On Fri, 17 May 2002, A S Hodel wrote: > Here's the results of my attempt: > > [localhost:~] hodelas% fink rebuild oaf > sudo /sw/bin/fink rebuild oaf > Password: > Reading package info... > Information about 572 packages read in 25 seconds. > pkg oaf version ### > pkg oaf version 0.6.8-1 > The following package will be rebuilt: > oaf > Failed: can't build oaf-0.6.8-1 because no package description is available > [localhost:~] hodelas% ls /sw/src/oaf* > /sw/src/oaf-0.6.7.tar.gz /sw/src/oaf-0.6.8.tar.bz2
That's the package source. The description will be under /sw/fink/dists: % find /sw/fink/dists -name 'oaf*' -print /sw/fink/dists/local/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/gnome/oaf_0.6.8-1_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.6-6.info /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.6-6.patch /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.6-8.info /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.6-8.patch /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.8-1.info /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.8-1.patch /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.7-2.info /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.7-2.patch /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.7-3.info /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.7-3.patch /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/gnome/oaf-dev_0.6.8-2_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/gnome/oaf-shlibs_0.6.8-2_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/gnome/oaf_0.6.8-2_darwin-powerpc.deb /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.7-3.info /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.7-3.patch /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.8-2.info /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.8-2.patch .info files are the descriptions, .patch files are, well, patch files. Are you missing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/gnome/oaf-0.6.7-2.info? If it's not there, try a "fink selfupdate-cvs" to (hopefully) re-create it. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ "More war soon. You know how it is." -- mnftiu.cc _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
