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.

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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 ...
>
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