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willum448 writes "The binaries for Fink 0.6.1 have been released, this version will now work under Panther." I wonder if selfupdate-cvs will work for me now? I had circular dependency issues before.
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I now have one less reason not to upgrade now...although I must admit, I'm happy with my iBook as is...G4 and Panther two months after I bought it now withstanding...
yeah, I missed the boat on the G4 and Panther...my Toshiba Protege 3110CT decided to die a week before classes started so I needed a laptop *now*...I ended buying an iBook 9/06 or well outside Panther...d'oh...
However, I love my iBook to death and really don't care which tells me I made a good choice.
You mean this circular dependency [befunk.com]? It's been fixed. Also note that they don't recommend doing selfupdate-cvs anymore. Instead, do selfupdate-rsync once to set the mode to rsync and then just do "fink selfupdate" from then on.
Good question. All I know is that earlier this summer, a GUI frontend for DarwinPorts [opendarwin.org] appeared in a Panther build, only to be withdrawn later. I'd like to know what happened too.
Also, what's going on with the metapkg alliance [metapkg.org]? Sounded promising, but doesn't look like there's much activity. Looks like Fink is the de facto packaging standard on OS X for now.
As for dports being in panther, a combination of technical issues (dports not being in a state they were willing to support forever) and political issues, it got pulled. I don't know if there are plans to re-add it in a later release.
As for metapkg, the idea of a huge database of packages kind of died out, but we've started trying to fill out the wiki with useful porting info, hopefully in time it will become more useful.
Also, the mailing lists are there for anyone wanting to post problems, but we're getting about 2 e-mails a month, so it's not really happened much.:)
Metpkg was never going to be a new joint packaging system, only a resource for all of the packaging groups to avoid some duplication of work by sharing patches for ported software and compilation tips and such.
Our university gave out free Panther upgrades to all faculty and staff, which was very decent of them.
However, they only gave us *3* CDs, so I don't have the updated compilers or development environment. I'm assuming, therefore, that I can't do anything to upgrade Fink until I can the tech people here to give me a copy of CD 4, right?
I knew this would come back to bite me, but since I got what amounted to hundreds of dollars worth of free sofware...
I chose the "grab the absolute latest release and build it myself" option, on my dual-usb iBook. I began the process at around 10:00am. It's still going.
Also, be sure to have XCode installed first.
And, for some reason it decided to build an X11 package, even though I installed Panther with X11, and XCode with the X11 SDK.
Anyway, don't do it if you need your computer for anything other than surfing for a day.
The 10.3 Upgrade page ... (Score:5, Informative)
The Fink Panther? (Score:5, Funny)
Dead-ant, dead-ant..... (Score:1, Funny)
ooooooh, sweet (Score:2, Interesting)
Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:5, Interesting)
but the real question is, why did you buy it if panther was coming out?
Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:1)
Re:ooooooh, sweet (Score:2, Informative)
However, I love my iBook to death and really don't care which tells me I made a good choice.
ick (Score:5, Funny)
Well then don't fucking cough in my direction, thank you very much!
Re:ick (Score:3, Informative)
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Circular dependency (Score:5, Informative)
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Oy... (Score:4, Funny)
Oh, wait, you said Fink, not Frink.
Sorry.
Worth noting.... (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Worth noting.... (Score:1)
Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 10.3 (Score:4, Interesting)
What happened with that? Do any developers have any insights?
Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:3, Interesting)
Also, what's going on with the metapkg alliance [metapkg.org]? Sounded promising, but doesn't look like there's much activity. Looks like Fink is the de facto packaging standard on OS X for now.
Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:5, Informative)
As for metapkg, the idea of a huge database of packages kind of died out, but we've started trying to fill out the wiki with useful porting info, hopefully in time it will become more useful.
Also, the mailing lists are there for anyone wanting to post problems, but we're getting about 2 e-mails a month, so it's not really happened much.
Metpkg was never going to be a new joint packaging system, only a resource for all of the packaging groups to avoid some duplication of work by sharing patches for ported software and compilation tips and such.
Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1 (Score:3, Interesting)
Good try mods! (Score:1, Flamebait)
Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked (Score:4, Informative)
I didn't. Then I installed fink. Upon adding add'l software via fink, I found that I needed the SDK.
So I'm reinstalling Xcode now, w/ the SDK.
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IMPORTANT for iBook Users! (Score:2)
Also, be sure to have XCode installed first.
And, for some reason it decided to build an X11 package, even though I installed Panther with X11, and XCode with the X11 SDK.
Anyway, don't do it if you need your computer for anything other than surfing for a day.