> On May 31, 2016, at 11:16, Jess H. Brewer <j...@triumf.ca> wrote:
>
> On 05/31/2016 11:10 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>
>>> On May 31, 2016, at 10:29, Jess H. Brewer <j...@triumf.ca> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 05/31/2016 08:47 AM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> One question on the login method: is that a terminal logged in to a
>>>>>> root account, or accessed via “sudo -s” or “su”, etc. ?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> —akh
>>>>>
>>>>> # su -
>>>>>
>>>>> (When I'm root, I want to stay root. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> -- Jess
>>>>
>>>> I don’t know if it will make a difference, but you might try setting
>>>>
>>>> RootMethod: none
>>>>
>>>> in /sw/etc/fink.conf if you haven’t done that already.—akh
>>>
>>> It was already set. Shall I try something different?
>>>
>>> I seem to be able to "chip away" at updating from source: although just
>>> running # fink update-all fails after a few packages, it does update a
>>> few -- less each time I run it -- until it fails immediately; then I
>>> "manually" update a few from the list and try again. Then update-all
>>> gets a few more.... I've done this before; eventually I get up to date
>>> (or almost so) and then I seem to be able to go back to normal. I
>>> wonder if the failure on downloading binaries is due to some specific
>>> package needing updating?
>>>
>>> Cheers — Jess
>>>
>>
>> I’m honestly not sure. What’s failing to download isn’t a particular
>> package, though, but an index for all of the packages.
>>
>> Is it possible that you are happening upon updates which _aren’t_ in the
>> binary distribution due to new versions/revisions, and therefore are being
>> built from source?
>>
>> —akh
>
> Anything is possible. How would I tell? -- Jess
>
>
You can use “fink dumpinfo -fallversions <packagename>”. As a local example:
Fionna-3:~ hansen$ apt-cache policy maxima
maxima:
Installed: 5.38.1-2
Candidate: 5.38.1-2
Version Table:
*** 5.38.1-2 0
500 file: stable/main Packages
100 /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status
5.38.1-1 0
500 file: stable/main Packages
500 http://bindist.finkmirrors.net stable/main Packages
If the newest version of the package doesn’t show a remote URI, like
maxima-5.38.1-2 above, then it is newer than the binary distribution’s
version—or at least your local copy of that information, since if “apt-get
update” isn’t working it won’t be synced.
—akh
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