On Monday, September 2, 2002, at 07:06 PM, Fernando Pereira wrote:
> 2. If you still want to update under 10.2, read the extensive > discussion of > how to go about it in the fink-users archive. It may work for you, as > it did > for me, but you may want to wait unless you are comfortable with Unix > innards. Thanks for your quick reply, although I honestly can't tell whether your reply is an effort at one-upsmanship or a observation that fink is not-ready-for-prime-time on MacOS 10.2. I've used and administered SunOS and Solaris systems for 14+ years, and used to think I was -- to use your language -- comfortable with `Unix innards.' But I confess that I don't understand the workings of fink, and hence don't know what to do when fink breaks in the middle of an update-all command. If it were Solaris, I'd be compiling one package at a time, I could trace the dependencies, and fix responses like those I quoted from an effort to update fink. Fink seems tightly constructed -- which is no doubt an advantage for those who just want to click and see their system updated. But that tight construction makes it all but impenetrable for an outsider -- especially a MacOS newbie who comes from a Unix-only world. I realize that 10.2 is new. If you, or anyone else in the group, has a concrete suggestion of how to get fink to update itself under MacOS 10.2, I'd welcome it, and would be willing to contribute to debugging the scheme. Ronald Florence www.18james.com ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by: OSDN - Tired of that same old cell phone? Get a new here for FREE! https://www.inphonic.com/r.asp?r=sourceforge1&refcode1=vs3390 _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
