Thanks for the feedback, TheSin; two things in reply: 1). Confirmed that this is a bootstrap installation of the new sierra-alpha-bravo branch. While the machine previously had an earlier fink installation on it, /sw was moved and a new shell was started before starting the bootstrap.
2). Agreed 100% that the root of the error is indeed in this odd call for fink install; my reason for flagging tar was simply that it had clearly been untar’ed and had its tar.c file modified on the lines before this. You raise a great point, though — why’s a fink install being called before the bootstrap has finished installing a number of utilities (incl. tar, dpkg)? Glad to provide more info, etc. as helpful -- Kevin On August 14, 2016 at 09:10:51, TheSin (the...@southofheaven.org(mailto:the...@southofheaven.org)) wrote: > the error does not seem to be with tar at all, it looks like you are trying > to upgrade fink or something or at least fink thinks you are. > > > /sw/bin/fink -y install libgettext8-dev libiconv-dev > > Use 'fink reinstall fink' to switch distributions > > from 10.11 to 10.12. > > 'install' operation not permitted. > > That is the issue not tar, the install is part of the tar bootstrap info > file, but it doesn’t even get to tar yet. Why is fink tell you you need to > switch from 10.11 tom 10.12, that is the issue. > > I do not have 10.12 ATM so I can’t really help beyond this. > --- > TS > http://www.southofheaven.org/ > Life begins and ends with chaos, live between the chaos! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports. http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ 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
