Hello, At 18:23 -0700 on 2012-11-26 Alexander Hansen wrote: > > On 11/26/12 3:34 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: > > > > I am contemplating upgrading my machine to Mac OS 10.8. It appears > > that Fink can be upgraded in place. After the OS upgrade I will > > therefore do the following: > > > > 1. Reinstall the Xcode command-line tools (the 10.8 package this > > time) > > Right. > > > 2. Install XQuartz > > Right. The upgrade will remove your 10.7 X11. > > And if you happen to forget, performing fink commands is likely to > trigger the OS to ask if you want to download Xquartz.
Right. I believe that something like this is also going to happen with Java. > > 3. fink reinstall fink > > You may get a message that fink is creating the fink-bld user. This is > normal if your fink-bld user had the old default UID of 266. I'm not > sure what happens if the ID is in the 600-699 range, which is explicitly > set aside as being for user-defined IDs. > > > fink install perl5123-core # is this needed at all? > > Installing perl5123-core is only really important if you currently have > perlmods installed that need it. If not, then don't bother. Great, this is good to know. > > fink selfupdate > > fink update-all > > This may not do much, depending on what you have installed. There > aren't a whole lot of packages with different 10.7 and 10.8 revisions. > > > 4. Make sure that all the files outside the Fink base directory are > > there by doing something like this: > > > > fink reinstall `fink list -it daemonic xinitrc | cut -f2` > > > > fink reinstall `fink --exclude-trees=virtual list -it passwd | \ > > grep -v "\[virtual" | cut -f2` > > > > fink reinstall `fink --exclude-trees=virtual list -it | \ > > grep -v "\[virtual" | cut -f2 | xargs fink dumpinfo -finfofile | \ > > cut -d: -f2 | xargs grep -l "[dD]aemonic" | sort | uniq | \ > > xargs grep -h -m 1 Package | cut -d: -f2` > > In addition to files, this also restores the users that the passwd* > packages install--upgrading to Mountain Lion wipes those but not their > associated groups. Right, that's what I had in mind. > > Is there anything I am missing and/or doing wrong? This is my main > > machine so I just want to be doubly-sure that the upgrade is not going > > to break things... Many thanks in advance. > > That looks good to me. Great, many thanks for the quick answer. By the way, I presume that it is safe to remove gcc46 altogether, as I see that it is marked as 10.7 only. Cheers, Stefan -- If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. --Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass No HTML emails and proprietary attachments please <http://bruda.ca/ascii> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor your physical, virtual and cloud infrastructure from a single web console. Get in-depth insight into apps, servers, databases, vmware, SAP, cloud infrastructure, etc. Download 30-day Free Trial. Pricing starts from $795 for 25 servers or applications! http://p.sf.net/sfu/zoho_dev2dev_nov _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
