?? What about another commands for fink - 'make-image <path>' for making ISO image(s) of the given distribution - 'update-from <path>' for installing stuff from CD
Is that a bad idea? I'm speaking for the lazy ones. ?? On Wednesday, April 10, 2002, at 08:44 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: > If I were making a fink CD, here is what I would do: > > Make a package which uses the Apple installer to install a bunch of > .deb > files into /sw/fink/debs and a bunch of source files into /sw/src, > after fink has been installed. > > The advantage is that you don't have to have a high-bandwidth internet > connection to get everything this way. There have been requests on > fink-users and fink-beginners for such a thing, from time to time. > > (Sure, there are other possible solutions like implementing advanced > Debian > tools that can pull stuff off CDs, but my solution is a simple one for > someone who has more spare disk space than bandwidth.) > > Having such a CD available would not exactly make OpenOSX.org > irrelevant, > but it might encourage them to concentrate on the added value which they > purport to provide, namely, providing installation and usage help to > their customers. That, after all, is Red Hat's business model. > > -- Dave > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel > _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
