if this is the case I think we should look into this? anyone else see this yet?
Okay, I think I found the problem. After trying everything short of reinstalling from scratch (threw out preferences, removed packages, etc.) I ran "fink configure" and when it asked what alternate directory to look for sources, it had a [] for the default. Humm, I set it to /sw/src and it added a "FetchAltDir: /sw/src" line to my fink.conf file. That did the trick. Checking on my other system, it too had this line in the fink.conf file. I don't quite understand why this is an alternate directory, isn't this the default location for fink? In any case, it didn't seem to make any difference to the command line tools, but it made a big difference to FinkCommander. This seems like a bug report or a new feature request to have FinkCommander default to the /sw/src for source tarballs. --DanOkay, I think I found the problem.
After trying everything short of reinstalling from scratch (threw out preferences, removed packages, etc.) I ran "fink configure" and when it asked what alternate directory to look for sources, it had a [] for the default. Humm, I set it to /sw/src and it added a "FetchAltDir: /sw/src" line to my fink.conf file. That did the trick. Checking on my other system, it too had this line in the fink.conf file.
I don't quite understand why this is an alternate directory, isn't this the default location for fink? In any case, it didn't seem to make any difference to the command line tools, but it made a big difference to FinkCommander.
This seems like a bug report or a new feature request to have FinkCommander default to the /sw/src for source tarballs.
--Dan
