On Wed, 27 Nov 2013, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 26/11/13 23:08, Viv Kendon wrote: > [] >> Having been running my own private bindists to save >> compiling the same thing for several similar macs, I >> discovered this some years ago[*], some of the bindist code >> has been disabled or removed from fink when there was no >> official bindist. I was advised then to use sudo apt-get >> update followed by sudo apt-get dist-upgrade after setting >> the correct lines in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list >> >> This works, but has the undesirable effect of not updating >> the package descriptions, only the lists of available debs. >> So I do run fink selfupdate after doing the apt-get >> commands. >> >> It would be nice to have the bindist functionality restored, >> but it does work OK with apt-get. > [] >>> From: Viv Kendon <v.ken...@leeds.ac.uk> >> To: Fink Users Mailing List >> <fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net> >> Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:26:56 +0000 (GMT) >> Subject: [Fink-users] using own binary dist with 10.6 > > I see. You should get some medal for staying with Fink despite years of > suffering :-) > > Apparently this has been broken since the first x86_64 distribution. > Over on the fink-devel list, thesin has now found the explanation: > >> the issue was that apt was converting _ into %5f in the debarch >> darwin-x86_64 = darwin-x86%5f64 in the deb file name. So fink could >> never find it and thus thought it wasn't present. > > He fixed it in Fink/PkgVersion.pm. The next fink release should bring > the fix to everybody.
And I have now set up a bindist for 10.9 and tested it using fink -b with UseBinaryDist set to true and added lines in /sw/etc/apt/sources.list, and it works -- many thanks for finally fixing this! -- Viv ________________________________________________ Dr Viv Kendon http://quantum.leeds.ac.uk/~viv tel: +44 113 343 4864 Physics and Astronomy Quantum Information Group University of Leeds ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Rapidly troubleshoot problems before they affect your business. Most IT organizations don't have a clear picture of how application performance affects their revenue. With AppDynamics, you get 100% visibility into your Java,.NET, & PHP application. Start your 15-day FREE TRIAL of AppDynamics Pro! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=84349831&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
