On Feb 20, 2007, at 11:07 AM, Kevin Walzer wrote:
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> David R. Morrison wrote:
>> Well, what is supposed to happen is that you are asked all of these
>> questions "up front," that is, you ask fink to install foo, it
>> says "bar
>> or bas?", you answer, and then it is off and running.
>>
>> Are you experiencing a prompt of this sort in the middle of a fink
>> install rather than at the beginning? If so, that's a bug; please
>> tell
>> us more.
>>
>> -- Dave
>>
>>
>
> I don't think it's a bug. The system works as you have described it.
> Perhaps it's a feature request.
>
> When I try to run the same operation in FinkCommander, FC presents the
> same query to the user ("Fink needs help to satisfy..."). However,
> there's no way (AFAIK) for FC to capture user input in the little
> shell
> it uses for stdout. So it prints the message "assuming defaults" and
> proceeds with the installation; I presume it's returning a value of
> "1"
> (the first option presented) to Fink "under the hood."
>
Well, this is a FC bug IMO, since the user should be given options.
But since FC is not under active development any more, it may never
be fixed.
> The problem is, I don't know if this functionality ("assuming
> defaults")
> is built into FinkCommander or Fink. Grepping the FC source tree
> for the
> string "assuming defaults" yields nothing. I don't understand the
> structure of the Fink source tree to know where to look for this
> message. Am I correct that this is a feature of FC and not Fink
> itself?
> And if this is built into Fink, how do I configure it?
I believe that the '--yes' flag is what you are looking for. See
'man fink'.
-- Dave
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