Re: [Fink-beginners] manual selfupdate and then ...

[Ben A. <bpa...@ma...>]

On Feb 28, 2008, at 6:38 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:

> Ben Abbott wrote:
>> I'm running OS X 10.4.11 (PPC) behind a corporate firewall, with no
>> external excess to cvs or rysnc :-(
>>
>> So I downloaded to fink-0.28.0.tar.gz, unpacked and ran ./inject.pl
>>
>> It all appeared to go ok. However, when I attempted a self-update I
>> got the message below.
>>
>> WARNING: unable to determine last selfupdate time. You should run
>> 'fink selfupdate' to get the latest package descriptions.
>> No packages to install
>>
>> In the event it may be relevant the output from inject.pl is below.
>>
>> Any ideas what I might do to get back up an running?
>>
>> Ben
>>
>>
> I don't think inject.pl does everything that a selfupdate would.  As
> best as I can tell, that just updates fink itself.  A few ideas:
>
> Can you get binaries?
>
> Have you tried the cvs-proxy package?
>
> Also, if you can get binaries, you could use an unofficial binary
> distribution:  http://fink.sodan.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/item/14
>

I've tried the cvs-proxy package but it failed.

Thanks for the jp link. I'll give it a try tomorrow.

Ben