Hello everyone, I have moved over from darwinports (now called macports) because it is absolutely useless for package maintenance. I'm a long-time debian/ubuntu user so I'm happy to have apt-style commands again.
However, I find that the binary package support in Fink is less than perfect. I would be greatly obliged if people could answer some questions I have, and perhaps correct my understanding of how fink/apt talk to each other. My understanding is that fink is the all-powerful package manager which simply includes apt for binary packages. So if a package exists as source-only, I must install it through fink, not apt. Is this correct? So if I build a package (for example, my favourite package manager 'aptitude') using `sudo fink install aptitude`, does fink build '.deb' files that I could then submit to the binary repository to share with other fink users? If not, how do binary packages appear on the server? Is this at all automated? What I'd *really* love is for aptitude to be the only package manager I need to use... it could grab source packages as they are needed and uninstall source build dependencies when I'm finished with them, and upload binary builds so that others could use them as well. Is this even possible? (I suspect not) Kind regards, Shug ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
