-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 2/21/12 8:26 PM, James Linder wrote: > G'day > > ------------------ Short Version: ------------------ > > I need to reinstall my OS. Is a backup of /sw sufficient. I've > spent 10s of hours building my collection? > > ------------------ Long Version: ------------------ > > A few days ago, after doing nothing except allowing firefox to > upgrade, gnome-terminal failed to start. This describes it exactly: > https://trac.macports.org/ticket/27235 > > I use macports for a few things that fink does not do, or does not > do well. macports wont run and a clean install fails. > > I used fink to reinstall libgnome and gnome-terminal works again, > but macports still will not run. Clearly here be dragons. > > Rather than spend ages trying to find wots-wrong I decided the > Winders-way (just reinstall the whole OS) was the quickest. > > What do I need to backup to get fink back with the least trauma > > Thanks James
a backup of /sw is _mostly_ sufficient. There are a few items that have to go outside of the Fink tree: anything that needs to run on login via daemons, and the "passwd*" packages that govern users/groups. The following command should restore your passwd* packages: fink list -it passwd | grep -v virtual | cut -f2 | xargs fink reinstall And you can determine the packages that use daemons via fink list -it | grep -v virtual | cut -f2 | xargs fink dumpinfo - -finfofile | sort | uniq | cut -d: -f2 | xargs grep -l Daemon | xargs grep -m 1 Package | cut -d: -f3 Unfortunately, I couldn't think of a reliable way to automate this, because some packages are going to have variables in their names, e.g. http-daemon-pm%type_pkg[perl] from my system. Anyway, "fink reinstall" anything from that list that doesn't have a '%' in it. Use "fink list <some substring>" on anything that does have a '%' to find out exactly what variant of the package you have installed, and use "fink reinstall" on that. - -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk9ES9QACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+31gCgl6+qYzjWSRFEbWrKEZYv/ypn U9UAniQHmlravq5a/dJLr7ks0DCeQXqq =RTZ0 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ 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
