On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 08:08 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote:
> Thanks, this would do the trick. However, I didn't come across that on > the FAQs because it wasn't next to the question regarding how to update > finks from the unstable distribution. Probably needs updating or a least mentioning the 'fink selfupdate-cvs' command, but I haven't personally looked at the faq for a while. :) > > However, it's still a pain to access the unstable distributions, and > being able to download the debs would be an advantage. Debs are only built for the stable tree and only updated when there is a new release. If you want to access the unstable tree easier just add it to your fink.conf. > > Alex. > > PS 'fink help' does not list 'fink selfudpate-cvs' though the first > time 'selfupdate' runs, it does ask if you want to enable CVS The reason I added '-cvs' to the selfupdate command because I wasn't sure whether you had already run the selfupdate command and had it set only to update fink when there is a new release. Cheers Matt > > On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 11:01 AM, Matt Stephenson wrote: > >> Try the command 'fink selfupdate-cvs' this updates your .info files >> with the latest from cvs. Is that what your after??? >> >> Matt >> >> On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 07:38 PM, Alex Blewitt wrote: >> >>> Hi, >>> >>> I'm using fink to install some packages not in the stable database, >>> and followed the FAQ to move the finkinfo files into the main so that >>> fink install would see them. >>> >>> However, the finkinfo file that I had was out of date with the >>> current unstable version (a new version had appeared) so a bit of >>> manual hackery was required to get the new finkinfo file. >>> >>> On the debian site, the packages have links to the finkinfo-esque >>> files, so that from the package browser you can both download the >>> updated info file and/or the deb file to install it directly. >>> >>> It would be a really useful feature to be able to download >>> finkinfo/debs in this way from the fink site. >>> >>> Alex Blewitt >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________________________ >>> >>> Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We >>> supply >>> the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Fink-devel mailing list >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel >> > _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
