I just installed Fink on a new rMacBookPro computer running OSX 10.9.2. The
installation was successful, and I even have X11 running with open box and
gnome-panel. However, Finder can not access /sw!!! Now, I can get at the fink
installation in /sw from the command line, so things are not critical, but I
would like to access /sw thru the Finder if possible. The finder just shows a
blue folder like when you see a locked folder, but there is no red locked
symbol. The /sw folder is also faded out blue like a hidden folder. When I
get a long listing of the / directory from the command line I get the following:
New: drwxr-xr-x+ 15 root wheel 510 Mar 10 13:16 sw (Fink installed on
10.9.2)
Old: drwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 408 Mar 5 16:42 sw (Fink
installed on 10.9.0)
The only significant difference between this directory listing and the one I
have on my old computer (as illustrated above), that is also running OSX
10.9.2, but was running OSX 10.9.0 when I installed Fink, is at the end of the
permissions list above where there is a ‘+’ sign. Other directories at root
level such as /Applications, /Library and /System all have ‘+’ signs at the end
of their permissions and are still accessible from Finder. The locked hidden
file .MobileBackups also has a ‘+’ symbol. Every file and directory that I
looked at within /sw except the /sw/.. file seems to have this ‘+’ symbol
tacked on to the end of the permissions for that file or directory. I don’t
know what this ‘+’ means specifically, as I haven’t been able to find an
explanation of the symbol. Also, when I look at the Fink installation from the
command line. Possibly, there is an explanation for this symbol somewhere in
Xcode, but I haven’t looked there yet. In any case, I think the ‘+’ symbol has
some significance and indicates something about how this Fink installation came
to be inaccessible from the Finder.
I don’t expect there is some option now in the Fink installation that asks you
if you want to hide your installation from your own Finder, so I expect this is
a change introduced by Apple in 10.9.2 for some security purpose since /sw is
in the root folder rather than in a local folder. I haven’t seen any mention
of this in the mailing lists, so I want to report it. Now for my questions
about what to do:
1. Can anyone tell me what the ‘+’ symbol at the end of a file or
directories permissions is supposed to mean? It obviously means something more
than it used to. Possibly someone can clarify the new extended meaning or ask
Apple what is going on.
2. Most important, how can I fix this? Is there anyway to do
something from the command line? I don’t think one can use chmod although that
would seem to be the logical command for a change of this type. I don’t see
any way to use the Getinfo gui to change this. I expect I will have to
reinstall Fink somewhere else besides the root to fix this. Therefore, I have
stopped installing new applications until I get this resolved. Can I install
it in /usr/local? I remember that there were logical reasons why one might not
want to do this, but I don’t remember them. If, I don’t want to do this, where
would the best place be to install Fink?
My setup is:
OSX 10.9.2
Fink 0.36.3.1
Configured with: --prefix=/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr
--with-gxx-include-dir=/usr/include/c++/4.2.1
Apple LLVM version 5.1 (clang-503.0.38) (based on LLVM 3.4svn)
Target: x86_64-apple-darwin13.1.0
Thread model: posix
Xcode 5.1 (Fink was installed with this version)
Thanks for any help in advance. By the way, everyone seems to have done a great
job on the Fink installation! Except for this problem, which is not Fink’s
fault, I did not have one other problem.
Gary K Olson
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