Re: [Fink-devel] some days are better than others - intel mac troubles?

[Alexander H. <ak...@fi...>]

Kurt Schwehr wrote:
> <begin tired rant> 
> I agree with all of those comments.  Mostly I was just
> grumbling that fink often gets blamed when it is not
> at fault.  Most likely something went wrong with
> something in the main apple packaging stuff.  Just
> discovered that my main make has installed the 2007-02
> patch 2x and still thinks it needs it even with a
> receipt for the install sitting on the system.
> </end tired rant>
>
> BTW, fink rules... 
>
> -kurt
>
>   
Yeah--I responded for the benefit of googlers.  :-)

> --- Alexander Hansen <ak...@fi...> wrote:
>  
>   
>> Ummm...Fink doesn't support migration from PowerPC,
>> and won't generate 
>> PowerPC code on an Intel box.  Normally the failure
>> mode with Fink is 
>> that it just doesn't update stuff, because dpkg gets
>> unhappy.
>>
>> Those files are from X11, and could even be due to
>> not updating Apple's 
>> X11 to an Intel version.
>>
>> I think your friend is way off base blaming Fink.
>>
>>