dpkg problems

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jan 15, 2009, at 18:09, Bryan Blackburn wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 04:18:09PM -0600, Michael Mensinger said:
>
>> what do I do with 'cd `port work expat`/*'    ???
>> all it did was put my directory to Applications
>>
>> Menz-MacBook:~ Mike$ cd `port work expat`/*
>> Menz-MacBook:Applications Mike$
>> now what? sorry i'm new....
>
> Sounds like maybe the work dir was cleaned, though cd'ing to multiple
> directories should have resulted in an error...

Doesn't look like it; looks like it cd's to the first item provided.

> If just 'port work expat' returns nothing at all, then it was cleaned,

I think it must have been.

> though I thought autoclean only kicked in when things were successful.

That's correct.