At 14:14 Uhr +0200 03.10.2002, Martin Costabel wrote: >On jeudi, oct 3, 2002, at 11:05 Europe/Paris, Max Horn wrote: >[] >You missed the whole message, he is fine, he has the version from fink cvs. >> >>Oops, sorry! I was only looking at the quotations posted here. Sorry again. > >I apologize for reentering this thread on an even earlier stage, or >maybe another thread, but this has come up a couple of times now, >and if I haven't overlooked something, it is still an open problem: > >You cannot use "fink selfupdate" (without cvs) to update from *any* >erlier released (vanilla) version of fink to 0.4.1. Therefore the >web "upgrade matrix" should be corrected. > >The reason is that SelfUpdate.pm was changed to use sourceforge >mirrors *after* 0.4.0a was released. And the automatic download of >the packages tarball has to use the sourceforge mirrors. > >What will probably work for 0.4.0a but not for earlier versions, is >to get fink the package manager first via apt-get and then do fink >selfupdate. This works because apt uses the new sourceforge URLs >already in 0.4.0a. But fink selfupdate does not. > >For all older versions including 0.4.0, the recommended procedure >should be to download the packages tarball by hand and run inject.pl.
Probably. You are definitly right in that there should be better documentation to cover this. Anybody volunteering to write it? Cheers, Max -- ----------------------------------------------- Max Horn Software Developer email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone: (+49) 6151-494890 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
