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/

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