Fink & Big Sur

David Axler <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.apple.fink.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]>
After getting assorted software, including Fink, fully operational under Catalina, I opted to take the next step and upgrade to Big Sur.

I now have macOS 11.6.5 (20G527) with Darwin Kernel 20.6.0 in place on my computer (Late 2013 Mac Pro).
This includes the most recent Security Update for Big Sur. 
I have updated Xcode to the most current version that runs under Big Sur (13.2.1) and installed its command
line tools. In addition, I have run the xcode-select and xcodebuild commands in Terminal.

My prior installation of Fink remains in place in /opt/sw.
davidaxl@Daves-Mac-Pro ~ % fink -V
Package manager version: 0.45.6
Distribution version: selfupdate-rsync Thu Apr  7 16:00:03 2022, 10.15, x86_64
Trees: local/main stable/main unstable/main

When I run fink selfupdate, I get this message:
11.6 does not match the expected value of 10.16. Please run `fink selfupdate` to download a newer version of fink at /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/Services.pm line 1430.

When I run fink list, I get a batch of “uninitialized value" messages, followed by the requested list.
These appear about fifteen times in total, always referencing either $ver or $javadir, at various locations within VirtPackage.pm
The messages are of the form:

Use of uninitialized value $javadir in pattern match (m//) at /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm line 452.
Use of uninitialized value $ver in pattern match (m//) at /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm line 452.
Use of uninitialized value $javadir in opendir at /opt/sw/lib/perl5/Fink/VirtPackage.pm line 453.

Looking through the Fink-Beginners and Fink-Users mailing list archives, I gather that there is some issue involving getting
Fink to recognize kernel versions with Big Sur, but I have not found any recommended tricks or solutions.

Any thoughts, tips, and advice will be welcome.

Regards,
Dave

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