Fink – Upgrading Fink for Mac OS X 10.2
Frank mentioned he was installing Fink and it turns out there are instructions for both new users and upgraders. I’m taking the plunge now. I have been using CVS updates for ages now, so I’m not sure if this will make any difference.
Only a couple of missing files were listed: encouraging, I think:
mozilla – /sw/lib/mozilla/chrome/user-locales.rdf
mozilla – /sw/lib/mozilla/chrome/user-skins.rdf
net-snmp – /sw/bin/snmpinform
I’ll reinstall those two packages and see what transpires.
The following 2 packages will be reinstalled:
mozilla net-snmp
curl -f -L -O ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/mozilla/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/src/mozilla-source-1.1.tar.gz
curl: (9) Access denied: Sorry, the maximum number of allowed clients (150) already connected.
### execution of curl failed, exit code 9
Downloading the file “mozilla-source-1.1.tar.gz” failed.
(1) Give up
(2) Retry the same mirror
(3) Retry another mirror
How do you want to proceed? [2]
curl -f -L -O ftp://ftp.tux.org/pub/net/mozilla/mozilla/releases/mozilla1.1/src/mozilla-source-1.1.tar.gz
curl: (9) Access denied: Sorry, the maximum number of allowed clients (150) already connected.
### execution of curl failed, exit code 9
Downloading the file “mozilla-source-1.1.tar.gz” failed.
So why doesn’t fink/curl just keep trying til it gets the file? what’s the point of having a list of mirrors if I have to tell it to try another one?
By contrast, I installed vim on one of my FreeBSD machine this week ,and in addition to the source tarball, it needed 183 patch files. Did I have to approve or monitor each download? Not hardly.