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 (and preferably don't use fink commander _ it is very outdated, 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
