Glad you're up and running again. We didn't move packages over for 10.7 without testing them, since we thought it would better to know that everything works. (Though now there may be packages that work on 10.7 but not 10.8)
Let us know if there any packages that you're missing that you'd like to have, and there's a reasonable shot that we might be able to do something fairly quickly. A fair number of packages haven't made it over yet simply because their maintainers aren't active and nobody has requested them. --Alex On 5/23/13 6:15 PM, Robert Wohlhueter wrote: > 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. >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
