Hi, Thanks - I hadn't realised that apt had just been updated. I have been having problems with proxies for a while, but not yesterday on my own machine when I was comparing settings with this new installation, so if it's a result of the apt update in unstable, excellent! Thanks very much, because it was annoying working around it. Sorry to hear it's difficult to update the binary distribution though, it seems like a pretty important thing to introduce as it makes use behind a proxy impossible for beginners (or at least there should be a comment saying that unstable is required for proxy use) - I'll try the unstable apt repository though,
Cheers, Richard. On 3 Apr 2009, at 17:05, Alexander Hansen wrote: > Richard Reeve wrote: >> 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? > The apt package was updated a couple of weeks ago in unstable. >> If so, shouldn't the default version >> of fink be updated so that it works from behind a proxy firewall? >> >> > As I said, the apt package was updated just a couple of weeks ago, > and I > believe your message is the first positive feedback about the change. >> 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. >> >> > It's currently nontrivial for us to update the official binary > distribution. > > However, there is the option of an unofficial[1] one. Adding the > following line to /sw/etc/apt/sources.list: > > deb http://fink.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/apt/10.5 unstable main crypto > > followed by a "sudo apt-get update" gives you access to most of the > current packages in the unstable tree. > > [1] "Unofficial" means: > The Fink project doesn't control the server, so don't bother us if > it goes down. > We can only affect how the packages are built through our usual > update process, so if you have a problem with a mis-built > package, all we can say is "build the updated version yourself or wait > for it." > > -- > Alexander Hansen > Fink User Liaison > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list [email protected] http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
