Posted by
pudge
on from the bring-on-the-fink dept.
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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The 10.3 Upgrade page ...
by
valmont
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· Score: 5, Informative
The Fink Panther?
by
CptTripps
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· Score: 5, Funny
...someone had to say it...
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Dead-ant, dead-ant.....
by
AtariAmarok
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· Score: 1, Funny
Fink panther? Now I won't get the Pink Panther tune out of my head.
-- Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
ooooooh, sweet
by
grocer
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· Score: 2, Interesting
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...
Re:ooooooh, sweet
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 5, Interesting
from what I hear, you got a coupon.
but the real question is, why did you buy it if panther was coming out?
I think he is implying that he is missing both the G4 and panther.
Re:ooooooh, sweet
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grocer
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· Score: 2, Informative
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.
-- I'm a big retard who forgot to log out of Slashdot on Mike's computer! LOOK AT ME.
Circular dependency
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lovelace
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· Score: 5, Informative
You mean this circular dependency? 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.
Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 10.3
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Sebby
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· Score: 3, Interesting
As I remember, Panter was supposed to include some sort of package manager; this was mentioned on MacSlash recently I think.
What happened with that? Do any developers have any insights?
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Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked?
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King+Babar
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· Score: 3, Informative
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...
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Babar
Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked
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admiralfrijole
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· Score: 5, Informative
sign up for a free ADC membership, and you can download them for free.
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Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1
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phch
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· Score: 3, Interesting
Good question. All I know is that earlier this summer, a GUI frontend for DarwinPorts 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? 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
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mr100percent
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· Score: 2, Interesting
Re:Wasn't there supposed to be a package manager 1
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Ranger+Rick
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· Score: 5, Informative
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.
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Ummm
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 0
I've been running this update for a few weeks before 10.3 came out... this ISN'T new... gcc 3.3 support nor 10.3 support... what is new is that a binary download exist... and since the that previous update selfupdate-cvs worked but rsync update support was added...
so now you run either selfupdate-cvs or selfupdate-rsync then everytime after that you just need to do selfupdate...
still if your using 10.3 some packages are missing.
I've been running this since I installed 10.3 when it was released
fink -V Package manager version: 0.16.0 Distribution version: 0.6.1.cvs
Re:Ummm
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Anonymous Coward
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· Score: 1, Informative
You must not be doing what you think. it would not build on 10.3, even the fink people said so.
Re:Free Panther upgrade had no disk 4; am I finked
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tf23
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· Score: 3, Informative
when you install that, you need to look into doing a custom install if you want the X11 SDK installed.
I didn't. Then I installed fink. Upon adding add'l software via fink, I found that I needed the SDK.
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.
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Fink panther? Now I won't get the Pink Panther tune out of my head.
Don't blame Durga. I voted for Centauri.
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...
I had circular dependency issues before.
Well then don't fucking cough in my direction, thank you very much!
You mean this circular dependency? 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.
..with the convoiting and the upgrading and the hey-hey and the click-click, mmm-whey...
Oh, wait, you said Fink, not Frink.
Sorry.
that this is also for 10.2 with the gcc 3.3 update to the dev tools...
You should use AdiumX on your Mac.
What happened with that? Do any developers have any insights?
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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...
Babar
sign up for a free ADC membership, and you can download them for free.
e to the pi i plus one equals zero
Good question. All I know is that earlier this summer, a GUI frontend for DarwinPorts 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? 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.
WWJD? JWRTFM!!!
I've been running this update for a few weeks before 10.3 came out... this ISN'T new... gcc 3.3 support nor 10.3 support... what is new is that a binary download exist... and since the that previous update selfupdate-cvs worked but rsync update support was added...
so now you run either selfupdate-cvs or selfupdate-rsync then everytime after that you just need to do selfupdate...
still if your using 10.3 some packages are missing.
I've been running this since I installed 10.3 when it was released
fink -V
Package manager version: 0.16.0
Distribution version: 0.6.1.cvs
when you install that, you need to look into doing a custom install if you want the X11 SDK installed.
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.
http://slashdot.org/~tf23/journal
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.
Good try at the modding, but my score is till +3, so there!
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fink is crap, and all the developers are a bunch of ass clowns
see also: leimy, softkid, feanor
and that "max horn" guy is completely retarded