Won't work (at least for now). A considerable number of the packages out there require patching to compile on OSX, so you couldn't just grab any old package tarball and build it. For this reason fink's apt-get and friends don't have the full range of options that one gets with Debian.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I am impressed by just how much stuff is available directly through > Fink. I am even more impressed, however, by everything available from > Debian proper. Naturally, x86 Debian packages aren't going to work on my > Mac. > > I was wondering, however, if anyone knew how well it would work to add a > deb-src line to /sw/etc/apt/source.list that pointed to a Debian source > distribution. Would apt-get build-dep work? How about apt-get --build > source? Would the .deb packages it produces install into /sw, or would > it install wherever it would on Debian? Can we leverage the existing > Debian distribution like that? > > --Greg > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
