Found a machine to test on, though it had OS/X 10.3, which is pretty old.

Made some changes - it's working

• Had to turn to bz2 for compression because the test machine had little RAM, but that's not all bad.
• Also, the encoding test failed (old bash?)
• My set -o pipefail's were erroring (old bash?)
• And the hostname needed to be downcased to get incrementals working; feels like a regression.

Getting set up:

• Install CPython 3.2:
  • wget http://www.python.org/ftp/python/3.2/python-3.2-macosx10.3.dmg
  • hdiutil mount python-3.2-macosx10.3.dmg
  • sudo installer -pkg /Volumes/Python\ 3.2/Python.mpkg -target /
• Install Fink (not sure this helped, but maybe there was something I didn't realize that was worthwhile):
  • hdiutil mount Fink-0.7.2-Installer.dmg
  • sudo bash
  • source ~Strombrg/drs-bashrc
  • cd /Volumes/Fink-0.7.2-Installer
  • installer -pkg Fink\ 0.7.2\ Installer.pkg -target /
  • Add "test -r /sw/bin/init.sh && . /sw/bin/init.sh" (or source /sw/bin/init.sh) to ~/.bashrc for relevant accounts, or run and answer the question(s):
  • /sw/bin/pathsetup.sh
  • fink scanpackages
  • fink index
  • sudo apt-get update
  • sudo apt-get install fink

• Preparations
  • How to tell what version of OS/X you're on.
  • Installing a .dmg from the command line
  • About OS/X

    Version number	Version name
    10.2	Jaguar
    10.3	Panther
    10.4	Tiger
    10.5	Leopard
    10.6	Snow Leopard

  • Note that Fink claims to go back to 10.3, but Macports only claims to go back to 10.4 "Tiger".
  • Dependencies - relative to OS/X 10.3 "Panther".

    Dependency	Version required	OS/X 10.3 ships with	Might get a nice version from
    Subversion	Unknown, but I have 1.6.12 at home.	Probably not included; at least, it wasn't on dads-old-mac.	Fink had it - kind of: It was only 1.1.3, which wouldn't do my externals. Wound up not using it much.
    m4	Unknown, but I'm using GNU m4 1.4.14 at home	GNU m4 1.4	The included version worked fine
    Python	>= 2.5	OS/X 10.3 probably ships with Python 2.3, which is too old.	There's a 3.2 for 10.3 and up here; this worked fine.
    gcc (and its dependencies)	Something that'll build xz	Comes with "XCode"? But the dev files seem missing.	This went unsatisfied - XCode 1.5 is very old, but the last version that'll work on 10.3, and Fink's gcc didn't include crt1.o (?) or (some?) header files
    xz	Unknown. I'm using 4.999.9beta at home	Does not include xz - at least, my Dad's 10.3 system didn't have it. Neither does Fink.	This was hard to satisfy, so I backed off and used bzip2 as a fallback for xz.
    find	Almost any find should do.	Includes a BSD find. Has -print0 but not -printf	The included one worked fine, other than the optional -printf test