On 20/3/02 2:33 PM, "Rich Ramos" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >>>> If it's in unstable trust me you need to compile from scratch. >>> >>> I'm completely aware of that fact. However here's the current problem, what >>> about this: >>> bitchx 1.0c18-3 IRC client >>> tells me that it's currently only available as unstable? >> >> I don't get the point of indicating whether a package is in unstable or >> stable. If you have the unstable distribution enabled in your >> PREFIX/etc/fink.conf file, then when you do a 'fink list', the only packages >> that will show up are the latest (unstable packages), as it is almost >> definite that if there's a package in stable, there will be the same (or >> newer) package in unstable. > > But I do NOT have unstable enabled in my fink.conf, yet unstable packages show > up. Which is why I want a way to distinguish between them in the fink > listing. > > [/sw/etc] root# cat fink.conf > # Fink configuration, initially created by bootstrap.pl > Basepath: /sw > RootMethod: sudo > Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto > Mirror-gimp: ftp://ftp.gimp.org/pub > Mirror-gnome: ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/ > Mirror-gnu: ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu > MirrorContinent: nam > MirrorCountry: nam-us > ProxyPassiveFTP: true > Verbose: false > SelfUpdateNoCVS: true > [/sw/etc] root# fink list|grep bitch > bitchx 1.0c18-3 IRC client > > > bitchx is only in unstable, correct? I do not have unstable in my fink.conf > file, correct? Yet it still shows up in fink list. > > -Rich No, bitchx is in fact in the stable distribution. I am not sure whether it was included in the stable (binary) distrubution when the latest version of Fink was released, or whether it was added to stable sometime after. Since you updated your packages from CVS, this is then reflected in your Fink installation. HTH. _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
