Fink Binary on OS X 10.5

[Des Dougan]

David Reiser wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2008, at 5:28 PM, 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.
> 
> oops. There's a bug in the installer. To get off point releases at the  
> moment you have to:
> 
> fink selfupdate-cvs
> 
> At this point you should finally have access to the source trees. It's  
> a good idea to go ahead and run
> 
> fink selfupdate-rsync
> 
> right away to switch update methods back to rsync. cvs can be a real  
> pain and is only recommended for fink packagers/developers and folks  
> behind firewalls that don't allow rsync port traffic.
> 
> Anyone reading this more than a couple days from now should be able to  
> use the standard instructions for getting off point releases:
> 
> run the installer, then run the path setup command:
> /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
> (may not be necessary, but shouldn't hurt)
> and finally clean up and tell it to pay attention to the source lists:
> fink scanpackages; fink update-all; fink selfupdate-rsync
> 
> Dave
> --
> David Reiser
> dbreiser at earthlink.net

David,

That worked. It's currently installing.

Many thanks.


Des


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