On 07/01/2010, at 22:50, DJamé Seddah wrote: > Hi Augusto, > > thanks for the tip, it did the trick but one thing which is just > killing me is why, why does fink need to recompile every single > package I want to install now that I got it updated ? > I just cannot understand why if the bug was known, the binary > distribution is still carrying the old fink ? Now, I have the feeling > on being in my first gentoo week... > > I know that fink is a communatary project with very few ressources and > it has to support I don't know how many configuration so i'm not going > to throw any stone to anyone of course, it's just that maybe things > shouldn't be that anal when it goes when updating fink : No, not > everything has to be recompile because the wrapper was updated... > > even the -b doesn't change anything......
Salut, Djamé. Historically a binary release has encompassed both a binary installer (via a .dmg file) and an official binary distribution (.deb packages), the so-called point distribution. There's a glitch in the 0.9.0 distribution that prevents the package manager from updating, so users end up being stuck with that package manager version and the packages corresponding to that point distribution. The 0.9.0 distribution was released in June 2008, so those packages are quite old, which explains why a proper selfupdate + update-all is updating virtually every package. Using an unofficial binary distribution such as Todai's will certainly reduce the number of packages you have to build -- please read http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/01/fink-and-binary-distributions for further information. Fink hasn't released another 10.5 point distribution fixing that 0.9.0 glitch because nobody has had the resources to build the binary point distribution. There has been talk about whether Fink should release binary installers *without* a corresponding binary point distribution or drop binary installers & binary distributions altogether and, as suggested by Martin Costabel, one last binary distribution for 10.4. > Best anyway, enjoy your brasilian sun, we're freezing out here No sun here, only tropical rain and excessive humidity. ;-) Cheers, -- monipol http://finkers.wordpress.com Submitting a Fink bug report? Read this: http://www.finkproject.org/doc/netiquette/index.php http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/06/03/bug-reports/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app distribution fast and easy Join now and get one step closer to millions of Verizon customers http://p.sf.net/sfu/verizon-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
