On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Max Horn wrote:
> >Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 22:25:35 +0200
> >Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v481)
> >Subject: RE: [Fink-devel] Re: [Fink-users] Calling mozilla
> >From: Jean-François Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Max Horn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> >(Am not on the dev-list, and don't have Chris Devers' email _
> >may I botheryou asking to forward this ? Very sorry.)
Oh great, now the Belgians are after me. I've seen Man Bites Dog
("C'est arrive pres de chez vous"), you people are frickin scary.
:)
> >Create (and install) a small package in the local tree containing
> >lines like (add any number of packages you want to the Depends line):
> >
> >Type: bundle
> >Depends: xfree86-base (= 4.2.0-4), xfree86-rootless (= 4.2.0-2)
> >Description: Prevents automatic update...
Interesting. So a hypothetical Mozilla blocker would be a file like:
/sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo/web/mozilla-0.9.9-4.info
And it would contain... why would it need the depends bit? Seems like it
could just be:
Type: bundle
Description: mozilla blocker
And maybe nothing more. Yes?
It's an interesting strategy, but still kind of a pain. I like the earlier
thought about "--no-update=mozilla", except that it's stateless (have to
remember to do it every time) and it seems like feeding it a list (gtk,
qt, mozilla, etc other long ones like that) would be stretching what a
flag like that should really be accomodating.
Maybe a stub file, or a stub field in fink.conf, can have packages to
exclude from updates, being a wrapper around a hack like the one JFM
suggests [1] of creating a dummy package descriptor, and maybe a new "fink
exclude ..." sub-command can be used to create the list in the first
place.
Or something like that. :/
I like & hate the Apple Software Update way of handling this. "You have no
new updates, but 37 pending updates. Do you want to apply them now?" This
is on the right track, but it's annoying as now done, e.g. I won't *ever*
want all that localization stuff, as I don't speak any of those languages.
In any case though, it does fit into the GUI interface; not really sure
how best to wedge it into a CLI one...
[1] Sorry, dunno how to make accented characters here... :/
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