Re: [Fink-users] cloning fink installation to another machine?

2004-01-11 Thread Ben Hines
I believe we have fixed that problem a while back. Should work with fink 0.18.0. -Ben On Jan 11, 2004, at 2:02 PM, John Hurst wrote: G'day Mike, One caveat: just make sure you use the 'proper' rsync, and not the hfs version. I screwed my /sw up by (inadvertently) using the hfs version (duh)

Re: [Fink-users] cloning fink installation to another machine?

2004-01-11 Thread John Hurst
G'day Mike, One caveat: just make sure you use the 'proper' rsync, and not the hfs version. I screwed my /sw up by (inadvertently) using the hfs version (duh). cheers, BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 N:Hurst;John;;; FN:John Hurst ORG:Monash University; item1.EMAIL;type=INTERNET;type=pref:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: [Fink-users] cloning fink installation to another machine?

2004-01-11 Thread Philip Ershler
I've always just used tar to make an archive that can be unpacked on the second machine. If you're going to use any Xfree86 or FORTRAN stuff from fink, you should do a remove and install on the new machine for these items. HTH, Phil On Sunday, January 11, 2004, at 02:33 PM, Ettore Aldrovandi

Re: [Fink-users] cloning fink installation to another machine?

2004-01-11 Thread Ettore Aldrovandi
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 01:10:54PM -0800, Mike Zulauf wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm about to get a laptop, and I was wondering if there are any > potential problems, or tricks that I need to know about cloning the > fink installation from my desktop to my laptop. > Hi, I did clone /sw from a lap

[Fink-users] cloning fink installation to another machine?

2004-01-11 Thread Mike Zulauf
Hi all, I'm about to get a laptop, and I was wondering if there are any potential problems, or tricks that I need to know about cloning the fink installation from my desktop to my laptop. I know first I'd want to update the OS to the same version, install developer tools, X11, etc. But then c