That's what the .info and .patch files are for. When a package gets modified, the porting number gets changed (e.g. foo.1.2-3 goes to foo.1.2-4). THis is how to do it quasi-automatically with fink.
On Mon, 17 Mar 2003, Adam Skwersky wrote: > Hi, > > That's not what I want. I just want to be able to recompile everything and > then install everything in one step. That would make the development cycle > much easier. Mathias pretty much understood what I wanted to do (skip the > unpacking & patching steps). > > I am beginning to wonder if I am misunderstanding the whole model of porting > and developing unix packages using fink. How does everyone else do the > change->compile->test->change->compile->test->release cycle with fink?? > > Adam > > on 3/17/03 8:32 AM, Max Horn at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Am Montag, 17.03.03 um 10:40 Uhr schrieb mathias meyer: > > > >> to correct myself: > >> > >> of course another 'fink rebuild foo' will delete the source directory. > >> if you want fink only to do parts of > >> unpacking/patching/compiling/installing you would have to edit > >> Engine.pm. this is NOT really recommended but i tell you anyway... > >> > > In fact I would strongly discourage of doing that. If you do it, we do > > not want to see any problem reports on it. > > > > If you want to just avoid having to recompile everything when a single > > source line has changed, then you should go and install ccache and > > ccache-default > > > > > > Max > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > > _______________________________________________ > > Fink-devel mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! > Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and > the chance of winning an Apple iPod: > http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by:Crypto Challenge is now open! Get cracking and register here for some mind boggling fun and the chance of winning an Apple iPod: http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?thaw0031en _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
