Trevor Harmon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Feb 14, 2005, at 1:34 AM, Daniel E. Macks wrote: > >>> -b, --use-binary-dist >>> Download pre-compiled binary packages from the binary >>> distribution >>> if available and if deb is not already on the system >> >> Note that this option causes fink to download a given package-version >> in preference to compiling it *after* deciding what version to use. >> That's a bit different than considering binary availability when >> deciding what version to use, something fink cannot presently do. > > Hmm... so if foobar 1.0 is in stable/binary and foobar 1.1 is in > unstable/source, and Fink tries to install an unstable/source package > that has a foobar dependency, what would be the effect of -b?
Unless you specify an explicit version on the command-line, fink always picks the highest known version. That would be foobar-1.1 in your example; since it's not available in binary, the -b flag would have no effect. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
