On 1/23/06, Alexis Gallagher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > They should nominally work similarly--but I guess the index generation step isn't working as I would have thought.
You can still save yourself some time. "fink install <package> will give you a list of packages that it's going to install. You can use "sudo dpkg -i <filenames>" to install them from your extant archives (tab-completion really helps here). -- Alexander K. Hansen Fink Documenter [Day Job] Levitated Dipole Experiment http://psfcwww2.psfc.mit.edu/ldx/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid3432&bid#0486&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
