On 27/05/2005, at 1:11 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On May 26, 2005, at 8:28 AM, Roger Butland wrote:
On 26/05/2005, at 1:17 PM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
On May 25, 2005, at 7:19 PM, Roger Butland wrote:
I'm trying to transfer tarballs from a G5 machine with broadband
access to a slower G4 with dialup..
I've been trying to follow the method described in /sw/fink/ Read
Me for inserting a tarball into Fink.
Methods 1 & 2 refer to a perl script named: inject.pl.
It does not seem to be present on any of the 3 machine
installations of os10.3.9 and Fink v 0.7.1.rsync
& Fink Commander 0.5.3 available to me.
I cannot find it anywhere on the net, in particular on the Fink
sites. Has it been withdrawn?
Can anyone tell me what to do next?
Roger
Umm...that's way out of date. We should fix that. ;-)
Here's a better method:
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/advanced/bindist.php?phpLang=en
--
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
Thanks Alexander for such a quick reply.
The problem with the method described at
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/advanced/bindist.php?phpLang=en is
that it assumes the two machines are able to network connect somehow;
and that people like me understand everything that they are doing!
In my case the two machines are physically isolated and I do not want
to set one of them up and expose it as a web server.
We have been attempting to transfer files via cd and flash memory.
Hence the interest in injecting software(which can be addictive as we
all know).
As a side question isn't this problem widespread enough to justify
adding a Fink/Fink Commander option to import either Fink tarballs or
deb files from transfer media like cds or flash memory?
Roger
Ah--I understand now.
It's actually not that hard:
For .deb files, there is the apt-zip package, which is designed to do
this.
You can also copy the .deb files to a removable disc and then on the
offline computer just use
dpkg -i <filename>
to install them--this doesn't do any dependency tracking, though.
Running dpkg-scanpackages may be able to take care of this. You'd
also need to edit /sw/etc/apt/sources.list on your remote machines to
recognize your removable disk as an apt source. You're probably
better off with apt-zip.
As for sources--all you need to do is copy the contents of /sw/src on
the computer with good connectivity to a removable medium, and then
copy them back from the removable drive to /sw/src on the other
machines. Or you can set your removable drive as an alternate source
of tarballs (it's an option you get from "fink configure").
--
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
Hi,
I have eventually (A holiday intervened) got round to using the source
method, described by Alexander above, to transfer packages between
machines.
Everything went well thanks.
Roger
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