On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, Matthew J Hutchinson wrote: > Instead of Fink auto-magically downloading the source for a package > I am installing, why can't I download the source file at university > (onto a ZIP disk) which is much quicker and simply tell Fink to look > for the source locally?
Yes -- this is an easy & common thing to do. The *.info files that describe each package indicate that a certain package file is needed (almost always a tar.gzipped source directory) and one or more URLs where this package can be obtained from. When invoking Fink, it first checks to see if the relevant package is already locally available in /sw/src. If it isn't there, then Fink downloads it, but if it is then Fink uses it. So. You need to look at the info file[s] of the packages you're interested in, get a list of the .tar.gz files related to these files, and then get them all at your school & move them to your home /sr/src directory. -- Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] Apache / mod_perl / http://homepage.mac.com/chdevers/resume/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
