Brandon Potter wrote:
Hello all,
After upgrading yesterday to Tiger I found the fink website to be a
little confusing (to me at least) at http://fink.sourceforge.net/
Regarding use of unstable it says:
For users of the unstable tree, you may be able to upgrade just by
running fink selfupdate if your version of fink is less than 0.24.6.
It will install fink-0.24.6 for you. After upgrading to 10.4, first
check that you have the right version of fink by issuing fink
--version . If your version is less than 0.24.6, run fink selfupdate
to get the right version of fink. Then, whether you selfupdated or
not, reinstall the fink package using fink rebuild fink, and follow
that with another fink selfupdate.
That didn't apply to my situation because I was on version 0.24.7-1
before I updated to Tiger from 10.3.9. So what was I to do? Looking
earlier on the page I found:
Users upgrading to 10.4 can now simply issue a fink selfupdate
command, followed by sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl (for first-time
updaters on 10.4), fink scanpackages and sudo apt-get update. We
don't recommend bootstrapping at the moment, since bootstrapping does
not work with the newly-released XCode 2.1 from Apple.
Well, fink selfupdate didn't do anything, because it saw itself as
current. I ran the sudo /sw/lib/fink/postinstall.pl and then reran
fink selfupdate and that did the trick.
Ah--that's probably an important thing to switch the order of. I think
this was due to conflation with the prior instructions
I then ran fink scanpackages as instructed above and tried to run sudo
apt-get update but got an error (sorry don't remember what it was).
The reason is that stuff does get a little crazy in the dependencies
after updating.
I ran fink update-all (with mult buildlock slowups, but eventually got
through them). After finishing all the other updates, I was able to
then run the apt-get update with no problems.
The motivation to run "apt-get update" is that with the new
UseBinaryDist functionality users get error messages from a non-updated
apt package list that they hadn't gotten before--this can affect the
"fink" command if you install something whose latest version is also
available in the binary distribuition.
I don't claim to have a good enough understanding to know why some of
this was backwards in my case, but if someone in the know could
incorporate & work this info back into the main page, I think it might
help some others with the transition.
My OS version is 10.4.2, my fink version following updates today is
0.24.7-21.
Don't guess this really needs a reply, but if anyone would like more
info feel free to inquire.
Thanks for all the effort in making fink work,
Brandon Potter
In general, it's best to post stuff regarding the web page to the
fink-i18n list, by the way. There's some overlap in the readership, but
that list is specifically oriented toward documentation and translation.
--AH
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