Re: [Fink-beginners] bootstrap script fails on a fetch, can i just run it again?

[Hanspeter N. <fi...@sn...>]

On 7/11/23 8:58 PM, Dan Hitt wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 6:25 PM Hanspeter Niederstrasser <
> fi...@sn...> wrote:
> 
>> On 7/11/23 2:16 AM, Dan Hitt wrote:
>>> I just downloaded fink 0.45.6 on my Catalina system.  I've installed
>> xcode
>>> and java.
>>>
>>> I got in the source directory fink-0.45.6 and ran ./bootstrap
>>>
>>> It generated a lot of output (26000 lines) and then began to get
>>> "404 Not Found" errors.  This happened in the command:
>>> /opt/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait -q update
>>>
>>> It was complaining about the url
>>>
>> http://bindist.finkmirrors.net/10.15/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/Packages
>>> and sure enough, if i try in a browser, i also get a 404.
>>>
>>> And the tail end of the execution looks like this:
>>>
>>> Reading Package Lists...
>>> Building Dependency Tree...
>>> E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old
>> ones
>>> used instead.
>>> ### execution of /opt/sw/bin/apt-get-lockwait failed, exit code 100
>>> WARNING: Failure while updating indexes.
>>>
>>>
>>> ERROR: Bootstrap phase 2 failed!
>>>
>>> So . . . should i just wait a while and try again?
>>>
>>> If i redo bootstrap, will it be smart enough to skip everything that it
>> has
>>> already done?
>>>
>>> Am i doing this at the wrong time of the day?
>>>
>>> Am i choosing the wrong mirror?
>>>
>>> I just went with the defaults on all the questions that bootstrap asked
>> me.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance for any advice or pointers to the FAQ.
>>
>> I think that if it gets to this point, Fink is already installed, but is
>> just trying to download information about a binary distribution that
>> doesn't exist (for 10.15). What happens if you open a new Terminal
>> window and try to run this command:
>>
>> fink list dpkg
>>
> 
> Well, this one doesn't work, as there is no "fink" on my PATH . . . but
> 
> 
>>
>> If that doesn't work, try `/opt/sw/bin/fink list dpkg`.
>>
> 
> This one does work!!
> 
> It gives the result:
> Information about 318 packages read in 1 seconds.
>   i   dpkg            1.10.21-124  The Debian package manager
>   i   dpkg-base-file  0.4-1        Support scripts for dpkg
>       dpkg-bootstrap  1.10.21-122  The Debian package manager (bootstrap
> only)
> 
> So i suppose i'll need to appropriately adjust my PATH in my ~/.zshrc and
> locate and read the docs; i understand that fink is something like apt
> (hope so, anyway).
> 
> I am a little uneasy about the way bootstrap ended, but i'm glad it wasn't
> a total wipeout.

To set up your environment, run `/opt/sw/bin/pathsetup.sh`. That should 
adjust your .zshrc correctly.

Hanspeter


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