> On Aug 19, 2016, at 21:37, Doug Wade <doug_w...@shaw.ca> wrote: > > May well be a stupid question… Any consequences for updating this machine to > OS X Sierra beta and continuing to use Fink? So far I only updated a laptop > that I will call my beta so can easily not bother with anything further. > > Doug Wade > doug_w...@shaw.ca > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Fink-users mailing list > Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List archive: > http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user > Subscription management: > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
There are a few potential issues. 1) If you didn’t install the “sierra-alpha-bravo” development branch of fink before updating the OS, then the fink package will not be able to update itself and you won’t be able to selfupdate, either. You can update fink in place to handle that, however. Let me know if you’d like a list of changes to apply (off list, because there will probably be even more changes and I don’t want folks to find it in the archives and try to use it when it’s no longer appropriate). After you do that, then I’d recommend cloning the sierra-alpha-bravo branch from github and installing from that, because you will then have access to updates via git until we do the formal release. 2) It’s likely, but not guaranteed, that any other existing programs and libraries will continue to work. 3) Some packages may not be available to you. In a good number of cases that is due to explicit distribution tagging which hasn’t added 10.12 to the available options. Let us know when you hit a hole and we’ll see about filling it. 4) Some packages may not build. Please report anything you find so that such packages can be fixed. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
