On 10 Oct 2006, at 23:07, Daniel Macks wrote: > On Wed, Oct 11, 2006 at 12:03:11AM -0400, Kevin Walzer wrote: >> >> I'm trying to learn a bit more about fink's command-line >> parameters. Is >> there any difference between running the command >> >> apt-get install foo >> >> and >> >> fink -b install foo >> >> since fink -b will use the binary distribution? Is there anything >> unpredictable about this that I should be aware of? > > The "fink" command knows about all source-buildable packages, whereas > apt only knows ones that are available as binaries (see Fink FAQ > 5.7). So 'fink -b' will use the binary distribution *in additon to* > its normal source package descriptions. And it will only use it as > secondary data for the source package descriptions, meaning "fink -b > update foo" will use a binary if it's available at the version fink > wanted anyway based on source package descriptions (see "fink" > manpage). Very interesting. And between "fink scanpackages" and "fink-scanpackages" ?? (this is the first one to come to my mind _ the terminal outputs do differ _ but there might be a couple more such cases ...)
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