The big problem with turning off unstable is that you may have already installed packages from unstable that depend on other packages from unstable.
Another problem is that "fink reinstall" starts by using a .deb that's on your system. "fink rebuild" avoids this, because it will use the source and package description files appropriate to the stable tree. A suggestion that I have is to try Fink Commander, because it has the option to display the latest stable version of all of the packages. Then you can employ a versioned install, e.g. fink install imlib-1.9.10-9 to downgrade everything out of unstable. On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 08:36, Kow K wrote: > Sorry for a delayed response. I was in a flight to Japan. > > First off, a brief suggestion -- if you're primary concern is with > stability, CVS access is not recommendable, simply because it is for > officially "unstable" packages. Of course, a number, or even the > majority, of so-called unstable packages in Fink run very reliably, it > is not really guaranteed, in my understanding. Anybody old on this list > please correct me if I'm wrong here. Not quite: even if you only have the stable tree enabled, you'll probably want CVS access, because that way you have access to new packages/versions of packages as they get moved from unstable to stable. CVS covers both trees. > > > I thought the behavior of dselect was a known issue. Sometimes the > > screen is a mishmash of characters (character graphics, Minitel-like). > > When I change to the list of packages the screen recovers. Sometimes > > the index (menu) screen is normal and at other times it is a mishmash. > > I'm not sure how well known it is. I've never experienced such a > symptom on my machine ... Could anybody else on this list give a lead > about this? > > As for the following problem related to imlib, there seems to be a real > problem with 0.5.1.cvs. You may want to check out its detail on > Fink-Devel archive. I think it will be fixed sooner or later (or even > already). > > > > > Other symptoms. I wanted to remove mysql because I don't use it and it > > is part of OS X now. I cannot and the suggestion is to reinstall and > > then remove, but I cannot reinstall. When I attempt to install, I get > > the following messages: > > > > Failed: Can't resolve dependency "libxml2-shlibs (= 2.4.30-1)" for > > package "libxml2-bin-2.4.30-1" (no matching packages/versions found) > > > > If I try to reinstall gnumeric, for instance, I get a similar > > dependency failure: > > > > Failed: Can't resolve dependency "imlib-shlibs (= 1.9.14-2)" for > > package "imlib-1.9.14-2" (no matching packages/versions found) You need to explicitly downgrade imlib, then. Try fink install imlib-1.9.10-9 Then you should be able to reinstall gnumeric. > > > > It does not matter whether I use dselect or "fink" from the command > > line. > > Again, my best suggestion is that if your primary concern is stability, > CVS access is not right way to go. Unstable packakges accessible via > CVS are more or less experimental, "bleeding-edge" releases, if not > beta testing. It is kind of exceptional, and suggestve of higher > quality of development, that even such packages are reliable in most of > past releases. So, please don't expect too much about it. > > For this matter, we beg your understanding. > > Cheers, > Kow > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > _______________________________________________ > Fink-beginners mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners > -- Alexander K. Hansen Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center Levitated Dipole Experiment 175 Albany Street, NW17-219 Cambridge, MA 02139-4213 ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
