Re: fresh fink install on Catalina fails a2ps with daemonic (working)

It seems to be an apparent race condition.  Perhaps I could have built a2ps if I had set a single-threaded build.
I did the following and each step completed and I now have a2ps, emacs, and the utilities needed:
	fink install emacs26
	fink install psutils-letter
	fink install ghostscript
	fink install w3m
	fink install a2ps

Thanks for your attention,
jw


> On Nov 18, 2020, at 11:32 PM, John Wiggins via Fink-beginners <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I did fresh install of fink on new upgrade to Catalina on a 2014 MacBook Pro
> 
> $ ./bootstrap
> $ fink list
> $ fink selfupdate
> $ fink update-all
> $ fink install res
> $ fink install a2ps 
> 	with answers to include these:
> 	(6)	emacs26: Flexible real-time text editor
> 	(2)	psutils-letter: Postscript tools, letter size
> 	(1)	ghostscript: Interpreter for PostScript and PDF
> 	(1)	w3m: Text-mode WWW browser with tables/frames
> 
> and the build fails with this at the bottom:
> …snip…
> New package: dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/libncursesw5-shlibs_5.9-20110507-1_darwin-x86_64.deb
> Failed: can't install package daemonic-20010902-14
> 
> I am currently building emacs26 separately, and it appears to be trying to use the "daemonic 20010902-14” already built
> …snip...
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Reading buildlock packages...
> /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /opt/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/daemonic_20010902-14_darwin-x86_64.deb
> (Reading database ... 24406 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to replace daemonic 20010902-14 (using .../daemonic_20010902-14_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
> /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.finkproject.daemonicinit.plist: No such file or directory
> Unpacking replacement daemonic ...
> Setting up daemonic (20010902-14) ...
> 
> Setting runtime build-lock…
> …snip..
> 
> going back up in the log of the failed a2ps attempt I see that ti may have failed in an attempt to link to an existing file:
> 
> …snip…
> Reading buildlock packages...
> /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait -i /opt/sw/fink/dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64/base/daemonic_20010902-14_darwin-x86_64.deb
> Selecting previously deselected package daemonic.
> (Reading database ... 24394 files and directories currently installed.)
> Unpacking daemonic (from .../daemonic_20010902-14_darwin-x86_64.deb) ...
> Setting up daemonic (20010902-14) ...
> ln: /Library/LaunchDaemons/org.finkproject.daemonicinit.plist: File exists
> /opt/sw/bin/dpkg: error processing daemonic (--install):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  daemonic
> ### execution of /opt/sw/bin/dpkg-lockwait failed, exit code 1
> Updating the list of locally available binary packages.
> Scanning dists/stable/main/binary-darwin-x86_64
> …snip..
> 
> If the emacs26 installs, I’ll try the other dependencies separately and see that will allow a2ps to be installed.
> 
> Please advice and I am happy to collect any other information you may require.
> (Note the the rcs install went well, so I suspect something in the fink with on Catalina latest and Xcode 11.3.1  and Command  Line Tools installed by the Helper Script.)
> 
> Thanks,
> jw
> 
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