Re: [Fink-users] package missing?

[Roland Kuhn]

Hi Daniel!

On 13 Sep 2005, at 19:45, Daniel Macks wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 07:18:32PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote:

On 13 Sep 2005, at 18:49, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

On 9/13/05, Daniel Macks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 06:33:56PM +0200, Roland Kuhn wrote:

On 13 Sep 2005, at 18:19, Robert Jacobson wrote:

web page, but I don't seem to have an info file for it.

I'd like to check out the package "khexedit". I see it on the Fink

Other methods if you're offline include

"fink dumpinfo -fparent  <packagename>" --returns the parent package
for a splitoff, and nothing for the parent package (or any other
package that has no splifoffs)

"fink dumpinfo -ffamily <packagename>? --returns all of the packages

parent package, which should usually be what the .info file is named
for.

in the .info file for <packagename>. The first one in this list is the

As you say -fparent implies that one knows already that the package
in question is not directly available (until it has been compiled,
that is). So what about "fink find <package>", which scans the
families and the children? I'd code it up if someone gave me a
pointer where I should add this code...

What's the real goal of the excercise here--I'm confused by your
"directly available" comment. One doesn't need to know the parent in
order to compile or install a package, nor does the parent even always
need to be installed to install one of its children. But anyway, Alex
is right: dumpinfo is the general way to find the internal details of
a package ('fink dumpinfo -h' for help): -finfofile will tell you the
.info filename and -ffamily always lists the parent first (whereas
-fparent is blank if you ask about a parent package).

Ciao,
                    Roland

--
TU Muenchen, Physik-Department E18, James-Franck-Str. 85747 Garching
Telefon 089/289-12592; Telefax 089/289-12570
--
A mouse is a device used to point at
the xterm you want to type in.
Kim Alm on a.s.r.
-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----
Version: 3.12

PGP++ t+(++) 5 R+ tv-- b+ DI++ e+++>++++ h---- y+++
------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------

Okay, -finfofile does exactly what I was talking about. Maybe I was a bit unclear with "not directly available", I meant only querying, not building. But I also must correct myself: From the original posting and my (maybe incomplete) memory I thought that 'fink list khexedit' did not yield anything before installing (and thereby compiling) kdeutils3, which actually put the .deb into the local dists dir. But now I failed to re-create this behaviour... GS/CS/M/MU d-(++) s:+ a-> C+++ UL++++ P-(+) L+++ E(+) W+ !N K- w--- M + !V Y+

PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part