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2012-04-09: fink-0.32.5.5 released
fink-0.32.5.5 was released on 9 April, 2012. This bugfix release
fixes an issue with bootstrapping on 10.5/PowerPC.
fink-0.32.5.4 was released on 8 April, 2012. This release allows users
on 10.7 to bootstrap against the Xcode Command Line Tools. Note that some packages
actually require the full Xcode to build.
fink-0.32.4.1 was released on 27 March, 2012. This
release allows users to install Xcode 4.3.x in an arbitrary location.
After installing Xcode 4.3.x, users should: (1) Select the Components pane from Xcode->Preferences->Downloads and install the Command Line Tools, or install them via the separate installer from connect.apple.com, and (2) run
sudo xcode-select -switch /path/to/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
(replacing /path/to with the actual path to the Xcode app) to make sure that everything is pointed in the right place.
fink-0.32.4.1 also enhances the checksumming operation under
fink fetch.
fink-0.32.3 was released on 16 February, 2012. This
release recognizes changes that were made for Xcode 4.3.
After installing Xcode 4.3 in /Applications (and only there)
, users should: (1) Select the Components pane from Xcode->Preferences->Downloads and
install the Command Line Tools, or install them via the separate installer from
connect.apple.com, and (2) run
sudo xcode-select -switch /Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer
to make sure that everything is pointed in the right place.
2012-02-03: fink-0.32.2 released fink-0.32.2 was released on 3 February, 2012. This
release contains a fix for a bug in the handling of multiple source
archives in a package, and recognizes OS 10.7.3.
fink-0.32.1 was released on 26 January, 2012. This
release introduces a number of new features.
Those that impact package maintainers include: RuntimeDepends,
which are dependencies that are only required when a package is installed,
improvements to the package validator, updated manpages, and direct support
for .xz archives.
Those that impact users include improvements in the bootstrap script and additional helpful suggestions in the post-error output.
2012-01-03: fink-0.31.6 released fink-0.31.6 was released on 3 January, 2012. This
is a bugfix release to address issues with the use of HTTP proxies
under cvs selfupdates.
fink-0.31.5 was released to the 10.4/stable and
10.7/stable trees on 22 November, 2011. This is a bugfix release to
address bootstrapping and building on OS X 10.6 with Xcode 4.2.
fink-0.31.4 was released to the 10.4/stable and
10.7/stable trees on 28 October, 2011. The primary new feature
in this release is to ensure that the default compiler on OS X 10.6
is the same for Xcode 3.2.x and 4.2. In addition, the versions of some
of the other essential packages which get installed at bootstrap have
been updated.
fink-0.31.3 was released to the 10.4/stable and
10.7/stable trees on 12 October, 2011. It recognizes OS 10.7.2 as a
supported OS X version, and recognizes Growl 1.3 from the App Store.
To make our logistics easier, as well as to make the user experience
better, we have begun to phase out the unstable tree. Users won't notice
any difference unless they have deactivated stable in the
Trees: line of fink.conf, which was never a
recommended course of action.
fink-0.31.2 was released to the 10.4/unstable and
10.7/stable trees on 26 September, 2011. Packages are now built by default
using the number of parallel threads specified by the MaxBuildJobs
field set via fink configure. In addition, maintainers no longer
have to specify a particular version of fink to use a
PatchFile, and fixes a Perl issue.
It is expected that the package will be added to 10.4/stable shortly.
2011-09-11: fink-0.31.1 released fink-0.31.1 was released to the 10.4/unstable and
10.7/stable trees on
11 September, 2011. It fixes an issue in which 32-bit machines running OS
10.6 wouldn't be allowed to bootstrap, even though this is a fully supported
configuration. It also provides a more robust scheme to report on the
Xcode version in error messages than in prior fink versions.
Finally OS 10.7.1 is recognized as a supported OS version.
It is expected that the package will be added to 10.4/stable shortly.
Update, 2011-09-26: It has been added to 10.4/stable.
2011-07-20: Fink and Lion--updated. OS X 10.7 "Lion" was released on July 20, 2011. We want to let Fink users know what to expect if updating.
First, the fink
program itself will not run on a system which has
been upgraded to Lion. However, it will be possible to use the
dpkg program to extract a list of the Fink packages
which had been installed under 10.6, so that they can be reinstalled
under 10.7. Use
dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > fink_packages.txt
to extract the packages, and
cat fink_packages.txt | xargs fink install
once you have installed Fink for 10.7.
To upgrade Fink after upgrading to Lion, one will have to bootstrap
Fink again, using a tarball for fink-0.31.0 or later.
Second, due to lots of changes under the hood, there currently are many fewer Fink packages which build under 10.7 as opposed to 10.6. Thus, even if you've extracted a list of Fink packages which had been installed under 10.6, some of them may not yet be installable under 10.7. We are currently creating a database showing which packages can be successfully installed under 10.7, and work is ongoing to add packages.
10.7 introduces several drastic changes to how the system works. While this may cause a slight delay in full Fink functionality in the short term, it will make Fink work better in the future.
2011-07-16: Fink and Lion. Apple has announced that OS X 10.7 "Lion" will be released in July. We want to let Fink users know what to expect when Lion is released.
First, the fink
program itself will not run on a system which has
been upgraded to Lion. However, it will be possible to use the
dpkg program to extract a list of the Fink packages
which had been installed under 10.6, so that they can be reinstalled
under 10.7. Use
dpkg --get-selections | cut -f1 > fink_packages.txt
to extract the packages, and
cat fink_packages.txt | xargs fink install
once you have installed Fink for 10.7.
(To upgrade fink after upgrading to Lion, one will have to bootstrap fink again, using a new version of fink which will be released shortly after Lion has been released. Watch this space for an announcement.)
Second, due to lots of changes under the hood, there will initially be many fewer Fink packages which work under 10.7 as opposed to 10.6. Thus, even if you've extracted a list of Fink packages which had been installed under 10.6, some of them may not yet be installable under 10.7. We are currently creating a database showing which packages can be successfully installed under 10.7, but that database may not be complete prior to the release of Lion.
10.7 introduces several drastic changes to how the system works. While this may cause a slight delay in full Fink functionality in the short term, it will make Fink work better in the future.
2011-07-11: fink-0.30.2 released. fink-0.30.2 was released to the unstable tree on 11 July, 2011.
It is likely that this will be the last version that supports OS 10.4.
It is planned to release it to stable soon.
Update, 2011-07-15: It has been added to stable.
2011-06-28: fink-0.30.1 released. fink-0.30.1 was released to the unstable tree on 28 June, 2011.
This is a minor update which properly recognizes OS 10.6.8.
It is planned to release it to stable soon.
Update, 2011-07-02: It has been added to stable.
2011-04-30: fink-0.30.0 released. fink-0.30.0 was released to the unstable tree on 30 April, 2011.
The 0.30.x series is intended to be the last to support OS 10.4 (Tiger).
2011-03-24: fink-0.29.21 released. Version 0.29.21 of the fink package manager has just been
released to the unstable tree. This version of fink
properly recognizes OS 10.6.7, and contains a bugfix for a situation
where fink can't index.
It is expected that this version of fink will be added to the stable tree shortly.
Update, 2011-03-29: It has been added to stable.
2011-03-09: fink-0.29.20 released.
Version 0.29.20 of the fink package manager has just been
released to the unstable tree. This version of fink
fixes an issue with X11 detection against recent versions of
Xquartz
on Leopard.
Unless other updates are made in the near term, it is expected that this
version of fink will be added to the stable tree shortly.
Update, 2011-03-24: It has been added to stable.
2011-02-10: CVS access restored. Checkouts and commits now work again. Thanks for your patience.
2011-01-26: CVS access is down. Due to an attack, our files are not accessible via CVS from Sourceforge. For status updates check out the Project sourceforge page.
2011-01-16: fink-0.29.19 released. 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. (Version 0.29.17 works 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.
Update, 2011-01-22: fink-0.29.19 has been added to stable.
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 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.
Update, 2011-01-07 The mirrors are updating again.
2010-12-31: Happy 10th Birthday to Fink! 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 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!
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.
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.
KDE-3.5.10 and GNOME-2.28
have been added to the stable tree, along with updates to some important
dependencies.
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
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.
Update, 2010-11-01: fink-0.29.15 has
been added to the stable tree.
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 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.
Users will want to download an appropriate version of the Java Developer Package from The Apple Developer Connection site.
Update, 2010-10-23: The issue has been addressed in fink-0.29.15.
fink-0.29.14 has been released to the unstable tree.
This version of finkcontains, among
other new features, an aria2 option for DownloadMethod,
to allow the use of the aria2 download accelerator
(available via Fink), and a fix for the infamous "node exists" error.
It is planned to add this version to the stable tree shortly.
Addendum, 2010-10-19: because of the Java update (2010-10-20),
fink-0.29.15 is now slated to be the version next to go to stable.
Nossos serviços ao usuário foram restaurados. Em 28 de outubro o site e alguns dos espelhos (rsync, arquivos fontes, distribuição de binários) foram resturandos e em 30 de outubro todos os principais espelhos rsync estavam operacionais. Uma vez mais, pedimos desculpas pela inconveniência. Agradecemos sua paciência e colaboração.
Our user services have been restored. On Oct 28th the Web site and some of the mirrors (rsync, source files, binary distribution) were restored, and on Oct 30th all of our main rsync mirrors were operational. Once again, we apologise for the inconvenience. Thanks for your patience and support.
2009-10-24: Problemas com o servidor. Estamos com problemas no servidor e por conseguinte o site e a distribuição oficial de binários estão fora do ar, e os servidores rsync não estão atualizando. Enquanto resolvemos os problemas, você pode:
- (Web site) Usar o http://fink.thetis.ig42.org caso necessite das informações do site;
- (selfupdate) Se você usa rsync como seu método de selfupdate então
edite o arquivo
/sw/etc/fink.confe substitua a linha que começa comMirror-rsyncporMirror-rsync: rsync://fink.gecko.ig42.org/finkinfo/ - (arquivos fontes) Edite o arquivo
/sw/etc/fink.confe substitua a linha que começa comMirror-masterporMirror-master: http://fink-dist.gecko.ig42.org - (bindist) Edite o arquivo
/sw/etc/fink.confe substitua a linha que começa comMirror-apt:porMirror-apt: http://fink-bindist.gecko.ig42.org - (bindist) Edite o arquivo
/sw/etc/apt/sources.liste substituahttp://bindist.finkmirrors.net/bindistporhttp://fink-bindist.gecko.ig42.org - Execute o comando
fink scanpackages
Pedimos desculpas pela inconveniência.
2009-08-28: Fink no OS X 10.6 O Fink está pronto para ser usado no Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6). Os usuários precisam escolher dentre a versão do Fink de 32 bits e a de 64 bits para o 10.6. A versão de 32 bits possui mais pacotes disponíveis no momento mas a versão de 64 bits representa a direção futura tanto do OS X quanto do Fink; os usuários precisam fazer a escolha por conta própria. Não será possível fazer uma atualização de 32 bits para 64 bits (ou vice-versa) sem que o Fink seja completamente reinstalado.
No presente momento, dois métodos estão disponíveis para instalar o Fink no Snow Leopard. Um instalador binário não está disponível, portanto é importante instalar primeiro o Xcode da pasta Optional Installs no disco do Snow Leopard. Usuários que queiram a versão de 64 bits ou que estejam atualizando diretamente do OS X 10.4 ou anteriores devem instalar o Fink do zero a partir da tarball de distribuição (versão 0.29.9 ou posteriores) disponível no sourceforge.net; as instruções de instalação estão aqui. Por outro lado, os usuários podem atualizar diretamente do OS X 10.5 para a versão de 32 bits seguindo as instruções abaixo. (Aviso: usuários que tenham instalado uma versão de desenvolvimento do Fink a partir do CVS no lugar de uma versão efetivamente lançada podem encontrar problemas; por favor, antes de começar, mude para uma versão oficialmente lançada e remova os arquivos .deb que possuam versões maiores.)
Para fazer a atualização, siga os quatro passos a seguir. Passo
1: edite o arquivo /sw/etc/fink.conf e adicione uma
linha contendo NoAutoIndex: true (talvez você tenha que usar
o sudo para obter as permissões corretas para editar o
arquivo.) Passo 2: execute o comando fink reinstall
fink para dizer ao Fink que agora você está no OS X 10.6.
(Caso encontre uma mensagem sobre corrupção do banco de dados de pacotes,
execute o comando fink index -f e tente este passo
novamente.) Passo 3: execute o comando fink update
fink para obter a última versão do Fink para o OS X 10.6.
Passo 4: execute o comando fink install
perl588-core para substituir a versão do Perl que foi alterada
pela Apple durante a atualização do OS X caso você possua pacotes que
dependam dele.
Depois da atualização, talvez você queira executar o comando
fink configure para fazer uma limpeza.
Quase todos os pacotes do Fink na árvore stable vão compilar no OS X 10.6 mas esteja ciente de que apenas uma fração dos pacotes do 10.5 estão disponíveis para o 10.6. Em um futuro próximo, o banco de dados de pacotes do Fink será atualizado para que inclua informações sobre pacotes para o 10.6; você poderá consultá-lo para verificar se seus pacotes prediletos estão disponíveis.
2009-07-25: Mudanças no Grupo Central O Grupo Central do Fink anuncia dois novos membros: Alexander Hansen (akh) e Augusto Devegili (monipol), tendo ambos estado bastante ativos no projeto. Una-se a nós e dê as boas-vindas aos novos membros!
A equipe também anuncia que Christian Schaeffner retirou-se do grupo, voltando ao status de colaborador regular. Agradecemos ao Christian por sua ajuda na equipe nos últimos anos.
Membros do projeto Fink estão trabalhando arduamente para prover suporte ao usuário, manter o Fink atualizado, e preparar para o futuro lançamento do Snow Leopard. Sempre precisamos de mais voluntários, portanto cogite contribuir de alguma forma!
2008-07-23: Fim do suporte ao 10.3. O projeto Fink não pode mais oferecer suporte a usuários do Fink no Mac OS X 10.3. Na verdade tem havido pouco suporte por algum tempo então este anúncio simplesmente formaliza esse fato.
Isto significa que não haverá atualizações futuras, nem mesmo de segurança, para usuários do Mac OS X 10.3. Suas instalações atuais continuarão a funcionar mas o software que estiver instalado não será atualizado.
Acreditamos que a maioria dos nossos usuários estejam usando Mac OS X 10.4 ou 10.5 e esperiamos que esta decisão não seja inconveniente a muitas pessoas.
2008-07-17: Migração em passa de pacotes. A atualização massiva do GNOME que esteve em andamento por várias meses foi incorporada à árvore unstable. Os pacotes foram bem testados e as atualizações feitas por usuários aparentam estar ocorrendo tranquilamente.
Estamos agora incorporando a atualização do GNOME à árvore stable. Devido ao fato de não termos podido testar antecipadamente as dependências desses novos pacotes, os usuários podem esperar que a árvore stable não esteja tão estável durante as próximas semanas, enquanto os erros serão corrigidos.
Se você está ansioso para usar imediatamente essa atualização massiva do GNOME, sugerimos que mude para a árvore unstable. Caso não queira, sugerimos que suspenda a execução de "fink selfupdate" por algum tempo (talvez uma semana ou duas) até que tudo esteja estabilizado novamente.
2008-06-26: Nova versão do Fink. Uma nova versão (binária) do Fink para o OS X 10.5 (Leopard) está disponível a partir de hoje: versão 0.9.0, a qual pode ser instalada em hardware Intel ou PowerPC. Esta versão inclui códigos fontes, pacotes de binários e instaladores do Fink para ambos os tipos de hardware.
Usuários que já tenham instalado o Fink no Leopard a partir do código
fonte e que queiram mudar para a distribuição de binários podem fazer o
seguinte. Em primeiro lugar, execute fink selfupdate para
atualizar para a última versão do gerenciador de pacotes fink. Em
seguida, execute fink configure e assegure-se de
mudar sua escolha sobre usar a distribuição de binários de Não
para Sim. Finalmente, execute fink scanpackages para ativar
a distribuição de binários.
Atualização, 2008-07-11: se você usa o instalador binário,
você precisa executar fink selfupdate após a instalação.