Global Reset

I asked Fink to install Subversion. Just like apt-get on Debian, or yum on Fedora, Fink is pretty smart and knows where to get stuff.

Problem is… I asked Fink to install Subversion 4 hours ago. Seems that even though I told Fink that I would prefer binary packages where available, it’s only found source packages so far. And Subversion depends on a lot of stuff, including Apache’s huge APR codebase not to mention 53 other libraries. So, I’ve been looking at ‘configure’ and ‘gcc’ output scroll down my terminal for quite a while now.

Could be that no one is maintaining binaries for OSX 10.4, and I’m stuck with source for a while. I guess that’s okay… Sure would save a lot of time if I didn’t have to deal with it though.

Update (5/27/05): Many thanks to Christian Schaffner! He’s the maintainer of Subversion fink package. He pointed me to this resource, which I can use to find out if a binary package is available for OSX 10.4 (at least until 10.4 binaries become common):
Fink Package Database

Update (6/1/05): Fink now has a binary of Subversion available, according to the package database. Unfortunately, it’s only at version 1.1.4 (just like the source version I installed a few weeks ago). I’d like to upgrade the servers at work to 1.2, but maybe I’ll wait until the 1.2 client is available on Fink.

Update (6/14/05): According to the Fink Package Database and my own verification with the cli, the subversion 1.2 client is now available in the unstable packages. Switching to “fink unstable” is quite easy with Fink Commander