It is working now, thanks! :)

Regards,
nunikasi

2015-12-06 20:40 GMT+01:00 TheSin <[email protected]>:
> could you try it again and let me know if it’s fixed now, thank you.
> ---
> TS
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> Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos!
>
>> On Dec 5, 2015, at 9:44 AM, Alexander Hansen <[email protected]> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Dec 4, 2015, at 20:20, [email protected] wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello, Fink.
>>>
>>> Since you stopped supporting 10.4 (imagine I still use it) several
>>> earth cycles ago, the binary system of said version has also stopped
>>> working. Now, the problem is that although my fink manages to fetch
>>> the total of four Packages.gz's, it can not find any of the binaries
>>> during installation. This is because the URL of any given package
>>> inside "Packages.gz" is false.
>>>
>>> Example given:
>>> ----------------------------
>>> fink install gnome-base
>>> ...
>>> Failed to fetch
>>> http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.4/dists/fink-0.8.1/main/binary-darwin-powerpc//gnome/gnome-base_2.4.1-1_darwin-powerpc.deb
>>> 404 Not Found
>>> ----------------------------
>>>
>>> Indeed, it doesn't exist. But if you change the 'fink-0.8.1' to
>>> 'stable', you'll find it. (Strictly speaking '10.4/dists/' to
>>> 'distfiles/').
>>>
>>> Now, I only see two solutions for this first world problem.
>>> 1) I run ":%s/fink-0.8.1/stable/g" and
>>> ":%s/fink-0.8.1-updates/current/g", and feed my gunships to fink, or;
>>>
>>> 2) you redirect 10.4/dists/fink-0.8.1/ -> distfiles/fink-0.8.1/ and
>>> 10.4/dists/fink-0.8.1-updates/ -> distfiles/fink-0.8.1-updates/ to
>>> help all humanity. (This is obviously the best alternative).
>>>
>>> Thank you for helping out, Fink!
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> nunikasi
>>>
>>
>> I’m forwarding this onto the fink core list, as it’s an infrastructure issue.
>>
>> Summarizing:  when we switched servers last year (?), the 10.4 and 10.5 
>> binary distributions were moved, apparently without rebuilding the Packages 
>> files so that they pointed to the proper URIs, thus the 10.4 and 10.5 binary 
>> distributions can’t use apt-get anymore.
>>
>> It’s worth pointing out that these packages were built in 2006, we didn’t 
>> stop supporting 10.4 until 2011 and there were still updates for some 
>> packages there into this year.
>>
>> --
>> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
>> Fink User Liaison
>>
>>
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