Update of /cvsroot/fink/web/xml/news
In directory sc8-pr-cvs5.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv21480
Modified Files:
news.en.xml
Log Message:
announce the new release
Index: news.en.xml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/web/xml/news/news.en.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.42
retrieving revision 1.43
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--- news.en.xml 9 Jun 2006 14:50:12 -0000 1.42
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<cvsid>$Id$</cvsid>
<newsitem>
+ <date>2006-06-15</date>
+ <headline>New Fink release.</headline>
+ <body>
+ <p>
+A new Fink release is
+<varlink url="download/index.php">available</varlink>
+ today: version 0.8.1, which can be installed on either Intel or PowerPC
+hardware.
+The release includes source files, binary packages, and Fink
+installers for both kinds of hardware.
+</p>
+ <p>
+Fink on the Intel platform is still considered "beta" quality, and a number of
+packages (particularly packages in the "unstable" tree) either do not compile,
+or compile but do not run. Work to improve this situation is ongoing.
+</p>
+<p>
+Fink users on PowerPC whose existing fink installation uses the
+10.4-transitional tree (from the 0.8.0 distribution) may upgrade in
+one of two ways. The upgrade process is problematic, due to the change
+in ABI of g++ libraries which requires many libraries to be recompiled.
+Many users will simply wish to remove their fink installations and
+start anew with the 0.8.1 installer. Others may wish to use the new
+<link
url="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/fink/scripts-10.4-update-0.1.tar.gz?download";>10.4-update
tarball</link> (around 12 MB), which includes
+precompiled versions of the basic fink packages as well as a script which
+will attempt to update an existing fink installation.
+</p>
+</body>
+ </newsitem>
+
+ <newsitem>
<date>2006-05-10</date>
<headline>CVS Troubles</headline>
<body>
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