> On Sep 11, 2016, at 05:38, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> On Sep 10, 2016, at 23:18, Heinz Nabielek <heinznabie...@me.com> wrote: >> >> Ouch: Mac OS X 10.12 Sierra cannot 'selfupdate' any more (see below). Nor >> can I install anything with fink since 10.12. >> What shall I do? >> >> Heinz >> >> Heinzs-iMac:~ heinznabielek$ fink selfupdate >> Password: >> /usr/bin/rsync -az -q >> rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP >> /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp >> I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package >> descriptions. >> /usr/bin/rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q --include='10.12/' >> --include='10.12/stable/' --include='10.12/stable/main/' >> --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/' >> --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' >> --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/*' >> --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' >> --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**' >> 'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/' >> WARNING: Not saving timestamp of selfupdate because could not write >> /sw/fink/10.12/VERSION.selfupdate.tmp: No such file or directory >> Scanning package description files >> Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1903. >> >> >> Darwin Heinzs-iMac.local 16.0.0 Darwin Kernel Version 16.0.0: Mon Aug 29 >> 17:56:20 PDT 2016; root:xnu-3789.1.32~3/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64 >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > > This is a standard problem when updating the OS before installing a fink > version that supports it. > > I can send you an archive containing the changed files from the fink code, > but it will take a bit of time. > > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison >
There are some subtleties to this that I hadn’t anticipated. If somebody sends you a fink .deb archive from 10.12, you can use “dpkg -i /path/to/fink-<version>.deb” to install that. I’m in the process of getting a 10.12 machine set up, but that’s going to take a little while. —akh ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
