At 8:50 Uhr -0400 03.06.2002, David R. Morrison wrote:
>I'm thinking of adding a line or two to the "status" section on fink's
>homepage to address the changes we made after sourceforge changed their
>mirroring.  Here's a possible draft of something to say:
>
>STATUS
>
>Fink 0.4.0 was released on 18 April 2002.  Since the mirroring system at
>sourceforge.net was changed after that date, if you are using fink's
>source mode, be sure to run "fink selfupdate-cvs" immediately after
>installing Fink 0.4.0.
>
>
>Any comments about this?  A different thing to say?

Sounds good.


>  I believe that binary-only users are not affected, is that correct?

Yes. For now. Before we move over the bindist to the new location, 
the new apt package must first be in stable, and a new FInk major 
release be made, and even then the old location will stick around for 
some time more to allow everybody to transit smoothly.


>  The other thing we could comment
>about is the fact that the bootstrap doesn't work now, again due to the
>mirroring change, but I thought that might be getting into too much detail
>for the homepage.

You can write a seperate page and link it from a News entry, if you like.


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