On 5/22/13 2:44 PM, Robert Wohlhueter wrote: > I've used fink for years under OS 10.6 (but still consider myself a > "beginner") When I upgraded recently to 10.8.3, my fink installation > was broken. Consulting various upgrade-recipes on the web, I downloaded > fink-0.34.7.tar.gz, and bootstrapped it(without removing any of my > previous installation in /sw...) The process worked, but insisted on > putting the new, bootstrapped installation in /sw2 > > I knuckled under to that demand, thinking I would simply be able to > merge my pre-existing database (of applications installed with fink) > with the new program installation. Well, that was naive! I can't > describe exactly what I did, but obviously the attempted merger had its > shortcomings. > > The new fink software itself works, and commands like `fink list -i` > indeed recognize my pre-existing packages. But several commands, for > example `fink selfupdate` culminate in opague messages like: > > sent 93023 bytes received 4670742 bytes 142201.94 bytes/sec > total size is 11592648 speedup is 2.43 > Scanning package description files > Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1880 > > The syntax of Se vices.pm, and why perl5 in particular is "not a > reference" is not at all clear to me. (command line perl works, and > shows version 5.12.)
That message comes untrapped right out of Perl. The error looks vaguely familiar, and I'm guessing it's due to the fact that Storable databases are not compatible between Perl versions. > > I'm resolving to starting from scratch, but still see no way around the > problem of having to bootstrap a new fink into a unique directory > tree,thus losing my previous database info. Any pointers to the proper > way of doing this? > > Thanks, > > Bob Wohlhueter > > http://www.finkproject.org/download/10.8-upgrade.php?phpLang=en I just noticed that this needs some fixes and updates, but I believe the meat of it is accurate. -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Try New Relic Now & We'll Send You this Cool Shirt New Relic is the only SaaS-based application performance monitoring service that delivers powerful full stack analytics. Optimize and monitor your browser, app, & servers with just a few lines of code. Try New Relic and get this awesome Nerd Life shirt! http://p.sf.net/sfu/newrelic_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Fink-beginners mailing list Fink-beginners@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-beginners
