I've been using the symbolic link technique for some time. No problems with it as far as i can tell. This way I can keep all my fink stuff on a UFS partition.
--On Friday, March 22, 2002 4:02 PM -0500 "Alexander K. Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've never tried it. Here are some extra things to check: > > 1) Make sure the Basepath: line in fink.conf (formerly /sw/etc/fink.conf) > points at the correct directory > 2) You'll have to edit init.csh (formerly /sw/bin/init.csh) because it > looks like it explicitly picks /sw as the fink directory. > 3) There may be more things I haven't thought of. > > Another option is to try making /sw a symbolic link to your new fink base > folder. This is officially listed as untested. > > On 3/22/02 15:33, "Koen van der Drift" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> For diskspace reasons and to prevent reinstalling everything if I have to >> reinstall OSX, I would like to install fink on a different partiton. Is >> choosing a different partition for the installation and changing the line >> in .cshrc enough, or should I do something else too? >> >> >> thanks, >> >> - Koen. >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Fink-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > > -- > Alexander K. Hansen > Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University > Levitated Dipole Experiment > MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center, 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 > Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 > Phone: 617-252-1818 Fax: 208-988-4057 > > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
