On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:39:19AM +0000, Matt Parry wrote: > > this general problem came to light with recent issues compiling > octave-2.1.72 on a brand spanking new intel macbook pro (latest > everything). > > i was trying to get fink to compile version 1110 of octave but it > continued to install the 1107 version. this despite purging octave, > deleted the .deb files, selfupdating with both rsync and cvs, doing things > via fink commander, doing things in terminal, and changing mirrors for > good measure. i even toggled the unstable tree on and off, to force new > package descriptions. > > the weird thing is that the octave.info file reports 1110 as the latest > version but "fink dumpinfo octave" reports 1107 as the latest. it seems to > me fink is updating the package descriptions but is then not doing > anything about it.
Part of the dumpinfo output is the infofile: value, which tells you exactly where fink is finding this package (you can pass one or more -fFIELD flags to limit he output to only a desired FIELD instead of the whole data dump). Also pay attention to the allversions: list, which tells you all versions fink is seeing, and the status: field, which tells you how fink is sorting that version. You can pass dumpinfo a specific version to find out info about that one instead of just "what fink thinks is the latest", as fink dumpinfo octave-2.1.72-1107 or whatever, so you can figure out where each one is. Also make sure the allversions: list is the same for each (dunno why it wouldn't, but it would be another symptom of internal inconsistency). Verify that all epoch: are the same. Try "touch"ing all of the octave .info files touch /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave.info for example, then do "fink index", see if that affects what's going on. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
