-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 1/19/12 5:19 PM, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:13:45 -0500, Alexander Hansen > <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED > MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 1/19/12 4:45 PM, Bill Waggoner wrote: >>> Running on Lion I encountered this running selfupdate. It >>> occurred on two different machines. A second execution of >>> selfupdate did not exhibit the error ... > > > % fink >>> selfupdate Password: >>>> I will now run the cvs command to retrieve the latest package >>>> > >> descriptions. The 'su' command will be used to run the cvs >> command >>> as the user 'dad'. After that, the core packages will be >>> updated right away; you should then update the other packages >>> using commands like 'fink update-all'. > > /usr/bin/su dad -c >>> 'cvs -q -z3 >> update -d -P -l' /usr/bin/su dad -c >>> 'cvs -q -z3 update -d -P 10.7' P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/svn-swig-pm.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/svn-swig-py.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/svn.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/games/sdl-image.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/games/sdl-mixer.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-postgresql.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-shlibs.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-shlibs.patch P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/libaprutil.0-sqlite3.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/openldap24.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/libs/perlmods/mozilla-ca-pm.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/ca-bundle.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/cyrus-sasl2.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/cyrus-sasl2.patch P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/net/postfix.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/control-oct.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/dicom-oct.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/io-oct.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.0.5.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.2.4.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.4.3.info U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave-3.6.0.info P >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave.patch U >>> 10.7/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/octave360-docs.info Scanning >>> package description files.Use of uninitialized value $filename >>> in concatenation (.) or string at >>> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 1989. Bad Type specifier >>> '' in Use of uninitialized value $filename in concatenation (.) >>> or string at > >> /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/PkgVersion.pm line 1989. Bad Type specifier >> '' >>> in ......... Information about 4114 packages read in 2 seconds. >>> No packages to install. > > The core packages have been >>> updated. You >> should now update the >>> other packages using commands like 'fink update-all'. >> Try another selfupdate. I've been doing some updates and some >> typos crept in. > > Any idea which specific one triggers this symptom? If it's "that > easy" to do (even if it fails validation), we should try to provide > a nicer error message about it. dan > > -- Daniel Macks dma...@netspace.org > >
Maybe a comma in a Type field attached to the package's name, e.g. Info2 : << Package: foo-oct%type_pkg[oct] Type: oct (3.4.3, 3.6.0) ... The package names still get resolved correctly in such a case. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk8YnrIACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9XRwCgkceYxKZF6sApU5z6JswDuNth NxgAn3upLD5L7XxFFW77b+9VVjBVZhb7 =jPK5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep Your Developer Skills Current with LearnDevNow! The most comprehensive online learning library for Microsoft developers is just $99.99! Visual Studio, SharePoint, SQL - plus HTML5, CSS3, MVC3, Metro Style Apps, more. Free future releases when you subscribe now! http://p.sf.net/sfu/learndevnow-d2d _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
