On 11/10/11 9:46 AM, Laurent Lecigne wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently installed fink on a new Mac, the default installation using > (as expected) the 10.7 related trees. Coming from a 10.6 desktop, I am > currently facing the lack of packages in thoses tress (as reported on > Fink home). > > Is it possible to switch to the 10.6 trees on Mac OS 10.7 in order to > get back packages I am missing right now ?
No. The 'fink' tool is set up on 10.7 only to see the 10.7 tree. if so, what is the exact > procedure ? > My idea is mainly to use the 10.6 trees until 10.7 ones provide the > packages I am the most interested in. > > If not, how is it possible to get some hints on 10.7 porting ? > > Thanks in advance. > > > If you would like to help us expand the available packages in 10.7, try the following. 1) Edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as a superuser and change the line that says SelfUpdateTrees: 10.7 to SelfUpdateTrees: 10.7 10.4 2) Switch to CVS updating via "fink selfupdate-cvs". Steps 1) and 2) will give you a copy of the package descriptions from 10.4 tree (which contains the packages that are available on 10.5 and 10.6) and will update them on every "fink selfupdate". 3) Copy the package descriptions (and patches) over from your 10.4 tree to your 10.7 tree. E.g. : cp /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/finkinfo/text/poster.info /sw/fink/10.7/local/main/finkinfo (I recommend copying the packages to local/main to avoid CVS conflicts later on). 4A) If a package works for you, let the maintainer know, and also send a message to this mailing list, and we will add it to the 10.7 tree. 4B) If a package doesn't work for you, file a bug report with the maintainer and on this mailing list and hopefully the package can be fixed and added to the 10.7 tree. Or you can try fixing it yourself. I've found that often what causes packages not to build on 10.7 is sloppy coding, since we're using the stricter 'clang' compiler there. This compiler often will tell you what the fix is. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ RSA(R) Conference 2012 Save $700 by Nov 18 Register now http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsa-sfdev2dev1 _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
