Re: [Fink-beginners] updating to gcc3.3

[Robert T W. <ro...@cc...>]

I've run fink reinstall fink without difficulty.  I don't know if 
this will fix your difficulties though.

At 5:02 PM -0600 10/31/03, bu...@ka... wrote:
>Thanks Robert, that didn't have the info I needed, but I think I'm 
>getting closer!
>
>Robert quoted the FAQ:
>>If you want Fink to use all of unstable, edit /sw/etc/fink.conf, 
>>add unstable/main and unstable/crypto to the beginning of the 
>>Trees: line, and then run fink selfupdate; fink index.
>
>The stuff in the Trees: line appears towards the end of the url
>
>Mine looks at:  
>rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/10.2/unstable/main/finkinfo
>Yours looks at: 
>rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/10.2-gcc3.3/stable/crypto/finkinfo
>
>Basically, this looks like rsync://[update 
>site]/finkinfo/[distribution?]/[stuff from the Trees line]/finkinfo
>
>so in order to make mine look like yours, I changed the line 
>Distribution in the /sw/etc/fink.conf file to 10.2-gcc3.3 and at 
>first it seemed to have worked.  When I run self update the messages 
>that appear on the screen are the same as yours.
>
>However, fink selfupdate found nothing to install.  Neither did fink 
>update-all.   In fact, I have the exact same number of packages as 
>before I did this.  (and my other problem, with abiword wanting to 
>install xfree again isn't fixed either).  So maybe I have just 
>obfuscated the problem.
>
>Thanks for helping, I know we're getting closer!  :)
>
>-- mary