On Sat, Mar 30, 2002 at 08:20:22PM +0100, Martin Costabel wrote: > Some complements to Chris' advice: > > > 3. I noticed that there are some apps which are available as binary > > > but have dependencies that are not available. Since I have two > > > machines with Fink installed is there a way to copy over apps from > > > my compiled machine to fulfill dependencies that can't be handled > > > as binaries. > > > > Can you find & copy over the .deb files under /sw/fink/dists? I've been > > curious if this would work, but haven't been able to try it...
I don't have any .deb files; I think this is right because I'm set up to use CVS and build everything on my desktop machine. I could try to figure out what needs to be copied where by manually going through the info files. I suspect the ideal thing would be to set up rsynce to copy over what needs to be copied in /sw > > If the two trees are identical, i.e. both use /sw as prefix, it works. > After reading the response to my original post I realized I have a lot of options. I have a large enough firewire harddrive which I could connect to either machine as well as a CD burner. The machines are networked -- so I could simply copy files over a network. Since on my desktop I'm already compiling from CVS I shouldn't really need the debs as I have created the binaries. I do want very much for "fink list" and the othe fink commands to report accurately what's installed. What would make the most sense is to create a single site to build and compile separate from the active /sw directory on either machine and then have a means to install from their. Surely, there are other people with more than one Mac on their home network who use Fink on all of them. How do you do it? Perhaps there's someone with groups of Macs in a lab someplace. Should I bypass fink and just use rsync to give me the same packages on both? Will that work with X11 as well? But that would screw up the fink installation. I don't think I can copy what's in /sw and I don't think I should need all of it. How do I get the same version of the same packages on multiple machines, but build only on one. -- Josh Kuperman [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
