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. <http://info.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
