I appreciate apple's NDA.  I wasn't looking for any apple specific 
solution to this problem, rather some fink-specific hack, such as a way to 
update the dpkg database to make fink believe that system-xfree86 is 
installed. If you're telling me that's "impossible," that's one thing, but 
if you're telling me that messing with the 10.4 fink dpkg files somehow 
viloates apples NDA, I don't believe you.

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> Matthew Hirsch wrote:
>> I have a developer version of 10.5, which I'd like to run fink on.  I had 
>> to manually install fink, since the package installer was looking for 
>> version 10.4, but most everything I'm using seems to work from the 10.4 
>> fink distribution with the exception of the system-xfree86 virtual package.
>> 
>> If I move the apple /usr/X11R6 to a temporary directory and allow fink to 
>> install the binary xfree86 package to /usr/X11R6, then replace the fink 
>> /usr/X11R6 with the apple /usr/X11R6, everything works fine.  This, 
>> however, seems like a mess that could lead to future problems.  I'd like to 
>> force fink to install the system-xfree86 virtual package, if possible.
>> 
>> How can I force fink to think that system-xfree86 is installed?
>> 
>> Thanks for your help,
>> Matt
>> 
>> The relevant parts of fink-virtual-pkgs --debug are:
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> - checking for library libX11.6.dylib... found in /usr/X11R6/lib
>> could not determine XFree86 version number
>> 
>> ...
>> 
>> Package: system-xfree86
>> Status: purge ok not-installed
>> Version: 0-0
>> description: [virtual package representing Apple's install of X11]
>> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
>> provides: x11, xserver, libgl, xft1, xft2, fontconfig1, 
>> xfree86-base-threaded
>> 
>> Package: system-xfree86-dev
>> Status: purge ok not-installed
>> Version: 0-0
>> description: [virtual package representing Apple's install of X11]
>> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
>> provides: x11-dev, libgl-dev, xft1-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev, 
>> xfree86-base-threaded-dev
>> 
>> Package: system-xfree86-manual-install
>> Status: purge ok not-installed
>> Version: 0-0
>> description: Manually installed X11 components
>> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
>> provides: x11, xserver, libgl, xft1, xft2, fontconfig1, 
>> xfree86-base-threaded,x11-shlibs, libgl-shlibs, xft1-shlibs, xft2-shlibs, 
>> fontconfig1-shlibs, xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs,x11-dev, libgl-dev, 
>> xft1-dev, xft2-dev, fontconfig1-dev, xfree86-base-threaded-dev
>> 
>> Package: system-xfree86-shlibs
>> Status: purge ok not-installed
>> Version: 0-0
>> description: [virtual package representing Apple's install of X11]
>> homepage: http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-general.php#virtpackage
>> provides: x11-shlibs, libgl-shlibs, xft1-shlibs, xft2-shlibs, 
>> fontconfig1-shlibs, xfree86-base-threaded-shlibs
>> 
>> 
>>
>> 
> The developers are working on this, I believe.  This can't be discussed 
> further on an
> open mailing list due to Apple's NDA.
>

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