Re: [Fink-beginners] fink self update function not working in Mac OS 10.12

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

> On Nov 17, 2016, at 13:42, Albert Romkes <a.r...@ya...> wrote:
> 
> I tried reinstalling/updating fink in Mac OS Sierra, but selfupdate function is returning an error.
> 
> fink selfupdate
> Password:
> /usr/bin/rsync -az -q  rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo//TIMESTAMP /sw/fink/TIMESTAMP.tmp
> I will now run the rsync command to retrieve the latest package descriptions. 
> /usr/bin/rsync -rtz --delete-after --delete -q   --include='10.12/' --include='10.12/stable/' --include='10.12/stable/main/' --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/' --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/*/' --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/*' --include='10.12/stable/main/finkinfo/**/*' --include='VERSION' --include='DISTRIBUTION' --include='README' --exclude='**' 'rsync://distfiles.master.finkmirrors.net/finkinfo' '/sw/fink/'
> WARNING: Not saving timestamp of selfupdate because could not write /sw/fink/10.12/VERSION.selfupdate.tmp: No such file or directory
> Scanning package description files
> Failed: not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1887.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Albert
> 

That’s a new one to me.  What do you get from the following commands:

/bin/ls /sw/fink/dists

dpkg -p fink | grep Version

?

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Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison