1) Modifying sources.list does nothing: the line you commented out just makes the packages from the unstable tree that you have built yourself known as a source to apt.
2) The order of the Trees: line in fink.conf also does nothing for you: the highest-numbered version is always what is selected. The order only matters when you have two packages with the same version and revision in different branches (stable vs unstable).
If you really want to install the minimum number of unstable packages, consult the FAQ:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#unstable
The last paragraph of that section is what you want. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
On Jan 12, 2004, at 1:07 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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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