Mark J. Reed wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 1:31 PM, Alexander Hansen > <[email protected]> wrote: > >>> Maybe I'm confused by something else, then. Shouldn't "fink >>> update-all" update all the packages on my system, just as if I'd typed >>> "fink update $pkgname" for each one individually? If not, then what >>> does it do? If so, then it should have updated ghostscript at that >>> time, since typing "fink update ghostscript" did so... >>> >>> >> "update-all" means "start updating packages and stop when any error >> occurs". Did you get an error? >> > > No error. > > I did: > > 1. fink selfupdate > completed without error. > > 2. fink update-all > completed without error. > > 3. fink install gnucash > ....which failed on a db3 vs db4 conflict. > > 4. fink install gnucash2 > ... which brought in evince, which failed on the gs dependency. > > 5. fink update ghostscript > completed without error > > 6. fink install gnucash2 > completed without error. > > My confusion is that it seems step 5 should not have been necessary > after step 2. > > Is it possible that the aborted attempt to install gnucash 1.x somehow > downgraded ghostscript back to 6.x? > > If there is a versioned dependency on ghostscript in that chain, that could happen.
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