Re: [Fink-beginners] Proxy errors

[Michael D. <fr...@up...>]

On 23 Apr 2007, at 17:56, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> I don't use a proxy, so I'm not exactly sure what's going on.
> My understanding is that apt-get is supposed to pick up the proxy  
> settings from fink.conf.
> Users have reported problems in the past in which the binary  
> distribution wasn't usable for them, however.


Pretty sure I grabbed the binary version, but I am now going to  
investigate grabbing the source - is it a painless process?


>
> When you're updating the descriptions, are you doing this in Fink  
> Commander, or from the Terminal?  And what OS and fink version are  
> you on?  e.g.
>
> sw_vers


sw_vers reports the following:
ProductName:    Mac OS X
ProductVersion: 10.4.9
BuildVersion:   8P2137



>
> and
>
> fink --version


reports the following:
Package manager version: 0.24.17
Distribution version: 0.8.1



>
> 10.4.9 did some nasty things to its sudo that can cause older Fink  
> stuff to be unhappy.


Ohrly?

So maybe that is my problem?