News
2006-08-19: Server down; workarounds available Update: 21 August 2006: The server has been restored.
The server which hosts four important
fink services (the rsync update, the binary distribution, the "master mirror"
of source files, and the package database) is down at the moment. We are
hoping that the server will be restored as early as Monday, August 21,
but are providing these workarounds for use during the period of outage.
To update fink, you must either select an rsync mirror other than the
primary one (see the next paragraph), or use the command
fink selfupdate-cvs. You only need to give this command
once; subsequent updates will continue to be performed using CVS.
When the server is restored, you can revert to rsync updating by means
of the command fink selfupdate-rsync.
To work around the lack of the binary distribution, and the "master mirror"
of source files, run the command fink configure. You should
accept the default answers to all of the questions, except the following:
when asked "Should Fink try to download pre-compiled packages from
the binary distribution if available?" answer "no" (to disable the binary
distribution); when asked if you want to change the mirror settings,
answer "yes", and then you will be asked "What mirror order should fink use
when downloading sources?". The answer is "2: Search Master Mirrors last"
(to disable the automatic attempts to use the master mirror server).
Finally, if you have decided to stick with rsync for updates, when asked to
"Choose a mirror for 'RSync SelfUpdate'" you should choose one other than
rsync://master.us.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/. Unfortunately, other choices
might not be available to you if you are in the U.S.
Finally, to use the package database during the outage, you can connect
to this backup copy of the
package database which is a few weeks out of date.
2006-07-24: Reminder: "10.4-transitional" Tree Unsupported on August 1st, 2006
The "10.4-transitional" tree was created as an interim solution to the issues of
incompatibilities between binaries made using GCC 3.3 (the default Mac OS X 10.3
compiler) and GCC 4.0 (the default Mac OS X 10.4 compiler). Now that the work to
move Fink to using GCC 4.0 is essentially finished, we will be stopping official
support of the "10.4-transitional" tree in favor of the "10.4" tree as of August
1st, 2006.
You should not need to do anything if "fink --version" prints "0.8.1.cvs" or "0.8.1.rsync".
As we mentioned previously,
there are 2 ways to make the switch to the supported "10.4" tree.
The simplest way is to remove your Fink installation by deleting it and
installing fresh using the 0.8.1 installer available from the download page.
Alternately, to preserve your Fink installation, download the
upgrade script
and read the README for instructions on how to upgrade your existing installation in-place.
This will re-build your Fink installation from source, upgrading everything in the process.
Be warned, it can take a lot of time, depending on your fink installation!
Feedback on the upgrade script has been very positive; many users have already
made the switch. If you have problems, please feel free to mail your issues to
the discussion lists.
2006-07-24: Fink Birds-of-a-Feather at OSCON 2006 Are you at OSCON 2006? Want to meet up?
Benjamin Reed (RangerRick on #fink)
is at OSCON and is interested in meeting anyone who wants to hang out and talk about
Fink, or even just meet for the heck of it.
Meet us in room F150 on Wednesday, July 26th at 8:30pm and we'll talk about Fink,
Mac OS X, and anything else that takes our fancy.
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Status
Fink 0.8.1 was released
on 15 June 2006.
This release includes source and binary packages
as well as binary installers for both PowerPC and Intel,
all intended for users of OS X version 10.4.
Fink 0.7.2 (for OS X 10.3), 0.6.4 (for OS X 10.2),
and 0.4.1 (for OS X 10.1) also remain available.
Resources
If you're looking for support, check out the help page.
That page also lists various options to help the project and submit
feedback.
If you are looking for the source files which correspond to
binaries distributed by the Fink project, please consult
this page for
instructions.
The Fink project is hosted by
SourceForge.
In addition to hosting this site and the downloads, SourceForge
provides the following resources for the project:
Please note that to use some of these resources (ie, to report a bug or request a new Fink package), you
will need to be logged in to your SourceForge account. If you do not have one, you can sign up for one
for free on the SourceForge web site.
Additional resources hosted outside SourceForge include:
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