Moritz wrote:
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no joy. Happily reinstalls the 0.7.2 version of fink.
Still, I don't understand what the underlying mechanism should be that
brings the distro from 10.3 to 10.4.
The mechanism is that postinstall.pl looks on what system it is running
(10.4 in your case), then creates a directory /sw/fink/10.4-transitional
and an entry "Distribution: 10.4-transitional" in your
/sw/etc/fink.conf. If you do "fink selfupdate" afterwards, it will find
the 0.8.0 distribution.
The theory is that the latest 10.3 distribution 0.7.2 already knows
about the existence of 10.4 and can therefore run this mechanism, so if
you do a selfupdate, then postinstall.pl, and then another selfupdate,
you should be on 10.4. So far the theory...
In reality, this doesn't seem to work for point-release updates, because
the version of fink-the-program in 0.7.2/stable is not 10.4-aware. The
point-release selfupdate version unfortunately doesn't seem to get
suficient testing any more. Or maybe I should rather say, the whole
10.3->10.4 updating business gets *too much* attention. It was
interesting for some weeks before the 0.8.0 installer came out, but
after that date sometime in June, the update instructions should IMHO
have been replaced by the simple advice to remove /sw and reinstall Fink
from the 0.8.0 binary installer.
And I'm still wondering if it's just my particular installation that has
some quirks or if this is a bug in the documentation. The latter would,
of course, be somewhat understandable since I'd assume that all of the
developers use the source distro, but still be a suboptimal state of
things ;-)
Maybe; in any case, in the time it took you to write these messages, you
could have run the 0.8.0 installer 3 times :-)
In any case, if the point-update mechanism had worked, you would have
upgraded nearly 100% of your packages afterwards, and those not upgraded
would very likely have given you trouble. So the effect would not have
been much different from a complete reinstallation, only slower and more
painful.
--
Martin
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