Re: [Fink-users] Installing Debian packages on Fink?

[Ben H. <bh...@al...>]

On Saturday, June 28, 2003, at 01:16  AM, Jonas Steverud wrote:

>
> Something that struk me yesterday was that in Debian there are a lot
> of packages that doesn't contain any binaries, like the ispell
> dictionaries, and it would be nice if those where available in fink
> too. My question now is how much work is it to port these non-binary
> packages to Fink in general?

Check out the fink packaging manual on the web site, and the .info 
files in fink, for example:

  /sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/ispell-french-1.0-1.info 
You could easily make a small package to install these. (and submit 
them to us to include in fink, if you want)

-Ben