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CVS import of Fink's package collection
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CVS import of Fink's package collection

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/jrabbit/fink-dists
• Owner: jrabbit
• Created: 2010-05-05T15:01:09.000Z (about 16 years ago)
• Default Branch: origin
• Last Pushed: 2011-07-15T17:01:55.000Z (almost 15 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-05T22:44:16.515Z (over 1 year ago)
• Language: Perl
• Homepage: http://www.finkproject.org/
• Size: 42.1 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README
  • Changelog: ChangeLog

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README

          
$Id$   -*- text -*-

 Fink package tree

===================

This directory holds the package descriptions for the Fink

distribution. When you're reading this in an installed Fink tree, it

also holds the binary package files of any packages you have built

locally. The basic structure is the same as that of a Debian GNU/Linux

mirror. This is because Fink uses Debian's tools (dpkg, apt) for

binary package management.

Currently, the package descriptions are held in the CVS repository at

SourceForge. There are three ways for them to get from CVS into your

Fink tree.

The first way is to download a tarball, unpack it in a temporary

directory and use the provided inject.pl script. The script copies the

description files into your Fink installation. Just run it, in most

cases it locates your tree on its own. If it doesn't, pass the path as

a parameter, as in

  ./inject.pl /sw

The second way is basically the same, but instead of downloading a

tarball, you use cvs to check out the 'packages' module to a temporary

directory. Then you use the inject.pl script as above.

The third way is to access CVS directly. This requires some one-time

setup work, but is quite convenient thereafter. Unfortunately there is

no script to do the one-time setup yet. You need to check out the

'packages' module to the directory /sw/fink. Before you can do that,

you must move the existing /sw/fink directory out of the way, or cvs

will fail. Afterwards, you must merge both directories together, to

get the 'local' directory and the already built packages back.

 Compatibility/versioning

==========================

This distribution is labeled "10.4" because that is the minimum OS X

version (and its standard system libraries and compilers) with which

it is designed to work. The package-descriptions here are shared

starting at that point to include later OS X releases as well (at

least up through 10.6) rather than having completely separate

collections of package-descriptions for each OS X version.

EOF.