Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
Ugh. I think I made a couple of errors here.
> [snip ...]
If you use
file:/sw.old/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/utils/
for example, to access all of the .debs in the utils section, I think
that would work, if you
2) run "fink scanpackages" after building to generate the file lists
that apt-get uses--I should have had you do this.
Here's an easier idea. Try adding
deb file:/sw.old/fink stable main crypto
deb file:/sw.old/fink unstable main crypto
again. Then run "fink scanpackages" and see if that registers the old .debs.
I tried it two ways using the libtiff package. This exists in graphics/,
has only two depenencies that also exist in graphics/, and I could
verify that I had the old .deb files from all the packages. I verified
that the fink revision of my .debs was the same one listed by "fink install"
First I tried prepending the two lines above, running fink "scan
packages" and then installing the package. It still tried to download
from the net rather than finding my old .deb files. Then I tried
prepending an absolute path to the directory with the old .deb files.
That also didn't work. I'm not sure if this makes a difference, but I'm
running the unstable tree instead of stable.
Any other ideas?
At this point my instinct is to take the output from the "fink list
--installed" of the old system and just pipe that into "fink install"
for the new system, and leave it running for about 12 hours to recompile
everything. The only problem is that 1) I'm pretty sure fink would choke
trying to process all the dependencies, and 2) I don't think there's a
command line argument to tell fink to automatically choose smart
defaults for package configuration options and for retrying repositories
that are not visible. So it seems like I'd have to babysit it all day..
Thanks for your help with this. I have some experience with apt-get on
Debian but it's still quite tricky to understand how fink works.
alexis
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