Richard Cobbe wrote:
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.
Richard
This language was really intended to stave off mass package updates via
"fink update-all". One can turn the unstable tree completely on in
fink.conf, run an rsync selfupdate, install a package from the unstable
tree (and any versioned dependencies for it), then turn unstable off.
CVS updating was advocated in this case mainly because it updates all of
the trees (though in this case you may have to install versioned
dependencies manually).
The ViewCVS module (http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/fink/dists/)
lets you download the individual package .info and .patch files
regardless of what update method you use--we don't list it as a
preferred method mainly because it takes more effort on the user's part.
--AH
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