Dear Fink Developers, As you may have seen in a few recent messages, there is a serious problem with the fink 0.4.1 binary installer which occurs if a user installs using the installer twice. The permissions on the root directory of the machine are altered, and the machine no longer boots!
I've attempted to fix this in a revised version of the binary installer, but I have no way to test this since I am traveling right now. (Also, I created the revised version in a slightly hack-ish way so I'm hoping that it will work.) Could Martin or others please test my new version? The file is at http://www.cgtp.duke.edu/~drm/fink-0.4.1-installer.dmg What my "fix" does is to alter the .pax.gz file with the contents of the installation so that the permission on "." is 1755 in the directory instead of 0700. This doesn't completely cure the problem, because the ownership of the user's / directory will change if the installation is done twice, but at least the machine should be able to boot with the incorrect owner. BTW, Apple has revised PackageMaker.app for 10.2, so I wasn't able to use it to make this revised package (but we can hope that the new one will not suffer from this problem we've uncovered). Thanks for your help, Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?sunm0004en _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
