Re: [Fink-users] Figuring out which dependency wants perl 5.8.1?

[Alexander K. Hansen]

On Jun 14, 2005, at 6:16 AM, Kevin Horton wrote: How can I determine which dependency of a package requires perl 5.8.1?  I'm on Tiger, which has perl 5.8.6.  I want to install dia, but the list of packages to be installed includes perl581.  I don't really want to have multiple versions of perl hanging around, so I want to find out which dependency wants perl 581 and then see if it can be convinced to accept perl 586. My output looks like this: % fink install dia Password: Information about 4664 packages read in 2 seconds. The package 'dia' will be built and installed. fink needs help picking an alternative to satisfy a virtual dependency. The candidates: (1)      gnome-vfs2-dev: The GNOME virtual file-system libraries (2)      gnome-vfs2-ssl-dev: The GNOME virtual file-system libraries Pick one: [2] 1 The package 'libbonoboui2-dev' will be installed. The package 'gdk-pixbuf' will be downloaded as a binary package and installed. The package 'libgnome2-dev' will be installed. The package 'libgnomeui2-dev' will be installed. The package 'gnome-vfs2-dev' will be downloaded as a binary package and installed. The package 'xml-parser-pm581' will be downloaded as a binary package and installed. The package 'perl581-core' will be downloaded as a binary package and installed. The package 'libwww-pm581' will be downloaded as a binary package and installed. The package 'compress-zlib-pm581' will be built and installed. The package 'uri-pm581' will be downloaded as a binary package and installed. The package 'html-parser-pm581' will be downloaded as a binary package and installed. The following package will be installed or updated: dia The following 11 additional packages will be installed: compress-zlib-pm581 gdk-pixbuf gnome-vfs2-dev html-parser-pm581 libbonoboui2-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui2-dev libwww-pm581 perl581-core uri-pm581 xml-parser-pm581 Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n ============ I looked at the info files for all the packages listed above, and I can't see an obvious reason why one of them wants perl 5.8.1. I'm running the latest unstable fink, on OS X 10.4.1. Thanks for your help. Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada Found it: $ fink dumpinfo -fdepends -fbuilddepends dia Information about 4664 packages read in 16 seconds. Information about 532 shared libraries read in 3 seconds. Information about 532 shared libraries read in 0 seconds. depends: orbit2-shlibs, libart2-shlibs, atk1-shlibs, audiofile-shlibs, libbonobo2-shlibs, bonobo-activation2-shlibs, libbonoboui2-shlibs, esound-shlibs, gconf2-shlibs, gtk+2-shlibs, gdk-pixbuf-shlibs, glib2-shlibs, libgnome2-shlibs, libgnomecanvas2-shlibs, libgnomeui2-shlibs, gnome-vfs2-shlibs | gnome-vfs2-ssl-shlibs, libiconv, gettext, libjpeg-shlibs, pango1-xft2-shlibs, libpng3-shlibs, popt-shlibs, libxml2-bin, libxml2-shlibs, scrollkeeper, gnome-keyring-shlibs builddepends: orbit2-dev, libart2, atk1, audiofile, libbonobo2-dev, bonobo-activation2, libbonoboui2-dev, libbonoboui2, esound, gettext-dev, gettext-bin, gettext-tools, libiconv-dev, gconf2-dev, glib2-dev, gtk+2-dev, gdk-pixbuf, libgnome2-dev, libgnomecanvas2-dev, libgnomeui2-dev, gnome-vfs2-dev | gnome-vfs2-ssl-dev, libjpeg, pango1-xft2-dev, libpng3, popt, libxml2, intltool, gnome-keyring-dev, xml-parser-pm581 (maintainer CC'ed) If you're in  a hurry, you might try modifying dia.info to use xml-parser-pm586 instead and report your results to the maintainer. -- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/