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On 12/21/11 1:05 PM, Juan Courcoul wrote:
> On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Martin Costabel wrote:
> 
>> On 21/12/11 08:44, Juan Courcoul wrote:
>>> Now I want to bring my Fink fully into the Lion world,
>>> hopefully without having to trash everything. O.S. is at
>>> 10.7.2. Downloaded and installed the latest Xcode 4.2.1. Then
>>> gingerly tried to do a fink selfupdate. After having me do a
>>> fink index and such it finally started going up to the point
>>> where it fails compiling dpg. This is where it finally barfs,
>>> time after time:
>> []...
>>> Is this salvageable or will I have to start from scratch?
>> 
>> You will have to start from scratch. Your fink installation was
>> built on 10.5/32bit. On 10.7, fink is 64bit, which is
>> incompatible from the very beginning, and there is no way to to
>> upgrade.
>> 
>> You can try to get a list of packages you had installed, for
>> example by storing the output of `ls
>> /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list` in a file somewhere. Then after
>> bootstrapping a new Fink on 10.7, you can try to install these
>> packages one by one. But they won't all exist for 10.7 yet.
> 
> I was fearing as much, at least I won't get bored over the
> holidays. Fortunately, much of the old admin stuff works, so a fink
> list does produce what I have installed thru the ages.
> 
> So, ditch /sw and start with the instructions for bootstrapping
> 10.7, right?
> 
> JMC
> 

Right.  Let us know about packages that you find aren't available on
10.7.  Some may well build, but have just not have been brought over yet.

- -- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
http://finkakh.wordpress.com/
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