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

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

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 08:56, clmedler <clm...@co...> wrote:
> 
> I'm having the same error as the previous post - Where do I start to fix
> this? I need to update the gfortran package I last used two years ago.
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> ~/ 38 > fink selfupdate
> /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='10.12/'
> --include='10.12/stable/' --include='10.12/stable/crypto/'
> --include='10.12/stable/crypto/finkinfo/'
> --include='10.12/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*/'
> --include='10.12/stable/crypto/finkinfo/*'
> --include='10.12/stable/crypto/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.
> ***************
> 
> 
> 
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> 

How about sending the terminal outputs which I asked for (but never got) on the previous post that you referenced?

/bin/ls /sw/fink/dists

dpkg -p fink | grep Version