tom sgouros wrote:
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I am in the middle of upgrading from 10.2 to 10.4. My intention was to
delete the whole /sw tree and start fresh, but the warnings on the fink
page told me that bootstrapping didn't work with the version of XCode I
got on my install disk. I already know of some confused dependencies
Hm, upgrading from 10.2 to 10.4? Takes some courage. You'll probably
spend more time chasing elusive bugs than if you do the erase and
reinstall method. I think bootstrapping works if you use the fink
tarball, not the fink-full tarball. The fastest way is of course to
download the binary installer, Fink-0.8.0-Installer.dmg. Once you have
this installed, you simply enable unstable if you wish and then run
selfupdate and update-all.
that keep update-all from working. I wish there were a command like
'fink clear-the-decks' that erased everything except whatever fink
itself needs to run.
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It would be worth while to look if you have some other really old
leftovers from earlier Fink installations and try if removing them
improves things.
Is there a fink command I can use to identify them?
I don't know any such command. I am actually running an upgraded system
here too (from 10.3, not 10.2), and from time to time I get bitten by an
old package that works only almost. In principle, everything that
doesn't work correctly any more should be replaced by a newer version
when you run update-all, but this doesn't work if you are the first one
to experience a certain bug (and someone has to be the first :-) .)
--
Martin
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