I had thought about that; however, the FAQ and prior experience on my part would suggest that there will be questionable results with this approach. Earlier releases of fink have numerous hard coded paths to the install location. Ran into this problem recently when I had /sw on a second volume and that volume developed unrecoverable disk problems. ditto will move everything; however, executing anything becomes a matter of going through all kinds of scripts changing paths.
However, I will give it a try.
Thanks,
Don
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:59 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 05:42 PM, Don Thompson wrote:Dear List-Members,1. Remove /sw
I have recently removed my old Fink installation. I then down loaded the Fink 0.5.0a Binary Installer and attempted to install the new version. This failed apparently because I have set-up a symbolic link to a second hard drive. Is this feature of the installer a bug or is it to protect people from installing over an older version?
Either way could some tell me how to perform an install to a symbolically linked /sw directory?
2. Install.
3. Move /sw to another drive ("ditto" is good to use)
4. Create /sw symlink to new location.
We will make this easier in the future.
-Ben
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