Can someone help Clint Whaley with this ?
(Have really no experience with installation
problems _ last install was when i got this computer,
more than 2 years ago).

He only needs fink to get gcc43, and it seems
such a hassle ...

Jean-Francois

PS:  And again this fileutils pkg causing trouble ..

Begin forwarded message:

> From: Clint Whaley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wed 28 May 2008 17:19:47 GMT+02:00
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
> Jean-Francois,
>
>>> My impression is that you did not "enable the 'unstable' tree"
>>> <snip>
>>> To enable the 'unstable tree', you could either run "fink  
>>> configure",
>>> which will ask you a lot of questions I guess, but among them one
>>> that allows to enable the unstable tree,
>>> or (my suggestion), you just edit  PREFIX/etc/fink.conf (where  
>>> PREFIX
>>> stands for the location where you installed fink _ typically "/
>>> sw"), and
>>> you add in the "Trees" line the items "unstable/main unstable/ 
>>> crypto",
>> (preferably at the end _ priority here is from right to left...).
>>
>>> Then you run again 'fink selfupdate", and the pkgs of the unstable
>>> tree should show up... (and lead to some 7000 pkgs instead of 1732).
>>
>> (and preferably don't use fink commander _ it is very outdated,  
>> and I'm
>> not sure it is still completely reliable..)
>
> Sorry, I must have missed this in the earlier mail!  However, I  
> still have
> no joy.  I went on a G5 system, where I have a later OS X, and tried
> this, with the result:
>> etl-g52:~ root# /sw/bin/fink selfupdate
>> rsync -az -q  rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo// 
>> TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
>> ...... >
>>
>> Reading package info...
>> Updating package index... done.
>> Failed: A package name is not allowed to have the same version- 
>> revision but different epochs: fileutils-4.1-5
>>  epoch 1       fink virtual or dpkg status
>>  epoch 0
>
> Now it looks like all fink commands die with this error message.   
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
> Clint



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