On 11/27/12 7:12 PM, Stefan Bruda wrote: > Hello, > > At 20:06 -0700 on 2012-11-26 Alexander Hansen wrote: > > > > > > > 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. > > I have upgraded (painlessly) and so far everything looks good. I am > not sure how significant this is but the subsequent "fink update-all" > was not quite without effect; First, I got: > > Updating the list of locally available binary packages. > Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64 > New package: ... > > and then an enumeration of many (all) installed packages. I also got > an "injected" directory in %p/fink/10.8/local/ (this one probably > during selfupdate though I am not really sure) with the following > content: > > < godel:local/injected > ll -R . > .: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 3 root wheel 102 Nov 27 20:14 finkinfo/ > > ./finkinfo: > total 0 > drwxr-xr-x 5 root wheel 170 Nov 27 20:14 update-packages/ > > ./finkinfo/update-packages: > total 16 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 5717 Nov 27 20:14 perl586-10.5.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1146 Nov 27 20:14 rman-10.5.info > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 564 Nov 27 20:14 rman-10.5.patch > > Should I do anything in particular about this one? >
Interesting. I'm not sure how those got there. Those files should be invisible on 10.8 in any case. > I also got some packages with no correspondent on 10.8: > > < godel:~ > fink list -oNt > Information about 6306 packages read in 2 seconds. > *i* debianutils 4.3.2-2 Misc utilities specific to Debian/Fink > *i* evince 2.22.2-3 GNOME document viewer > *i* gcc46-compiler 4.6.3-1000 Compiler Binaries for gcc46. > *i* gcc46-shlibs 4.6.3-1000 Shared libraries for gcc4 > *i* help2man-perl5123 1.37.1-2 Generates man pages from > program output > > I have removed help2man-perl5123 (nobody complained). Evince is 10.7 > only in the Fink tree but removing this restriction causes it to build > and work fine on 10.8. > > Does anybody have any idea how the new version of debianutils got in > there? This is not caused by the upgrade, I had it like this for > awhile. Is it safe to leave it as is, and if not how can I downgrade > it? In similar circumstances I would remove and then rebuild the > package, but I am not allowed to remove it since it is an essential > package. > That should be safe to leave as is. "fink install debianutils-4.3.1-3" would roll you back to the version currently listed for the distribution--but more than likely we'll be raising that. <snip> > > I removed gcc46-shlibs (and gcc46-compiler) and nobody complained... > I will advise if anything of interest shows up later. > > Cheers, > Stefan > -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Keep yourself connected to Go Parallel: INSIGHTS What's next for parallel hardware, programming and related areas? Interviews and blogs by thought leaders keep you ahead of the curve. http://goparallel.sourceforge.net _______________________________________________ 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
