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

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

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 10:17, Charles L Medler <clm...@co...> wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the response. Here is the terminal output:
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> /sw/fink/ 8 > 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='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.
> /sw/fink/ 9 > 
> 
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> 
> BTW, I see that in /sw/lib/ there is a link from 10.11 to 10.9
> 
> 10.11 -> 10.9-libcxx
> 
> do I just need a similar link from 10.12 (which is my OS as you can see from the terminal output) to 10.9?
> 
> Chuck Medler
> 

Try running “fink reinstall fink” first, and if the 10.12 -> 10.9-libcxx link isn’t set up then go ahead and do it manually.