[Fink-beginners] Fwd: Re: Re: Re: [Fink-users] Subversion install fails on OS X 10.3, fink 0.72

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

On 8/31/06, Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> On 8/31/06, Mark J. Reed <mar...@ma...> wrote:
> > On 8/31/06, Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > > Umm...no.  That's the point of the .patch file--it applies any changes
> > > -after- the source is re-expanded.
> >
> >
> > Well, yeah.  Just so you don't think I'm a total idiot, I had assumed that
> > the svn.patch file is intended to provide a place to put fink mods so that
> > the original source tar doesn't have to be modified, but I still assumed it
> > was part of the fink repository data that got downloaded automatically every
> > time.
> >
> >
> Oh!  I misunderstood.
>
> You'd want to copy the svn.info and svn.patch files to your local tree
> (e.g. /sw/fink/dists/local/main/finkinfo).  That's protected from
> distribution updates.
>


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Alexander K. Hansen
Fink Documenter (still)