Thanks, George! How about turning on unstable, installing the needed packages, and switching back to stable afterwards? So that I have unstable versions only of those packages that I can't install otherwise?
Could that approach cause any problems? Ingo > Ingo Weiss wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am in the process of installing Trac with fink. So far I installed > svn > > and sqlite following the instructions at > > http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/TracOnOsx with no problems. > > Clearsilver, pysqlite, and Trac, however, don't seem to be available > as > > stable packages. > > > > Being relatively new to fink I am a little hesitant to intall an > > unstable package. Does anybody have made good or bad experience with > > this way of installation? Is there a better alternative (that works > with > > the fink-installed components)? > > In general with Fink, the only thing to worry about is if you have > enough free cycles to support compiling a bunch of packages. :) You > will have to switch over to having all of your fink setup running on > unstable, as far as I know. This isn't a big deal, I've run unstable > many times quite successfully, and you can even come back to stable > later once the packages make it there. If the unstable version is > reasonably up to date, I'd recommend going that way over trying to > compile all those packages by hand, if you have the time to let it run > unattended. They're not hard to compile by hand, but I like getting my > package updates for free when I do fink update. > > George > _______________________________________________ > Trac mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.edgewall.com/mailman/listinfo/trac _______________________________________________ Trac mailing list [email protected] http://lists.edgewall.com/mailman/listinfo/trac
