Hello All;
I'm having trouble configuring fink to install packages from the
distributions as I would like. I would like packages installed
from stable unless there is no stable version and then install
the unstable version. Plus I would like to be able to install
various unstable packages that have stable versions by specifying
the fully qualified package name.
I have a 10.3.2 MacOS-X system (panther will all the apple updates).
I downloaded the fink disk image last night, did a selfupdate,
and installed a bunch of packages with the default fink.conf
and sources.list files using the stable tree. Then I discovered
that a package I want to download (nmh) is only in the unstable
tree. I tried
fink install nmh-1.0.4-1
and it failed because it could not find the package. I suspected
that because I did not have configuration files set up properly.
So I edited fink.conf and changed 'Trees' to be:
Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto unstable/main unstable/crypto
local/bootstrap
and I uncommented out the line in sources.list:
def file:/sw/fink unstable main crypto
_BEFORE_ I did the above changes I verified that
fink update-all
believed everything was up to date with respect to stable
_AFTER_ I did the above changes I re-ran the update-all
and fink believed there were many packages to update. I checked
on a couple of them and basically they had both stable and unstable
versions but the unstable version was newer.
So basically, I think I got the opposite behaviour than I wanted.
I'm going to try to change the order of the items in 'Trees' to:
Trees: local/main unstable/main unstable/crypto stable/main stable/crypto
local/bootstrap
to see if reversing the order makes stable packages have precedence
over unstable.
But I would appreciate any and all help here. I'm kind of stuck
but I do want to keep my powerbook based on the stable tree since
I need to use it for work.
Please email suggestions, help, "the solution", ... :-)
Regards,
dcj
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