Charles C. Kankelborg wrote: > Martin, > > Thanks to you and to everyone for the good/helpful thoughts.
Actually, my advice yesterday was rather cheap ;-) To follow it, you would have had to copy the qcad info file from the 10.1 tree over to your 10.2/local/main/finkinfo and then try to rebuild it. But this was yesterday. In the meantime, some silent but hardworking (much harder than I) gnomes put the qcad package into the 10.2 tree. Learn about who to thank by doing cd /sw/fink cvs log 10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo/graphics/qcad-1.4.7-5.info > Qcad now > runs (details below). A couple of lingering questions: > > (1) How can I ask fink to build locally rather than using an available > binary, (e.g., will the build/rebuild commands always have that > result?). Yes. Well, sometimes you may have to say "fink index" to flush out some old information from the cached data base. But this was not your situation. > (2) Can I tell, other than having watched for a build during > the install, whether a particular installed package came from a binary > distro, or if my binary was locally built, when? The safest way is to hunt down the deb file (supposing your locate data base is up to date, "locate qcad |grep deb") and look at its date stamp. > Here's what I've done this afternoon: > (1) fink remove qcad > (2) fink install qcad (no package found!) > (3) fink selfupdate-cvs (did this earlier too) > (4) fink update-all (ooh, new version of dvips :-) > (5) fink install qcad (I see it building now, fingers crossed) > (6) qcad works! > > This isn't anything I hadn't tried already... but somehow before it > would install without a build. You must have built it before under 10.1 (or got it as binary via dselect or apt-get, but I don't think it existed in the 0.4.0 binary ditribution). -- Martin ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
