Fink

Version 0.29.19 of the fink package manager has just been released to the unstable tree. This version of fink features more verbose output from 'fink --version' for debugging purposes, as well as recognizing OS 10.6.6. (Versions ... [More] 0.29.17 and 0.29.18 work fine on 10.6.6, however). It is expected that this version will migrate to the stable tree soon, provided that there are no reports of bad behavior from unstable tree users. [Less]

We are experiencing a temporary failure in some of the rsync mirrors. If you have not seen updates in a while, then you may wish to change your rsync mirror for the time being by editing /sw/etc/fink.conf as a superuser and ... [More] replacing the line that starts with Mirror-rsync with Mirror-rsync: rsync://fink.gecko.ig42.org/finkinfo/ or Mirror-rsync: rsync://hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ or Mirror-rsync: rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo or Mirror-rsync: rsync://ams.nl.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ If you prefer, you can select the latter three of the above mirrors via fink configure as well: choose Asia (option 2) as your continent, Japan (10) as your country, and rsync://distfiles.hnd.jp.asi.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ (2) as the Rsync Selfupdate mirror; or choose Europe (4), then Germany (13) and rsync://ber.de.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ (3) as the rsync mirror, or Netherlands (27) and rsync://distfiles.ams.nl.eu.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo/ (2) as your rsync mirror. [Less]

The Fink project was started in the waning days of December 2000 by Christoph Pfisterer, using the "public beta" release of Mac OS X. Within a year, versions 10.0 and 10.1 of OS X had been released, and Fink usage took off. Our founder chrisp ... [More] stepped away from the project in November 2001, and the community took over. The Fink community is the heart of Fink, involving both package maintainers and Fink users, as well as the small core team which tries to keep the overall system in good shape. The success of this community in keeping Fink viable and active over ten years is really quite remarkable! Let's all join together to keep Fink going for a long time to come. How long? In the memorable words of Buzz Lightyear: To Infinity and Beyond! [Less]

fink-0.29.16 has been released to the unstable tree. This version of fink updates the versions of packages used for bootstrapping. It is planned to add this version of fink to the stable tree shortly.

KDE-3.5.10 and GNOME-2.28 have been added to the stable tree, along with updates to some important dependencies.

dpkg-1.10.21-1229 has been added to stable. This revision automatically cleans up libtool archive (.la) files, which have historically caused problems for folks upgrading from 10.5 to 10.6.

fink-0.29.15 has been released to the unstable tree. This version of fink contains fixes to the system-java-dev virtual package generation. Users will also need to download an appropriate version of the Java Developer Package ... [More] from The Apple Developer Connection site for all of the the system-java-dev packages to show up on 10.5 and 10.6. It is planned to add this version of fink to the stable tree shortly. [Less]

The recent 10.5 and 10.6 Java updates (APPLE-SA-2010-10-20-1 Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3 and APPLE-SA-2010-10-20-2 Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 8 ) change the Java file configuration in such a manner that fink no longer ... [More] generates the system-java16-dev package on 10.5 and all of the system-java-dev packages on 10.6. Users may wish to hold off on applying this update until a version of fink which addresses this issue is released. The issue does not affect packages which are currently installed, but will prevent java-dependent packages from building. You will want to download an appropriate version of the Java Developer Package from The Apple Developer Connection site. [Less]

fink-0.29.14 has been released to the unstable tree. This version of fink contains, among other new features, an aria2 option for DownloadMethod, to allow the use of the aria2 download accelerator (available via Fink), and a ... [More] fix for the infamous "node exists" error. It is planned to add this version to the stable tree shortly. [Less]

The recent 10.5 and 10.6 Java updates (APPLE-SA-2010-10-20-1 Java for Mac OS X 10.6 Update 3 and APPLE-SA-2010-10-20-2 Java for Mac OS X 10.5 Update 8 ) change the Java file configuration in such a manner that fink no longer ... [More] generates the system-java16-dev package on 10.5 and all of the system-java-dev packages on 10.6. Users may wish to hold off on applying this update until a version of fink which addresses this issue is released. You will want to download an appropriate version of the Java Developer Package from The Apple Developer Connection site. [Less]