On 8/6/14, 11:17 AM, Luigi Ernesto Zanotti wrote:
> I have a new Mac Air on which I would have a copy of my fink
> installation on another Mac, without reinstalling.
> How sould I proceed?
> Thanks in advance,
> Luigi Zanotti
>
If they're using the same major version of OS X:
1) copy the /sw and /Applications/Fink folders over to the new machine.
2) Copy any /Library/StartupItems/daemonic-* folders and contents over
to the new machine so that any Fink-installed services that should run
at system start will run.
3) Use "fink selfupdate" on the new machine to generate the 'fink-bld' user.
4) Use "fink list -it passwd" to check whether you have any packages
that install their own users. If so, then you'll want to reinstall them
via "fink reinstall <list of packages>".
5) Reboot if you put anything in /Library/StartupItems in step 2. (Or
you can run the corresponding daemons manually).
If they're not on the same OS X version you might be able to follow the
above instructions and have stuff work if you're going from an older OS
X to a newer one, but in that case it's possible that you won't be able
to do any package updates.
--
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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