On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 09:01:51PM -0400, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: > On 8/4/06, David Fang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Is there a way to revert a package version to a version > > > > > that's not > > > > > listed? For example, autoconf-2.59 is no longer available as it has > > > > > been > > > > > replaced by autoconf-2.60, and dumpinfo only shows 2.60. I can't find > > > > > 2.59 in the stable tree either. (Unfortunately, the upgrade has > > > > > caused > > > > > some serious grief and breakage for a project of mine.) Hopefully, > > > > > I'd > > > > > only need to do this temporarily until I diagnose the exact problem > > > > > before > > > > > devising a workaround to allow use of the new version, so momentary > > > > > incoherence in my fink installation is acceptable. > > > > > > > > You can download the older version via CVS, e.g. the ViewCVS interface: > > > > > > > > http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/fink/dists/10.4/stable/main/finkinfo/devel/autoconf.info?view=log > > > > > > > > --maybe rename the .info file to be autoconf-1.59-<revision>.info > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Alexander K. Hansen > > > > Fink Documenter (still) > > > > > > > > > > I should add that you'd want to download the (renamed) file to > > > /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo, and then you can do > > > > > > fink install autoconf-2.59-<revision> > > > > > > (I don't remember what the last revision was, right off the top of my > > > head) > > > > So I did something similar: > > > > in .../finkinfo/devel/: > > cvs update -r1.2 autoconf2.5.info > > mv autoconf.info autoconf.info.bkp > > mv autoconf2.5.info autoconf.info > > [hand-edit the new autoconf.info to make package name match (was "2.5")] > > fink selfupdate > > fink install autoconf-2.59-7 > > > > I did this to avoid perturbing the automake1.9.info (which I also need) > > which shows a dependency on autoconf, not autoconf2.5. (There was a > > momentary mess in trying to remove the installed package, but blocked by > > the dependency.) Now a dumpinfo shows that the debs for autoconf-2.60-4 > > and 2.59-7 are both available, so I should be able to switch between them > > via install. I think the only problem will arise when autoconf.info is > > updated, but I can at least repeat the above steps. > > Yeah. That's why I suggested either naming it with the version and > revision and/or putting it in the local tree.
Note that the filename doesn't really matter at all...just the Package Version Revision fields in the file. Also, if you previously had the version you want, the binary ".deb" archive for it may still be on your system (in /sw/fink/debs, perhaps?), and you can 'dpkg -i' to install that binary archive. You can use dpkg to install binary packages even if there is no .info (meaning that 'fink' can't see them). dan -- Daniel Macks [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.netspace.org/~dmacks ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
