On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 16:04, Viv Kendon wrote:
> > Apologies, the "not seeing xaw3d-1.5-8" was due to the
> > "dists" link still pointing to 10.2-gcc3.3 -- fink.conf was
> > correct, but the link had persisted.  I think this means I
> > got the upgrade process right on my dual G4 at work, but
> > missed that step on my TiBook at home.  Can't check because
> > G4 is stuck in a box until October (I'm moving jobs...)
> >
> > I will now go away and get the recompiling done...
> >
> > BTW, is this supposed to be in the FAQ/docs?  I had a quick
> > look in the fink website and could find plenty about
> > upgrading fink on various flavours of OSX, but couldn't
> > find the instructions for how to upgrade OSX over an
> > up-to-date fink.
> >
> > thanks for the help as always,
> > -- Viv
> >
> <snip>  It's there:
>
> http://fink.sourceforge.net/faq/usage-fink.php#wrong-tree

I'm still struggling here...the faq says rerun "inject.pl"
to fix things, but my copy of inject.pl is too old -- dates
from 2002 and first tests for the existence of
/sw/fink/10.2, which I long since removed!  I tried to get a
newer copy of inject.pl by downloading the latest fink
install, but it is too deeply buried inside the package
contents to be extracted (by the non-techie) without
installing the whole thing.

My primary concern here is not to lose the set of packages I
currently have installed, and to keep all the still useful
.debs -- I can't afford the compiling time to redo
everything from source (though of course I will recompile
anything that needs it).

What is the best way forward from here*?

* "here" is the result of upgrading OSX from 10.2.8 to 10.3
with an up-to-date unstable fink on 10.2-gcc3.3; editing
fink.conf to point to 10.3, but failing to fix
/sw/fink/dists to point to 10.3 for a while, then fixing it
by hand, then running self-update, which updated fink
correctly, but half the useful debs are still in the
10.2-gcc3.3 tree so I can't uninstall/reinstall to swap
between conflicting packages without recompiling them.

fink --version:
Package manager version: 0.21.1
Distribution version: 0.7.0.cvs

I don't mind installing a new fink from scratch so long as I
can harvest and reuse the .debs

thanks!
-- Viv
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Dr Viv Kendon                [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Blackett Laboratory      Imperial College London


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