Hi Alexander, sorry to have upset you with my mail. Last time we wrote with each other (last year) it seemed to me that you preferred being contacted by email.
Apologies, Jacques --- Dr. Jacques C.R. Bloch Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Regensburg 93040 Regensburg, Germany tel: +49 941 943-2018 fax: +49 941 943-3887 email: jacques.bl...@ur.de web: http://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~blj05290 > On 8 Aug 2014, at 13:37, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 8/8/14, 12:50 AM, Jacques Bloch wrote: >> Dear Alexander, >> >> I moved to Yosemite and can no longer use fink, as it does not support >> OSX 10.10. Following something that I found on a fink-forum I added the >> following lineIn the file /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm: >> $valid_upgrade = 1 if ($osversion eq "10.10" and $distribution eq "10.9"); >> >> However, when I now do "fink selfupdate" I get the error message: >> /could not determine XFree86 version number >> /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='10.10/' >> --include='10.10/stable/' --include='10.10/stable/main/' >> --include='10.10/stable/main/finkinfo/' >> --include='10.10/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' >> --include='10.10/stable/main/finkinfo/*' >> --include='10.10/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/10.10/VERSION.selfupdate.tmp: No such file or directory >> Scanning package description files >> Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1885./ >> >> Moreover when starting the fink command I always get a message that >> Xquartz cannot be opened because X11 us not installed, even though other >> programs can use Xquartz without any problem. >> >> I also tried “fink reinstall fink” and get the error message: >> /Scanning package description files/ >> /not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1885./ >> >> Do you have any idea how to resolve the problem? >> >> Thanks, >> Jacques >> --- >> Dr. Jacques C.R. Bloch >> Institute for Theoretical Physics >> University of Regensburg >> 93040 Regensburg, Germany >> tel: +49 941 943-2018 >> fax: +49 941 943-3887 >> email: jacques.bl...@ur.de <mailto:jacques.bl...@ur.de> >> web: http://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~blj05290 >> > > cc-ing the fink-devel mailing list since Yosemite is in public beta. > > Please don't contact me personally about things like this. That is why the > Fink project has mailing lists. I'm not personal unpaid technical support. > > The X11 issues are possibly due to your not having the /usr/X11R6 -> /usr/X11 > and /usr/X11/ -> /opt/X11 convenience symlinks. Do you have those? > > Your rsync command isn't working because we have not created a 10.10 > directory. And we may well not do that. > > > You _might_ be able to fix fink in place if you download the Yosemite > development branch: > > https://github.com/fink/fink/tree/HalfDome > > Download the source zip archive, unpack it, then apply the change change to > perlmods/Fink/Engine.pm in that source directory, and then use ./inject.pl to > upgrade. I honestly don't know how well that will work, since I haven't had > time to work with Fink on Yosemite. > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.apple.fink.devel Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
