After having read the recent spate of mail about stable, unstable, CVS,
and "keeping stable in your conf for QA reasons," I realized I was quite
confused. I looked for doc but couldn't find much (well, any, actually)
so I did some tests. Will those of you who really know what's going on
please confirm or correct the following statements, and then answer the
questions at the bottom? (And I'm willing to update docs, if someone
will tell me how I can...)
Thanks very much in advance!
dan
Statements
1. If you list both stable/main and unstable/main in the Trees line of
fink.conf, you will always get the latest version of a package that's in
both, regardless of the order they come in.
2. If you list both stable/main and unstable/main in the Trees line of
fink.conf, the package description found by "fink list" will be the one
from whichever tree you listed first on that line.
3. Statements 1 & 2 also apply to stable/crypto and unstable/crypto, and
in fact to stable/* and unstable/*.
Questions
1. Do the truth of 1, 2, and 3 depend on whether you have fink
configured to update directly from CVS? (I do, and so that's how the
tests were run.) Or is it just the particular state of each of the
trees that's likely to differ?
2. Are there any packages in stable that aren't also in unstable? Or is
unstable always a superset of stable?
3. If unstable is always a superset of stable, is there any reason to
have stable/* in your Trees line if you have unstable/* there?
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