Am 04.04.2005 um 16:01 schrieb Alexander K. Hansen:
This just installs whatever is in the binary distribution. It won't save you from recompiling if there's a later version in the stable source tree (or unstable if you have that turned on) and you run "fink update-all".
That's odd. So if I once decided to use something from the unstable tree because it is not available as a binary package, I won't get rid of that later.
That's not true. Like Alexander said, if you install foo-1.3-4 from unstable/source, and then later add 1.2-5 from binary, what you will be running is 1.2. ONLY if foo-1.4 is added to unstable and you then choose to do an update-all will foo-1.4 unstable/source be running on your system. If you don't update to foo-1.4, then you'll happily keep using foo-1.2 (from binary). If at a later time foo-1.3 becomes available in binary format, then updating using stable/binary WILL switch you from foo-1.2 to foo-1.3. But that's only if you update. Nothing forces you to update either to a new binary or to a newer source.
Hanspeter
-- Hanspeter Niederstrasser, Ph.D. Dept. of Cell Biology hniederstrasser at cellbiology.wustl.edu Campus Box 8228 Cooper Lab 660 South Euclid Avenue Washington University in St. Louis St. Louis, MO 63110
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