Dr. Hansen,
Thanks for the good pointers. The cook-book you pointed to serveed well,
and I'm up-to-date and running.
The reinstallation was a little bumpy, in that the several previously
installed packages which no longer exist required a manual intervention
to get beyond the offending package. But such a house-cleaning was in order.
The whole process reminds me of what a great resource fink is.
Bob Wohlhueter
On 5/22/13 5:55 PM, Alexander Hansen wrote:
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.
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