[Fink-users] Odd fink behavior

[Samuel M . Smith]

I did a clean install of fink on OSX 10.2.1 as per the directions given on http://fink.sourceforge.net/news/jag-bootstrap.php.

I inadvertently skipped step 4 which is to add unstable/main and unstable/crypto to the Trees: line in fink.conf

everything installed fine however.

I caught my mistake however at the first prompt while running
fink selfupdate-cvs

I updated fink.conf to add the unstable trees but repeated invocations of
fink selfupdate-cvs
fink updateall
fink list
did not ever show any of the unstable packages.
finally based on comments on a previous post, I moved the unstable/main and unstable/crypto to the front of the trees line in fink.conf
subsequent invocations of fink list then showed the the unstable packages.

Seems like weird behavior to me, maybe a bug?


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