[Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Stan Sanderson
I've been reading the recent posts to the effect that, by placing the source tarballs in /sw/src, fink install will "do the job." gimp-1.2.2 has been replaced by gimp-1.2.3. I've downloaded it and placed the .tar.gz file in /sw/src. I chown and chgrp to root and admin and checked the permissio

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Stan Sanderson wrote: > I've been reading the recent posts to the effect that, by placing the > source tarballs in /sw/src, fink install will "do the job." > > gimp-1.2.2 has been replaced by gimp-1.2.3. Ok, while an update to the Fink libraries is pending, you should be ab

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Martin Costabel
Two small remarks: Chris Devers wrote: [] > ...or something to that effect. You should be able to copy each of these > files to a properly numbered version, then edit the contents of the new > files appropriately: > > % cd /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/graphics > % cp gimp-1.2.2-4.

Re: [Fink-beginners] Fink install from local source

2002-03-05 Thread Chris Devers
On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Martin Costabel wrote: > Two small remarks: > > If you do your own editing of fink package descriptions, in order to > avoid conflicts with later updates, it is generally better to do this in > the "local" distribution and leave the "stable" and "unstable" dists as > they are