Holger Schulz wrote:
My Powerbook ist currently running with OS X 10.3.9. I'm goint to update
it. I've been copying the whole harddisk to an external drive to copy
everything back with the migration assistent.
What will happen with my fink installation than? Will it be able to run
after that procedure or shall I erase it to set fink up new?
In principle, you can copy your old Fink installation and then upgrade
it to the current version for 10.4, but in most cases I have observed in
practice, upgrading was more time-consuming than a complete reinstallation.
If you are using the stable tree and the binary distribution, an upgrade
to the new binary distribution will upgrade almost 100% of the packages
you have installed, so a fresh installation will be just as fast, and
without the problems that conflicting packages can give you.
If you are using the unstable tree and compile yourself, you will also
have to upgrade the vast majority of your installed packages, because
- some of the old ones simply don't run any more because of changes in
the system libraries
- some of them still work, but not 100% correctly, which can be worse in
the long run
- many of the 10.3 versions don't compile any more, so they have new
versions that need to be recompiled together with their dependencies
- there are newer versions for many packages in 10.4, because
development is now mainly happening in the 10.4 tree
Because of all this, while upgrading is possible (I am running a Fink
system here that has survived a couple of upgrades already), it does not
save you much compilation or installation time, but it adds a lot of
trouble due to complicated and not always clean package
interdependencies. Besides, installing Fink from the binary installer
plus activating the unstable tree and configuring fink to your taste
takes less than 10 minutes altogether.
--
Martin
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