On 7/2/12 7:48 AM, Robert Wyatt wrote:
> Over the weekend I updated from MacOS 10.6 to 10.7. The update went 
> fairly according to the documentation, congratulations! I did notice one 
> thing of small consequence: I also had to update my Java, but, 
> amazingly, when bootstrap failed (correctly telling me that I needed to 
> update Java), SoftwareUpdate popped up and found the software and 
> installed it! I was quite pleasantly surprised by this. 

Unfortunately, it's _unpleasant_ for Fink.  We had to have bootstrap
bail out because there wasn't really a good way to pause the operation
while Software Update does its work.

I then re-ran
> bootstrap and everything went swimmingly. I had a little trouble due to 
> not having removed the old Xcode (ie. /Xcode4) that was present and, 
> using an icon in the dock, I kept launching the old one which would 
> crash upon launch even though the new one was present (in 
> /Applications); I'm not sure whether mentioning this in the docs is 
> worthwhile. Of course, once I found the new executable and launched it, 
> it asked me if I wanted to remove the old one.
> 

That's an Xcode 4.3.x+ specific change in behavior, so we may need to
mention that.

> No feedback on the packages yet, except that the ones I've built (about 
> 60 or so beyond the base packages) have been without incident.
> 
> --Robert
> 
> 

There may be a few that use constructions specific to Xcode < 4.3.  As
always, we appreciate any bug reports.

-- 
Alexander Hansen, Ph.D.
Fink User Liaison
My package updates: http://finkakh.wordpress.com/



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