On 9/25/06, Dan Sommers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-09-25 at 17:51:49 -0700, > PM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm sorry if I failed to find this info in the online documentation, > > but is it possible to tell fink, via fink.conf, to store deb files in > > an external location? Or need I simply do a symlink? Moving these > > files elsewhere would give me more time on this crusty old PB. > > If you want, you can simply remove the deb files. The actual deb files > end up in the fink tree somewhere (I have a script that hunts them down > under /sw/fink, so I don't remember the exact location), and there are > links to them under /sw/fink/debs. > > The tradeoff, obviously, is that you may end up re-building packages > that fink removes. If you keep the deb files, fink can just use them, > but if you remove them, fink has to re-build them (e.g., fink "swaps" > back and forth between different versions of readline). > > HTH, > Dan > > -- > Dan Sommers > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > <http://www.tombstonezero.net/dan/> >
Also, check out http://article.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.general/22257 That discusses methods by which you can move a deb tree and keep it accessible via the binary tools. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
