On 4/28/02 8:35, "Julius Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Friday, April 26, 2002, at 02:53 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >> >> 'fink install', on the other hand, downloads a source file, if needed, >> and >> builds the package using the C compiler. This is a slower process than >> downloading and installing a binary, but you get access to newer >> versions >> of the packages. >> >> Check the various man pages for more info. >> > > Thanks for your help. I guess 'fink install' does the following: > 1) It installs the deb file if available locally > 2) Else it makes the deb file from source (downloading if necessary) and > then installs it > > Am I correct? If so are there plans to make 'fink install' know about > .deb files available on the net? I ask because currently Fink Commander > uses a combination of 'fink' and 'apt-get' which can be confusing.
Actually, no. 'fink install' installs from a .deb if such is available on your machine in the proper location (probably governed by the symbolic links in /sw/fink/debs). If no .deb is available, then it looks in your /sw/src directory (in a default install) for a source file that matches the most current info. Failing that, a source package(s) is/are downloaded. Because 'fink install' is geared to install from the source distribution, while apt-get/dselect work with the binary distribution, I don't believe there are any plans to integrate the access modes into one command (somebody may correct me on this). Fink Commander just interfaces with the existing fink infrastructure, so it inherits the issue. Besides which, any .deb files you find around on the net are probably not compiled for the Mac, much less for OSX, so they probably wouldn't work, anyway. > > Julius > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
