I have a large LaTeX text which uses heavily fig2dev figure
preprocessing, so that I don't want to fiddle with this package until
I am sure that it is safe! I confess I know very little about the
inner workings of fink and its relatives :-(.

Thanks anyway,

-- tsf

On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 12:18 PM, Alexander
Hansen<[email protected]> wrote:
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> T. S. Ferreira wrote:
>> When I run "fink update-all" on my iMac (Mac OS X 10.5.8), I get the
>> following output:
>>
>> ----------------------
>> root[10:36:36::~]<2> fink update-all
>> Information about 4353 packages read in 0 seconds.
>> The following 6 packages will be installed or updated:
>>  libwww-pm588 transfig xml-parser-pm588 xml-sax-expat-pm588
>> xml-sax-pm588 xml-simple-pm588
>> The following 2 additional packages will be installed:
>>  html-parser-pm588 uri-pm588
>> Do you want to continue? [Y/n]
>> Reading buildlock packages...
>>       All buildlocks accounted for.
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i
>> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/graphics/transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb
>> (Reading database ... 167308 files and directories currently installed.)
>> Preparing to replace transfig 3.2.4-6 (using
>> .../transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb) ...
>> Unpacking replacement transfig ...
>> /sw/bin/dpkg: error processing
>> /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/graphics/transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb
>> (--install):
>>  trying to overwrite `/sw/bin/fig2dev', which is also in package
>> transfig-graphicx
>> /sw/bin/dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
>> Errors were encountered while processing:
>>  /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386/graphics/transfig_3.2.4-7_darwin-i386.deb
>> ### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
>> Failed: can't install package transfig-3.2.4-7
>> ----------------------
>>
>> Any hints on how to solve the problem?
>>
>
> You could remove "transfig" and do a "fink reinstall transfig-graphicx",
> since you already have that installed and it's a newer version.
>
> I'm not at all clear why transfig-graphicx|epsfig and the older transfig
> package don't Conflict/Replace each other.  I'm also not sure why the
> old transfig is being kept around.  I'll cc the maintainer.
> - --
> Alexander Hansen
> Fink User Liaison
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-- 
T. S. Ferreira

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