Jean-François Mertens wrote: > Can someone help Clint Whaley with this ? > (Have really no experience with installation > problems _ last install was when i got this computer, > more than 2 years ago). > > He only needs fink to get gcc43, and it seems > such a hassle ... > > Jean-Francois > > PS: And again this fileutils pkg causing trouble .. > > Begin forwarded message: > > >> From: Clint Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: Wed 28 May 2008 17:19:47 GMT+02:00 >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> Jean-Francois, >> >> >>>> My impression is that you did not "enable the 'unstable' tree" >>>> <snip> >>>> To enable the 'unstable tree', you could either run "fink >>>> configure", >>>> which will ask you a lot of questions I guess, but among them one >>>> that allows to enable the unstable tree, >>>> or (my suggestion), you just edit PREFIX/etc/fink.conf (where >>>> PREFIX >>>> stands for the location where you installed fink _ typically "/ >>>> sw"), and >>>> you add in the "Trees" line the items "unstable/main unstable/ >>>> crypto", >>>> >>> (preferably at the end _ priority here is from right to left...). >>> >>> >>>> Then you run again 'fink selfupdate", and the pkgs of the unstable >>>> tree should show up... (and lead to some 7000 pkgs instead of 1732). >>>> >>> (and preferably don't use fink commander _ it is very outdated, >>> and I'm >>> not sure it is still completely reliable..) >>> >> Sorry, I must have missed this in the earlier mail! However, I >> still have >> no joy. I went on a G5 system, where I have a later OS X, and tried >> this, with the result: >> >>> etl-g52:~ root# /sw/bin/fink selfupdate >>> rsync -az -q rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo// >>> TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp >>> ...... > >>> >>> Reading package info... >>> Updating package index... done. >>> Failed: A package name is not allowed to have the same version- >>> revision but different epochs: fileutils-4.1-5 >>> epoch 1 fink virtual or dpkg status >>> epoch 0 >>> >> Now it looks like all fink commands die with this error message. >> Any ideas? >> >> Thanks, >> Clint >> > > The package database doesn't show anything but fileutils-1:4.1-5 (Epoch 1) currently. You may just need to remove /sw/fink/dists/stable/main/finkinfo/utils/fileutils.info manually.
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