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

[Charles L M. <clm...@co...>]

Great help! But not there yet.
1) tried fink reinstall fink first - failed:
/sw/fink/ 11 > fink reinstall fink
Password:
Scanning package description files
not a reference at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1887.

2) created a new link:
ran:
/sw/fink/ 14 > sudo ln -s 10.9-libcxx  10.12
Result:
/sw/fink/ 15 > ls -lt
total 56
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel    11 Nov  8 15:03 10.12 -> 10.9-libcxx
-rw-r--r--    1 1001  1001     11 Nov  8 13:02 TIMESTAMP
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel     5 Nov  8 11:38 dists -> 10.12
drwxr-xr-x  141 root  wheel  4794 Nov  8 11:38 debs
drwxr-xr-x    8 root  wheel   272 Feb 26  2016 10.9-libcxx
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel    11 Feb  1  2016 10.11 -> 10.9-libcxx
drwxr-xr-x    8 root  wheel   272 Jul 31  2015 10.7
lrwxr-xr-x    1 root  wheel     4 Oct 24  2014 10.10 -> 10.7
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel    11 Mar 17  2004 VERSION
-rw-r--r--    1 root  wheel  1607 Aug 20  2002 README

3) tried fink reinstall fink again:
~/ 17 > fink reinstall fink
Scanning package description files..........
Information about 8885 packages read in 9 seconds.
WARNING: your info file index has not been updated for 620 days. You should run 'fink selfupdate' to get the latest package
descriptions.
Failed: no package found for specification 'fink’!

4) ran fink selfupdate:
~/ 18 > 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/'
Scanning package description files..........
Information about 8885 packages read in 0 seconds.
Failed: Can't call method "is_installed" on an undefined value at /sw/lib/perl5/Fink/SelfUpdate.pm line 288.

So now what? Any suggestions?
Again - thanks for your responses thus far!
Chuck

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 2:28 PM, Alexander Hansen <ale...@gm...> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> On Nov 8, 2017, at 10:17, Charles L Medler <clm...@co...> wrote:
>> 
>> Thanks for the response. Here is the terminal output:
>> ************
>> /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 > 
>> 
>> ************
>> 
>> 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.