On Sun, 2003-11-16 at 12:00, Martin Costabel wrote: > Shawn Protsman wrote: > > According to http://fink.sourceforge.net/pdb/package.php/ethereal the > > current unstable version of Ethereal for OS 10.2 is: > > > > current-10.2-gcc3.3: 0.9.16-1 > > > > So, to update my version from 0.9.14 to 0.9.16 I did the usual: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/net]: sudo > > cp ethereal.[i,p]* /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo > > Well, this is not considered usual any more (not by an official > decision, but as a consequence of recent changes). > > I am supposing that you > > - are using rsync for your selfupdate, and that you have done a recent > selfupdate, and you > > - are using the stable distribution in general, with just some > exceptions where you want to copy the package descriptions from unstable > to local. > > This is not supported any more. The selfupdate-rsync method is too smart > for this ;-) It only updates your active trees. You have to revert back > to selfupdate-cvs if you want to get up-to-date package descriptions in > the unstable tree without activating unstable in the Trees line of your > fink.conf file. >
I didn't realize this (since I just use unstable). A FAQ update is in order (I was going to add running "fink index" after copying .info files over, anyway). > Or you can activate unstable temporarily, do the selfupdate-rsync, and > then disactivate it again. -- Alexander K. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF. Net email is sponsored by: GoToMyPC GoToMyPC is the fast, easy and secure way to access your computer from any Web browser or wireless device. Click here to Try it Free! https://www.gotomypc.com/tr/OSDN/AW/Q4_2003/t/g22lp?Target=mm/g22lp.tmpl _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
