OK-- that almost works. Two problems (maybe): (1) Fink seems to select between the mirrors at random [makes sense], but I really want it to go in order so that it will generally succeed except in those [hopefully rare] situations where the fink package description has fallen behind the rsync version #.
(2) The dialog sequence is somewhat confusing: [localhost:local/main/finkinfo] bbum% fink rebuild rsync sudo /sw/bin/fink rebuild rsync Reading package info... Information about 852 packages read in 11 seconds. pkg rsync version ### pkg rsync version 2.5.4-1 The following package will be rebuilt: rsync curl -f -L -O http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/old- versions/rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 --:--:-- 0:00:00 --:--:-- 0 curl: (22) The requested file was not found ### curl failed, exit code 22 Downloading the file "rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz" failed. (1) Give up (2) Retry the same mirror (3) Retry another mirror How do you want to proceed? [2] 3 curl -f -L -O http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.5.4.tar.gz % Total % Received % Xferd Average Speed Time Curr. Dload Upload Total Current Left Speed 3 376k 3 15365 0 0 10445 0 0:00:36 0:00:01 0:00:35 11624^C### curl failed, exit code 2 --- Likely, this is a feature request-- it would useful to be able to specify something just like what David suggest, but designed to handle a situation where the older versions of a piece of software is moved off to an archived directory. Then again, I'm not sure how many packages suffer from this situation-- it may not be useful to bother... b.bum On Sunday, March 24, 2002, at 02:28 PM, David R. Morrison wrote: > CustomMirror is an excellent way to do this. You should list both the > current and future directories, like this: > > CustomMirror: << > A: http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync > B: http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/old-versions > << > > and then you can say > > Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.tar.gz > > -- Dave > b.bum I ride tandem with the random.... .... things don't run the way I planned them. _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
