Hello and goodbye.
After using fink for more than a year, and despite some problems from time to time, I thought I understood how to use it and how to fix little problems.
With the change to 10.3 and the latest versions of fink there has been nothing _but_ problems. Installing packages produced files in my /sw directory with foreign owner and group IDs every time (I found I had to
This was fixed a few days ago with the 0.6.2 bindist.
fix permissions after any attempt to install software); fink refused to recognize Apple's X11 and SDK, though I reinstalled fink, X11 and the
This, of course, should not happen, and it should be possible to find out why it happens to you.
SDK three times from zero, each time meticulously following the skimpy directions. Finally, trying to build any of the KDE packages led to messages about missing symbols - and failure. Even trying binary
This is a problem with qt3 in the binary distribution. I have suggested several times - so far without sucess - that the qt3 version from the 0.6.1/2 bindist should be replaced for 10.3 by something that actually works on 10.3.
Until this is fixed, I agree with you that it is wrong to pretend that the new Fink binary distribution works on OSX 10.3.
There are many things that do work without problem, but some essential things don't.
packages just led to strange behavior like amaya starting up, staring at me for a few seconds, and then going away without a whimper. About the only thing that did work was the binary installation of abiword.
I wrote to more than one maintainer, who tried to be helpful, but got nowhere. I read this group's archives and found notes and suggestions about perl5 auto, bundles, force-removing things and trying again. None of it got me any further.
There's nothing wrong with my X11 installation. It comes up, I can run programs.
Perhaps this isn't all this project's fault and there's something wrong with my installation, but I have no way to find that out, and I don't have problems with other BSD/UNIX software. I'll check in again some time in the future to see if things have improved but right now I'm giving Darwin Ports a whirl and so far it's working better, though the interface is simpler and more limited and the number of packages is a great deal less.
I don't think they have managed the upgrade to 10.3 better than Fink did or does. They just have less packages. I think if you take those packages of Fink that do work on 10.3 (and if you compile everything from source, most do), you will still get a higher number of packages.
If you find specific packages from darwinports that work on 10.3 and aren't working on Fink, it would be interesting to know about them, because the porting work is basically the same.
I know I'm not the only one having serious problems based on what I read. I hope you all can fix this and make fink a productive project again.
I am sure you can count on this.
-- Martin
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