On 2-Jan-09, at 03:47 , M. Singh wrote: > 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 ?
M. Singh, I had a similar need, so I hacked together a python script: http://www.kilohotel.com/fink/fink_update_most.py You would need to make it executable ("chmod +x fink_update_most.py") save it somewhere that is in your machine's PATH. Edit line 28 to point to a text file that lists all packages that should not be updated, one package per line. Then, instead of doing "fink update- all", do "fink_update_most.py". The script identifies all out of date packages, removes the ones you don't want to update, then it creates a fink command line, and asks you to confirm before it runs it. I am a very amateur programmer, so this comes with no warrantees, and I am sure there are 100 better ways to do the job. But it works for me. Good luck, -- Kevin Horton Ottawa, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
