>> >> If so are there plans to make 'fink install' know about .deb files >> available on the net? I ask because currently Fink Commander uses a >> combination of 'fink' and 'apt-get' which can be confusing. > > Yes, I thought about it (and filed a feature request some time ago to > remind myself :-). But there are implementation issues. The first part, > configuration, is "easy": > > E.g. we could add a global option to fink.conf (and which is set by > "fink configure" like the others), which determines if and when the > bindist is used to install packages. The field "UseBinDist" could have > these values: > never - the current behaviour > always - alway use bindist, but if a package is not available, > fall back to the Fink version > only - always use bindist, never build from source (i.e. we behave > just > like apt-get does now) > newer - use the bindist, but only if its version is newer or equal > to the > "local" Fink version. If the Fink version is newer, build > from > source instead. > > Then, "fink install" honors this. In addition, we could add some > command line options to temporarily override this feature. > > But implementation wise, it's tricky. The "never" and "only" cases of > course are trivial, but for the others we have to mix Fink and apt-get > calls.
I think that it might still be useful to implement the "only" case as it would mean that users are not required to learn about two command with different syntax (I think apt-get uses the commands 'upgrade' for fink's 'update-all' which is confusing). When a bindist does not exist fink could give a message suggesting that the users builds from source. > (snip) > Another problem here is that apt-get can behave very differently in > some cases; i.e. it might not just install our package, but also other > stuff that was previously selected; it can error out for various > reasons, etc. etc. All in all this could be potentially very messy... > hm. > Shame, Julius > > I think this needs some thoughts before much is attempted here. > > > Max > -- ----------------------------------------------- > Max Horn > Software Developer > > email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > phone: (+49) 6151-494890 > _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
