> From: Josh Kuperman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [Fink-users] which rm, head, etc > > What is the "right" version of these programs to have for fink > installs to work.
IMHO, fink packages should attempt to work with both the OS-standard install of these packages and the version in the fileutils package. If that is absolutely not possible, they should specify a BuildDepends: fileutils. > I try to make the apple stuff and the fink stuff work using typical > unix maneuvers. (e.g. making /usr/bin/emacs a symlink to /sw/bin/emacs > since the fink emacs works and the one from apple doesn't support X.) That's probably not the right idea, since the whole point of /sw is to avoid excessive commingling of fink with the OS. Inclusing init.sh or init.csh in your shell startup should take care of using the fink versions over the standard versions. > rm - I seem to have two versions perhaps from a darwin or system tools > install, one in /usr/bin and one in /usr/local/bin for now I've backed > up the one in /usr/local/bin so scripts find and use the one in > /usr/bin. I've recently noticed that several fink packages seem to assume that fileutils is installed, since they have lines of the form rm -rf /some/path/with/trailing/slash/ which doesn't work with /usr/bin/rm (Yes, it's a bug in MacOS X, but it's easy enough to fix the packages). Matthias _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
