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esche wrote:
> I tried to upgrade fink from Tiger to Snow Leopard and am not sure how to
> proceed. I followed the instructions on http://www.finkproject.org/ saying
> that
> one must bootstrap fink from the distribution tarball (version 0.29.9 or
> later). After unpacking the tarball I started the bootstrapping operation
> with ./bootstrap. At some point in the beginning it said however,
>
> This version of fink supports bootstrapping under Mac OS X 10.6, as well as
> upgrading from 10.5. However, DIRECT UPGRADING FROM 10.4 OR EARLIER IS NOT
> SUPPORTED.
>
> I nevertheless continued with the effect that everything was installed into /
> sw2 instead of my old /sw I had from 10.4. Combining with /sw seemed to be
> impossible.
It is.
>
> Does this mean that I have to install all the packages I had in my old
> distribution from scratch ?
As it says above "direct upgrading from 10.4 is not supported". The
only "indirect" upgrade path I know would be to update to Leopard, and
then update to Snow Leopard. That seems like more hassle than just
building packages.
Apart from this being tedious, all the binaries
> from fink packages that were installed under 10.4 are already working fine in
> 10.6.
All of them? That depends on what you have installed. I'd expect to
find some that would crash.
Or is there a way to upgrade ? I'm rather confused
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> esche
>
>
You have to start over. You can at least capture what packages are
installed on your system via
dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > installed-pkgs.txt
and then reinstall via something like
cat installed-pkgs.txt | xargs echo | xargs fink install
Keep in mind that some of your packages may not yet work in Snow Leopard.
- --
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
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