On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Martin Costabel wrote: > > 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).
OK, I guess it isn't simple. In the absense of warnings to the contrary on the fink website, I had thought that fink would just sort itself out when I went from Jaguar to Panther two weeks ago, or I would have sorted it all then when I had time. Problem is now I'm up against a deadline, I'll be on the road from tomorrow with limited online downloading opportunities. I'm prefetching the sources where possible, but there's days of compiling to redo all the stuff I have installed and use on a daily basis. If I still had my dual G4 up and running I'd have set it going and grabbed the results for my TiBook. I guess I'll find then mv all the .debs (and sources)to somewhere safe, reinstall fink from scratch, point apt-get at the .deb stash, binary install what I can and see how things stand. I suspect most will be fine, I was running Xfree4.4 before and after the OSX upgrade, so that hasn't changed, I did an archive install of 10.3 so that is clean and I don't have anything in /usr/local. BTW, I'm pretty sure xfig 3.2.4 still has a resizing bug, I'll try to confirm that once I've got my system straightened out and can swap between 3.2.3d and 3.2.4 and the versions of gs smoothly... Many thanks for the help, -- Viv ------------------------------------------------ Dr Viv Kendon [EMAIL PROTECTED] QOLS tel: 020 7594 7746 Blackett Laboratory Imperial College London ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by Shop4tech.com-Lowest price on Blank Media 100pk Sonic DVD-R 4x for only $29 -100pk Sonic DVD+R for only $33 Save 50% off Retail on Ink & Toner - Free Shipping and Free Gift. http://www.shop4tech.com/z/Inkjet_Cartridges/9_108_r285 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
