I opened the two info files in vi and figured out what the deal was. Safari treated them as HTML files so there was lots of unnecessary HTML tags in the info file. I fixed this and I am installing from source now.
Thanks for the tip in actually looking at the file itself. Shawn Original Message: ----------------- From: Alexander K. Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2003 15:19:06 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Fink-users] fwbuilder Must have missed that. The .info files look fine (at least to my casual glance) as they appear on the website. I'd be curious to know why these aren't in the tree, too. The maintainer is still listed as the maintainer for a couple of packages that _are_ there. On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 02:42 PM, Remi Mommsen wrote: > Hi, > > My guess is that these info files are somehow corrupt. Do you have > correct line breaks or do you miss the first line of the info file? > > BTW: why are those packages not in the fink tree? > > Cheers, > Remi > > On Monday, November 24, 2003, at 10:43 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Has anyone tried to get fwbuilder up and running? >> >> I downloaded (http://www.fwbuilder.org/archives/cat_downloads.html) >> and >> copied these two >> files to the correct location: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ls /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/*build* >> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/fwbuilder-1.1.0-1.info >> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/libfwbuilder-1.0.2-1.info >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fink install fwbuilder >> sudo /sw/bin/fink install fwbuilder >> Reading package info... >> No package name in >> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/fwbuilder-1.1.0-1.info >> No package name in >> /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/libfwbuilder-1.0.2-1.info >> Updating package index... done. >> Information about 1363 packages read in 52 seconds. >> Failed: no package found for specification 'fwbuilder'! >> >> I ran a "scanpackages" and then tried to install again: >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: fink install fwbuilder >> sudo /sw/bin/fink install fwbuilder >> Information about 1363 packages read in 8 seconds. >> Failed: no package found for specification 'fwbuilder'! >> >> Ideas on how to get fink to recognize fwbuilder? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -------------------------------------------------------------------- >> mail2web - Check your email from the web at >> http://mail2web.com/ . >> >> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------- >> This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. >> Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it >> help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help >> YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > If it's green, it's biology. If it stinks, it's chemistry. If it has > numbers, it's math. If it doesn't work, it's technology. (anonymous) > > ********************************************************************* > Remigius K. Mommsen e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > University of California, Irvine URL: http://cern.ch/mommsen > c/o SLAC voice: ++1 (650) 926-3595 > 2575 Sand Hill Road #35 fax: ++1 (650) 926-3882 > Menlo Park, CA 94025, US home: ++1 (650) 233-9041 > ********************************************************************* > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. > Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it > help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help > YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://mail2web.com/ . ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
