On 22 Mar 2002, wmkruse wrote:
> What are peoples experience with Fink and 56k modem?
I'm afraid to even imagine it :)
> Would it be feasible to download required files for GIMP (from a high
> speed access Mac) and put them on a CD to be installed via Fink on the
> 56k access Mac?
Yeah absolutely, I think a lot of people are doing that.
> How would one go about redirecting Fink to look on the CD-ROM?
Two ways that I can think of.
First would be to put all the source .tar.gz (etc) files from the resource
computer onto the cd-rom, and then copy them from the cd-rom to the target
computer's /sw/src directory. This is what I'd do.
The other thing you could do would be to edit /sw/etc/fink.conf on the
target computer, so that you replace the line
FetchAltDir: /sw/src
with something like
FetchAltDir: /Volumes/Fink_sources_CD-ROM
The only catch there -- and I'm not sure if this is a problem or not -- is
that Fink *might* try to unpack the .tar.gz files there, and of course
this probably wouldn't work. I think that that it'll unpack them from the
CD-Rom's mount point over to build directories in /sw/src, so you should
be okay there, but I haven't tried myself & can't guarantee this.
Like I say, I'd just copy the sources to /sw/src if your friend has the
hard drives space to do so.
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