Alexander,
thanks so much for following up on my problems. The main point I'm
having is that I don't want to use the source distribution, hence
CVS/rsync is definitely out of the question for me. Thanks for
pointing out the relevant entries in the FAQ, but they only apply to
the source distribution.
The instructions in the first news entry on the Fink homepage don't
specify if they're for the binary or the source distribution:
"Users upgrading to 10.4 can now simply issue a fink selfupdate command,
followed by sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl (for first-time
updaters on 10.4),
fink scanpackages and sudo apt-get update. "
Hence I assumed that they're valid for binary distributions as well.
If they implicitly assume that a source distribution is present, then
this is probably a bug in the instructions that should be fixed.
At 17:04 Uhr -0400 2005-10-23, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
It looks like you weren't set up to use rsync or CVS updates. A
minority of people who use the "fink" tool don't have those enabled,
so it was assumed, apparently, that "fink selfupdate" would update
from rsync or CVS.
yes, that's correct - I'm using binary only (actually I'm not sure
I'm a member of a minority in that respect... The average user is
probably going to be satisfied with binary releases only...)
At 17:04 Uhr -0400 2005-10-23, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
In that case "sudo apt-get update ; sudo apt-get
dist-upgrade" should have brought you over.
no, unfortunately not:
[llama:~] root# apt-get update
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/release/main Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/release/main Release
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/release/crypto Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/release/crypto Release
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/current/main Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/current/main Release
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/current/crypto Packages
Hit http://bindist.finkmirrors.net 10.3/current/crypto Release
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
[llama:~] root# apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
Calculating Upgrade... Done
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Again, Fink (or apt, that is) doesn't seem to realize that there's a
10.4 distribution available. To let me understand, what should be the
underlying mechanism that tells apt-get about the new distro?
At 17:04 Uhr -0400 2005-10-23, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
Moreover, the output you showed didn't indicate whether you ran
/sw/lib/postinstall.pl or not--that script detects your OS (among
other things).
it did:
At 2:30 Uhr +0200 2005-10-23, Moritz wrote:
llama:~ root# /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl
Checking system... powerpc-apple-darwin8.2.0
This system was not released at the time this Fink release was made.
Prerelease
versions of Mac OS X might work with Fink, but there are no guarantees.
ln -s 10.3 /sw/fink/dists
But, looking at the code of postinstall.pl, I can't see how
postinstall.pl should get to know about 10.4, since it's still the
postinstall.pl from the 0.7.2 distro, so it can't possibly know about
10.4.
I'm still highly confused. Can you shine any more light into this issue?
Thanks again,
Moritz
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