Re: [Fink-i18n] [translation] Fwd: web/xml/news news.en.xml,1.16,1.17

[Alexander K. H. <ak...@co...>]

On May 26, 2005, at 4:41 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:

> Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
> []
>>     Clarify that _all_ unstable Tiger updates require "fink reinstall
>>     fink",
>>     not just selfupdates from an older version.
>
> The problem with this is that reinstall does *not work* after a
> selfupdate from an older version in 10.3. As has been shown a couple of
> times on the lists, what happens is the following:
>
> - Distribution is 10.3 and fink is at an older version.
> - User runs "fink selfupdate"
> - New version of fink gets downloaded and installed. At this point,
> Distribution is still 10.3, the new fink*.deb gets copied to
> /sw/fink/10.3/. At the end of installation, the new fink switches the
> Distribution to 10.4-transitional
> - User tries "fink reinstall fink". This will fail, because the
> fink*.deb corresponding to the installed version is not found since it
> is not in /sw/fink/dists (=/sw/fink/10.4-transitional)
>
> The reinstall not only does not work here, but is also not needed. What
> is needed is a second selfupdate.
>
> I think what would work in most cases (apart from an upgrade from very 
> old versions of fink) is the sequence
>
> fink selfupdate
> fink rebuild fink
> fink selfupdate
>
> -- 
> Martin
>
>
>

Thanks!  I haven't been following this too closely since I haven't 
adopted Tiger just yet, and based the sequence on a suggestion from 
somewhere (either IRC or on the lists).

-- 
Alexander K. Hansen
Associate Research Scientist, Columbia University
visiting MIT Plasma Science and Fusion Center
Levitated Dipole Experiment
175 Albany Street, NW17-219
Cambridge, MA  02139-4213