On 10/23/14, 6:23 PM, Mark Johnson wrote: > Don’t get me wrong - I appreciate the hard work on fink, but I had a few > minor comments below. > > -- > Mark Johnson > mailto:mhjohn...@mac.com > home: (303) 304-0510 >
<snip> >>> (6) Tried to do “selfupdate” - got a message I needed to do fink >>> reinstall fink to switch to 10.10. >> >> Good. This is by design, to make sure your distribution changes >> before you self update > But no mention in the announcement on the mailing list or web page that > it is necessary. > Yeah, I was on a bit of a tear there trying to keep people from using fink versions that wouldn't work at all on Yosemite, and I knew from my own testing on a 10.9->10.10 upgrade that fink would say to do a "fink reinstall fink". The 10.10 upgrade document will be more explicit about that. >> >>> (7) In terminal - ran fink reinstall fink - seemed to run OK (though >>> I noted the “beta” message only at that point). >> >> Managing expectations :-) > Ditto. Just saying that if someone added code to indicate this is beta > code, the announcement should say it is still beta too. > It's not the code so much as the 10.10 distribution which was beta quality--dependency holes, packages not having been tested, and the like. By the time the next fin is out we'll move that. >> >>> (8) Back to FinkCommander - did the Update Table command - it said >>> fink was “out of date”. >>> (9) Did “selfupdate” - this time it ran OK (apparently updating me to >>> 0.39.1). >> >> 0.38.1, unless you installed from the future. :-) > That was a typo - FinkCommander says my version is now 0.38.1-91 (yet > fink -V only says 0.38.1). I think the version while under Mavericks was > something like 0.38.1-81 or similar (sorry - I don’t recall the exact > number). I just thought it odd to see another version update the day > after I had upgraded fink (under Mavericks). > You might have done the operation just around the time I released the new version. That's my guess. <snip> >> Somebody on one of the lists (maybe this one) mentioned that he was >> able to fix Fink Commander by installing a Fink perl and using that >> via the Preferences—that’s for a stuck table. Failure to update but >> not being stuck can be remedied by running the appropriate update. >> > I saw that message a few days ago though it was short on details - > perhaps installing perl5162? > > Yup, that's what they ultimately tried. There might be something wacky in newer Apple Perls that Fink Commander doesn't get along with--but since it hasn't been developed actively in a decade tracking that down is going to be tricky. <snip> -- Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. Fink User Liaison My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
