I just wanted to document some things I noticed during my Mountain Lion upgrade.

First, when running "fink reinstall fink", and any fink commands in fact, I get 
a spew of dialogs telling me to get XQuartz and install it manually. Not a big 
deal, but there are a lot of dialogs in rapid succession which is mildly 
annoying. I gather this is from VirtPackage.pm checking for the presence of 
x11, which happens multiple times when fink is run. Installing XQuartz makes it 
stop. :)

Next I got repeated messages about not being able to create the fink-bld user. 
It seems that the Mountain Lion installer wipes out all the fink-installed 
users. To fix this I needed to run "fink configure" and select "Y" when it asks 
to create UIDs dynamically. Related to that, I had to reinstall my previously 
installed passwd-* packages to get those users back.

I was then able to "fink reinstall fink" and "fink install perl5123-core" to 
get my existing fink up and running.

I did have an issue with X11. First, I needed to run 
/Applications/Utilities/XQuartz.app manually to use x11 packages. Then when I 
tried running fontforge, I had missing text and a bunch of warnings about 
pango. After some experimentation, I found that rebuilding gtk+2-shlibs fixed 
my text issues. Fontforge seems to work fine, but that's all I really tested. I 
don't have much x11 software installed at the moment. I don't have qt4-x11 
installed, though qt4-mac works fine.

I'll be testing more of my packages over the next few days and will post more 
if I encounter more issues.

Daniel


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