-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 9/27/10 9:32 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > On 2010-09-27, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: > > <snip> >> You're better off capturing a list of your installed packages in a text >> file, moving _that_ to your new machine, and then installing the >> packages from that file as per >> >> >> http://finkers.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/starting-anew/ >> - -- >> Alexander Hansen >> Fink User Liaison > > That's great information, which I probably would not have found > (quickly) without asking!
At some point that will be moved to the main documents. Time just hasn't permitted. > > Just a last question: it seems there isn't any urgent reason to spend > time trying to update my 10.4 installation this way, or is there? > > René > It may make things a bit easier when you install on 10.6 if you have a fully updated Fink tree to generate your installed package list, since some of your packages may have changed their dependencies in the time since 10.3 support ended. - -- Alexander Hansen Fink User Liaison -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkygnpMACgkQB8UpO3rKjQ+jtQCcCTz+NX9NDuLRIuke9C+Zd9nO j7AAn35TZAb3n3UskNkppeP7Fi9LA8cf =O84Z -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Start uncovering the many advantages of virtual appliances and start using them to simplify application deployment and accelerate your shift to cloud computing. http://p.sf.net/sfu/novell-sfdev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
