> On Aug 14, 2016, at 07:16, Kevin Gardner <kevin.gard...@asrc.cuny.edu> wrote: > > > Thanks for the feedback, TheSin; two things in reply: > > 1). Confirmed that this is a bootstrap installation of the new > sierra-alpha-bravo branch. While the machine previously had an earlier fink > installation on it, /sw was moved and a new shell was started before starting > the bootstrap. > > 2). Agreed 100% that the root of the error is indeed in this odd call for > fink install; my reason for flagging tar was simply that it had clearly been > untar’ed and had its tar.c file modified on the lines before this. You raise > a great point, though — why’s a fink install being called before the > bootstrap has finished installing a number of utilities (incl. tar, dpkg)? > > Glad to provide more info, etc. as helpful — > Kevin >
That’s by design, and has been the case for more than a decade. What’s going on is that dpkg is one of the last packages that actually gets built during the bootstrap. We set up a “dpkg-bootstrap” package at the beginning to fill in until all of the dependencies are built (including tar). The problem here is with libgettext8 and libiconv. They’re intertwined to the point that we can’t use our ordinary dependency handling during bootstrap, and so we resort to using an additional fink invocation to install the header packages if they’re missing. The system’s libiconv uses different names for some of its symbols, so it’s not really an acceptable substitute. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
