[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would like to mention two minor issues with the Fink 0.7.1 Binary.
a) If you choose to install the /sw directory on a
volume other than the OS X boot volume, the installer
will also place the bom archive ("receipt") on that
other volume. In my case, it created its own
Library/Receipts/Fink 0.7.1 Installer.pkg folder
hierarchy on the selected volume. Am I right to assume that it should have been placed
it in the boot volume's /Library/Receipts folder
instead? In that case, the binary installer for Fink
could probably be modified to that end.
Hmm...the binary installer really wants you to install Fink undr
/sw
rather than
/Volumes/OtherVolume/sw
You may have found a hitherto undiscovered bug.
One other thing to note is that you're going to have to make a a slight modification to your system to be able to use packages from the binary distribution--all of them are built with the assumption that they're going under /sw. You'll need to create /sw as a symbolic link pointing to your actual fink tree,
sudo ln -s /Volumes/OtherVolume/sw /sw
and
b) I would like to flag my /sw folder as invisible using the DevTool's SetFile command (which is in my path and works correctly). However, issuing
SetFile -a V /Volumes/OtherVolume/sw
gives me an "unexpected error (-5000)." message, and GUI-based file modification tools (I used Modifier Lite) do not succeed either. I suspect that ownership / permissions might have to do with it.
Can someone please advise?
Is your other volume a removable disk? If so then have you tried turning on ownership via the entry in Get Info?
--AH
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