Finkers: a blog about Fink

Build problems? Try reducing MaxBuildJobs.

finkakh — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:53:12 +0000

If you have fink-0.31.2 or later, and you experience a problem building a package, particularly if it looks like a file is missing, one quick thing to try is using fink configure and choose to use one processor.

If the package builds, let the maintainer know that you were able to build it with a single processor but not more, and the package will be marked to force builds to use a single thread.

Filed under: usage

fink-0.31.3 released

finkakh — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 19:27:27 +0000

fink-0.31.3 was released to the 10.4/stable and 10.7/stable trees on 12 October, 2011.

Recognizes OS 10.7.2 as a supported version.
Recognizes Growl 1.3 from the App Store.

Filed under: release

fink-0.31.2 released

finkakh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:11:37 +0000

fink-0.31.2 was released to the 10.4/unstable and 10.7/stable trees on 26 September, 2011.

Packages are now built by default using the number of parallel threads specified by the MaxBuildJobs field set via fink configure.
Maintainers no longer have to specify a particular version of fink to use a PatchFile.
Fixes a Perl issue.

It is expected that the package will be added to 10.4/stable shortly.

Filed under: release

fink-0.31.1 released

finkakh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:41:19 +0000

fink-0.31.1 was released to the 10.4/unstable and 10.7/stable trees on 11 September, 2011. and added to the 10.4/stable tree on 26 September, 2001.

It fixes an issue in which 32-bit machines running OS 10.6 wouldn’t be allowed to bootstrap, even though this is a fully supported configuration.
It also provides a more robust scheme to report on the Xcode version in error messages than in prior fink versions.
Finally, OS 10.7.1 is recognized as a supported OS version.

Filed under: release

Fink and Lion

finkakh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:33:06 +0000

OS X 10.7 “Lion” was released on July 20, 2011, along with fink-0.31.0. We want to let Fink
users know what to expect if updating.

First, the fink program itself will not run on a system which has been upgraded to Lion, so it is not possible currently to update a Fink installation in place. However, is possible to use the dpkg program to extract a list of the Fink packages which are currently installed so that they can be reinstalled
under 10.7. Use

dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > fink_packages.txt

before updating to 10.7 to dump the package names to a text file, and

cat fink_packages.txt | xargs fink install

once you have installed Fink on 10.7.

To upgrade Fink after upgrading to Lion, one will have to bootstrap
Fink again, using a tarball for fink-0.31.0 or later. If you want to use the same directory (e.g. /sw) for Fink that you were using on 10.6, you’ll need to remove that before bootstrapping, since the bootstrap doesn’t allow you to overwrite an existing Fink tree.

Second, due to lots of changes under the hood, there currently are many fewer
Fink packages which build under 10.7 as opposed to 10.6. Thus, even if you’ve extracted a list of Fink packages which had been installed under 10.6, some of them may not yet be installable under 10.7. We are currently creating a database showing which packages can be successfully installed under 10.7, and work is ongoing to add packages.

10.7 introduces several drastic changes to how the system works. While this may
cause a slight delay in full Fink functionality in the short term, it will
make Fink work better in the future.

Filed under: administrative, release, usage

fink-0.30-2 released, and the end of OS 10.4 support.

finkakh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 19:27:56 +0000

fink-0.30.2 was released to the 10.4/unstable tree on 11 July, 2011, and added to the 10.4/stable tree on 15 July, 2011.
It is likely that this will be the last version that supports OS 10.4.

Filed under: release

fink-0.30.1 released

finkakh — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 15:06:27 +0000

The fink-0.30.x series is intended to be the last to support OS 10.4 (Tiger).

fink-0.30.0 was released to the unstable tree on 30 April, 2011.

fink-0.30.1 was released to the unstable tree on 28 June, 2011. This is a minor update which properly recognizes OS 10.6.8. It is planned to release it to stable soon.

Addendum: fink-0.30.1 was added to the stable tree on 2 July, 2011.

Filed under: release

Using multiple Fink distributions.

finkakh — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 20:17:40 +0000

There are various reasons that you might want to have more than one Fink tree on your system:

Testing packages on both the i386 and the x86_64 architectures.
To use a package that is only available on i386 or x86_64 when you primarily are using the other architecture.
To set up a clean Fink tree for test purposes.

Setting up another distribution is relatively straightforward.

Follow the Fink source install instructions, but stop before the point of running pathsetup.sh.
You are only going to want to have one Fink tree active when you’re building packages. You can switch between trees by editing $HOME/.profile (or whichever startup file your Fink setup is using). For example, change
```
test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh
```
to
```
test -r /sw64/bin/init.sh && . /sw64/bin/init.sh
```
if you have a Fink tree in /sw and another one in /sw64. Then start a new terminal window to load the new environment settings.
To use executables from one Fink tree while the other is active, append its executable directories to your PATH. An example from a $HOME/.profile would be:
```
test -r /sw64/bin/init.sh && . /sw64/bin/init.sh
export PATH=$PATH:/sw/bin:/sw/sbin
```
Note: some packages use executable scripts for build configuration purposes, so you may need to remove the second Fink executable directory from the PATH if you’re having problems.

Filed under: misc, usage

fink-0.29.21 released.

finkakh — Thu, 24 Mar 2011 15:40:53 +0000

Version 0.29.21 of the fink package manager has just been released to the unstable tree. It contains the following new features:

It recognizes OS 10.6.7 rather than giving a warning message.
It fixes a situation where fink index won’t function.

~~Unless other updates are made in the near term, it is expected that this version of fink will be added to the stable tree shortly.~~
It was added to the stable tree on 2001-03-29.

release

fink-0.29.20 released.

finkakh — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 14:54:38 +0000

Version 0.29.20 of the fink package manager has just been released to the unstable tree. This version of fink fixes an issue with X11 detection against recent versions of Xquartz on Leopard.

~~Unless other updates are made in the near term, it is expected that this version of fink will be added to the stable tree shortly.~~

It was added to the stable tree on 24-March-2011.

Filed under: release