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

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

> On Nov 8, 2017, at 12:10, Charles L Medler <clm...@co...> wrote:
> 
> 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’!
> 

That’s not good at all.  

> 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
> 

What does “fink -V” return?  It kind of looks like you’re using a version of fink which doesn’t know about 10.12.