Thanks for your response. On 7 Jun 2006, at 16:26, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> On 6/7/06, Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> After some googling, I tried changing `10.3' to `10.4-transitional' >> in fink.conf. `fink selfupdate' still did nothing (IIRC), so I tried >> `fink selfupdate-rsync'. Bingo! > > Ah--the news page presupposed that one was using rsync or cvs > updating. That should indeed be fixed. Which brings me to my first question: how do I know or change what updating method I am using? Or are you referring specifically to *self*-updating (which is, I assume, different from the method for upgrading packages)? > > Binaries are only used if they correspond to the latest available > version--if there's a later version in a source distro it will be used > instead. So is there any way to tell Fink *always* to use binary packages? > sources.list is updated from your fink.conf settings. You can edit it > if you add additional repositories. This is one of the areas of Fink that I find confusing. If sources.list should always be in sync with fink.conf, why bother to duplicate the info in sources.list? If I edit fink.conf by hand, at what point is sources.list updated? Would editing one file but not the other make apt-get and fink behave differently from each other? > > We have no way of knowing what went wrong, since you didn't paste up > the actual output. Well, I wasn't looking for a solution because I decided I didn't need the package anyway (two versions of emacs should be enough for anyone) - I was merely giving anecdotal evidence to show that the system was confused about what OS/version/distribution it was running. > > You can install a particular version of a binary package via the > binary tools, e.g. > > sudo apt-get install foo=1.2.3-4 > > to install foo-1.2.3-4. However, if you issue a "fink update-all", it > may be supplanted by a later version. So will apt-get also install from source if it finds a more recent version than the binary version? -- Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44-113-3432899 Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
