I have recently downloaded a new installation of fink
fink-0.8.0-full-XCode-2.1
on
MacOSX 10.4.2
All was working fine - packages installing, fink selfupdating and packages updating
I then decided to try a package 'worker' from unstable using the info in the FAQ:
Q5.8: There's this package in unstable that I want to install, but the fink command just says 'no package found'. How can I install it?
A: First make sure you understand what 'unstable' means. Packages in the unstable tree are not in stable for any number of reasons. It could be because there are known issues, validation errors, or just not enough people giving feedback that the package works for them. For that reason, Fink doesn't search the unstable tree by default.
If you do enable unstable, please remember to e-mail the maintainer if something works (or even if it doesn't). Feedback from users like you is what we use to determine if something is ready for stable! To find out the maintainer of a package, run fink info packagename.
To configure Fink to use unstable, edit /sw/etc/fink.conf, add unstable/main and unstable/crypto to the Trees: line, and then run fink selfupdate; fink index; fink scanpackages.
Also note, if you don't want to install any more from unstable than your specific packages and its dependencies, don't use the update-all command until you turn the unstable tree back off.
I did exactly as stated in the FAQ and worker installed fine. However, I then turned off unstable (removed unstable/main and unstable/crypto from fink.conf). I do not wish to keep unstable on all of the time and only want one package from unstable.
Now when I try to selfupdate fink I get the following error message:
rsync -az -v rsync://bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
Welcome to the BELNET public rsync daemon rsync.belnet.be::
This rsync archive resides on a quad-processor SunFire V440 with 16GB RAM
and three StorEdge 3510 Arrays with more 4 TB of disk space for the FTP
archives.
This server is located in Brussels, Belgium and operated by BELNET,the
Education and research networkof Belgium. If youhave any problem,
question or mirror request, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This archive is also available through the following means
FTP ftp://ftp.belnet.be
HTTP http://ftp.belnet.be
* Note: opening many parallel connections to this *
* host is considered an abuse *
receiving file list ... done
/sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
sent 105 bytes received 848 bytes 1906.00 bytes/sec
total size is 11 speedup is 0.01
I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package descriptions.
rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -v --include='10.4-transitional/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/main/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='10.4-transitional/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/crypto/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/crypto/finkinfo/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*' --include='10.4-transitional/stable/crypto/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**' 'rsync://bru.be.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/'
Welcome to the BELNET public rsync daemon rsync.belnet.be::
This rsync archive resides on a quad-processor SunFire V440 with 16GB RAM
and three StorEdge 3510 Arrays with more 4 TB of disk space for the FTP
archives.
This server is located in Brussels, Belgium and operated by BELNET,the
Education and research networkof Belgium. If youhave any problem,
question or mirror request, please send them to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
This archive is also available through the following means
FTP ftp://ftp.belnet.be
HTTP http://ftp.belnet.be
* Note: opening many parallel connections to this *
* host is considered an abuse *
receiving file list ... done
./
10.4-transitional/
10.4-transitional/VERSION
sent 710 bytes received 34245 bytes 23303.33 bytes/sec
total size is 7655325 speedup is 219.01
/usr/bin/find '/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/main' -name CVS -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -rf
/usr/bin/find '/sw/fink/10.4-transitional/stable/crypto' -name CVS -type d -print0 | xargs -0 /bin/rm -rf
Downloading the indexes of available packages in the binary distribution.
/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait update
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/release/main Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/release/main Release
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/release/crypto Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/release/crypto Release
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/current/main Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/current/main Release
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/current/crypto Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.4-transitional/current/crypto Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Reading package info...
Updating package index... done.
Information about 1934 packages read in 8 seconds.
The package 'gettext-dev' will be installed.
The following package will be installed or updated:
gettext-dev
/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/g
ettext-dev_0.10.40-19_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg: regarding .../gettext-dev_0.10.40-19_darwin-powerpc.deb containing gettext
-dev:
libgettext3-dev conflicts with gettext-dev
gettext-dev (version 0.10.40-19) is to be installed.
/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/
base/gettext-dev_0.10.40-19_darwin-powerpc.deb (--install):
conflicting packages - not installing gettext-dev
Errors were encountered while processing:
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/base/gettext-dev_0.10.40-19_da
rwin-powerpc.deb
### execution of /sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
Failed: can't install package gettext-dev-0.10.40-19
Does anyone have any idea how I can solve this?
Thanks
Chris
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