Jonathan Levi, M.D. wrote:
> Again doing a fink self-update, this time on my office computer (OS X 
> 10.4.6) I got:
>
>      The following package will be installed or updated:
>       fink
>      curl -f -L -A 'fink/0.26.4' -O
>      http://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/fink-0.27.0.tar.gz
>        % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time
>      Time  Current
>                                       Dload  Upload   Total   Spent
>      Left  Speed
>      100 1256k  100 1256k    0     0   4858      0  0:04:24  0:04:24
>      --:--:--  4919
>      Setting runtime build-lock...
>      dpkg-deb -b /sw/src/fink.build/root-fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.0-31
>      /sw/src/fink.build
>      dpkg-deb: building package 'fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.0-31' in
>          '/sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.0-31_2007.03.19-13.24.5
>          9_darwin-powerpc.deb'.
>      Installing build-lock package...
>      /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i
>      /sw/src/fink.build/fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.0-31_2007.03.19-13.24.59
>          _darwin-powerpc.deb
>      Selecting previously deselected package
>          fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.0-31.
>      (Reading database ...
>          dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package
>          'fink-buildlock-applex11tools-1.1.3-1' missing, assuming package
>          has no files currently installed.
>          104666 files and directories currently installed.)
>
> The buildlock package was then set up unremarkably except for a 
> repeat of the message:
>
>      Removing build-lock package...
>      /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -r fink-buildlock-fink-0.27.0-31
>      (Reading database ...
>      dpkg: serious warning: files list file for package
>          'fink-buildlock-applex11tools-1.1.3-1' missing, assuming package
>          has no files currently installed.
>          104667 files and directories currently installed.)
>
> It doesn't seem to be interfering with anything, but I believe it's 
> still "broke" and would like to fix it. Suggestions how, please? 
> --Jonathan
>
>   
Unrelated to fink-0.27.x .  I'd be more likely to suspect it's something 
to do with the local customizations you mentioned earlier.

It's not interfering, since it's a buildlock package, which really 
doesn't have any files.  But to get rid of the message, edit 
/sw/var/lib/dpkg/status as root with , your favorite 
unix-line-ending-friendly text editor.  Then hunt down the entry for 
fink-buildlock-applex11tools.

I'd suspect that the entry shows it as "installed". 

Get rid of every line for that entry other than Package, Status, 
Section, and Architecture

Change the Status line and Section line to be

Status: purge ok not-installed
Section: unknown

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Fink User Liason/Documenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED]


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