Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-21 Thread Chris Zubrzycki
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 20, 2004, at 11:35 AM, David R. Morrison wrote: Don't forget to cope with user changes to the sources.list I guess I was planning to prompt the user for whatever additions he/she wants, during the "fink configure" dialog. I think that this would

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
> Don't forget to cope with user changes to the sources.list I guess I was planning to prompt the user for whatever additions he/she wants, during the "fink configure" dialog. -- Dave --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorial

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread Max Horn
Am 20.03.2004 um 17:08 schrieb Peter O'Gorman: David R. Morrison wrote: My idea was that fink should actually write (or modify) the sources.list file. If you update the mirror choices, fink would write the correct entry into sources.list. In order to allow users to include unofficial binary d

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
Hi Peter. The thrust of my idea, actually, was that sources.list would no longer be edited by users directly (just like fink.conf is not edited by users directly). Fink should provide a way to put anything in sources.list which needs to be there, including additional entries specified by the user

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread Peter O'Gorman
David R. Morrison wrote: My idea was that fink should actually write (or modify) the sources.list file. If you update the mirror choices, fink would write the correct entry into sources.list. In order to allow users to include unofficial binary depositories, there should also be a prompt during

[Fink-devel] sources.list

2004-03-20 Thread David R. Morrison
I've discussed with a few people in the past the idea that we should modify our setup so that a list of mirror sites for use by apt-get is under fink's control, just as other kinds of mirror sites are under fink's control It seems like this may be the moment we need to implement this (on an emerge

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net (fink unstable bindist available)

2003-11-18 Thread Ben Hines
There is now an 'unofficial' fink unstable binary distribution run by bbraun at opendarwin.org. If anyone wants to try it, see http://fink.opendarwin.org/ for instructions. -Ben On Nov 13, 2003, at 9:12 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote: OK, I'm awake now: Under Fink, you have to build unstable

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
OK, I'm awake now: Under Fink, you have to build unstable packages from source ("fink install")--such packages aren't released as binaries. On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Hubertus Krogmann wrote: Am 13.11.2003 um 16:11 schrieb David R. Morrison: Thanks very much for pointing this

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread Hubertus Krogmann
Am 13.11.2003 um 16:11 schrieb David R. Morrison: Thanks very much for pointing this out. The binary distribution is currently being updated, and I had missed one necessary step in the update process, which your message pointed out! As soon as the sourceforge mirrors catch up, you should be ab

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread David R. Morrison
Thanks very much for pointing this out. The binary distribution is currently being updated, and I had missed one necessary step in the update process, which your message pointed out! As soon as the sourceforge mirrors catch up, you should be able to successfully complete the "apt-get update" oper

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread Alexander K. Hansen
Did you run "fink scanpackages"? That's what actually builds the Packages.gz files. On Thursday, November 13, 2003, at 07:45 AM, Hubertus Krogmann wrote: Am 13.11.2003 um 13:29 schrieb Hubertus Krogmann: Hi I corrected my sources.list like mentioned, but it failed on the current path when

Re: [Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread Hubertus Krogmann
Am 13.11.2003 um 13:29 schrieb Hubertus Krogmann: Hi I corrected my sources.list like mentioned, but it failed on the current path when apt-get update . packages.gz is not found. my sources.list: deb file:/sw/fink local main #deb file:/sw/fink stable main crypto deb file:/sw/fink unstable main

[Fink-devel] sources.list hint on fink.sf.net

2003-11-13 Thread Hubertus Krogmann
Hi I corrected my sources.list like mentioned, but it failed on the current path when apt-get update . packages.gz is not found. -- Hubertus Krogmann Telefónica Deutschland GmbH Application Managerhttp://www.telefonica.de Databases