Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 11:15 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: The normal way for your *.info file would be to have just a Source line and no CustomMirror: Source: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/%n-%v.jar Ah... From reading the packaging manual, I got the impression that the "mirror::" syn

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Martin Costabel
Trevor Harmon wrote: On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: On 21 sept. 2004, at 08:51, Trevor Harmon wrote: CustomMirror: << nam-US: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/ << Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.jar If you have only one URL for the source, it doesn't make sense to use

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 4:44 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: On 21 sept. 2004, at 08:51, Trevor Harmon wrote: CustomMirror: << nam-US: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/ << Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.jar If you have only one URL for the source, it doesn't make sense to use the CustomMirror field

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Benjamin Reed
Trevor Harmon wrote: But my questions still stand... If a .info specifies a custom mirror, that's a good indication that the file is not in a master mirror, correct? So why does Fink try to check the master in the first place? And if it doesn't succeed, why doesn't Fink automatically move on to

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Martin Costabel
On 21 sept. 2004, at 08:51, Trevor Harmon wrote: CustomMirror: << nam-US: http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/ << Source: mirror:custom:%n-%v.jar If you have only one URL for the source, it doesn't make sense to use the CustomMirror field (there is no *mirror*, after all, just the origina

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Daniel Macks
On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 12:05:37AM -0700, Trevor Harmon wrote: > On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: > > >When Fink tries to install this package, it's supposed to download the > >file at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/aspectj-1.2.jar. > >At least, that's what I think

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 21, 2004, at 12:02 AM, D. Höhn wrote: This is a design choice. We have often thought on different ways to handle such situations. We do agree that manual interaction is the best choice in this case. Hmm... It still seems like a strange choice. I mean, why give up if there are still more mir

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread Trevor Harmon
On Sep 20, 2004, at 11:51 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote: When Fink tries to install this package, it's supposed to download the file at http://download.eclipse.org/technology/ajdt/aspectj-1.2.jar. At least, that's what I think it should do, based on the fields above. Instead, Fink for some reason trie

Re: [Fink-devel] Custom mirror not selected by default

2004-09-21 Thread D. Höhn
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Trevor Harmon wrote: | Hi, | | I'm in the process of creating my first Fink package, but I seem to | running into a minor problem with the CustomMirror field. I need to use | a custom mirror because the package is unavailable at any of the | standa