Hi Rob
On 08.09.2004, at 00:32, Rob Braun wrote:
On Mon, Sep 06, 2004 at 04:31:33PM -0700, Rob Braun wrote:
I've come up with a patch that does this. I've been testing the
patch locally, but have not tested it extensively. I'll test it with
larger dependency chains later, when I get access to better connectivity.
Known issues: it is not controllable by a switch (command line or
otherwise). The plan is to not have this on by default, but use
a switch of some sort to enable it. I'm open to suggestions on how
best to toggle this. Also, it does not run apt-get update from
fink index, so you'll need to do that seperately. It should update
apt-get's notion of reality.
I just tested this on larger sets, and it fails miserably. I have some ideas on how to fix it though, so stay tuned. Any helpful comments/code would be appreciated. ;-)
Are there any updates on this enhancement of fink?
I just had a very long discussion about installing a package from unstable, that needs a lot of dependencies that are available from fink 0.7.1. The procedure was quite tedious, and it would help _a lot_ if fink could decide itself which packages are available from binary and install them.
It would help daily (non-techie) users of fink a lot and would spare as some discussions about when to use fink and when to use apt-get.
So, am i correct that the problem at the moment is, that we can't tell apt-get to _just_ install the requested package, and not all dependencies with it?
One idea i had was: Couldn't we use apt-get with the --download-only option to download the packages, and then dpkg to actually install them? This is just an idea. I haven't tested anything.
Chris, you hopes to see this enhancement to fink soon, but hasn't time to do it himself.
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