guile setup.hint problem

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Oct 24 12:01, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:57:26PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >On Oct 24 11:41, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:31:05PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> >> >On Oct 24 11:22, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> >>upset: *** warning package libguile12 refers to non-existent external-source: guile
> >> >
> >> >Huh?  guile exists in the directoy level above.  Even the curr: version
> >> >number exists.
> >> 
> >> I've explained this a few times.  external-source isn't as flexible
> >> as people may want it to be.
> >> 
> >> The source package isn't picked up because the top level uses an
> >> explicit curr: which makes any other files at that level invisible.  It
> >> doesn't seem like there's any reason to have an external-source for this
> >> package at all since there is an unreferenced guile-1.6.7-4.tar.bz2 at
> >> the top level of the directory alongside a guile-1.6.7-4-src.tar.bz2.
> >> 
> >> I've moved the guile-1.6.7-4-src.tar.bz2 into libguile12 and renamed it.
> >> 
> >> I've also removed the "curr:" from guile's setup.hint file.
> >
> >I don't quite understand this.  In how far was guile-1.6.7-4.tar.bz2
> >unreferenced?  It was the former curr:, now the prev: version.  By
> >removing this package you removed the guile.exe which links against
> >libguile12.
> 
> There was only one curr: in the top-level setup.hint.  There was no
> prev:.  If current and previous tar files were desired then there
> shouldn't have been a curr: in the setup.hint.

Uh, that was it.  I didn't check that when uploading.  I also just saw
that you reverted guile-1.6.7-4.tar.bz2.


Thanks,
Corinna

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