On 6/8/06, Stephen Cornell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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.
Originally the fink command only installed packages from source (except for binaries that were built on the local machine). Due to user requests, a linkage between the fink command and the binary tools was added. We'd like to get to the point where we're making a new binary distribution from the stable tree on a regular basis rather than just for major releases as is currently done--that would reduce the need for people to build from source. > > > 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? 2.2.1 is the canonical version that packages currently target for--there are a few out there now that won't build with 2.1 anymore. > > > 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'? > Essentially, but you may need to "apt-get dist-upgrade" instead. > -- > Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44-113-3432899 > Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology > University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK > > -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
