Re: "Duplicate sources.list entry"
Alexander Hansen <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.os.apple.fink.devel |
|---|---|
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
> On Nov 10, 2015, at 00:19, Max Horn <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi folks, > > sorry for the late reply. > >> On 08.11.2015, at 20:05, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> On Nov 8, 2015, at 02:24, Daniel Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Nov 7, 2015, at 9:35 PM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> > [...] >>> I was getting this too. I still had the line >>> deb http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.11 stable main >>> in my sources.list even after disabling the bindist in fink.conf. Commenting it out seems to work. > > Interesting -- so I did a clean install on 10.11 (I never even had a machine with 10.9 or 10.10, as I just skipped those OS X versions), and said yes to everything -- including bandits -- I was a bit surprised that there already was one for 10.11 and thought "wow, great work, folks". > > >>> >>> Because I had the bindist active before updating to 10.11 it seems fink just changed the line from 10.10 to 10.11. Could this be because I updated my OS before fink? I did have to manually download and install the newer fink version because I didn’t update it first. >>> >>> Daniel >>> >> >> Disabling the bindist in fink.conf just disables usage of the bindist by the “fink” command (or at least that’s the intention). >> >> Without seeing a sources.list I can’t actually say anything. If I had to guess, that guess would be that there is an entry under "# Official binary distribution: download location for packages # from the latest release” and a duplicate entry elsewhere in that file at the beginning or at the bottom. > > Yes, there is such an entry. Bingo. > >> >> Also, the "Install Fink.tool" script may still be creating a bandits entry at the bottom of sources.list as a holdover from the period when we had a 10.9 bindist but it wasn’t enabled in the fink code, so if you used that on a clean install you might be getting a duplication message. > > Bingo, that's what happened. I actually never knew about that tool, but when I upgraded to 10.11 a short time ago, I thought to do it all properly and thus followed the instructions on our website. > > First thin I noticed was that http://www.finkproject.org/download/index.php does not yet list 10.11. > > But then on > http://www.finkproject.org/download/srcdist.php > it does list 10.11, and explicitly recommends that install tool. Which I dutifully used. > > So, I am pretty sure it will happen to other people... Can we get that fixed? Either by fixing that tool, or by not recommending it in the first place? > > > > Cheers, > Max I just went to a fair amount of effort with our clunky documentation system _to_ recommend the tool, so I’d rather get it fixed. https://github.com/fink/scripts/issues/35 <https://github.com/fink/scripts/issues/35> —akh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [email protected] List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel