Fink Commander bit me again: I had forgotten that its "Binary" display shows binaries that are locally built on the system, in addition to those from the bindist.
On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 19:30, David R. Morrison wrote: > Hi. According to the package database, xdvi is at version 22.64-1 in > both 0.5.0a and current-stable. Also, if you consult > > >http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download/dists/fink-0.5.0a/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/text/ > > you'll see that the version in the binary distribution is also 22.64-1. > I'm not sure why you got a more recent version; perhaps apt-get was > finding a local deb file on your system? > > It's true that the sourcefile needed for building 22.64-1 from source is > no longer available at the upstream site. The sourcefile for the unstable > version *is* there, though... and for packages which are available in > binary form in 0.5.0a, the sourcefile is always available at > > http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download/source > > so in this case, > > http://telia.dl.sourceforge.net/fink/direct_download/source/xdvi-22.64.tar.gz > > This last trick (grabbing the sourcefile from our bindist download site, > in a pinch) is not so widely known... maybe it should go in the FAQ. > > -- Dave > -- 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: With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibility Learn to use your power at OSDN's High Performance Computing Channel http://hpc.devchannel.org/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
