On 4/26/06, Laine Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 4/25/06 10:23 AM, "Hisashi T Fujinaka" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Does your /sw/etc/fink.conf have the line > > UseBinaryDist: false > > No, "true" appears next to UseBinaryDist. I take it that after changing that > value to "false", then it will be time to delete everything in /sw and > /usr/X11R6 and start over again. I don't recall being presented with that > configuration option during fink installation. Maybe Fink Commander made > that adjustment for me. However, I thought that I would still have control > over the choice when installing packages because I was doing it exclusively > with Fink Commander where I can click to choose binary if the option is > available. I guess that doesn't hold for every single item that stands to be > installed by following the course of action I described in my previous post. > I will try again. Thanks! > > -- > Laine Lee >
UseBinaryDist is set to be true by default for new fink installations. There was a question during inital configuration that asked: Should Fink try to download pre-compiled packages from the binary distribution if available? [Y/n] This behavior was implemented as a convenience to users, since there are a number of packages whose binary and stable source (even unstable source) versions coincide, and so it was decided at the time that there was considerable utility in having fink use the premade binaries when they were the latest version. Fink Commander has never been modified to account for it (Is there an ObjectiveC guru in the house?). If you have UseBinaryDist set to be true, then a Source->Install will still use binaries when present and the latest available version from the active source trees. You can use the --no-use-binary-dist flag for fink to override it on a single-instance basis--as is described in the Fink Users Guide or man fink(1). You can also turn it off and use the --b flag to enable it on a singal-instance basis. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (for now) ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0709&bid&3057&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
