-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

Robert Black wrote:
> Folks:
> 
> The folks here are about to change me from my trusty PPC G5, where  
> everything I use works fine, to a wintel imac with snow leopard on it.  
> I presume all my fink installed apps will need to be reinstalled and  
> recompiled for the little-endian POC. 

Yup.  We've never supported any PowerPC -> Intel migration option.  The
following one-liner will capture all of the real (rather than virtual)
packages

fink list -it | grep -v " p " | grep -v "\[" | cut -f2

and you can capture that output into a text file so that you can make
the rebuild/reinstall procedure more automated.

Any Ideas on how long Fink will
> take to get a 10.6 version up? 

It's available now, for sources only.

As for a binary installer:  there are a significant number of packages
that are known not to work, so we may have to wait until enough of those
get fixed up.  Probably several months.

Also, I will no longer have Admin
> authority, and the guy that does knows little about the Mac OS, so  
> I'll have to snag him into my office for an extended period to babysit  
> him while this update occurs. 

We can't really control how your computer is administered. :-)  One of
the core developers found himself in the same situation while using a
computer which wasn't his; and ultimately gave up on trying to come up
with a way to grant non-root access.  It was just too much of a pain.

At the last OS revision, it took several
> months for a 10.5 fink, so I'm not hopeful.
> 

That was for the binary distribution.  The source distribution worked at
that time, if I recall correctly (since OS releases invariably come
while I'm preparing for an annual meeting, I always wind up updating later).

> 
> Robert A. Black
> 
> Research Meteorologist                  4301 Rickenbacker Cswy.
> NOAA/AOML/HRD                            Miami, FL 33149-1026
> 
> Ph:   (305) 361-4314
> FAX: (305) 361-4528 (NEW)
> 
> E-Mail: [email protected]
> (Any opinions expressed are mine alone, not NOAA policy)
> 
> 

- --
Alexander Hansen
Fink User Liaison
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin)
Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/

iEYEARECAAYFAkqb8xEACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ9WMACfYJm0i9ogADuzQ3gFmU5z2S4V
j3AAoI+wbRHVtlsMDoAcG0nfOatN2h1k
=CZVV
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day 
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on 
what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with 
Crystal Reports now.  http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july
_______________________________________________
Fink-users mailing list
[email protected]
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users

Reply via email to