Hi, Chris-- Actually, I got it going okay!
The project is OpenNap-0.44. I put the .info and .patch files in my finkinfo directory, and the .tar.gz tarball into the /sw/src directory. Then I did fink install opennap-0.44 And it installed beautifully. The only thing which didn't install was a directory named openanp which is supposed to install into /sw/share. This is supposed to have all the config files for the actual application itself, not the install, in it. I was able to simply create it myself, and create the proper files there. It may even be that just running some other part of the app should create those, after doing the install. I'm still not sure. So, assuming I can just explain that part in a readme, how do I create the binary and put it up at fink as an unstable package, so the next person -- and apparently there are lots(!) -- who want to use this program under OS X can do so simply through fink? Best Regards, Jeffrey Ellis on 3/9/02 9:49 PM, Chris Devers at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 9 Mar 2002, Jeffrey Ellis wrote: > >> I have a fink package, not a binary. I have the .info and .patch files >> in my sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo directory. I was then told to >> run fink install and the package name. When I do, it says no such >> package found. > > Were you using the package title, or the actual filename for the info & > patch files? Usually you just want the base portion of that name -- no > version number, no extension. So for example if you have > > /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/editors/nano-1.0.7-2.info > > Then you would install it by issuing the command > > sudo fink install nano > > To get a listing of all available packages, try: > > sudo fink list > > > If you actually look in the .info file, they are typically simple text > files of a dozen or so lines, telling Fink where it can download from, > what package will be produce, what it depends on first, etc. Fink is smart > enough to be able to grab everything it needs for you, but that does mean > it had to either already have or be able to download the source archives. > These are normally kept in /sw/src, not the ...finkinfo directory, and > almost all of them are big, compressed, tar.gz archives. > _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
