merlyn@stonehenge.com (Randal L. Schwartz) wrote: > >>>>> "David" == David R Morrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > David> You appear to be running fink on 10.4, but using the 10.3 distribution. > David> To correct this, execute "/sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl". > > OK. How would I have known to do this? Just for future reference. > And why isn't it more automatic?
Whenever the fink package manager is installed, it examines the environment in which it is running and determines which is the correct "distribution" to use for the current operating system. So, if you already have fink installed, and then you upgrade to 10.4, you're left in an inconsistent state. We've struggled with what instructions to give about this on the website. Originally, the instructions said to run "fink reinstall fink" after upgrading to 10.4. However, that doesn't work in all cases (due to fink thinking there should be a .deb file but being unable to find it because the distribution has changed). More recently, someone has changed this to "fink rebuild fink", but that might fail as well under some circumstances. Re-running the postinstall script (as I suggested in the previous method) is the easiest solution, and I expect that the website instructions will be revised along these lines in the near future. -- Dave ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Yahoo. Introducing Yahoo! Search Developer Network - Create apps using Yahoo! Search APIs Find out how you can build Yahoo! directly into your own Applications - visit http://developer.yahoo.net/?fr=offad-ysdn-ostg-q22005 _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
