Don’t get me wrong - I appreciate the hard work on fink, but I had a few minor comments below.
-- Mark Johnson mailto:mhjohn...@mac.com home: (303) 304-0510 > On Oct 23, 2014, at 7:01 PM, Alexander Hansen <alexanderk.han...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Oct 23, 2014, at 5:40 PM, Mark Johnson <mhjohn...@mac.com > <mailto:mhjohn...@mac.com>> wrote: > >> I just upgraded to Yosemite last night and noted the following when making >> sure fink worked: >> (1) Just before upgrading - I got a message in AppStore indicating that the >> Xcode tools had been updated automatically with the SDK for Yosemite, >> Mavericks, and iOS 8.1. I thought that was a good sign >> (2) I did the upgrade - took longer than the time estimate (what else is >> new…) >> (3) After rebooting and after entering my iCloud password about a dozen >> times, I ran Xcode and said OK to the new license. >> (4) Xcode then worked for a while installing components, etc. Then quit >> Xcode. >> [at this point - it was late in the evening - I resumed getting back to fink >> today] >> (5) I fired up FinkCommander - it seemed to start OK. >> (6) Tried to do “selfupdate” - got a message I needed to do fink reinstall >> fink to switch to 10.10. > > Good. This is by design, to make sure your distribution changes before you > self update But no mention in the announcement on the mailing list or web page that it is necessary. > >> (7) In terminal - ran fink reinstall fink - seemed to run OK (though I noted >> the “beta” message only at that point). > > Managing expectations :-) Ditto. Just saying that if someone added code to indicate this is beta code, the announcement should say it is still beta too. > >> (8) Back to FinkCommander - did the Update Table command - it said fink was >> “out of date”. >> (9) Did “selfupdate” - this time it ran OK (apparently updating me to >> 0.39.1). > > 0.38.1, unless you installed from the future. :-) That was a typo - FinkCommander says my version is now 0.38.1-91 (yet fink -V only says 0.38.1). I think the version while under Mavericks was something like 0.38.1-81 or similar (sorry - I don’t recall the exact number). I just thought it odd to see another version update the day after I had upgraded fink (under Mavericks). > >> (10) Did “update all” - no change. >> (11) I picked a small package (an) to build to make sure I could build >> something from source, it worked OK. >> Side note - FinkCommander didn’t update the table properly after installing >> “an”. I’ve seen that symptom before but don’t recall how I fixed it. >> > > Somebody on one of the lists (maybe this one) mentioned that he was able to > fix Fink Commander by installing a Fink perl and using that via the > Preferences—that’s for a stuck table. Failure to update but not being stuck > can be remedied by running the appropriate update. > I saw that message a few days ago though it was short on details - perhaps installing perl5162? >> We should have a short “upgrade to 10.10” page similar to the 10.8 one. >> >> -- >> Mark Johnson >> mailto:mhjohn...@mac.com <mailto:mhjohn...@mac.com> >> home: (303) 304-0510 >> > > > A 10.10 upgrade page merely requires time and personnel. Which is hard. :-) > Plus manually editing website stuff. > > > Alex >
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