Just had this conversation, and found it interesting. Has anyone been
able to get a working Fink distribution going on a local network? If
not, maybe some of these issues would be more suited for the devel
list, but this seems like the right place to pose the question. SO:
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Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 18:16:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Matt Ackeret <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Chris Devers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: fink
On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Chris Devers wrote:
> On Fri, 5 Apr 2002, Matt Ackeret wrote:
>
> > How I can make fink install into a shared network directory
> > (e.g. a public home directory on our netinfo network) so
> > others can run binaries from there..
>
> *That* I can't answer as readily, as I've only got one Mac so I
> haven't been able to mess around with sharing directories. I do
> know that people are doing this. I do know that, minimally, you
> can build things on one machine (presumably a fast one) then copy
> the resulting .deb file [which will be in Debian's package format]
> to the targets -- presumably shared dirs could save a step here --
> and run a 'fink install' to unpack the directory and load it into
> the system. There could be room for optimizing and automating that
> process even more (skip the install, just share the executable),
> but I can't say what minor issues would probably come up.
>
> This is an interesting question and one worth posing to the Fink
> users list. Mind if I pass it along? That or you can sign up too --
> the list info can be found at http://fink.sourceforge.net/ under
> mailing lists.
Sorry for quoting the whole thing.
Actually, I forgot to mention some things..
root _cannot_ write to the shared directory. It's some weird NFS
thing I don't really understand, but it's as designed.
i.e. even if we're logged in as our netinfo acct, we have admin
privs on our own (local) system, but NOT on NFS mounted directories.
So I couldn't just do that directory mod thing you mentioned earlier,
because that requires you to use sudo to modify things..
And I don't really want to *BUILD* things either -- I want to use
"dselect" or whatever that curses-based tool is called.
Please don't take that as me being demanding, I'm not meaning it to
sound that way -- I just want to use fink "as designed" EXCEPT that
the results go in a shared directory.
You can ask the same question as I did if you want (please rephrase
it, don't just quote it directly), but I think that what I want to
do is AS DESIGNED not to work -- they talk about almost the same
issue in the Fink FAQ somewhere.
Basically -- everything seems VERY path-dependent in my opinion.
Things like pine and vim can just be compiled, and I can move the
binaries around fine.
If you find out a solution, great! I'd love to be able to use fink
to get third party software for everyone's use internally (this is
NOT my job, I simply got a directory set up a long time ago so
people could put things line pine and vim and such in a directory
for internal-network use).
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Anyone able to shed any light here?
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Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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