That does indeed seem strange--I could understand fink only seeing the stable versions if unstable is after stable in fink.conf.
On Sat, 2002-10-05 at 14:01, Samuel M.Smith wrote: > 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? > > > ********************************************************************** > Samuel M. Smith Ph.D. > 360 W. 920 N. Orem, Utah 84057 > 801-226-7607 x112 (voice) 801-226-7608 (fax) > ********************************************************************** > "The greatest source of failure and unhappiness in the world is > giving up what we want most for what we want at the moment" > ********************************************************************** -- 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 ------------------------------------------------------- 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
