On 7 Jun 2006, at 18:34, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> On 6/7/06, Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> So is there any way to tell Fink *always* to use binary packages?
>
> No.  You'd want to use the binary tools (apt-get, dselect) instead.

Bummer.  It seems a rather odd design choice, since many users will  
not want to have to compile everything.

> Check that both fink.conf and sources.list have the same distribution
> (e.g. 10.4-transitional).  You did update XCode, right?

I installed the XCode package from my Tiger installation DVD (version  
2.1) - is that recent enough?

> No.  In the Fink world apt-get ONLY knows about binaries.

So does this mean that I would get the desired effect (upgrade to the  
binary packages in 10.4-transitional) with `apt-get update ; apt-get  
upgrade'?

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Stephen Cornell    [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44-113-3432899
Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology
University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK



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