Hi, I've just installed fink from scratch for someone and came across the following problem when doing fink scanpackages (the same kind of thing occurs when trying to install anything):
> fink scanpackages Updating the list of locally available binary packages. Scanning dists/local/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-i386 Scanning dists/stable/crypto/binary-darwin-i386 Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution. /sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Packages 403 Forbidden Ign http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/main Release Err http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Packages 403 Forbidden Ign http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.5/release/crypto Release [and so on...] It appears to be proxy related as I have had this problem before, but I haven't been able to isolate it so cleanly before by doing a clean install. It seems to be fixed by activating the unstable repository - this updated fink (when I did selfupdate) and now the problem has gone away. Is this really the cause? If so, shouldn't the default version of fink be updated so that it works from behind a proxy firewall? I was trying to install the really basic binary only version on a friend's machine so he wouldn't have to worry about compilation and so on, but that doesn't seem to be possible... Cheers, Richard. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
