At 23:18 -0800 2002-01-12, Gordon Messmer wrote:
>On Sat, 12 Jan 2002, Michael Blakeley wrote:
>
>> >It built properly here. Try this:
>> >
>> >env -i PATH=/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin sudo \
>> > /sw/bin/fink reinstall xfree86-base
>>
>> OK...
>>
>> $ env -i PATH=/sw/bin:/sw/sbin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin sudo \
>> > /sw/bin/fink reinstall xfree86-base
>
>Ooops. I meant "rebuild", I think :)
I got tired of waiting for the rebuild to complete, and noticed that
I had xfree86-base-4.1.0-4 from stable in my /sw tree. So...
$ sudo dpkg --install
/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base_4.1.0-4_darwin-powerpc.deb
dpkg - warning: downgrading xfree86-base from 4.1.0-9 to 4.1.0-4.
...and that fixed the problem. Then I used
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade xfree86-base
to fetch and install 4.1.0-8, which also seems to be fine.
I think I'll chalk this up to user error: I've been trying to avoid
building anything that I can download in binary form, especially for
huge packages like xfree86-base. So I mostly use apt-get, and I have
fink set up for 'unstable' so I can get the latest version of
anything that isn't available in binary form.
But I did the 'fink selfupdate' and 'fink update-all'[1] to get the
latest point-release. So I got xfree86-base from unstable, and
something went wrong there.
$ dpkg --contents
/sw/fink/dists/unstable/main/binary-darwin-powerpc/x11-system/xfree86-base_4.1.0-9_darwin-powerpc.deb
| grep libXf
-rw-r--r-- root/admin 4708 2002-01-12 01:30:52
./usr/X11R6/lib/libXfontcache.a
A FAQ entry pointing to
http://fink.sourceforge.net/doc/users-guide/upgrade.php might help
here, but mostly I should have realized that my methodology opened up
the door to accidentally upgrading my binary packages with unstable
source versions. Next time I think I'll use apt-get to upgrade, then
_manually_ update selected source packages with fink, rather than
running updateall - or at least remove 'unstable' from fink.conf
first.
-- Mike
[1] why not self-update and update-all? or selfupdate and updateall?
Or support for all four? My fingers keep getting confused.
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