On Friday, February 29, 2008, at 11:13AM, "Alexander Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Ben Abbott wrote: >> On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote: >>> >>> Ben Abbott wrote: >>> > I'm running OS X 10.4.11 (PPC) behind a corporate firewall, with no >>> > external excess to cvs or rysnc :-( >>> > >>> > So I downloaded to fink-0.28.0.tar.gz, unpacked and ran ./inject.pl >>> > >>> > It all appeared to go ok. However, when I attempted a *UPDATE-ALL* I >>> > got the message below. >>> > >>> > WARNING: unable to determine last selfupdate time. You should run >>> > 'fink selfupdate' to get the latest package descriptions. >>> > No packages to install >>> > >>> > In the event it may be relevant the output from inject.pl is below. >>> > >>> > Any ideas what I might do to get back up an running? >>> > >>> > Ben >>> > >>> > >>> I don't think inject.pl does everything that a selfupdate would. As >>> best as I can tell, that just updates fink itself. A few ideas: >>> >>> Can you get binaries? >>> >>> Have you tried the cvs-proxy package? >>> >>> Also, if you can get binaries, you could use an unofficial binary >>> distribution: http://fink.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/item/14 >>> >> Alex, >> >> I've read over the link, but couldn't understand how it can effect my >> fink selfupdate problem. >> >> Then I reread my post and noticed a typo. It should have read >> >>> > It all appeared to go ok. However, when I attempted a *UPDATE-ALL* I >>> > got the message below. >>> > >>> > WARNING: unable to determine last selfupdate time. You should run >>> > 'fink selfupdate' to get the latest package descriptions. >>> > No packages to install >> >> Sorry for the confusion. Any thoughts? >> >> Ben >> >[oops--replied to the moderation message. D'oh!] > >Actually I figured that. If you set up to use the Todai repository, you >can download _binaries_, provided that your firewall will tolerate your >doing that. Instead of doing "fink selfupdate ; fink-update-all" to >update, you'll do "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get dist-upgrade". > >Basically if you can't get cvs or rsync to go, there's not currently a >viable "fink selfupdate" mechanism, so downloading binaries via http is >probably what you're stuck with. The todai site has a good fraction of >10.4/unstable available. >
ok! I made the changes to my fink configuration. So what I'll do going forward is (1) download the tarballs for fink updates and run the .inject.pl (2) sudo apt-get update (3) sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I'm about 10% of the way through (3) and all looks good! Thanks Ben ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
