At 0:30 Uhr -0300 15.08.2002, Rog�rio Brito wrote: > Hi there. > > I am an a moderately experienced system administrator using > Debian for x86 (having packaged some programs also), but a > complete newbie regarding fink. > > I read the FAQ, but some things were not exactly clear for > me and I would appreciate the help of others. > > 1 - For instance, I would like to install some packages that > are newer than those available in the latest release of > fink, but does this mean that I have to grab the sources > for them and compile them? Aren't they available in binary > form?
Only the stable distro is available in binary form. Note that the unstable tree has many package in newer versions, and even the stable tree from CVS (sort of our "testing" if you know debian) is more recent than the 0.4.0a release tree (which is identical to 0.4.0 anyway). Read the FAQ for more informationa about how to access unstable. Also, "fink selfupdate-cvs" will update your set of package descriptions. > > I'm asking this because some of them take quite a lot of > time to compile and probably other people have already > compiled the things which I would like to have. > > 2 - Connected to the question above, I must confess that I > don't completely understand why fink uses both "apt-get" > and "fink". Wouldn't "apt-get source <package>" work for > building packages from source? That's what I usually use > with Debian... No. We use a complete different way to describe pacakges and build them from source. > > 3 - Does fink feature something like Debian's apt-move, which > moves the packages grabbed from the network to a local > repository in appropriate sections? I don't even know apt-move. So I guess no. > 4 - Does fink has any security updates section, like Debian's > security.debian.org? No. > 5 - Connected to the apt-move question, what is the > recommended way for creating a local mirror of the > packages for burning them on a CD for disconnected > computers? There is no recommended way. I never tried to do it. Possibly you can ask other people around here who did this. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
