[Fink-users] Move Fink on a new (identical) machine
Hello, Now that I am satisfied with how Fink works on my test (virtual) machine, I am ready to upgrade my main machine and move what I already have there. I see at least three ways of doing it: 1. Most tempting, I thought of just copying the whole /sw (/opt/sw in my case actually) to the new machine. However, I am aware of some packages that perform system-wide changes (in the password database, xinitrc, probably launch daemons too) so these will have to be reinstalled. Is there any way to find out which packages need reinstallation? 2. I can also move all the fink trees and DEBs over and reinstall (not rebuild) everything. This should work, right? If so just appropriate fink install commands (with the DEBs in place) should work, right? 3. Worse comes to worst I can obviously just start from scratch and rebuild everything. For obvious reasons I would rather not do that if I can take any of the two paths above... Advice (pitfalls, etc.) is appreciated. By the way, I would like to express my admiration (and my thanks too!) for the Fink project as a whole. I tried macports on my test rig (during my Firefox versus Xcode 4.3 saga). True, they have so many more packages for 10.7; problem is, half of those will not work. I had my own pains with Fink (most notably attempting to get a GNOME desktop together), but minimal porting from the 10.4 tree worked well and I am now a happy camper. Thank you once more. Best regards, Stefan -- If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass No HTML emails and proprietary attachments please http://bruda.ca/ascii -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Move Fink on a new (identical) machine
On 4/13/12 9:31 AM, Stefan Bruda wrote: Hello, Now that I am satisfied with how Fink works on my test (virtual) machine, I am ready to upgrade my main machine and move what I already have there. I see at least three ways of doing it: 1. Most tempting, I thought of just copying the whole /sw (/opt/sw in my case actually) to the new machine. However, I am aware of some packages that perform system-wide changes (in the password database, xinitrc, probably launch daemons too) so these will have to be reinstalled. Is there any way to find out which packages need reinstallation? 2. I can also move all the fink trees and DEBs over and reinstall (not rebuild) everything. This should work, right? If so just appropriate fink install commands (with the DEBs in place) should work, right? 3. Worse comes to worst I can obviously just start from scratch and rebuild everything. For obvious reasons I would rather not do that if I can take any of the two paths above... Advice (pitfalls, etc.) is appreciated. By the way, I would like to express my admiration (and my thanks too!) for the Fink project as a whole. I tried macports on my test rig (during my Firefox versus Xcode 4.3 saga). True, they have so many more packages for 10.7; problem is, half of those will not work. I had my own pains with Fink (most notably attempting to get a GNOME desktop together), but minimal porting from the 10.4 tree worked well and I am now a happy camper. Thank you once more. Best regards, Stefan 1) shouldn't be too bad. Using something along the lines of fink reinstall `fink list -it daemonic xinitrc | cut -f2` fink reinstall `fink --exclude-trees=virtual list -it passwd | grep -v \[virtual | cut -f2` fink reinstall `fink --exclude-trees=virtual list -it | grep -v \[virtual | cut -f2 | xargs fink dumpinfo -finfofile | cut -d: -f2 | xargs grep -l [dD]aemonic | sort | uniq | xargs grep -h -m 1 Package | cut -d: -f2` should search the database for installed packages that require reinstallation and then perform the install. In principle maybe you could do it on one line, but I preferred to break it up to set the order of installation. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison http://finkakh.wordpress.com/2012/02/21/got-job/ -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
Re: [Fink-users] Move Fink on a new (identical) machine
Hello, At 11:05 -0700 on 2012-4-13 Alexander Hansen wrote: On 4/13/12 9:31 AM, Stefan Bruda wrote: Now that I am satisfied with how Fink works on my test (virtual) machine, I am ready to upgrade my main machine and move what I already have there. I see at least three ways of doing it: 1. Most tempting, I thought of just copying the whole /sw (/opt/sw in my case actually) to the new machine. However, I am aware of some packages that perform system-wide changes (in the password database, xinitrc, probably launch daemons too) so these will have to be reinstalled. Is there any way to find out which packages need reinstallation? 2. I can also move all the fink trees and DEBs over and reinstall (not rebuild) everything. This should work, right? If so just appropriate fink install commands (with the DEBs in place) should work, right? 3. Worse comes to worst I can obviously just start from scratch and rebuild everything. For obvious reasons I would rather not do that if I can take any of the two paths above... Advice (pitfalls, etc.) is appreciated. By the way, I would like to express my admiration (and my thanks too!) for the Fink project as a whole. I tried macports on my test rig (during my Firefox versus Xcode 4.3 saga). True, they have so many more packages for 10.7; problem is, half of those will not work. I had my own pains with Fink (most notably attempting to get a GNOME desktop together), but minimal porting from the 10.4 tree worked well and I am now a happy camper. Thank you once more. 1) shouldn't be too bad. Using something along the lines of fink reinstall `fink list -it daemonic xinitrc | cut -f2` fink reinstall `fink --exclude-trees=virtual list -it passwd | grep -v \[virtual | cut -f2` fink reinstall `fink --exclude-trees=virtual list -it | grep -v \[virtual | cut -f2 | xargs fink dumpinfo -finfofile | cut -d: -f2 | xargs grep -l [dD]aemonic | sort | uniq | xargs grep -h -m 1 Package | cut -d: -f2` should search the database for installed packages that require reinstallation and then perform the install. In principle maybe you could do it on one line, but I preferred to break it up to set the order of installation. Great, thanks a lot, that makes my life as easy as pie. I will report glitches (if any). Cheers, Stefan -- If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass No HTML emails and proprietary attachments please http://bruda.ca/ascii -- For Developers, A Lot Can Happen In A Second. Boundary is the first to Know...and Tell You. Monitor Your Applications in Ultra-Fine Resolution. Try it FREE! http://p.sf.net/sfu/Boundary-d2dvs2 ___ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
