fink-0.34.9 and fink-0.35.0 released. EOL for OS 10.5

fink-0.34.9 and fink-0.35.0 were released on 5 July, 2013.
These releases contain improvements to tar file extraction and Java detection., along with other fixes and enhancements. fink-0.35.0 also formally recognizes
OS 10.8.4.

fink-0.34.9 is the last version that supports OS 10.5 (Leopard).  The Fink Project has officially discontinued support for that OS version.

New new hosting outage

You may have noticed that http://www.finkproject.org is unavailable again.  We regret the inconvenience, believe me.

As before, this also affects distribution of updated package descriptions via the rsync mirrors.  The following two workarounds are available:

1. Use fink selfupdate-cvs to switch to CVS updating, since CVS service is not affected.
2. Use a different rsync mirror.  The following mirrors update directly from CVS and are not affected by the outage:
   rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
rsync://hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
   The easiest option to change this is to edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as a super user (e.g. by using sudo nano /sw/etc/fink.conf) and change the Mirror-rsync line directly.

The disruption also affects the mirroring of package sources.  The following two workarounds are suggested:

1. Use fink configure --mirror and select option 2 at the first prompt, then go through and just hit return to leave everything else unchanged.  This will have fink try to download from the original source first.
2. Use a different master mirror.  The following mirrors  are not affected by the outage:
   http://distfiles.ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/
http://distfiles.hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/
   The easiest option to change this is to edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as a super user (e.g. by using sudo nano /sw/etc/fink.conf) and change the Mirror-master line directly.

http://fink.thetis.ig42.org (also redirected from fink.sourceforge.net) has current content, but doesn’t have the package database or RSS feed.

Check back here for updates.

fink-0.34.7 released

This is a bugfix release to address tar hanging when unpacking sources when fink is run as root.

fink-0.34.6 released

This is a maintenance release to support OS 10.8.3, as well as to fix a couple of other small bugs.

New hosting outage

You may have noticed that http://www.finkproject.org is unavailable again.  We regret the inconvenience, believe me.

As before, this also affects distribution of updated package descriptions via the rsync mirrors.  The following two workarounds are available:

1. Use fink selfupdate-cvs to switch to CVS updating, since CVS service is not affected.
2. Use a different rsync mirror.  The following mirrors update directly from CVS and are not affected by the outage:
   rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
rsync://hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/
   The easiest option to change this is to edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as a super user (e.g. by using sudo nano /sw/etc/fink.conf) and change the Mirror-rsync line directly.

The disruption also affects the mirroring of package sources.  The following two workarounds are suggested:

1. Use fink configure --mirror and select option 2 at the first prompt, then go through and just hit return to leave everything else unchanged.  This will have fink try to download from the original source first.
2. Use a different master mirror.  The following mirrors  are not affected by the outage:
   http://distfiles.ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/
http://distfiles.hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/
   The easiest option to change this is to edit /sw/etc/fink.conf as a super user (e.g. by using sudo nano /sw/etc/fink.conf) and change the Mirror-master line directly.

The online documentation is still available through the Sourceforge CVS browser.   

Check back here for updates.