On Sep 12, 2004, at 2:57 AM, mathias meyer wrote:
yes, it does exist. first of all you should run a 'fink selfupdate'. this gets you the newest package descriptions. to get access to the unstable packages you first have to enable the unstable tree, as mentioned in the fink docs.
Well, I ran "fink selfupdate", but I skipped "fink update-all" because I didn't want to recompile everything from source, just Ant. Instead, I ran "fink install ant". Unfortunately, Ant failed to build under Fink -- even though I can build it just fine myself from the exact same package source. I guess the next step is to contact the maintainer.
I had actually tried running "fink selfupdate" some time ago, but it screwed up a bunch of things. I think that's because after running "fink selfupdate", it gave me a message saying I should run "fink update-all", which I believe upgrades all installed packages to the latest unstable version. This, of course, is dangerous.
There's another problem here, by the way: The Ant binary shown in FinkCommander is 1.6.0, while the unstable one is 1.6.2. What if I wanted to install 1.6.1? There doesn't seem to be any way to do this from FinkCommander; what about from the command line? Thanks,
Trevor
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