I’ll try and get around to fixing this up tomorrow. I’m still not 100% on the list scripts so I’ll see what I messed up, thanks for the report. --- TS http://www.southofheaven.org/ Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos!
> On Dec 5, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Dec 4, 2015, at 20:20, nunik...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> Hello, Fink. >> >> Since you stopped supporting 10.4 (imagine I still use it) several >> earth cycles ago, the binary system of said version has also stopped >> working. Now, the problem is that although my fink manages to fetch >> the total of four Packages.gz's, it can not find any of the binaries >> during installation. This is because the URL of any given package >> inside "Packages.gz" is false. >> >> Example given: >> ---------------------------- >> fink install gnome-base >> ... >> Failed to fetch >> http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.4/dists/fink-0.8.1/main/binary-darwin-powerpc//gnome/gnome-base_2.4.1-1_darwin-powerpc.deb >> 404 Not Found >> ---------------------------- >> >> Indeed, it doesn't exist. But if you change the 'fink-0.8.1' to >> 'stable', you'll find it. (Strictly speaking '10.4/dists/' to >> 'distfiles/'). >> >> Now, I only see two solutions for this first world problem. >> 1) I run ":%s/fink-0.8.1/stable/g" and >> ":%s/fink-0.8.1-updates/current/g", and feed my gunships to fink, or; >> >> 2) you redirect 10.4/dists/fink-0.8.1/ -> distfiles/fink-0.8.1/ and >> 10.4/dists/fink-0.8.1-updates/ -> distfiles/fink-0.8.1-updates/ to >> help all humanity. (This is obviously the best alternative). >> >> Thank you for helping out, Fink! >> >> Regards, >> nunikasi >> > > I’m forwarding this onto the fink core list, as it’s an infrastructure issue. > > Summarizing: when we switched servers last year (?), the 10.4 and 10.5 > binary distributions were moved, apparently without rebuilding the Packages > files so that they pointed to the proper URIs, thus the 10.4 and 10.5 binary > distributions can’t use apt-get anymore. > > It’s worth pointing out that these packages were built in 2006, we didn’t > stop supporting 10.4 until 2011 and there were still updates for some > packages there into this year. > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK > Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. > Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. > Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. > http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 > _______________________________________________ > fink-core mailing list > fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Go from Idea to Many App Stores Faster with Intel(R) XDK Give your users amazing mobile app experiences with Intel(R) XDK. Use one codebase in this all-in-one HTML5 development environment. Design, debug & build mobile apps & 2D/3D high-impact games for multiple OSs. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=254741911&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ fink-core mailing list fink-core@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.core Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-core
