Richard Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:31:50PM +0000, Daniel E. Macks wrote: >> Richard C. Cobbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> > >> > Right; I normally use rsync, but I don't want to switch my entire >> > installation over to the unstable tree, so I don't have much choice. >> >> Choice of selfupdate method is orthogonal to use of unstable vs stable. > > That hasn't always been the case, though, right? FAQ Q5.8 still says > the following: > > If you only want one or two specific packages, and nothing else from > unstable, then you need to switch over to CVS updating (i.e. use fink > selfupdate-cvs), because rsync only updates the trees that are active > in your fink.conf. > > And my fink.conf doesn't list unstable at all.
Ah, my confusion...I missed the original goal here. Yes, one of the features of the rsync method of selfupdate is that it only fetches the active trees. dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Discover Easy Linux Migration Strategies from IBM. Find simple to follow Roadmaps, straightforward articles, informative Webcasts and more! Get everything you need to get up to speed, fast. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7477&alloc_id=16492&op=click _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
