Hi John,
On May 24, 2005, at 5:00 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On May 24, 2005, at 7:12 AM, John Carter wrote:
Hi all,
I naively decided to update some of my fink packages after installing
Tiger 10.4.1 on my Powerbook. I updated the Geant4 package, which in
turn updated the CLHEP package. The problem is that all my Geant4
code has been written using the previous versions of Geant4 and
CLHEP, and more importantly - the previous version of gcc (version
3.3).
If I try to compile my code with gcc 4.0 I get a lot of compile
errors and mising files, etc. My code consists of around 2000 files
and I don't really have the time to migrate to gcc 4 yet (and besides
that, none of my users have this version yet), so I used gcc_select
to revert back to 3.3. The problem is that I don't think the newer
versions of CLHEP and Geant4 like working with this version of gcc.
So I again get lots of compile errors - most of which are minor
convention/standard changes.
So my question is: can I undo the package updates? I want to go BACK
to the versions of CLHEP and Geant4 that I originally had with
Panther! Is this possible? Or is it the case that once you upgrade a
package there is no return??
Kind Regards,
John Carter
Sans an operating system update, you could do this relatively easily;
fink install <package-version-revision>
e.g "fink install foo-1.2.3-4"
However, with an OS update life is more difficult--since the 10.3
package descriptions aren't accessible to you anymore.
If you still have the .deb files for the older versions (i.e. you
didn't remove your 10.3 tree yet) you can manually install the older
binaries:
sudo dpkg -i <filename>
They _may_ run on Tiger, but no guarantees there. You may want to
contact the package maintainer, too.
The maintainer is reading fink beginners (-;
Anyway, I do not understand why the geant4 package is being updated
when you switched to Tiger. In both the 10.3 and 10.4-transitional
(both only in unstable tree), there is geant4 4.6.2-11, which has not
been updated since 2004/12/15 05:25:43. I haven't even tried to compile
geant4 myself on Tiger - you are probably the first one (-;
Concerning CLHEP, there is the same version 1.9.1.2-14 in both trees
which is essentially unchanged since Dec 12 2004, too. The last
revision bump was on 2005/05/02 which tweaked the latex source to allow
the documentation being built with the newest tetex. But that does not
affect any of the libraries/headers of course.
Thus, there is no point to look for deb files under 10.3, unless you
haven't updated geant4/CLHEP on your 10.3 system since Dec 2004.
I don't have access to a Tiger system right now, but will test geant4
once I find some time.
Cheers,
Remi
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