There may be explicit references to /sw in info/patch files for some packages, but I'm not sure about that. Another option that people do is to make /sw a symbolic link to where the fink stuff actually is.
-- 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 On Wed, 5 Jun 2002, Robert R. Hayes wrote: > This is a question for the fink-users mailing list. > > I've installed a new 80 GB hard drive with 8 partitions on by beige G3. > I'd like to install fink on one of these, so that I can have an entire > partition just for fink applications, and so that fink is no longer in > root. My question is: how do I do this? I can tell the installer to > put fink on this partition (Volumes/GNU), and that works fine (the size > of the partition is less than 8 GB), but then I have to, at a minimum, > change the .cshrc, init.csh and fink.conf files so that /sw is replaced > everywhere with /Volumes/GNU/sw. My question is: are there any other > files or things that need to be changed to make fink work in this new > location? > > I'm presently using Adriaan Tijsseling's fstab trick to do this, but > this requires mounting into root, which I'd prefer not to do. > > Robert R. Hayes > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > _______________________________________________________________ > > Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference > August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm > > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users > _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas -- http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
