Re: [Fink-beginners] Very few binaries available for Fink on 10.4 Intel

[David R. <dbr...@ea...>]

On Dec 22, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Brendan Simon wrote:

> Hi,
>
> There seems to be very few binary packages available via fink (apt- 
> get)
> with 10.4 Intel.  I would have thought that this would be the one of  
> the
> most popular platforms.
> Is my impression correct or have I misconfigured somehow?
> Maybe something to do with mirrors in Australia ??
>
> What I would like to be able to do is:
>
>    $ sudo apt-get install gnuchash2
>    $ sudo apt-get install net-snmp-unified
>
>
> Are there no binary packages for these?
> http://pdb.finkproject.org/pdb/package.php/gnucash2 seems to suggest
> that they are.  I do have the unstable tree in my sources.list.
>
> BTW, why is gnuchash2 in crypto ???  Weird !!!
>
> BTW, I've also tried "fink -b -y install gnuchas2" and "fink -b -y
> install net-snmp-unified" but they both fail at various points :(
>
> I don't seem to be having much luck with fink.  It doesn't seem to be
> anywhere near as idiot-proof as Debian apt.
>
> My /sw/etc/apt/sources.list file is:
>
>    k9m:~ brendan$ cat /sw/etc/apt/sources.list
>    # Local modifications should either go above this line, or at the  
> end.
>    #
>    # Default APT sources configuration for Fink, written by the fink
>    program
>
>    # Local package trees - packages built from source locally
>    # NOTE: this is automatically kept in sync with the Trees: line in
>    # /sw/etc/fink.conf
>    # NOTE: run 'fink scanpackages' to update the corresponding
>    Packages.gz files
>    deb file:/sw/fink local main
>    deb file:/sw/fink stable main crypto
>    deb file:/sw/fink unstable main crypto
>
>    # Official binary distribution: download location for packages
>    # from the latest release
>    deb http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist 10.4/release main crypto
>
>    # Official binary distribution: download location for updated
>    # packages built between releases
>    deb http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindist 10.4/current main crypto
>
>    # Put local modifications to this file below this line, or at the  
> top.
>
>
> Thanks for any help or pointers,
> Cheers, Brendan.
It has been a while since there was a binary distribution built.

gnucash2 isn't available in binary because out of it's 200+  
dependencies, 15 or so aren't in the stable branch at versions  
required by the recent versions of gnucash. Once the great gnome  
update happens (one of these days, probably a month or 2), there's a  
chance I can get gnucash into stable. Which should then make it  
eligible for binary distribution.

gnucash2 is in crypto because the aqbanking16 dependency utilizes  
crypto for the online banking. So gnucash2 must be in crypto too.  
Happily the availability of 'unified' packages (libofx for manual  
importing ofx files) means that eventually I can put together a non- 
crypto version of gnucash which will do everything except connect  
directly to financial institutions.

Dave
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