On 8/2/13 3:27 AM, Thomas Schneider wrote: >>From the fink home page: > > http://fink.thetis.ig42.org/index.php?phpLang=en > > I want to learn about available packages so in the 'Sections' on the left > I click on 'Packages' to get to > > http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/index.php?phpLang=en > > This does not respond for a long time and then gives: > > ------ > > ERROR > The requested URL could not be retrieved > > The following error was encountered while trying to retrieve the URL: > http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/index.php? > > Read Error > > The system returned: (104) Connection reset by peer > > An error condition occurred while reading data from the network. Please retry > your request. > > Generated Fri, 02 Aug 2013 10:07:27 GMT > > ------ > > Looks like the website is broken? >
Yeah, this is an ongoing issue. The backup site doesn't run its own copy of the package database scripts. > Also, I had trouble listing wget: > > fink list wget > > for a while, but it seem ok now: > > % fink list wget > Information about 7749 packages read in 2 seconds. > p gnu-wget [virtual package] > i wget 1.14-2 Automatic web site retriever (SSL) > wget-gnutls 1.14-2 Automatic web site retriever (SSL) > wget-gnutls-idn 1.14-2 Automatic web site retriever (SSL) > wget-idn 1.14-2 Automatic web site retriever (SSL) > > Was there a problem with that or was it just that I didn't have fink > fully installed yet? > There's no way to tell definitively, but my guess is that you first checked before you downloaded a set of package descriptions. > Tom > > Thomas D. Schneider, Ph.D. > Senior Investigator > National Institutes of Health > National Cancer Institute > Center for Cancer Research > Gene Regulation and Chromosome Biology Laboratory > Molecular Information Theory Group > Frederick, Maryland 21702-1201 > schne...@mail.nih.gov > http://schneider.ncifcrf.gov/(current link) > http://alum.mit.edu/www/toms (permanent link) > -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ 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
