At 2:58 Uhr +0200 17.04.2002, Kilian Koepsell wrote: >On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 05:30:55PM -0400, Chris Devers wrote: >> [...] >> > >Type: bundle >> > >Depends: xfree86-base (= 4.2.0-4), xfree86-rootless (= 4.2.0-2) >> > >Description: Prevents automatic update... >> >> 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. > >hi, > >i like that idea. what about a command like > fink hold mozilla
Maybe we do this.... > >which checks for the latest mozilla version, say 0.9.9-4, then >creates a new file hold-mozilla-0.9.9-4.info containing the above >mentioned few lines and installs the package hold-mozilla-0.9.9-4. ... but certainly not this way! That's a hack, and has all sorts of problem (I am not going to list them all here now, I have to go to university). The proper way is to add a seperate file/DB for this to Fink where it keeps track of this information. Also we'd need a reverse "release" or so command. There are many better ways to do this than to introduce fake packages. Still this doesn't mean I say it'll be added like this. Submit a feature request if you like. 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
