Fink Binary on OS X 10.5

[David Reiser]

On Jun 27, 2008, at 4:08 PM, Des Dougan wrote:

> Dave Reiser wrote:
>> Des Dougan wrote:
>>> David Reiser wrote:
>>>> Before a package can move to fink 'stable', all of its  
>>>> dependencies must already be in stable. gtkhtml has never made it  
>>>> to that point. There may be an issue with the version of glib as  
>>>> well, but I'll have to test more thoroughly for that. The one  
>>>> other question mark is libgsf. After that I have to plow through  
>>>> the dependencies of the gnucash specific dependencies (like  
>>>> aqbanking) to make sure I can move gnucash2 to stable.
>>>>
>>>> We might make it when they do the great gnome update -- imminent,  
>>>> but unknown date.
>>>>
>>>> Dave
>>>
>>> Dave,
>>>
>>> Thanks for your reply. As I mentioned at the end of my posting, I  
>>> have enabled unstable and crypto in the Fink Commander GUI - I had  
>>> previously read the various postings on this list about compiling  
>>> on OS X. With those two repos enabled, shouldn't I see the GnuCash  
>>> 2 source?
>>>
>>>
>>> Des
>>>
>>>
>> You do need to do 'fink selfupdate' after enabling unstable to get  
>> the package descriptions for the unstable tree. And in Fink  
>> Commander, you may have to ask it to reindex to get the new  
>> descriptions to show up there. I think FC's menu command is just  
>> Index, and it might be on a submenu.
>> Dave
>
> Dave,
>
> Thanks again. I decided to retry via Terminal, but still don't get  
> anywhere:
>
> macbook:~ des$ fink selfupdate
> Password:
>
> The file "CURRENT-FINK-10.5" already exists.
>
> (1)	Delete it and download again
> (2)	Assume it is a partial download and try to continue
> (3)	Don't download, use existing file
>
> How do you want to proceed? [1]
> curl --connect-timeout 30 -f -L -A 'fink/0.27.13' -O http://www.finkproject.org/CURRENT-FINK-10.5
>  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time      
> Time  Current
>                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent     
> Left  Speed
>  0    11    0    11    0     0     30      0 --:--:-- --:--:--  
> --:--:--     0
>
> You already have the package descriptions from the latest Fink point  
> release. (installed:0.9.0 available:10.5-0.9.0)

I think this is the sticking issue -- 'point release' means you're  
stuck on the original binary distribution only.

Try 'fink selfupdate-rsync' and see if that unsticks it. After a  
successful selfupdate-rsync, you should only have to use selfupdate.

> ...

Dave
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David Reiser
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