Well, if the packages were set up correctly by the maintainer, then you wouldn't have a package installed unless its dependencies were.
As a quick way to check where the crash occurred check in /sw/src: there will be directories for packages for which you have had crashes or interrupted builds (unless you have the remove build directory option turned off). On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 14:55, Pejvan BEIGUI wrote: > Alexander Hansen wrote: > > My recollection is that the passwd package is the one that has you > > create all of the extra users. Check and see if passwd got installed. > > If it did, then try 'fink reinstall passwd'. > > > > In any case, once you've gotten passwd installed properly (all the extra > > users, etc) then 'fink install sawfish' should build/install everything > > else. > > > > Ok thanks. passwd was the package that creates the users in netinfo. > It seems to be fixed now, since I can install gnome-games. > > But my problem is that I cannot determine when the crash did actually > happen, so i dont know what did actually got installed. For example, > sawfish was installed, since I'm running it without any reinstallation, > but passwd did :( > > That's why I wanted to know if there was a way check all the packages, > or all the dependencies of one other package. > > Thanks again for your help, > > Pejvan > > > > > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 13:49, Pejvan BEIGUI wrote: > > > >>Hi again, > >> > >>I have had a weird and stupid crash while installing sawfish and it's 34 > >>dependencies : the terminal.app had crashed when I came back home, and I > >>remembered that before leaving, I was asked if i wanted to have other > >>users such as postgres and some others to be created. > >>now that I check back, these users haven't been created. So it seems > >>that the install hadn't completed when the terminal has crashed. But > >>fink seems to think that it was... > >> > >>So my question is : > >>How can i ask fink to reinstall everything for the .deb files, and check > >>that everything is ok ? > >> > >>thanks, > >> > >>Pejvan > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by: > Battle your brains against the best in the Thawte Crypto > Challenge. Be the first to crack the code - register now: > http://www.gothawte.com/rd521.html > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Battle your brains against the best in the Thawte Crypto Challenge. Be the first to crack the code - register now: http://www.gothawte.com/rd521.html _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
