Ben Hines wrote:
How about a "gurus only" option in fink.conf or something that specifies
a list of packages that fink will assume are installed? We could allow
regex in this list, to you could put something like:
IgnorePackages: "openssl.*", ".*-pm", "tetex.*"
Wouldn't dpkg still fail on inst
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "Hisashi" == Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> >> What's the next step?
>
> Hisashi> Well, you never told me how to automatically update things using CPAN.
>
> OK, maybe this will sound snotty, but perhaps "perldoc CPAN" was a
On Fri, 24 Jan 2003, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
> > "Hisashi" == Hisashi T Fujinaka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> Hisashi> The reason I quit using cpan is because it puts things places I don't want
> Hisashi> (overwriting /usr/bin/head, for example)
>
> No longer. And it put stuff there only
Ben Hines wrote:
Dan't blame CPAN, but Apple with their crappy HFS+, for that...
I expericenced, the same problem, of course :-}
No, DO blame CPAN. Why are they putting stuff in /usr/bin ? That is for
vendor supplied things in any case.
Agtually, blame Apple. Apple's perl is configured to p
The reason I quit using cpan is because it puts things places I don't want
(overwriting /usr/bin/head, for example) and I never knew you could update
in cpan. There's probably configuration I don't know about.
Updating in perl is much easier and most of the perl-modules should be
up-to-date since
