On 9/20/06, Viv Kendon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > On 9/20/06, PM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> This latest version of fink is incredibly SLOW indexing packages. > >> This process used to take 30 seconds, now it takes over 2 minutes. > > > > That should only be the case for the initial run of "fink index". > > Subsequent indexing should be much faster. If it isn't then you may > > be missing something from your setup, like Storable > > Did you mean running "fink index" (that is, indeed, much > faster) or the "updating table data" step in fink commander? > On my > 3 years old 876MHz TiBook that step is very slow > too, but I don't think it changed that much when I updated > to 0.25 just now, I think it is more a function of how many > packages are listed in fink (over 6000 now). > > >> Also, cleanup now requires options, so fink commander cleanup > >> commands no longer work. > >> > > That, on the other hand, wasn't intended. This may motivate a new > > Fink Commander release. > > Yup, same problem here :-) And I don't fully understand > what the --dpkg-status mode is needed for? > > There seem to be some major changes in this new fink: is > there a place to find a description of them (in not too > techy terms)? I like the automatic "scanpackages" updating > after building from source, that definitely saves me time > and error on my deb server. But others may want to be > warned it also needs internet access again at that point to > finish the job...used to be you could wait until all the > downloads were done and then it would complete everything > off-line. > > -- Viv > ------------------------------------------------ > Dr Viv Kendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Quantum Information tel: 0113 343 3858 > Physics & Astronomy University of Leeds > http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv >
everything should be in "man fink" and "man fink.conf" Also http://www.racoonfink.com/archives/000703.html has a list of the new features. The main website docs will get updated when I get a chance. -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter (still) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
