On Aug 24, 2007, at 2:24 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > John Dalbec wrote: >> On Aug 21, 2007, at 1:30 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > [] >> Another thing I tried in order to get "fink selfupdate" to delete / >> sw/ fink.old before trying to move /sw/fink out of the way was to >> "mv /sw/ fink/dists /sw/finkdists" and rerun selfupdate twice. >> That didn't help and the selfupdate seemed to reconstruct /sw/ >> fink/dists so I deleted /sw/finkdists. Is there information >> about installed packages in /sw/fink/dists? > > The only problem with repeated selfupdates - or rather repeated > switches between selfupdate-rsync and selfupdate-svn - is that fink > is renaming the previous /sw/fink to /sw/fink.old, and when there > is already an existing /sw/fink.old it doesn't know what to do and > crashes. > > Therefore you need to move /sw/fink.old out of the way manually or > delete it. Anything else should be left to fink selfupdate.
OK, so that is Working As Designed. > > In particular, the symbolic link /sw/fink/dists should be left in > place. The reconstructed /sw/fink/dists (from when I ran "mv /sw/fink.tmp / sw/fink") is not a symbolic link. Let me try moving it out of the way and creating a symlink as you describe. Fink selfupdate reported errors and suggested "fink scanpackages". I ran "fink scanpackages" and "fink index". Now fink selfupdate succeeds but does not create / sw/fink.old. What would cause that? "fink list -i" seems to be working now. I'll try "fink update-all" later. Thanks, John > It points to the current distribution, 10.4 in your case, if I > remember corrrectly. Inside /sw/fink/10.4 there are all the package > descriptions that fink needs for installing packages. It does not > contain any information, however, on the installed packages. This > information is contained in several subdirectories of /sw/var, in > particular in > /sw/var/lib/dpkg/, and it is recreated by commands like "fink > scanpackages" and "fink index". But these commands are also run > automatically at the end of fink selfupdate, so there should not be > any need to run them manually in your situation. > > The only other thing that you are losing by removing /sw/fink.old > are your *.deb packages that you built yourself by "installing from > source". They live in directories like /sw/fink/10.4/unstable/main/ > binary-darwin-powerpc/, and they have symbolic links pointing to > them in /sw/fink/debs/. This makes a difference when you reinstall > a package that you had installed previously and removed in the > meantime. Normally such a package would be reinstalled very quickly > from the *.deb file. Now it will have to be rebuilt from source or > re-downloaded from the bindist server. > > To repeat: Nothing inside /sw/fink/ contains any information about > what packages are installed on your system. It contains all the > information about which packages are available for installation > from source, but none about what is already installed. > > -- > Martin > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
