Re: [Fink-devel] help needed testing replacement fink 0.4.1 binary installer

2002-11-05 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > > > Maybe somebody > > else can make a new 0.4.1 installer? I'll be happy to talk you through > > the process... > > In case this is still needed, I made one. It looks OK to me, but since I > had never touched PackageMake

Re: [Fink-devel] help needed testing replacement fink 0.4.1 binary installer

2002-10-31 Thread David R. Morrison
Can someone please test Martin's installer package? You'll need at 10.1.x system to test it. (I won't have access to a 10.1.x system until next Monday at the earliest, myself.) Not only should you test that it installs OK, but you should check what happens if you use the installer severl times i

Re: [Fink-devel] help needed testing replacement fink 0.4.1 binary installer

2002-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Martin Costabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David R. Morrison wrote: > > > [] > > What my "fix" does is to alter the .pax.gz file with the contents of the > > installation so that the permission on "." is 1755 in the directory > > instead of 0700. > > What did you do with the bom file? Not on

[Fink-devel] help needed testing replacement fink 0.4.1 binary installer

2002-10-30 Thread David R. Morrison
Dear Fink Developers, As you may have seen in a few recent messages, there is a serious problem with the fink 0.4.1 binary installer which occurs if a user installs using the installer twice. The permissions on the root directory of the machine are altered, and the machine no longer boots! I've