in 19 seconds.
pkg cgoban version ###
pkg cgoban version 1.9.11-1
cgoban-1.9.11-1: X11 frontend for the game of Go
cgoban ("Complete Goban") provides a large set of go-related services
including: play go against another player, edit and view SGF files,
connect to a go server over the internet, and playing against a computer
go program like gnugo using the go modem protocol.
.
Web site: http://www.igoweb.org/~wms/comp/cgoban/
.
Porting Notes:
'configure' is patched to remove whitespace in machine type.
'Makefile' is patched to use the correct destination directory.
.
Maintainer: Kilian Koepsell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
That last line has the maintainer (not sure if this is always the format,
pipe through grep if you're the automaticizing type). If upgrading is non
trivial, maybe it'll be updated shortly.
> Are there alternative download locations that can be added?
Sometimes alternatives are specified, other times you can find your own
with a search engine, download to /sw/src, and re-run the installation.
> Can I locally tell fink to update the version.
Yes, and it's usually not very hard to do (just a matter of copying one or
two .info and .patch files from stable or unstable into local, bumping up
the version number in the filenames, and making a couple of similar edits
in the files themselves. Still, it's better to let the maintainer know --
you aren't the only one that will be seeing this problem, and most users
won't know or won't bother to inform the maintainer when they hit errors;
being a participant in these lists probably puts you ahead of things, and
all Fink users stand to gain from good feedback like this.
> In a similar vane, I was flat out denied access to the crafty ftp
> site. Either it has changed or limits hours of accessibility.
The Sourceforge site?
> Downloading the file "cgoban-1.9.11.tar.gz" failed.
>
> because it should be 1.9.12.tar.gz
Doncha hate when they don't keep old archives?
> I downloaded 1.9.12 to /sw/src but it is still looking for 11.
> I tried
> [imac:/sw/src] josh% sudo mv cgoban-1.9.12.tar.gz cgoban-1.9.11.tar.gz
> which didn't work. So i mv'ed it back.
No, that's not such a great idea, just because your system will think
you've got one version whereas it'll have the properties of another
(features, bugfixes, bugbirths, etc). It's cleaner to call it what it is,
perhaps by making .info and .patch files to match what you have, but
better still to have the maintainer do an update.
--
Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/
"More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc
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