On Sep 29, 2004, at 8:27 AM, joerg van den hoff wrote:
Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
<snip>I thought 'fink selfupdate' updates only fink and some core utilities to most recent versions and 'fink index' updates the list of available packages (which fink does automatically if necessary). this is wrong?No: probably you need to run "fink selfupdate", particularly if you've been using rsync selfupdating.You don't have the unstable tree turned on--not a problem!I have release 040527-2. FinkCommmander shows 021223-1 as the latest stable version. should I revert to that (and if so, how is this to be done? what is the syntax? something like 'fink install fondu-021223-1'?)?<snip>
You could do just that, or if you want the (working) unstable version, you can update (really downgrade) the package--the current unstable version is 1:030428-1.
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Alexander Hansen
Fink Documentarian
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
sorry to bother again.
fink install fondu-1:030428-1
yields "Failed: no matching version found for fondu".
is the line
Trees: local/main stable/main stable/crypto local/bootstrap unstable/main
in fink.conf not sufficient? at least FinkCommmander lists 040527-2 as the unstable and latest version. have I broken something?
--
Alexander Hansen
Fink Documentarian
[Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment
http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
thanks again.
"fink index" only updates the cached package information that's on your system without downloading any new information.
If you are only set to update from point release to point release "fink selfupdate" does what you said. If you have rsync or cvs updating set up (via an initial run of "fink selfupdate-rsync" or "fink selfupdate-cvs") then "fink selfupdate" will download new package descriptions.
If you use CVS updating all of the package trees get downloaded, but if you're using rsync updating only those that are turned on in the Trees: line of /sw/etc/fink.conf get used, e.g. if you don't have unstable/main turned on, those packages don't get updated.
-- Alexander Hansen Fink Documentarian [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX
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