Re: [translation] Fwd: web/xml/news news.en.xml,1.16,1.17

Alexander K. Hansen wrote:
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>     Clarify that _all_ unstable Tiger updates require "fink reinstall
>     fink",
>     not just selfupdates from an older version.

The problem with this is that reinstall does *not work* after a
selfupdate from an older version in 10.3. As has been shown a couple of
times on the lists, what happens is the following:

- Distribution is 10.3 and fink is at an older version.
- User runs "fink selfupdate"
- New version of fink gets downloaded and installed. At this point,
Distribution is still 10.3, the new fink*.deb gets copied to
/sw/fink/10.3/. At the end of installation, the new fink switches the
Distribution to 10.4-transitional
- User tries "fink reinstall fink". This will fail, because the
fink*.deb corresponding to the installed version is not found since it
is not in /sw/fink/dists (=/sw/fink/10.4-transitional)

The reinstall not only does not work here, but is also not needed. What
is needed is a second selfupdate.

I think what would work in most cases (apart from an upgrade from very 
old versions of fink) is the sequence

fink selfupdate
fink rebuild fink
fink selfupdate

-- 
Martin





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