-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 3/1/11 11:57 PM, Jack Howarth wrote: > Daniel, > I show... > > ii fink 0.29.99.cvs-20 The Fink package manager > > This is from using the fink cvs to bootstrap install x86_64 fink on 10.6. > I don't see a clear link on the http://finkproject.org/ home page > as to the current recommendations for installing fink on Snow Leopard.
http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php?phpLang=en > If one used the fink-cvs is there a proper mechanism to 'downgrade' > to the current fink package in unstable? I suspect I could force install > it in dpkg but am unclear on how you can force the build of it in the > first place (since fink-cvs seems to have had a higher version number). > Jack > Building and downgrading any package to another version which is in the distro (e.g. from the stable tree) is fully supported: fink install fink-0.29.19-51 (or one can use apt-get to downgrade if an older binary version is is on the system, e.g. when 'cleanup' hasn't been run) fink-cvs deliberately has a higher version number to keep people's HEAD checkouts from getting clobbered by official releases in the same series. The penalty for this is that one has to update from CVS and inject periodically to get updates. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk1uVMwACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ/5AQCfdWKsT6i5m21Llf6+BSHJq0gY WF4AoJwhdePPVLkeNmOx//l+LwINv363 =xW9v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
