At 8:45 Uhr +0900 09.02.2002, Peter O'Gorman wrote: >>That won't work with a shared fink folder. I pointed that out in my >>original mail I believe :) >Yes, I really ought to learn to read... > >Fink could write to /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available directly (this isn't >going to be shared). >Changing dpkg doesn't seem like the "right thing".
It's not nice, but then we already have to do apply a multitude of Fink specific changes to dpkg. And I don't see how diretly modifying /sw/var/lib/dpkg/available is in any way nicer. It isn't, but it adds unnecessary fragility. Plus it is less flexible - basically, whenever Fink was run, we'd have to check if the system version changed, and if that was the case, update that file. So if the user always used apt-get and never fink directly, the file never would be updated. OTOH, if dpkg "knows" about the packages, it will always be correct. Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
