Re: [Fink-users] Identical systems aren't?

[Jack Repenning]

On Feb 23, 2006, at 11:06 AM, Alexander K. Hansen wrote:

"fink selfupdate" does nothing on either system.

Are you using selfupdate with rsync (or cvs) enabled, or just "selfupdate"?

I'm typing merely "fink selfupdate", but fink.conf sez "SelfUpdateMethod: rsync". I think that means I have rsync enabled, doesn't it? The transcript certainly claims to be using rsync a lot ...

You should also try running /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl on the "good"
system--that's nominally how fink sets the trees to go with your OS
version.

Using (on either system)
> sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl
> fink selfupdate-rsync
> fink --version
> fink update-all
nets me:

Using the old 10.4-transitional tree...
Package manager version: 0.24.12
Distribution version: 0.8.0.rsync




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and a whole lotta "update-all" work to be done, which I suppose sounds like the right answer.

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