On Dec 21, 2011, at 4:05 AM, Martin Costabel wrote: > On 21/12/11 08:44, Juan Courcoul wrote: >> Now I want to bring my Fink fully into the Lion world, hopefully without >> having to trash everything. O.S. is at 10.7.2. Downloaded and installed the >> latest Xcode 4.2.1. Then gingerly tried to do a fink selfupdate. After >> having me do a fink index and such it finally started going up to the point >> where it fails compiling dpg. This is where it finally barfs, time after >> time: > []... >> Is this salvageable or will I have to start from scratch? > > You will have to start from scratch. Your fink installation was built on > 10.5/32bit. On 10.7, fink is 64bit, which is incompatible from the very > beginning, and there is no way to to upgrade. > > You can try to get a list of packages you had installed, for example by > storing the output of `ls /sw/var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list` in a file > somewhere. Then after bootstrapping a new Fink on 10.7, you can try to > install these packages one by one. But they won't all exist for 10.7 yet.
I was fearing as much, at least I won't get bored over the holidays. Fortunately, much of the old admin stuff works, so a fink list does produce what I have installed thru the ages. So, ditch /sw and start with the instructions for bootstrapping 10.7, right? JMC ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Write once. Port to many. Get the SDK and tools to simplify cross-platform app development. Create new or port existing apps to sell to consumers worldwide. Explore the Intel AppUpSM program developer opportunity. appdeveloper.intel.com/join http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-appdev _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net List archive: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.os.macosx.fink.user Subscription management: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
