On Feb 19, 2009, at 4:52 AM, Aaron Chou wrote:
Hi,
I am running fink on a OS 10.4 system on a Macbook Pro. I had
xemacs previously installed, and apparently when I ran a 'fink
selfupdate' earlier this week, it updated my xemacs installation to
a new version which no longer works. After some trial and error, I
discovered that fink now wants to install by default the unstable
version of xemacs 1:21.4.20-1002, instead of the stable version
1:21.4.15-1002 which is listed for system 10.4/i386, according to
http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/xemacs
The information on that page is incorrect.
This happens whether I install the binary package, or install from
source.
Technically, these are the same: you're installing the binary that
you built on your system.
This new version of xemacs crashes immediately when starting it from
an X11 window. On my other computer, I did not do a fink
selfupdate, and so I still have 1:21.4.15-1002 which works fine.
I have checked that my /sw/etc/fink.conf does say "Distribution:
10.4" and that it is the i386 version of xemacs that gets installed
by fink. So there should not be any confusion about the system I am
running fink on. Just somehow the fink package database is not
correct.
Is it possible with fink to re-install the old working version. How
do I go about reconfiguring fink to do this? Or do I need to ask
one of the fink maintainers to update the database entry for xemacs
to reflect the fact that 1.21.4.20-1002 is still unstable.
Our "unstable" is no reflection on a package's usability. The
unstable tree is intended to be where updates go initially until
they're tested enough to go into the stable tree.
The website seems to have the correct information, but my installed
version of fink gets it wrong....
It does not The website is supposed to be updated automatically, but
this hasn't been working properly. It's on the list of things to fix...
Thanks,
Aaron
You want to install the version from the binary distribution:
sudo apt-get install xemacs=1:21.4.15-1002
(though 1:21.4.20-1002 worked OK for me on 10.4 [10.5, too]; this
inclines me to believe that the package isn't broken)------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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