Alexander Hansen wrote:
> 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 (and preferably don't use fink commander _ it is very outdated,  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.
>   
fink purge fileutils
fink selfupdate-cvs
fink install coreutils
fink install coreutils-default

That should fix the Epoch problem as well as a few others.

(And I was the one with the fileutils problem.  Just feeding back what I 
did.)

James McKenzie


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