Title: manual download of fink packages?
Is there anyway to transfer the gzipped source code files that fink uses to compile the packages to another computer? I'd like to be able to download the source packages at work, burn them to CD, then transfer them to my home system.
I tried just placi
Sure, just put them in /sw/src and fink will find them there and fink
won't bother downloading them when you do a 'fink install package'.
Paul
>>> "Fisher IV, Robert W Dr NCR" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
03/04/02 02:21PM >>>
Is there anyway to transfer the gzipped source code files that fink
uses to com
On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, Fisher IV, Robert W Dr NCR wrote:
> Is there anyway to transfer the gzipped source code files that fink uses
> to compile the packages to another computer?
Why yes -- if you've been installing things with Fink, you probably have a
slew of tarballs in /sw/src. It is entirely p
Copying the .deb files is definitely a better idea then copying the source files.
Assuming your hardware is pretty much the same (its a Mac isn't it!) you should have
no problems installing binaries that were compiled on another system. This is exactly
how the Fink binary distribution works. Ju
