[Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
I wanted to roll back from unstable's libxml2 at version 2.6.x, to stable's libxml2 at version 2.5.x so that I can build Perl's XML::LibXML again (which isn't compatible with 2.6.x yet). I thought I could just copy the stable .info file to my local/main area, and since I have local first, it

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Why isn't the order of Trees important? This has annoyed me, too. I seem to remember someone saying that it is now, since one of the recent shakeups, the *reverse* order of the Trees line that is used. If true, I would consider this a serious bug. -- Martin

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread TheSin
it's tree but version is higher, is if there is a newer version in on of the included trees it'll prefer it. plus if you have the old one compiled the deb is still there and it'll pick it. but you can do fink install libxml2-2.5.x-%r and it'll force that one. But you need the revision. and

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread jfm
On Dec 9, 2003, at 5:25 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Why isn't the order of Trees important? This has annoyed me, too. I seem to remember someone saying that it is now, since one of the recent shakeups, Not that recent : the introduction of 'fink index' the *reverse*

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
Martin Costabel wrote: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Why isn't the order of Trees important? This has annoyed me, too. I seem to remember someone saying that it is now, since one of the recent shakeups, the *reverse* order of the Trees line that is used. If true, I would consider this a serious

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread Benjamin Reed
jfm wrote: It is somewhat less intuitive, yes _ and further was unannounced, and undocumented, while this ordering is really an important config tool for users, and there were several previous msgs on the lists pointing out its use. So the change definitely wasn't done optimally. Undocumented

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread Martin Costabel
Benjamin Reed wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Why isn't the order of Trees important? This has annoyed me, too. I seem to remember someone saying that it is now, since one of the recent shakeups, the *reverse* order of the Trees line that is used. If true, I would

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread TheSin
then just add a .1 to the revision that is what i do. --- TS http://southofheaven.org Chaos is the beginning and end, try dealing with the rest. On 9-Dec-03, at 1:19 PM, Martin Costabel wrote: Benjamin Reed wrote: Martin Costabel wrote: Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Why isn't the order of Trees

Re: [Fink-devel] Trees not searched in order?

2003-12-09 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin: It will work if you move local/main to be the last item in your Trees line in fink.conf. -- Dave --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you