At Tuesday 26/02/2008 09:15 -0500, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>Lloyd Wood wrote:
>>my selfupdate cvs complains curl can't find fink-0.27.11.tar.gz at any 
>>mirror. Do I have to download and build 0.28.0 myself? (I'm guessing that 
>>fink doesn't update itself across minor revisions.)
>>  
>No, fink is indeed supposed to update itself across minor revisions. 
>Were you trying the master mirror list, or the "original source" mirrors ?  
>There have been some changes in the master mirrors--and you might not have 
>been able to get those changes if you get stuck downloading from 
>non-functional mirros (nice Catch-22 there).  If the "Original source URL" 
>option doesn't show up for you, then try resetting your mirror preferences via 
>"fink configure" to use MasterLast.
>
>I was able to download that fink version this morning from 
>http://kent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/fink/fink-0.27.11.tar.gz .  
>If all else fails, you can download the tarball directly from that URL and put 
>it in /sw/src .

Thanks - downloading the tarball and dropping it in /sw/src worked for me, and 
it was picked up on
fink selfupdate

It's now installed. It looks like I had a mirror problem, judging from the 
number of updates also built.

thanks,

L.

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