Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.hansen <at> gmail.com> writes: 

> > 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.

I see.

> > 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.

I agree.

> > 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.

Of course, you are right. In my case, everything works.

> 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.

Thank you very much for clarifying this issue and for pointing out how to keep 
the information about the installed packages.


Best regards

esche



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