Re: Fwd: [cvs] web/xml/news news.en.xml,1.87,1.88

monipol <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:27:53 -0300
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
There's a typo on the download URL. Please change it to

http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/files/fink/0.29.9/fink-0.29.9.tar.gz/download

instead.

On 28/08/2009, at 07:44, monipol wrote:

> Dave: I'm forwarding your commit to -i18n.
>
> Begin forwarded message:
>> Modified Files:
>> 	news.en.xml
>> Log Message:
>> announce fink on 10.6
>>
>>
>> Index: news.en.xml
>> ===================================================================
>> RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/web/xml/news/news.en.xml,v
>> retrieving revision 1.87
>> retrieving revision 1.88
>> diff -u -d -r1.87 -r1.88
>> --- news.en.xml	18 Aug 2009 05:48:50 -0000	1.87
>> +++ news.en.xml	28 Aug 2009 09:21:39 -0000	1.88
>> @@ -4,6 +4,62 @@
>>  <cvsid>$Id$</cvsid>
>>
>>  <newsitem>
>> +    <date>2009-08-28</date>
>> +    <headline>Fink on 10.6.</headline>
>> +    <body>
>> +      <p>
>> +Fink is ready to be used on Snow Leopard (OS X v. 10.6).  Users will
>> +need to choose between a 32-bit version of fink and a 64-bit
>> version of fink
>> +for 10.6.
>> +The 32-bit version has more packages available at the present time,
>> but
>> +the 64-bit version represents the future direction for OS X and for
>> fink;
>> +individual users must make this decision on their own.  It will
>> <em>not</em>
>> +be possible to "upgrade" from 32-bit to 64-bit (or vice versa),
>> without
>> +completely reinstalling fink.
>> +</p><p>
>> +At the moment, two methods are available for installing Fink on
>> Snow Leopard.
>> +A binary installer is not available, so it is important to
>> +<em>first install XCode from the Optional Installs folder on the  
>> Snow
>> +Leopard disk.</em>
>> +Users wanting the 64-bit version, or users upgrading directly from
>> 10.4 or
>> +earlier, must bootstrap fink from the distribution tarball (version
>> +0.29.9 or later), available at <varlink
>> +url="http://sourceforge.net/projects/fink/files/fink/0.29.8/fink-0.29.8.tar.gz/download
>> ">sourceforge.net</varlink>; installation instructions are
>> +<varlink url="download/srcdist.php">here</varlink>.
>> +On the other hand, users can upgrade directly from
>> +10.5 to the 32-bit version, following the instructions below.
>> +(One warning: users who have installed a development version of fink
>> +from CVS rather than a released version may encounter trouble;  
>> please
>> +downgrade your fink to a released version, and remove stray .deb
>> files
>> +of higher versions, before beginning.)
>> +</p><p>
>> +To upgrade, follow a four step process.
>> +<em>Step 1:</em> edit the file <code>/sw/etc/fink.conf</code>,
>> +adding a line to it which reads <code>NoAutoIndex: true</code>
>> (You may
>> +need to use <code>sudo</code> to obtain the correct permissions to
>> edit
>> +this file.)  <em>Step 2:</em>
>> +run the command <code>fink reinstall fink</code> in
>> +order to tell fink that you are now on 10.6.  (If you encounter a
>> message
>> +about package database corruption, run <code>fink index -f</code>  
>> and
>> +try this step again.)  <em>Step 3:</em>
>> +run the command <code>fink update
>> +fink</code> to get the latest fink for 10.6.  <em>Step 4:</em> run
>> the command
>> +<code>fink install perl588-core</code> to replace the version of  
>> perl
>> +which Apple changed during the OS X upgrade, in case you have
>> +fink packages which depend on it.
>> +</p><p>After the upgrade, you may wish to run <code>fink configure</
>> code>
>> +to do some cleanup.
>> +</p><p>Almost all of the packages in fink's stable tree will
>> compile on
>> +10.6, but be warned that only a fraction of the 10.5 packages are
>> currently
>> +available for 10.6.  In the near future, fink's package database
>> will be
>> +updated to include information about packages for 10.6; you can
>> check there
>> +to see if your favorite package is ready.
>> +</p>
>> +</body>
>> +  </newsitem>
>> +
>> +
>> +  <newsitem>
>>    <date>2009-07-25</date>
>>    <headline>Fink Core Group changes.</headline>
>>    <body>
>
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