Re: [Fink-users] fink update-all does not work

[Franchetti, G. Dr. <G.F...@gs...>]

Hi Derek, 
Hi Scott, 

I tried what you suggested, but it does not work. 
See below

	Giuliano



giuliano@strmac001:/Users/giuliano/Desktop> fink list pm5303 | awk '{ if ($1 == "i") print $2 }'
class-c3-pm5303
class-c3-xs-pm5303
cpan-meta-pm5303
data-section-pm5303
inc-latest-pm5303
locale-gettext-pm5303
module-build-pm5303
module-metadata-pm5303
mro-compat-pm5303
params-util-pm5303
perl-ostype-pm5303
version-pm5303
xml-parser-pm5303
xsloader-pm5303
giuliano@strmac001:/Users/giuliano/Desktop> fink remove $(fink list pm5303 | awk '{ if ($1 == "i") print $2 }')
Password:
Information about 16205 packages read in 1 seconds.
Reading buildlock packages...
/opt/sw2/bin/dpkg-lockwait --remove class-c3-pm5303 class-c3-xs-pm5303 cpan-meta-pm5303 data-section-pm5303 inc-latest-pm5303 locale-gettext-pm5303 module-build-pm5303 module-metadata-pm5303 mro-compat-pm5303 params-util-pm5303 perl-ostype-pm5303 version-pm5303 xml-parser-pm5303 xsloader-pm5303
Waiting up to 300 seconds for access to the dpkg database... 
Timed out, cancelling operation!
### execution of /opt/sw2/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
ERROR: Can't remove package(s). If the above error message mentions dependency problems, you can try
  fink remove --recursive class-c3-pm5303 class-c3-xs-pm5303 cpan-meta-pm5303 data-section-pm5303 inc-latest-pm5303
locale-gettext-pm5303 module-build-pm5303 module-metadata-pm5303 mro-compat-pm5303 params-util-pm5303 perl-ostype-pm5303
version-pm5303 xml-parser-pm5303 xsloader-pm5303
This will attempt to remove the package(s) specified as well as ALL packages that depend on it.
Failed: can't batch-remove packages: class-c3-pm5303 class-c3-xs-pm5303 cpan-meta-pm5303 data-section-pm5303 inc-latest-pm5303 locale-gettext-pm5303 module-build-pm5303 module-metadata-pm5303 mro-compat-pm5303 params-util-pm5303 perl-ostype-pm5303 version-pm5303 xml-parser-pm5303 xsloader-pm5303
giuliano@strmac001:/Users/giuliano/Desktop> 







> On 7. Jul 2025, at 15:48, Derek Homeier <hom...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> On 7 Jul 2025, at 1:14 am, Scott Hannahs via Fink-users <fin...@li...> wrote:
>> 
>> I reported the issue with apt and recursive removal using fink awhile ago.  The response from the fink-experts was that they did not use apt much.
>> 
>> I think you have to manually remove all files with -pm5303 extensions.  I used to list them with fink and then do one big remove.  it would only remove the top files, but repeated application of that command would work it way through things.
>> 
> A working apt would definitely be very useful, and this has all been discussed at length in
> https://github.com/fink/fink-distributions/issues/1196 , but it seems none of the few core
> maintainers have the time or resources to work on this and get it reviewed.
> Fink’s version 0.5.4 is decades old, and rather hopeless to get built on arm64, though
> on x86_64 should still be workable adding the `SetCFLAGS: -std=gnu90` patch as
> described in that thread. I don’t have a recent system with Intel arch to test on though.
> 
> I did look into getting the (almost) current version 2.4 to build, but build system has also
> changed completely since the EOL versions.
> 
> If patching the current apt version does not work, manually running something like
> 
> fink remove $(fink list pm5303 | awk '$1==“i”/{print $2}’)
> 
> would probably indeed be your best bet.
> 
> HTH
> 					Derek
>