Fink Binary on OS X 10.5

[Des Dougan]

David Reiser wrote:
> 
> 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
> -- 
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net
> 
> 
> 
> 

Dave,

macbook:~ des$ fink selfupdate-rsync
Password:

  Please note: the command 'fink selfupdate' should be used for routine 
updating; you only need to use 'fink selfupdate-cvs' or 'fink 
selfupdate-rsync' if you are changing your update method.

Failed: Sorry, fink doesn't support rsync updating in the 10.5 
distribution at present.


Should I try building Fink from source instead?


Regards,

Des


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