Normally, you can put the sources directly in prefix/src. This is where fink looks for them before trying to download them.
I tried that first, per some docs that I found somewhere, but I found that to be more difficult, permissions-wise, than doing it in my ~/src directory. With my solution, I was able to use scp with FUGU to drag and drop the files (I used ssh via terminal to run fink). I was not able to copy into /src, although I'll bet there's a way (I cannot login as root on the machine at work, the best I can do is sudo and I wasn't in the mood for using the shell to copy a file onto a remote machine). Is there a something I should be careful of in using ~/src (especially considering that I am now serving files with apache)? Can someone get in through /sw/fink to my ~/src directory (and would they have to know my shortusername to do it)?
It was kind of fun because I did all this remotely from home to my computer at work via sftp and ssh! Shouldn't I get some sort of beginner's pin or a chest to pin it on or something...?There is a new document on distributing binaries. Did you read it: <http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/advanced/index.php>
Yes I read it! I would not likely have managed without it.
... It's not obvious, but the reason I did not simply do this on my home computer is that it was already installed. I don't know when it was installed (see previous message about user's memory) and haven't gone back to try a grep search on my logs to figure out why I didn't have this problem the first time (assuming I saved that particular log and that there is any evidence in it). My binaries are only getting distributed one way right now and this file was on the wrong side of that pipeline, so I had to build it.
Thanks for the pointers,
Robert
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