Technically, the problem was restricted to dselect. It is fixed, according to the news item on the Fink website (http://fink.sourceforge.net).
About the problem being known for a week: 1) The problem had to make itself known to the developers, which requires user feedback. This took a little time. 2) A bug report was issued on November 4, after the full story was known--it does harm rather than good to issue bug reports without having full knowledge of i) the bug and ii) its workarounds. Your item 2) is completely independent: sources that are under control of the upstream sites (e.g. ftp.gnu.org) can and do get moved around by those sites. Fink doesn't have an automatic way to detect when this happens, so user feedback is once again required. I do empathize with your frustration about having to reinstall your OS: recently my /usr/bin directory went missing for no discernible reason, and I had to completely reinstall the OS. -- Alexander K. Hansen Levitated Dipole Experiment http://www.psfc.mit.edu/LDX � -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Arno Dirks Sent: Monday, November 24, 2003 3:26 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [Fink-beginners] fink safe to use again hi folks, i had that rather annoying experience of getting my users wiped (rather, it wiped my users and changed the name of my data partition on my trustworh iMac) when updating fink (in fact, only really updated rsync). i had to reinstall everything, as following the directions posted here had no permanent effect. i have two questions now: 1) is it safe to reinstall fink; i am *very* disappointed that this happened, it was a bug known for about a week, so i don't see why it still happened. 2) (perhaps related to 1) when i tried to update-all of fink (after selfupdate'ing) i had the problem in downloading libtools-1.5.tar.gz, when ftp'ed by hand to ftp.gnu.org, it turned out that they had taken away the 1.5 version for a while. so why was that not changed in the fink cvs list?! i really enjoyed the fink project, it was very nice with the upt-get and installing form source option, but having to re-install my OS (thank goodness my data was on a different partition) on a bug that appears to have been known is not a pleasant experience. cheerio, arno. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Mahindra United World College, Pune, India Sent using PostMaster by QuantumLink Communications Pvt Ltd One Internet account, unlimited personal e-mail addresses Get your free copy of PostMaster at http://www.postmaster.co.in/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SF.net Giveback Program. Does SourceForge.net help you be more productive? Does it help you create better code? SHARE THE LOVE, and help us help YOU! Click Here: http://sourceforge.net/donate/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
