I made two spare versions of fink.conf; one is set up for stable, the other for unstable. If I want to switch I just copy the appropriate file over the real fink.conf.
-- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University Levitated Dipole Experiment MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 On Thu, 28 Mar 2002, Eric Dufour wrote: > I recently tried to use few unstable releases from fink and discovered > that they were not so harmfull, the worst that arose is impossible to > install / impossible to use package(nautilus for example). Thus i > decided to add unstable to my config. > However I would like to be able to know via "fink list" if I am > installing an unstable or a stable package. Can�t it be signaled > somehow ? > Furthermore I am really afraid to do any update-all now: if several of > the updates can come from an unstable and something goes wrong it�ll be > impossible to identify the precise 'bad guy'. Can�t there be an option > like selfupdate-safe and update-all-safe ? > > Please forgive me if these options already exist & I was to stupid/lazy > to find the good f.a.q./how to on the fink website. > > Eric DUFOUR > > PS: for the moment I�m just editing fink.conf 4-5 times a week & it�s ... > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
