Re: Fink on Big Sur

Chris Schram via Fink-beginners <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Organization Where the hell is Langlois, Oregon?
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2021-05-18, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

[some trimming]

>>>> On May 18, 2021, at 5:34 AM, Hanspeter Niederstrasser 
>>>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> git clone https://github.com/TheSin-/fink
>>>> git checkout dpkg1.16
>>>> ./bootstrap
>
> My mistake. The changes for 11.3 haven't been merged yet to TheSin's 
> location. To get the current draft of changes for 11.3 (which includes 
> support for perl5.30.2), follow the above directions, but use this URL 
> for cloning: https://github.com/nieder/fink

I have been following this thread...

I clean-bootstrapped fink into macOS 11.3.1 and everything went well.
I ran fink selfupdate-git and it took awhile, but completed successfully.

Then when I tried to install slrn, things went bad...

fink install slrn
Scanning package description files..........
Information about 11019 packages read in 3 seconds.
Can't resolve dependency "texi2html" for package "autoconf2.6-2.69-6" (no
matching packages/versions found)
Exiting with failure.

I spliced in the .deb files from backups for the missing dependencies and got...

fink install slrn
Information about 11019 packages read in 2 seconds.
Can't resolve dependency "help2man" for package "libtool2-2.4.6-4" (no matching
packages/versions found)
Exiting with failure.

One more try...

fink install slrn        
Scanning package description files..........
Information about 11019 packages read in 3 seconds.
Can't resolve dependency "locale-textdomain-pm5302" for package
"texinfo-6.3-603.1" (no matching packages/versions found)
Exiting with failure.

This is where I gave up and restored my backed-up /opt/sw.

Some of the packages I had tried to install went just fine. An equal
number gave my these cascading failures. What nest?

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