I finally upgraded my OSX installation from Panther to Tiger (10.4.6) and I can't figure out how to update my Fink installation. I just want to upgrade the packages I've installed to Tiger-compatible versions (via binary versions).
I tried the instructions dated 2005-06-09 on http:// fink.sourceforge.net/news/index.php?phpLang=en, namely: `Users upgrading to 10.4 can now simply issue a fink selfupdate command, followed by sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl (for first-time updaters on 10.4), fink scanpackages and sudo apt-get update.' This didn't work, in the sense that afterwards`fink-version' reported 0.7.2, and `Distribution' was still flagged as 10.3 in /sw/etc/ fink.conf. After some googling, I tried changing `10.3' to `10.4-transitional' in fink.conf. `fink selfupdate' still did nothing (IIRC), so I tried `fink selfupdate-rsync'. Bingo! Packages were downloaded, everything looked rosy. After that, `sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl', `fink scanpackages' and `sudo apt-get update' seem to run normally. I then tried to download new packages using `sudo fink update-all'. However, even though I specified `use binary packages', it started downloading tarballs and then compiling. My cpu has better things to do than compile gcc, and the planet (and my office in particular) is quite warm enough without all that extra entropy. I guess my problem really stems from not understanding Fink well enough to know what parts need tweaking to get a consistent setup (do I have to edit apt/sources.list as well as fink.conf? any other files I should know about?). It appears I may well have such an inconsistency, as emacs failed to compile, with an error that suggested it was compiled for the wrong version of OS X (the suggested fix didn't work, but I decided I didn't need that emacs anyway). I have an archive of my old Fink installation, and am prepared to start again. So, can anyone point me to the `proper' way to update my fink installation? In particular, what do I have to do to make fink use binary packages rather than recompiling? I already have the line `UseBinaryDist: true' in fink.conf Thanks in advance, Stephen. -- Stephen Cornell [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44-113-3432899 Institute of Integrative and Comparative Biology University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
