Viv Kendon wrote:
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I don't mind installing a new fink from scratch so long as I can harvest and reuse the .debs
You can always install .debs using "sudo dpkg -i". You can also use apt-get as soon as you put a line like
deb file:/sw/fink/10.2-gcc3.3 unstable main crypto
into your /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file and make a symlink
/sw/fink/10.2-gcc3.3/dists -> .
Whether this will really work is a different question. You need all the right dependencies and the right versions of the libraries, too.
In my personal experience, the time and energy you spend with incompatibilities and weird bugs is better spent with recompiling your important packages. You will most likely end up recompiling them anyway.
I have done and observed at least 5 Fink upgrades from 10.2 to 10.3, and the quickest ones were complete reinstallations of Fink from scratch (using the bindist where possible).
-- Martin
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