What operating system and version you are building on? What source/date/version of yypkg are you using?
What is the date of the sherpa command? The above information is important in many cases. You should supply it. -- cat fa <[email protected]> wrote: > When I run sherpa -install all , the following message displays: > > Unknown error with field `version'. > Unknown error with field `metadata'. > Unknown error with field `pkglist'. > Fatal error: exception Pre_sexp.Of_sexp_error(_, _) > > I have done all these steps. > > set YYPREFIX=C:/win-builds-32 > yypkg -init > yypkg -config -setpreds host="i686-w64-mingw32" > yypkg -config -setpreds target="i686-w64-mingw32" > sherpa -set-mirror http://win-builds.org/1.3-beta3/packages/windows_32 > sherpa -install all > > > 2013/12/13 Adrien Nader > > Hi, > > > > On Fri, Dec 13, 2013, cat fa wrote: > >> When I did sherpa -install all, nothong was downloaded. > > > > Most likely you didn't set the predicates (right). > > > > Predicates are these two lines in the documentation: > > yypkg -config -setpreds host="i686-w64-mingw32" > > yypkg -config -setpreds target="i686-w64-mingw32" > > (or x86_64-w64-mingw32 if you install for 64b toolchains with the > > "windows_64" repo) > > > > They are free-form: both key and value can be set when creating a > > package. If a value is set in the package, the same value has to be set > > in the config of the package manager when installing. > > > > You should probably run these commands again as it's fairly easy to have > > a typo somewhere in the strings and since they are free-form, no > > coherency check can be done when setting them. > > > > By the way, this feature is meant to avoid mixing repositories and > > installing packages for one architecture while packages for another one > > are actually wanted. This can happen mostly when installing packages by > > hand. > > However installing by hand is not the common case and it might make > > sense to automatically set the predicates from the package repository > > that is selected. I need to think a bit more about it but that would be > > nice and probably wouldn't make the check less efficient. > > > > In any case, I've added a message in sherpa which will print the number > > of packages that are valid after filtering through the predicates. This > > should make it much easier to understand what is going on. > > (I'm also going to add a FAQ to make the message something that can be > > looked up on a search engine) > > > > This will be available in the next update. Thanks. > > > > Regards, > > Adrien Nader > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Mingw-w64-public mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mingw-w64-public
