On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:14:52AM +0200, Christian Schaffner wrote: > > it seems that you are missing the patch file in the patch submission > item at <https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php? > func=detail&aid=1037296&group_id=17203&atid=317203> > Or am i missing something?
*grumble*. It's there now. > On 30.09.2004, at 07:24, Daniel Macks wrote: > > > >UseBinaryDist is not "use the apt server" but "use the apt server > >unless one has already compiled locally and then run scanpackages and > >had fink rebuild its aptdb". > > In the fink man file i wrote: > > -b, --use-binary-dist > Download pre-compiled binary packages from the binary > distribution if available. > > and that is what the patch makes fink do at the moment: First, check if > the .deb is already available on the system (self compiled or from > apt-get). Then, if it is not available already, check with > PkgVersion::is_aptgetable() to see if the deb could be downloaded. [...] > But you are correct, --use-binary-dist means: Download from the binary > dist, if available on the server and if deb is not already on the > system. > > Does that answer your reservation? Or were you talking about something > else? That's exactly what I'm talking about. My concern is that the "if deb is not already on the system" isn't documented. Consider the XCode-1.5 fiasco. Say a user builds a package, and we tell him "the package you built is broken". If he reads "-b downloads from dist server", he's gonna be pretty confused when he tries to use that to get himself a non-broken package and instead winds up with the one he just (mis)compiled. [check for locally-built .deb first] > And i think that is how it should be. There might be other opinions, > though. > > Or we might even add a future switch that says something like > '--use-only-bin-dist'. Yup. Would just have to pass flags to apt-get to only look in certain distributions. This functionality currently exists in the docs, but appears broken in practice... arts-dev is 1.1.4-22 in bindist, and sw/etc/apt/sources.list has deb http://us.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download 10.3/release main crypto but sudo apt-get install arts-dev/10.3/release Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done E: Release '10.3/release' for 'arts-dev' was not found dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: IT Product Guide on ITManagersJournal Use IT products in your business? Tell us what you think of them. Give us Your Opinions, Get Free ThinkGeek Gift Certificates! Click to find out more http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/guidepromo.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
