On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 23:11:11 -0700, Ersatz Sophist
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Fink Commander is a great gui for fink. You choose "fetch" from the
> "source" menu, and all the packages that you have highlighted get
> downloaded to /sw/src You can then transfer them to the /sw/src on the
> isolated computer any way you choose.
> 
>  From the command prompt, you can type "fink fetch [package name]" or
> "fink fetch-all". Since you are trying to get stuff to the isolated
> computer, you may want to try fetch-all. This, of course, will take a
> hell of a long time, but this is probably a better option than fetching
> an individual package because fetch by itself will NOT download all the
> dependencies.
> 
> If you have some packages downloaded already, use "fink fetch-missing"
> to download the remaining packages only.
> 
> Payam
> ---
> "Now I have no objection to incompetence, but I do object when
> incompetence is accompanied by boredom and self-righteousness." Paul
> Feyerabend

I don't have another Mac to install Fink on so this idea won't work
for me.  Is there some way to use rsync to grab all the packages
manually?

Robert


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