On 11/5/14, 6:43 AM, Smith, Phillip R. wrote:
> Sorry, I made a really silly mistake.
>
> On one machine, I followed the upgrade path from 10.9+0.38.0 to 10.10.  
> Everything went swimmingly.  Many thanks!
>
> On my laptop not so much.  I upgraded to 10.10 before It had 0.38 installed 
> and now I’m stuck.  Is there a straightforward way to get out of this?
>
> I looked on the web site and don’t see instructions for people who made my 
> mistake.
>
> -Ross Smith-
>

The easiest option is a variation of the clean install instructions:

1) get a list of your currently installed packages, e.g. via

  grep -B1 "install ok installed" /sw/var/lib/dpkg/status \
     | grep "^Package:" | cut -d: -f2 | cut -d\  -f2 > finkinst.txt


2)  Back up your Fink tree, for example to /sw.bak/

3)  Do a new bootstrap with fink-0.38.2.

4)  Once the bootstrap is done you can install the .deb files from 
/sw.bak/fink/10.7/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/ and 
/sw.bak/var/apt/cache/archives/ by using "sudo dpkg -i <filename>"

I haven't tested yet as to whether you can add your old Fink tree to 
your sources.list file in the local modifications section:

deb file:/sw.bak/fink stable main

and optionally:

deb file:/sw.bak/fink local main
deb file:/sw.bak/fink local injected

But that well might help speed up your reinstallation.
-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/

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