Hi Alex, Thanks for taking care of this!
Cheers, Jacques --- Dr. Jacques C.R. Bloch Institute for Theoretical Physics University of Regensburg 93040 Regensburg, Germany tel: +49 941 943-2018 fax: +49 941 943-3887 email: jacques.bl...@ur.de web: http://homepages.uni-regensburg.de/~blj05290 > On 1 Oct 2015, at 18:47, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >> On Oct 1, 2015, at 07:04, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >> >>> On Oct 1, 2015, at 01:52, Jacques Bloch <jacques.bl...@ur.de> wrote: >>> >>> I have a question that maybe many fink users have. Is fink already fully >>> compatible with El Capitan? Is it safe or wise to install El Capitan >>> already now or should we wait till fink has gained more experience with the >>> new OS? This concerns both binaries and installations from sources I >>> presume. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jacques >>> >>> >>> >> >> The current fink-0.38.7 is *not* fully compatible, and won’t allow you to do >> updates. >> >> The master branch (https://github.com/fink/fink/) from Fink’s github tree >> is, however. If you clone that or download the zip archive, and then use >> “./inject.pl” from within the fink source tree this will update fink to be >> compatible, as long as you do this update before updating to El Capitan. >> >> There is not yet a binary distribution for 10.11, but packages built on 10.9 >> or 10.10 should work, as far as we know. >> -- >> Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. >> Fink User Liaison >> > > I just released fink-0.39.0. > > People on 10.9 or 10.10 can install this version of fink—you will likely need > to run “fink selfupdate” again after updating fink to download the package > descriptions from the new distribution tree. > > After that, you can update to El Capitan, and you will then need to run “fink > reinstall fink” to target the 10.11 distribution. > > We’ll get that on the website at some point. > -- > Alexander Hansen, Ph.D. > Fink User Liaison > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ 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
