On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 16:12 Europe/Brussels, Jack Howarth wrote:
I have run into a particular problem several times this weekendWhen you change files in one of your 'Trees', fink's database (in /sw/var/db)
while trying (unsuccessfully) to get g77 to build under 10.2-gcc3.3.
I find that if I move a copy ofg77-3.4-20031015.info into the
my finkinfo directory that it will be used if I do 'fink install g77'.
However since that build fails I wanted to remove it and try the
previous g77 snapshot info. The problem I run into is that after
removing the g77-3.4-20031015.info file I placed in finkinfo, any
further attempts at 'fink install g77' brings up the same 20031015
build. It is as if fink has hidden away a copy of this info somewhere
and I can't purge it. Is this normal behavior is or is there a workaround
to cause fink to forget about recently added .info files?
is updated only after you see an explicit message "Updating package index... done."
on your screen. Else you can force the updating by the command "fink index".
ps One other question. If one has a copy of a .info in the local branch of /sw/fink and a copy with the same .info name exists in the 10.2 branch who has precedence? It seems to me that the local copy should but that doesn't seem to be the case. Or do the .info files have to have different names?
Currently, with several info files in different Trees having the same package-name
and the same full version, it is paradoxically the one appearing in the LAST one of
those Trees (in the Trees line in %p/etc/fink.conf) that will be used by fink.
The situation was the opposite (and much more natural) before fink's database
came up _ that's why you can probably still find a number of recommendations as
to specific orderings of your Trees in the list archives, which just have to be reversed
(The change was not publicised).
JF Mertens
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