Alexander Hansen wrote: > M. Singh wrote: >> Hello >> >> I just installed a package from unstable that necessitated the >> compilation of gcc43. On this slow machine, this process tool half a day. >> >> Is there a way I can prevent this from occurring again when I issue fink >> update-all or anything like that ? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> > (I have to chuckle at "half a day"--on 10.4 on my G4 it takes 3 days to > build gcc43; on 10.5 it's more like a day and a half on the same > machine, if I recall correctly) > > If you want to keep a specific package out of the upgrade list, you'll > just have to avoid using "update-all". We don't have > "update-all-except"; though a little shell script could do that. > > Or, there are unofficial binary distributions; where "unofficial" means > that the project doesn't control them, and therefore if there's a bad > binary all we can do is try to fix whatever is causing the misbuild and > tell you to rebuild whatever package is problematic. > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thanks for the response. Since fink is so similar in certain ways to apt-get (even has some of those commands), I was wondering if there was something like a hold on a package. I guess not. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
