Altering fink is safe enough. The worst case is that the "fink" command won't function--you're not touching any of the files from other packages that you currently have installed.
This, of course, doesn't preclude the OS update itself making things unable to run. :-) On 7/27/14, 1:19 PM, PNM wrote: > Thank you! Before I try this, can you provide some reassurance that this will > not interfere with the functioning of my existing packages? > > Payam > === > "...the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. Is a > fool on the throne relieved of all responsibility merely because he is a > fool?" --Milan Kundera > The Unbearable Lightness of Being > > > > >> On Jul 27, 2014, at 12:40 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> On 7/27/14, 11:58 AM, PNM wrote: >>> Here is what fink told me when I first tried selfupdate on Yosemite beta: >>> >>> "[pMac2:~] payam2% fink selfupdate >>> >>> WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss >>> or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your >>> typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information. >>> >>> To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort. >>> >>> Password: >>> >>> We don't support updates from 10.9 to 10.10. >>> Check the 'Clean Upgrade' section of /sw/share/doc/fink/INSTALL >>> or /sw/share/doc/fink/INSTALL.html for information about >>> how to proceed. >>> >>> 'selfupdate' operation not permitted." >>> >>> Should I try fink reinstall fink, and then selfupdate? >>> >>> Payam >>> >>> -- >>> "Self-assertion, in philosophic speculation as elsewhere, views the world >>> as a means to its own ends; thus it makes the world of less account than >>> Self, and the Self sets bounds to the greatness of its good. In >>> contemplation, on the contrary, we start from the not-Self, and through its >>> greatness the boundaries of Self are enlarged; through the infinity of the >>> universe the mind which contemplates it achieves some share in infinity." >>> Bertrand Russell, The Problems of Philosophy >>> >>> >> >> The default option on an OS upgrade is to say it's not supported, unless we >> know that it works--we haven't officially decided whether an upgrade path >> should be implemented or not between 10.9 and 10.10, but since they use the >> same C++ library it seems like it might be feasible. >> >> You can edit /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Engine.pm and add a line around line 248 >> that reads >> >> $valid_upgrade = 1 if ($osversion eq "10.10" and $distribution eq "10.9"); >> >> and then use "fink reinstall fink" if you want to check out the in-place >> strategy. >> -- >> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. >> Fink User Liaison >> My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ > > -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Want fast and easy access to all the code in your enterprise? Index and search up to 200,000 lines of code with a free copy of Black Duck Code Sight - the same software that powers the world's largest code search on Ohloh, the Black Duck Open Hub! Try it now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bds _______________________________________________ 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
